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Released on: February 12, 2010, 5:33 am
Author: United Church of God
The answers to life's most important questions can be found in the Bible. Whether learning about why God created humankind or studying the accounts of Jesus’ birth, life and death, studying the Bible helps us to better understand why we are here and what the future holds. The United Church of God offers its free online Bible study to all, as part of its mission to bring the Christian religion to those who wish to receive it.
February 2010 – It's said that Jesus Birth, life and death were the greatest gifts given to humankind by God. To truly understand these gifts and their impact even to this day, the Christian religion asks that its followers study the Bible extensively. The United Church of God understands that often the Bible can be difficult to follow, though, and has created exhaustive online Bible study resources so that any and all who wish to learn may do so.
The free online Bible Study Course contains 12 lessons that will help students better understand the Bible and find answers to life's most important questions, such as “Why are we here?” and “What does the future hold?” They are:
1. Why the Bible Is the Word of God – This online Bible study lesson shows students how to connect with the Creator and understand the Bible's mysteries.
2. The Word of God: The Fountain of knowledge – Knowing more about the men behind the Bible stories will help students to better understand.
3. Why Did God Create Mankind? – Humankind was created in the image of God, but what does that mean? Students also will learn what God has in store for them.
4. Why Does God Allow Suffering? – In times of war and natural disaster, this question is often asked. This online Bible study lesson reveals the ultimate hope offered by God.
5. Is There Hope for Human Survival? – This lesson looks at the warnings of Prophecy and the hope that Jesus will rescue the world from destruction.
6. What Is the Gospel of the Kingdom of God? – When Jesus saves the world, He will rule over the Kingdom of God. Students will explore the portions of the Bible that talk about this news.
7. The Calling of God – This lesson teaches students how to have a relationship with God through the Christian religion, and how to receive His loving gifts.
8. What Is Christian Conversion? – God will transform us for good, despite our nature to be otherwise. This lesson explores the process of conversion to the Christian religion.
9. The Transforming Power of God's Spirit – Students will learn about how to use the power of the Holy Spirit to transform their lives.
10. What Is the Church? – This lesson looks at the original Church and its transformation over the centuries. Students will learn how to recognize it today.
11. Christianity: A Way of Life – Students will learn the key elements of living a godly life in the modern world.
12. The Annual Festivals of the God – Holy Days differ from holidays. Discover the difference and understand their meanings within the Christian religion.
About the United Church of God: The United Church of God traces its origins back to the a Christian Religion founded by Jesus in the early first century. The Church follows the same doctrines, teachings and practices as the original Church, and it strives to educate Christians through its a Online Bible Study. Follow the United Church of God on twitter.com/ucgia, become a fan of the organization on Facebook, and watch video commentaries and excerpts from Beyond Today programs on youtube.com/user/BeyondTodayTV. http://www.ucg.org/ | <urn:uuid:6cf2530d-88aa-4738-8a68-b31a58f9b5ce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://express-press-release.net/70/print/Jesus-Birth-More-Outlined-Free-Online-Bible-Study.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.943383 | 763 | 2.65625 | 3 |
There are three main components to your electrical wiring residential system including:
- BC Hydro’s Electricity Meter
- Electrical Panel
- Home Electrical Wiring & Circuits
BC Hydro’s “Smart” Electricity Meters
It’s been 10 years since BC Hydro began implementing their Smart Metering Program in 2011. According to BC hydro, the program is replacing old obsolete mechanical meters with modern “Smart” meters.
The new Smart Meters are more efficient and designed to improve energy savings and curtail energy theft.
When BC Hydro’s main power line is connected to your home, it is connected directly to your electricity meter, which is usually located on the outside wall of your home. The meter records your home’s monthly electricity consumption, which is measured in Kilowatt hours, and BC Hydro bills you accordingly. Check out this post to learn how to read your electric meter reading.
From the Smart Meter, the electricity goes directly to your home’s electrical panel.
Electrical Breaker Panel
Older homes prior to 1960 generally had fuse boxes installed. Fuse boxes have since been replaced by the more efficient and safer electrical circuit breaker panel. See our post entitled Circuit Breaker vs Fuse Box for more information on this topic.
Generally, home electrical panels are installed inside your home, most often in the garage or basement. As electricity enters your home from the main power line through the Smart Meter, it is first routed to your electrical panel.
Your electrical panel acts as a safety breaker that will shut off power if there is ever an electrical overload.
Older homes tend to have a 100-amp electrical panel whereas new home construction generally includes a 200-amp panel to accommodate our modern electrical demands.
We recommend upgrading your electrical panel to at least 200-amps if you are renovating or have an older home that still only has a 100-amp service. If you have a much larger home, you might even consider installing a 400-amp electrical panel.
To determine how large your electrical panel is simply look near the top of the panel for the largest circuit breaker; it should tell you what amp service your home currently has.
From the electrical panel, electricity is then distributed throughout the house through your home’s electrical wiring.
Electrical Wiring Residential Circuits
To recap, the main power line connects to your electrical meter and the electricity is routed to your home’s electrical panel where it is then distributed through your home’s electrical wiring.
The electrical wiring is generally installed inside the walls, ceilings, and floors of your home. Your electrical panel may have dozens of circuit breakers, with each breaker supplying power to its own separate part of the house.
Once the electrical wiring reaches its destination, the two insulated wires can be connected to whatever may need power, including your home’s electrical plugs, as well as lighting, switches, etc.
If the switches are not turned on, or if there is nothing plugged into your outlets, the two insulated wires are not connected so there can be no power. The act of turning on a switch or plugging something into an outlet will connect the two insulated wires and complete the circuit, providing the power you need.
For safety, all wiring in your electrical wiring residential system will also have a copper ground wire.
The ground wire provides a path of least resistance to direct the electricity into the ground should there ever be a short circuit in your home’s electrical wiring.
Some of the outlets in your home should also be Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter outlets (GFCI), especially if the outlets will be located near water.
GFCI outlets have both a test button and a reset button and are designed to prevent shocks and electrocution. If the outlet detects even the slightest current imbalance it will shut off.
Here are type of outlets in your home that should be GFCI Outlets:
- Bathroom Outlets
- Kitchen Outlets
- Garage Outlets
- Outdoor Outlets
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For many of us, the 'Made in China' tag is not an attractive proposition while purchasing a product. However, when it comes to the delivery of quality service in the realm of higher education, Chinese model has a different story to tell. According to China's Ministry of Education, the total share of international students seeking higher education degrees in China grew by 13 percent over the past decade, jumping from almost 55,000 students in 2006 to nearly 210,000 students in 2016.
Today, China hosts more international students than any other Asian power and ranks third globally, behind the United States and the United Kingdom. Two of its universities - Peking University and the Tsinghua University - are now among the top 30 in the world and seven institutions figure among the world's top 200 universities, while we have one IISc as the sole Indian presence in the top 100 universities across the world.
The rise of China as a global hub of higher education is not an accidental achievement. The accomplishment was driven by initiatives for establishing world-class universities, two of which are known as Project 985 and Project 211. These were key programs of the Chinese government to create high-level research universities and the timely implementation of the same helped the county to take a leading position in the global higher education landscape.
While, China has already started the process of developing some more world-class research-intensive universities and disciplines through its 'Double World-Class Project' targeting to make an international impact by 2050, India - although a little late - has also started an ambitious project to create 20 'world-class' universities and colleges through its 'Institutions of Eminence Project.' Looking at current state of our education system, which is notoriously bureaucratic and often politicised, we can confidently assume that we will take a bit more time than expected to become a leading hub of global education. Until then, the quality and reputation of Indian education remain in the hands of educators who have not yet considered teaching as a business.
In this issue, we celebrate the existence such extra-ordinary technical institutes and universities across the country through the fifth edition of our 'Top 100 Private Engineering Colleges Survey' and 'Top 25 Private/Deemed Universities in India.' On the cover, we feature, Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, a Deemed to be University known for imparting quality education in the fields of engineering, aviation, applied sciences, and management. | <urn:uuid:9e9d1581-082f-4b15-a80d-e1b7d78d4052> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thehighereducationreview.com/magazine/a-lesson-to-be-learnt-from-the-neighbour--GRDP695594225.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.952783 | 496 | 1.875 | 2 |
- from The War Illustrated, 3rd April, 1915
- 'Neuve Chapelle's Immortal Story'
An Early British Offensive
Neuve Chapelle as seen by a British magazine
The Great Episodes of the War
On February 15th, 1915, General Joffre made his first offensive movement since the British advance on Menin was checked in the autumn of 1914: Neither the French nor the British armies were ready, in the middle of February, to resume the offensive. For .though their new formations were arriving in vast numbers, the ground was still in a very bad condition between the opposing fronts. If it had been left to General Joffre there would have been no serious movement against the Germans until the March winds had dried the soil.
French attack in the Champagne
The Plan to Smash the Russians
But a cry for help came from Russia. All through the winter the Russians had been fighting at a heavy disadvantage. The closing of the Dardanelles and the freezing of Archangel port had interrupted the munitioning of the armies of the Tsar. Meanwhile, the German Commander-in-Chief was profiting by-the condition of the ground in France and Flanders, and withdrawing army corps of first-line troops there and launching them, with new levies, against the Russians. The plan was to smash the Russians by an overwhelming concentration of force before the warm weather and the guns of the Queen Elizabeth opened the channels by which war material could be poured into Russia. When Russia was thoroughly defeated, most of the tremendous forces operating on the eastern front would be, swung over against the French, British, and Belgian lines.
This was why General Joffre ordered an advance against the western German front before his armies were ready for the spring campaign. At any cost of men the first-line German army had to be tied to the French and British trenches. The German Commander-in-Chief had to be induced not to send any further reinforcements to Hindenburg. General Joffre' proceeded to point put to General von Falkenhayn exactly where any further new levies that Germany had ready for action should be placed.
How Joffre Checkmated von Falkenhayn
In the chalky, absorbent soil of the heath of Champagne the winter rain and frost had not made such a bog between the opposing fronts as in other places. There was a stretch of three and a half miles of trench by the village of Perthes held by some 20,000 infantrymen of the Rhine. General Joffre resolved that a quarter of a million of the German reinforcements, destined for the grand attack against the Russians, should be brought instead to Perthes.
Very simple Was the method by which the French commander imposed his will upon the German commander. He secretly collected 200,000 troops in front of Perthes, with a vast store of large howitzer shells and howitzers. On Monday, February 15th, there opened abruptly a terrific bombardment of the trenches held by the 20,000 Rhinelanders. Something like a hundred thousand high-explosive shells were pitched into the German trenches.
Under the hurricane fire of their siege ordnance the French troops charged the shaken and surprised enemy. They did not shoot. Rushing towards the German trenches, they pitched hand bombs into the ditches, and then leaped down and used the bayonet. Then they dug for their lives, to re-shape the captured, battered earthworks for protection against the fire of the German guns, and the infantry counter-attack that was certain to follow.
General von Einem was the German commander in this region. He brought up his reserves, but they were defeated. He weakened his line at other places to strengthen the Perthes position, but the overpowering force of French troops and French guns continued to batter down all opposition. The struggle went on for twenty-six days.
Always the French made steady and continuous progress against the fortifications which the Germans had been constructing for five months. Despite innumerable counterattacks, they were never forced back on any day behind the line they held in the morning. In each counter-attack the Germans lost heavily, and the spirit of their troops began to decline. Part of the re-formed Prussian Guard was brought up to recapture a small height Hill 196 held by the French, but they broke against the defence.'
The French picked up and buried ten thousand Germans as they advanced, and the German Great Staff was moved to make the extraordinary confession that they had lost more troops on the front of three and a half miles at Perthes than in the Prashysch-Niemen campaign against the Russians.
But, at any cost of life, the French advance had- to be stayed. Otherwise, the German front would be broken and a general retreat would be brought about. The entire line from the North Sea to Switzerland was therefore weakened, in order to mass 300,000 or more men, with a vast park of heavy ordnance, behind the bulge at Perthes.
As we have seen, a division of the Prussian Guard was railed up to reinforce Einems men. Now it was known to French and British Headquarters that the Prussian Guard had been holding the trenches at Neuve Chapelle village, a hundred miles to the north of the Champagne pine waste.
The War's Most Devastating Bombardment
At Neuve Chapelle was the Fourth British Army Corps; under Sir Henry Rawlinson, and the Indian Army Corps, under Sir James Willcox. They were ordered to co-operate with the French army round Rsrthes by making an attack upon Neuve Chapelle. A day or two passed in stealthy preparations for this new move. Many of our heaviest pieces of ordnance were massed a few miles in front of Neuve Chapelle. A huge number of shells were collected round the guns, while our airmen constantly patrolled the sky above, and drove away any hostile aerial scout who might have discovered the vast, secret preparations.
At half-past seven in the morning of Wednesday, March 10th, the process of stopping German reinforcements to Hindenburg in East Prussia was continued at Neuve Chapelle, while the French at Perthes were still holding the enemy in increasing number. We had sonic four hundred guns and howitzers massed against the two and a quarter miles of German trenches round Neuve Chapelle. At half-past seven all these pieces of ordnance began, raining shells on the enemy's lines. The bombardment only lasted thirty-five minutes, but it was the most devastating outburst of artillery power in the war. Earth arid sky seemed to rock with the continuous, eardrum-shattering roar. Each detachment worked at extreme pressure to get as many shells as possible out of their great tubes. It was hell-fire gunnery in the British naval style rather than a military bombardment like forty battleships working as a gigantic sort of machine-gun against little more than two miles of sodden earthworks.
The Charge of the Overseas Troops
The German front line of entrenched troops had no chance of resistance. Many of those who were not blown up, buried, or stifled by the great lyddite shells, were so dazed by the explosions that they sat half -stunned till taken prisoners. In the meantime the British and Indian infantry, with a Canadian division, rushed over the muddy space between the opposing fronts, without being shot at by the enemy, while our terrible gunfire was going on. Sir John French was directing the operations in person, and he surprised even the French by his originality.
There were no dense masses of Divisions of Death rushing out to be slaughtered in the Kluck and Hindenburg method of attack. Field- Marshal von Heeringen had recently observed that British troops were terrible when on the defensive but not powerful enough in the offensive. Every German general once thought that only by massed formations could a position be stormed. They now had another lesson in the handling of infantry. Our men advanced in rushes in open order, with their reserves and supports a considerable distance behind them. But the unexcelled, unequalled power of their rifle .fire a well-aimed shot every four seconds from 'every man more than compensated for the thinness of the leading fighting-line.
Indian troops charging German positions at Neuve Chapelle
Indians' Prowess and Deadly Skill
Our guns and howitzers had shelled the enemy's barbed-wire entanglements as well as his trenches. This was, indeed, a most important work of preparation, and our first losses chiefly occurred in the spots where no gap had been blown in the German wire defences. Here and there the assault failed through our troops getting hung up on the wire, giving time for the Germans to bring their machine-gun's into action. But while our held-up troops gallantly fought on, the German trenches were stormed through the gaps farther south by the Indians, and the Germans, working the machine- guns against our wired-out men, were taken by surprise in flank or rear and killed or captured.
The Indians were heroic. They had given ground to the Germans in this part of the front some months before, when the enemy had the advantage in the artillery power. Now that the horrible, shattering force, of heavy ordnance was largely on our side, the Indians were able to display fully their prowess and deadly skill in hand-to-hand combat. Winning the trenches, they rushed with the Britons and Canadians to the ruined village, where the hottest, fiercest fighting took place. The Germans had placed machine-guns, in the houses. Sometimes there were six machine-guns in one house, commanding every line of approach. A shell from our light quick-firers would have cleaved them out; but this was a battle at express speed. Having bullet and bayonet at hand, our men did not wait for their guns to come up, but gave the machine-gun men the ..mad minute and cleared the house with the bayonet.
The Immortal Division the Seventh- which had tried in October to save Antwerp, and. had saved the Belgian Army and then held the trenches of Ypres for nineteen days, got back on the enemy at last at Neuve Chapelle. Since losing nearly five men out of every six, in the greatest achievement in our history, it had reorganised, and its scanty veterans filled the new drafts with their high spirit, as the division, with the other bayonets of our Fourth Army Corps, drove against the German position from the north. The German trenches were taken in an hour. Three hours afterwards the fortified village houses were ; captured, and by half-past five in the afternoon the last defences of the Germans, a mass of wire entanglements and pits known as Port Arthur, were carried by storm.
The British Airmen's Part
In ten hours our 48,000 infantrymen at Neuve Chapelle had won more ground than their more numerous French comrades at Perthes had gained in ten days. This, of course, was largely due to the French troops. By their tenacious attack in Champagne they had drawn away many of the Germans defending the Neuve Chapelle position, and had thus prepared for our success. Yet this is not the full explanation. Our assault was a masterpiece in tactics. The bombardment was as short as it was intense. It did not last long enough to enable the Germans to bring up reinforcements. They were blown out of their trenches and bayoneted before help could arrive. For while our infantry was attacking in overwhelming numbers our airmen were bombing the neighbouring railway centres Menin, Courtrai, sand Don breaking down bridges, wrecking stations, and hindering transport of reinforcements to the endangered position.
Had it not been for the fog that gathered in the evening, preventing our artillerymen and their aerial scouts from blowing a longer path of advance for our infantry, the great German fortress of La Bassée might have been assailed from the rear. As it was, our men, though stopped at the height east of the village, Neuve Chapelle against all counter-attacks, and advanced more northward towards Lille and upset the entire plans of the Kaiser and his Chief of Staff. A council of war had to be held at Lille to decide whether troops should be drawn from Russia to strengthen the German line in France and Flanders.
General Joffre had imposed his will upon his opponents, and his Staff made a most remarkable statement. ''At a given time and at a given place we can do what we will,". they said.
as seen by a British magazine
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The Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI) conducts applied research into:
Research is one of CCI’s four core areas of business and is integral to us delivering effective, evidence-based treatments to people with mental disorders at our clinic in Perth, Western Australia. Research also guides the training we deliver to mental health professionals, and helps us develop resources for professionals, consumers and carers that we make available on our website.
CCI’s treatment programs undergo a continual process of development, evaluation, innovation and re-evaluation, to ensure that outcomes are (a) meeting or exceeding national and international benchmarks and (b) continually improving.
We conduct three main types of research:
We regularly examine how much people benefit from the individual and group treatments we offer at our clinic, and we use this information to improve the treatments over time.
We investigate factors that maintain mental disorders, and the reasons why treatment is more helpful for some people than others.
In order to evaluate the effectiveness of our treatments and determine how they work, we need to measure how people receiving treatment at CCI progress in treatment. We do this using questionnaires and other methods that assess people’s thoughts, emotions, behaviour, and physiology. We conduct research to evaluate the accuracy and usefulness of psychological instruments for measuring depression, anxiety, and other aspects of mental health and wellbeing. From time to time we also develop psychological instruments that we use in our clinic, and which are used by researchers and mental health clinicians all over the world.
Psychological treatments can help people to recover and live healthy, meaningful lives, but they do not work for everyone. More effective treatments are needed to increase the chance that someone experiencing mental health problems can make a full recovery as quickly as possible, and stay well for as long as possible.
The overarching aim of research conducted at CCI is to help improve the effectiveness of psychological therapies for common mental health problems. This helps to improve the lives of people with mental disorders.
Our applied research ensures that CCI is a centre of excellence in clinical practice because it:
This allows us to help more people to recover from mental health problems than would otherwise be the case, and to do so in a timely and cost-effective manner.
We provide training in evidence-based psychological therapies to health practitioners such as psychologists, nurses, GPs, and psychiatrists. Our research findings help us to decide what trainings to offer, and to improve the training.
We make many free resources available on our website for people suffering from mental disorders, carers, and treatment professionals. The research we conduct is used to decide what materials we make available on our website, and to improve the quality of the materials over time.
We routinely track our clients’ progress during their treatment at CCI, and seek their written consent to use this data for research and quality improvement purposes.
Our team of clinical research experts analyse the data to answer important questions that enable us to improve our treatment programs. We also publish the results in leading peer-reviewed scholarly journals, and report our findings at Australian and international conferences. This helps researchers and clinicians around the world benefit from the work being done in our clinic.
In May 2022, CCI launched its inaugural research strategy. The document emphasizes that research and evaluation are fundamental components of the model of care at CCI, and that as a centre of excellence in clinical psychology we strive to improve the lives of people with mental health challenges through world-class applied research.
The strategy notes that our mission is to support partnerships between researchers, clinicians, and people with lived experience to ensure consumers receive high quality care with outcomes that set new international benchmarks through continual evaluation, quality improvement, and innovative translational research.
The document describes CCI’s research values and guiding principles, such as that we are consumer-focused; that research and practice must be tightly integrated in order to optimise consumer outcomes; and that we while our primary focus is on improving the lives of our clients in Western Australia through our treatment programs, we aim for our research to have a global impact.
The strategy also outlines the centre’s research goals and priorities for the next few years.
To download the CCI research strategy, please click here.
Research at CCI is tightly integrated with the treatments we deliver. Our clinical work informs our research questions, and our research findings inform our clinical practice. As a result, everyone at CCI is involved in research on a daily basis – from our receptionist who greets our clients and hands them questionnaires, to our clinical psychologists who provide therapy and enter data, to our team of researchers who analyse and interpret the data.
While everyone at CCI is involved in research, the key personnel in our research team are:
Peter is a Senior Clinical Psychologist and Research Consultant at CCI, Professor of Clinical Psychology at Curtin University and Associate Editor of two scientific journals. He is one of the world’s foremost experts on social anxiety disorder, repetitive negative thinking, and transdiagnostic approaches to treating mental disorders. A transdiagnostic treatment is one designed to treat more than one mental disorder at a time.
David is CCI’s Senior Research Scientist. He is also a Research Fellow in the School of Psychology at Curtin University and former West Australian Student Scientist of the Year. David manages CCI’s research database and is the Centre’s statistical expert. He has a strong interest in evaluating the effectiveness of treatments for depressive and anxiety disorders, and in developing statistical techniques that help researchers to do this. His research been covered by numerous media outlets including CNN, the ABC, and Sydney Morning Herald.
Bronwyn is a Senior Clinical Psychologist at CCI and co-director of our eating disorders program. She both provides treatment for eating disorders and conducts research. Bronwyn is very interested in improving the effectiveness of treatments for eating disorders using innovative cognitive-behavioural and family-based approaches and improving access to evidence-based treatments for individuals with eating disorders. She has published numerous research articles in scientific journals and regularly presents her work at the Australia and New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders national conference.
Our team of researchers regularly collaborates on projects with academics and postgraduate clinical psychology students at institutions such as the University of Western Australia, Curtin University, Oxford University, University of Sheffield, and University of Waterloo.
People who experience social anxiety disorder (SAD) have a chronic and debilitating fear of being criticised and rejected by other people. People with SAD see themselves as incompetent and inferior, and believe that they will be rejected when other people see how anxious they are. While criticism is an occasional and unpleasant part of life for most of us, people with SAD believe they will be criticised and rejected virtually every time they are around other people. This leads them to avoid social interactions, and to become extremely anxious when they are unable to do so.
An effective group treatment for Social Anxiety Disorder was developed by Professor Ron Rapee from Macquarie University. He conducted clinical trials demonstrating that the treatment helps many people with SAD. In 2008 CCI began running groups to treat SAD using Professor Rapee’s treatment protocol. We collected data on the effectiveness of the treatment when delivered at our clinic in Perth. We found that the treatment worked just as well at our clinic as in clinical trials conducted at Universities, despite the clients we treat having more severe and complex social anxiety. These results were encouraging. However, not everyone with SAD benefited from the treatment. We therefore modified the treatment protocol, using lessons we had learned running groups at CCI and the latest research on SAD to try and enhance the power of the therapy. We tested how well the revised treatment worked at our clinic, and found that it was substantially more effective than the old treatment. Our findings have since been replicated by researchers in Canada. Members of our research team have published a book about the enhanced treatment, and we are further evaluating its effectiveness in a clinical trial funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council.
Many people referred to CCI suffer from Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). They worry uncontrollably and excessively about numerous topics such as their health, finances, and family. The amount of worry is out of proportion to the reality of the situation. People find it hard to control the worry, and often feel very tired, irritable, and on edge. Helpful treatments are available for GAD, but they are less effective than the options available for other anxiety disorders.
Professor Adrian Wells from the University of Manchester developed a treatment called metacognitive therapy. He conducted research which found that metacognitive therapy may be more effective than other treatments for GAD. These findings motivated CCI to develop a 6-session metacognitive group treatment for treating excessive worry – the main symptom of GAD – in our clinic. This is much shorter than treatments used elsewhere in the world. We ran the group in our clinic and carefully assessed how much people’s worrying reduced. We then compared our results to those obtained at mental health clinics and Universities in Europe and North America. We discovered that the 6-session protocol was more effective than other treatments that require up to 30 sessions of treatment. The findings of this research were published in a peer-revised scientific journal and presented at international mental health conferences. After discovering the treatment was effective, we started offering training in the therapy to mental health professionals and made the treatment manual available for purchase on our website. We also developed self-help materials based on the treatment that are freely available on our website.
Eating disorders are complex neuropsychiatric disorders that will affect up to 9% of people in their lifetime. For example, Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a life-threatening condition in which people severely restrict their nutritional intake, resulting in them becoming severely underweight relative to what is normal for their age and height. People with AN may have an extreme fear of gaining weight or becoming fat or may minimise the seriousness of their low body weight.
Professor Chris Fairburn from Oxford University developed the first scientifically tested, evidence-based treatment for eating disorders. CCI was the first centre in the world outside of Oxford to be trained in the treatment, which is called enhanced Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT-E). We then made the treatment available to clients with eating disorders at our clinic in Perth. We tracked the progress of each client who took part in the treatment. We used this data to evaluate the effectiveness of the therapy in our clinic, and found that it helped many patients. The results of our research were published in a scientific journal and presented at national and international eating disorder conferences. Over the next few years we played a key role in an Australia-wide clinical trial evaluating the effectiveness of CBT-E and two other treatments for AN.
We have used the findings of our research, along with the clinical expertise we have built from treating hundreds of clients, to develop many educational materials and self-help materials that are available for free on our website. We have also developed workshops in which we train health professionals to recognise and treat eating disorders. While many individuals with eating disorders benefit from the evidence-based treatments currently available, we need to continue to develop more effective and efficient treatments for these life-threatening disorders. Our research is also being used to help develop novel strategies for treating AN, so that we can help more people in the future than we can with the best treatments available today.
Further information about the Centre’s publications can be found on the publications page.
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The Australian government is moving towards greater use ofbiometrics to prevent identity theft which costs A$1.1 billion(C$906 million) annually, the federal Attorney General PhilipRuddock said today.
Addressing the Biometrics Institute’s annual conference inSydney, Ruddock said the Council of Australian Governments hasagreed to investigate how biometric security measures could beadopted by all the state’s and territories.
This is part of the National Identity Security Strategy whichaims to strengthen existing identity processes and to make sureprocedures are consistent across the country.
It supports the establishment of a national A$28.3 millionDocument Verification Service announced in the recent federalbudget. “We need to beat criminals at their own game and biometricidentification can help us do this,” Ruddock said.
And while everyone has a right to privacy, Ruddock said, “Therecan be no greater invasion of a person’s privacy than the theft oftheir identity”. He said one challenge with biometric use is thelack of consistent standards.
“Closed and proprietary biometric solutions mean that standardsare developing in different ways and there is a lack ofinteroperability across government agencies,” Ruddock said.
“This is inefficient and creates increased cost; this is anissue we will examine in the development of the AustralianGovernment Biometrics Framework.”
Initiatives currently being undertaken by the government includethe introduction of a Human Services smartcard – called AccessCard, the use of e-Passports and an automated border processingsystem known as SmartGate at Australian airports.
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THE ROLE OF SEA LEVEL AND BAY INFILLING IN THE CLOSING OF AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HARBOR
Ground penetrating radar, sediment coring, malacological and foraminiferal studies, radiocarbon dates, and rheological models demonstrate that the wadi bed adjacent to the terrace was once an open, protected bay. The base of the corraline / conglomerate terrace consists of a narrow coral-beach rock platform (dated at ~3500 BP) presently buried by anthropogenic, eolian, and colluvial sediments. Ubiquitous medium-fine wadi sediments underlie and extend beyond the beach rock. Malachological analyses, foraminifera distributions, radiocarbon dates, and sedimentological data indicate that these sediments were deposited in a protected tidal lagoon receiving infrequent freshwater inputs. Wave-cut notches along the seaward shoreline confirm a site-specific rheological model for the northern the Red Sea that indicates a sea-level highstand (~1 m above present MHW) during or immediately prior to occupation. Late during the period of occupation, the lagoon began to close as equatorial siphoning forced a regional sea-level fall while at the same time, riverine discharge through the wadi processes were infilling the bay at rates on the order of .25 cm/year. | <urn:uuid:c11ac493-caea-45ea-bc01-e93caf60e216> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2010NE/webprogram/Paper170165.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.901915 | 286 | 3.34375 | 3 |
OF ALL the public holidays in the calendar, Easter alone has the capacity to take us by surprise. Maybe it comes around earlier than we had been planning, or later than we would have liked. Maybe it brings dismal weather when we had expected bright, clear sunny days. Maybe the roads leading out of the city on the first day of the holiday period flow smoothly as though most everybody else decided to stay home or to take the train. Maybe we are given chocolate eggs to eat on Easter Sunday - or chocolate bilbies better still - or maybe we find ourselves being nourished by old friends who appear on our doorstep unannounced after absences of many years.
These kinds of mild surprises are nothing compared to the shock of the actual Easter story - which tells of a man who was known to have died but is said to have risen again from the dead. In the Gospels we read how the women close to Jesus visited his tomb to anoint his body three days after his death and, realising that he was no longer there, ran away in fear (Mark chapter 16, verse 8). We read that Jesus subsequently appeared to these women, urging them to have no fear, and how they fell to the ground clutching at his feet (Matthew 28, 9-10). We are told that Jesus then joined some of his disciples as they made their way to the town of Emmaus outside Jerusalem and how, slowly, they came to realise who it was that they had been talking with (Luke 24, 13-32). And we meet the doubting disciple, Thomas, who asks for - and receives - physical proof from Jesus that he has indeed risen from the dead (John 20, 24-28).
The story of the resurrection of Jesus circulated first among a small group of his followers in and around Jerusalem but went on to form the core belief of countless millions of people all around the world. The story of Jesus also gave birth to the modern world both by asserting the role of human beings as free agents in creating their future and by breaking down old tribal barriers in proposing a new, universal fraternity through which, in the words of Paul, "there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is no male or female, for ye are all one in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3, 28).
These were only some of the aftermaths of the cosmic shock of Easter. And yet the milder surprises of the season are the ones more often felt these days and the ones that sit most comfortably in our much reduced imaginations. Clearly, the Gospels must be works of fiction or else elaborate hoaxes built on the delusional beliefs of ignorant people living in a much less sophisticated time and place. Surely those who claim to have seen the Jesus alive and well on that first Easter morning must have meant something else than what they actually said about the event. Who, after all, can seriously believe in the Resurrection given what we now know of the laws of physics and biology?
The predominance of reasoning of this kind reflects the scepticism of a materialist, secular society but not only this. It also reflects the inwardness of our age. There is now a widespread presumption that any claim to objective truth beyond our own experience is false because there are only social constructions of reality and that all attempts to impose meaning and value are impositions upon the authentic personal narratives of our own lives. Consequently people are encouraged not to be bound by the rules of external codes, traditions or beliefs but rather to get in touch with their own inner feelings in order to discover who they really are and figure out how to act accordingly. Simply put, ours is a culture that pretends to liberate the "me" from the "we" by inviting each of us to forget about the tried wisdom of the past and to simply feel good about ourselves here and now.
This inwardness comes at a great cost. In his seminal work The Hero With a Thousand Faces, the American comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell identified something of the price when he wrote that it "has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those other constant human fantasies that tend to tie it back. In fact, it may well be that the very high incidence of neuroticism among ourselves follows from the decline among us of such effective spiritual aid. We remain fixated to the unexorcised images of our infancy [where our energies] remain locked in a banal, long-outmoded toy-room, at the bottom of the sea."
Because we tend to cling to the known and to fear the unknown with all its risks and dangers, we can use an outside impetus to initiate change within ourselves. This is how the story of Easter pushes us forward. It releases us from the grip of personal despondency and despair with the promise of renewal. It compels us to weigh the strictures of the merely known against the freedom and invigoration of the wider territory of the unknown. It offers a means by which to transform ourselves from what we are to what we can become. "Verily I say unto thee," the risen Jesus tells his disciple Peter, "when thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walked whither thou wouldest; but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not" (John 21, 18). That 'other' is life, properly understood. And such is the great shock of Easter. | <urn:uuid:4228e84f-9652-4bd4-9fdf-a11c00855a2d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-great-shock-of-easter-20120405-1wfg7.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.973181 | 1,130 | 2.3125 | 2 |
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Bobbing around Great Britain, the birthplace of mountain running
Photo by Kevin Trautman
Scott’s normally tall frame is hunched over his trekking poles as he hobbles along, breathing hard through his pursed lips and clenched teeth.
Slowly, he breathes in.
The Spartathalon, Badwater, Western States … if these brutal races have left Scott Jurek with one thing, it is an acute ability to endure. He stumbles over a rock and into a bog that swallows his leg below the knee.
Slowly, he breathes out.
His foot slurps its way out of the green-brown pool of peat and decomposing bracken. I cross my fingers in hopes that there is still a size-13 shoe on his foot.
We are descending Broad Crag en route to the 3,209-foot summit of Scafell Pike, the tallest mountain in England which, unlike the other 27 desserted peaks we have tagged over the previous 14 hours, is covered in fell walkers—moms and dads, elders and children, eating, drinking and basking on the roof of England on this atypical sunburn spring day.
Martin Cox and Scott Jurek pause to decipher the shapes of the fells around them. Photo by Ricky Gates
In this 66-mile mountain-running challenge, we are at the confluence of suffering and despair—that point in a really long day out when your body feels the miles that you have covered and your mind is now aware of what remains. Wondering how we could have improved our situation we quickly decide that the fell race a couple of days earlier probably didn’t help our causes. Nor did the preceeding 80-some-odd miles through the rolling British fells. Maybe if we’d actually trained for the brutality of tackling the Bob Graham Round, which the Round’s late historian Harry Griffin described as “the most demanding test of physical and mental stamina available to British athletes or mountaineers,” we’d be in better stead.
“My proprioception is completely gone,” Scott grunts. Scott is perhaps the only person I know who can still use a five-syllable word while suffering at his worst.
Two more legs to go, I think to myself. Road crossings help to break up the Bob Graham Round into five comprehensible sections or “legs.” We are most of the way through the third leg.
Not long before this trip, deep in the Himalayas, Scott celebrated his 40th birthday with his wife, Jenny. A light peppering of grey across his curly dark mess of hair helped usher in the new decade. I think about the few trophies Scott has chosen to keep around his house back home in Boulder, Colorado—trophies with cougars and bears and bighorn sheep on them. And the belt buckles … enough belt buckles to outfit a Mexican wedding. Now in that pro-athlete’s purgatory where his records are being broken and race wins are sporadic at best, Scott is contemplating, more than ever, what running means to him.
The Irish Sea glimmers below us to the west, where the sun is making its descent toward the Isle of Man. To the north, an extension of Scotland reaches out toward the estranged island as though to lend it some comfort in this normally grey and hostile land.
I think back to a summer day in 1932 when a fit and determined guest-house keeper from the heart of the Cumbrian Fells set off in plimsolls, baggy shorts and a button-down flannel shirt to tag one peak for each of his 42 years. 23 hours and 39 minutes later, Bob Graham returned triumphant. Little could he have known that his day in the fells would spur thousands of aspiring fell runners and walkers to attempt the same feat, that there would someday be a Bob Graham 24-Hour Club.
I look at my watch, do some simple miles-per-hour, hours-left-to-go math and let Scott know that we’re cutting it close, which, of course, he already knows. “If we get back to Moot Hall in 24 hours and 1 minute,” I proclaim, “we’re coming back and doing this all over again.”
I look back at my watch and with a tinge of shame, wonder at what point I should leave Scott in order to selfishly squeak under 24 hours myself.
The Welsh Fells that once gave refuge to fire-breathing dragons and boulder-tossing giants now encourage men and women to test their endurance through wild, rugged terrain. Photo by Ricky Gates
Whether it is mechanics, architecture, knitting or running, pursue something long enough and you will get philosophical about it. If running provides an added element of intrigue, perhaps it is because in this age of automobiles and mechanical advantage, the question of “why” becomes all the more important. “Why do we run?” is a question that gets to be asked again and again with every generation, each time yielding different answers, or variations of the same answer, as I’ve come to learn.
The seed for this trip had been planted several thousand miles away and nourished by a mutual curiosity about the pursuit of running and how it manifests itself differently in cultures all throughout the world. On training runs, Scott and I reminisced about our various running adventures, from the hills of Addis Ababa to the depths of the Copper Canyon, from the bear-infested wilds of Alaska to the frozen vastness of the Antarctic Plateau. One thing we could both agree on is that Great Britain’s tradition of running is one of the greatest in the world.
Over many miles on separate runs, I explained to Scott that my interest in British fell running comes from a decade of racing and training with some of Britain’s top runners. One day it was explained to me that “fell” is an Old Norse word that has survived in Scandinavia and parts of the British Isles—a word that translates as mountain, but implies much more. “So they are mountains,” I would say. The Brits would hesitate and decide that no, they are not mountains. They are fells.
Martin Cox leads Scott Jurek up Skiddaw and above Derwentwater and the small town of Keswick in the heart of the Lake District of Northern England. Photo by Ricky Gates
Conversation would then turn to fell races, which they insisted were different from European trail races and vastly different from anything in the States. Then, heroic stories of the previous generation of fell runners—Iron Joss Naylor, the gaunt sheep farmer who extended the 24-hour peak-bagging challenge to 72 peaks; Kenny Stuart, a quiet and petit gardener whose records up and down Great Britain’s tallest and highest-profile mountains still stand nearly three decades after they were set. They would talk about the great talent of fell runners—men and women who could fly up and down mountains but could hardly be bothered to travel beyond the county line.
Fell-running conversations have a way of meandering toward Bob Graham. “66 miles, 30,000 feet of climbing,” a guy from Leeds told me. “72 miles, 28,000 feet,” another told me. “Bogs, bracken, piss weather and hope you don’t get lost,” they both agreed. Invariably, they would mention Billy Bland … King Billy, the stone mason with soft red hair who in 1982 ran the Bob Graham Round in 13 hours 53 minutes—a record that is generally considered one of the greatest achievements not only in fell-running history but also in British athletics in general.
In April 2014, what had been curiosity and conversation an ocean away became reality as we pulled away from the Manchester airport in a rental car. We fled the city quickly, whiteknuckling along the left side of the road.
As we drove along the north coast of Wales, I admitted to Scott that I actually had no idea what we were doing in Wales.
“Don’t they speak Elvish and believe in dragons?” I asked.
“I think they speak Welsh,” he replied. “And, yes, there is a dragon on their flag, but I think they’re extinct.” The reason for this detour to Wales, he explained, was to check out the Paddy Buckley Round.
“Who’s Paddy Buckley?”
“I don’t know,” he replied. “But the Round seems to be based off the Bob Graham Round. About 100K, about 10K of vert. Complete the Round and you’re in the club. Do it in under 24 hours and you get an extra pat on the back.”
“Is Paddy a man’s name or a woman’s name?”
“I don’t know.”
We pulled into Llanberis (pronounced thlan-ber-ris) at the base of Snowdon. Quaint buildings painted uniformly in primary colors lined the street and, just beyond town, slate-wall farmhouses surrounded by dry-stone walls extended toward the flanks of the mountain.
As we stared up at the shrouded summit over three thousand feet above us, I was reminded of an Arthurian legend that told of Rhitta Gawr, the mountain’s resident giant, who wore a cloak made of the beards of his enemies. As legend tells, following a greusome battle and subsequent defeat by King Arthur, the monster’s body was laid beneath a heap of stones on the summit.
Thirteen centuries later, more reliable sources put Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on the slopes of Snowdon during preparation for their 1953 Mount Everest Expedition. Then, four decades later, 122-pound Kenny Stuart famously sprinted the 10 miles up and down the mountain in 1:02:29.
The following few days were spent chasing sheep, tagging summits, mangling the Welsh language and then returning to the youth hostel for more “hostile living,” as Scott would refer to it. After we battled for kitchen space, snuck beers into the dining room and braved the peaty inferno that was the shoe drying room, our separate attempts at sleep were all that remained.
Following a leisurely breakfast, we trotted away from the hostel and into the hills where, almost at once, you are above the town. Soon after, you are level with the other mountains, and not far off in the distance is the Irish Sea, the source of the incessant and ruthless wind. Plentiful trails and rounded mountaintops provided immediate access to an environment that primarily wants to make you cold and wet.
At once, the Paddy Buckley Round’s thousands of vertical feet and dozens of miles of trail, bracken, boulderfields and bogs proved to be a great reason for spending long days out in the fells. The Round sends you over rock-scramble ridgelines, up slate-mine staircases and through seemingly bottomless bogs—some of which are rumored to have taken the lives of full-grown men.
By chance, one evening, I came across a 1982 essay written by Paddy Buckley himself, titled: “A Long Day in Snowdonia: Notes on the setting up of the Welsh 24-Hour Round.”
Bob Graham never said very much about his round. “Anybody can do it,” he claimed. And with perhaps a tinge of bravado added, “Provided they’re fit enough.” Not long after fell runner Paddy Buckley completed a sub-24 hour Bob Graham Round, he set out to create and write about a round of his own in the equally impressive fells of Northern Wales. In doing so, not only did Buckley help define what the Bob Graham Round was, but also what a round could be and should be.
“The round should be the region’s showpiece,” Buckley wrote, “giving variety and interest.”
“[The round should be possible] not just for supermen,” he continued, “but also for those ordinary mortals, who are determined enough and fit enough for the task.”
Though it took several years for a person “fit enough for the task“ to complete the Paddy Buckley Round in under 24 hours, by the end of 2013, nearly 100 “ordinary mortals” had left their toenails in Snowdonia after successfully following Paddy Buckley’s recipe.
Jurek tests his weight on the Cantilever Stone near the summit of Glyder Fach along the Paddy Buckley Round. Photo by Kevin Trautman
With our shoes still boggy and our fatigue fresh, we got back on the road and headed north on the M6 toward the Lake District, England’s undisputed fell-running Mecca, where workingman heroes concentrate and the race to the top of the hill is as old as memory itself.
As the Rift Valley belongs to the Kenyans, and the Copper Canyon belongs to the Tarahumara, so the Lake District belongs to the Fell Runners.
An agreed-upon story puts the first official fell race at the Grasmere Games in the 1850s. In addition to wrestling, hound racing and falconry, the county fair decided to include a foot race from the fair grounds to the summit of a nearby fell and back down. In the race’s inaugural years, the first man back to the fairgrounds was greeted with a full band playing “See the Conquering Hero” just for him.
A winding 13 miles north of Grasmere, we arrived in Keswick, where the elusive English mountain runner Martin Cox guided us up Skiddaw and through the first leg of the Bob Graham Round. It was Martin, in fact, who, during his ex-pat years in the Alps, explained most everything fell running to me, long before I even set foot on the British Isles. He explained to me that races are so much more than a just a test of who’s fastest—they are also about knowing the lay of the land. They are about picking a line and running it fearlessly. They are legendarily tough.
As we ascended Skiddaw, the lakeside town’s 3,000-foot backdrop, Martin pointed out other sections and summits of the Round—Blencathra, Helvellyn, Dunmail Raise, Bowfell, Scafell, Great Gable. Everything Martin pointed to, as far south as the eye could see, was part of the Bob Graham Round. Green Gable, Bandreth, Honister, Hindscarth. Martin’s hand swept around to point out the final few miles on tight, paved farm roads, along the lake, into the outskirts of town, onto the cobblestone pedestrian mall and finally back to the green wooden doors of the clock-tower assembly hall known as Moot Hall. Martin told us about a guy who, after a successful 24-hour attempt, had “Moot Hall” tattooed along the full height of his back.
The following day we dabbled in the Coledale Horseshoe Fell Race—an eight-mile loop with 3,000 feet of up and down, two check points, no set course or course markings. Scott and I were seemingly the only runners not affiliated with a local running club. I tucked behind the modern fell-running legend Rob Jebb, who led me through the entire course, then out-sprinted me at the end.
Following some post-race beers, we retired to the Derwentwater Youth Hostel where my friend and Salomon teammate, English fell-running champion Ricky Lightfoot, was waiting for us with “King” Billy Bland himself. Now in his mid-60s, still with a tinge of red hair, dressed in gumboots, corduroys and an old rain jacket, Billy greeted us with a stone-mason’s handshake and a soft grin.
Bob Graham, center, at age 42 with his pacers at the time of his 1932 run. Photo courtesy of the Bob Graham Round Club
Over the next of couple hours, Billy chatted about his time at the top of the sport. He routinely chalked up his success to hard work and plenty of sleep. “I used to beat the kids to bed. Pull the curtains. Up the next morning. Full tank of petrol.”
When asked about his record-setting Bob Graham Round, he grinned a moment, as though he knew we’d ask.
“Well, away we went. Went around as I felt. Kenny Stuart helped out.” Billy talks about people and mountains. Back and forth. People and mountains. “Me brother Stuart. And then ol’ Joss. And then back into Keswick.”
“We were thinking of running the BGR in a few days,” I mentioned. “But given the amount of miles we’ve already put in this past week and today’s fell race …”
“Well,” Billy’s hand clapped my shoulder. “You can’t really do the Bob Graham when you get home now, can you?” he laughed, and it was settled.
The following day we rested, ate and slept. At 10 past three the next morning, there was little fanfare as we checked our watches, snapped a photo, patted the hollow green doors of Moot Hall and set off, with Lightfoot as our navigator, through the cobbled streets and alleys of Keswick.
Little time is wasted on the summits of the BGR—maybe a photo and a glance at the watch. “One summit down, 41 to go,” I said. None of us laughed.
As we skirted our way around to the west, the moon set, the sun rose bright and we knew that it was going to be a beautiful day.
At the first changeover Ian Mulvey, his partner Emily and Murphy the Dog greeted us with hot coffee and the food we’d packed to be sent ahead. We relaxed a moment, petted the dog and chatted about the next leg. From the small town of Threlkeld we carried on up the steep, grassy climb of Clough Fold, Clough Head and on to the Dodds, where we rapidly ticked off nondescript summits with dull-sounding names: Great Dodd, Watson’s Dodd, Stybarrow Dodd.
More bogs, more strangely named summits. We stopped counting summits and focused on the number of sections. As we peered at Skiddaw, off in the distance, and the many more mountains to be climbed to the west and north, the vastness of the route started to settle. Harrison Stickle, Pike of Stickle, Rossett Pike. Sergeant Man. Scafell Pike—England’s tallest mountain, marked with a cairn the size of a grain silo.
At the next changeover, Lightfoot handed the navigational reigns over to Ian as Scott and I calorically prepared for the third and most challenging leg.
Out of Scott’s earshot, Ian asked if he was all right and I replied that he was fine. “His proprioception is gone,” I said. “Once we get him to some runnable terrain, he’ll be back to normal.”
Ian paused. “There is no runnable terrain,” he said. “Not until the final few miles.”
It was around this time that I realized we weren’t going to make it back to Keswick in time for a beer and a basket of chips. We were going to be pushing it pretty close to the 24-hour mark.
Jurek and the author navigate the rocky and unstable terrain synonymous with the Lake District. Photo by Ian Mulvey
On the fourth leg, a fresh set of pacers joined us. One of them pointed out the southern coast of Scotland, to the northwest. He showed me the rest of leg four: Red Pike and Steeple along the same ridge to the north of us, then the flat-top summit of Kirk Fell to the east and a beast of a climb up what looked to be a volcanic plug—Great Gable.
“Once you get to the top of Great Gable, you’ll have cracked it,” he said.
“You’ll have broken it’s back,” another pacer echoed.
We paused to take in the moonrise over Great Gable, and began to absorb the cycle of the entire route. Why 24 hours? I thought. What’s wrong with 25 hours? 30 hours? The air was dead calm and just cool enough to make you keep moving. Because a day’s a day, I thought. Same time, same place, which made good sense to me and still kinda does.
The rocky descent off Great Gable had Scott cursing. We clicked off another couple of peaks—Green Gable, Brandreth and Grey Knotts—before descending into the Honister Pass slate mine, where the map printed especially for the Bob Graham Round notes, “If time is tight, don’t stop—eat on the climb up Dale Head.” We took our food to go and hurried into the final leg.
The moon was good and bright at this point and we didn’t need headlamps. Scott was looking better, but still moving pretty slowly. A rebound from an eight-hour bad patch doesn’t equate to much given all the damage already done to the body.
“Forty-two done. Zero left to go,” I said. Again, nobody laughed. The light glow of Keswick shone in the distance, some seven miles away. Scott looked down the final, rocky descent.
“Are you fucking kidding me?” he muttered.
Moonlight filled the hills and sprinkled down through the oak as we ran on pavement for the first time in close to 60 miles. Bright white farmhouses. Sleeping lambs, a ghostly silence and nothing. The only applause came from the automatic porch lights abruptly illuminating small portions of the road as we passed.
As we ran by Newlands Church and Little Town, Scott’s form began to return.
I realized that I hadn’t really seen trees at all today.
Our pace quickened: eight-minute pace, 7:30 pace, seven-minute pace, past a half dozen sloops docked on Derwenter lake, moonlight splashing about their hulls.
Through the small town of Portinscale where the buildings are packed tight, two or three stories tall. I felt as though I’d been away from civilization for some time.
Over a footbridge and into the fields outside Keswick.
The final moments were cobblestone, silence and joy. We touched the hollow green doors as Ian clicked his watch.
He looked at it, held up his wrist and smiled.
12 minutes to spare.
Jurek ascends Halls Fell Ridge beneath Blencathra, the third summit of the Bob Graham Round. Photo by Ricky Gates
Forty-eight hours later we are on United Airlines Flight 80 to Newark. Scott is in first class; I’m in coach writing down an account of our Round as requested by the venerable Bob Graham Round Club. My body is aching tremendously.
I am thinking, perhaps a bit too metaphysically, about it all—the simplicity and perfection of an endeavor where, if all goes well, you will end up right where you started, tired, beat, blistered and sore, yet filled with an immense purity and happiness.
For many, the Bob Graham Round is the culminating achievement for a lifetime of running. For others, the Round is life: You start off fresh and full of ambition, scared, but also a little curious for what the future has in store for you.
I think about the many cultures that have adopted the simple practice of moving around something in order to better communicate with both yourself and God. In Islam it is called tawaf. In Buddhism it is called kinhin. In Hinduism it is called parikrama. Western culture knows it best as circumambulation.
As we soar over the white icefields of Greenland, my mind’s eye wanders the Elk Mountains of Western Colorado—the mountains of my youth and my unfaltering source of inspiration. My imagination travels quickly up trails, along ridges and over passes, tallying miles, elevation and hours.
What would be my round?
One that anybody can do … “provided they’re fit enough.”
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It is widely acknowledged that invention plays a important function in houses ‘ endurance and growing. Traditionally, invention has been considered one of the major beginnings of growing and competitory advantage, both for states and houses. From the “ originative devastation ” of Schumpeter, when the key participant was represented by the enterpriser who, with his action, could prolong the long-run economic growing ( Schumpeter, 1942 ) , to our recent R & A ; D laboratories, research centres, etc. , invention has ever played an highly relevant function for growing. While at the beginning of economic theory, the function of houses was considered polar, nowadays houses ‘ engagement is a cardinal component for invention. As stated above, the issue is highly relevant non merely for houses, but besides at a macro-level, therefore sing states. In fact, “ the capableness to introduce and to convey invention successfully to market will be a important determiner of the planetary fight of states over the coming decennary. There is turning awareness among policymakers that advanced activity is the chief driver of economic advancement and wellbeing every bit good as a possible factor in run intoing planetary challenges ” ( OECD, 2007, p.3 ) . Furthermore, invention is demonstrated to be critical for endurance and growing of houses, even more in the high competitory planetary environment that houses are now compelled to face. Given the importance of the topic, a whole apprehension of the factors that systematically influence invention is highly of import.
Historically, certain factors have ever been considered to positively impact on houses ‘ invention: for case, size is regarded as a beginning of invention ( e.g. Ebling & A ; Janz, 1999 ; Ganotakis & A ; Love, 2011 ) because greater houses are supposed to have both the fiscal and cognition resources necessary to put in invention. Among the characteristics that might positively act upon invention, exporting has been late brought to attending. While traditionally, exporting has merely been considered an international enlargement scheme, even if the most used one, recently, the positive effects that exports exert on invention have been repeatedly investigated by bookmans. Apart from the relationship with invention, one of the grounds behind the great attending to exports prevarications in the great diffusion of these activities among houses. In fact, as a effect of the altering kineticss of the environment, besides the little and average endeavors ( SMEs ) are recognizing that they can no longer believe international competition will non impact them because they are little or entirely focused on the domestic market. Therefore, SMEs are increasing the exportation activities to last, and hopefully turn, in this ambitious environment. As an illustration, in the information that will be described shortly, more than 60 % of the houses in the Spanish fabrication sector export. All that, has brought to an increased attending to exporting from bookmans.
Furthermore, as anticipated above, presents it is widely shared the position harmonizing to which exports have positive effects on invention. Several researches have demonstrated that exporters have higher advanced productiveness compared to non-exporters. At the same clip, surveies have besides revealed that invention exert positive influence on exporting. The more a house innovates, the higher the export strength ( e.g. Kongomanila & A ; Takahashi, 2009 ; Roper & A ; Love, 2002 ) and the likeliness that house exports ( e.g. Bleaney & A ; Wakelin, 2002 ; Caldera, 2010 ) . Therefore, while before exporting and invention were considered alternate schemes for growing, now they are believed to reenforce each other. Indeed, research have unveiled that the returns in footings of growing of one activity is higher if the house besides engages in the other ( Golovko & A ; Valentini, 2011 ; Ito & A ; Lechevalier, 2010 ) . Invention may drive to an betterment of the bing merchandises, sold in the domestic market, therefore increasing gross revenues, but besides, it may take houses to come in in foreign market with new or modified merchandises. Conversely, runing abroad, exporting houses may come to cognize diverse and improved cognition that, one time incorporated, might be used in the domestic market to bring forth better invention. These constructs are practically embedded in research heads. Yet, despite the great sum of surveies aimed at look intoing this relationship, bookmans ‘ attending has non been focused on the mechanism underlying acquisition by exporting. Although it is widely acknowledged that export exerts positive influence on invention, supposedly driven by information exchange from foreign market, through export mediators or straight from clients ( Salomon & A ; Shaver, 2005a ) , few surveies have tried to understand how houses learn from international trade. Namely, some hypotheses have been advanced but instead unsuccessfully tested. Just to advert the chief one, MacGarvie ( 2006 ) tried to verify whether informal communicating with foreign opposite numbers is the channel through which cognition is obtained, therefore exercising positive influence on invention. Since small grounds was found in favour of the hypothesis, how exporters learn from international trade remains unknown. Clearly, extricating this relationship, therefore understanding how houses, but besides policymakers, can further invention, might be highly relevant for the development both of houses and of states.
In this survey, I hypothesize that exporting houses improve their advanced public presentations through formal engineering transportation understanding. I try to verify whether the improved cognition that houses can obtain through formal understandings fosters the figure of merchandise invention that the house obtains and the figure of patents that the house registries. Therefore, a balanced panel of Spanish fabrication houses, composed by 10,205 firm-years observations, is used to mensurate the impacts of the purchase of licences, engineering and proficient aid abroad on merchandise invention and patent enrollment counts. The consequences confirm that, 1 twelvemonth after the judicial admission of a formal engineering understanding, houses significantly improve their patent enrollment ; moreover, if considered with farther slowdown, the purchase of licence, engineering and proficient aid abroad appears to act upon patent enrollment, although in this instance, the grounds is significantly less strong. On the contrary, merchandise invention does non look to be affected by the variable of involvement, independently of the slowdowns considered.
In the following subdivision, literature linked to the issue is reviewed, followed by the hypotheses of the research. In subdivisions 3, 4, 5 and 6 informations are briefly described and descriptive statistics are provided. In the subsequent subdivisions, the method employed is presented, followed by the consequences of the empirical analysis and extra analyses performed. The concluding subdivision concludes.
The relationship between export, invention and productiveness has been unusually interesting for bookmans. During last decennaries, several researches have been made to extricate the complex relationship among these variables. The purpose of this survey is to travel into more deepness in understanding how learning by exporting takes topographic point, but, before making it, an overview on the old literature ‘s parts is provided.
Self-selection and determiners of export
Until late, most of the literature has chiefly focused on the nexus between productiveness and exportation. First surveies tested the hypothesis that most productive houses self-select into export markets. Self-selection is now embedded into bookmans ‘ heads. Research showed that merely the most productive houses engage in export activities because they are able to confront the high sunk costs of entry and the fiercer competition of international markets ( Bernard & A ; Jensen, 1999 ; Ganotakis & A ; Love, 2011 ) . Hence, a great portion of the positive correlativity between productiveness and exportation is explained by self-selection. Not merely future exporters show higher productiveness and lower variable costs prior to exporting ( Clerides, Lach & A ; Tybout, 1998 ) , but besides houses with higher productiveness have higher returns on exporting in general, and on exporting to advanced states in peculiar ( Trofimenko, 2008 ) . Furthermore, the greater the productiveness works, the greater the fringy benefits of both exporting and R & A ; D activities, therefore increasing the consequence of self-selection ( Aw, Roberts & A ; Xu, 2010 ) .
It is of import to observe that surveies sing determiners of exporting have revealed that several variables, apart from invention and productiveness, influence exporting. Although size is considered to exercise positive influence on exportation, sentiments of the empirical literature are non consentaneous. Ebling and Janz ( 1999 ) , for case, found that steadfast size does non impact exports immediately, but merely indirectly, through invention ; look intoing Gallic houses in biotechnology, Pla-Barber and Alegre ( 2007 ) revealed that size does non impact on export public presentation ; these findings are explained by the characteristics of the industry, where economic systems of graduated table and production efficiency are non peculiarly relevant compared to the competency to develop up-to-date engineerings. As for the presence of foreign equity, alternatively, and as expected by most of the literature, Wignaraja ( 2008 ) , look intoing a sample of Asiatic houses, revealed that the presence of foreign equity has a strong positive consequence on export public presentation. Several factors resulted positively correlated to export such as instruction and good qualified directors ( Braymen, Briggs & A ; Boulware, 2010 ; Higon & A ; Driffield, 2011 ) , antiphonal selling organisation and client focused patterns ( Calantone, Cavusgil, Schmidt & A ; Shin, 2004 ) and labour accomplishments ( Alvarez, 2007 ) . Besides the variables already illustrated, invention is considered to be correlated to export, although the relationship between these two variables is rather more complex.
The function of invention and the relationship with export
Invention is recognized as one of the major beginnings of heterogeneousness among houses, although the relationship between export and invention is still investigated by research workers. An invention is defined as “ the execution of a new or significantly improved merchandise ( good or service ) , or procedure, a new selling method, or a new organisational method in concern patterns, workplace organisation or external dealingss ” ( Eurostat & A ; OECD, 2005, p.46 ) . Traditionally, empirical literature regarded R & A ; D and invention as interchangeable, therefore sing the relationship between R & A ; D and exporting instead than between invention and exportation ( Aw et al. , 2010 ; Barrios, Gorg & A ; Strobl, 2003 ; Braymen et al. , 2010 ) . The importance of invention end product has been late brought into focal point by research workers that began to utilize different variables to mensurate invention, such as merchandise and procedure invention ( e.g. Caldera, 2010 ; Cassiman, Golovko & A ; Martinez-Ros, 2010 ; Damijan, Kostevc & A ; Polanec, 2010 ; Higon & A ; Dreffield, 2011 ; Van Beveren & A ; Vandenbussche, 2009 ) and patent application ( Salomon & A ; Jin, 2008, 2010 ; Salomon & A ; Shaver, 2005a, B ) .
Conventionally, two different theoretical accounts have emerged to depict the relationship between invention and exportation: on one side, product-cycles theoretical accounts claim that invention is one of the drive forces of industrialised states ‘ exports ( Vernon, 1966 ; Krugman, 1979 ) . The nucleus thought is that merchandises follow rhythms and developed states innovate to export to less developed states. Once the development states are able to retroflex the invention by themselves, the initial exporters are forced to introduce once more in order to go on exporting. On the other side, endogenous growing theoretical accounts ( Grossman & A ; Helpman, 1991a ; B ) assert that export can be an impulse for invention for two distinguishable grounds: foremost, higher competition in foreign markets leads exporters to put in R & A ; D to better merchandises and procedures in order to be competitory ; moreover, export helps houses in deriving entree to more developed cognition and engineerings, therefore exciting the productiveness.
Therefore, product-cycles theoretical accounts claim that invention has an impact on exporting and, in the aftermath of these theories, bookmans have tried to through empirical observation turn out the effects of invention on export.
The effects of invention on export
Large portion of the literature agrees on the positive effects of invention on export. It is more likely that a house engages in exporting when it has antecedently undertaken advanced activities ( Ganotakis & A ; Love, 2011 ; Kongomanila & A ; Takahashi, 2009 ; Halpern & A ; MurakO§zy, 2012 ) . Basile ( 2001 ) , analyzing over 4,000 Italian fabrication houses, reaches the same decision, adding interesting characteristics on the impacts of exchange rate fluctuations on export. Treating invention as exogenic, the writer claims merchandise invention schemes have strong positive effects on export merely after a devaluation of the currency. In fact, during a devaluation of the currency, non-innovative houses are able to come in the foreign market. Finally, non merely invention affects export determination, but it besides increases export continuance ( Chen, 2012 ) .
When sing different industries, the consequence of invention on exports can be rather different. A figure of surveies ( e.g. Barrios et al. , 2003 ; Bleaney & A ; Wakelin, 2002 ; Caldera, 2010 ; Lachenmaier & A ; Woessmann, 2004 ; Nguyen, Pham, Nguyen & A ; Nguyen, 2008 ; Roper & A ; Love, 2002 ) have demonstrated that invention exerts a positive influence on exporting in fabrication sectors. Researching this nexus in different states and periods, the writers agreed on the positive consequence of invention on export determination, claiming that the likeliness that houses are exporters is higher if they have had more inventions. Whereas literature place is on the same side in fabrication sector, in other industries surveies ‘ consequences are instead conflicting. Specifically, sing R & A ; D investings as a placeholder for invention of new houses, Braymen et Al. ( 2002 ) revealed that the relationship between R & A ; D and exports is non important for new houses that provide merely services to their clients. On the other manus, Ebling and Janz ( 1999 ) , analyzing more than 1,000 German houses runing in 7 different concern oriented service sectors, found that invention strongly influences export activities. Similarly, look intoing the consequence of engineering and invention on export in a science-based industry, Pla-Barber and Alegre ( 2007 ) unveiled strong positive impacts on export public presentation.
As stated above, the term invention applies both to merchandise and procedure invention. Refering the influence of different types of invention on export public presentation, bookmans ‘ sentiments are instead conflicting. Several research workers agree on the importance of merchandise invention in explicating houses ‘ export determination ( e.g. Cassiman & A ; Golovko, 2007 ; Cassiman et al. , 2010 ; Higon & A ; Driffield, 2011 ) and strength ( Roper & A ; Love, 2002 ) . Another portion of the literature believes that besides process invention is an of import determiner for export determination and public presentation, albeit its part is lower than merchandise invention ‘s ( Becker & A ; Egger, 2007 ; Caldera, 2010 ) . These findings are explained by the greater importance for export public presentation of distinction scheme, to accommodate merchandises to foreign states, compared to treat betterment, that leads to be economy. Therefore, besides merchandise version is presented as a positively correlative factor with export profitableness, even more when the house has a antiphonal selling organisation and client focused patterns ( Calantone et al. , 2004 ) . In a similar vena the part provided by Nguyen et Al. ( 2008 ) which have investigated 2,739 Vietnamese SMEs in the fabrication industry and, apart from merchandise invention and procedure invention, have considered a 3rd step of invention: merchandise alteration, dwelling in the betterment of bing merchandises. The writers found that besides alteration of bing merchandises is of import as a determiner of exporting activities.
Although the positive effects of invention on export have been widely proved, presents besides the position of the impacts of export on invention is rather shared.
The effects of export on invention: acquisition by exporting
As seen above, the empirical literature has historically focused on the positive impact invention has on exporting. Recently, inquiries have been raised on whether export influences invention. To understand this nexus, and sing invention as a step of acquisition, Salomon and Shaver ( 2005a ) have elaborated on an imbalanced panel of Spanish fabrication houses. The writers discovered that exporters increase their merchandise inventions after come ining into foreign markets, and in peculiar, this consequence is more marked two old ages subsequent to exporting. The writers justify these findings claiming that it takes clip to modify merchandises in order to run into clients ‘ demands. Similarly, the writers found a positive consequence of exporting on patent applications, although in this instance the consequence is stronger with further slowdowns since it takes more clip to integrate the technological cognition needed to register patents. Several more surveies confirmed the positive impact of export on procedure betterment, claiming that old experiences as medium-large exporter have positive effects on patent applications ( Salomon & A ; Jin, 2008 ; Salomon & A ; Jin, 2010 ) , on both procedure betterment and merchandise inventions ( Alvarez & A ; Robertson, 2004 ) , and on future productiveness growing because houses improve efficiency by exciting procedure invention ( Damijan et al. , 2010 ) . Furthermore, two elements appeared to be of import in this affair: finish of the market and technological standing of the industry to which the house belongs. With respect to market, Alvarez and Robertson ( 2004 ) showed that houses that export to developed states are more likely to introduce in new merchandises, new tools and reorganisation of production. Exporting to developing states, alternatively, increases the likeliness of prosecuting in merchandise design activities. Similarly, Trofimenko ( 2008 ) , look intoing how exporting to more developed states affects productiveness additions of Colombian fabrication houses, asserts that the quality of the acquisition environment affairs, therefore exporting to more developed states increases future productiveness additions.
As for the 2nd issue, Salomon and Jin ( 2008 ; 2010 ) divided the sectors to which Spanish fabrication houses belonged into technological leaders or dawdlers ; consequences suggested that technological standing of industries significantly influences the sum of cognition that flows from the host environment to the house. In fact, houses belonging to technologically dawdling industries increase their patent activity disproportionately comparative to houses in technologically advanced sectors ( Salomon & A ; Jin, 2008 ) , albeit the benefits gained do non allow them to shut the spread with their technological leaders opposite numbers ( Salomon & A ; Jin, 2010 ) .
In line with acquisition by exporting, an interesting survey made by Aw and Batra ( 1998 ) has sought to analyse the nexus between efficiency and house investings in engineering and exports. To gauge the proficient efficiency of houses by investings in engineering every bit good as by export, the writers used stochastic production frontier techniques on a big sample of Chinese fabrication houses runing in several different industries. The writers stress the importance of technological heterogeneousness among houses to understand the relationship between exports and house productiveness. Basically, for houses that to a great extent and officially put in R & A ; D and engineering, normally big, with skilled labour and foreign capital, efficiency is non related to export orientation, while for little and locally owned houses, which do non officially put in R & A ; D, export is strongly linked to higher future productiveness. Therefore, research workers justify these findings with the prejudice that SMEs have of geting foreign engineering through farm outing agreements with foreign houses, and with the consideration of exporting as a channel through which engineering and cognition are passed from foreign markets and incorporated by exporters.
Part of the literature showed how of import is the acquisition by exporting consequence for houses but, while self-selection hypothesis has been proved by immense part of the literature, the grounds on the acquisition by exporting has been less distinct. A turning organic structure of the empirical work has sought to analyse the impact export has on future productiveness. Although domestic houses start exporting when holding a strength on the domestic market ( Salomon & A ; Shaver, 2005b ) , there is besides a strong grounds in favour of positive effects export has on productiveness additions ( Van Biesebroeck, 2005 ) . Harmonizing to De Loecker ( 2007 ) , houses that enter in foreign markets become on mean 8.8 % more productive than non-exporters. Investigating the consequence of the Free Trade Agreement between Canada and USA, Lileeva and Trefler ( 2010 ) confirmed that non-exporters that began to export to USA, because of the improved entree to foreign market, showed labour productiveness additions. Furthermore, non merely exports conveying a diminution in fringy costs and increase efficiency and capacity use, but besides have positive spill-over effects on the mark-up of the domestic markets ( Bughin, 1996 ) .
Until now, in all the surveies mentioned, the writers entirely examined the relationship between export and invention within the same house. However, the impacts that other houses ‘ invention or export might hold, in footings of spillover effects, should non be underestimated.
The function of R & A ; D and export spillovers
While there is a reasonably big literature look intoing the effects of invention and R & A ; D on exports, fewer bookmans have examined R & A ; D and other houses ‘ export spillovers. The concentration of exporting houses and transnational houses has positive effects on export public presentation, therefore export spillover effects are of import for export success ( Alvarez, 2007 ) . Furthermore, R & A ; D spillovers coming from multinationals of the same sectors have positive impacts on export ratios, both of domestic and of foreign houses, and the consequence is higher if the house export to a developed state ( Barrios et al. , 2003 ) .
Despite the big sum of research aimed at understanding the relationship between invention and exportation, few surveies have hypothesized a positive mutuality between exports and invention.
Complementarity of invention and export
Interactions between invention and export schemes have ever been really interesting ; nevertheless, surveies treated the two schemes as stray from each other, analyzing the effects that each has on productiveness as if it were independent from those of the other. Few surveies shed some new visible radiations on the possible interactions between invention and export. In peculiar, the two schemes are revealed to be complementary and reenforcing each other. The fringy part to SMEs ‘ gross revenues growing of invention is higher if export is besides in topographic point, and frailty versa. While old research demonstrated that the two activities contribute to houses ‘ growing when undertaken individually, Golovko and Valentini ( 2011 ) unveiled the mechanism that may underlie the reenforcing rhythm between export and invention and supply empirical grounds in support for the complementarity. Hence, public presentation betterment do non merely come from the optimisation of one activity, but directors should besides see interactions between them since those contribute the most to houses ‘ public presentation betterment. On the same page Ito and Lechevalier ( 2010 ) , which found that determinations sing invention and export strongly affect public presentation and endurance of houses ; the writers confirmed the complementarity between the schemes and highlighted that the best performing artists in Nipponese fabrication houses were those that exported and innovated.
While a portion of the literature has investigated acquisition by exporting, chiefly reasoning in favour of it, few parts have tried to grok how the phenomenon takes topographic point.
Mechanism of larning by exporting and research hypotheses
Since exportation is progressively being recognized as an of import beginning of acquisition, farther stairss consist in understanding how the acquisition takes topographic point. First ideas occurred to research workers ‘ heads are that, through informal communicating with foreign buyers, a big sum of cognition flows from the opposite number to the house. Therefore, cognition will be incorporated by the house which would utilize it to modify merchandises, better production procedures or use for new patent enrollment ( Salomon & A ; Shaver, 2005a ) . Although this appeared to be rather likely, efforts in demoing it through empirical observation failed. Indeed, MacGarvie ( 2006 ) , utilizing patent commendations as a step of cognition diffusion, tried to find whether exporting increases the likeliness of houses ‘ commendations to foreign patents every bit good as foreign commendations to the houses ‘ patents. Surprisingly, the writer found that, although exporters gain entree to foreign engineering and cognition by pass oning with foreign purchasers, cognition diffusion through these channels is non good measured by patent commendations, and exporting is non statistically important. Conversely, importing houses ‘ patents are significantly more likely to be influenced by engineering in the exporting state than are the patents of the houses that do non import from that state. Therefore the inquiry sing how learning by exporting takes topographic point is still unreciprocated.
Finally, literature agrees that exporters are better compared to non-exporters ; on norm, they produce more than twice the end product of non-exporters, are more productive and pay higher rewards ( Bernard & A ; Jensen, 1999 ) , partially due to self-selection and partially to larning by exporting. But how does the acquisition by exporting work? What are the mechanisms through which exporters incorporate new cognition and new engineerings? Aw and Batra ( 1998 ) stated that export activity is an of import tool through which new or improved engineering is passed from foreign buyer. MacGarvie ( 2006 ) has so unsuccessfully tried to verify whether informal communicating with foreign purchasers allowed the transportation of cognition and engineering from abroad. Therefore, in literature there still is a null sing the procedure through which export exerts the positive influence on invention.
The present survey is aimed at make fulling this bing nothingness. If informal communicating is non a channel through which engineering and cognition are transferred from foreign opposite numbers, it can be hypothesized that formal engineering transportation understandings play the of import function of channel through which new cognition and engineerings are incorporated by the house. In that sense, if a house stipulates a formal engineering understanding in a given twelvemonth, purchasing licence, proficient aid and know-how from abroad, the advanced public presentation of that house should better in the undermentioned periods. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to confirm the undermentioned hypotheses:
Hypothesis 1: A formal engineering transportation understanding in a given period has positive effects on the figure of merchandise inventions in the undermentioned periods.
Hypothesis 2: A formal engineering transportation understanding in a given period has positive effects on the figure patents registered in the undermentioned periods.
As seen above, several variables are demonstrated to act upon advanced productiveness. For this ground, other elements are included in the theoretical accounts, in order to command for the positive effects they might hold on invention. In peculiar, the export and import position, the engagement of foreign stockholders in houses ‘ equity, investings in R & A ; D and size will function as control variables.
The informations employed in this survey are from a annual study conducted by Fundacion Empresa Publica with the fiscal support of the Spanish Ministry of Industry. The Fundacion surveys a sample of Spanish fabrication houses in order to bring forth an overall image of the state ‘s fabrication sector. The dataset is a balanced panel of 10,205 firm-year observations spread on 13 old ages, from 1990 to 2002. The sample contains 6.3 % observations of houses with no more than 10 employees, 62.4 % with the figure of employees included between 10 and 200 and 31.3 % with at least 200 employees. In all, the dataset is composed by 785 houses, spread in 20 sectors ; in item, Table 1 presents the industry dislocation of the sample used.
Table 2 displays the per centum of firm-year observations in each sector that undertook the interesting activities during the sample period. Stipulation of engineering transportation understandings is non really common ; in fact, on norm, merely 11.4 % of the houses stipulated engineering understandings, although in sectors such as chemicals, motor vehicles and other conveyance equipment, the portion exceeds 25 % . Clearly, sectors with the lowest portion are those where engineering is non a cardinal component ( e.g. meat and wood ) .
Table 3 provides a snapshot of the distribution of firm-year observations across old ages, foregrounding the per centum of houses that transferred engineering and the position as exporter, pioneer and importer. Both export and import activities are undertaken by more than 60 % of the observations and demo a turning tendency across old ages, corroborating the gap of the Spanish economic system to the international markets.
As respects invention, on norm, less than 30 % of the observations obtained merchandise inventions and less than 10 % registered a patent. As stated above, non many houses stipulated engineering transportation understandings and, across the old ages, the per centum of houses has ne’er exceeded 12.2 % .
As antecedently stated, this survey focuses on understanding the impacts that formal engineering transportation understandings have on houses ‘ invention public presentations. To extricate this relationship, two dependent variables are used: merchandise invention counts and patent enrollment counts. Using two different variables may be helpful in holding a more comprehensive image of the state of affairs as each variable might pick up different facets of invention ( Salomon & A ; Shaver, 2005a ) .
Product Innovation counts
The most direct manner to measure invention public presentation is to straight mensurate it. Data provided by the Fundacion Empresa Publica include non merely information on invention inputs ( i.e. R & A ; D investings ) , but besides on its end products. Indeed, the dataset reports a count variable of the figure of merchandise inventions realized in a given twelvemonth. The maximal value that this variable takes is 950, highly high compared to the mean of 3.15. Albeit this figure may look disproportional compared to the remainder of the dataset, the house that reported this figure has, over clip, really comparable Numberss to this value[ 1 ]. The count variable stand foring merchandise inventions is labeled “ Merchandise Inventions ” .
Patent Registration counts
Another manner to measure invention public presentations is through patent enrollments. A portion of the literature considers patent applications as a step of invention, claiming that if a house decides to confront the dearly-won patent application procedure, it likely believes that it has innovated and it is worthwhile to prosecute patent protection ( Salomon & A ; Jin, 2008, 2010 ; Salomon & A ; Shaver, 2005a, B ) . On the reverse, since the dataset provides information on the figure of patent registered in a period, and the variable surely represents an end product of advanced productiveness, this survey uses a count variable of patent enrollments. This variable is labeled “ Patent Registrations ” .
In order to measure the veracity of the hypotheses, a figure of variables are portion of the theoretical account. Specifically, apart from the variable of involvement stand foring engineering understandings, other variables are besides used to command for elements that affect invention.
The study collected information on whether a house stipulated formal engineering transportation understandings, or non, during a twelvemonth. Technology transportation is the procedure by which a engineering, expertise know-how or installations developed by one person, endeavor or organisation is transferred to another person, endeavor or organisation ( WIPO, p.1 ) . In peculiar, this survey is focused on the understandings that officially transfer engineering to houses. Depending on the nature of the engineering, different understandings might be used to reassign engineering, such as the sale or the assignment of IP rights, a licence contract, the purchase of proficient aid, etc. The Fundacion Empresa Publica provides informations on the purchase of proficient aid and licences from abroad made by the houses. This is represented by a silent person variable that takes the value 1 if the house bought proficient aid or licence in a given period and, 0 otherwise. This variable is labeled “ Technology Agreements ” .
Since cognition embodied in engineering understandings may take clip to be incorporated by the house and to ensue in an invention or a patent, a 1-year lagged variable of the engineering understanding position is created.
Export is demonstrated to positively act upon houses ‘ invention public presentations ( e.g. Alvarez & A ; Robertson, 2004 ; Salomon & A ; Jin, 2008 ; Damijan et al. , 2010 ) ; hence, it is of import to command whether a steadfast exports or does non. For this intent, a silent person variable refering the export position is used and labeled “ Export Status ” ; “ Export Status ” takes the value of 1 if exporting activities are reported in the given period, 0 otherwise. Since Salomon and Shaver ( 2005a ) demonstrated that the effects of export on invention are more marked with slowdowns, a lagged variable of export is besides used.
Similarly, keeping an importing relationships with foreign opposite numbers, may increase cognition flows and, therefore, have positive impacts on invention. In this sense, the usage of a silent person variable, sing the import position of houses in the given period, helps in commanding for import influences on invention. This variable is labeled “ Import Status ” .
The presence of foreign portions in houses ‘ equity is positively associated with an addition of the chance of invention ( Alvarez & A ; Robertson, 2004 ; Basile, 2001 ) ; hence, to command for the presence of the foreign equity, a variable expressed as a per centum of the foreign capital is included in the theoretical account. The variable is labeled “ Foreign Capital ” .
Size is considered a factor that positively influences advanced productiveness ( Ebling & A ; Janz, 1999 ) . Since pioneers are by and large larger than non-innovators, the natural logarithm of the figure of employees is used as a control variable. The usage of figure of employees, alternatively of gross revenues, to command size is due to the positive consequence invention might hold on gross revenues: viz. , a house that produces many inventions in a given twelvemonth is besides expected to increase gross revenues. Therefore, figure of employees is used. This variable is labeled “ Size ” .
Finally, big portion of the literature besides considers positive effects of R & A ; D inputs on invention ( e.g. Salomon & A ; Shaver, 2005b ) . To command for these effects, an R & A ; D strength variable is included in the theoretical account. “ R & A ; D Intensity ” is defined as R & A ; D investings normalized on entire gross revenues, expressed as a per centum. Since by and large, R & A ; D outgos are extremely correlated with size, the standardization of R & A ; D on gross revenues allows commanding for effects related to size.
Descriptive statistics and correlativities
Table 4 and Table 5 present descriptive statistics and correlativity matrix for the variables used in the theoretical account. First of wholly, it is of import to observe that houses that stipulate formal engineering understandings are more productive in footings of invention. In fact, for those houses, both the Numberss of merchandise inventions and patent enrollments, on norm, are higher compared to other houses ‘ . Furthermore, analyzing Table 4, it is clear how, on norm, those houses are more orientated to export and import activities, have a larger portion of foreign capital, put more in R & A ; D activities and hold more employees.
In figure 1 and figure 2, observations are divided based on whether they stipulated engineering understandings or non, in order to compare advanced public presentations of the groups. On Y axes of the graphs, the mean figure of merchandise inventions and patent enrollments for each twelvemonth is shown. Firms that stipulated engineering transportation understandings invariably outperformed the other group, both in footings of merchandise inventions and patent enrollments ; nevertheless, it is necessary to foreground that, albeit interesting, these graphs do non state much about the way of the causality of the relationship.
Table 5 displays the correlativity matrix for the full sample. Although most of the
correlativities are as expected, some deserve peculiar attending. First of wholly, the strength of the correlativity between engineering understandings and patent enrollments is higher than that between engineering understandings and merchandise inventions. Second, and non surprisingly, invention and exporting are positively correlated every bit good as export position with size, R & A ; D expenditures and foreign capital. Furthermore,
the variable stand foring engineering understandings is strongly positively correlated with its 1-year slowdown, therefore connoting that if a house officially transferred engineering from abroad in a period, it is likely that it will besides make it in the undermentioned twelvemonth ; eventually, it is deserving to advert the negative correlativity between foreign capital and merchandise invention,
likely due to inclination of international houses to develop invention in the headquarter alternatively of in subordinates. Although interesting, Table 5 consequences do non state much about the causality of the correlativities ; hence, it is necessary to turn to multivariate analysis to better understand the nature of the relationships and show the hypotheses.
The attack taken to measure engineering understandings ‘ effects on invention is to regress the steps of invention on the lagged values of engineering understandings. The dependent variables used are both count variables ( figure of merchandise inventions and figure of patent enrollments ) that can merely take nonnegative whole number values. Furthermore, many observations are close or equal to 0. In these instances, when informations are strongly skewed to the right, the OLS arrested developments are non appropriate. Therefore, a Poisson appraisal process is considered ; nevertheless, in Poisson distribution the mean and the discrepancy are the same, while the distributions of the dependent variables display marks of overdispersion, with standard divergences much greater than agencies. In instance of overdispersion, a Negative Binomial theoretical account is more appropriate. Hence, at first, appraisal with random effects are run ; so, to get the better of the job of the uncorrelation of the unseen effects with the regressors, fixed effects appraisals are besides used.
Subsequently, to corroborate the consequences of the Negative Binomial arrested developments, the dependent variables are transformed in their natural logarithms, in order to execute other appraisals. Again, both random and fixed effects theoretical accounts will be used.
Table 6 and 7 present the appraisal consequences of the Negative Binomial arrested development theoretical account. In peculiar in ( a ) columns the consequences of random effects specifications are showed while ( B ) columns show fixed effects ‘ . All the specifications include twelvemonth and sector silent persons ; yet, consequences are non presented in order to concentrate on the variables of involvement.
Table 6 nowadayss the consequences from regressing the Product Innovation count variable on Technology Agreements. In columns 1, the theoretical account besides includes 1-year lagged values both of the variable of involvement and of the Export Status. Technology understandings coefficients did non ensue statistically important either in column 1 ( a ) , or in column 1 ( B ) . It is interesting to observe that, in the 2nd specification, besides export coefficients resulted non important, although the strong belief of a positive consequence of export on invention is well-established in the literature. These unexpected consequences might be explained either by the low discrepancy of the variables, which is absorbed by fixed effects, or by the multicollinearity between the export variable and its lagged value[ 2 ]. In columns 2, the variable of involvement and Export Status are merely considered in the instantly old twelvemonth. Again, the coefficient estimations of Technology Agreements in these specifications are positive but statistically non important. On the contrary, and as expected, Export Status ‘ coefficients resulted significantly positive in both random and fixed effects theoretical accounts, at the 1 % and the 5 % significance degrees, severally. In columns 3, the variable of involvement is replaced by its 1-year slowdown, to verify whether, increasing the clip interval from the judicial admission of the understanding to the merchandise invention, the variable of involvement additions statistical relevancy in act uponing the figure of merchandise inventions. Although this seemed sensible, because larger sum of clip might be needed to integrate the engineering and transform it into a merchandise invention, the coefficient of the variable is still statistically non different from nothing. As respects exporting alternatively, the 1-year slowdown of the Export Status variable resulted positively important in both specifications. To sum up, appraisals in Table 6 suggest that the purchase of foreign licence and proficient aid from abroad does non act upon the figure of merchandise inventions that houses obtain, neither in the undermentioned twelvemonth, nor after two old ages. In line with anterior literature, the control variables significantly positively influence invention public presentation, except for the foreign capital engagement whose coefficient is non important in any of the specifications. In peculiar, R & A ; D investings coefficients are positive and statistically important at the 1 % significance degree corroborating that greater investings in R & A ; D boost advanced productiveness. Similarly, size of houses has positive impacts on merchandise inventions.
In Table 7 a different step of invention is used: Patents Registrations. Table 7 displays the consequences of the arrested development of Patent Registrations on Technology Agreements. As for the old arrested development, the coefficients of the variable of involvement in columns 1 are non statistically important in any of the twelvemonth considered. Therefore, when sing both the old ages before the enrollment of the patents, formal engineering transportation understandings do non act upon patent enrollments. On the contrary, being an exporter significantly positively influences the figure of patents registered, systematically with literature ‘s position. In columns 2, the judicial admission of engineering understandings is considered entirely in the twelvemonth instantly predating patent enrollment. In column 2 ( a ) , a random effects arrested development is performed, gauging a positive and statistically important coefficient for Technology Agreements at the 10 % significance degree. To corroborate this interesting determination, a fixed effects appraisal is run. The coefficient estimation remains positive and important, therefore connoting that the formal purchase of engineering from abroad straight positively influences the enrollment of patents in the undermentioned period. Traveling to columns 3, the variable of involvement is substituted by the its 1-year slowdown, in order to understand whether, sing a longer clip interval, engineering understandings are still important in act uponing the figure of patents registered. In this instance, the coefficient of Technology Agreements did non ensue important either in the random effects, or in the fixed effects theoretical accounts.
Findingss sing exports are consistent with those of anterior surveies. Indeed, Export Status in the old twelvemonth resulted positive and important in every specification, corroborating the positive influence of exports on patent enrollments ( Salomon & A ; Jin, 2008 ) . Furthermore, the coefficients of random effects specifications resulted larger both in magnitude and significance. Columns 3, entirely includes a 1-year slowdown value of Export Status: while the variable resulted significantly positive in the random effects specification, in the fixed effects ‘ the coefficient is non statistically important. Similarly, Import Status coefficients appeared positive and important merely in the random effects columns, while in fixed effects, albeit positive, they are non important. These findings might be explained by the low discrepancy of the variables within the groups, since it can be assumed that exporters and importers tend to keep the position across old ages. With regard to the control variables, Size and R & A ; D investings positively influence the enrollment of patents in every specification at 1 % significance degree, systematically with big portion of the literature. Finally, a brief focal point on foreign capital coefficients is needed: harmonizing to the estimations, the engagement of foreign spouses negatively influences the figure of patent registered, although the magnitude of the coefficient is close to nothing. As awaited above, this may ensue from the international organisations ‘ disposition to develop invention in the central offices and non in the subordinates, therefore registering the patents in the state where the headquarter is located.
Wholly, the consequences presented in Table 6 and Table 7 provide grounds that the formal purchase of engineering from abroad in a given twelvemonth does non hold any positive influence on the merchandise inventions of the undermentioned twelvemonth ; hence, there is non statistical grounds in support of the first hypothesis. Conversely, the enrollment of patents is positively influenced by formal purchase of engineering, therefore corroborating the 2nd hypothesis.
To confirm the findings of the Negative Binomial appraisal theoretical account, the dependent variables are transformed into their natural logarithms, in order to execute arrested developments to verify the same hypotheses. Table 8 and 9 show the consequences of the appraisals. Again, twelvemonth and sector effects are included in the random effects specifications while, in the fixed effects theoretical account, sector effects are excluded because their values do non alter during the sample period, therefore bring forthing multicollinearity and being omitted by the fixed effects.
The consequences of the arrested development of the natural logarithm of merchandise invention counts on Technology Agreements appear in Table 8. The estimations confirm old consequences: the coefficients of the variable of chief involvement are non statistically important in any of the specifications, therefore confirming that engineering understandings do non act upon merchandise invention. As before, after analysing impacts of Technology Agreements on Product Innovations, the focal point displacements on the other dependent variable: Patent Registrations.
Table 9 shows the consequences of the appraisal of Technology Agreements coefficient sing the natural logarithm of the Patent Registration as dependent variable. Columns 1 allow for engineering understandings stipulated one and two old ages before the enrollment of the patent. While the coefficients of the lagged variable are non important in columns 1 ( a ) and 1 ( B ) , those of the Technology Agreements are positively important at 1 % and 5 % significance degree, severally. In peculiar, if a house stipulates a formal engineering transportation understanding in a given twelvemonth, the figure of
registered patents in the undermentioned twelvemonth can increase up to 6.8 % . This is besides confirmed by the undermentioned columns, where the coefficients of the dependant variable remain important and positive besides after dropping the lagged variable. In columns 3, a 1-year lagged variable replaces the engineering understandings: while in fixed effects model the coefficient of the variable of involvement is non important, in column 3 ( a ) a positive and important relationship between this variable and patent enrollments is found at the 5 % significance degree. Therefore, patent enrollment is positively affected by engineering understandings non merely in the old twelvemonth, but besides if the house stipulates the understanding two old ages before the enrollment of the patent.
To sum up, a formal engineering transportation understanding with a foreign opposite number does non better advanced productiveness of houses in footings of merchandise inventions ; this is confirmed by every analyses made, therefore connoting that the first hypothesis of the survey is non verified. On the contrary, if the step of invention is changed into the figure of patent enrollments, the purchase of proficient aid or licence from abroad positively and significantly impacts on advanced productiveness, therefore formalizing the 2nd hypothesis of this survey.
Several extra analyses are conducted to measure the veracity of the findings. So far, a relationship between engineering understandings and the enrollment of patents has been confirmed ; nevertheless, the way of the relationship is still non wholly clear. Technology understandings might positively act upon the enrollment of patents but besides, old patents may hold an impact on the judicial admission of formal engineering understandings. Therefore, in order to guarantee that the presumed way of the relationship is the right one, a dynamic Arellano Bond calculator is used. In this appraisal, lagged values of the dependent variables are included as regressors. Including dependent variables allows accounting for the possible consecutive correlativity of mistakes, every bit good as for the dynamic constituent in the house features ( Golovko & A ; Valentini, 2011 ) .
In peculiar, two appraisals are made. In the first instance, the dependant variable is represented by “ Technology Agreements ” in a given period, while the independent variable, besides the control variables, is the count variable of “ Patent Registrations ” in the old period. As the appraisal allows commanding for dynamic constituent of house features, the lagged value of engineering understandings is besides included in the specification.
The 2nd appraisal uses “ Patent Registrations ” figure as a dependant variable, including its lagged value as covariate, and above all, “ Technology Agreements ” in the old period as regressor. As stated above, the purpose of these appraisals is to clear up the way of the relationship between engineering understandings and enrollments of patents. The way of the relationship will be from “ Technology Agreements ” to “ Patent Registrations ” , if the first variable is a statistically important regressor when the second is the dependent variable, but non vice-versa. Table 10 nowadayss the consequences of the appraisals. In the first column “ Technology Agreements ” is the dependent variable. While the lagged value of the dependant variable resulted positively important, corroborating the univariate analysis consequences, the estimation of the enrollment of patents resulted non important. On the contrary, the consequences displayed in the 2nd column validate the 2nd hypothesis of the survey: engineering understandings positively influence the enrollment of patents in the undermentioned twelvemonth. Among the estimations of the control variable, the most interesting are those sing “ Export Status ” and “ Import Status ” . Indeed, exporting to foreign states does non act upon the figure of patent registered, while, prosecuting in importing activities positively and significantly impacts on the figure of patents registered.
To measure the relevancy of the theoretical accounts, Arellano Bond trials for first and 2nd order consecutive autocorrelation of first-differenced mistakes are implemented for both appraisals. These trials verify whether mistakes are independently and identically distributed. If that is the instance, the first differenced mistakes are first-order serially correlated ; hence the hypothesis of zero autocorrelation in first-differenced mistakes in the trial can be rejected. On the contrary, consecutive correlativity in the first-differenced mistakes at an order higher than 1 implies that the minute conditions used by the theoretical account are non valid. As expected, the Arellano and Bond trial for first-order consecutive autocorrelation for the first and 2nd appraisals are found to be negative and important at the 1 % and 5 % degree severally, while the trials for second-order autocorrelation are rejected. There is no second-order correlativity, which confirms the consistence of the calculators. Therefore, it can be concluded that the conditions are valid.
In about all old appraisals, “ Patent Registrations ” were non affected by “ Technology Agreements ” stipulated two old ages before the enrollment of the patent. At the same clip, the variable “ Technology Agreements ” is positively influenced by its 1-year lagged value. Since it can be assumed that this relationship is valid besides for old periods, 2, 3 and 4-years lagged values of “ Technology Agreements ” can be considered instrumental variables as they influence the independent variable but non the mistakes, therefore the dependant variable. To command for this dynamic relationship, a 3rd Arellano Bond appraisal, whose consequences are shown in Table 11, is made ; as evident from Table 11, besides commanding for the dynamic relationship, the consequences of the 2nd column of Table 10 are confirmed. Indeed, “ Technology Agreements ” coefficient is still positive and important at the 1 % significance degree, albeit lower in magnitude than old specification. Again, to measure the relevancy of the specification, Arellano Bond trials for first and 2nd order consecutive autocorrelation of first-differenced mistakes are implemented, corroborating the cogency of the theoretical account.
To corroborate the consequences of the old appraisals, viz. that engineering understandings merely influence enrollment of patents, a logit theoretical account is used. Indeed, the purpose is to show that the judicial admission of engineering understandings in a given twelvemonth increases the odds of registering patents in the undermentioned twelvemonth, but it does non impact merchandise inventions. For this intent, a silent person variable refering the accomplishment of at least a merchandise invention is used and labeled “ Product Innovator ” ; this variable takes the value of 1 if merchandise inventions are obtained in the given period and, 0 otherwise. Similarly, a silent person variable sing the enrollment of at least one patent is used and labeled “ Patent Registration ” . The theoretical account includes “ Technology Agreements ” as independent variable together with the control variables antecedently used. The consequences of the appraisals are presented in Table 11. Merely random effects appraisals are run including twelvemonth and sector effects in the specifications. The first column presents the appraisal where “ Product Innovator ” serves as dependent variable. In line with old consequences, the coefficient of “ Technology Agreements ” did non ensue statistically important. To the contrary, the independent variable ‘s coefficient is positive and important when the dependant variable is “ Patent Registration ” . In peculiar, if the house has stipulated a engineering transportation understanding in the old period, the log-odds of patent enrollment additions by 0.372. In other words, the odds of registering a patent if the house has stipulated engineering understandings are 1.45[ 3 ]times higher than if the house has non. Furthermore, “ Export Status ” , “ Import Status ” , “ R & A ; D Intensity ” and “ Size ” significantly positively affect the likeliness of registering a patent, while the effects on patent enrollment of the engagement of foreign stockholders to houses ‘ equity are negative, albeit low in magnitude.
Discussion and decision
The purpose of this survey has been to dig deeper into the affair of the relationship between invention and export. Even though a great a portion of research workers agrees on the positive influence invention has on export, and vice-versa, there has been small grounds on the mechanism underpinning acquisition by exporting. Albeit bookmans have investigated the phenomenon, claiming that houses gain knowledge through informal relationship with foreign opposite numbers, the grounds in support of this hypothesis is instead scarce ( MacGarvie, 2006 ) . In this research it has been argued that formal understandings sing the purchase of engineering, licence and proficient aid positively influence advanced productiveness of houses. Therefore, the judicial admission of a formal understanding serves as channel through which houses gain cognition. Using merchandise inventions and patent enrollments as steps of advanced productiveness, the impacts that engineering understandings have on invention have been explored. The empirical attack is to regress the figure of merchandise inventions and patent enrollments on engineering understandings utilizing a unique balanced panel of Spanish fabrication houses provided by the Fundacion Empresa Publica for the period 1990-2002.
The through empirical observation analysis provided grounds partly consistent with the hypotheses. In fact, it has been found that houses do non increase their merchandise inventions if they have officially transferred engineering neither in the old twelvemonth, nor with farther slowdown. Explanations. On the contrary, patent enrollments appeared to be positively influenced by engineering understandings in the old twelvemonth. In add-on, the judicial admission of a engineering understanding besides has positive impacts if considered with farther slowdown, although in this instance grounds is non every bit strong as for 1-year slowdown. Explanations.
Furthermore, this survey gives besides grounds in support of acquisition by exporting. Unlike Higon and Driffield ( 2011 ) , which found that exporting does non act upon merchandise invention, this research ‘s consequences confirm positive impacts of exports on invention. Indeed, being an exporter increases both the figure of merchandise inventions and patent enrollments, besides with biennial slowdowns. Clearly, come ining in a foreign market increase the likeliness of being in contact with improved cognition, methods, engineerings, therefore positively act uponing invention. Furthermore, in line with Alvarez ( 2007 ) , import resulted greatly of import for invention. In fact, both the steps of invention considered turned out to be positively affected if the house imported. MacGarvie ( 2006 ) argues that, after get downing to import, houses register an addition in the cognition available, and, presuming that this will ensue in an addition of invention, these findings are consistent with this survey ‘s. Finally, it is interesting to underscore the function played by the presence of foreign stockholders in houses ‘ equity. Harmonizing to this research appraisal, if a house is a subordinate of an international company, the likeliness that it will register a patent decreases. These findings might be explained by the fact that international companies tend to developed cognition, and therefore registry patents, in the state where the headquarter is located. Therefore, subordinates are inclined to play a secondary function in the affair of invention.
Although extra analyses are performed to corroborate these findings, they should be carefully interpreted because of some cautions that may justify attending. First of wholly, the empirical analysis relies on informations sing entirely a state, Spain. Therefore, it does non take into consideration external factors, such as institutional, economic and fiscal, contexts which can badly impact on houses ‘ public presentations, particularly in footings of invention. Future developments would dwell in spread outing the research in other contexts in order to measure whether the consequences might be applied to other states.
Second, informations regard merely manufacturing houses ; as seen, sentiments sing fabrication sectors are much more consentaneous than for other industries ( e.g. Barrios et al. , 2003 ; Lachenmaier & A ; Woessmann, 2004 ; Nguyen et al. , 2008 ) . Therefore, it might be interesting to estimate whether this research ‘s consequences besides apply to other industries, such as service.
Third, this survey uses entirely dummy variables to depict both engineering understandings and export. On the contrary, the usage of steps of export strength ( such as export normalized on gross revenues ) and of figure of and/or outgos for engineering understandings would give further inside informations on the relationship. Indeed, they would assist in holding a more comprehensive image on how much engineering understandings affect invention.
Fourth, future research would be good served to research the nature of the understanding stipulated. As stated above, the variable of engineering understandings respects both the purchase of a licence and of proficient aid. It can be presumed that the positive effects these elements might hold on invention are rather different. Therefore, there is room for farther probe on differences in magnitude, in footings of positive influences, that understandings might hold.
Finally, the nature of the “ transferor ” is non taken into consideration. With the term nature, I largely refer to two facets: foremost of all, the transferor might be a transnational house, a little medium endeavor, a research centre, etc. Investigating the nature of the transferor might give new penetrations on strategic determinations of houses: as an illustration, houses might make up one’s mind to buy engineering from a little house focused on R & A ; D, alternatively of developing R & A ; D inside | <urn:uuid:8dff40e1-c85b-4aae-8982-f1f79347c16c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bemercurial.com/innovation-plays-a-crucial-role-in-firms-economics-essay/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.928409 | 12,430 | 2.625 | 3 |
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BY JOHN SHEFFIELD, DUKE OF LUCKINGHAM.
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TO MR. POPE.
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To praise, and still with just respect to praise
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This to my friend; and when a friend inspires, My silent harp its master's hand requires, Shakes off the dust, and makes these rocks resound; For Fortupe plac'd me in unfertile ground ; Far from the joys that with my soul agree, From wit, from learning-very far from thee. Here moss-grown trees expand the smallest leaf; Here half an acre's corn is half a sheaf; Here hills with naked heads the tempest meet, Rocks at their sides, and torrents at their feet; Or lazy lakes, unconscious of a flood, Whose dull brown Naiads ever sleep in mud: Yet here content can dwell, and learned ease, A friend delight me, and an author please ; Ev'n here I sing when Pops supplies the theme, Show my own love, though not increase his fame. | <urn:uuid:8783d4f8-d468-428a-95e7-76add36e4722> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.de/books?id=7qIVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&vq=%22True+ease+in+writing+comes+from+art,+not+chance,+As+those+move+easiest+who+have+learn%27d+to+dance.+%27Tis+not%22&dq=editions:OCLC1062031350&lr=&hl=de&output=html_text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.907874 | 827 | 1.617188 | 2 |
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- Play with graphics, vision, and iconography in order to add character to a shop’s visual identity and draw your client in. Your hints might serve up the data clients need while still having an extension of your brand — have fun together.
- Make sure your signage could be digested in a glance. Use big, bold lettering wherever possible.
Lighting shapes the total atmosphere of your shop and assists to draw a person’s attention to a specific area. Similar to signage, it may elegantly direct the shopper into the regions of the shop that you need to emphasize.
There are 3 techniques in light makeup: main light, accent lighting, and ambient light.
Principal lighting is your general illumination of your shop. Accent lighting brings the shopper’s attention to a certain screen. Ambient lighting will be more striking since it plays light from darkness to make an intriguing impact.
Current research looked at light’s impact on consumer behaviour. The study found that clients spent time in regions of the shop that had warmer light and the average earnings per client increased by 1.93 per cent every time a lively lighting setup has been released.
- Be careful not to put your principal lighting too dim
- Accent lighting ought to be used sparsely to prevent cannibalizing its own effect. Be considerate about which products you need to emphasize.
How you display products can draw customer attention and can also help them visualise seeing an item in their own home decor and design pre-purchase. Begin with telling a narrative. You could appeal to the new mum by putting a fancy crib with hux baby clothing and a fluffy blanket. Items may be grouped according to colour use or scheme, but the objective is to tie it together.
Experiment with varying heights to make visual comparison and capture customer attention and boost involvement with your goods.
This makes it a lot easier for the client to interact with this item.
Produce a definite focal point and place supporting goods cascading beneath it.
Window displays are a wonderful spot to let shoppers know what is fresh, which products are best sellers, and what is available. Consider this as a controlled platform at which you are able to communicate with potential customers
Research indicates that shows can increase earnings by 540 per cent, and also a well-planned hotspot can raise earnings by 229 percent. Hotspots are the regions of your shop that receive the most traffic and also therefore are the most visible.
- Use replicating elements to make a strong display and exhibit a selection of your offerings
- Ensure there is sufficient space for the products you are showcasing
- Aim to upgrade your window at least once each month to keep bringing customers into your shop. Bring your current stock up front and centre to lure repeat clients into finding out what is new.
Incorporating Technology to Visual Merchandising
If the past couple of decades have taught us anything, it is the effect of electronic media in retail is on an incline.
Over half of those surveyed (63 percent ) at a current report confessed that electronic signage grabs their attention. Digital components such as interactive touchscreens that allow shoppers to search, navigate, and share continue to be incorporated into in-store screens. Wearable tech may also add an extra layer of interactivity for tech-savvy customers.
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What happens when a population decides to turn away from a traitorous elite in control of the institutions and build anew alternatives that they control?
The result is now clear: that elite perceives this as insurrection and reacts as if dealing with a literal rebellion against their control.
The Brexit campaign in the United Kingdom, the Presidential election in the United States, and the rise of a decentralized network of independent actors reporting the news can successfully challenge and defeat the Establishment and thwart Empire's will. Traditional publishing in all its niches is in collapse under the weight of incompetence and Empire's cult dogma. Entertainment outlets now falter as increasing numbers turn away from them now that alternatives exist. Political dynamics are going to be realigned despite Empire's will.
The Internet made this happen. Therefore it is a threat, and now it will be attacked. The usurpation of the United Nations in terms of oversight is that attack, as it does not even pretend (as the United States does) to be concerned about free and open communication and transmission of ideas and commerce. The hope is that the desire by many actors at the United Nations to establish something akin to what the People's Republic of China did will be easier at that venue.
These actors do not comprehend the Internet. When the previous generation of Empire's pawns created it, with the intention of keeping it up and operational in the event of a nuclear war, they created a network that--by design--interprets all degradation of core functionality as damage and routes around it as fast as can be done. That was about two generations ago, and the release to the world at-large in the 1990s accelerated this ethos to become a global norm.
As part of this ethos we got Open Source software, one notable example of which runs the backbone of many Internet nodes. Its key feature is its open quality, so one can diverge and build one's own variation at-will. This is "forking", as in "a fork in the road", and it is through forking that this ethos practically manifests. As every node in the Internet is expendable, taking control of one means only that it gets severed from the network and left to rot while the network endures. Technically and socially, this is how that routing around damage is done.
This is why the move to lockdown the Internet will fail. You can't stop the forking, and yes that does scale up to the fundamentals of the Internet. (Hell, the Great Firewall has holes, so even the Chinese can't stop it.) You might as well try to keep the Sun from rising. | <urn:uuid:af873fcb-9ecb-4263-b823-abd22f1158bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://empiresmustfall.blogspot.com/2016/10/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.963367 | 530 | 1.757813 | 2 |
The teacher’s role is significant for the project’s successful implementation. For this reason a special focus was placed on the continuous support of teachers during the implementation of the project. An area of support is related to the development of supporting material, which can be used during the Greek language courses. Notably, the material and lessons that were produced are being edited BY a scientific team involving academics and scholars with experience in developing educational programs and teaching the Greek as a second / foreign language to young pupils.
Limited Access Resources
You must have an account to access this section. If you are a trainer working for Mathainwellinika, you can use your account to log In to the platform. Once you log in, you will be able to access the digital material for language learning, the course management documents, and other useful information related to your teaching.
Here you can find useful language material for language teaching and learning which is accessible to the public.
You can watch interesting videos with strategies about how to make students learning a second / foreign language feel welcome on their first day.
Source: Colorín Colorado (2011, 26th July). What to do first Creating a welcoming ELL classroom environment [Video]. Available on: YouTube
The VALUE Educational Platform: The project Valuing All Languages to Unlock Europe provides free material about methodological approaches, tools and teaching practices (innovative interactive teaching techniques, use of ICT, digital narratives) that can be integrated into the school curricula to improve access here.
If you want to learn more about the integration of Third Country Nationals in Cyprus or if you are a parent interested in facilitating your integration into the Cypriot society and the local labor market, please visit the website Guide with General Information about Cyprus.
The Ministry of Education and Culture and the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute offer educational material available in Greek as part of an in-service Teacher Training Program for Teaching Greek as a Second Language in the framework of a series of seminars that took place in 2016-2017.
The "Routes Teaching Modern Greek" program provides an online environment that includes practical guidelines, samples of audio material and presentations for the teaching of Greek as a second / foreign language. This program is a complement to the specialized distance learning program implemented by the Centre for the Greek Language.
The book series for the Greek language “ΓΕΙΑ ΣΑΣ” for Primary Education is available in the website of the Centre for Intercultural Education (National Kapodistrian University of Athens) and you can download both the student's book and the teacher's book for free.
In the framework of the project "Identity and Diversity Picture Book Collections" (IDPBC) a number of lesson plans and activities on issues related to diversity have been developed. The project provides a digital environment that includes powerful visualized stories of young protagonists who face diversity and explore issues of identity, diversity and social inclusion in depth.
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by now you must have cottoned on to the fact that i really like therese borchard’s beyond blue: surviving depression and anxiety and making the most of bad genes. one of the things she talks about in that book is her run-ins with eating disorders. in the chapter BMI (body mass issues) – depression in… Continue reading eating disorders, depression and perfectionism
“relationships replace eating disorders. period. the end.” this is the central message of beating ANA – how to outsmart year eating disorder and take your life back by shannon cutts. it’s a book i’d recommend to anyone who wants to work their way out of an eating disorder. the more loving, supportive, therapeutic relationships that… Continue reading beating ANA – one relationship at a time
this is the second interview for this blog’s very own eating disorder’s week month spring. the first one was a three-part series on eating disorders and relationships. here is an interview with a vancouver woman who has struggled with recurring eating disorders, including anorexia, orthorexia and bulimia, and is currently maintaining a healthy weight with… Continue reading eating disorders: learning to let go
remember last week i asked people to be interviewed about eating disorders? well, some people volunteered. today i am happy to introduce you to joanna poppink, MFT, a long time private practice psychotherapist in los angeles specializing in eating disorder recovery. her blog is at stop eating disorders. joanna will talk about how eating disorders… Continue reading eating disorders and relationships
welcome to two years of the carnival of eating disorders! yes, it’s been two years as of today. here’s how it all started: if you’re not familiar with blog carnivals, you may think this is an odd name – this link here will tell you more about blog carnivals. this carnival contains articles about bulimia,… Continue reading 2 years of carnival of eating disorders!
here is the november edition of the carnival of eating disorders! anorexia and “becoming unspecial” lola snow has a thoughtful post on the notion of being special, something very important for a lot of people who are in the throes of anorexia. some would say that being anorexic is about being special, about showing the… Continue reading carnival of eating disorders, november 2008 edition
welcome to the 17th carnival of eating disorders, where we look at blog posts that deal with anorexia, bulimia, exercise bulimia, overeating, orthorexia, EDNOS, body image and other related topics. i have to confess that after all this time, the name “carnival” of eating disorders still rings funny in my ears. thesaurus.com suggests these alternative… Continue reading carrnival of eating disorders #17
hello people! this is the new edition of the carnival of eating disorders. unfortunately, i’ve been having problems with the blog carnival site (the site that administers all the carnivals) so i have had only a few submissions this month, two of which i’ll be including. to substitute for the slim pickins, i’ll feature this… Continue reading carnival of eating disorders #16 | <urn:uuid:56c16b3d-bc51-480e-91d8-1c2e1353ae5e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://moritherapy.org/article/tag/bulimia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.956547 | 704 | 1.640625 | 2 |
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Bill and Melinda Gates with Warren Buffett, who has also pledged billions to the Gates Foundation.
Indeed, the mega-rich of many countries are increasingly interested in philanthropy. Their charitable giving is being done in a professionalised, business-minded way, so extremely prosperous individuals are gaining ever more influence in public life. Sometimes, they remote control policymaking by pledging to co-fund government programmes.
To some extent, they are stepping in where state agencies are failing. While this is certainly helpful in the short run, it is worrisome in the long run. The public good must not be left to private individuals’ good intentions, and it is not up to them to define the public good. Doing that is the job of elected legislators and governments, who are responsible to all people, not just to the most prosperous. Philanthropists have agendas of their own, and they can be driven by ideological, religious or business preferences.
Private donors can actually do serious harm. The Turkish government believes that Fethullah Gülen, who runs Muslim schools and other charitable institutions, was the mastermind of an attempted military coup. In the USA, the American Enterprise Institute, which is sponsored by plutocrats, has an agenda of denying climate change and demanding tax cuts. Low taxes, however, are one reason why many state agencies are unable to do their jobs properly. Of course, state agencies fail for other reasons too. Corruption, nepotism, negligence and underdeveloped capacities all matter. Dysfunctional government agencies would certainly do well to learn some private-sector lessons. And yes, it makes sense when top managers assume corporate social responsibility. Private donors are welcome to contribute to public debate and to fund relevant measures. The goal, however, must be to ensure capable and democratically legitimate governments. In the same sense, multilateral agencies’ capacity to act must not depend on private donations either.
Let’s not forget that some of the super-rich did not accumulate their massive wealth in a benign way. Gates himself is an example. Microsoft, the corporation he founded, enjoyed something of a global monopoly at the end of the last century only because IBM had run into antitrust problems and was forbidden to use a disc-operating software of its own. Microsoft filled that niche and was soon the target of antitrust-proceedings itself. At the turn of the century, Gates had the reputation of a greedy monopolist. He only became a philanthropist later.
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, is another incredibly successful person. His and his wife’s fortune is estimated to be worth about $ 40 billion. They have pledged to donate 99 % of that money in their lifetime. Zuckerberg owes his wealth to a social-media platform that mines users’ private data and has turned out to be an important launch-pad for fake news. The entrepreneur says he wants to help to build communities, but the platform he created pays very little taxes and contributes to undermining democracy. Humankind needs him to focus on making Facebook a transparent and trustworthy forum rather than maximising its profits and promising to donate to worthy causes later. | <urn:uuid:e8c15fca-2294-48cc-8ddc-eb3550c007a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dandc.eu/en/article/philanthropy-must-be-geared-capable-and-democratically-legitimate-statehood | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.962658 | 658 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Nanostructured films offer potential for considerable improvements in mechanical properties by comparison with traditional single composition coatings. This nanostructuring can be carried out in many ways, but one of the easiest methods to implement it is through nanolayering with two or more phases. Alteration of the thickness of the different phases then permits the tailoring of the properties of the coating.
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Marks & Spencer has become the target of a row over plans to demolish its flagship London store, as fears rise over the death of Britain's high street heritage architecture.
Since plans to redevelop its Marble Arch site were voted through on Tuesday night, opposition from heritage charities and architecture aficionados has been brewing against the 137-year-old retail institution.
The Oxford Street complex, home to the 1930s Orchard House building, is expected to make way for the more modern branch in line with M&S’ latest transformation efforts under chief executive Steve Rowe. It will also lead to a 10-storey site being erected further down the road.
But campaigners fear shops up and down the country, with historic and architectural significance, could suffer a similar fate and be replaced with “ugly spreadsheet architecture”.
Other buildings heritage crusaders are seeking to save include a former House of Fraser in Birmingham, a Co-op store in Hull and Debenhams stores in Staines and Taunton.
Meanwhile, Oxford Street could become less enticing to visitors amid a swathe of high profile retreats and redesigns by fellow major retailers.
The M&S decision “doesn’t tick any boxes. You can make the case for knocking down a building if you’re creating more homes or space for activities. The case for losing it is weak, it’s a shame it wasn’t listed”, says Nicholas Boys Smith, the founder of Create Streets, a social enterprise.
“It is a rather lovely building and a really interesting example of inter-war architecture, which is being pulled down left, right and centre.”
Under its plans, the retailer will occupy two and a half floors rather than the five currently used, with office space filling the upper floors. The new space is not due to be completed until 2027.
Geoff Barraclough, shadow cabinet member for business and planning - and the only councillor of six who voted against the scheme - believes Orchard House complements the Grade II Selfridges building nearby.
“The new building is the reverse: it's overbearing and overshadows Selfridges, and it's very large,” he told other councillors during the vote, according to Architects’ Journal.
Critics have also lambasted M&S’ sustainability credentials. It will be responsible for 39,500 tonnes of carbon while building the new version, according to the chain’s own assessment, which would require 2.4m trees to offset.
M&S claims that 90pc of materials from the existing site will be reused in the construction of the new building, and once finished will have a higher sustainability rating than the current one.
“It’s not a glib thing that we’re saying,” says one source.
The company was a trailblazer in 2015 when it pledged to become ‘the world’s most sustainable business’ and has since reiterated its commitment to the environment as the climate crisis intensifies.
Sacha Berendji, group property and store development director, has said the move will “positively contribute to our net zero targets over the long term with strong sustainability credentials, which is another step forward in the transformation of our store estate to be fit for the future”.
It is understood it will take about 16 years for the building to make up for the initial damage to the environment.
“That’s great news for the 2040s but no use tackling the climate emergency today,” argues MP Barraclough.
Create Streets’ Boys Smith, who is also a chair of the advisory board of Government-backed Office for Place, which fights to maintain good-looking buildings, adds: “They will replace it with ugly spreadsheet buildings, completely repetitive, with no complexity, no coherence, no texture.
“It’s not the type of building which people respond warmly to. It doesn’t say to me, ‘Oxford Street’. It could be anywhere from Singapore to San Francisco.
“Oxford Street is less good and less of a place without it. We’re wasting [the equivalent of] millions of trees in the process.”
Department stores' dire straits
A last-minute application was made by campaigners to save the complex, but it was quashed this week following advice by Historic England not to list the Orchard House.
The heritage agency said the building was “not regarded as innovative nor of sufficient architectural quality” to be exempt, and it had suffered “a considerable loss of original fabric”.
A Historic England spokesperson said: “After carefully considering the architectural and historic interest of the building, and consulting with the applicant, local planning authority and owner, we recommended ... that the building should not be listed, and the secretary of state agreed.”
It is understood that Mayor of London Sadiq Khan could still intervene on the planning application and progress could be stifled.
Still, M&S remains committed to the future of Oxford Street for the long term – at a time of great upheaval for the busy shopping road.
Last week House of Fraser was evicted from its flagship store after 142 years for the landlord to redevelop the building following a long-term decline in visitor numbers.
Nearby Debenhams also shut after the chain went bust a year ago, while Fraser’s neighbour John Lewis is seeking to convert several floors into offices.
Jace Tyrrell, chief executive of New West End which represents 600 retailers in the area, says he supports M&S’s renovation.
“Oxford Street can’t continue with the same level of retail, we must have mixed-use spaces: offices, leisure, retail. We won’t have a future unless there is mixed use.
“This is an operator taking its future into its own hands, it's not a landlord, which is what we want.
“We need new stock on that street and high quality buildings. The East End has had investment, that department store stretch needs the most attention.”
Writing for the Architects Journal, Fred Pilbrow of Pilbrow & Partners which is leading M&S’s project, said while it had “looked carefully at the potential refurbishment of the three separate buildings on the site, unfortunately their configuration precluded delivering the quality of retail space required by M&S”.
Westminster Council’s chairman of planning Robert Rigby said: “Our planning policies now reflect our strong commitment to sustainability and the emphasis on refurbishment wherever possible rather than demolition.
“The council is committed to transforming the Oxford Street district, and the new M&S store will play an important role in ensuring Oxford Street remains a vibrant attraction for shoppers.”
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When you start a business, you’ll need to decide if you’d like to form either a partnership, a company or sole proprietorship. Does Talentry LLC Files For H1b
Each of these types of business structure has benefits and drawbacks. In the majority of cases, you’ll want to form an LLC. (LLC). These are the steps you must follow to establish an LLC (LLC) within any state. For more information on how to establish the LLC within your particular state refer to the 50-State Guide to Forming an LLC.
- 1 Determine Whether You Need an LLC
- 2 Determine Which State to Form Your LLC in
- 3 Can Someone File an LLC For Me?
- 4 What is Deluxe.com? An Overview
- 5 How Does Deluxe.com Work?
- 6 How Do I Get Started with Deluxe.com?
- 7 Who is Deluxe.com For?
- 8 Summary Does Talentry LLC Files For H1b
Determine Whether You Need an LLC
If you are thinking about beginning a business, you’ll need to determine whether you need an LLC. Here are a few reasons why you should form an LLC:
- If you are looking to safeguard your personal assets, you should do so.
- If you are planning to raise capital.
- If you’re looking to protect your business, you must take precautions.
- If you’re looking to establish a separate entity with your personal assets, you can do so.
- If you want to protect your intellectual property.
- If you want to reduce your personal liability, you can do so.
Determine Which State to Form Your LLC in
You’ll have to decide the state in which you’d like to create your LLC in. You can create your LLC in any state, however there are a variety of reasons to establish your LLC in your state of residence.
- If your state has a minimum amount of documentation required for an LLC.
- In the event that your country has tax rate that is favorable, you should check with your rate.
Find a Registered Agent
You’ll need to locate a registered agent for your LLC. This can be a person or business that you designate as the contact for your LLC. They will receive notices of legal documents, lawsuits as well as other messages. They are also able to serve on your behalf when you aren’t able to act on your behalf. You can usually find a registered agent at your state’s Secretary of State.
Register Your LLC
It is necessary to sign up your LLC with the state. If you are registering an LLC within your state of residence it is necessary to submit the Articles of Organization.
Obtain a Tax ID
If you are forming an LLC in your home state and you are able to obtain a tax ID number from your state. This allows you to deduct your LLC’s expenses.
Set Up a Bank Account
You’ll need to set up an account with a bank to your LLC. It is possible to use the LLC’s bank account to pay vendors.
Open a Business Checking Account
It is necessary to open an account with a business bank for your LLC. This account can be used to pay your LLC’s bills.
Open a Business Savings Account
It is necessary to open the business savings account of your LLC. You can make use of this account to deposit your LLC’s profits.
File the Federal Tax Return
You’ll need to submit the federal income tax return. You can do this at the close of the fiscal year.
Set Up Subsidiaries
It is necessary to establish your LLC’s subsidiaries. A subsidiary is a separate business entity. For instance, you might decide to establish a subsidiary to handle sales, marketing, and customer service.
It is also possible to set up subsidiaries that will be able to conduct business with your LLC. For instance, you could want to set up an entity to handle bookkeeping, accounting, and payroll.
Register Your Subsidiaries
You’ll have to register your subsidiary.
Can Someone File an LLC For Me?
If you’re wanting to start an LLC, and are not sure where to start, or prefer someone else handle it for you, then it’s possible to visit Deluxe.com and they will take care of everything.
What is Deluxe.com? An Overview
Deluxe has been in business for more than 100 years!
Their biggest change from the start was to move away from selling forms for paper and check and revamped their brand, changed their marketing plan and rebranded as the all-in-one small business support center.
They’re a very exciting company because they are broad and provide a wide range of services for both profit and non-profit clients.
Instead, they’re trying to boost the economy of the world by making it more efficient and efficient, which is why they offer services and also community development and contests since they understand that small companies fuel the global economy.
They not only form an LLC for you, they also offer multiple marketing services, like:
- Marketing via social media
- Social media ads
- SEO services
- Search engine ad management
- Web design services
- Logo design services
- Graphic design services
They also offer marketing products:
- Printing brochures and flyers.
- Checks, contracts, proposals, and many other forms are also included.
- Branded Apparel
- Office supplies with a logo of the customer and more are available.
How Does Deluxe.com Work?
Deluxe works is broken into several pegs which support small businesses by providing grants along with their products and services, their community partnerships, and their voice in the media.
They help many communities with millions of dollars in grants each year.
In all, Deluxe gave $105 million to charities, and $2.2 millions in 2016.
They’re focused on grants include:
- Business education
- Job skills and placement
- Financial literacy
Every year, they hand out grants to organizations like the WBDC, SCORE, and other organizations whose mission is to assist small-scale businesses in their success. Deluxe matches donations from employees to provide more opportunities for companies to donate to charities. There is everything for everyone, from small and medium-sized businesses to large corporations to make a an impact on the lives of those around them.
How Do I Get Started with Deluxe.com?
Deluxe offers lots of options, and checking out with each may differ slightly.
Follow the steps in the following steps:
Visit Their Website
First, you’d VISIT THEIR WEBSITE HERE.
Choose the Appropriate Product or Service for You
Scroll down to Incorporate or Form an LLC
Click on File Your Corp/LLC Today
Once you have selected the item or service you wish to purchase You will then enter your billing details and go to check out.
Deluxe offers a simple and easy-to-use checkout process.
Who is Deluxe.com For?
Deluxe.com is a website for companies that:
- Are interested in starting an LLC.
- Be aware that they require assistance with payroll, marketing, and managing employees.
- You’re not sure if you’re ready to employ someone to fulfill your needs as a business or wants to work with an agency
- There are promotional products that should be used to boost brand recognition and improve customer or employee retention, and increase sales.
- For those who want to have an impact on the small business community.
Summary Does Talentry LLC Files For H1b
Deluxe helps small businesses get their businesses running through their grant programs, partnerships with communities and the services they provide.
They can also take care of forming the company, for instance either an LLC, or CORP, for you.
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We are in and of the community.
A deep engagement with the surrounding communities in Silicon Valley and beyond is central to our mission.
Community programs, activities, and initiatives help strengthen the connection between Santa Clara, our neighbors, and our world, while creating opportunities for all of SCU to learn, serve, and grow.
This engagement works in both directions. We welcome our neighbors to experience Santa Clara’s campus culture through public events and enrichment programs. Activities throughout the year might include exhibits, performances, athletics, and public forums featuring some of Silicon Valley’s most notable visionaries—often our own alumni.
SCU in the Community
The Office of Student Life is making great efforts to reach off-campus students and is seeking to create a more balanced neighborhood environment for all.
Computer engineering graduate students designed and produced software to engage visually-impaired preschoolers as a project for their Object-Oriented Analysis, Design, and Programming class, COEN 275, then got the thrill of seeing their work in action. | <urn:uuid:6dca3c60-bc47-4b14-bb1c-85925ce3fe65> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://clrsch.com/index-274.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.949635 | 213 | 1.578125 | 2 |
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Children’s Activities at the 2019 Little Haiti Book Festival: Timoun, Vin Danse!
Sunday, May 5, 2019 @ 11:00 am
212 NE 59th Terrace, Miami, United States
Bring the Children for a Series of Interactive Cultural Activities
This year’s inclusive program features a mix of Haitian and other Caribbean artists who share a strong African cultural influence, and the drum becomes the focal element that allows us to create a cultural bridge between Haiti and its Caribbean neighbors.
Storytelling. Dance. Music. Visual arts. Through stories, movement, colors, and sound, our little ones will explore traditional Haitian customs in a fun and interactive way.
Storytelling for Children
12 p.m. / Edwidge Danticat. My Mommy Medicine is a picture book about the comfort and love a mama offers when her child isn’t feeling well. Award-winning memoirist Edwidge Danticat’s rich and lyrical text envelops the reader in the security of a mother’s love, and debut artist Shannon Wright’s vibrant art infuses the story with even more warmth.
12:30 p.m. / Tamara B. Rodriguez. Hair to the Queen! is a compassionate picture book that allows parents to engage with their children in a light-hearted discussusion about cancer. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014, author Tamara B. Rodriguez wanted to talk about the disease with her two young daughters, but struggled to find the right words. Tamara wrote Hair to the Queen! to help families start the conversation.
3:30 p.m. / Stichiz. In Tu Es Belle: You Are Beautiful: Abby’s Great Day, when kids make her feel bad about herself, Abby finds it hard to see her true beauty. However, with the help of Gifted Nate, all of that changes. Canadian-born to Haitian parents, author Stichiz is a radio personality, an international award-winning entertainer, an artist on the rise, and a community champion.
4 p.m. / Marie K. Theodore-Pharel was born in Port-au-Prince Haiti, and currently lives in Homestead, Florida with her children and husband. Her children’s books include Beauty Walks in Nature (2010), Songs from a Tower (2009), Keeper of the Sky (2007), One More Daughter, America (2006), Daughter of the House (2005), A Fish Called Tanga (2003), and I’ll Fly Away (1999).
Workshops for Children and Families
12 p.m. / DANCE AND DRUMMING WORKSHOP with Inez Barlatier. Go back to our Caribbean roots—back to the heartbeat, the drum inside all of us.
1 p.m. / WORD WORKSHOP FOR TEENS. A writing workshop for teenagers on the complex issues of identity and belonging, led by writer and journalist Ebonie Ledbetter. Students will learn elements of fiction and creative nonfiction to create pieces that are meant to be performed, heard, and experienced. Students learn how writing can be a tool for empowerment in the face of discrimination and injustice as they examine their life experiences and improve their storytelling skills (in English).
1:30 p.m. / DANCE AND DRUMMING WORKSHOP with Yanui, founder and choreographer of Tradisyon Lakou Lakay. Yanui borrows from the Caribbean, African and Spanish Folkloric dances that influence Haitian dance.
2 p.m. / DANCE AND DRUMMING WORKSHOP with Inez Barlatier. Go back to our Caribbean roots—back to the heartbeat, the drum inside all of us.
3 p.m. / READING TOOLBOX FOR PARENTS. This workshop will address concerns specific to the Haitian community: How can Creole-speaking parents assist their children in becoming skilled readers in an English-speaking world? Should children be introduced to multi-lingual stories? How can traditional Haitian folktales help develop vocabulary in both English and Haitian Creole? Participants will walk away with an actionable toolbox of activities and receive free children’s books to help them use the strategies at home. Led by Lucrece Louisdhon-Louinis (in Haitian Creole).
4:30 p.m. / THE RHYTHM FACTORY. Sing-a-long, move and groove! Learn about different musical instruments from around the world. Grab your passport and go on a musical journey that will take you from Brazil to Africa and as far away as Australia! Presented by musician Michael Gil
All day / KIDS ART-MAKING STUDIO. Visit all day for hands-on activities connecting literature to arts and craft with GOGO MOAD
All day / LETTERPRESS PRINTING DEMOS. Get ready to be amazed by the Letterpress Printing Demos led by Tom Virgin.
All day / CHILDREN’S BOOKS FOR FREE! Courtesy of Miami Book Fair and The Children’s Trust’s Read to Learn Books for Free program.
All day / MUSIC BY DJ NICKYMIX, one of the most famous Haitian DJs of the diaspora; DJ Nickymix was the host for Radio Carnivale, the first Haitian Radio Station in the United States, and a TV host for HTN, also the first Haitian TV Station in the United States.
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Amazon warehouses in New York and elsewhere are being investigated by federal prosecutors and the US Department of Labor over unsafe working conditions, ABC News reported. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) conducted inspections “related to, among other things, the work rate required by Amazon for its warehouse workers,” a spokesperson said in a statement.
In addition to investigating potential safety risks, investigators also looked into “possible fraudulent conduct designed to conceal injuries from OSHA and others,” the agency added. He said he opened the inspections based on referrals from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York regarding alleged safety and health violations. It also surveys Amazon workplaces outside of Illinois and Florida.
Over the past few years, Amazon has faced a number of workplace safety complaints and investigations, particularly regarding demanding jobs. Earlier this year, the Washington State Department of Labor cited and fined the company for “drudgery at a dangerous pace” in Kent. Last year, the company released a rare excuses for tweets attacking criticism of working conditions, particularly that drivers and other workers were forced to pee in bottles to achieve their goals.
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Historic Ordinances of the City of Hudson
The history and culture of a city are reflected not only in its architecture and geography, but also in the codes and ordinances it writes to regulate its inhabitants. For those interested in the ordinances of the City of Hudson governing its daily life from 1841 through the turn of the twentieth century, herewith some favorite selections from the City Charter and Ordinances of the City of Hudson, NY: from 1841, 1859, and 1905 respectively. The complete texts of the City ordinances for each of these years follow this introduction. Browsing them in the chronological order in which they were written gives an indication of how the City, and technology, evolved during this period.
Sample of the 1905 Ordinances: (1905 Ordinances):
Par. 5: Swimming. No person shall bathe or swim in the Hudson river in front of the city limits between sunrise in the morning and nine o’clock in the evening unless clothed in a proper bathing suit.
Par. 10: Regulating the Leaving of Horses in the Streets. No person shall leave any horse or horses in any street, alley, public ground or square within the city, unless such horse or horses are securely tied or fastened or in charge of some competent person.
Par. 11: Coasting. No person shall coast or slide upon any sleigh or sled upon any of the sidewalks of the city.
Par. 12: Fast Driving. No person shall ride or drive on any highway in the city at a greater speed than a moderate trot, nor with greater speed than a walk while turning the corner of any street or passing to or from any yard or other place across any sidewalk.
Par. 13: Use of Bicycles, & c. No person using a bicycle, tricycle, velocipede or other such vehicle of propulsion shall propel such machine at a greater speed than eight miles an hour; nor ride such machine with his or her feet off the pedals thereof; nor ride such machine upon any sidewalk within the limits of the city; nor shall any greater number than two persons abreast ride the streets of the city on such machines, unless upon parade, with the written consent of the Mayor.
Par. 22: Animals Shall Not Run at Large. No owner of any cattle, horses, swine, sheep, goats, geese or fowls shall suffer or permit either or any of such animals to run at large over or upon any street, alley, public ground or square in the city.
Par. 23: Exhibitions, Shows, & c. No person shall exhibit, maintain, engage or take part in any theatrical, operatic or acrobatic performance, concert, circus, feat of legerdemain or necromancy or other exhibition or entertainment given for money, unless he shall have and exhibit a license therefor granted by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk.
Par. 35: Regulating Quantity of Powder. No person shall keep within the city, in any place except in the city powder house, more than twenty pounds of gun powder at one time, nor shall any quantity of gun powder over ten pounds be kept within the limits of the city, unless the same is secured in safe tin canisters holding not over ten pounds.
Sample of the 1859 Ordinances (1859 Ordinances ):
At what points Bathing is unlawful: (Sec. 1): It shall not be lawful for any person to bathe or swim in the river, opposite this city, between sunrise in the morning and nine o’clock in the evening, within the following limits:
- At the canal through the flats, between this city and the village of Athens, or within fifty rods of the same.
- Or between a point one hundred feet north of the north opening or cut in the Hudson River Rail Road, north of the City, ad one hundred feet south of the dock of the Hudson Iron Company.
- Or in the pond called “Underhill’s Pond,” within four hundred feet of the public road.
Fish Carts not to remain standing in the streets: (Sec. 6)” No person shall allow his cart or wagon used in peddling fish or shell-fish to remain standing in ay place in Warren Street for a longer time than fifteen minutes, and in no case shall the refuse or offal of fish be thrown into the street, under a penalty of two dollars for each offense.
Firing of Guns, & c., prohibited: (Sec. 21): No person shall fire or discharge within the compact part of the City of Hudson, any gun, rifle, musket, pistol, cracker or any kind of fire works, under the penalty of one dollar for each offense. (Exception: Sec. 22: The preceding setion shall not be construed to prevent their firing on days of public rejoicing or parade.)
An Ordinance for the suppression of Vice and for the preservation of Peace, and Good Order, passed My 26, 1859, as amended:
Noise and Riotous Conduct: (Sec. 1): Any person or persons who shall make, aid, countenance, or assist in any riotous conduct, improper noise, or diversion in the streets, alleys, public grounds or squares, or in any public or private premises of this city, or shall be found intoxicated or disorderly in said city, or assembling in large bodies or crowds, to the annoyance and disturbance of the citizens, or travelers, or who shall be engaged in any malicious mischief, shall forfeit not less than $5, nor more than $20, unless the offence shall have been committed in the night time, in which case the penalty shall be not less than $10, nor more than $20.
Bowling Alleys (Sec 6): No person keeping a billiard table or bowling alley or floor shall permit any game to be played on Sunday or at any time between eleven o’clock in the evening and six o’clock in the morning, under the penalty of five dollars for each offense.
Sample of the 1841 Ordinances (1841 Ordinances):
Article II: Of Pilots on the Ice: (III): The Ice Pilots shall be appointed by the Ferry Committee, and be removed by them at pleasure, and the pilots thus appointed shall have the exclusive right of using ice boats for the transportation of passengers, & c., between this city and the opposite shore of the river; and every person acting as such pilot, without such appointment, shall incur a penalty of one dollar for each offense.
Article II: Of the Safekeeping and Transportation of Gun Powder: (1): No person shall keep in any plance, within the compact prt of the city, more than twenty-eight pounds of gun powder at one time, nor shall the quantity of twenty-eight pounds be kept within said limits, unless the same is secured in at least two tin canisters; and the penalty for a violation of any part of this section shall be twenty-five dollars. (ii) All quantities over twenty-eight pounds shall be immediately conveyed to the powder house, and shall there be under the care of an Overseer to be appointed by the Council.
Article III: Of the Manufacture and Sale of Bread: (i) All bread baked and offered or exposed for sale in the City of Hudson, shall be made of good and wholesome flour or meal, in loaves weighing in avoirdupois weight, at any time within eight hour after baking, one and a half pounds or three pounds, and every loaf of such bread, except twisted loaves, shall be marked with the number indicating the weight of the loaf.
Article III: (cont’d) Of Nuisances: (1) Two Scavengers shall be appointed by the Common Council, one for each ward, who shall hold their offices during the pleasure of the Council…whenever there is a nuisance in or upon any house, yard, barn, premises or enclosure, it shall be the duty of the Scavengers, (1) Immediately to direct the owner or occupant of any such house, yard, barn, premises or enclosure to abate or remove same….
Article V: Of Shows and Idle Feats: (I): The Mayor or recorder, or in case of their absence, sickness or other inability to act, any two of the Aldermen, may license or permit any person or persons to exhibit or perform for gain any puppet show, wire dance, circus riding, or any other idle acts or feats, which common showmen, mountebanks, circus riders or jugglers usually practice or perform.
Article III: Of Immoderate Driving: (i): No person shall wantonly run or gallop, or immoderately drive any horse or horses in any of the streets of the compact part of the city, under the penalty of five dollars for each offense.
Article V: Of Animals Runnning at Large: (III): The Council shall, from time to time, appoint two Hog Howards, once for each ward, who shall hold their office during the pleasure of the Council….it shall be the duty of such officers (1) to take up and convey to the public pound all geese and swine found running at large contrary to this ordinance; and unless the same shall be redeemed within twelve hours of public notice (by the common Crier), such geese or swine will then be sold at the upper market at public auction. Any inhabitant of the City may exercise without appointment the powers by the preceding section given to the Hog Howards. | <urn:uuid:77e0b874-2f0f-4e8d-b76e-7e8a143dedd0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.storyofhudson.com/history-of-hudson/historic-documents/historic-ordinances-of-the-city-of-hudson/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.924907 | 1,981 | 2.546875 | 3 |
United States Patent Office
National Museum of American History
12th & Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20560
Brush of Cleveland, Ohio, was an electrician and inventor who founded Brush Electric Company. This is a bound collection of patents with their specifications and drawings for improvements on electric lamps, motors, magnetic machines, and other electrical appliances and apparatus. | <urn:uuid:f08e6967-88b4-465e-bc6b-4affe0fa9649> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://invention.si.edu/charles-f-brush-patents-1878-1894 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.816787 | 132 | 1.648438 | 2 |
The Midwest Invasive Plant Network’s – Invasive Plant Control Database
MIPN’s Invasive Plant Control Database is an excellent resource to help you with your invasive management needs. The database contains information on how to control many invasive plants common to the Midwestern United States. The information was collected from both scientific literature and expert opinions and summarized by MIPN, in partnership with the Mark Renz lab from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. For more information and to access this database, click HERE. | <urn:uuid:78d301c4-ff8d-4b46-a738-b3752480363f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ipaw.org/the-solution/control/mipn-database/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.907416 | 105 | 2.09375 | 2 |
A Largo neighborhood is under a boil-water advisory.
Pinellas County Utilities says residents in the following area should boil their water before using it until at least Saturday night:
- South of Willow Avenue
- West of Belcher Road
- North of Ulmerton Road
- East of Lake Avenue SE
Customers on both sides of Lake Avenue SE are included in the precautionary boil notice.
The warning is due to a broken water main at the intersection of Lake Avenue SE and Donegan Road in Largo.
Service has been restored for 200 customers affected, but officials want to wait until test results come back to confirm that the break did not cause any contamination.
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Coronavirus cases have almost doubled over the last week due to the highly transmissible Delta variant which is now responsible for 99 per cent of all cases – but two vaccine doses are giving a “high degree” of protection against hospitalisation.
Another 33,630 cases have been confirmed since last week to a total of 75,953, according to Public Health England’s weekly Covid-19 variant cases data for the whole of the UK. Some 70,856 have been in England, 4,659 in Scotland, 254 in Northern Ireland and 184 in Wales.
A total of 806 people in England have been admitted to hospital with the Delta variant as of June 14, a rise of 423 on the previous week. Of the 806 some 527 (65 per cent) were unvaccinated, 135 (17 per cent) were more than 21 days after their first dose of vaccine, and 84 (10 per cent) were more than 14 days after their second dose.
As of June 14, there have been 73 deaths in England of people who were confirmed as having the Delta variant and who died within 28 days of a positive test. Of this number, 34 (47 per cent) were unvaccinated, 10 (14 per cent) were more than 21 days after their first dose of vaccine and 26 (36 per cent) were more than 14 days after their second dose.
Although the data show an increased risk of hospitalisation with Delta compared to Alpha, Public Health England’s analysis shows that two doses of vaccine give a high degree of protection against hospitalisation, estimated to be more than 90 per cent.
Officials said the case fatality rate remains low for Delta but deaths tend to happen some weeks after infections and the majority of cases were confirmed less than 28 days ago. It is therefore too early to judge the case fatality of Delta compared to Alpha or other variants, they said.
Dr Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency, said: “Cases are rising rapidly across the country and the Delta variant is now dominant. The increase is primarily in younger age groups, a large proportion of which were unvaccinated but are now being invited to receive the vaccine. It is encouraging to see that hospitalisations and deaths are not rising at the same rate but we will continue to monitor it closely. The vaccination programme and the care that we are all taking to follow the guidance are continuing to save lives.
“Please make sure that you come forward to receive both doses of the vaccine as soon as you are eligible. Don’t drop your guard- practice ‘hands, face, space, fresh air’ at all times.”
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National Hispanic Heritage Month, observed in the United States from September 15 – October 15, celebrates the culture and traditions of Hispanic Americans. Resonating a strong commitment to family, faith and work, the positive influence of Hispanics—and Hispanic culture—on American life cannot be overstated. Over 50 million Hispanics and Latinos reside in the U.S.
The Michigan Area Committee on Hispanic/Latino Ministries is helping congregations gain awareness and increase outreach to the Hispanics and Latinos in the state.
The Committee invites clergy and laity to a Pentecost Journey workshop for non-Hispanic/Latino congregations interested in developing Hispanic/Latino ministries. The workshop will be held at Traverse City Central UMC, October 24, 9:00am to 3:30pm.
This workshop is a ‘how to’ develop ministries with Hispanics and Latinos. Participants will learn about Hispanic/Latino culture, different models of ministry, and challenges in developing the ministry.
By the end of the workshop, participants will have completed a plan with first steps to reaching out and being in ministry with Hispanics/Latinos. This experience is a safe space to come and ask questions and learn.
The focus is to help fulfill God’s vision of the church that was born on that day on Pentecost, a “church for all nations” and “a church that affirms the cultural identities and not just the language of those among whom we are called to witness.”
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Class 5 white water rafting
Class 5 white water rafting also called Grade 5 white water rafting is a term which refers to the difficulty and danger of a section of the white water river being rafted.
White water rafting has a clear grading system that goes between 1 and 6 where 1 is flat and 6 is death, maybe not death but it’s usually impossible, think Niagara falls.
Class 5 white water rafting is defined by having many of these characteristics: difficult rapids, irregular broken water, big waterfalls, violent currents, steep gradient and maximum risk.
Class 5 white water rafting is the upper limit of what can be experienced commercially, this classification of rapid provides the ultimate adrenaline rush, the ultimate rafting experience. However be very aware of the potential dangers as well.
Here at Splash White Water Rafting Scotland, we raft a few grade 5 rapids. The River Orchy is probably Scotland’s best white water rafting river and offers two class 5 rapids, as well as lots of class 3 and 4 rapids.
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For a research pharmaceutical company, Ventana designed and built a decision-support model to help manage the development of a new drug. When the modeling was started, over $120 million was committed to the development of a new drug to better treat a fatal infectious disease. The drug had been under development for two years, and it was targeted for international distribution three years in the future.
The model provided several important, if somewhat vexing, benefits. The most immediate benefit was a re-evaluation of the market for the product. By using the calibrated decision-support model, the product development team discovered that earlier market assessments, which were based on spreadsheet calculations, had poorly analyzed the spread of the disease and the nature of the competition. Within weeks of using the model, the product development team revised its sales forecast scenarios. The high and middle scenarios declined by a factor of two, while the low scenario fell by a factor of three. The product development team then used the model to better optimize its marketing plan.
The company potentially got a larger and more significant organizational benefit as well. Drawing on events from the modeling experience, Ventana noted that the company’s process for evaluating new products put severe and conflicting pressures on product development teams. The teams were charged with being both enthusiastic developers of a new product as well as their own best critics. Peer review of the market assessments was minimal. Senior executives recognized that they needed a system that provided better institutional checks on the information they used in their new product portfolio analyses. | <urn:uuid:77efa6e7-2339-4c7d-8317-081f6ce65493> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ventity.biz/examples/new-product-decision-process/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.971597 | 305 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Ballinamuck RIC Barracks as it was in 1920, with turrets on two corners
As part of the Decade of Centenaries Programme for November, Longford County Library, Heritage and Archives Services will host a conference on ‘County Longford and the War of Independence’ on Saturday next, November 14, beginning at 11am.
The event will take place on Microsoft Teams. Log in details can be obtained by emailing decadeofcentenaries@ longfordcoco.ie or by calling 043 33 41124.
The panel will consist of the following; Dr Marie Coleman (Queen’s University Belfast), Dr Mel Farrell (Royal Irish Academy), Dr Paul Hughes (independent scholar) and Professor Eunan O’Halpin (Trinity College Dublin), all distinguished historians of this period.
Dr Coleman has written extensively on Longford in these years and will begin the event by speaking on the military campaign in 1920-21.
She will be followed by Ardagh native, Dr Farrell, who will consider politics in Longford in 1920, a subject that has been overshadowed somewhat.
In the second session, beginning at 3 pm, Dr Hughes will examine the involvement of the great Westmeath nationalist Laurence Ginnell in Longford affairs, 1906-23.
The conference concludes with Professor O’Halpin, who will look at the Dead of the Irish Revolution project that he has worked on, with emphasis on the Longford dead.
This promises to be a very memorable and stimulating event and there will be opportunities for those joining-in to ask questions at the end of each talk.
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”When I first became a veterinarian, I didn’t really pay attention to what word I was using to describe training dogs and other animals,” says the head of the Tufts Animal Behavior Clinic, Stephanie Borns-Weil, DVM. “I was used to thinking of words we say to dogs as ‘commands’ — you tell your dog to do something, and they do it.
“But what I then learned,” the renowned behaviorist says, “is that the language we use both reflects and shapes our thinking. It made me reevaluate certain terms: what does ‘command’ really mean?”
“Command” assumes we have dominance over a dog, she says. “It reflects a very hierarchical relationship.”
It’s true that the relationship between people and their dogs is not mutual, Dr. Borns-Weil comments. “It’s not like two adult humans. There’s a caregiving aspect, just as there is between adults and children. But the word ‘command’ doesn’t allow for any kind of mutuality and respect. It doesn’t allow for agency of the animals themselves. It implies ‘Do it or else.’”
Why “Cue” works better to inform your training
“Cue” implies learning, Dr. Borns-Weil says. It implies that there’s a choice. “I believe in giving an animal as much choice as possible,” she says. “We’re not going to give them the choice to run across the road because they don’t see the consequences of their behavior. But we can guide the choices they do have in constructive ways. We can teach them that their actions can result in a reward or no reward.” That then becomes their choice rather than our order.
Approaching it this way also has the capacity to positively reinforce us for using the best training methods, Dr. Borns-Weil says. “It teaches us how to communicate with our dogs not only in the most respectful and loving way but also the way that is most effective.”
Dogs learn best through a cooperative relationship in which we give a cue, they respond, and then we give a reward. “Cue, response, reward training is empowering for all of us,” the doctor comments. “If your dog doesn’t follow a cue, he may not understand what you are asking. Try breaking down the task into smaller pieces.” Also remember that context is everything for dogs. He may not know that a cue such as “Sit” that is learned in class also applies at home.
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A rise and fall in your body’s blood pressure is something to be taken seriously. This can happen throughout the day, depending on your activity and physical state. When you have high blood pressure, you are at risk of other life-threatening medical problems. High blood pressure can also occur with other health conditions, such as arthritis.
You can manage your health better by knowing the causes of various conditions. Continue reading to find out more about the causes of high blood pressure.
What Is High Blood Pressure?
High blood pressure, or hypertension, is abnormally high systolic and diastolic blood pressure. These two numbers indicate the pressure in the arteries, the vessels carrying blood from the heart to the rest of the body. Systolic blood pressure is the first or higher number. It measures the pressure when the heart beats. Meanwhile, diastolic pressure, the second number, measures the pressure between beats, when the heart rests. Your doctor can determine if you have high blood pressure based on blood pressure readings that check these numbers.
This condition usually has no severe symptoms, particularly in the early stages. You may feel headaches, nosebleeds, or shortness of breath when your blood pressure becomes severely high.
Types and Causes of High Blood Pressure
There are two types of high blood pressure, depending on the cause. Your family doctor may examine your medical history to determine what causes your hypertension.
● Primary Hypertension
Most adults suffer from primary or essential hypertension. This type of high blood pressure has no definite cause and gradually develops over time.
● Secondary Hypertension
Secondary hypertension appears more suddenly. This type of hypertension occurs because of another underlying medical condition in the heart, kidneys, or endocrine system. Examples are arthritis, thyroid problems, problems in blood vessels, obstructive sleep apnea, and more.
Risk Factors Causing High Blood Pressure
Some factors increase the likelihood of having high blood pressure. Although these do not directly cause hypertension, you should monitor your blood pressure closely if you are associated with these risk factors:
● Age and Gender
Hypertension can affect people at any age. However, the likelihood of acquiring it increases as you get older. Although less common, children may also suffer from hypertension. Poor lifestyle habits and kidney or heart problems can contribute to hypertension in the younger population.
● Family History and Race
Genetics can play a significant role in developing high blood pressure. Hypertension tends to run in families. According to studies, people of African descent may also develop the condition earlier than others. They are also more likely to develop serious complications such as heart attack, stroke, and kidney failure.
● Physical Activity
Physical inactivity is generally associated with a higher heart rate. It causes the heart to work harder and produce more intense contractions, leading to hypertension.
Increased weight means the body needs more blood supply and oxygen. When there is increased blood flow in the arteries, the pressure against the artery walls may also increase.
The nutrients in your diet, such as sodium and potassium, can affect your blood pressure. Too much sodium or salt can promote fluid retention in your body, resulting in increased blood pressure. Low potassium levels due to improper diet or dehydration can lead to sodium buildup in the blood.
● Use of Tobacco and Drinking Alcohol
The use of tobacco products does not only temporarily raise your body’s blood pressure immediately, it can also cause the narrowing of artery walls, leading to permanent damage. Alcohol consumption can also lead to heart damage, especially if the intake is more than one to two drinks a day.
High levels of stress are associated with a temporary spike in blood pressure. Stress-related habits or coping mechanisms such as binge eating, smoking, or drinking alcohol can also cause a permanent increase in blood pressure.
Pregnant women may suffer from gestational hypertension or pregnancy-induced hypertension, or preeclampsia. This condition can pose serious risks before, during, and after birth.
● Use of Certain Medications
Some birth control pills, pain relievers, cold medications, decongestants, and prescription drugs may affect the body’s blood pressure. Illegal drugs such as cocaine and amphetamines can also cause hypertension.
Treatment For High Blood Pressure and Arthritis in Wellington, FL
High blood pressure affects your overall health in many ways. It should be diagnosed and treated as soon as possible. To get the best medical treatment for hypertension, you should always listen to the experts. Primary care physicians are the trusted and first-hand doctors who can help diagnose and treat your high blood pressure.
If you are looking for a clinic to help you with your high blood pressure, we at Advanced Medical Clinic offer medical services in Wellington and Royal Palm Beach, Florida. Our skilled physicians and staff will surely accommodate your concerns, from diagnosis to treatment.
Contact us today to learn more about how we can help. You may call our friendly staff at (561) 434-1935 or fill out this online request form. We look forward to serving you. | <urn:uuid:599570bb-ec54-4fa8-9ceb-60dd7e9a8f59> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wellingtonadvancedmed.com/tag/hypertension-treatment-near-me/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.928527 | 1,048 | 3.296875 | 3 |
.BRUSHCATEGORY File Extension
- Developer by: Corel
- Category: Misc Files
What are .BRUSHCATEGORY files and how to open them?Can't open .BRUSHCATEGORY file? Are you wondering what it contains? On our site we will explain to you what this file is, what it is used for and what software opens the .BRUSHCATEGORY file.
What is a .BRUSHCATEGORY file extension?
.BRUSHCATEGORY file extension is created by Corel. .BRUSHCATEGORY has been classified as Misc Files.
.BRUSHCATEGORY is Painter Brush Category File
Brush category file created and used by Corel Painter, a digital artwork application; contains a collection of brush variants, which are specific brushes and brush settings.
An example of a category and its brush variants is the Markers category. It contains specific brushes, such as Fine Tip Marker, Leaky Marker, and Sharp Marker, each with their own settings to make them look differently.
To create a new brush category, select, name the category, and click .
To export a BRUSHCATEGORY file, select, choose the category from the drop down menu, and click "OK." Then, name the file, choose the save location, and click .
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A National Vision for Australia’s Mental Health and Suicide Prevention System
WA Primary Health Alliance (WAPHA) is leading the establishment of a network of Head to Health services for WA as part of the Australian Governments National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Plan.
The network of Head to Health services will improve access to, and coordination of, mental health services delivered digitally, via telephone and face-to-face.
The first Head to Health walk-in Adult Mental Health Centre for WA opened 1 March 2022
The centre is part of an Australian Government initiative to trial a number of adult mental health centre’s nationally, aiming to improve access to mental health services for people experiencing distress.
The Head to Health Assessment and Referral Phone Service opened for calls on 1 July 2022
The Head to Health Assessment and Referral Phone Service provides state-wide access to telephone-based assessment and referral to match people to services that meet their mental health needs. The project was commissioned by WAPHA, with Medibank Health Solutions appointed as the provider to run the Service for the WA community.
A new, accessible mental healthcare service for the WA Community
In late 2021 all Primary Health Networks received draft documentation regarding the Head to Health Assessment and Referral Phone Service. This documentation repositions the proposed service model as part of the national network of Head to Health services, delivering on the commitment of the 2021 Federal Budget.
As a national initiative many of the parameters have been set for the service model. These include use of a universal phone number, consistency in clinical governance, expectations regarding cultural appropriateness, use of a standard assessment tool and delivery under the ‘Head to Health’ brand.
The new prescribed service model aligns well with the insights and direction identified by stakeholders during the collaborative design through the initial pilot design phase.
The revised guidance outlines a model that:
1. places the consumer at the centre
2. supports referral and ongoing care
3. is held to account with national performance indicators
The current Guidance from the Australian Government Department of Health requires PHNs to commission an assessment service to be open for calls from 1 July 2022.
Project status updates will continue to be posted to this dedicated page.
Commonwealth Guidance document released PHN Assessment Referral Mental Health Care
WAPHA GP Advisory Group established and consulted, Nous Group Service Design Workshops conducted
WAPHA designs independent service pilot for 3 WA locations, though in late 2021 new Commonwealth guidance was provided to PHNs for a national model repositioning the service under the “head to Health” brand including use of a universal phone number, consistency in clinical governance, expectations regarding cultural appropriateness and use of a standardised assessment tool
Midland Head to Health Walk-in Clinic opens – St John of God Social Outreach appointed by WAPHA to run the service as part of the Australian Government initiative to trial a number of adult mental health centre’s nationally
WAPHA opens tender for the Assessment and Referral Phone Service
Assessment and Referral Phone Service tender closes
Medibank Health Solutions appointed to run the Service open for calls from 1 July 2022
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Last year Huawei sold more smartphones than Apple, reporting over $100 billion in revenue and cementing its position as the world’s largest provider of information and communications technology. But Huawei’s success has not come without a struggle. In recent times, the company has become a central point of political conflict between the USA and China.
In this unique gathering of top business leaders in Zurich, we ask Huawei’s Deputy Chairman, Mr. Ken Hu, to shed light on the social and economic impact of today’s technology revolution. Ken will speak about digital technologies such as 5G, IoT, artificial intelligence and the cloud, exploring their social impact and how organizations can better leverage them to grow and prosper. In the discussion that follows, we will ask him to elaborate on how Huawei is adapting its strategy to accommodate today’s rapidly changing geopolitical landscape.
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Birthdays March 1st – 7th. This week includes, Roger Daltrey, Rory Gallagher, Lou Reed, Dave Amato, Willie Johnson, J.B. Lenoir, Alan Clark, John Frusciante. As well as David Gilmour, Walter Trout and Matthew Fisher!
Roger Daltrey – 3/1/1944
The fearless, handsome leader of the incredible British blues-rock band The Who. Daltrey’s career is still going strong and spans almost 50 years! Listed on “Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Singers of All Time”, he’s one of the “most charismatic lead singers of all time.” Still today, Daltrey maintains a strong solo career as a powerhouse vocalist.
Rory Gallagher – 3/2/1948
Irish singer, songwriter, producer, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist whose sound is a mixture of styles. With his exemplary virtuoso skills on the guitar, he gains a devoted following. Furthermore, people know him for his charismatic and exhausting performances.
His emergence in the 1960’s with his power trio “Taste” sets the stage for a successful solo career. Furthermore, it spans two and a half decades and sells over 30 million records worldwide. Sadly, Gallagher passes away in 1995. Meanwhile, his spirit continues to thrive within those that find inspiration in the music he lovingly created.
Lou Reed – 3/2/1944
Lou Reed is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and poet. Furthermore, he’s the rhythm/lead guitarist, singer, and principal songwriter for the rock band “The Velvet Underground” and had a solo career that spanned five decades. While “The Velvet Underground” isn’t a commercial success during its existence. Later they’re regarded as one of the most influential bands in the history of underground and alternative rock music.
After leaving the band in 1970, Reed releases twenty solo studio albums. Furthermore, Reed’s distinctive deadpan voice, poetic lyrics and experimental guitar playing were trademarks throughout his long career. Reed is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. Once as a member of the Velvet Underground in 1996 and as a solo act in 2015.
Dave Amato – 3/3/1953
Guitarist/singer Dave Amato has served as a member of two of arena rock’s most instantly recognizable names, Ted Nugent and REO Speedwagon, in addition to playing on countless other recordings by similarly styled artists. Such as Cher, and Richie Sambora, among others.
Willie Johnson – 3/4/1923
An American electric blues guitarist that most people know him as the principal guitarist in Howlin’ Wolf’s band from 1948 to 1953. Even more, his raucous, distorted guitar playing is prominent on Howlin’ Wolf’s Memphis recordings during 1951–1953, including the hit song “How Many More Years” (recorded May 1951). In 2017, Johnson posthumously gets his induction into the Blues Hall of Fame. Lastly, he’s also one of the originators of the power chord.
J.B. Lenoir – 3/5/1925
An influential American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, active in the Chicago blues scene in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1949, he moves to Chicago, where Big Bill Broonzy helps him by introducing him to the blues community.
His most commercially successful and enduring release is “Mamma Talk to Your Daughter”, which he records for Parrot in 1954, which also reaches number 11 on the Billboard R&B chart. Also, is a popular tune that many other musicians record their own versions of it.
Alan Clark – 3/5/1952
Alan Clark is an English musician who is the first permanent keyboardist and co-producer of the rock band Dire Straits. In 2018, Clark is an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a significant member of Dire Straits.
John Frusciante – 3/5/1970
John Frusciante is an American musician most known as the guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Besides performing with the Chili Peppers, he’s also released 12 solo albums and seven EPs. Frusciante joins the Chili Peppers at age 18 after the death of guitarist Hillel Slovak, and first appears on the band’s album Mother’s Milk in 1989.
David Gilmour – 3/6/1946
David Gilmour is an English musician and a member of the rock band Pink Floyd. He joins the group as guitarist and co-lead vocalist in 1968 shortly before the departure of founding member Syd Barrett. Pink Floyd achieves international success with the concept albums “The Dark Side of the Moon”, “Wish You Were Here”, “Animals”, and “The Wall”.
By the early 1980s, they had become one of the best-selling and most acclaimed acts in music history. In 2011, “Rolling Stone” magazine ranks him number 14 in their list of the greatest guitarists of all time.
Walter Trout – 3/6/1951
Blues rock singer, songwriter and celebrated guitarist who began his career as a sideman for such legendary musicians as John Lee Hooker, Big Mama Thornton, and Percy Mayfield. After a three-year residency as lead guitarist of Canned Heat, he secures a coveted position in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers.
Furthermore, he kicks off his own solo career in 1989 and gains a massive following. And over the years through his extensive touring and acclaimed releases. The track listing of “Survivor Blues” is a window into the 67-year-old’s fast-moving backstory, chronicling a five-decade career whose one constant is his deep love of the Blues.
Matthew Fisher – 3/7/1946
Ex-keyboardist of Procol Harum, solo artist, producer, engineer, and owner of Old Barn Studios. Was credited co-writer of “A Whiter Shade Of Pale” in a lawsuit in 2005/2006. | <urn:uuid:bbe427af-3de9-4c77-b695-725b43b10ae9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://keepingthebluesalive.org/birthdays-march-1st-7th/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.959206 | 1,333 | 1.617188 | 2 |
As we speak's hymn reflection by Alistair Begg: "If all of your mercy, my God"
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Marc Orchant, a longtime blogger on office productivity and tablet PCs, is now a blogger for ZDNet. His blog today looks at a recent post on Steve Richard’s Adventures in Home Working. Steve has done a nice job of using MindManager to map out Dan Pink‘s wonderful book, "A Whole New Mind." (Dan Pink himself has posted a link to the map on his web site.)
Of particular note is Dan’s suggestion that the four key skills needed to succeed in the world of the future are Symphony, Story, Design and Meaning. I think if you either read the book or glance at the Steve’s maps, you will see how using MindManager helps build these skills. | <urn:uuid:85af5c8c-01d8-4e76-8d10-e857423ea4b5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.mindmanager.com/mapping-dan-pink/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.91685 | 148 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Pruning is standard maintenance work done on trees. It’s done by cutting off certain parts of the tree to fit the environment it’s in. Many people assume that there’s no need to follow any guidelines when cutting off some foliage since it won’t matter anyway. However, incorrectly trimming branches may cause a healthy tree to perish eventually.
If you’re new to pruning, here are some things you do’s and don’ts to keep in mind Or if you need other help then you can look for tree removal central coast.
- Contact An Expert
If there’s a tree within your property that’s starting to damage its surrounding objects due to its extensive branches, then you may want to prune it. Cutting down limbs or deadwood of oversized trees can help maintain the safety of the environment they’re in. It’s also a regular maintenance procedure that you need to do if you’re nurturing a tree outside your home.
However, chopping off parts of a tree, especially when it’s huge, can be too much work for you if you don’t have the right materials or expertise. You may get hurt if you hastily try to cut huge branches off a tree. It’s better to call in an expert to prune your tree so you can ensure that the task will be executed safely and correctly.
Tree removal and pruning services, like Al Miley arborist, can come to your aid if your tree needs to be trimmed. They have the necessary materials to cut down branches too high to reach and have heavy-duty tools for thicker stems.
- Cut Off Dead Branches
Pruning is essential to keeping your tree healthy and in a manageable size. There will be times when you may see areas that are slowly dying or drying up. Natural factors, such as strong winds, can also damage some branches and partially break them off. If you don’t address the stems hanging off the trunk, the whole tree may end up dying.
It’s vital that you cut off any parts that are no longer of use to the main trunk. For example, if there are dead stems that are no longer growing leaves, it’s best to just remove them. This way, you can allow the tree to grow new branches. Removing diseased leaves will also help prevent the damage from spreading further.
- Keep The Tree Balanced
If you’re planning on doing a major pruning job on a tree on your property, you should ensure that the canopy is balanced. Cutting too many branches on one side of a tree can cause it to lean too much. If the main trunk can’t handle the weight focused on one area, the tree will eventually fall.
You’d want to keep your tree healthy and equally pruned on both sides so it can continue to provide shade and grow steadily outside your house. Whenever you start cutting off branches, try to view the entirety of the tree to see which components you need to remove.
- Use Blunt Tools To Cut Branches
Using a blunt knife or saw to cut down some branches from your tree can cause damages to the bark. If the branch collar of the tree is severely damaged, it may not have the ability to close the wound and receive food. If the tree fails to get nutrition, it’ll eventually decay.
If you’re cutting down parts of the tree, you should ensure that the tools you’re using are sharp and durable enough. Your shears or power saw should always be sharpened before use. This way, you rest assured that it can do the job with precision. You should also know which equipment will suit your needs.
For instance, a bolo knife may not be strong enough to cut down a branch thicker than the size of your arm. Doing so will take a lot of time and effort, and you’ll also risk unnecessarily scraping off barks. For bulky branches, it’s better to use a heavy-duty tool that’s meant to cut down thick trees, like a chainsaw.
- Remove The Top Of The Tree
Topping is considered a bad practice when pruning a tree since it gets rid of a considerable portion of its crown. If you do this, you’re disabling the foliage’s capacity to produce food, which can endanger its life.
Removing the entire upper part of a tree will also make it more prone to decay and pests. It’ll also take a lot of time before it grows back its crown. You won’t only risk harming your tree’s health but you’ll also take away the shade it provides to your property. Excessive topping can also make the tree look heavily distorted.
- Cut Too Close To The Tree’s Collar
The tree’s collar is the slightly curved area that connects a branch from the tree’s main body. When you’re trying to prune your foliage, you should ensure that you’re not cutting too close to the bark.
Try to cut in an angle and ensure that you’re not slicing off the outer bark of the main tree since it’ll leave hollow holes that are prone to disease infection or decay. When cutting off a branch directly connected to the main trunk, be sure not to cut off the collar. This’ll allow the tree to produce an outer bark around its bare areas.
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Continuous Integration is not an all-or-nothing affair. In fact, introducing CI into an organization takes you on a path that progresses through several distinct phases. Each of these phases involves incremental improvements to the technical infrastructure as well as, perhaps more importantly, improvements in the practices and culture of the development team itself. In the following paragraphs, I have tried to paint an approximate picture of each phase.
Phase 1—No Build Server
Initially, the team has no central build server of any kind. Software is built manually on a developer’s machine, though it may use an Ant script or similar to do so. Source code may be stored in a central source code repository, but developers do not necessarily commit their changes on a regular basis. Some time before a release is scheduled, a developer manually integrates the changes, a process which is generally associated with pain and suffering.
Phase 2—Nightly Builds
In this phase, the team has a build server, and automated builds are scheduled on a regular (typically nightly) basis. This build simply compiles the code, as there are no reliable or repeatable unit tests. Indeed, automated tests, if they are written, are not a mandatory part of the build process, and may well not run correctly at all. However developers now commit their changes regularly, at least at the end of every day. If a developer commits code changes that conflict with another developer’s work, the build server alerts the team via email the following morning. Nevertheless, the team still tends to use the build server for information purposes only—they feel little obligation to fix a broken build immediately, and builds may stay broken on the build server for some time.
Phase 3—Nightly Builds and Basic Automated Tests
The team is now starting to take Continuous Integration and automated testing more seriously. The build server is configured to kick off a build whenever new code is committed to the version control system, and team members are able to easily see what changes in the source code triggered a particular build, and what issues these changes address. لعبة الحظ الحقيقية In addition, the build script compiles the application and runs a set of automated unit and/or integration tests. In addition to email, the build server also alerts team members of integration issues using more proactive channels such as Instant Messaging. Broken builds are now generally fixed quickly. كيفية الربح في الكازينو
Phase 4—Enter the Metrics
Automated code quality and code coverage metrics are now run to help evaluate the quality of the code base and (to some extent, at least) the relevance and effectiveness of the tests. The code quality build also automatically generates API documentation for the application. All this helps teams keep the quality of the code base high, alerting team members if good testing practices are slipping. The team has also set up a “build radiator,” a dashboard view of the project status that is displayed on a prominent screen visible to all team members. لعبه بينجو
Phase 5—Getting More Serious About Testing
The benefits of Continuous Integration are closely related to solid testing practices. Now, practices like Test-Driven Development are more widely practiced, resulting in a growing confidence in the results of the automated builds. The application is no longer simply compiled and tested, but if the tests pass, it is automatically deployed to an application server for more comprehensive end-to-end tests and performance tests.
Phase 6—Automated Acceptance Tests and More Automated Deployment
Acceptance-Test Driven Development is practiced, guiding development efforts and providing high-level reporting on the state of the project. These automated tests use Behavior-Driven Development and Acceptance-Test Driven Development tools to act as communication and documentation tools and documentation as much as testing tools, publishing reports on test results in business terms that non-developers can understand. Since these high-level tests are automated at an early stage in the development process, they also provide a clear idea of what features have been implemented, and which remain to be done. The application is automatically deployed into test environments for testing by the QA team either as changes are committed, or on a nightly basis; a version can be deployed (or “promoted”) to UAT and possibly production environments using a manually-triggered build when testers consider it ready. The team is also capable of using the build server to back out a release, rolling back to a previous release, if something goes horribly wrong.
Phase 7—Continuous Deployment
Confidence in the automated unit, integration and acceptance tests is now such that teams can apply the automated deployment techniques developed in the previous phase to push out new changes directly into production.
The progression between levels here is of course somewhat approximate, and may not always match real-world situations. For example, you may well introduce automated web tests before integrating code quality and code coverage reporting. However, it should give a general idea of how implementing a Continuous Integration strategy in a real world organization generally works. | <urn:uuid:38aa2e71-4435-4079-b775-1abe773ac121> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.virtualcloudworks.com/introducing-continuous-integration-organization/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.93016 | 1,064 | 1.914063 | 2 |
For the young child and adult who loves to move and groove to happy music. Songs about the ABC’s, Fluffy Pillows, Danceroni, School Yard Rap and many more songs that will brighten your day.
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Four imaginative stories about animals, dreams, and a haunted house. It features over 300 cool sound effects with a song after each story.
Fun walk’n’talk songs for A-Typical kids. This special music was developed from an OT’s thoughts put in a musical way. Excellent instructional booklet included.
Get’em UP, Moving and Learning
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- “To Say No and No and No Again”: Fasting Girls, Shame, and Storytelling in Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder
Emma Donoghue’s 2016 novel The Wonder places a young woman’s refusal to eat at the center of highly charged narratives about fasting as resistance to oppression and women’s bodies as repositories for shame. Set in 1858 Ireland, the novel tells the story of the English nurse Lib Wright, who is hired to conduct a fortnight-long watch of the so-called “fasting girl” Anna O’Donnell either to determine her a fraud or prove her “a magical girl who lives on air.”1 She uncovers instead how young women’s bodies become canvases for projecting shame experienced by the community, while silencing the woman’s own histories.
A range of patriarchal institutions—including the Catholic church, the nascent Irish nation, the medical establishment, and the family unit—intersect in The Wonder to produce narratives, infused with a colonial worldview, about Anna’s fast. These include fasting as a path to religious purity; fasting as resistance against a colonial oppressor; fasting as evidence of a nervous condition common to women; and fasting to cover up a family secret. In response to the narratives emerging from these institutions, Donoghue’s novel explores how folk legend has the ability to subvert misogyny and colonialism through its coded resistance to patriarchal authority.
In Feminist Messages: Coding in Women’s Folk Culture (1993), Joan Radner contends that the “essential ambiguity of coded acts protects women from potentially dangerous responses from those who might find their statements disturbing.”2 Susan Sellers, writing of Marina Warner’s scholarship on fairy tales, insists that we must pay attention to archetypal tales because “fairy tale is an inherently feminist genre,” which exerts influence because “the enchantments of the tales act as camouflage, wrapping brilliantly seductive images around the [End Page 93] harsh truths or daring utterances they speak.”3 Both fairy lore and fairy tales assign women negative roles that reflect cultural anxieties about gender, but these legends can also signal resistance to colonial efforts to control perceived Irish excesses—of emotion, religion, and supernatural belief.
Angela Bourke argues that “the whole Irish tradition of fairies is preoccupied with boundaries, including those of the human body.”4 When fairy legend is interpreted as interrogating boundaries—of nation, ideology, and bodies—it becomes essential to an Irish model of identity formation. Contemporary readers of The Wonder would do well to view the fast as an act of “fasting against” rhetoric by Irish institutions that posits women’s bodies as a source of shame (W 190). “Irish feminist debates have taken shape and form in the context of Ireland, and cannot be separated from its laws, history and culture,” as Claire Connolly argues. She adds, “This has been most painfully experienced at the level of women’s bodies.”5 Hunger strikes are a physically devastating, yet symbolically potent, statement against patriarchal and colonial authority. Fasting has a history and a politics, particularly in Ireland; notably, Anna’s behavior appears to be a willed decision to fast and not a case of anorexia nervosa, which is a medical diagnosis.6 Withholding can be a subversive strategy suited to women, who often possess few resources for resistance.
For Maud Ellmann, an Irish woman’s hunger acts “as a form of speech . . . entangled in the rival ideologies of nation, gender, and religion.”7 Indeed, hunger in an Irish context goes beyond a state of lack; hunger, in an Irish context, also recalls traumatic periods of oppression in Irish history. These include instances of both powerless and intentional starvation, most notably the Great Famine (1845–1852), hunger strikes by Hannah Sheehy-Skeffington (1913) and republican Thomas Ashe (1917), hunger strikes during the civil war (1922–23), and the hunger strikes by Irish Republican prisoners in Northern Ireland (1980–1981). George Sweeney explains the history in Irish hunger strikes as a tactic for obtaining redress, adding that “this method of drawing attention to both one’s grievance and one’s debtor was a tactic usually [End Page 94] employed by the powerless against the powerful.”8 Inanition—exhaustion as a result of... | <urn:uuid:a51193ab-98c3-4c33-8b53-47b366967ce8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/704890 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.945135 | 947 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Software application development starts with the planning phase, which entails answering customers’ questions about the app’s core appeal. While app development costs vary, in-house developers are usually cheaper. While research suggests that app design should emphasize customer engagement, it’s important to consider budget and timeline before deciding on a developer. If your app will be released on multiple platforms, you’ll need to make sure your project is ready to be published on all of them.
App developers also need to be able to provide feedback to customers, as well as communicate with clients. It’s critical to find a team of professionals that can respond to client requirements and provide the best possible experience. While the process is time-consuming, it can be well worth the effort. An experienced developer can deliver an app that’s both functional and attractive to users. If you’re not sure who you should hire, consider the following factors.
A development team can be in any country, but if you’re short on time, an outsourcing solution may be your best bet. Using a team in a different country allows you to control the project’s timeline and costs. In the long run, this method is a better choice, but there are some downsides to it. A freelancer or offshore developer won’t have the same personal control over your project as a permanent employee.
Before hiring an app developer, you should understand the user’s context and needs. The context in which an app is used is crucial. Creating an ideal customer persona will help guide the features of your application. Once you know what the user needs, you can then design your app to suit their needs. Prototyping helps keep the cost of your project under control and helps you avoid the costly mistakes that can be made during the development stage.
A third way to determine the cost of app development is to estimate the total cost for the project. You can get a ballpark estimate from your developer by using a website. However, no blog can give you an exact figure because the number can fluctuate depending on the complexity of your project and the company you choose. You’ll have to pay the app developer when the project is complete. There are several options, but a fixed rate is usually the most predictable option.
Estimating the duration of a project is a critical step in the development process. The best way to do this is to break it up into manageable chunks. One day of work is roughly equivalent to a month or more. In this way, it’s easier to estimate the whole project in parts. This will also help the app development company get a handle on the costs. This is where the most important decisions will come in.
The cost of app development varies according to the country where you live. The United States, for example, has the highest average cost (around $120-150 per hour), while India is known for its low cost. Depending on your location, the cost of app development may differ significantly from country to country. The initial app design should be designed according to the requirements of the target market, including the number of features it must support. The costs of an app vary, depending on its complexity.
Depending on the complexity of the app, the cost of an app will vary as well. A typical team will consist of at least one-Product Owner, Scrum Master, Quality Assurance Engineer, two Android developers, and an iOS developer. A quality team will include other individuals such as designers, testers, and business analyst. Then, the team will need to decide how many mobile developers it needs, and how much each individual will cost per day.
The main purpose of an app is to provide a useful experience for the user. Aside from providing a seamless experience for users, the goal of an app should be to improve the user experience. This includes making it easy for the user to navigate and intuitive for the user. The app should be designed to fit the users’ devices and have a consistent design across all platforms. Often, the goal of an app is to enhance the user’s experience. | <urn:uuid:647080b5-1728-43a2-bba9-edd3ce729d7d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://appcookr.co.uk/software-application-development-cost/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.946711 | 845 | 1.945313 | 2 |
At the end of each year since the 2016 campaign, journalist Sharyl Atkisson updates and publishes a list of misleading or inaccurate stories published by the nation’s corporate media outlets. She recently published an updated version at the close of 2019, and it seems the Fourth Estate has been rather egregious over the past twelve months. But are these really mistakes?
For starters, we have the Covington Kids fiasco. Remember when news outlets like CNN rushed to report on the story of a group of apparently racist white kids harassing a poor, innocent Native American man in Washington D.C.? These supposed junior KKK members, sporting MAGA hats, were filmed viciously berating and mocking Nathan Phillips, a Vietnam veteran who just wanted to play his drum. In fact, Phillips told The Washington Post that the Nazis-in-Training “wouldn’t allow him to retreat.”
We know how that situation played out. The full video was released by the Black Hebrew Israelites who were actually responsible for starting the altercation in the first place. Only a few days later, the nation knew that it was Phillips who approached the kids while the Black Hebrew Israelites hurled racial and homophobic slurs at them.
Yes, there were some in the group of kids who made a mocking “tomahawk” gestures, which was not the best behavior. But overall, the children were not the aggressors in this story, nor did they react in a way that was inappropriate. Nevertheless, that did not stop the media from savaging them. Nick Sandmann became the primary target for committing the crime of standing in one place and smiling. Even worse, it was later revealed that Phillips was not a Vietnam veteran, nor did he claim to be. It appears The Washington Post put words in the man’s mouth.
Over the summer, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’ Donnell claimed that President Trump had loans with Russian co-signers. In a tweet that he later deleted, he wrote: “A source close to Deutsche Bank says Trump’s tax returns show he pays very little income tax and, more importantly, that his loans have Russian co-signers. If true, that explains every kind word Trump has ever said about Russia and Putin.”
Well, that turned out to be about as true as Jussie Smollett’s hate crime claims. The anchor was forced to apologize for the “error” and take down the tweet.
In yet another effort to take down Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the media tried to pin another allegation of sexual impropriety on him. This one failed even more miserably than it did during his confirmation hearings.
The New York Times wrote a piece discussing information provided by attorney Max Stier who claimed that Kavanaugh had acted inappropriately at a drunken dorm party. Supposedly, some friends pushed Kavanaugh’s genitals into the hand of a female student.
This claim mirrored that of Deborah Ramirez, who made similar allegations against the judge. But the story quickly fell apart. when it was revealed that the female student in question denied the story to her friends, claiming that she did not recall any such behavior on Kavanaugh’s part and she refused to be interviewed for the article.
These are only a few of the deceptive stories that the press has published this year. Atkisson refers to these as “mistakes.” I must respectfully disagree with Mrs. Atkisson in her characterization of the establishment media’s reportage. These examples on her list are not mistakes, for the most part. Sure, there are situations in which journalists make honest human errors. But when you look at the totality of these misleading reports, it’s difficult to imagine that there is no agenda present.
There are currently 109 entries on Atkisson’s list and they all have one thing in common: Each erroneous story is politically damaging to President Trump and Republicans. Every single one works in the Democrats’ favor. If these were honest blunders, wouldn’t at least some of them make Trump look good when he didn’t deserve it? Of course they would and that, as they say, is the rub.
The media has been biased for decades — it is nothing new. But when Trump was elected in 2016, the corporate press dialed it up to 11, reporting blatantly false stories about the president and his supporters, knowing that they could deceive millions of people even if they have to issue retractions later.
Look at the “fine people” hoax, for example. Despite the fact that the story has been debunked and some outlets who originally reported it have admitted their claims were false, people still believe that the president said Nazis and white nationalists were “fine people” even though he clearly stated that he was not referring to these individuals. This is how powerful the media is — they can literally get millions of Americans to believe almost anything they want just by repeating the lie over and over again.
In some ways, this has backfired because now the American public — even those who don’t like Trump — no longer trusts the press. But this hasn’t stopped them yet and it is unlikely to do so in 2020. But will it be enough to bring about losses for the GOP? That remains to be seen.
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Shakespeare's Children: Tracing The Bard's Family Tree
Considering the volume and significance of William Shakespeare's work, it's easy to overlook his status as a family man. Just like many other middle-aged men, Shakespeare had a wife and children he hoped would carry on his legacy. But these were perilous times, and between various plagues, wars, and plain old staggering infant mortality, no one was guaranteed a lasting bloodline.
Shakespeare In Love
Shakespeare was so young—just 18 years old—when he married 26-year-old Anne Hathaway in 1582 that he needed his father to approve the union. Since Hathaway was already three months pregnant, the couple also had to ask the Bishop's Court in Worcester for permission to marry quickly before the baby was born and caused more of a scandal, but the damage was already done. Some historians believe this first daughter—Susanna, baptized on May 26, 1583—wasn't Shakespeare's biological child. The name, which was taken from the Book of Daniel and associated with purity, was often given to children born "perilously close to the wrong side of marriage." | <urn:uuid:b363612e-9381-4bac-a10b-fdff7d8a9ddd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://historydaily.org/shakespeares-children-family-tree | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.989814 | 235 | 3.4375 | 3 |
Degree Granting Department
Ken Killebrew, Ph.D.
Kelly Werder, Ph.D.
Kelli Burns, Ph.D.
Communication, Women Entrepreneurs, Work-Life Balance
This phenomenological study expands from current mentoring literature within the mass communication field in understanding how mentoring can contribute to the successful careers of public relations entrepreneurial women. While many scholars indicate that mentoring is effective for women, the present study describes how mentoring has affected the women participants' public relations careers and personal lives. In-depth interviews focused on following five research questions: What have been the key contributing factors in the success of public relations women entrepreneurs? How has mentoring helped the women participants achieve their goals in a public relations career and in starting their own company? Which mentoring strategy (formal or informal) is perceived as being most effective? Do women benefit more from having a women mentor versus male? What motivating reasons attributed the public relations women participants to undertake their own business? The qualitative interview data generated six common themes which are: (1) networking, mentoring, building key relationships and a strong work ethic as being key to their success, (2) career mentoring from university faculty members and/or Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) as an integral part in the commencement of their public relations careers, (3) mentoring affirmed their self-worth, (4) informal mentoring being perceived as more beneficial due to the long lasting relationship that follows, (5) male mentors being as effective as female mentors relative to career issues, although women provide both career and psychological mentoring, and (6) mentoring, lack of employment opportunities, and a better work-life balance being the three main key contributing factors in women professionals starting their own public relations company.
Scholar Commons Citation
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Google, for example, says its human rights-centered DDoS protection service Project Shield is now in use by greater than one hundred fifty Ukrainian web sites. Its essential campaign technique is now to show the election right into a referendum on whether Hungary should head East or West, and therefore on Orban’s 12-year courtship of a Russian president now reviled as a war criminal and despot across much of Europe, if not the world. Their three kids have fond recollections of that journey, and Oksana says they are now anxious about the kids they performed with in Ukraine. 2:Fifty eight p.m.: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed the ruling Wednesday by the International Court of Justice, which requires Russia to immediately suspend its offensive in Ukraine. Chad’s former ruler Hissene Habre was the first former head of state to be convicted of crimes towards humanity by an African court. This is the first recognized communication between the two leaders because the Kremlin’s invasion, The Associated Press reported. China has but to condemn the invasion, though an official praised the Ukrainian folks on Wednesday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the information has not yet been publicly launched. In addition to offering separatists with army equipment and support, Russia waged relentless long-term data warfare.
In every of them, Israel carried out waves of airstrikes that it mentioned were aimed toward navy targets, however which additionally killed hundreds of civilians within the crowded territory that is house to 2 million Palestinians. But, in one other act by the federal government, they have prohibited Russian males between the ages of 16, and I feel 60, I might be off there by a few years, 60 or 65, from entering Ukraine, principally, army age males. After Biden used the time period on Wednesday, the White House press secretary Jen Psaki mentioned the president was “speaking from his heart” after seeing “barbaric” violence in Ukraine, relatively than making any formal declaration. Zelenskyy made the request on a call joined by more than 300 people, together with senators, some House lawmakers and aides. Local officials say greater than 2,four hundred folks have died and tens of hundreds extra are struggling to survive with out running water, power or much food. Thousands of orphaned children are unaccounted for at this moment. If we do not find a solution to rid the world of nuclear weapons – or, at the very least, of nuclear ICBMs which might be primed to hearth at the primary warning of early-detection systems that may produce false positives – our luck will finally run out.
Nazir Hussani, 34, said he thinks the West will only widen the scope of the warfare in Ukraine by sending weapons there. During a dwell phase Monday on “Vremya,” one of the vital-watched Russian africa news outlets exhibits, journalist Marina Ovsyannikova could be seen walking up behind a seated anchor and holding up a white poster with the phrases “No struggle” in English. A firefighter on the scene confirmed one person died. Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic was put on trial by a UN tribunal within the Hague for fomenting bloody conflicts as Yugoslavia crumbled in the early 1990s. He died in his cell earlier than the court may reach a verdict. Could Putin end up on trial? But if the opposition is to actually leverage such points to finally end Orban’s rule, analysts say it must elevate its sport. “We’ve been questioning where Fidesz’s loyalties lie for years,” mentioned Katalin Cseh, an MEP from Momentum, one of the six disparate events that type the united opposition. The opposition says this illustrates that the government’s economic policies are merely not sustainable. They are not taking away Russia’s capacity to bomb our peaceful cities, and annihilate women, children and the elderly,” he said, echoing Zelenskyy’s insistent demands to Western nations to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
Mr. Berezhnyi had moved his spouse to western Ukraine however had returned to Irpin to help with the evacuation organized by his church, the Irpin Bible Church, the pastor, Mykola Romaniuk, mentioned in a phone interview. Dr. Lucky Muange, who lives in Kiambu County, a number of miles north of Nairobi, said NATO and Western nations had little proper to vilify Mr. Putin when they have up to now invaded and occupied poor nations, or interfered to topple their governments. Peskov stated: “They vanish from our lives themselves. Who’s a warfare criminal? The International Criminal Court also prosecutes crimes in opposition to humanity dedicated in the context of “a widespread or systematic assault directed towards any civilian population”. Other war crimes include intentionally concentrating on civilians, using disproportionate drive, using human shields and taking hostages. “Before the conflict even started, we asked non-essential employees and students who may continue their research on-line to leave Ukraine. On Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelensky, in an tackle to Congress, proposed one such path, although it’s an extremely unlikely one: a no-fly zone over Ukraine. WWII and the US EconomyWorld War 2 was one among the reasons the great Depression ended. The rules are geared toward defending people not taking part in the combating and people who can no longer battle, together with civilians akin to docs and nurses, wounded troops and prisoners of battle. | <urn:uuid:a9170fef-1cb9-4da1-80b1-70e8970c171f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aksharpublishers.com/essentially-the-most-important-problem-in-ukraine-war-comes-down-to-this-word-that-starts-with-w/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.962765 | 1,150 | 1.539063 | 2 |
If killing is so bad, why do carnivores exist at all?
Following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.
Questioner (Q): Why in nature all living beings are not vegetarians? Why does life eat life? If killing is evil, then why do carnivores, lions, and wolves exist at all?
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After an individual is referred to us for support, they're matched with a client navigator. The client navigator reaches out to the individual and conducts an intake assessment, learning more about their vision loss, their needs, and their personal goals.
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First, the Bitcoin dominance chart shows how it has found support at the 65.5% market share level and is rebounding upwards.
Lethbridge police are warning the public to be careful after a 24-year-old man was tricked by criminals into believing he was.
The cryptocurrency is traded by individuals with cryptographic keys that act as wallets. Bitcoin was first invented in 2009 by an anonymous founder known as Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoins are moved in.
To start with, the addresses of Bitcoin users are not linked to individuals or corporate identities, and the people or groups behind them are hard to trace.
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to disclose information on how individuals get and use their money.
Erebus stands in the “man in the middle” category of attack schemes. The attack is possible due to the P2P nature of Bitcoin.
The difficulty is matching the wallet addresses to real people, this is getting easier with AML and KYC improvements. I thought bitcoin was a physical currency?
Bitcoin Misery Index Chart 9 Mar 2018. The last four times Fundstrat's framework for measuring investor sentiment, the Bitcoin Misery Index (BMI), was this low — September 2011, 12 Mar 2018. Bitcoin strategist Tom Lee has created the Bitcoin Misery Index – a guide. That being said both the RSI, the top portion of the graph below, and. 12
15/05/2018 · Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency everyone is talking about, has seen spectacular price rises in recent months, with huge numbers of people keen to make a quick buck off the back of its soaring value.
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At many of the museums on the New Hampshire Heritage Museum Trail, which stretches across the central and eastern part of the Granite State, the holidays represent their busiest and most fun time.
“They will have a treat for each child, and all are welcome to stay for holiday treats in our classroom following their visit,” said Executive Director Jessica Pappathan. “Museum members and children under 12 receive free admission.”
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In addition to a special appearance by Santa from 10:30 a.m. to 12 noon, younger guests may enjoy storytelling and holiday crafts while people of all ages will appreciate the raffles, games, cookies and cider. Admission is free to the museum for this event.
Guests can also shop for the holidays in the Museum Shop, which features historical books, locally made products, and unique collectible brass ornaments, including the new “Amoskeag Millyard” ornament.
Members of the Manchester Historic Association receive an extra 10% discount at the Museum Shop on this day only (at least 20% off all shop items). For more information, visit, www.manchesterhistoric.org.
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Today is the Christian holiday called “Good Friday.” It’s a celebration of and remembrance of the crucifixion of Christ.
The name of the holiday causes confusion for some. On the surface, it is easy to ask: What’s so good about a crucifixion?
The Jews and Romans certainly didn’t intend for it to be good. Crucifixion was designed by the Romans to be as shameful and painful as possible. Jesus of Nazareth was crucified by the Romans as an enemy of the state.
Jesus was handed over to be crucified by His own people. They accused Him of being a blasphemer. They wanted Him to die a shameful death under the curse of God.
On the surface, there seems to be nothing worthy of celebration or remembrance. Nothing good. That’s why we need to look beneath the surface.
The importance and glory of the crucifixion goes deeper than what we may initially see. While it’s true that the Jews handed Jesus over to the Romans to be executed, we cannot miss that Jesus willingly gave His life. He came for this purpose.
Early in Jesus’ ministry He told His disciples that this was going to happen. They just didn’t really believe it. It seemed contrary to their own plans for Christ’s ministry.
From that time Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised up on the third day. Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, “God forbid it, Lord! This shall never happen to You.” But He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; for you are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but man’s.” (Matthew 16:21-23)
Sometimes, it seems, they thought He was speaking in parables or allegory. They didn’t take His direct statements at face value.
As they were coming down from the mountain, He gave them orders not to relate to anyone what they had seen, until the Son of Man rose from the dead. They seized upon that statement, discussing with one another what rising from the dead meant. (Mark 9:9-10)
Of course, rising from the dead meant rising from the dead. In order to rise, Christ first must be put to death.
This was all to fulfill the Scriptures.
A thousand years before the birth of Jesus, David prophesied in the psalms regarding the crucifixion.
For dogs have surrounded me;
A band of evildoers has encompassed me;
They pierced my hands and my feet.
I can count all my bones.
They look, they stare at me;
They divide my garments among them,
And for my clothing they cast lots. (Psalm 22:16-18)
Jesus quoted the first verse of this psalm while hanging on the cross. He was teaching them to look deeper. Look beyond the surface scandal and see the deeper and glorious truth that He was fulfilling Scripture before their eyes.
The prophet Isaiah likewise prophesied about the crucifixion more than 700 years before the birth of Christ.
But He was pierced through for our transgressions,
He was crushed for our iniquities;
The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him,
And by His scourging we are healed. (Isaiah 53:5)
The teaching of Scripture is that God became a Man to live a sinless and perfectly righteous life, and then to lay down His life as a sacrifice for His people, bearing their sins in His flesh. On the cross, Jesus was fulfilling this promise.
As Jesus hung on the cross, He was not bearing the wrath of the Romans and the Jews. He was bearing the wrath of God.
According to the law, everyone who is hung on a tree (as Jesus was in the crucifixion) is accursed by God (Deuteronomy 21:23).
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us– for it is written, “CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO HANGS ON A TREE “– in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. (Galatians 3:13-14)
Jesus stood in the gap for His people because only He could. Only He could endure. Listen to the description of God’s furious power and wrath from the prophet Nahum:
Mountains quake because of Him
And the hills dissolve;
Indeed the earth is upheaved by His presence,
The world and all the inhabitants in it.
Who can stand before His indignation?
Who can endure the burning of His anger?
His wrath is poured out like fire
And the rocks are broken up by Him. (Nahum 1:5-6)
Glorious. Terrifying. Awe-inspiring. Powerful.
Now look below the surface. While no one would try to stand before the indignation of God nor try to endure the burning of His anger, this is exactly what Jesus was doing. He was doing it for His people and for our salvation.
Pay close attention to what happened when Jesus gave up His spirit when His work on the cross was finished.
And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit. And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth shook and the rocks were split. (Matthew 27:50-51)
As the wrath of God was dissipating it caused the earth to shake. The rocks were split. Jesus was enduring God’s fierce wrath and indignation for the entire time He hung on the cross. As soon as He gave up His spirit and breathed His last the remnants of God’s wrath cause the earth to tremble.
Jesus came to suffer and die under the curse of God. He came to bear the sins of His people in His flesh. He came to die and rise again so that salvation could be preached to all nations in His glorious name.
On the surface, the crucifixion was shameful and scandalous. But underneath we see the glory of a promise-keeping Savior.
Christ endured the wrath of God on the cross so we wouldn’t have to. The gift of salvation is freely available to all who will turn to Him and believe.
Now, that’s good news.
“He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.” (John 3:36)
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This painting is part of Benjamin's new Defenders of Freedom Series, it represents the progression of the US Navy ships, submarines and airplanes through time while protecting our waters worldwide. The center features the USS George H.W. Bush CVN 77 Aircraft Carrier. Top left is the USS Constitution, the world’s oldest commissioned warship still afloat. Among the WW2 aircraft are the TBD Devastator flown by Texas Aggie, Ensign George Gay of Torpedo Squadron 8 and the TBM Avenger of President George H.W. Bush. Bottom left is the Battleship Texas which served during both World Wars.
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This section of the Blue Knot Professional Community website offers an array of resources to support your work. These resources are for practitioners working privately as well as personnel within organisations providing trauma-informed programs and trauma specific services.
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Dana ED, Verloove F, Alves P, Heiden G (2021) Senecio brasiliensis (Spreng.) Less. (Asteraceae), another potentially invasive alien species in Europe. BioInvasions Records 10(3), 521–536. 536, https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2021.10.3.02
Senecio brasiliensis (Spreng.) Less., native to South America (Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia and Argentina), is reported for the first time as a naturalized alien species from Europe (near Porto; Portugal). The species’ taxonomy and nomenclature were analysed based on literature data. Its ecology, habitat, biology and possible vector of introduction are discussed. As a necessary step towards a risk assessment, the suitability of European climates for the species’ settlement was analysed. Fourteen countries with suitable climatic conditions appeared in all our models: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Montenegro, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and the United Kingdom (England). Given the ecological characteristics of the species and the climatic features of the areas analysed, it is concluded that S. brasiliensis exhibits a great potential to become an invasive alien in Europe
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Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and payments company Square, has just announced through his official account on the social network, where he has 5.2 million followers, that he is running his own Bitcoin node.
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In a post published today at 8:15 a.m., the Twitter CEO has shared a screenshot in which it can be seen that he is running a BTC node as well as the text "Running #bitcoin."
It must be noted the two words chosen by Dorsey refer to the famous two words shared by Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney, who died of ALS in 2014. He tweeted the two words "Running bitcoin" on January 11, 2009, just eight days after the genesis block of the crypto was mined and the currency's blockchain went live.
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(MENAFN- Gulf Times)
Hundreds of people gathered at a beach in Thailand on Wednesday to release 1,066 turtles into the sea as part of celebrations to mark the birthday of new King Maha Vajiralongkorn this week.
King Vajiralongkorn's July 28 birthday was announced by the military government as a public holiday this year.
Celebrations were expected to include merit-making ceremonies at Buddhist temples across Thailand and a mass alms-giving event for more than 600 Buddhist monks at a public square in the capital, Bangkok, on Friday.
At the Sea Turtle Conservation Centre in Chonburi, around 75 km southeast of Bangkok, men and women from the Royal Thai Navy, students and Thai celebrities released the 1,066 turtles into the sea.
The number 1,066 was chosen to symbolise the number 10 for King Rama X, as King Vajiralongkorn is known, and the number 66, one more than his age, to wish the king longevity.
"The main event today is the release of the turtles, which also symbolises longevity," said Athichanan Srisevok, a Thai actress and nature advocate.
"I want to wish long live His Majesty and for him to be healthy."
Some attendees waved white flags bearing the words "Long Live the King".
Thai Buddhists believe that releasing captive animals is one way of gaining good karma.
The turtles released on Wednesday were raised from eggs collected by the navy from nearby Koh Kram island. Some of those released were as young as a week old.
Vajiralongkorn inherited the throne in December following the death of his revered father, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, in October.
The late king's reign spanned seven decades and was punctuated by political turbulence.
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It will consist of things such as both the insurable value and liquidation value of home. Sometimes the loan company or large financial company will order an appraisal that is commercial opposed to the debtor. Area of the assessment process must come with a commitment that is conditional or term sheet signed by the financial institution. That is a good faith page showing that the debtor has met the pre-approval requirements for loan approval. With both a commercial loan and a house home mortgage, the assessment is an essential part regarding the approval procedure. The essential difference between the 2 is the fact that a commercial loan assessment may take as much as 30 times more than a mortgage appraisal that is traditional.
Another distinction between a old-fashioned home loan and a commercial home loan is the fact that there might be one or more celebration in the loan. For a house home loan, it really is frequently a person or a couple that is married submit an application for the loan. There is investors or any other events which use both of their credit to try to get financing but generally speaking it really is just a person or two different people. For a commercial loan, a few investors might have used and can have to fulfill requirements prior to closing. This is tricky unless every person has credit that is spotless no underlying causes for loan rejection.
Balloon Payments and Dangers
Possibly element of your commercial loan package includes a balloon re re payment. A balloon re re payment takes place when the loan provider chooses that they desire a swelling sum of cash at some program throughout the full life of the mortgage. These stipulations are often set in place ahead of the last regards to the mortgage being presented to your debtor before signing. Having a balloon re payment, this means that you’ll need certainly to spend a swelling amount of money at specified times through the full life of the mortgage or at the conclusion associated with the loan. The word “balloon” was handed its name due to the installment loans ga blown-up or wide range of money that arises within that loan contract. These terms differ per loan provider consequently they are frequently seen once you execute a land agreement or look for an exclusive, alternate loan that is commercial.
How it operates is the fact that the loan is amortized or disseminate more than a long time period. Having a balloon repayment, the repayments are usually interest-only or low-interest when it comes to very first three, five or a decade. A balloon payment is required to pay off the entire amount of the loan at the end of a specific time frame or date. What this means is you will have three choices:
- Repay the loan that is entire in cash.
- Refinance the cash and loan out of the stability.
- Offer the house and spend the balloon payment off.
You will need certainly to determine if there are specific stipulations regarding the loan. In a few loan terms you are able to spend the balance off of the mortgage minus the balloon payment in the event that balloon is not due over the following few re payments.
While a balloon repayment will allow you to get the company began with initial reduced loan terms, the repayment may also get back to bite you, in the future. Often a balloon re re payment can also be known as a bullet re re payment. This occurs each time a big amount of the financial obligation unexpectedly becomes due, putting an encumbrance in the company additionally the borrower. This is economically crippling and perhaps does not sound right in the event that funds aren’t easily available to cover off the terms of the mortgage. In the event your company is not stable or was experiencing economic setbacks, a balloon re payment can lead to a downward crumble of maybe perhaps not having the ability to spend the loan back and also other company and private costs.
Failure to cover a balloon payment off can result in the mortgage accelerating and becoming due and payable instantly. The bank will try to collect on the loan and expect all outstanding payments to be due, otherwise foreclosure could take place in some cases.
In the event that you abruptly end up not able to meet up with the regards to that loan contract, in specific the next balloon repayment, first thing you ought to do is speak to your loan provider. Your loan provider might be able to talk about loan or repayment restructure options with you. You may qualify for refinancing to be able to eradicate the balloon re re payment and obtain into financing agreement that is affordable when it comes to long haul.
While a balloon re payment choice loan might appear appealing now, give consideration to if for example the business has growth that is enough potential optional capital to satisfy those bulk payments when they arrive.
It is critical to keep in mind that there might be some concealed expenses with a commercial loan. You will need to get attorney go over any property or loan documentations just before consent to signal them. Concealed costs may well not appear immediately or perhaps listed in a list area regarding the loan documents. They are able to arise under specific terms such as for instance these:
- Appropriate charges- Appropriate costs might be in the shape of exactly what your lawyer or perhaps the seller’s lawyer may submit an application for different solutions associated with the examination and closing for the loan and estate transaction that is real. In many instances, your lawyer shall explain just just exactly what these costs are ahead of accepting their services. If issues arise ahead of the loan closes, there could be fees that are additional could add lawyer costs, research fees, name search and any court filings if applicable.
- Appraisal Charges- The assessment is definitely an essential component associated with whole commercial loan procedure. A commercial real-estate assessment can price a few 1000s of dollars while there is so much input this is certainly necessary for a appropriate analysis. Based on how big the home is and exactly how which kind of home will be obtained at closing, the assessment can very quickly accumulate a few hundred bucks of concealed or costs that are unforeseen.
- Application charges- the applying costs for a loan that is commercial frequently pre-set generally there shouldn’t be any shocks at closing. If you can find any modifications towards the loan or a extra party has been put into the mortgage paperwork, charges could possibly be added ahead of the account could be approved and shut on.
- Survey Charges- Most generally speaking a study associated with home will need to be done. This is accomplished individually through the assessment. A study includes industry staking of utilities, building offsets, parking lots, curbs, gutters and driveways. A topographic survey and boundary study should be presented towards the loan provider and filed accordingly. Dependent on in the event that loan is actually for brand new construction or current construction, costs can arise as inspections continue steadily to occur.
- Adjustable price Loans- if the commercial loan package is component of a adjustable price, there might be some hidden costs included. Adjustable price implies that your rate of interest shall fluctuate once the rate of interest modifications. Which means the re re payments on your own loans in the long run could increase or decrease. There are often particular charges included if this change takes place—be sure to inquire of your lender about these concealed fees if the loan comes with an adjustable price.
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Photo of the Virunga Mountains in Rwanda photo by Kristen Allen
I dreamed about Rwanda again last night.
I was walking down a red clay road. School children in matching uniforms were running and laughing in a group ahead of me. The air smelled of eucalyptus and smoke. The diminutive Sister Donatella was holding my arm, grinning from ear to ear. In her French roast coffee accent, she is telling me about unshakeable faith. Her joie de vivre should be a contradiction. She, herself, has survived unspeakable horrors, with amazing courage, and a tenacity for her country that usually brings to mind decorated war heroes. Yet, here she is encouraging me as we walk through Kigali…
Road in Kigali, Rwanda photo by Matt Brennan
When I was a little girl, I saw a National Geographic special about Dian Fossey. Like every kid my age, I was fascinated by her work with apes. That her death was a mystery made Fossey even more compelling to me. Add the gorgeous Nat Geo footage of central Africa in what is now Rwanda and I was hooked. It was a childhood dream to travel to the Virunga Mountains to meet the “gorillas in the mist” myself.
And then it happened.
Through a series of incredible events, I was able to chaperone two student trips to the Land of a Thousand Hills in 2012 and 2013. As anyone who has ever experienced a culture and geography so different from their own will tell you, those months in Rwanda changed me in very real, very powerful ways. It was more than my broadened worldview, though. In my very core, I am changed.
I still dream about Rwanda often, waking up homesick for the place and its people.
Over the years, I have read dozens of history and ethnographic studies of Rwanda—about Dian Fossey and the apes, yes, but also the nation’s colonization, the ongoing redistribution of borders, the genocide of 1994, the rebuilding of the nation since. It makes for both sobering and inspiring reading.
It is the music, dance, design, and poetry of the nation that has most deeply moved me, though. By my second trip to Rwanda, I had come to know enough about the people I had met (enough to not generalize the entire population of the nation) to start to be able to see the world through their eyes, and not my American eyes.
Their art has been key to helping me do that.
There is a fluidity to Rwandan traditional dance and pop music that also shows up in their poetry. At first, I thought it was a sharp contrast to the tenacity of the people who continue to farm on steep mountain slopes; the persistence of a people rebuilding their families, communities, and nation post-genocide.
I thought their art would be somehow sharper, rockier. Now I see how Rwandan art moves the way flowing water over time will shape landscapes, smooth stones, carve canyons. Sometimes it’s just a trickle. Sometimes it’s whitewater. On it flows, though, shaping a nation.
Mountain Stream in Butare, Rwanda photo by Kristen Allen
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New Jersey law has created a unique regulatory status for any entity contracting with a health insurance carrier or other type of health plan for the provision of health care services, but which is not itself a licensed provider such as a hospital or physician group or an actual insurer or plan. Such entities, broadly referred to as Organized Delivery Systems (ODSs), are subject to regulation by the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI). An entity which bears financial risk for the provision of services to health plan members is required to be licensed as an ODS, while one which otherwise meets the definition but does not bear risk can seek an exemption from licensure and instead secure "certified" ODS status. Licensed ODSs are highly regulated because they function, in some ways, similarly to insurers, in that they bear financial risk and present similar solvency concerns. | <urn:uuid:59d2860b-2b3f-4c85-b742-2464d719fa51> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bressler.com/publication-staying-ahead-of-njs-organized-delivery-systems | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.954428 | 193 | 1.5 | 2 |
One key component of managing your Atlassian products is managing their upgrades. Upgrades can present a daunting and significant time investment for many companies, generally involving apps, custom-developed plugins, and integrations, with a large number of users dependent on their success.
You know what upgrades are and that they're important. So why am I talking to you about them? Imagine the scenario, you're busy, you haven't had a chance to check in on the latest Atlassian security vulnerabilities and the emails you've received about them have been missed. You have also had higher priority work eating up team time, which has prevented the planning and execution of your Atlassian upgrades. One day, your instance comes under attack through one of the vulnerabilities exposed in the CVE. Your data is potentially exposed. An urgent, large, expensive, complex effort ensues in order to secure the instance; after 3 days, 2 full sweeps of the instance and multiple upgrades, the vulnerabilities are mitigated and your instance is safe.
Are you confident in when your applications are due an upgrade? Let's review a few common reasons why an upgrade may be recommended:
End of Life Policy
Once Atlassian has released a major feature version, it, and all iterations related to that major version, are supported for two years. After that, the versions are considered End of Life, and you will no longer receive support from Atlassian for any issues which arise. It is when reaching this point, that many people start considering upgrading their instances.
Every Wednesday, Atlassian releases any new security vulnerabilities which have been identified for their server/data center products. These vulnerabilities include a security level, which is based on an Atlassian-calculated CVSS score for each vulnerability.
Severity Rating System followed by Atlassian:
Although there may be opportunities to mitigate security vulnerabilities in your current version, it is recommended to patch or upgrade immediately when a Critical vulnerability is identified. Vulnerabilities with a critical score generally result in root-level compromise or servers or infrastructure devices, or are straightforward to exploit.
Current security advisories can be found here:
Did you know that there is a new feature release for Jira Software every 6 weeks alone? Atlassian encourage users to submit bugs and feature requests at jira.atlassian.com. This public forum allows users to vote for and comment on submitted issues, and the Atlassian team utilize this and other feedback as a factor in their decision for what to implement next. Platform releases contain the most significant changes, while Feature releases contain new features, changes to features, changes to supported platforms and removal of features. Feature releases can be designated as Enterprise releases, which, generally designated annually, are preferred for companies who need time to prepare for upgrades, but still want to receive critical bug fixes.
Compatibility with other Server Components
From time to time, Atlassian add and deprecate support for other server component platforms which work alongside your Atlassian application. For example, did you know that in Jira Software 8.6 and Jira Service Desk 4.6, support was added for PostgreSQL 10 and deprecated for Internet Explorer 11, whereas in Jira Software 8.8 and Jira Service Desk 4.8, support was deprecated for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and PostgreSQL 9.4 & 9.5. To ensure optimal operation of your Atlassian instances, it's just as important to upgrade components of your server architecture, as well as your instances themselves.
If you are one of the many teams who utilize plugins within their Atlassian applications, plugin compatibility and support is another area to be aware of when considering upgrades. Has support been deprecated for the plugin with the Atlassian version you're running? Is the plugin still supported when you upgrade to your target version? Atlassian have developed the Universal Plugin Manager, available in both Jira and Confluence, to enable you to screen for any compatibility problems prior to starting your upgrade. There are 4 categories for Compatibility which plugins can fall into - Incompatible (the plugin is not compatible with the target version), Compatible, Compatible if updated (the plugin is not currently compatible, but will be once running the compatible version), and Compatible once both are updated (the new version of the plugin isn't compatible with your current instance version - you need to upgrade your instance prior to updating the plugin).
Unable to Skip a Platform Release
When considering which version you'd like to upgrade to, it's important to consider your current version and your target version. When upgrading, it is not possible to skip a platform release - therefore, for example, when considering a Jira Software upgrade, it is not possible to jump from a 6.X release to the 8.X release and skip the 7.X release, you would need to take an intermediate step to upgrade to a 7.X version. Due to the functionality changes being much greater between platform releases which are not adjacently sequenced, there are more edge cases, and thus, greater risk, when navigating an upgrade spanning multi platform releases.
For assistance with upgrading your applications, partner with Praecipio Consulting's Managed Services team! Our team, fully dedicated to the Atlassian stack, offer peace of mind through managing, supporting, and maintaining your Atlassian tools, enabling you to maximize the benefits of your Atlassian applications while allowing your team to focus on their core roles. Working with our Managed Services team offers tribal knowledge and best practice from over 10 years working in the tools, allowing us to enable your Atlassian stack is optimized and operating at peak performance.
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- 1 Do Duallys need mud flaps?
- 2 How do you install truck mud flaps?
- 3 What size are semi mud flaps?
- 4 Do I need mud flaps on my truck?
- 5 How far off the ground should Mud Flaps be?
- 6 Are mud flaps hard to install?
- 7 Is a missing mudflap a dot violation?
- 8 What states require mudflaps?
- 9 How much is a Mudflap?
Do Duallys need mud flaps?
The Texas state requirements for mud flaps as of 6/10/16 are as follows: “Safety guards or flaps are required on all trucks, light trucks, trailers, or semi-trailers (in combination with a towing vehicle), if the rearmost axle of the vehicle (or combination) has four tires or more.
How do you install truck mud flaps?
How to Install Mud Flaps
- Step 1: Clean the wheel area. Clean the area where the mud flaps will be installed.
- Step 2: Create space between the tire and wheel well.
- Step 3: Check for placement.
- Step 4: Locate the holes.
- Step 5: Put flaps into place.
- Step 6: Tighten the screws.
- Step 7: Install any extras.
- Step 1: Clean the wheel area.
What size are semi mud flaps?
PAIR Semi Truck Tractor Mud Flaps 30″ x 23.5″ Heavy Duty Rubber Universal.
Do I need mud flaps on my truck?
Whether you have a car, SUV or truck, getting a mud flaps for your vehicle is a must. This automotive accessory helps prevent dirt and grime to reach sensitive parts of the vehicle specially the under carriage which is prone to rust and corrosion. Mud flaps are also called as mud guards or splash guards.
How far off the ground should Mud Flaps be?
To comply everywhere, most carriers go with a standard of around no more than 6 inches from the ground, but definitely no more than 8 inches from the ground (depending on where the fleet operates).
Are mud flaps hard to install?
This article has been viewed 42,917 times. Adding mud flaps to your car, truck, SUV or CUV can be easy with no drill mud flaps. It means installation without having to drill new holes into your vehicle.
Is a missing mudflap a dot violation?
If it is a “serious” problem the trooper wouldnt have let you move it out of state but to the nearest “safe haven” where you woulda waited for roadside to fix it. But a mudflap is NOT an oos violation unless you sass back to the trooper.
What states require mudflaps?
You want to know if any states require cars to have mud flaps.
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|California||Fenders and flaps||Cal. Vehicle Code § 276.00|
|Connecticut||Fenders||CGS §. 14-103d.|
|Idaho||Fenders, which may include flaps||Idaho Code § 49-949|
How much is a Mudflap?
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Monday.com has recently disclosed the impact of the Codecov supply-chain attack that affected multiple companies. Monday.com is an online workflow management platform used by project managers, sales and CRM professionals, marketing teams, and various other organizational departments. The platform’s clients include prominent businesses like Uber, BBC Studios, Adobe, Universal, Hulu, L’Oreal, Coca-Cola, and Unilever. It was reported last month that the code coverage tool Codecov, has been a victim of a supply-chain attack that lasted for approximately two months. During that period, the attackers modified the legitimate Codecov Bash Uploader tool to steal environment variables (containing sensitive information such as keys, tokens, and credentials) from Codecov customers’ CI/CD environments. Using the stolen credentials, the Codecov attackers reportedly breached hundreds of customer networks. Codecov customer Monday.com has recently announced that it was impacted by the Codecov supply-chain attack. After their investigation into the Codecov breach, Monday.com found that unauthorized actors had gained access to a read-only copy of their source code.
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This is an IFS 2015 liveblog which means everything was written at-the-moment.
IFS welcomed Mr Wikipedia for what most everyone would consider the week’s main event.
Jimmy Wales, who founded the internet encyclopaedia, said he was here to frighten the crowd with news just how fast everything is changing, and then show how you capitalize on the pace of said change.
He used the example of the US interstate highways, which turned a 62 day cross country trip into one that can be done in three or four days. But it wasn’t a travel disruption he wanted to talk about, it was a restaurant disruption.
The McDonald’s boom came as the US built its road infrastructure, a sort of cause-and-effect. This, Wales said, is a second-order disruption. And it’s this sort of thing that the smartphone is triggering all over the place.
— Plant Services (@PlantServices) May 6, 2015
Wales clearly got this year’s IFS memo: Talk about Uber.
The internet entrepreneur observed that one second-order disruption caused by a development in the telecommunications industry (the smartphone) was the taxi revolution.
But what’s next? Wales posited that the arrival of driverless cars (‘in 10 years time max’) will be something Uber will be rubbing their hands at – an opportunity to cut costs (and jobs).
But what about the second-order impact? Here Wales (and his brother’s whose brainchild this is) showed his silly side. He said perhaps driverless cars will disrupt pizza delivery, with car-based robot pizza makers speeding up the process.
Uber, driverless car, … Robot pizza cooker and delivery!! Examples of internet based disruption #ifswoco15
— Roberta Bigliani (@rbigliani) May 6, 2015
Uber’s superfast rise was achieved, like Wikipedia, with little to no ad budget. It was based on word-of-mouth, seizing on the volume offered by social media endorsements.
Word of Mouth – “stronger today than ever before” – is one of three things that Wales highlighted in his talk as pivotal to the new internet economy.
And finally Long Tail, which basically refers to specificity. He points to Amazon, which reports that 20-35% of their book sales is of books that aren’t carried by traditional retailers.
“Disruption will either blow you away or give you the best opportunity you’ve ever had”
At the point, Wales offered some tidbits about his Wikipedia experience. The community, he told us, is 87% male with an average age of 26. The available information indicates that most Wikipedia contributors are computer geeks, who are predominantly male.
To further grow this community, Wikipedia is investing in a new editing suite with less Wikicode which appears less intimidating to computing newbies (and women).
But this analysis of Wikipedia led Wales to the ultimate disruptor: the internet.
Countries in the developing world, particularly in Africa are rapidly increasing their connectivity. Nigeria, the continent’s most populated country, has seen its interneted people increase from 0.1% in 2001 to more than 11% in 2011.
Add to that the availability of smartphones with specs equivalent to the original iPhone for costs as low as $31 has the potential to create an enormous new market, and greatly improve the standards of living.
Wikipedia is already making inroads in Africa, with its Wikipedia Zero initiative offering free access to the site via phone contracts. What all this can kick off is anyone’s guess.
Finally, if you have an iPhone or other iOS mobile device, you can view a short Periscope video recording on your device of part of Jimmy Wales’s keynote talk:
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Tuberculosis in the TB endemic countries commonly manifests in the eye as tuberculous uveitis. There is a wide spectrum of the clinical manifestations of intraocular tuberculosis (IOTB). For want of any gold standard diagnostic tests or diagnostic criteria, the estimates of IOTB prevalence have varied greatly. None of the previously suggested guidelines for diagnosis of IOTB have been validated. We give definitions of clinical signs and diagnostic tests that have been used in the literature. Based on these, we propose a classification of IOTB comprising "confirmed IOTB," "probable IOTB," and "possible IOTB." This of necessity needs consensus among experts before carrying out studies to validate this classification.
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Every summer, on the Second Saturday of June, The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) presents their jubilant annual Ratha Yatra (Festival of the Chariots) Parade down Fifth Avenue. The procession of colorful chariots begins promptly at 12:00 PM from the corner of 45th Street and 5th Avenue and proceeds down Fifth Avenue, to Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village.
The festival of Ratha Yatra has been celebrated since ancient times, as one of the most important yearly events in the Vaishnava-Hindu faith. Vaishnavism, the worship of Lord Krishna, is one of the principal branches of the broad Hindu tradition. Vaishnavas are monotheists and believe Lord Krishna to be the same God worshiped by Christians, Jews and Muslims.
In Jagannath Puri, the deity worshiped in the main temple is an image of Lord Krishna, and is called Jagannath (which means “Lord of the Universe”). He is worshiped along with his brother, Balarama, and sister, Subhadra, in the main shrine. Every summer, at the beginning of the monsoon season, the three (3) deities are taken out of the temple amidst great fanfare and are placed on bright and colorful chariots. Almost a million worshipers throng the city and pull the chariots with love and devotion, accompanied by joyful music, religious chants, and dancing.
In 1976 A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the founder of the worldwide Hare Krishna Movement inaugurated the New York City version of this ancient Indian parade. Since then, it has been celebrated annually and has become a New York summer tradition. This festival blends the splendor of a millennia-old celebration with the excitement of a parade down New York’s world-famous Fifth Avenue.
Aug 06, 2022
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“Radboud University Fully Funded Scholarship to Study in the Netherlands” Don’t forget to share this read-worthy article with your friends, and follow Tarek Floyd official accounts on social media 😍
Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, Dutch: Radboud Universiteit, formerly Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen) is a public research university located in Nijmegen, Netherlands. The university bears the name of Saint Radboud, a 9th century Dutch bishop who was known for his intellect and support of the underprivileged.
Established in 1923, Radboud University has consistently been included in the top 150 of universities in the world by four major university ranking tables. As of 2020, it ranks 105th in the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities.
Internationally, RU is known for its strong research output. In 2020, 391 PhD degrees were awarded, and 8.396 scientific articles were published. To bolster the international exchange of academic knowledge, Radboud University joined the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities in 2016.
Among its alumni Radboud University counts 12 Spinoza Prize laureates and 1 Nobel Prize laureate, Sir Konstantin Novoselov, the discoverer of graphene. Other notable alumni include former Prime Minister of the Netherlands Dries van Agt, former chairman of Unilever Marijn Emmanuel Dekkers, influential priest and theologian Henri Nouwen, and First Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans. Former students have also won 3 Olympic medals since 2000 (all in rowing).
Nationalities eligible to apply:
This Scholarship is available for international students from all over the world.
Radboud University Fully Funded Scholarship to Study in the Netherlands:
The Radboud Scholarship Program is a very selective scholarship program. It offers talented, highly motivated, non-EEA students with outstanding study results the opportunity to be awarded a scholarship for a complete English-taught Radboud University Master’s degree program.
Eligibility Criteria and Qualifications:
To be eligible for Radboud University Fully Funded Scholarship to Study in the Netherlands:
- hold a non-EU/EEA passport.
- are not eligible for the lower EEA tuition fee for other reasons.
- have (will obtain) a Bachelor’s degree achieved outside the Netherlands, have no degrees achieved in the Netherlands and did not receive any previous education in the Netherlands (exchange programs excluded, provided that they are part of the bachelor degree achieved outside the Netherlands).
- meet the English language proficiency requirement for the Master’s program of your choice.
- have been fully admitted to the English-taught Master’s degree program starting 1 September 2022 as stated in the formal letter of admission.
- are able to comply with the conditions for obtaining a visa for the Netherlands.
- are enrolled at Radboud University as a full-time student for the academic year and Master’s degree program for which the scholarship will be awarded.
Benefits of Radboud University Fully Funded Scholarship to Study in the Netherlands:
Each year, a number of partial scholarships are awarded within the Radboud Scholarship Program for the duration of one of the English taught Master’s degree programs (with the exception of Erasmus Mundus Master’s programs and joint-degree Master’s programs).
A Radboud Scholarship will reduce your tuition fee to € 2,209,- For example: a grant holder in 2022/2023 will pay a tuition fee of only €2,209,- instead of €16,000.
For 2022/2023, a maximum of 37 Radboud Scholarships are available: Faculty of Arts (2), Faculty of Law (14), Faculty of Medical Sciences (7), Nijmegen School of Management (3), Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies (1), Faculty of Science (8), Faculty of Social Sciences (2).
The scholarship also covers costs for visa, residence permit, health insurance and liability insurance for your stay in the Netherlands (Aon Student Insurance). The costs of living and studying in The Netherlands are not covered. An indication for these costs of living and studying can be found on our website(verwijst naar een andere website).
In case you are selected as a scholarship recipient and you are admitted to a two-year Master’s program: to qualify for the grant again for the second year, you need to have passed all courses in the first year.
Available Programs in Radboud University Fully Funded Scholarship to Study in the Netherlands:
- Behavioural and Social Sciences
- Business and Economics
- Geography, Planning and Environment
- Language and Communication
- Medical Sciences
- Political Science
- Philosophy, Theology and Religion
all programs here
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- Academic certificates.
- Recommendation Letters.
- Motivation letter.
- English language proficiency certificate such as IELTS or TOEFL.
- Personal statement.
How to apply?
You can apply by indicating during your application for admission for a Master’s program in the OSIRIS Application system that you wish to apply for a Radboud Scholarship. You will then be requested to upload three additional documents: two reference letters and a curriculum vitae. If you already uploaded these documents for the Master’s program application, you can upload the same documents again for your scholarship application.
The selection for the scholarship and the admission to the Master’s program are two separate processes: admission to the Master’s program does not imply selection for the
Important dates and deadline:
Applying for Radboud University Fully Funded Scholarship to Study in the Netherlands ends on 28 February 2022.
- Writing and preparing academic topics
- Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- letter of intent
- Research proposals
- Personal Statement
- Recommendation letter
in addition to full application for scholarships and university admissions).
You can share your questions with us in the comment section below or on the Facebook group.
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It is possible to download the results in an Excel table report, based on date and/or a created filter. You can also apply weight or select filters based on answers, variables, date or panel variables (Community).
- Go in the menu to "Download centre" and "Tables".
- Optional: select a question or data enrichment on which you want to weight your data and fill in the desired ratio. This ratio will be applied on the results and will deliver the tables with the weighted data.
- Optional: select a time period in the "From" and "To" field.
- Optional: select the filters you wish to apply.
- Click on "Download".
What is weight?
Via the functionality 'weight' you can correct deviations in the netto sample, so that it resembles the actual population. Instead of having every respondent count equally, adding weighting will add a specific value to respondents. For example, the under represented groups will receive a larger voice and the over represented group a smaller one. The advantage is that the complete result is more representative of the population. The disadvantage however is that the reliability decreases, especially if a small group is weighted heavily.
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ECECT’s was founded based on the combined experience of its founder and associates in promoting STEM education while realising that the gap between the academia and the Industry was incrasing year by year. ECECT’s collaborates with organisations and persions that have established the robotic communities in Cyprus and actively promoting and introducing STEM (STEAM) education to the community. These inlude organinsing the largest robotics competitions in Cyprus, supporting European RObotics week, Codeweek and mumerous other events such as hackathons. These initiatives proved to be beneficial not only to the instructors and the students but also had a positive impact to the economy.
Youth Academy (Ages<18)
ECECT aims to take over this function and continue what Mr. Georgiou has started at a more professional level. ECECT aims to disseminate STEM more to young children and promote robotic lessons and the skills and competencies that come with them to primary schools. More competitions and promotional events are going to be planned by ECECT in the near future. It is very important for children to be taught about the emerging technologies of the 21st century and the 4th industrial revolution.
Young Adults Academy
This sector of ECECT Academy aims to assist and mentor university students on STEM and entrepreneurship topics. ECECT is also going to have special internship programme for STEM students to help them get technical experience on their respected study and further guide them on how to develop their career. Young adults lack the proper mentoring and guidelines on how to persuade a career in the STEM sector. Through workshops, and promotional presentations, ECECT is going to help university students to understand the importance of persuading a STEM career.
ECECT also aims to collaborate with local and European universities in various projects that are going to involve students.
ECECT ACADEMY (PROFESSIONALS)
ECECT ACADEMY for professionals is the main sector of the ECECT ACADEMY. The aim is to create a pan European network of experts and academics who are going to create a community of ambassadors, who’s goals is to provide professionals with specialise training courses on demand to develop their competencies and skills.
Also, the professional academy aims to retrain professionals and develop new skills on new technologies that have emerge in their respected sector, in the situation that they have been absent from education/training for a long period of time. ECECT professional ACADEMY aims to promote lifelong learning as it is essential in the 21st century and the 4th Industrial Revolution.
ECECT ACADEMY understands the needs of the modern labour market and why specialisation, modernisation and professionalism are important in today’s workplace and the company is able to provide anyone with the knowledge and guidance they seek to develop as professionals. Of course, ECECT is not only aiming to develop individuals but to also consult companies on how they can develop as organisations and understand new needs of the new market.
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MDT Provides Update on Higgins Avenue Beartracks Bridge
The investigation continues into the complications uncovered during the reconstruction of the Higgins Avenue Beartracks Bridge.
District One Administrator with the Montana Department of Transportation Bob Vosen explained what engineers found when they looked deeper into the structural problems with the nearly 60 year-old bridge.
“During the demolition of the bridge, some shallow cuts were made inadvertently in the tops of the steel girders of the old structure,” said Vosen. “Basically what happened was we had to cut the old concrete bridge deck into smaller pieces for removal, and with that older deck there were some inconsistencies in the depth of the concrete and in a few places they got into the tops of those beams.”
Vosen said the goal is for the bridge to carry its maximum capacity when the job is completed.
“When the field crews, the contractor and MDT field staff did make some repairs out there, our further investigation just indicated that we wanted to make sure that adequate repairs had been made that they would carry full capacity,” he said. “So the investigation into what that looks like is still ongoing.”
Vosen said Fickett Structural Solutions is assisting the MDT in determining how the bridge can best be restored.
“Yes, they're actually doing some non destructive testing for us where they're using ultrasound technology to check the integrity of the beams,” he said. “Because the tops of those beams are encased in concrete right now so we can have an ultrasound done from the bottom side of the beam up through the flange looking to see if there are any additional nicks or shallow cuts.”
Vosen said Fickett Structural Solutions is assisting his team on how to best proceed with repairs.
“Ficketts is out there working right now,” he said. “We're hoping to have numbers back just as soon as possible, where our bridge engineers can evaluate what we've got going on and figure out what are, and what the plan is going to be going forward, and what additional repairs, if any, are needed. At the end of the day, we're going to do everything we can to make sure we have a bridge that is fully capable of safely carrying full loads with no restrictions whatsoever.”
A timeframe to make these repairs has not yet been determined and material availability could play a role as to when the work will be completed. Once a repair plan is determined, MDT will notify the public of the schedule and cost of the repairs.
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Environmental Commission recommends city develop holistic resilience plan
Monday, March 9, 2020 by Jessi Devenyns
In many respects, Austin city officials are striving to create an environmentally sustainable city. However, according to the Environmental Commission, the city is not as resilient as it needs to be.
“Right now, we don’t have a resilience plan,” Commissioner Katie Coyne said at the March 4 meeting of the Environmental Commission. “I really just don’t want us to fall behind.”
A resilience plan is a policy framework designed to protect vulnerable communities from climate change and other physical, social and economic urban challenges.
Already, El Paso, Houston and Dallas have comprehensive, integrated plans. To explain to the commission how a resilience strategy is developed and the benefits of having such a framework for future city planning, El Paso’s chief resilience officer, Nicole Ferrini, described El Paso’s integrated strategy and the journey to its 2018 implementation.
According to Ferrini, creating and codifying a resilience plan is integral to building a city that has “the ability to survive, adapt and thrive in the face of whatever comes your way.” Resilience is more than preparing for the unexpected; it’s a framework for equitably addressing the economic, environmental and social consequences of environmental shocks and stressors.
Resilience differs from sustainability. Sustainability, Ferrini explained, is a micro-level approach that tackles individual systems and policies, while resilience takes a big-picture view and considers the context in which these systems are being implemented. At the same time, one cannot be successful without the other. “If you are not building sustainable systems … it’s pretty tough to be resilient in the face of whatever you’re facing,” said Ferrini.
Although Ferrini said each city’s resilience strategy is unique, she explained that the solutions cities develop to cope with disaster and change can be shared across Texas. These solutions can range from emergency response infrastructure to disaster funds like El Paso’s One Fund, a donation distribution system that was codified in the wake of the mass shooting last summer.
Austin’s particular challenge is determining how to continue to thrive in the face of economic success, according to Ferrini.
City Council has been working to answer this question. Last May, Council passed a resolution directing the city manager to analyze the climate resilience plans of peer cities and offer recommendations to craft one locally, including funding options.
Commissioner Coyne noted that since the passage of the resolution, there has been little forward momentum on the subject.
Similarly, the Office of Sustainability developed a Climate Resilience Action Plan for City Assets and Operations in 2018 that outlined strategies to increase resilience in the city.
Coyne told the Austin Monitor that the outlined strategies do not go far enough. “The document is basically an emergency response plan for city infrastructure. It does not include any non-city infrastructure or non-built systems including communities, social and economic components,” she explained.
Additionally, Coyne told the Monitor that in order for it to be successful in the long term, the approach needs to be taken by more departments than just the Office of Sustainability. Leadership all the way to the top have to be behind it.
Ferrini similarly told the commission that a successful resilience plan is integrated into a city’s strategic plan. This approach allows for resiliency to spread across departments and weave its way into departmental goals that are reported back to the city. “That’s the only way to do it,” she said.
To encourage Austin to more seriously look at developing a resilience plan, the commission pointed to the recent launch of the Global Resilient Cities Network by the Rockefeller Foundation, which is offering membership to 10 new cities in 2020. Commissioner Coyne said the foundation was amenable to working with the city of Austin.
The commission voted unanimously to recommend the development of a holistic resilience plan. Commissioners Andrew Creel, Mary Ann Neely, Wendy Gordon, Ryan Nill and Curtis Smith were absent.
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Forestdale is a city located in Alabama. Forestdale has a 2020 population of 10,459. Forestdale is currently growing at a rate of 0.24% annually and its population has increased by 0.48% since the most recent census, which recorded a population of 10,409 in 2010.
The average household income in Forestdale is $66,484 with a poverty rate of 9.31%. The median rental costs in recent years comes to $794 per month, and the median house value is $121,900. The median age in Forestdale is 45.1 years, 45.4 years for males, and 44.7 years for females.
According to the most recent ACS, the racial composition of Forestdalewas:
The highest rate of high school graduation is among native american people with a rate of 100.00%.
The highest rate of bachelors degrees is among hispanic people with a rate of 40.00%.
97.57% of Forestdale residents speak only English, while 2.43% speak other languages. The non-English language spoken by the largest group is Spanish, which is spoken by 1.75% of the population.
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Male Poverty Rate
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The race most likely to be in poverty in Forestdale is White, with 16.45% below the poverty level.
The race least likely to be in poverty in Forestdale is Other, with NaN% below the poverty level.
The poverty rate among those that worked full-time for the past 12 months was 1.08%. Among those working part-time, it was 9.47%, and for those that did not work, the poverty rate was 16.71%.
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Non citizens include legal permanent residents (green card holders), international students, temporary workers, humanitarian migrants, and illegal immigrants.
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“Scarce had I put to sea,
Among the Norsemen!
With twenty horsemen.
"Then launched they to the blast, Bent like a reed each mast, Yet we were gaining fast,
When the wind failed us; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw, So that our foe we saw
Laugh as he hailed us.
“And as to catch the gale
Death without quarter !
Through the black water!
“As with his wings aslant,
With his prey laden,
Bore I the maiden.
“Three weeks we westward bore, And when the storm was o'er, Cloud-like we saw the shore
Stretching to leeward; There for my lady's bower Built I the lofty tower, Which, to this very hour,
Stands looking seaward.
“There lived we many years; Time dried the maiden's tears; She had forgot her fears,
She was a mother; Death closed her mild blue eyes, Under that tower she lies; Ne'er shall the sun arise
On such another !
"Still grew my bosom then,
The sunlight hateful!
O, death was grateful!
“Thus, seamed with many scars,
My soul ascended!
Thus the tale ended.
THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS.
It was the schooner Hesperus,
That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughter,
To bear him company.
Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax,
Her cheeks like the dawn of day,
That ope in the month of May.
The skipper he stood beside the helm,
His pipe was in his mouth, And he watched how the veering flaw did blow
The smoke now West, now South.
Then up and spake an old Sailor,
Had sailed to the Spanish Main, “I pray thee, put into yonder port,
For I fear a hurricane.
“Last night, the moon had a golden ring,
And to-night no moon we see !"
And a scornful laugh laughed he.
Colder and louder blew the wind,
A gale from the Northeast, The snow fell hissing in the brine,
And the billows frothed like yeast.
Down came the storm, and smote amain
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As a tech blog written by App builders, writing a post about how important it is to sleep seems out of character. And, on the surface, it is. But as members of the Tech Industry, we are on the front lines of Uber productive people attempting to forego sleep as much as possible. Hearing programmers and designers brag about how little they are sleeping is pretty much an everyday occurrence around our office. We live busy lives and, even with more than 200 developers and designers on staff, we are constantly working. The desire to turn every waking second into a productive one naturally grows into attempting to turn every moment into a waking one. After all, sleep essentially amounts to a whole third of your life, gone. Empty, non-productive time. Right? The impetus behind this desire to be productive every second of every day comes from several sources, from the constant influx of information to the need to working on the go. The cause isn’t really important though, because the result is that less than ⅓ of the adults in the US get the necessary 7 hours of sleep, and 60 to 85% of adolescents don’t sleep the 8.5 hours they need. But let’s return to our earlier straw man: are people who skip the recommended amount of sleep more productive than those who don’t. Well, as you may have guessed, no. More and more research is pointing to the fact that even if you are working every second you don’t sleep, productivity decreases when you aren’t receiving enough rest. In recent years, there has been a plethora of research on this matter. Most notably, Arianna Huffington released a book on this very matter a few years ago. Ms. Huffington represents the stereotypical overachiever; the ones who would rather skip a full 7 hours in favor of more time spent behind the desk. She slept very little for years upon years, believing that she just did more when she only slept a few hours at a time. That is, until she crashed. Quite literally. After multiple 18 hour workdays, her body simply gave out and she lost consciousness – and broke her cheekbone in the fall. So she wrote a book about the importance of sleep and the “Sleep Deprivation Crisis.” The book was a commercial success, but today sleep deprivation is still rampant in the tech world. In recent years, there has also been a serious amount of biological research on sleep and its effects on the body and mind. These studies have demonstrated clearly that not only does productivity not improve when you don’t sleep, you actually become less productive over the long run (as compared to those who sleep the proper amount). And, not surprisingly, this is the least of concerns to the sleep-deprived. In the short term, massive sleep deprivation may cause death faster than starvation. Research has proven that lack of sleep leads to higher rates of inflammation. This may not seem crucial to your health, but chronic inflammation is known to cause certain cancers, lead to long-term chronic illness, increase risk of heart disease, and even cause Type 2 Diabetes. Honestly though, the scariest part of Sleep Deprivation is its effect on mental health. For those in the tech business, a healthy alert brain is how we stay successful – hence the desire to push oneself to constant alertness. However, when you force yourself to remain awake for unnaturally long periods of time, you force your brain into a hyper-alert state (aka fight-or-flight). The influx of adrenaline provided by this is very helpful – if used on occasion. When you deprive yourself of sleep, though, the constant alertness causes severe damage to your brain. As it turns out, recent research quite clearly shows that during sleep, your brain is actually quite active. Basically, your brain uses this time to restore itself to healthy homeostasis, restoring levels of hormones and enzymes to healthy levels. Additionally, the brain uses sleep to essentially clean itself, removing anything that could cause harm to healthy cells. On an emotional level, it also appears that during sleep memories made during the day are stripped of some of their “umph.” This allows people to rethink memories, reorganizing our perceptions of the past day. In other words, deep sleep (and ONLY during deep sleep) is what allows us to remember things more clearly, to pull more cogent lessons from past events, and protects us from emotionally traumatic events. When people undergo extreme sleep deprivation, none of this happens. So not only does this lead to emotions that are much rawer and harder to process, but to poorer mental health overall. Additionally, plenty of research has shown that people who continually suffer from sleep deprivation suffer from significantly higher rates of degenerative neurological conditions (including Alzheimer’s and Sleep Deprivation) as you get older. The negative effects aren’t only long term though. More recent research indicates that sleep deprivation may lead to higher rates of PTSD in the general population. When the brain doesn’t get the chance to file and neutralize emotions, it lives in a never-ending state of emotional trauma. Which, obviously, is an underlying cause of PTSD. Fortunately for all of us over productive techies (and nontechies!), the remedy is simple: Sleep. 7 hours of quality sleep, allowing you to reach REM stage so your brain can really get to work. So, from all of us here at SDI to all of you overachievers out there, please, for the love of yourself, go take a nap! Got too much coding to get a proper amount of sleep? Hire a dedicated programmer from SDI to help out! 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India and the United States on Friday announced a new programme supporting innovations to tackle climate and clean energy challenges.
The programme aims to support India-US Science &Technology-based entrepreneurial initiatives that address the development and implementation of next-generation clean and renewable energy, energy storage, and carbon sequestration has been announced to tackle climate and clean energy challenges, a Science and Technology Ministry note here stated.
The programme titled ‘Technology-based Energy Solutions: Innovations for Net Zero’ constitutes a call for Ignition Grants by the United States-India Science & Technology Endowment Fund (USISTEF), in partnership with Social Alpha, a non-profit organisation promoting S&T entrepreneurship. It will identify and support ‘technology showstoppers,’ according to the ministry note.
The move comes amid growing concern over climate change which is being termed as ‘one of the biggest challenges facing our world today, spurring the call for global collaborations to tackle this crisis.’
The launch of the US-India Climate and Clean Energy Agenda 2030 partnership in April 2021 reiterated the commitment of both nations to work together to achieve their ambitious climate and clean energy targets and to strengthen bilateral collaborations.
The new program aligns with the goals of the US-India strategic Clean Energy Partnership and will be administered by the bi-national Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF), a bilateral organisation under the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, and US Department of State.
Formally launched by the USISTEF Co-Chairs, Sanjeev Varshney, Adviser & Head, International Bilateral Cooperation, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India and John Speaks, Minister Counselor for Energy, Environment, Science and Technology (Acting), US Embassy, New Delhi, the program will address the pressing need for solutions that leverage cutting-edge, disruptive clean energy technologies to accelerate progress toward net-zero.
”The role of collaboration in science and technology to deliver innovative solutions to address a global challenge is appreciable. A good demonstrable technology innovation to address a specific challenge in the focus areas having commercial viability is expected under the partnership of IUSSTF with Social Alpha,” Varshney said, highlighting the need of collaborative entrepreneurship.
Speaks stressed that USISTEF’s new initiative targeting innovations for net-zero is another example of the robust US-India comprehensive global strategic partnership. It would use the power of the joint efforts of United States and India to trigger the development of new joint clean energy technologies to address the urgent climate crisis.
”We have to grow the innovation pipeline at an unprecedented pace and invest heavily to reduce green premiums on critical clean technologies and attract entrepreneurial talent to create new markets and industries to transition to Net Zero, while making sure everyone has access to clean, affordable and reliable energy,” Manoj Kumar, Founder & CEO, Social Alpha pointed out.
Nandini Kannan, Executive Secretary USISTEF and Executive Director IUSSTF, said that the programme urges the entrepreneur and research communities in India and the United States to come together and develop transformative solutions to tackle critical climate and sustainability challenges.
A panel of experts discussed the critical role of stakeholders, including industry, academia, financial institutions, government agencies, policy, and foundations, in the development of an enabling ecosystem to address clean energy and sustainability challenges.
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The role of a teacher at Brooklands Farm Primary School is to be a learner. It is to thrive on the complexity that is learning, constantly evaluating, questioning and reflecting on the impact of their interactions with those around them.
To be a teacher at Brooklands Farm Primary School demands that you consider and welcome questioning and uncertainty.
Teachers at Brooklands Farm understand the interconnectivity between the real world and their classrooms.
Brooklands teachers are learners. We seek out the best ways to learn and in turn the best ways to teach.
We never close our classroom doors as we want to be part of the learning community. Learning from each other.
Teachers are learners
Our school is built around the belief in humanity. We fully endorse the UN RIGHTS of children and thread this throughout our school.
We endorse the community values of truth, honesty, integrity, tolerance and self responsibility. Relationships matter deeply to us.
The school has develop systems and structures to listen to all voices and not just the loudest .
Listening is an active verb in our school. It is the heartbeat that allows our school to thrive.
Equally we know that listening and relationships are complex and therefore we practise restorative principles so we can manage the realities of real life.
Teachers are leaders
We believe that we are all leaders of learning. Our school has a distributive leadership model allowing all teachers talents and passions for learning to be realised and shared.
We train all our teachers to be leaders so that they can fulfil the professional ambitions they have for themselves and the wider education system.
At Brooklands Farm, every learner, young and old, has a coach. We all want to be the best we can be, to reflect and grow.
The use of a growth framework allows learners to plan for change and adapt teaching to suit each learner and
each learning context. We value mistake making as opportunities to review. We have a no blame culture in our school. Instead we focus on finding solutions together.
Teachers are partners
‘Children can give us the strength of doubt and the courage of error. They can transmit to us the joy of searching and researching ...the value of research, as an openness towards others and towards everything new that is produced by encounter with others.’ [Carina Rinaldi 2003]
We believe children are strong and powerful. We have no doubt that they have the best ideas and solutions to real life problems. It is our role to facilitate the learning.
We seek out partnership with others, always having national partners at the forefront of our profession. We travel across the world looking for solutions to our two questions - What are the best ways to learn? and ‘What are the best ways to teach?’
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Understanding the costs associated with borrowing money for a small business involves looking at all the rates and fees associated with taking on debt. An important first step is to familiarize yourself with the terms related to these lending costs.
Understanding key small business loan terms
What is the loan principal?
Loan principal is the initial amount you have borrowed for your small business loan request and must be paid back, plus any interest.
What is the loan interest rate?
The loan interest rate is the cost to borrow your loan amount in addition to the loan principal. Some lenders may communicate the borrowing rate as a daily percentage rate or simply as an "interest rate." Ask to have the interest rate provided in Annual Percentage Rate (APR) so that you can easily compare your options.
What is a closing fee for a business loan?
The loan closing fee is the cost to close the loan deal – or open a loan account – with the entity you decide to borrow with. This fee may be a set dollar amount or a percentage of the total loan amount.
Do small business loans have annual or one-time fees?
Some loan types have one-time or yearly fees for maintaining your account. Loan fees will vary and are based on the type of loan. For example, it's common to have an annual fee on a high-rewards business credit card or line of credit. However, there could also be promotions or seasonal specials that waive these fees either one time or for the life of the relationship.
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Why do we use Seesaw at Bluecoat Primary Academy
At Bluecoat Primary Academy, we strongly value the input of all parties that impact on a child’s development and we fully understand that a child’s learning does not stop when they leave our school. We also know the importance of teachers creating strong, professional relationships with all adults that surround the children in our class and a clear communication system that allows all parents and teachers to collaborate and discuss matters that concern each child. We also STRIVE in making sure we create not just a community but a Bluecoat Family that all play a vital role in educating our children and have an input in our curriculum. It is for these reasons that we are moving to using the online tool Seesaw, as it enables better communication between parents and teachers, allows everyone to be involved in a child’s learning journey and creates a picture of the whole child throughout their time at our school.
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The only borough of NYC attached to the mainland, The Bronx is home to some of New York's most well known attractions, such as the Bronx Zoo and Yankee Stadium. The most "uptown" of all the boroughs, communities here are strong and stick together, providing the city with that "New York Tough" status.
The only borough of NYC attached to the mainland, The Bronx is home to some of New York's most well known attractions, such as the Bronx Zoo and Yankee Stadium. The most “uptown” of all the boroughs, communities here are strong and stick together, providing the city with that “New York Tough” status.
The Bronx is a place full of art, culture, and energy, giving birth to hip-hop and sporting a large amount of cultural institutions. It's a tougher part of the city, but that is why the people who live here are so attached to it. There’s a pride to The Bronx that's visible everywhere.
That said, The Bronx has a softer side too. It has a ton of parks, a Botanical Garden, and even the city’s largest zoo. It often gets a bad rap due its more controversial history, but the borough has emerged from those hard times better than ever.
The New York City subway system provides access all across The Bronx. The Western side of the borough is accessible via the 1 and 4 trains. The middle of the borough is accessible via the B, D, 2, and 5 trains. The eastern and southernmost parts of The Bronx are accessible via the 6 train.
Biking is popular in this area due to the wider roads and bike lanes that can be found here. More bike lanes are added every year and Citi Bike docking stations are plentiful.
Driving is popular in this borough as well. Traffic gets heavier the closer you get to Manhattan, but most of the borough is pretty easy to navigate.
While The Bronx has the highest crime rate of all the boroughs, the city is taking major steps to tackle the problems it is facing. Many of the neighborhoods in the area have seen a dramatic turn around, seeing rates of crime, especially violent ones, plummet in recent years. There’s still more work to do, but that work is being done and The Bronx is getting safer everyday.
The Bronx is home to many great hospitals that are easily accessible, such as Montifiore and St. Barnabas.
The Bronx history as a part of the city would happen much later than most of the other boroughs. Originally The Bronx was several smaller towns that eventually merged to make up Westchester County. However, New York began to expand and interact with the borough more and the west half of The Bronx became part of New York County in 1874. The east half didn’t join New York until 1895, just in time to become part of The Greater New York City in 1898.
The Bronx became its own county in 1914, further cementing its identity. It was during this time that the population of the borough exploded. This growth would stop during the Great Depression, when organized crime and bootleggers began to control much of the area. Even once those crime families dissolved, the decline of The Bronx was still in motion due to severe infrastructural errors. The construction of the Robert Moses’ Cross Bronx Expressway, in particular, has been blamed for much of the borough's struggles due to the neighborhoods that were destroyed to construct it.
Since the 1980’s, The Bronx has undergone a drastic revitalization effort. New, affordable housing was put in place, which attracted different businesses and institutions that helped make The Bronx a viable area in the eyes of the city. Today, this revitalization is still in progress, which means The Bronx will only get better and better.
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Bronx is located within the New York - Newark, NY - NJ - CT Urban Area. This area currently has 18,812,161 residents in 6,707,347 households. Out of the total population, 40.12% of the residents speak another language at home instead of English. The majority of the inhabitants in this urban area are currently unmarried and have a median age of 37.8.
When looking at residents older than 25, 25.16% have graduated from high school, 22.38% have a bachelor's degree, and 15.92% have obtained their master's degree or above. Employment rate is typically around 59.7% and the median income in this urban area is $68,319.
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We have just returned from a great meeting at the Wetlands in Llanfyllin with Cathy Preston of the Field Studies Council’s Growing Confidence Project and Adrian Pickles, Head of the Preston Monford Centre, seeking to build links between our projects.
We talked through our work with Llanfyllin High School and our proposed programme for bringing permaculture themes and ecoliteracy into mainstream education. The aim is to bring about a shift in thinking about our collective responsibilities as global citizens facing the challenges of climate change. We think education has a vital role to play in this!
We are very hopeful that we will be able to work together to make connections between the goals of the FSC, the One School One Planet project and Llanfyllin High School. We discussed possible field trip days, residential courses for young people with an interest in ecology, opportunities for interdisciplinary study and much more.
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Powder Magazine (Williamsburg, Va.)
Historic buildings - Virginia - Williamsburg
View looking west towards one of the stained glass windows installed by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities in the brick wall of the Powder Magazine, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Barrows, John A.
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John A. Barrows Photograph Collection, MS1996.22, Box 2
Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
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Chairman of Baker McKenzie Habib Al Mulla said it is only a matter of time before the technology changes the business landscape
“It’s no longer a question of ‘if’ or ‘when’, it’s now a matter of ‘how’ and ‘to what extent’ cryptocurrencies and underlying blockchain technology will be regulated before they [change] every aspect of modern business,” said the founder and chairman of Baker McKenzie, Dr Habib Al Mulla.
Owing to their volatile nature and the controversy that surrounds them, cryptocurrencies are likely to be regulated soon, according to the founder and chairman of Baker McKenzie, Dr Habib Al Mulla.
Speaking at the Arabian Business Startup Academy, Dr Habib Al Mulla said it is only a matter of time before the technology changes the business landscape.
“While cryptocurrencies remain relatively unregulated, I believe the near future may experience a change to that. Countries around the world… [are] trying to determine how they are going to treat [cryptocurrencies]. Some are welcoming, others are cautious. Some countries are downright antagonistic,” Al Mulla said.
“It’s no longer a question of ‘if’ or ‘when’, it’s now a matter of ‘how’ and ‘to what extent’ cryptocurrencies and underlying blockchain technology will be regulated before they [change] every aspect of modern business,” he added.
Currently, there are approximately 200 cryptocurrency exchanges around the world, the majority of which are not regulated, according to Dr Al Mulla, meaning that most are not subject to the most basic disclosure obligations, such as disclosure of ownership, financial data or location.
He explained that because these cryptocurrency exchanges are based outside of sophisticated jurisdiction to avoid regulation and prosecution, regulators remain unclear on how to normalise them, with most suggested frameworks largely untested or still in the consultation phase.
He referred to Japan’s introduction of a cryptocurrency exchange license, claiming regulation can be made possible with slight changes to current rules.
“The rule of thumb is that these exchanges would need to be licensed and fit in with existing regulatory frameworks. And they can do that easily, in fact, with waivers or modifications to the existing rules,” he said.
“Asia seems to emerge as a power horse in that field due to its looser regulations and the presence of crypto platforms from the early days of Bitcoin and due to the penetration of crypo transactions in the local culture,” he added.
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The wisdom of the TCM practitioners comes from a storied history of herbal study and the understanding of how natural medicine ingredients affect the flow of energy (qi), and ultimately, our health.
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Presentation on theme: "TVET working group contributions. What are the possible options for obtaining decent living and working conditions without joining the informal economy?"— Presentation transcript:
What are the possible options for obtaining decent living and working conditions without joining the informal economy? Support the development of incentives (e.g. legal, policy and market based) Enhance capacities of local systems / structures (e.g. community groups) to support development of informal economy Support recognition of skills required in the informal work Support access to skill learning opportunities, innovative and tailored education and training, special training approach targeting special needs groups Support access to credit, information & promote financial literacy for youth Develop close collaboration with employers – ensuring the business case for the intervention Support interventions aiming at improving working conditions of informal workers: –Safe working environment –Appropriate tools and equipment –Good working environment
How could the multiplier effects of the project be increased? Capacity building of relevant stakeholders within the education system Develop a good understanding of the sector and upon it plan / design specific interventions, strategies, methodologies, etc Ensuring that proposed interventions are market driven and address market needs Identify and work with actors within the sector who are agents of change Ensuring a good documentation of lessons learned & ensuring synergies among different programmes at country level (e.g. building up actions based on other projects outputs) Using participatory approaches in designing interventions Linking short term interventions to in-country long term development initiatives Mainstreaming innovations through policy type interventions Innovations are good but be careful to not reinvent the wheel!
Which are the lessons learned and the implications for the EC for future calls for proposals Ambitious targets of beneficiaries with very limited budgets and time frame (interventions 5 – 7 years) TVET interventions should consider as well strategies to enhance other sector components (enabling environment) Interventions should be market driven and addressing sector needs Which criteria is used to evaluate if an innovative approach is successful? How EC could link successful pilot innovations with scaling-up opportunities?
Identify project management constraints and best practices which can be shared in order to improve the project intended results Encourage the revision of the logical framework considering that from the moment the proposal was accepted to the moment the fund is granted almost a year passes From the moment the contract is sign to the moment the implementation starts time (maybe 3 months) is required for establishing programme structures (e.g. signature of contracts with partners can take really long time). EC Delegation could support in seeking the approval of the project from the government, dissemination, visibility of the action, etc Consider the possibility of providing resources for conducting an impact assessment of the beneficiaries after the Action finishes Best practices Combine the development of soft skills and technical skills in order to improve productivity Acknowledgement of prior learning and use of educational techniques for adults Encourage the development of an M&E framework based on the approved log-frame | <urn:uuid:9514000f-7c2d-4456-a9e7-81c3a68ebaf0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://slideplayer.com/slide/744250/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.909891 | 593 | 2.359375 | 2 |
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Space is complex and a hostile environment. It consists of vacuum, large temperature fluctuations, and bombardment by energetic particles, including atomic oxygen, electrons, ions, vacuum ultraviolet light (VUV), all of which act to alter the materials spacecraft are constructed from. Our research effort focuses on the modification of spacecraft material properties caused by exposure to the space environment, predominantly bombardment by high energy electrons, ions, and VUV light.
Previously, experiments on common spacecraft polymers such as polyimide (Kapton®), or polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon®) have shown dramatic changes in the electrical conductivity, an important parameter for spacecraft survivability, when radiated with high energy electrons. Current research is underway to understand the chemical underpinnings of these changes and extend that understanding to other material properties especially optical. We are searching for an Associate to undertake experiments and/or modeling to provide chemical understanding of polymer degradation and prediction of the material properties after exposure to a known radiation environment.
Optical properties of materials provide an exciting link to understand the state of a satellite using remote sensing. The end goal is to use various photometric measurements generated during this work to determine the material composition of a satellite and the state of each material.
The Associate will have access to a large vacuum chamber (2m diameter) equipped with a high energy electron gun, VUV lights, a temperature regulated plate, and several characterization tools. In addition the lab has access to AFM, SEM, UV/VIS and IR spectrometers, and optical characterization facilities, either in the lab or with collaborators on base. Ongoing collaborations with the University of New Mexico, other research universities, and the materials branch of AFRL provide access to practically any material characterization technique.
Cooper R, et al: Effects of Radiation Damage on Polyimide Resistivity. Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 2016, accepted, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/1.A33541
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There are many markets where customers can combine multiple products to greater effect, or where customers can communicate with each other. In these cases compatibility of products by different vendors has a large effect on the product market. Which choice firms make about the compatibility of their products tends to depend on the wider context in which they make this choice. Some vendors may be multi-product or multi-market forms. The implications that (in)compatibility in one market may have for their other markets will affect their compatibility choice. A corollary of this argument is that a change in the multi-product or multi-market scope of a firm will create a strategic shift in its preference for compatibility. Both mergers and alliances may have the effect of changing the relevant scope of products or product markets that a firm serves. The event of such a merger or alliance will tend to change its compatibility preference. This paper develops a model to explain the possible strategy shift of a merger or alliance due to feedback between the various markets that a firm serves. It explores the compatibility choices for digital videodisks that consumer electronics, computer, and media companies experienced in the mid-1990s. | <urn:uuid:c61db61b-3a88-4cca-8c5a-178de2cc353c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/publications/compatibility-choice-by-multi-market-firms | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.942398 | 233 | 1.546875 | 2 |
What type of contact lenses is the best?
Different types of contact lenses have their own advantages and disadvantages, and they are generally selected according to their own needs and actual conditions. Today, Xiaobian provides you with some reference suggestions from several aspects.
From the point of view of safety and health, daily disposable contact lenses should be chosen as far as possible within the scope of the economy. Because the daily disposable is the most special compared with other types, it does not need to be soaked or cleaned. It can be thrown away directly after wearing every day, and the new lens will be worn the next day, so although the price is slightly more expensive, the daily disposable has always been Known as the healthiest type of contact lens.
And if you consider it from the perspective of high cost performance, you can choose from long-term types such as annual throws and semi-annual throws. They have a long service cycle and are more affordable, and you don’t have to worry about expiring for occasional use. However, in order to maintain the hygiene of the lenses, it is necessary to carefully clean the lenses after each wearing, and put them in a double box to soak in the care solution, so as to avoid dehydration, drying or contamination of the lenses.
The rest of the short-cycle throwaway types, such as monthly throws, biweekly throws, etc., have average performance in all aspects, and are more suitable for people who often wear them for a period of time. The quality of this type of lens is good, and the oxygen permeability can also be guaranteed. As long as it is well cared for, the sediment on the lens will not accumulate. However, in the process of use, you need to pay attention to record the date of unpacking, so as to avoid eye problems caused by overdue wear.
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About the Department
The History Department of Dr. B. Ambedkar Satabarshik Mahavidyalaya was established from the very inception of the college in 2005. However, Honours course in History was started only in 2016. The department focuses on teaching Indian history from prehistoric times till the early postcolonial period, European history from ancient era till the twentieth century, and world history for the twentieth century. The department introduced CBCS from 2018 in B. A. 1st year as per the recommendations of UGC and guidelines of West Bengal State University. The Department continues with one Assistant Professor and two State Aided College Teachers. Our qualified and energetic faculties are committed to follow the teaching approach balancing a curriculum which can help the students for careers anywhere in future. Our teaching process combines standard lectures accompanied by visual and audio-visual aids with interactive sessions and discussions. Focus is also placed on interdisciplinary approaches in study with the help of inter-departmental lectures and discussions. Department members often take part in national and international conferences.
Bachelor of Arts (B. A) Programme includes both language group (Bengali, English, Sanskrit and other regional languages) and Social Science (Political Science, Philosophy, History, Sociology, Education). B. A Programme promotes knowledge in many fields of Arts for the undergraduate students and it helps to groom students’ writing skill and communication skill. Successful students from Bachelor of Arts may opt for various job opportunities. Program Specific Outcome: History is a major subject in Social Science. The word History derives from the Greek Word ‘Historia’ which means ‘inquiry’ or ‘knowledge acquired by investigation’. It is often argued that what is the use or relevance of studying History since it is the story telling process of incidents or events of distant past? The answer may be — “What happened in the past profoundly affects all aspects of our lives in the present and will, indeed affect what happens in the future”– Arthur Marwick (2001) History is unavoidable since it studies the past and the legacies of the past in the present. History connects things through time and encourages students to take a long view of such connections. History helps us to understand the linkages between past and present which is absolutely basic for a good understanding of the condition of human being. Ø The study of the past is essential for ‘rooting’ people and societies in time. History provides a unique insight into human nature and human civilization. The analysis and interpretation of history provides an essential context for evaluating contemporary institutions, politics, and cultures. Ø History is a major important discipline in the Social Sciences which is concerned with society and the relationships among individuals within a society. History is distinguished by its singularly broad scope since every subject has a history and can be analyzed and interpreted in historical perspective and context. Ø In order to make sense of current affairs it is important to study the past, as everything which is happening around us has been influenced by, and is a direct result of, that which preceded it. In this way, the study of History is explicitly relevant to us. Ø Studying History provides a student with skills which are not confined to the study of the past. It develops skills in critical thinking and reading, i.e., to differentiate between historical facts and historical interpretations and assess the credibility of primary and secondary sources. History also helps us to develop Research skill, i.e., to formulate historical questions, collection of data from variety of sources and identifying gaps and missing links available in various sources. Course Outcome: History Honours and General courses include Ancient, Medieval and Modern Indian History. However Honours courses are more elaborate which includes World’s History (Ancient, Medieval Modern and Contemporary) and especial emphasis has been given on European History, History of China and Japan, South and South East Asian History. Therefore By looking at the history of different cultures, a History student can build up a better understanding of why certain peoples act the way they do. In reading the history of India we can see why the Caste system still remains in the subcontinent. Looking at the history of gender in India and comparing it to the other continent we can see why gender discrimination in India is still continuing and how far it is different from the rest of the World and why? As we know that ‘Skills’ of analysis are invaluable in many jobs and vital to decision making. It not only provides a skill set for a student but it also keeps career options open. In India, there are many jobs in Government sectors in which one may be recruited through examinations like Public Service Commission, Civil Service, IPS, Banking etc. In such examinations Indian History has been treated as ‘General Knowledge’. However, one can easily choose his or her career as Academician, since History as a Discipline is teaches in Schools, Colleges and Universities of India. | <urn:uuid:c17e0da9-d3e4-46c5-aa75-6c1f1a484457> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://drbrasmahavidyalayahelencha.ac.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=73&Itemid=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.952934 | 1,018 | 2.359375 | 2 |
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General Dental Services in Rapid City, SD
Preventive Dental Care
A good offense may be the best defense in sports, but it’s also the best defense against decay and gum disease. Routine brushing and flossing help, but it’s the office visits for preventive care that ensure ongoing oral health. Every six months, or as recommended by Dr. Friedman, you should come in for a thorough dental cleaning and exam. We will help you prevent dental problems and detect any that do occur early enough for swift intervention.
Patients who have a fear of the dentist sometimes require mild to moderate sedation during treatment. We want to do everything we can to make your experience in our office comfortable.
We offer nitrous oxide (laughing gas) for very mild calming. This is easy to administer and is eliminated from the body quickly. Oral conscious sedation through medication relaxes the patient without them losing consciousness. This may be through an anti-anxiety tablet, for example. If you take oral sedation, you will require someone to drive you to and from your appointment. Moderate IV sedation relaxes via an intravenous medication. This type of sedation feels as though you have slept, but it simply alters your consciousness and makes you feel relaxed. Again, you will need a driver if you require IV sedation.
Fillings and Bonding
Dr. Friedman often uses composite fillings that closely resemble the color of your teeth. This material can also be used to correct gaps, chips, or gaps in the teeth. We also use amalgam fillings, made from a variety of materials. These fillings are very long lasting and less expensive than composite fillings.
Bridges & Dentures
Missing teeth must be replaced to eliminate larger dental problems in the future. Bridges close the gap and act like natural teeth. They adhere to the teeth adjacent to the gap with the replacement teeth acting as a “bridge” between them. Dentures also replace missing teeth. Partial dentures replace a section of teeth and full dentures replace all dentition. Both kinds of dentures are removable.
Veneers are thin pieces of porcelain that are applied to the teeth to cover stains, correct misaligned or crooked teeth, or close gaps.
For a tooth that has sustained severe trauma or has extensive decay, a root canal may be needed to remove damaged or infected pulp, disinfect the canals of the tooth, and fill them with antibacterial material. If the remaining tooth requires structure, a dental crown may be applied.
Other Treatments Include but Are Not Limited To:
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In this section we’ve listed a variety of private and government resources and website links that may be useful to you for senior-related products, services, and general information. These websites are listed alphabetically and cover such topics as housing, retirement planning, finances, health, care-giving, and assistance programs.
Provides information, resources, products and services on all aspects of retirement and aging.
Administration for Community Living
From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and provides information and resources to help older adults and those with disabilities receive care while staying in their home and community.
Information and resources for those caring for aging parents to help them deal with aging parents and elder care.
Aging Parents & Elder Care
Provides information and guidance for those caring for an aging parent or elderly spouse.
U.S. government website that provides information on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia care, including research and resources for health care professionals.
American Diabetes Association
Non-profit health organization providing diabetes research, information and advocacy.
American Heart Association
National health organization providing research, info and support for cardiovascular diseases and stroke.
A service of the National Council on Aging that helps seniors receive the benefits they’ve earned.
Nonprofit organization supporting research and providing education on brain and eye diseases, including, macular degeneration, and glaucoma.
Helps families find the best care and living arrangements for aging parents. It includes Inspection Reports of all USA Medicare/Medicaid Nursing Homes and evaluations of Assisted Living and other retirement living facilities.
Provides quality of care information on nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and home health agencies nationwide. They provide ratings, comparative data, products, and private-pay discounts on the cost of care.
Nonprofit organization that reviews and grants accreditation services to senior housing institutions and related services providers. They provide lists for each state of accredited assisted living facilities.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Lists 8 websites for information on Medicare and Medicaid services.
Choice Magazine Listening
A free audio literary service for people who are blind, visually impaired, physically disabled or dyslexic.
U. S. government website for people with disabilities. They provide information on civil rights, education, employment, housing and transportation.
A prescription drug and medical device resource center with information on research, side effects, warnings, recalls and legal action for these products. The website is sponsored by The Schroeder Firm, LLC (1425 K Street NW, Suite 350, Washington, D.C. 20005).
Provides a comprehensive list of drugs and medications and focuses on educating consumers about the benefits of prescription and over-the-counter medication and side effects. It also includes information on drug recalls, medication approvals, and current developments in the medical field.
Elder Abuse and Neglect
Offers insight for identifying the warning signs of elder abuse and provides resources for helping a senior who may be abused or neglected.
A private agency that has advice and information to help older Americans remain independent in their own homes.
Nationwide service that connects older Americans and their caregivers with local support resources, including meals, home care or transportation, or a caregiver needs training and assistance.
A nationwide network of attorneys providing information on legal issues facing seniors and helps to find elder law attorneys. They also provide basic information on Medicaid, Medicare,estate planning, and long-term care planning.
Extended Care Information Network
Database of 24,000 extended care providers and 9,000 home health care agencies, and helps to match patient needs with providers or agencies.
Family Caregiver Alliance
Offers information, advice, and local programs for those providing long-term care for loved ones at home, including those with chronic and disabling health conditions.
First Gov For Seniors
U.S. Government website with links to every department, and provides information on a variety of topics, including consumer protection, laws, taxes etc.
U. S. government website that is a gateway to consumer health and human services information. It provides links to databases, support and self-help groups, as well as government agencies and not-for-profit organizations.
Resource to assist aging adults and their families with the physical, emotional and financial challenges that come with aging.
Housing Services for Seniors
U.S. Government site that provides assistance related to financing, building, maintaining and locating housing. It has information on independent living, housing with services, nursing facilities, assistive technology, and home remodeling.
A collection of world-wide organizations whose focus is on advocacy, leadership development, senior housing, assisted living residences, continuing care communities, nursing homes, and technology solutions for seniors and others with special needs.
Long Term Care Link
A non-commercial site about long term care insurance with links to other informational sites.
U.S. Government website that provides resources for older Americans and people with disabilities.
This is an objective information source for long-term care insurance and provides a directory of insurance providers.
Non-profit organization that provides resources and support for local senior meal delivery organizations, including financial support, helping to find volunteers, and providing online contact between organizations and the people who need their services.
Non-profit organization that maintains personal health records while ensuring security, privacy and confidentiality. The MedicAlert® repository can connect to and provide critical medical information between patients, providers, and payers, 24 hours a day anywhere in the world.
Official U.S. Government website for Medicare, and includes links and search tools to help you find important information regarding all health care issues, benefits, and coverage.
U.S. Government website produced by the National Library of Medicine, providing up-to-date information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues.
The Merck Manual of Geriatrics
Focuses on the medical problems of the elderly, providing clinical information to physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other health professionals involved in the care of elderly patients.
U.S. Government website gives registered beneficiaries the ability to view eligibility and entitlement information, status of claims, enrollment information including prescription drug plans, deductible and address of record information, and provides access to online forms and publications, and preventive service information.
The National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys
Offers referrals of attorneys, judges, and other legal professionals dedicated to helping elders with housing, health and long-term care planning, estate planning, and other legal issues related to aging.
National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers
Nonprofit association of care managers who help families caring for older relatives. It also has an online directory of professional geriatric care managers that is searchable by location.
National Family Caregivers Association
Provides education and support for those who care for loved ones with a chronic illness or disability or the frailties of old age.
National Institute on Aging
U.S. Government website who support and conduct research on aging, and provide information about aging and research advances to the public, health care professionals and the scientific community.
Nursing Home Abuse Resource
Provides information about the causes and types of abuse, and resources for finding a lawyer in the state where the abuse takes place.
Nursing Home Injury Laws
Provides information about nursing home laws as well as information regarding the full range of injuries and injury laws in each state.
Provides job opportunities for people over 50 seeking work. The data base can be searched by industry, investment range, and lifestyle needs.
Drug index to look up a drug by either generic or brand name, find out about side effects, read about new drugs and learn the results of clinical studies.
Resource for living options ranging from 55+ communities to assisted living and nursing homes.
Senior Citizens’ Resources
U.S. government website which has links to the broad array of services that focus on the needs, interests, and lifestyles of seniors.
Offers discounts on products and services for people age 55 and older. The database is searchable by zip code, and includes a variety of categories, such as airlines, car rentals, cruises, lodging, health clubs, online retailers, and restaurants.
Resource website that provides access to eldercare professionals, programs, providers, facilities, and agencies that offer information on the range of senior-related services.
Provides information and resources related to housing choices, finance and insurance.
The Social Security Administration offers an online personal account called my Social Security, which allows secure access to personal Social Security information. Individuals can check their earnings and get estimates of future retirement, disability, and survivor benefits.
U.S. DHHS Administration on Aging
U.S. Government website with information designed to enrich the lives of older persons and support their independence. It includes links to government and non-government resources.
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
U.S. Government website that provides access to the health and medical programs offered by its 12 agencies, organized as a consumer guide to more than 300 programs. It is also a resource for information on nursing homes, Medicare, health issues, long term care, Eldercare Locator, elder abuse, and other senior-related topics.
U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs
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By James Blears
First lady of assassinated President Jovenel Moise, has returned to Haiti. Her return was unannounced due to the crisis, as the situation remains volatile, uncertain and unstable.
Martine Moise got off the plane with one of her arms in a sling, wearing a bullet proof vest, defiantly courageous and unbowed, while most of the eleven million Haitian population remains, behind closed doors, during the ongoing political downturn, plus uncertainty, brought about by his assassination, by a group of Colombian ex -military who are mercenaries, several of whom shot him twelve times and gauged out his left eye, after forcing their way into the Moise home in Port Au Prince.
After killing him at point blank range, the criminals, in cowardly fashion turned their high powered semi assault rifles on her, wounding her multiple times, but she miraculously survived. Successfully treated in a Miami Hospital, she messaged the Haitian people lamenting his brutal murder, saying he wasn`t able to utter a single word, before they pulled their triggers. She says the pain of this utter brutality will never leave her.
His funeral will take place on July 23rd in the Northern City of Cap Haitian, and Martine will characteristically attend.
A group of international Ambasadors from the United States, Canada, Germany, France, the UN, the OAS and the Brazil, have arrived in Haiti. They have yet to meet Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph. They are urging appointed Prime Minister Ariel Henry to form a government of consensus and stability. There can be only one...not two, in charge of stricken Haiti. | <urn:uuid:f2b22920-8418-4f05-8792-a7d5bfab791b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vaticannews.va/en/world/news/2021-07/haiti-assassination-wife-reconstruction.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.974656 | 334 | 1.578125 | 2 |
TEL AVIV – In a French-themed café a block from the teeming beach, producer Noemi Schory explained why her new Holocaust documentary, “A Film Unfinished,” did not deserve the R rating that the MPAA handed down last week after a final appeal.
Yes, she said, the film has shocking images: corpses on the streets of the Warsaw Ghetto, starving children, a mass grave. And some nudity: naked men, and then women, entering a ritual bath.
It is a harsh film, even a brutal one. But it is also an historical document that until now has been unseen by the public, and whose purpose remains a mystery.
“I am upset about (the rating) theoretically, and practically this will create difficulties,” she said, ignoring an iced lemonade. “It puts up another obstacle to seeing it. “
With whichever rating, ‘A Film Unfinished’ is not a typical Holocaust documentary. Instead it investigates a mysterious Nazi movie production, a 30-day shoot inside the Warsaw Ghetto conducted by three Nazi film crews, shortly before it was liquidated in 1942.
The film is far too elaborate to have been a mere newsreel propaganda exercise. There were many staged scenes of “wealthy” Jews living opulently inside the ghetto, juxtaposed with the degradation of the poor Jews there dying of starvation and disease.
Schory, a veteran filmmaker who got to know the footage intimately when making a series of short films for Israel’s Yad Vashem museum, teamed up with a young director, Yael Hersonski, to make the film over four long years.
They pieced together contemperaneous diaries, testimony of a Nazi cameraman and interviews with survivors to understand the film and its purpose. But the film was never completed, its producers have disappeared and it has never been fully seen by the public.
“We don’t know why they made it,” said Schory. “There is a theory, based on the diary of (Propaganda Minister Joseph) Goebbels that they were preparing documentation for a future museum in Prague, studying this race that would be wiped out.”
That theory certainly seems plausible, given the staged scenes of circumcision, ritual bath, marriage, and burial. If so, Schory says, it’s all the more important to see the film in its entirety, to understand the purpose and power of the images.
“I don’t think there’s a Holocuast-lite approach,” Schory said. “Either you want to know about it, and you look it in the eyes – or you don’t. We’re not in the fiction business. This is a historic document. It is important for young people to see it.”
And now she’s concerned that because of the rating, they won’t. School officials considering the film, she said, will probably skip it because of the R. The project began as an exploration of visual memory: how do we visualize the past? What shapes those impressions?
“I realized that 90 percent of our visual memory of the Holocaust is German propaganda,” Schory said. There is a small amount of footage taken by American soldiers who liberated concentration camps, but the vast majority of imagery was taken by German film crews working for the Nazi regime." That alone is a chilling thought.
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