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Let’s take a look at full dentures versus partial dentures so you can decide which is right for you. If you have any questions about full and partial dentures in Marine City, MI, reach out to Dr. Barry Beauchamp, Dr. Chester Gauss, and Dr. Sandra Gschwind at Beauchamp, Gauss & Gschwind.
The Differences Between Full and Partial Dentures
Full dentures will replace all of the teeth on the top, bottom, or both sides of your mouth. Full dentures will use a gum-colored base that will rest on your gums. Dentures are often custom-made to specifically fit your gums.
Bottom full dentures form a horseshoe, leaving room for your tongue to move around. With top dentures, the dentures typically cover the roof of your mouth. In both cases, saliva helps bond your dentures to your gums.
Partial dentures come in many different shapes and sizes. They can be custom-made to fill in gaps specific to your smile. Partial dentures often connect to your existing teeth through a metal framework or other connectors. You can often use precision attachments, which offer a tight, natural-looking fit.
If you have questions about full or partial dentures and live near Marine City, MI, contact Dr. Beauchamp, Dr. Gauss, and Dr. Gschwind at Beauchamp, Gauss & Gschwind dentistry.
Should I Get Partial or Full Dentures?
Often, your situation will dictate whether you need full or partial dentures. If you’re just missing say three of your front teeth, you’ll only need partial dentures to fill out your smile.
In some cases, if you’ve lost several teeth, you may remove the remaining teeth so that you can receive full dentures. This is a big decision and one you should speak with a dentist about. Remember, if you live near Marine City and are considering partial dentures, full dentures, or another solution, you can speak with Dr. Beauchamp, Dr. Gauss, and Dr. Gschwind at Beauchamp, Gauss & Gschwind.
Full dentures are often easy to care for. You can take your dentures out and put them in a cleaning solution overnight, for example. You can also clean partial dentures over night but make sure you brush your natural teeth as well.
While your dentures may not quite feel like your natural teeth, many patients find full dentures very comfortable to wear. Partial dentures will sometimes stand out a bit against your natural teeth. For example, partial dentures are often whiter and brighter than natural teeth.
Still, people are often attached to their natural teeth, and not just physically, but also emotionally. It’s no surprise that many prefer to keep as many natural teeth as possible.
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Last month, over 1700 people expressed their displeasure with the city council choosing to borrow $16Million to build a new public works yard administration building. Within weeks of that defeat, Council has decided to reintroduce the borrowing bylaw and add on another few million due to the length of time the project takes.
The decision to build stand-alone public facilities
This Council has determined that there is only one way to pay for, build and operate public facilities. Almost all progressive municipalities have accepted that constructing single-use public buildings is an archaic, expensive, and wasteful use of taxpayer dollars.
I strongly support a new public works building. I suspect that the majority of people who signed the petition would also. I’m afraid I, though, have to disagree with the Councilor who said people signed the petition because they were provided with misinformation by some secret organization, when by their admission, Council did a poor job of:
- Explaining the rationale for the public works administration building,
- Explaining the impact borrowing for public works will have on other facilities,
- Making public the studies undertaken to determine the most cost-efficient method to construct the facility,
- Providing full costing of the project.
The District has argued that the renovations to Brennan Park and the borrowing for the public works yard/administration building are not linked. Yet, in a recent public meeting, the Mayor asked a Finance department staff member,
“I know one thing people are looking forward to seeing; next in line is Brennan Park, which we can do through grants & other external funding. Is our staff confident that our debt servicing will allow for that?”
The staff answer was: “At this point, as the projects start to escalate, we will have to go back, frankly, to the table in terms of re-looking at all of the ten years…confidently? Really, for Brennan Park, it depends on the external funding as well. That is what we have in the plan is to have part of that funded by external as well. That is the dependency on that going forward.”
That certainly appears to link the two. If the Borrowing bylaw is approved, how can it not delay the ability of the District to borrow additional funds for Brennan Park?
So if the Borrowing bylaw is approved, how can it not inhibit the ability of the District to borrow additional funds for Brennan Park, given that the Public Works Yard eats into a lot of the District’s borrowing capacity?
In the last go-around, people were legitimately questioning if the $22Million (+/) spent on this building is the proper priority when there is a clear need for significant additions to our recreation facilities or a safe exit point from a densely crowded downtown. (Think Lytton and how quickly that devastating fire grew).
If taxpayers are not being given all the information to make an informed decision, then it is legitimate for a person to ask probing questions. I would go even further and argue that the taxpayer has the right and perhaps the obligation to ask questions, expecting honest, respectful and timely answers – without the threat of reprisals or intimidation.
Alternative Approval Process – Is the second go-around legal?
As of this month and by Council’s admission, the building has yet to be designed entirely, yet Council went to the public to borrow $16M! When the public said “no,” Council responded by saying: “Well, you (the public) have just been misinformed and misled by some unknown entity, and we are going to go again, but we now need a few more million dollars.
Whether Council really ought to be moving forward with a second Alternative Approval Process is questionable. The Ministry of Municipal Affairs’ guidelines and their staff has stated Council cannot
Elector Approval Not Obtained (10% or More).
“Local governments do not have the immediate authority to adopt the bylaw or proceed with the matter (e.g. borrowing for water system upgrades) when 10% or more of the eligible electors in an AAP signed and submitted an elector response form before the established deadline. When 10% or more electors have signed and submitted an elector response form, and the local government has decided to proceed with the matter, they must hold assent voting. Moving to assent vote must occur no later than 80 days after the deadline for submitting elector response forms during the AAP. [LGA, section 174].”
Does this mean that a second AAP cannot be held and that the Council must go forward with the Assent vote? After a failed AAP, a local government can proceed directly to an assent vote on the same bylaw, or abandon the bylaw and either not move forward with the project, or alter the proposal and adopt a new one. If a local government proceeds with a new bylaw and wants to go to AAP again, Ministry staff would be looking to see what community outreach has been done and if the proposal is different than the original bylaw.
It is interesting to read between the lines that the Ministry does not state whether or not Squamish Council has or has not followed the letter of the law, but rather a senior Ministry representative has stated:
“If you believe the District has in some manner failed to comply with provincial legislation or has otherwise acted outside of its authority in holding the proposed AAP, you may wish to seek legal counsel to determine any potential remedies available through the courts.
Suppose there are concerns that District Council has not complied with the legislative framework about securing elector approval in this particular circumstance. In that case, you and other like-minded citizens can apply to the courts for a judicial review of Council’s decision or actions in this matter. The courts have the expertise to adjudicate questions of law and fact regarding due process, administrative fairness and jurisdiction of local governments.”
More than one way to skin the cat:
In 2018, the District created the Real Estate and Facilities Master Plan, which identified facilities needing replacement or repair. In 2019, the cost was well over $150Million.
The crux of the problem is that this Council has had four years to plan to replace the public works building. If the District is as poor as we are led to believe, then why has Council only chosen to look at building a stand-alone public works building?
There is a saying: “In the absence of information, there is speculation.”
So, how transparent is Council being? Recently, I was told that Council has signed a design and build contract. If this is true, no wonder Council is anxious to get the actual legal authority to honour that contract. One can only wonder if the signing of such a contract is legal? Was it publicly tendered? If an agreement has been signed without public knowledge, should one speculate that Council has already signed a 40-year lease for their new city hall offices?
Regardless of whether Council is following the letter of the law or not, the significant issue is not whether there is a need for a new building, but rather the planning and decision-making processes.
The Council has had four years to plan this facility, yet there are still so many unanswered questions.
As stated, most municipalities no longer build stand-alone public buildings. The school district is in as much need of safe and modern public works building as the municipality; yet not once in the past four years has this Council met with the Board of School Trustees to talk about shared services.
I agree there needs to be a new administration facility, but we also need a new transit hub. But the school district also needs a safe public works facility, a transit facility for their buses, and a new administration building – just like Council wants a new city hall, public works building and transit hub.
The shocking truth is that the District of Squamish has not met with the school board to discuss collaboration, despite receiving two letters from the school district indicating their strong interest in doing so.
In this day and age, collaboration can only make compelling sense from multiple points of view, including financial, urban planning and the environment.
Councillor French has stated that “…all avenues have been explored.” It is difficult to accept that assertion when the two letters from the school district (sent in November and December of 2021) have not been answered, nor has there been any collaborative planning for joint facilities.
In a recent article, Councillor Stoner is quoted as saying: “…I do believe that we need to be building for the future and not look into the past” Of course, she was referring to radically reducing the parking requirements for the Diamond Head development. Still, I wonder why she has chosen to lecture that neighbourhood when she chooses to ignore the cost to the taxpayer of constructing stand-alone public buildings?
I have been told the chosen site for the public works building is not large enough to accommodate any other shared space. But during a general discussion of the 5-year financial plan last December, staff said that the proposed building is already over-height. If this is true, the building will require a height variance- and who approves height variances? Yep, it’s the District. This implies that they could add space to share with other agencies if they chose to do so.
The Mayor has said publicly that Council can meet anywhere. One of the shining accomplishments of the District occurred during the pandemic when city hall was closed, and everything that was needed was available online. So, is there a strong argument to build a separate city hall and a separate public works administration building when Squamish is reportedly so broke?
On the topic of a new city hall, who typically goes to city hall? Developers, builders and people who want to pick up transit passes. I undoubtedly don’t recall my friends taking their kids to city hall for a Saturday afternoon picnic. Why must everyone go to city hall to get their transit passes? Brennan Park and the library should even now be issuing such passes.
Where would builders get their building permits – in the densely developed downtown or an area with ample parking? The fundamental question is, why build two separate buildings that are only open to the public between 7:30 am and 4:30 pm five days a week? But I digress.
But therein lies the Gordian Knot.
Other possible partners provide economies of scale, reduce capital and operating costs, reduce the impact on our environment, and improve customer service.
This project is needed, but the public works administration building in its current form should never have gotten to this point.
This Council has angered over 1700 people.
The second AAP may or may not be legal.
Council needs to accept that they have taken a myopic and old-fashioned approach by planning the construction of single-use, single-user facilities.
Council needs to take a step back and reimagine how to fund and operate the many needed capital projects.
There are many questions about the public works building that Council needs to answer; here are only a few:
- Has the District signed a contract to design and or build the public works yard building??
- Why has the District not held significant discussions with school district 48 regarding the possibility of creating shared facilities?
- What alternative studies did the District undertake before moving forward with the current public works building?
- By their admission, why did Council choose to go to the taxpayer to borrow millions of dollars on a facility that has yet to be fully designed?
- Why was the current location for the building chosen when another site could have been selected, enabling partnerships with municipal departments or perhaps with other agencies?
- Are two empty office floors being built when Council says there is no room to move city hall offices to this site?
- If the (yet-to-be-fully-designed) building cannot be moved, why can’t the building be designed to be higher, including city hall or at least a few departments, thus reducing the need to locate the required square footage in a downtown leased commercial building?
- Have all internal cost staff costs been included in the total estimate of this facility?
- What is the total cost of the public works building?
- Has any funding been contributed from the Water and Sewer Utility funds?
- What impact is there on borrowing funds to pay for the improvements to Brennan Park if the borrowing for the public works administrative building is approved?
- What is the accumulated impact to the taxpayer when the cost to borrow for the new public works building and two fire halls are added to the proposed 40-year city hall lease? Which has been estimated to be in 2019 dollars, a 2.6% baseline increase) just for the city hall lease?
We all know children who sometimes have difficulty sharing the sandbox. Yet Council members are not children. Surely we ought to hold them to a higher standard.
In summary: Council has only looked at one way to construct this stand-alone facility when they should have researched other methods to reduce the cumulative cost to the taxpayer.
One of Council’s top jobs is to ensure fiscal responsibility, to see that the taxes and development charges raised are done effectively and spent as efficiently as possible and that all commitments are fully costed out for the long-term impacts of decisions made.
Councils do not print money; every dollar a Council spends is a dollar that has been taxed and extracted from someone’s pocket.
Surely we ought to be able to expect more from our elected Council. Where is the vision? Where is the collaboration?
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A meat tax — No price too high to save the planet? Well, it is not to keep us healthy but to raise tax revenues. After all, the governments look for ever new and more inventive ways to raise money through taxes. A meat tax penalizes poverty.
Meat Tax: Influential Report Calls For Meat To Be Taxed Like Cigarettes
, Breitbart, 24 Nov 2015
An influential think-tank with close ties to government has co-authored a report advocating so called meat tax as a means to lower meat consumption worldwide.
Tackling climate change and improving public health can be achieved by forcing consumers to eat less meat in their diets, and it is up to government to force that change, finds a new report. Co-authored by the University of Glasgow and Chatham House, one of the world’s most influential think-tanks, the paper claims “our appetite for meat is a major driver of climate change”…. Full article
There are issues with the idea of forcing everyone to become vegetarian.
- There is more than enough proof that eating a meatless diet can cause serious health issues.
- A meat tax is punishment of the poor. It condemns them to an intensification of their miserable existence.
- There is no valid justification for a meat tax, other than the insatiable greed of governments to tax the energy we use, the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat.
The idea that a meat tax is necessary because doing so will curb climate change is propaganda and not supported by valid scientific evidence, but have a look at what Chatham House put into their report: Changing Climate, Changing Diets: Pathways to Lower Meat Consumption
That our “appetite for meat is a major driver of climate change” is an unsubstantiated, propagandist assertion.
It is not necessarily true that public “awareness of the link between diet and climate is very low.” There has been more than enough propaganda to make the public aware of that claim. The public took note of the assertion, assessed it, found it wanting, and gave it no more concern than it deserves. Poll after poll finds that concern for causes of climate change ranks at the very bottom of the list of concern. Take for example the results from a 2016 UN poll, My World, with close to ten million respondents from all over the world:
The recommendations offered in the Chatham House report are nothing more than a blue print for how to brainwash the public into accepting being taxed to death.
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God loves us and wants us for his own.
We know very little about Jesus’ childhood and early years apart from his visit to the Temple when he was 12. Had he always been in close contact with his cousin John, were there family gatherings when all that had been spoken by the angel were discussed, did Mary wonder when the prophesy would come true. We will never know.
But there was John at the River Jordon calling people
‘to repent, for the kingdom of God is near’, he wanted people to listen, to come and be baptised so that all that separated them from God might be washed away.
We know very little about the relationship between the two, but we are told in John’s Gospel that John looked up and seeing Jesus approaching said ‘Look the Lamb of God’ but whether he was waiting for Christ to come that day – who knows.
But we do know John said it was he, himself, who should be baptised and people do ask ‘Why did Jesus need to be baptized if he is God, if he didn’t have any sin?’. But surely forgiveness of sins is only one part of the grace of baptism; indeed in the baptism service we say that it is the beginning of a journey in faith. It is the sacrament by which God adopts us as children and makes us members of Christ’s Body, the Church.
So surely Jesus, by being baptized, was showing his solidarity with this new community, his willingness to be counted among these people of God. Indeed we hear that the heavens opened and that the Spirit of God descended like a dove and a voice declared ‘this is my Son in whom I am well pleased.‘ That was the beginning of Jesus’ ministry.
So why do we baptize? Well shortly after his death and resurrection, Jesus said to his followers, ‘Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit’. And ever since, the church has been baptising people of all ages.
Baptism isn’t some form of legal document, it is a sign of trust, trust in the power of God, and trust in his promises and admitting the need to turn to God for help and guidance. We are baptised as a child of God, that identity stays with us all our lives, and we are part of Christ’s body here on earth. It is a sign of God’s life-giving grace, of his forgiveness and love.
It is something that the Church, Christ’s body here on earth is commanded to do, just as Jesus commanded the disciples to baptise, to make all people his disciples , so are we today. We are called to draw all into the family of God, in to the church to work to create God’s kingdom here on earth.
As you probably know Archbishop Justin ruffled a few feathers last week by announcing that a new form of Baptism service is being drafted. Needless to say the Church Times has a letter bemoaning the ‘dumbing down’ of faith. But I must say I agree with the Archbishop, it’s not that I want to encourage people to sin, to encourage people to be less committed to God it is more that the wording seems so archaic.
To me being asked to reject the devil and all rebellion against God isn’t how we speak today why does the Church feel it has to use language which people find it hard to understand. Many years ago at one of our Emmaus courses one of our group, long since deceased, became quite angry at the use of the word sin. To her sin meant murder and she had never murdered, if the church meant wrongdoings of a lesser level, well, basically, they should say so. To me such language in this day and age seems to have more to do with domination in its worse sense than loving and believing in God and following in Christ’s footsteps.
I have often looked at the faces of those attending a baptism and I feel they look bewildered at some of the phrases used. In baptism we are inviting people to draw closer to God, to love him with all our hearts, to believe in Jesus and to lead our lives as closely as we can to his life, and whilst parents and Godparents have at least an understanding of faith many of their friends and family won’t have and I think we need to remember that. We also, I think, need to remember the Pharisees preached about the law continually, they loved to call people sinners but they couldn’t recognise Christ when they met him face to face.
And one other point church goers no doubt understand why the priest uses the word you ‘do you repent of our sins’ – but do all the congregation. Might it appear to them that I am saying I am holy yet they are sinners – if they know me they may well be thinking what a hypocrite that woman is. I think we really have to think what we appear to be saying.
We want people to join us, we have to encourage people to join us ,but we must, I believe use language they can relate to. Rather than keep asking them how often they have sinned we need to teach them love, to love God as he loves them. Isn’t God saying ‘I am your Father, you are my child. I will always love, bless and be with you.’ And surely that is why we Baptise.
There are billions of people in the world, we have to show that it isn’t just that God loves all people, but God knows and loves each one of us individually. Holy Baptism is one way in which God comes to us individually and personally with his love. In Holy Baptism, God channels his love for the world down to a single person.
In baptism we are inviting all people to take their first steps on their journey of faith, we are showing that God not only made us but loves each of us, that we are all part of the one family both here on earth and in heaven, let us pray that the church works as one to bring this wondrous gift to all people.
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Elaine Maslin reports on the year’s top discoveries to date. The largest discoveries were smaller in 2016, but the average ranged between 396-524 MMboe.
Atwood Oceanic’s Atwood Achiever drillship, which has been drilling for Kosmos.Photo from Atwood Oceanics.
Despite continued cutbacks in exploration spending, operators large and small have continued to drill in 2016, but average find sizes have fallen.
The size of the finds pale compared to last year (Zohr, offshore Egypt, was 3960 MMboe and Ahmeyim, Mauritania, was 1408 MMboe). The average size of a find in last year’s Top 10 was 700 MMboe. This year, it’s 524 MMboe – or 396 MMboe if you don’t include Tulimaniq, the biggest find so far this year.
OE pondered whether to include Caelus Energy’s massive Tulimaniq discovery in Smith Bay on the North Slope, Alaska, in the Top 10 offshore discoveries for 2016. Technically, it’s offshore – sitting in <2m water depth. However, for a large part of the year this is frozen over, drilling is from a land rig and production would likely be from man-made islands. Given its size, we decided to include it and let our readers decide.
Five of the top 10 biggest discoveries up to 11 November have been in West Africa. Discounting the Talimaniq discovery, the top two finds were in Senegal, discovered by the same operator, Atlantic Margin expert Kosmos Energy – which describes Mauritania/Senegal as “potentially the largest new petroleum system opened on the Atlantic Margin. Kosmos is planning a second exploration phase in this area, but outboard of existing discoveries, starting mid-2017, targeting oil. Another operator, Cobalt, found a further two of the Top 10 finds, in Angola.
The rest were in the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, Egypt and Myanmar. East Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean are notable by their absence, having been high on the list in previous years.
Despite the Tulimaniq outlier, and majors not having a strong show in the Top 10, deepwater remained the focus of most exploration. Gas finds, while not as dominant as last year, thanks to the massive Zohr find offshore Egypt, also remains a significant part of this year’s new resources.
This table will also likely change as we go into 2017 and more is learned about some of the already found resources and wells, still being drilled, complete. Resource estimates for Total’s Raya well, for example, are yet to make it into the public domain. The well, drilled offshore Uruguay, broke records for deepwater drilling.
Part of the Greater Tortue Complex, the Guembeul-1 exploration well encountered 101m of net gas pay in two “excellent quality” reservoirs, including 56m in the Lower Cenomanian and 45m in the underlying Albian. Importantly, Kosmos says, Guembeul-1 demonstrated reservoir continuity as well as static pressure communication with the Tortue-1 well in the Lower Cenomanian, suggesting a single, large gas accumulation. Guembeul-1 was drilled approximately 5km south of Tortue-1, which is expected to be the anchor for a development hub. The Tortue development concept is currently a near-shore FLNG concept.
Sitting in the Cayar Offshore Profond block, about 65km northwest of Dakar in nearly 1800m water depth, the Teranga-1 well was drilled to a total depth of 4485m. The well encountered 31m of net gas pay in good quality reservoir in the Lower Cenomanian objective.
Well results confirmed that a prolific inboard gas fairway extends about 200km from the Marsouin-1 well in Mauritania through the Greater Tortue area on the maritime boundary to the Teranga-1 well in Senegal, Kosmos says.
The Owowo-3 well encountered about 140m of oil-bearing sandstone reservoir. Owowo-3 extends the resource discovered by the Owowo-2 well, which encountered about 157m of oil-bearing sandstone reservoir, according to Exxon.
Owowo-3 was drilled to 3173m in 576m water depth. Exxon says that the Owowo field spans portions of the contract areas of Oil Prospecting License 223 and Oil Mining License 139.
The Thalin-1A exploration well, drilled about 60km west of the Daewoo-operated producing Shwe field, in Block AD-7 in the Rakhine Basin intersected a gross gas column of about 64m. About 62m of net gas pay was interpreted within the primary target interval.
Block AD-7 is in the Bay of Bengal, approximately 100km offshore of the west coast of Myanmar. Water depth at the Thalin-1A well location was 836m.
The well reached a total depth of 3034m. The discovery followed an earlier gas discovery by Woodside at the Shwe Yee Htun-1 well in Block A-6, but Thalin proved a working petroleum system and a new play type different to that encountered at Shwe Yee Htun-1.
“The logical development option for the Thalin-1A discovery is a tieback to the nearby Shwe field,” said Woodside CEO Peter Coleman, earlier this year. “Our strategy is to fully appraise the discovery in one campaign, thereby facilitating concept select in 2017.”
Woodside is currently the largest acreage holder in the offshore Rakhine basin with interests in six blocks. The six permits make up about 47,000sq km and represent 20% of Woodside’s global exploration acreage.
Golfinho was Cobalt’s final exploration well commitment on Block 20 offshore Angola. The firm said initial analysis of the Golfinho well results indicated potential for another large mound feature with Cameia-like fluid and reservoir properties. Cobalt is currently marketing its Angolan assets.
2016's Top 10 offshore discoveries
|Discovery||Location||Water Depth||Operator||Resource (MMboe)|
|Smith Bay, North Slope, Alaska||<2m||Caelus Energy||1800|
|Guembeul||St. Louis Offshore Profund Block, Senegal||2700m||
|Cayar Offshore Profond, Senegal||1800m||Kosmos Energy||880|
|Thalin||Bay of Bengal||836m||Woodside||266|
|Golfinho||Kwanza Basin, Angola||1330m||Cobalt||244|
|Nobilis||Perdido Fold Belt, Mexico||3000m||Pemex||203|
|Zalophus||Kwanza Basin, Angola||1760m||Cobalt||188|
|Fort Sumter||Mississippi Canyon, Gulf of Mexico||2152m||Shell||125|
|Baltim South West||Nile Delta, Egypt||25m||Operated by Petrobel (JV between Eni and Egyptian General Petroleum Corp.), 50/50 owned by Eni/BP||111|
Data from Wood Mackenzie, as of 11 November 2016.
*While offshore, Tulimaniq is in very shallow water (<2m), drilled using a land rig from the frozen ice during winter and likely to be developed using man-made islands, so it’s our find number zero, hence there being 11 finds in this Top 10 table.
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Finger Paint Transfer Art
Finger Paint Transfer Art is a fun way to introduce children to color mixing and a simple form of print making. This simple project is easy to do and lots of fun. Show children how to mix colors and create lovely works of art.
- Natural Braiding Cord
- Finger Paint 24 Pack
- Banner Paper 24in x 25 yds
- Wax Paper
Finger Paint Transfer art is a great project for young children to explore color and creativity. In this project, children put colors down on a piece of wax paper and then move the colors around, mixing them together to see what new colors can be created. The magical part of the project is when the “work of art” is then transferred to a new piece of paper!
Step 1. Gather your supplies.
Cut a piece of Banner Paper to desired size
Cut a piece of wax paper to about the same size as your Banner Paper.
Add Finger Paints to your wax paper. Tip: you might start out with just (2) primary colors and show your child how when you mix “red and yellow” together you get orange!
Make sure to cover a large area of your paper with the paints.
Once you are done adding colors fold your piece of wax paper in half. Use your fingers to “squish” all the colors together between the wax paper.
Open up the wax paper. Now it is time for the print making aspect of the project!
Take the wax paper and place it paint side down on your piece of Banner Paper. Tip: with a little assistance, children as young as three can do this alone!
Peel off the wax paper. You have now made a transfer print of the original finger paint design!
Display your Finger Paint transfer art!
Once you have completed (1) design, the wax paper can be used to create more transfers. First, add a little more paint to the wax paper. Next, cut an additional piece of Banner Paper for your new print.
Add a new element to your design, such as laying down a piece of string onto the new piece of Banner Paper.
Repeat Steps 6-8 and smooth the wax paper over the Banner Paper. Make sure to rub paint all around your string design!
Remove the wax paper. You have now created a second magical piece of art!
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During Friday morning's broadcast of Morning Joe, co-host Mika Brzezinski tried with all of her might to give Jeff Roorda, the business manager of the St. Louis Police Officers Association, every opportunity to walk back comments he made to Fox News the previous day about Ferguson protesters wanting "dead cops."
Instead of the story being about Ferguson police chief Tom Jackson finally resigning, Thursday morning's headlines are filled with reports that two police officers were shot and wounded during protests in front of the Ferguson Police Department.
Hours after the Department of Justice released a report Wednesday highlighting systemic racial discrimination committed by the Ferguson Police Department, protesters gathered in front of the police station in Ferguson to call for change and the dismantling of the current department.
In a conversation with St. Louis news station KSDK 5 on Friday evening, Ferguson police chief Tom Jackson told the station that Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson will be immediately reinstated to the active duty if he is not indicted by the St. Louis County grand jury in the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
Late Tuesday evening, CNN reported that Ferguson police chief Tom Jackson is expected to step down from his position as part of a larger effort to reform the city's embattled police department. Jackson may announce his resignation as early as next week.
In an eye-opening piece run by the New York Times late Friday evening, federal government officials close to the Justice Department's investigation of Michael Brown's death state that the evidence they've seen so far does not support a civil rights charge against Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.
PoliticusUSA's Justin Baragona was able to speak with an activist in Ferguson this weekend. The activist, Kayla Reed, lives in the Ferguson area and has participated in the protests that have occurred since the death of Michael Brown on August 9th.
A tense standoff between protesters and local law enforcement occurred late Thursday evening in Ferguson after the town's police chief Tom Jackson showed up at the scene and spoke to the crowd.
Protests resumed in Ferguson Tuesday night that led to the arrests of seven people. One local store was damaged when a rock was thrown through a window. However, there was no looting of the store, despite local media outlets using that word in their headlines.
A month after an unarmed black teenager was viciously shot and killed by a white police officer, the city of Ferguson held its first city council meeting since the incident. On Tuesday night, at a local church, over 600 people attended the meeting to voice their frustration and anger.
Ferguson police chief Tom Jackson was caught in a huge lie on Friday when it was revealed that he did not get "a lot of Freedom of Information requests" for a surveillance video from a local store the day 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.
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You’ll read here and there these days that industrial agriculture is more environmentally friendly than organic agriculture or traditional, diverse farming practices.
The writer is, almost without exception, someone who makes a living, directly or indirectly, from industrial agriculture. That doesn’t change the fact that they are, in their reasoning, perfectly correct. Industrial agriculture pollutes in ways organic and traditional growers do not, but its efficiency also creates environmental benefits.
As humanity’s population grows and we sprawl across the planet’s empty spaces, the efficiency of our food production becomes more and more important. As much as I believe in organics and grass-feeding, I don’t believe that I can produce 100 calories of soybeans or a pound of hamburger in a smaller space than the industrial farmer. I need more room, and generally more time, to do what I do.
If I have a hungry world to feed and I feel a sense of urgency, then it’s time to cultivate, irrigate and spray. It’s time for genetic engineering, herbicides and artificial fertilizers. That’s the way to produce the maximum amount of food using the minimum time and space.
I’m not talking about sustainability. I’m talking about efficiency.
Our toughest philosophical problem these days is what I call the Austerity Conundrum. A lot of people believe in human dominion and unfettered expansion. That leads us to a world in which we will, eventually, have minimal resources available to each person. We can’t expand production forever, so if we continue expanding demand we end up stretching our resources thin. It’s a grim certainty.
Unfortunately, many of our conservation efforts lead us to more or less the same conclusion. When conservationists suggest that everyone should ride bicycles and that no human being should use more than five squares of toilet paper per session, they are tacitly endorsing the goal of maximum human efficiency, a goal that willfully averts the gaze from the underlying issue of population growth.
This is not to discredit the power and beauty of the conservation movement. Conservation ignites the human imagination. An aesthetic of simplicity is inherently a part of the spiritual practice of frugality and generosity. What we, as individuals, do not consume will be consumed by other living things. And the planet will benefit from our stewardship.
But our logic is flawed if we believe efficiency will solve our puzzles.
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Pachamama Politics: Campesino Water Defenders and the Anti-Mining Movement in Ecuador (Review)
A new book traces the rise of Indigenous and peasant demands for a moratorium on mining in Ecuador. It has been a year and a half since Cuenca, the third largest city in Ecuador, voted to ban mining projects within the nearby watersheds. The historic referendum affected 43 concessions including the Loma Larga mega-mining project, which, if carried out, would have a dramatic impact on the páramo wetlands of Kimsacocha, an ecosystem that supplies water to numerous Indigenous, campesino, and urban communities in southern Ecuador. However, despite the fact that 81 percent of Cuenca’s electorate said “no” to mining, in July 2021 the conservative government of Guillermo Lasso transferred the Loma Larga project to Dundee Precious Metals, a Canadian company that already declared it will not respect the referendum results. Lasso also enacted decree 151 , which seeks to expand mining exploration to 72 percent of the national territory. The decree is part of the government’s plan to aggressively expand the extractive frontier of oil and mining projects, all in the hope of generating revenues to alleviate Ecuador’s foreign debt and ongoing recession.
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By UCA News
Indian Sikhs now have visa-free access to one of their holiest shrines after Pakistan opened a historic corridor to pilgrims at the weekend.
The 4-kilometer Karturpur Corridor was formally opened by Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan and his counterpart India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi during ceremonies on both sides of the border on Nov. 9.
It leads from the Pakistan-Indian border to the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur the site where Sikhism’s founder Guru Nanak settled after his missionary work and where he spent the last 18 years of his life. It was rebuilt in 1925 after the original was destroyed by floods.
It is considered Sikhism’s second holiest site after Gurdwara Janam Asthan, also in Pakistan, which was built where Guru Nanak was born.
The corridor’s opening came just ahead of the 550th anniversary of his birth on Nov. 12 and amid heightened tensions between the two nuclear-armed rivals.
An agreement to open the corridor, which requires Indian pilgrims to only show their passports, was finalized last month after the corridor was announced in November 2018.
The agreement also only allows pilgrims access to the shrine and requires them to return across the border the same day. The shrine will also be able to accommodate up to 10,000 visitors each day.
It fulfills a longstanding wish by Sikhs to have easy access to a site cut off from them when Pakistan and India were partitioned by Britain in 1947.
“I’m happy we could do this for you,” Khan told hundreds of pilgrims crossing the border on the first day, reported Dawn.com.
“Believe me, I had no idea of the importance the place holds. This is an issue of humanity, not a territorial dispute,” Khan said referring to the longstanding dispute over Kashmir that has seen the countries fight several wars and engage in cross border clashes.
In February of this year India’s air force mounted bombing raids against alleged terrorist targets in Pakistan in response to a suicide attack in Indian-administered Kashmir which killed 40 Indian troops.
Khan called on Modi to “rid ourselves of this problem…. So we can live like humans.”
“I have hope that this is the beginning,” he added.
Pakistan’s Religious Affairs minister, Pir Noorul Haq Qadri called the opening “the biggest message of peace and love” since partition.
The first pilgrims to use the Kartarpur corridor included former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh, and 150 Indian lawmakers.
It has been a longstanding wish of Sikhs to have easier access to the shrine from India.
“Our wish to go to Kartarpur is finally being fulfilled,” the BBC’s Punjabi service quoted Amandeep Kaur, who lives in the Indian border village of Dera Baba was quoted as saying.
“We will go and we shall bow our heads there. We have been separated from our Guru for a long time.”
At the Nov. 9 ceremony on the Pakistan side, Indian Sikh politician Navjot Singh Sidhu thanked Khan for the corridor.
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We’ll have the toolkit live likely the week of the 23rd of April.
Please share the outline of the toolkit and the below draft of the “key questions” that we will be using with your staff and Boards.:
PT 1 – ONTARIO ELECTION 2018:
COMMUNICATING THE VALUE OF LIBRARIES
OLA & FOPL’s ELECTION KEY MESSAGES
IMPORTANT GUIDELINES TO ENSURE SUCCESS
ENGAGING DURING ELECTIONS
APPENDIX A – HOW DOES THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT IMPACT ONTARIO’S LIBRARIES?
APPENDIX C – TEMPLATES
PT 2 – SUPPORTING CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AT YOUR LIBRARY:
HOST AN ALL CANDIDATES FORUM
ENCOURAGE NON-PARTISAN VOTER ENGAGEMENT
ENGAGING STUDENTS AT UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGES
ENGAGING STUDENTS AT SCHOOL LIBRARIES
These reflect the issues identified in OLA & FOPL’s Ontario Libraries Election Brief.
- Public libraries continue to serve more members of the community and evolve to meet changing needs, but provincial base funding for public libraries has been frozen for over 20 years. This year, public and First Nations libraries received a much-needed increase of $17 million to their annual provincial base funding. This investment is vital for ensuring that our libraries – in rural communities, small towns and cities like – are sustainably funded.
Do you support maintaining this critically important provincial funding for public and First Nations libraries?
- Access to online resources is an increasingly important part of the mix of services that public and schools libraries provide. Ensuring that students and the public have equitable access to accurate, comprehensive online resources is more important than ever with the growing presence of misinformation, questionable sources and “fake news”. But these resources are expensive. Ontario is following the lead of other provinces and is creating an Ontario Digital Public Library of high-quality resources, accessible to all public and First Nations libraries in the province.
Will you support the creation of Ontario’s Digital Public Library, and maintaining the critical investment needed to make this a reality?
- Qualified teacher-librarians and properly resourced school libraries are a critical part of student success. However, the flexibility of spending decisions by many school boards have diverted money earmarked for teacher librarians and libraries towards other uses. Many school boards in Ontario, including the Ottawa Catholic District School Board, have eliminated teacher-librarians and libraries from their schools altogether. We are already witnessing the negative impact that this is having for preparing students for success in university, college and the skilled trades.
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Nutrition in psoriasis
How to treat psoriasis? How to get rid of psoriasis naturally?
Proper nutrition seems to be crucial in the prevention and treatment of psoriasis.
Nutritionists’ opinion is that the ingestion of food containing toxins or the oxidation of the body itself are responsible for an organic imbalance that is manifested, in addition to some general body health problems, through unhealthy skin.
The use of a natural diet, very rich in foods with antioxidant properties, is capable of neutralizing these toxins. Moreover, the moderate use of certain foods prevents the occurrence of an intestinal imbalance that will worsen or trigger the onset of this disease.
Essential fatty acids for psoriasis
- Omega-3 Fatty Acids: These acids exert a positive action in the maintenance of a healthy skin, so they are appropriate to prevent or improve diseases affecting this organ, such as eczema or psoriasis.
Its effects are due to its anti-inflammatory properties and the fact that many foods with omega-3 are rich in vitamin D. People with psoriasis have difficulties to produce this vitamin, so that, the intake of these foods could benefit them.
Most plant foods containing omega 3 fatty acids are:
- Blue fish and fish oil (sardines, herring, salmon, tuna, etc.) contains a lot of omega-3 fatty acids (types EPA and DHA) and vitamin D.
- Vegetable oils (non refined): Flax seed oil has the highest proportion (533 mg per 100 g) followed by canola oil (111mg) or nut (104 mg) Other vegetable oils that can be included here are soybean, wheat germ oil or hazelnut oil.
- Nuts and seeds: Pecans, walnuts, sunflower seeds, flaxseeds, chia, almonds, etc.
- Vegetable are poor in omega 3 fatty acids. Some plant sources are: Purslane (whole plant), Lettuce (Leaves), Soy, spinach (Plant), strawberries (fruit), cucumber (Fruit), brussels sprouts (Leaves), cabbage (leaves), pineapples (Fruit)
Foods recommended for psoriasis diet by © Botanical-online.com
ADECUATE FOOD FOR PSORIASIS: Suitable diet for psoriasis
It is very important to ingest foods with the following principles:
Vitamin A: It is well known the importance of vitamin A in skin care. A diet rich in foods containing vitamin A helps prevent and improve the condition of patients with psoriasis. Certain foods and especially vegetables containing carotenoids that the body converts into vitamin are recommended.
High-vitamin A foods will include those plant foods that are orange, red or yellow vegetables, especially spinach, carrots, pumpkin, watercress, borage, basil, squash, tomatoes, coriander, asparagus, dandelion peppers, etc.
Non-vegetarian people can make use of high-vitamin A animal foods such as liver, egg yolk, fish (especially blue fish) and butter.
- Vitamin C: Like vitamin A, vitamin C, is another antioxidant. It is highly appropriate to prevent or ameliorate the symptoms of this disease. Citrus (Oranges, lemons, grapefruit, etc.) are specially recommended.. Other plants that contain this vitamin are: cauliflower, radishes, brussels sprouts, spinach, bananas, apples, melons, watermelons, carrots, pineapples, pears, papayas, barley, garlic, blackberries, celery, peas, strawberries, grapes, celery, figs, beans, chicory, cranberries, potatoes, avocados, soybeans, custard apples, mangoes, pomegranates, coconut, etc.,
Folic acid (vitamin B9): Folic acid is a is very good for the health of skin cells. Foods contain this acid in the form of folate. High-folate foods are legumes, whole grains, green leafy vegetables, and certain fruits. Among the richer ones we have chickpeas, lentils, dried beans, tender beans, spinach, asparagus, avocados, oranges, wheat germ or bread.
- Selenium: This mineral is very important in skin health. It maintains the elasticity of the skin and prevents the negative effects that time and oxidation produce on it. Foods rich in selenium are squash, barley, grapes, garlic, oats, peaches, corn, soybean, pistachios, Brazil nuts, asparagus or spinach.
- Zinc: Another mineral that helps keep skin healthy. In addition, it has been shown that people with psoriasis have more difficulties to retain this component. One should have to take into account the amount of products aimed to eliminate dandruff containing this mineral . A diet rich in zinc can help prevent or improve psoriasis. Foods rich in zinc are celery, asparagus, borage, figs, potatoes, peanuts, eggplant, cashews, sunflower, and grains… For non-vegetarians, seafood contains a very high amount of zinc.
NON ADECUATE FOOD FOR PSORIASIS
- Meat, milk and fats and psoriasis: A higher intake of these foods is harmful for the person with psoriasis because these foods worsen this disease. The reason for all this has been attributed to the fact they possess arachidonic acid. This could not be completely true, considering that Brussels sprouts are rich in this acid, along with the rest of cabbage family foods, which are particularly suitable for the diet of psoriasis.
It is generally established that a low-fat diet, together with a moderate protein intake can be very helpful.Animal entrails should be avoided.
- Alcohol and psoriasis: Alcoholic beverages are considered to trigger psoriasis. They do not only worse its symptoms because of alcohol vasodilating properties, but they also increase blood flow to the skin affected by psoriasis which produces more itching and redness.
- Spices: Equally, they raise peripheral circulation, so they are not suitable.
- Is bread good for psoriasis?: Many dietitians recommend not to eat foods containing artificial components, because they are excreted in part through the skin which may aggravate or trigger symptoms of psoriasis. Among these type of foods we can include those with artificial colorants, preservatives or yeast. (canned food, cakes, sweets or non-organic bread that is made with artificial products)
- Tobacco and psoriasis: Being a toxic, tobacco must be eliminated from the diet of people with psoriasis.
More information about psoriasis and its natural treatment.
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Michel Houellebecq’s latest novel Soumission has generated so much commentary since its publication on the day of the Charlie Hebdo murders that many readers will already know the basic outline of the plot. Seven years from now France comes under the power of a Muslim party, and a quiet process of Islamization sets in. Politicians and journalists who know only the outline have assumed that Houellebecq’s story is islamophobic, but careful readers of the book have agreed with his own protestations that this is not at all the case.
If anyone should be offended by his book, Houellebecq argues, it should be feminists. The place of women in society is indeed one of the main themes of Soumission. The narrator and protagonist of the story, François, begins by describing his growing disillusion with the secular feminism of the contemporary West and ends by accepting a version of Islamic patriarchy. Before accepting Islam he is drawn toward Catholicism, whose attitude toward women is only indirectly hinted at. His rejection of Catholicism seems to stem from the moral character that secular hedonism has given him.
François is a professor of literature, and since his student days he has had about one girlfriend a year. The opening of the book shows his growing realization that these relationships have not remedied his basic loneliness and discontent, but also and more importantly that the current ideal of sexual relations have rendered the women he knows lonely and miserable. When he meets some of his girlfriends from past years he sees that their implicit plan of “trying out” exclusive relationships with a series of boyfriends before settling down with one final boyfriend and starting a family has not worked.
One of them, Aurélie, was so emotionally and physically strained from her series of boyfriends that when she finally did attempt to start a family she failed. This failure has left her a bitter misandrist, whose only topic of conversation is the failings of her male colleagues at her (unfulfilling) job. Another one, Sandra, who has similarly failed to start a family, has become a “cougar,” distracting herself from her inner emptiness by brief flirtations with younger men.
The most miserable of his female acquaintances seems to be the only one of his generation for whom the current model of relationships has gone pretty much as planned: Annelise, the wife of an old friend from his student days. Annelise wakes up and adorns herself with expensive clothes and makeup for her high stress job, in which an elegant and stylish appearance is a sign of her status, but when she returns home at the end of the day, physically and mentally exhausted, she dresses in comfortable and ugly clothes, too tired to enjoy the company of her husband and children, or to try to beautify their lives. Her marriage seems to have become a mockery. In one scene , François is at Annelise’s house for a barbecue that is descending into chaos. Filled with pity he stays at her side, trying to express solidarity with her: “a vain solidarity.”
The (somewhat fanciful) version of Islam to which François eventually submits is portrayed as the opposite of the failed sexual egalitarianism he has rejected. Muslim women are portrayed as dressing in shapeless robes and veils when they go outside, but as dressing up for their husbands. Polygamy allows for stable homes for women without sexual discipline on the part of men. Sealed off in the privacy of the home, the Muslim women are absolved from the stresses of commercial and public life. They remain in idyllic world of childhood:
In the Islamic regime women (at least those pretty enough to attract well to do husbands) could remain children for practically their whole lives. Soon after they ceased being children themselves they became mothers, and plunged again into the world of children. As soon as their children grew up they became grandmothers… There were only a few years in which they bought sexy lingerie and exchanged children’s games for sex games…
The narrator admits that this amounts to a loss of autonomy, but he dismisses autonomy with an expletive. This is certainly an anti-feminist attitude, but is it a misogynistic one? It might be useful in this connection to recall David Graeber’s claim in Debt: The First 5000 Years that patriarchy in the classic, Old Testament sense first arose in rebellion against the decadence and sexual depravity of Mesopotamian cities; the veiling and secluding of women was partly a protest against their degradation in temple prostitution. This is certainly the way François chooses to see it, but it is hard to resist the impression that such infantilization of women implies some degree of contempt.
Moreover, for the new Muslim president of France, Mohammed Ben Abbes, the restoration of patriarchy is motivated not by pity for women, but by desire for power. His ultimate goal is to re-create the Roman Empire. He is scheming to admit the North African nations to the EU, and then re-model the EU as an authoritarian super-state with himself as president.
He realizes that a strong civilization needs to have more children than secular France does, and thus the restoration of patriarchy is key to his project. He thinks the ultimate foundation of patriarchy is religion, and thus his first priority is to give French children an Islamic education. He also sees that economic changes will have to be made if France is really going to become a patriarchal society. He begins by giving women financial incentives to leave the workforce, but he goes on to work toward a complete restructuring of economic life—abolishing both capitalism and the welfare system with their atomizing and egalitarian influences, and building a new economic system meant to strengthen families and family networks.
Oddly enough he turns a non-Islamic source for inspiration here: the Catholic distributists Chesterton and Belloc. Distributism, the astonished public learned,
wanted to take a ‘third way’ between capitalism and communism (which it understood as state capitalism). Its basic idea was the overcoming of the division between capital and labor. The normal form of economic life was to be the family business. If certain branches of production required large scale organization, then everything was to be done to ensure that the workers were co-owners of their company, and co-responsible for its management.
A Christian distributist might argue that the overcoming of the separation between work and family could allow for equality between the sexes without giving women Annelise’s problems. But for François such questions are a bit beside the point. François is not much interested in economic theory. He is attracted to Islam because it is in power, and because it seems better than secular nihilism. He does however go through a phase in which he is attracted to Catholicism.
François is an expert on the nineteenth-century French decadent novelist J.K. Huysmans. Huysmans converted to Catholicism, and for a long time François plays with the idea of following in his footsteps. He seems to approach an epiphany at a medieval pilgrimage shrine to Our Lady, but the moment passes. Later he visits a Benedictine monastery. There are of course no women there, but the Christianity that François sees there implies quite a different view of women from Islam:
The voices of the monks in the icy air were pure, humble, and mild; they were full of sweetness, hope, and expectation. The Lord Jesus was returning, He would return soon, and the warmth of His presence already filled their souls with joy. That was basically the only theme of their chants, songs of harmonious and sweet expectation. Nietzsche was quite right, in that bitchy way of his, that Christianity is at heart a feminine religion.
Unlike Nietzsche, François does not at first consider Christianity’s feminine character as a reason to reject it. But then he returns to his room, and a comical scene ensues in which he tries to read a devotional book but becomes exasperated because he is not allowed to smoke. “You are here,” the book tells him, “…to journey to that source where the force of desire can be expressed.” He becomes enraged: “You idiot! My desire is perfectly clear—I desire to smoke a gasper.”
Unable to live without smoking he breaks off his visit early, and returns to Paris. Later the new head of his old university will introduce him to a form of Islam that will allow him not only cigarettes, but also a full harem, and even (surprisingly) fine wine. He converts. It seems that the real problem with the “womanish” religion of Christianity was that it would have required him to discipline his passions.
Some critics have been annoyed by the amount of attention that Soumission has received. From a purely stylistic perspective, it is not particularly notable; Houellebecq’s prose is competent, but fairly conventional. But as a novel of ideas it is worthy of careful consideration. It gives us the picture of a Western intellectual who thinks with good reason that the cultural experiment begun in the Enlightenment is doomed. But unlike many such intellectuals, he goes a step further, asking whether the end of of that experiment is a bad thing and concluding that it is not. For Christian readers it is worth pondering why such a person would see the alternative in Islam rather than in Christianity. | <urn:uuid:732a0dd0-9453-411c-9291-f248c8c089e9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ethikapolitika.org/2015/06/01/a-review-of-michel-houellebecqs-soumission | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.979789 | 1,931 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Dick, Leonard G.Publisher: Highway Book Shop, Cobalt, Canada
Year Published: 1978
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX1023
Abstract: The native problem in Canada is not due solely to the presence of the white man. Many native problems, such as employment and alcoholism persist because the Indian is unwilling to take the responsibility for providing solutions. The Indian may not be equipped to take the necessary action, and this is in part the fault of the Indian.
The author takes a long look at natives and specifically at alcohol as one problem that persists among native peoples. The problem is complex. Yet, the inability of Indians to "handle" liquor is partly due to a lack of proper education concerning alcohol. The white man has provided the beverage, but has not given the Indian adequate education concerning its effects. The author notes that the native people have not demanded an education about alcohol and its effects. And now the native people should be seeking detox centres and education, but are failing to ask for these things.
Why cannot the native people solve some of the problems involved in living in Canadian society? One answer recommended is the lack of concern among the native leaders for the native people as a whole. All too often a power struggle is evident in organizations that are proposing solutions. The power struggle takes all the time and energy of the people, and so no positive action is taken.
The author calls for trained native leaders, leaders who are administrators and have the concerns of the native people at heart to lead the people in dealing with such problems as alcoholism.
Note: In the issue of Connexions that followed the one in which the above abstract appeared, the Connexions collective published the following note in French, which has been here translated into English:
ATTENTION DEAR READERS: We apologize for the impression left by CX1023, Broken Spirit in Volume IV, 5. After some reflection and discussion, the collective realizes that what is said and the abstract and the book is an internal matter for Native Peoples, and as such beyond our expertise. We affirm our support of the Native Peoples' struggles to build a better life for themselves, and therefore sincerely regret any offense that has arisen due to this abstract. | <urn:uuid:14cc46d0-1d19-4225-93a5-a660a901da08> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/CX1023.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.957433 | 473 | 2.3125 | 2 |
You know what they say, completing a crossword a day keeps the doctor a way. In fact, I don’t think anyone actually says that, but it’s still an enjoyable brain workout that’ll test your vocabulary skills and general knowledge. From time to time, though, you’ll come across a crossword clue that you just can’t figure out. That’s where we come to the rescue, as this guide will give you the answer for today’s crossword clue, as well as the letter count, to help you complete the entire puzzle.
You can find the answer to Like a burner when warming soup crossword clue below for today’s crossword puzzle. Make sure you double-check the letter count, found to the right of the answer, to make sure it’ll fit in the grid of your puzzle. The last thing you want to do is make an error in pen and messing up your tidy grid.
Like A Burner When Warming Soup Crossword Answer
The answer to the Like a burner when warming soup crossword clue is:
- ONLOW (5 letters)
The clue and answer(s) above was last seen on July 20, 2022 in the NYT Mini. It can also appear across various crossword publications, including newspapers and websites around the world like the LA Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and more.
Like a burner when warming soup Crossword Clue FAQ
What is ONLOW?
On low is a bit of a slang term meaning that something isn’t at full power. For example, if a burner is ‘on low’ when you’re warming your soup, it means that you don’t have it set to full power so you don’t burn your soup.
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Student loans are an investment in your future, but repaying them can feel overwhelming when you finally graduate. Too often, recent grads don’t really understand their loans or repayment obligations and fall behind. You can make sure this doesn’t happen to you by carefully researching loans before committing, and following these ten tips to pay back student loans smarter.
Don’t ignore the debts.It may be tempting to bury your head in the sand and simply ignore the debt you’ve accumulated during college, but this is a way to get yourself in big trouble fast. Take ownership of your loans by knowing everything possible about them. You may be surprised to discover that they are easier to handle than you expected when you face the reality head on.
Research your options.Most loans, especially government education loans, give you many options on how you will repay them. Take advantage of this by really looking at each option and figuring out which plan works best for your life. You may qualify for loan forgiveness. You may be able to pay based on your income. This can be especially helpful when you’re just starting out.
Use your grace period right.Most student loans have a grace period before you are required to start paying. If you have the money, though, start paying off your loans right away. You’ll be accumulating interest during this time, otherwise, which will only hurt you in the long run. If you are still looking for a job and can’t start paying back your loans, that’s ok. Just still use this time to do your research and set up the right payment plan for your needs.
Stay in touch with your lenders.As soon as you move or change email addresses, inform your lender. You need to be in constant contact with them, so that you can ensure that you are informed of any changes to your lender or other factors right away. The best way to do this is to check your notices and balances online regularly.
Pay down your debt as much as possible.It may be tempting to only pay the minimum payment on your loans, but this will only hurt you in the long run. The fastest—and cheapest—way to pay off your loans is to pay down as much as you can each month.
Take advantage of hardship options when you need them, rather then defaulting.Everyone goes through hard times at some point in their lives. That’s ok. Your student loans are designed to let you weather these times through forbearance and deferral options. Missing payments or defaulting on a loan can have serious consequences for you in all aspects of your life, but using a hardship option when you really need it is a responsible way of dealing with your financial difficulties—and it will allow you to stay in the federal government’s good graces.
Pay off your most expensive loans first.The higher the interest, the faster you should pay it off. Focus on paying off private loans and other high interest student loans first, and then worry about the others. It will take some of the financial pressure off you.
Be willing to make sacrifices.It’s not always easy to pay off student loans, especially early in your career, but you have to be willing to make sacrifices to get through this time. Focus on paying off your loans in the short term, and save luxuries like the latest technologies and fancy vacations for later. Also, be careful about overusing credit cards while you still owe a lot on student loans.
Switch to biweekly payments.It’s a simple change, but switching to biweekly payments can actually make the loan payments feel easier to manage—especially if you put just a little more towards the payment than the minimum each month. You’re also paying less in interest because there is less time between payments for interest to accumulate.
Reward yourself.Set milestones, such as paying off a private loan or getting halfway out of debt, and celebrate achieving them. When you reward yourself for reaching your goals, you’ll be even more motivated to succeed. Just remember: paying off your loan is a reward in and of itself.
These tips will go a long way in helping you successfully pay off your student loans in the fastest time while accumulating the least interest and penalties.
If you are struggling to pay off your student loans, however, you aren’t alone. Millions of people in the U.S. struggle with debt every year. If you are in over your head and don’t know how you will handle your debts, you have options. Call the Ohio debt attorneys at Luftman, Heck, and Associates today at (216) 586-6600 for a free consultation on your case to find out how we may be able to help. | <urn:uuid:4c8865f0-0338-421f-b29f-8fc8e6543328> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.clevelandbankruptcyattorney.com/10-tips-to-pay-back-student-loans-smarter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.958718 | 979 | 2.25 | 2 |
Jasper National Park is one of Canada’s oldest and largest national parks. Established in 1907, Jasper was once seen as an island of civilization in a vast wilderness. In more recent times, it has become a haven for those seeking a respite from urban life and a place to reconnect with nature.
As one of 42 national parks, 4 national marine parks/reserves and 167 national historic sites protected and managed by Parks Canada, Jasper is the gentle giant of the Rockies, offering visitors a more laid-back mountain experience - with equal options for adventure, discovery and relaxation.
Jasper National Park is home to many large mammals, including grizzly bears and the rare woodland caribou - a species at risk and symbol of Canadian wilderness.
It takes strong relationships with visitors, residents and Indigenous groups to ensure that the park’s natural landscapes, and the wildlife these support, remain unspoiled and available for the enjoyment of all visitors, for all time.
- Jasper National Park was established in 1907 and comprises ~11,000 km2 of authentic Rocky Mountain wilderness.
- Jasper hosts diverse experiences for visitors. These include five-star dining, rafting, hiking, biking, camping, horseback riding, spas and shops and even world-class golfing at Stanley Thompson’s Jasper Park Lodge Golf Course.
- Along with Banff, Kootenay, and Yoho national parks, and the B.C. provincial parks of Hamber, Mt. Assiniboine and Mt. Robson, Jasper received UNESCO World Heritage Site designation in 1984. At over 20 000 km2 it is among the world’s largest protected natural areas.
- There are five national historic sites in Jasper National Park: the Jasper Information Centre, Athabasca Pass, Jasper House, Maligne Lake Chalet and Yellowhead Pass.
- Jasper has 69 species of wildlife, including: Grizzly: 60-80, Wolves, 80-100, Black Bear: 70-90, Elk: 600, Moose: 180, Bighorn Sheep: 1000, Mountain Goat: 250.
- 82 songbird species regularly breed in the park and an additional 44 species have been recorded.
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“Detective work,” someone mutters to an eager graduate student in A. S. Byatt’s latest fictional riff on things Victorian. “What fun.” Well, yes and no. Before her writing career really took off with the huge best-seller Possession, Byatt was a professor of English and American literature; in Possession, a detective story with an academic twist, she managed to graft serious intellectual concerns onto a thriller’s plot. It’s still fashionable in certain critical circles to disparage Possession as a pop sellout, as if being a good read were somehow vulgar; reviewers who dismiss it tend to prefer Byatt’s arid and rather airless novels and short stories of intellectual and emotional life in contemporary Britain (The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower). The Biographer’s Tale should make them happy. For while it looks a lot like Possession – it’s a detective story about twentieth-century academics unraveling the truth about nineteenth-century figures – the new book is top-heavy with abstractions but short on writing. It’s not a whole lot of fun.
The Biographer’s Tale begins promisingly enough. On the first page, a diminutive student named Phineas G. Nanson (“small but perfectly formed”) quite sensibly decides, while a pretentious professor drones on about Empedocles and Lacan, to quit graduate school. He immediately seeks career advice from another, rather old-fashioned professor called, hilariously, Ormerod Goode; during their interview, in a paragraph slyly rich in ooh sounds, Phineas obsessively counts the o’s in Goode’s name. (Byatt likes to have a lot of fun with her characters’ names; one here is called Mansfield Parkyns.) Phineas’s discontent with the vaporous absurdities of high-tech literary theory and its insistence that reality is subjective – the object, as ever, of unrelenting parody by this author – has left him with a hunger for “a life full of things,” one devoted to “the surprise, the shining solidity of a world full of facts.” Goode suggests that Phineas try his hand at biography, which he describes as being “an art of things, of facts, of arranged facts.” As a model of the genre, the older scholar recommends a three-volume biography of the (fictional) nineteenth-century naturalist, polymath, and explorer Sir Elmer Bole, written by a mid-twentieth-century author called Scholes Destry-Scholes.
About Destry-Scholes himself little is known, apart from the fact that he drowned in the sixties near the Moskenes Current, a.k.a. the Maelstrøm, while doing research for a new biography. As Goode intends, Phineas becomes so obsessed with this mysterious figure that he embarks on what is, however great his disdain for contemporary critical practice, the ultimate postmodern literary project: a biography of the biographer.
Inevitably, Destry-Scholes turns out to be an enigma: The more time Phineas spends studying the man and the few enigmatic relics he’s left behind (a collection of 366 colored marbles, a trepanning instrument, a bunch of photos that come, significantly, without labels), the less he seems to know. That’s Byatt’s ironic point. Unknowability – the idea that our attempts to enumerate and classify and order will always ultimately fail when faced with the complexity and mystery that is an individual human life – is the theme of her book. This theme is repeated and underscored throughout in many ingenious ways, not least by means of a typical Byatt device: the “discovery” by Phineas of Destry-Scholes’s hitherto lost, unfinished biography of three real-life eighteenth- and nineteenth-century figures: the Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus; Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin who thought that eugenics would save humankind; and the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Why these three? Because all, in their ways, were great classifiers: Linnaeus was the father of modern biological taxonomy (remember kingdom-phylum-genus from high-school biology? Blame him); Galton sought to “type” human beings by race, class, and occupation while remaining almost willfully naïve about the uses to which his “science” could – and would – later be put (he considers the isolation of a generic “Jewish type” to be his “greatest achievement”); and Ibsen was the groundbreaking theatrical analyst of hidden psychological motivations.
The problem with, and the irony of, Destry-Scholes’s (and of course Phineas’s) attempt to write about these three is that they themselves turn out to be as unknowable, as unclassifiable, as Destry-Scholes himself is. Indeed, it’s with some alarm that Phineas discovers that in this incomplete biography, Destry-Scholes has actually moved from fact to fiction, from biography to novel, by inventing episodes in his subjects’ lives. This further discovery, along with your realization that Phineas’s own writing becomes less dry and scholarly and more imaginative and novelistic as the book goes on – and along with the fact that Phineas finds himself erotically torn between two highly sexed (and highly symbolic) women, a buxom blonde Swedish naturalist and bee expert named Fulla Biefeld (get it?) and a dark, introspective English photographer named Vera, who’s Destry-Scholes’s niece – provides Byatt with a vehicle to comment on some other favorite themes, not least of which is the tension between fact and fiction, scholarship and creativity, and science and art.
The opposition of blonde and dark women has served Byatt before as a self-conscious symbol of the conflicting claims of nature and art: It did so quite brilliantly in her 1992 novella Morpho Eugenia (later turned into the movie Angels and Insects). In that story, the hero forsakes his fertile, beelike blonde wife for a dark, brooding, secretive artist (and who wouldn’t leave Patsy Kensit for Kristin Scott Thomas?). At the end of the far less rigorous The Biographer’s Tale, on the other hand, Phineas gets to have it all, happily (for him) alternating between Fulla and Vera, nature and culture, science and art. (Much like Destry-Scholes’s subject, the bigamous Bole, who had both English and Turkish wives.) I think Byatt wants to say something here about complexity, about the grandly quixotic interdependence of seemingly opposed disciplines and subjects, but somehow the end of her book merely feels muddled, abstractly notional rather than achieved. You see, rather than feel, what it’s supposed to mean. Much of the fault, it must be said, lies with the long, long excerpts from Destry-Scholes’s triple biography, which feel dutiful rather than inspired, and don’t hold your interest the way the invented poems and writings in the other works do. Nor do you care very much about Phineas and his lady loves.
You could argue that the feeling of something missing, of a vague dissatisfaction, is Byatt’s point – or meta-point. But I’m not sure it works that way. It’s surely true that every individual life, like life itself, is an endless whirling maelstrom in which you can get hopelessly lost (and in which you, like Destry-Scholes, can end up drowning) once you enter it. But that’s just life; art, on the other hand, is supposed be highly structured, with neat patternings and coherences and meaningful orderings of its themes and symbols. It is a surely unintentional irony of Byatt’s knowing, richly ambitious, but ultimately unsuccessful book that her novel ends up feeling more like life than like art. | <urn:uuid:f3f8ce86-5a85-446c-a42a-f69d3ba25ac9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/books/reviews/4359/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.95606 | 1,756 | 1.609375 | 2 |
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What you need to know about pension auto-enrolment
In 2012 the Government made it mandatory for all employers to enrol their employees onto a qualifying pension scheme. All staff working in the UK over the age of 22 to State Pension Age and earning over £10,000 (2014/15) must be automatically enrolled in a pension scheme.
So why has this been introduced? The reason is that without changes to workplace pensions, the UK faces certain pensioner poverty. It is estimated that 7 million people do not save sufficiently for their retirement - in 2013 alone only 35% of the working population were in an occupational pension scheme. The Government has been pressured to provide assistance and auto-enrolment is the answer as it ensures all employees are entered into a compulsory pension contribution scheme.
For businesses of all sizes, auto-enrolment is mandatory whether you have 100 or 1 employees. The Government has put in place staging dates, providing employers with a deadline by which they must have a pension scheme in place by.. Staging dates are based on the number of employees you had on your payroll on 1st April 2012 - you can check your staging date here.
If you fail to put in place a pension contribution scheme by your staging date you will face serious fines which could threaten the future of small to medium sized companies.
It is also important to remember that employers must send a formal communication to all staff telling them how they’ve been affected. Staff communication is a mandatory aspect of auto-enrolment and failing on this point results in non-compliance.
Implementation has already started with the largest employers in October 2012 and continues to 2017 until all employers with a PAYE scheme are automatically enrolled. Staff that do not meet the criteria of earning over £10,000 and being over the age of 22 have the option to join, but it is not compulsory.
For any new starters who joined a company since April 2012, the staging dates are 2017-18.
Auto-enrolment means a huge shake-up for retirement saving, but the good news is that it doesn’t have to be an arduous process for businesses to set up and remain compliant. Companies that have good processes, effective methods of staff communication and expert advisors to hand are more than half way there.
Members North Laine Financial Management have launched a new service, UK Auto Enrolment Ltd. They are based in Brighton and are currently helping many Sussex companies comply with auto-enrolment regulations. The team project manage the entire auto-enrolment process for you, ensuring you are set up ahead of your staging date - saving you time and resources. They offer a free meeting explaining the auto-enrolment process and how you can comply in the most cost-effective way.
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Over a fabulous brunch this weekend with two equally fantastic friends (though really, every brunch spread is the bomb), we happened upon an especially entertaining conversational topic that, once we began, we took off running with. The Stereotypes of Europeans/German versus Americans. This discussion garnered lots of laughs as well as some fascinating and engaging topics.
Basically, LOVED it!
As an aside, I thought this would be perfect for fun reading in the form of my next blog topic ;-)
So, here we go. The differences (which of course are somewhat stereotypical while simultaneously being rooted in truth) between Americans and Europeans/Germans.
Important note: many of our topics are applicable not just to Germans but to Europeans generally. However, a few are more German stereotypes specifically. I will specify which is which.
European/German versus American Differences
1. European/Germans tend to be more open to sexuality, more laid back about this topic in general. Americans tend to be far more uptight, nervous and repressed sexually. I have observed this both visually as well as conversationally while living abroad. Europeans are more laid back with regards to their own nudity in front of others, whereas this is generally something that most Americans feel quite shy and some, even ashamed of (the latter being unfortunate as its just a human body). In Europe, they acknowledge that sex is a natural and normal part of human life. They tend to be more comfortable discussing it openly. This reverberates out to things like sex shops not being the seedy, secretive affairs they tend to be in the US (here, its no big deal), as well as even to something as simple as PDA. In the US, people tend to be more shy and skittish about expressing their affections physically in public. In Europe, people stand closer to one another while conversing (with a romantic partner of even a platonic friend). They hug and touch more often. And yes, they do not hesitate to kiss and even make out a little, in public.
2. Europeans are more laid back with regards to their work ethic. Yes, its true. In Europe, the standard is 6 weeks of vacation per year. I can vouch for that, and let me tell you, its life changing. In Europe, they favor a work-life balance far more than Americans do. On this side of the pond, the mentality is more along the lines of, one works in order to fund their life.
In the US, this mentality is the opposite. Its no secret that as a whole, Americans are overworked. Instead of working to live, they live to work. With a meager 10 vacation days per year which often extends well into several years of being with a company before they are allotted one additional measly week, people in the US are often exhausted and overly focused on their work life, often times neglecting their social lives and passions out of simply not having the time and being too tired after all the hours devoted to work. To me, this signals less life enjoyment and happiness. Lower levels of health and less fulfillment.
3. Now, this is more of a German thing (as opposed to being a widespread European thing since Italians and Spanish are known for being the exact opposite) but Germans are less approachable, less openly friendly, cold and generally not easy to talk to. Sometimes they are even downright rude, pushing against you to move past with no seeming awareness nor any acknowledgement of your presence in front of them. Americans are significantly more open, warmer, much easier to approach. An American will turn and begin chatting with you during your commute home. There is nothing unusual about this. A German would NEVER do such a thing. An American may come up to you while you are out and about, to ask for your number or just chat for a few minutes, inquiring about any good restaurants nearby, the weather, or any friendly conversational topic. A German would never do this. Even my German friends agree, wholeheartedly and with enthusiasm, that Americans are far friendlier, far easier to connect with, approach and befriend. That in Germany this is incredibly difficult is a bummer. This results in making friends and dating being a much easier venture in the US.
4. An interesting counter point to #3. In the US, Americans are more openly friendly, this is true. However, Americans are unfailing polite, to a degree in which you never quite know if they are genuine or not. Let me explain. An American will greet you with enthusiasm and excitement. They will claim wanting to be friends and "oh my gosh, we have to get together sometime soon." However its a 50/50 toss up as to whether they actually mean it or "just being nice." This makes it tough to know where you stand with many Americans in terms of things like friendship. Americans are always "nice," whether its fake or genuine. Only time will reveal which it is.
Though initially colder and with a tougher exterior to break, once you befriend a German, you have a friend for life. If they don't like you or don't wish to be friends with you, you'll know it. They do not entertain with false niceties like Americans do. Shockingly, this is actually a relief. In this sense, you know that the friends and connections you have are all real ones. You know that the people you are friends with actually like you deeper. They aren't just "being nice" because they feel "too guilty" to not be your friend. Germans take their friendships seriously.
5. This is another Germany specific thing (as opposed to a European one). Germans are far more structured than Americans in general. They have more rules and regulations. Pertaining to what? You might be asking. EVERYTHING. Rules, guidelines, these are two of a Germans favorite words. They are punctual to a point with regards to their meal times, with regards to meeting times, etc. Americans tend to be far more flexible, far less structured, more spontaneous and easy going, than Germans. This is both a blessing (sometimes) and can be a curse (sometimes as well). If a German says he will meet you at 7pm, he will be there at 6:58pm. If an American says 7pm, it could be 7pm, or it could be 7:05, 7:10, even 7:15pm. This can make Americans seem slightly less reliable than Germans.
6. Germans are not as open in terms of inviting new friends into their home and life. They tend to make friends at a young age and stick with that same group of friends for years and years. Germans like routine. They like regularity and predictability. Americans are very open to making new connections, forming new friendships, opening their home to people, etc. This can result in making the act of forming friendships much easier. Americans tend to be more outgoing whereas Germans tend to be more reserved and buttoned up.
7. This is more of a wide spread Europe thing as opposed to a German thing. Europeans are FAR more intellectual, worldly and interested in the goings on in the world, interested in learning, interested in the pursuit of broadening their education and way of thinking, than Americans are. Americans look down on and criticize intellectualism. We make fun of nerds (aka smart people) as being "losers." The majority of Americans know far less with regards to the world, history, science and the like, as opposed to a European. A vast majority of children throughout Europe speak two or three languages by the age of 10. Almost none of the Americans I have ever crossed paths with had this skill under their belt, nor is it one that particularly interests us. Europeans pride themselves on knowing things, on learning. Americans often scoff at this. There is a reason one of the American stereotypes if that we are ignorant. Its majorly rooted in truth when compared with Europeans.
8. In Europe, everyone smokes. There is no negative stigma to it over here so sadly, its still wide spread. Luckily, a negative stigma has grown with regards to smoking over in the US. This has decreased the percentage of people who smoke cigarettes in large numbers.
9. People are far worse drivers in the US as opposed to many Europeans. In Germany specifically, the drivers education is far more intensive and drawn out than in the US. In Germany, one has to pay a couple thousand dollars to take their drivers test. If they fail, which many people do, they have to re-pay the $2,000 again, just to retake the test. In the US, you sit in a classroom for a handful of hours, drive several times with an instructor, and then you are on the road at age 16. In Europe, its more cost intensive and time consuming, resulting in much better drivers as a general rule.
|This might explain some things... ;-p|
10. Americans tend to be more confident about things. At its most negative, this can be arrogance. Americans think they know how to do everything. They are fond of saying, "I've got it, I have it figured out. I know this." Germans are far more humble. They tend to say things like, "well, I am not totally sure about that. I can sort of do it. I know a little bit about this, but I could learn far more."
This is of course, not necessarily a list rooted in concrete fact. These were merely our opinions and observations. Myself (American) and my two friends (German) came up with this list together, bouncing our own opinions and thoughts off of each other, all the while, laughing and nodding knowingly.
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Socialist hero Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) isn’t running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020.
But some of her ideas are.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who is running, has endorsed Ocasio-Cortez’s new “Just Society” plan, calling it “just the type of bold, comprehensive thinking we’ll need” to make “big, structural change.”
It's going to take big, structural change to tackle poverty and inequality in the U.S., and @AOC's "A Just Society" is just the type of bold, comprehensive thinking we'll need to get it done. https://t.co/ESOELg2OKq
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) September 30, 2019
Sounds a bit like “fundamental transformation,” doesn’t it? “Big, structural change” seems to be Warren’s tag line. She says it about everything, while behind the scenes reportedly getting the aid of failed candidate, Hillary Clinton, the establishment candidate of 2016, perhaps the furthest thing from ‘big structural change” that one might find.
But let’s check out this plan that Warren is embracing. Because yes, it would be “big, structural change.”
Just not the kind Americans would want.
What are they calling for in this “Just Society” plan? A festival of socialism.
Here’s AOC introducing the plan, in her best imitation of FDR’s “Fireside Chat” pose to appear presidential, even with an old-fashioned mic.
We’re rolling out our next major project: A Just Society.
It’s a 6-piece suite:
1. Recognizing Poverty Act
2. Place to Prosper Act
3. Mercy in Re-Entry Act
4. Embrace Act
5. Uplift Our Workers Act
6. Ratify the UN Covenant on Economic, Social, & Cultural Rights
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 25, 2019
The idea behind the bills is that they’re supposed to “eradicate poverty.” But have you ever noticed that, historically, the Democrats’ ideas for eradicating poverty tend to put as many people as possible on the government dole?
Plus, poverty is at historic lows, including in New York City, where Ocasio-Cortez’s home district is. In fact, poverty is so low under President Donald Trump, AOC has to actually jack the numbers by changing the poverty line, making the poverty line $38,000/year without even considering benefits. That’s the benefit of Trump’s supercharging the economy and letting capitalism operate more.
Among other things, the “Just Society” plan calls for nationwide rent control as well as making sure welfare is available for illegal aliens and ex-convicts.
As Brad Polumbo at the Washington Examiner explains:
Price controls just restrict the supply of housing, because they discourage developers from building more housing by lowering potential profits. This, in the long-run, will send rents soaring in non-rent-controlled areas. Meanwhile, property owners who do face rent restrictions may convert their apartments to condos or otherwise stop renting them, rather than rent out their property at artificially low prices.
And what does number six mean?
In classic Green New Deal style, though, the most radical part of the Just Society package is the resolution it includes. Ocasio-Cortez’s plan would have the United States sign on to an international accord that states all people “have the right to work, fair and just conditions of work, social security, an adequate standard of living, including adequate food, clothing, housing, and healthcare.”
While that might sound nice in the abstract, it’s a vision of positive rights — the right to something rather than freedom from — that inevitably involves massive amounts of socialism.
How are we going to pay for the festival of socialism? They don’t say. How are you doing to deal with the unintended consequences of this, such as the greater housing shortage that this would cause and the greater number of illegal aliens coming in to get welfare that you’re guaranteeing them? They don’t say but you know it means you’ll be paying for it.
It’s a recipe for government takeover, killing the economy and making more Americans poor and dependent.
Joe Biden has been suffering a lot of hits in media and justifiably so. But his difficulty has allowed Warren to slowly creep up in the polls.
Embracing this crazy idea may make Warren more palatable to the far left.
But it’s a killer come the general election, if she was to get the nomination.
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Posted On: Monday - June 27th 2022 7:52PM MST
In Topics: History Economics US Feral Government Inflation Dead/Ex- Presidents
Does anyone here remember these buttons from the time of President Gerry Ford? OK, at least do you remember seeing them at the flea market for 50 cents? Well, now they'd be 5 bucks, what with inflation ... * The 2022 version of a lapel button, since people don't have lapels for them anymore, would appear as an image on TikTok or mass text message from a modern President like Zhou Bai Dien thusly:
No, buttons or text message were never gonna cut it half a century ago, and mass text messages won't now. I was too young back in the time of those "WIN" (Whip Inflation Now buttons to understand that the law of Supply & Demand applied to currency as well as anything else, but I do remember an explanation of inflation during the 1970s that I naively agreed with:
"See prices go up, and employers then have to raise wages accordingly. Since they're paying higher wages, costs are higher, so they must raise prices. It's a vicious cycle."Yeah, that sounded right to me at the time, but I guess the news reporters of the time weren't too much brighter or more honest than those today. I don't recall (but then I didn't read/hear so much economic news at that age) mention of the US having just taken the dollar off the gold standard a couple of years before (these buttons). I don't remember mention of this FED creature (from Jekyll Island - nice vacation spot, BTW) at that time either. Where in hell was Ron Paul?**
"We just need to get off this cycle, and it'll all be fine. If we can hold down prices, then the whole thing STOPS."
Nope, it wasn't that vicious wage/price spiral. It was simply the Supply & Demand Law as applied to currency that was being created more easily, now that the government wasn't required to back up people's or country's dollars with gold.
Note: This song is not the same as the one by The 10,000 Maniacs. I hope it doesn't hurt anyone's feelings here, but Natalie Merchant is a better vocalist than Edith Bunker. Hey, somebody had to say it.
Just under 50 years later, older Americans may be feeling that Deja vu thing. It took long enough - as Peak Stupidity, with our Inflation topic key has long noted, real inflation since the mid-1990s has averaged 4-5%, not the 1-2% that our BLS green-eyeshade boys have been publishing for years. Now, we hear much more talk about "Hey, I just paid $7,99 for a pound of whatever. Can you believe that?!", and "I don't know why it's more, Sir. It's everything. Shit's goin' up."
It started with taking the currency off the gold standard back then. Then, Jimmy Carter-appointed FED Chairman Paul Volcker had the interest rates raised up right up against 20% (by December of 1980). This caused high interest rates on borrowing, especially mortgages, and a recession that [waves hands] reduced the inflation rate.
I think it will take some more reading and perusing the web by yours truly to relate the rate of money printing to inflation over the years since than. Federal money borrowing via Treasury Bills and Bonds continued through through the years, and there was never again a REAL surplus***. What we can say is that the Federal borrowing went from $1 Trillion/yearly (more than 1/4 of government tax receipts) to $4-5 Trillion for the PanicFest. That was all borrowed money, as in created out of thin air. Who knows what the real inflation rate is now? If you go shopping much, you may be forgiven for not believing the US Government's 8 1/2% number, bad enough as that would be.
Our post title here is a trick. We CAN'T use a man like Chairman Paul Volcker again. As Peter Schiff knows and has explained, Ron Paul has also, and Peak Stupidity has many times on these web pages, the FED is between a rock and a hard place on interest rates. Keep the rates the same, and inflation goes up, up, up, up! (I've been shattered!) Raise them seriously (not 50 basis points*****, no, much more than 500 basis points), and the stock market crashes and the Federal Budget is seen to be the sham that it is (with more than half of tax receipts going to interest).
America is not the manufacturing powerhouse of the Free World as it was 45-odd years ago, and it's a highly indebted nation now. We have no recourse but serious financial pain. Hey, Archie and Edith, no, where YOU were then... those were the days!
History doesn't repeat, but it (kinda) rhymes. Instead of "Whip Inflation Now", how about "Whip Joe Biden Now" buttons?
* Yeah, I know, there's nostalgic value too, of course. This is what sucks about that whole Jordan Peterson "cleaning up your room" bit. Lots of people might still have valuable Batman™ steel lunch boxes or WIN buttons if not for all that. Hey, I was close! A guy on ebay wants $6.49 for a Whip Inflation Now button, but if you buy 4 you can get 'em for $5.19 each.
** He wasn't long in coming, but during Nixon's time he was still in Texas delivering babies. He got elected to the US Congress in 1976.
*** That Clinton-era surplus was a gimmick done by merging the formerly separate Social Security receipts/outlays, still well in the black then, with the rest of the budget.
**** I like his title for that column too: End the Fed and Get More Doritos.
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It’s frustrating to wake up to oily hair. However, it should not worry you as It’s normal for your hair to get greasy when there’s a buildup of natural oil on your scalp. The oil, called sebum, is produced by your sebaceous glands and functions to lubricate and waterproof the skin and hair. If you notice that your hair gets greasy overnight, you may have overactive sebaceous glands or need to adjust your hair care routine.
Your hair gets oily when you get up in the morning because of the natural oil buildup in the scalp. The sebaceous glands that produce oil are located on your scalp and have an oily substance called sebum. When you sleep, these glands become active, producing more sebum than usual. Usually, the excess sebum is absorbed by the hair shaft and distributed evenly throughout each strand.
However, if these glands become blocked or damaged, they can’t do their job well, causing buildup. If your scalp is dry or damaged from over-processing or coloring your hair, it won’t be able to absorb the excess sebum. So it’ll start to build up instead.
Why Is Your Hair So Oily When You Wake Up?
So, read on to learn more…
Medication and Supplement
Drugs or supplements that contain hormones make your hair oily. Some medications and supplements cause oily hair. You will experience increased sebum production when taking antibiotics, birth control pills, antidepressants, or anticonvulsants.
Overwashing Your Hair
Washing your hair too often strips your scalp of its natural oils, causing it to overcompensate by producing more oil. The tendency increases if you use hot water when washing as it causes damage to the follicles resulting in excessive oil production to protect them from further damage.
People with poor hygienic habits have oily scalp and hence the greasiness in their hair. If you are not washing your hair regularly or using good natural ingredients products, your hair will likely become dirty quickly. The dirt accumulated on your scalp causes excessive oil production, which results in greasy hair.
The Hair Products You Use
Using products not suitable for your hair type. If you have dry hair, using a conditioner containing alcohol or silicone makes your hair even worse. These chemicals remove natural oils from the scalp and cause excessive secretion by sebaceous glands to compensate for the lack of oil in the scalp.
Your Sleeping Position
The sleeping position you assume at night contributes to oily hair in the morning. If you sleep on your stomach or back, the gravity causes oils from the roots down toward the scalp and won’t be absorbed by your hair shafts and follicles.
How To Prevent Your Hair from Getting Oily When You Sleep
Use a detangler Instead of a Conditioner.
A detangler helps reduce the amount of oil your scalp produces by breaking down the protein bonds that hold each strand together. This allows each strand to fall apart easily, so they don’t stick together and clog the pores on your scalp. The best detanglers contain natural ingredients such as rosemary extract and tea tree oil, both antiseptics and anti-inflammatory agents that keep your scalp clean and healthy by eliminating bacteria and fungi that cause infection or dandruff.
Sleeping With Your Hair Up
This way, the oil produced at the roots will not flow down the length of your hair. Either put it in a bun or tie it up in a ponytail.
Using a clean silk or nylon pillowcase helps keep your pillowcase from becoming stained by sebum and prevents breakage caused by friction at night.
Use Shampoo Designed For Oily Roots
There are shampoos explicitly designed for oily hair to help clarify the scalp and remove excess oil and dirt. These products contain tea tree oil and peppermint oil, which help dry the scalp and reduce oil production.
Use a clarifying shampoo once or twice per week instead of every day. This will remove any buildup on your scalp that could cause excess oil production. Clarifying shampoos are formulated with ingredients like sulfates and salicylic acid that break down oils so they won’t build up in your hair over time. Reducing the frequency of use helps prevent your scalp from drying.
Use a Clean Silk Or Nylon Pillowcase
This helps absorb any oils on your pillow before they get transferred onto your hair overnight. Make sure you change these regularly so they don’t build up bacteria over time.
Use Dry Shampoo
Dry shampoos come in different forms, from powders to sprays. Powders are better for absorbing excess oil as they are more concentrated than sprays. However, powders leave white residue on your scalp and hair if not applied correctly or if too much is used.
Natural Products to Prevent Waking Up with Oily Hair
There are many natural substances that you can use on your hair.
Mix half a tablespoon of baking soda with one teaspoon of water and massage it into your scalp for five minutes. Rinse well with cool water.
Apple Cider Vinegar
Mix one part apple cider vinegar and three parts water in a spray bottle and spray it on your hair after washing. The vinegar dries out the oils on your scalp, leaving them with less oil buildup.
Rinse your Hair with Lemon Juice
The acidity of the lemon juice helps remove excess oils from your scalp and prevent buildup.
Wash with Tea Tree Oil
Wash your hair with tea tree oil instead of regular shampoo. Tea tree oil has antifungal properties that prevent dandruff and buildup from forming on your scalp while moisturizing dry patches so they don’t flake off into clumps.
Understand the Cause of Your Oily Hair
The best way to combat oily hair depends on what’s causing it. No one answer works for everyone. But by understanding why your hair is greasy and the causes, you can start taking steps towards eliminating this problem. You should try using natural remedies or combining them to avoid expensive products. Using the right products free from harsh chemicals begins your healthy hair journey. | <urn:uuid:925693de-ea6f-4cdc-8058-32a08024c8b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://younglivingoillady.com/why-is-your-hair-so-oily-when-you-wake-up/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.925366 | 1,286 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Tomb of Aias (Troy) (4 Subjects)
The putative Tomb of Aias, in the Troad.
1. Plan and section plan of the putative Tumulus of Aias in the Troad. 2. Section plan of the putative Tumulus of Achilles in the Troad. 3. View of the putative Tumulus of Patroclus in the Troad.
Εικ. 1. Landscape around Üvecik, in the larger area of the city of Troy. Fig. 2. Landscape if the Troad. On the left the Castel of Kumkale. On the right the site of the Tomb of Aias, in the ancient city of Rhoiteion (today Intepe).
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What does the word hotel mean?
1. Hotel, house, inn, tavern refer to establishments for the lodging or entertainment of travelers and others. Hotel is the common word, suggesting a more or less commodious establishment with up-to-date appointments, although this is not necessarily true: the best hotel in the city; a cheap hotel near the docks.
What is difference between hotel and hotel?
Hotels may contain several floors and more rooms. They have over one hundred rooms with internal corridors, staircases, and elevators. Motels may have only one or two floors with fewer rooms for your customers to access them easily from the car park.
What is a motel vs a hotel?
A hotel is usually a large, enclosed building with hundreds of rooms across multiple floors, while a motel has one or two floors with outdoor room entrances.
What are the types of hotels?
Discover 21 of the most popular types of hotels
- Chain hotels. The most common hotel type on this list, chain hotels make up tens of thousands of properties located throughout the world.
- Conference/convention center hotels.
- Extended stay hotels.
- Boutique hotels.
What is the difference between restaurant and hotel?
Hotels and Restaurants are both business establishments that cater to different needs of customers. The basic aim of a hotel is to provide accommodation whereas the basic aim of a restaurant is to provide food and drink. This is the main difference between hotel and restaurant.
What is modern hotel?
The Modern Hotel is a site on the National Register of Historic Places in Whitehall, Montana. It was added to the National Register on December 22, 2011.
Why is it called hotel?
The word hotel is derived from the French hôtel (coming from the same origin as hospital), which referred to a French version of a building seeing frequent visitors, and providing care, rather than a place offering accommodation.
What is motel and example?
Motel definition The definition of a motel is a convenient, temporary sleeping place for people traveling by car. An example of a motel is a Super 8. noun. 1. (as a modifier; used attributively) Of architecture, interior design, etc, in the style of a motel; identical and anonymous.
Are motels worse than hotels?
If you value safety and security, you might prefer to stay at a hotel with security, interior room doors, and its own restaurant. On the other hand, if you need to “get up and go” quickly each morning as you travel, a motel may be the better choice.
What is more expensive hotel or motel?
Motels are cheaper than hotels as they offer very basic amenities.
What are in hotels?
Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a refrigerator and other kitchen facilities, upholstered chairs, a flat screen television, and en-suite bathrooms.
What are the 4 types of accommodation?
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Bill to End Destructive Swordfish Drift Gillnet Fishing off California Goes to Governor
Senate Bill 1017 will provide sustainable, domestic swordfish and safeguard ocean wildlife
Press Release Date: August 30, 2018
Location: Sacramento, CA
A California state senate bill that will clean up California’s swordfish fishery is on its way to Governor Jerry Brown’s desk. Senate Bill (SB) 1017 would phase out the use of large-scale driftnet fishing for swordfish, establish a buyout program, and incentivize the use of cleaner fishing gear to reduce the incidental catch of marine wildlife.
“These mile-long nets are deadly and destructive,” said SB 1017 bill author Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica). “Finally we have found a way to phase out their use and transition to a more humane alternative – without harming the commercial fishing industry in the process. This is a significant win for our ocean and for the California economy. We look forward to the governor signing it into law.”
Mile-long, nearly invisible mesh nets are still allowed to drift overnight in waters off California to capture swordfish, but often also entangle, injure and kill marine mammals like whales, dolphins and sea lions as well as endangered sea turtles, sharks and other important fish species. The nets kill more than 70 different species of ocean wildlife and, according to federal onboard observers, on average more than half of the unintended catch is tossed overboard already dead or dying. Despite 30 years of management measures aimed at reducing bycatch, the swordfish drift gillnet fishery remains one of the nation’s dirtiest fisheries. Nearly the length of the Golden Gate Bridge, the nets continue to kill more dolphins than all observed U.S. West Coast fisheries combined.
“It’s time for California to join the rest of the country and discontinue the use of swordfish drift gillnets, which are one of the most indiscriminate ways to fish,” said Susan Murray, deputy vice president of the US Pacific for Oceana. “There is no reason to continue using this destructive gear when there are proven alternatives, such as deep-set buoy gear, that safeguard marine wildlife while still benefitting fishermen and seafood consumers.”
If Governor Brown signs SB 1017 into law, it will phase out the use of swordfish drift gillnets over a four-year period following establishment of a buyout program funded through public-private partnerships. Drift gillnet fishermen will be compensated for the value of their drift gillnet permit and must surrender their nets.
SB 1017 passed the senate (33-0) in May and the assembly (78-0) in August with bi-partisan support with the following co-authors: Senator Bob Wieckowski (D- Fremont) and Assemblymembers Richard Bloom (D- Santa Monica), William Brough (R-Dana Point), Wendy Carrillo (D- Los Angeles), David Chiu (D- San Francisco), Kansen Chu (D- San Jose), Laura Friedman (D-Glendale), Jesse Gabriel (D-San Fernando Valley), Todd Gloria (D-San Diego), Ash Kalra (D- San Jose), Marc Levine (D- Marin County), Brian Maienschein (R- San Diego), Kevin Mullin (D- South San Francisco), Al Muratsuchi (D- Torrance), Bill Quirk (D-Hayward), Mark Stone (D- Scotts Valley), and Marie Waldron (R- Escondido).
The bill also had broad support from conservation organizations, recreational fishermen, businesses, and the majority of California residents. Governor Brown has until September 30 to decide if he will make the bill law.
For more information about swordfish drift gillnets and gear alternatives visit www.oceana.org/stopthenets
Oceana is the largest international advocacy organization dedicated solely to ocean conservation. Oceana is rebuilding abundant and biodiverse oceans by winning science-based policies in countries that control one third of the world’s wild fish catch. With more than 200 victories that stop overfishing, habitat destruction, pollution and killing of threatened species like turtles and sharks, Oceana’s campaigns are delivering results. A restored ocean means that one billion people can enjoy a healthy seafood meal, every day, forever. Together, we can save the oceans and help feed the world. Visit www.oceana.org to learn more. | <urn:uuid:fe359cf2-de9f-41e4-b5a0-bd0ed2c097d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://usa.oceana.org/press-releases/bill-end-destructive-swordfish-drift-gillnet-fishing-california-goes-governor/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.89982 | 931 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Originally developed by the U.S. Medicare program for inpatient hospital care, diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) help classify patients by characteristics such as diagnosis and treatment to determine how much money health care providers will be given to cover future procedures and services. Today several European countries use an expanded version of DRGs in their payment systems. Noting that these countries spend less on hospital care than the U.S. while delivering high-quality services, Commonwealth Fund–supported researchers identified the distinguishing features of the European models and what lessons they may hold for U.S. policymakers.
What the Study Found
DRG systems in England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden are more detailed than Medicare’s system and are usually broader in scope, including payment for physician salaries. The European systems also draw on a more diversified body of information to determine payment, and they adjust for severity of illness more accurately.
Unlike in the United States, DRG payments in Europe often exist within a global budget that places limits on the volume of activity. In Germany, for example, the total volume of services that a hospital is expected to provide is negotiated each year. If the hospital exceeds this target, the DRG-based payment is reduced by a certain percentage.
In most European countries, hospitals do not receive a second DRG payment if a patient is readmitted within 30 days. In some case, the scope may be longer: in Sweden, hospitals in one county do not receive a second payment for hip- or knee-replacement patients readmitted for complications from surgery within two years of discharge.
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The cases of four people suspected of criminal damage over the toppling of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston have been passed to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
The CPS will decide if charges can be brought after the memorial was torn down in Bristol on 7 June.
Avon and Somerset Police said it follows one arrest and eight people voluntarily coming forward.
Five of the nine people have been offered restorative justice.
The force suggested this could entail a fine and some form of community service.
The bronze statue of the 17th Century slave merchant was pulled from its plinth during a Black Lives Matter protest and thrown in the harbour.
Chief constable Andy Marsh told BBC Bristol the "act of damage" took place in "an event which carried a significant amount of risk for Bristol and the community".
Mr Marsh said: "We've worked closely with the Crown Prosecution Service throughout this investigation, including over the proposed restorative justice approach for the five of the nine.
"It will be absolutely their independent decision whether the four get prosecuted and go to court, and indeed any of the five, if the five refuse to accept their, what is effectively a conviction, and the out of court disposal."
He said he hoped the action taken will be perceived by the public as the force "fairly and impartially" enforcing the law.
The statue was recovered from Bristol's floating harbour four days after it was thrown in, and is being looked after by Bristol City Council's conservation team.
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If ever proof were needed that hacking is still an ongoing and persistent threat and that every business needs to beef up its defences against cyber-attack, then the experiences of Royal Bank of Scotland Group should serve as a salutary lesson for every organisation. Already unpopular for numerous well-documented reasons, RBS and Nat West took further hits to their reputations last week when their websites crashed following yet another DDoS cyber-attack, leaving thousands of customers unable to access funds in their accounts. These customers may well have been prepared to give RBS Group the benefit of the doubt had the cyber-attack been an isolated occurrence; however, last week’s attacks were just the latest in a series of IT disasters to have affected the Group over the course of the last 18 months.
In spite of earlier denials, the bank has now confirmed that its systems were deliberately targeted by a DDoS attack. The cyber-attack hit while the 81 per cent taxpayer-owned bank was still handling the fallout from an earlier unrelated cyber-attack. In a statement to the press, the bank said: “Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today. This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites.”
The attack is the latest computer problem to hit the bank in 18 months. A botched software upgrade in June 2012 left RBS with a £175m bill for compensation for up to 13 million customers. Ulster Bank’s customers were inconvenienced for more than a month while some NatWest and RBS customers experienced difficulties for about 10 days.
If there is any comfort to be had, it is that RBS is not alone. Thousands of businesses are regularly targeted by hackers in an attempt to steal valuable information and data. Neither is RBS Group the only banking organisation to have been deliberately targeted. US banks, such as Citigroup and Bank of America, are also reported to have been the victims of similar attacks, which target high-profile institutions in order to cause the maximum disruption. Last week JP Morgan, the biggest US bank, said it had been hit by a different type of cyber-attack, warning 465,000 cash card customers that their personal information by have been accessed by hackers.
RBS has apologised for the latest problem, but insisted it was unrelated to a systems meltdown earlier the same week which lasted for three hours and resulted in millions of people being denied access to cash and left unable to make payments. RBS, moreover, insisted that there was no risk to customers at any point when its NatWest online service was targeted. The problem was largely fixed in just over half an hour but had a knock-on effect on other websites operated by the bailed out bank, including RBS.
City regulators have naturally been concerned about the security of banks’ IT systems and last month conducted a “war game” stimulation of an attack on financial markets. A denial of service attack is said to have been among the scenarios the 100 or so banks and financial services firms played out in the so-called Waking Shark II exercise.
The bank has now earmarked £450m for upgrading its IT systems, which were developed when RBS bought NatWest in 2000. Union leaders had blamed cost-cutting for Monday’s problems, while Ross McEwan, the bank’s new chief executive, blamed decades of under-investment in IT. However, the majority of security experts are agreed that the problem can be largely blamed on an under-investment in reliable cyber-defences, vulnerability assessments and security testing.
KRYPSYS’ services are focused on helping your company assess its security posture against such security threats and advising you on the risks to which it is exposed. We have a wealth of experience in security projects in both the public and private sectors and have worked with organisations to protect high value information assets such as trading platforms, e-commerce systems, data-centres and cloud services. We also work with leading IT security vendors and specialist consultancies to close the gaps in a business’ IT security strategy and to assist in streamlining and prioritising its risk management spending.
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Cold pressed avocado oil
Healthwell Avocado Oil ECO is a healthy cooking oil that can be used both for cold dishes and as frying oil. Avocado oil is rich in unsaturated fatty acids and can withstand high temperatures without being destroyed. Try drizzling over a salad, use for dressing and marinade or as frying oil.
- Cold pressed and organic avocado oil
- Rich in saturated fatty acids
- Use cold or hot for cooking
- Can also be used as a skin oil for dry skin
Organic avocado oil
Healthwell Avocado Oil ECO comes from avocados (Persea gratissima) grown under ecological conditions in Kenya. Avocados have been cold pressed at low temperatures to preserve all the nutrients and properties of the end product. This avocado oil comes in a dark bottle that contributes to durability and counteracts rancidity.
Avocado oil is rich in unsaturated fatty acids and has a high content of especially omega-9 and also contains the rare omega-7 fatty acids. Avocado oil is also rich in vitamin E. These properties, along with its soft taste, have made avocados an immensely popular fruit for people around the world. With the help of avocado oil, you can easily and tastefully take advantage of these healthy fatty acids without having to have ripe avocado fruits at home.
Avocado oil for cooking
Avocado oil has many benefits as a vegetable oil. Thanks to its high temperature resistance, it is ideal as a frying oil. Many other vegetable oils are destroyed at frying temperatures. Avocado oil has a mild, fresh taste that is well suited for all types of cooking. Because of that, it is also very good as a cold oil in salad dressings.
Avocado oil as skin care
Avocado oil can also be used for skin oil. It is an oily oil, which enters the skin quickly without leaving a sticky and oily surface. The scent is mild and natural. Avocado oil is naturally rich in vitamin E, which acts as an antioxidant in both avocados and in us. This makes it an excellent skin oil for you if you have dry skin and eczema, as well as for mature skin. | <urn:uuid:78f0c5e4-f90f-41a2-85b7-85da02634b74> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.healthwell.com/eco-avocado-oil | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.96399 | 448 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Wailuku is located at the foot of the scenic West Maui Mountains and home to about 13,000 Maui residents. Wailuku’s many wooden storefronts provide a quaint charm to the area as do the many buildings and homes that exhibit the Art Deco and New England style architecture that is part of the town’s heritage.
A bustling sugar plantation town in the 1800s, Wailuku is now the county seat of Maui’s government and offers a variety of interesting shops and restaurants including many family businesses that have been in operation for generations.
Attractions in Wailuku include the Bailey House Museum in former home of Edward Bailey, an American Protestant missionary. Bailey also designed the nearby Kaahumanu Church. The New England style wooden church was built in 1876 to honor Queen Kaahumanu who had converted to Christianity.
Another Wailuku attraction is the often photographed Iao Theater built in 1927 and used for community gatherings. The historic theater is also the site of productions put on by the Maui Community Theater (Maui OnStage).
Ancient archaeological sites and Hawaiian heiau (temples of worship) can be viewed in Wailuku at the Haleki‘i-Pihana State Monument. Historic structures and enchanting landscapes can be seen in Wailuku’s Kepaniwai Heritage Gardens, a county park with displays featuring Hawaii’s immigrant cultures including traditional dwellings of Hawaii, Portugal, the Philippines, China and New England.
A “Rediscover Wailuku” self-guided walking tour brochure highlights more than two dozen historically and culturally important sites, many of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Wailuku is also considered the gateway to the historic Iao Valley where the rising warrior King Kamehameha won the famous Battle of Kepaniwai on his quest to unite all of the Hawaiian Islands under one ruler. So many people died in the battle it was said the river was blocked with bodies which led to the name Wailuku, or “Waters of destruction.”
The valley is also a sacred burial ground of Hawaiian chiefs, and the site of the famous Iao Needle. Iao means “Cloud supreme,” referring to the ancient rituals that occurred here. The prominent Iao Needle was known as Kukaemoku in ancient times and rises 1,200 ft (366 m) up from the valley floor.
At the Hawaii Nature Center in Iao Valley you can explore interactive exhibits and take a rainforest walk by an ancient village and through a taro patch. The Nature Center has more than 30 hands-on exhibits related to Hawaiian natural history.
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Darmstadt, May 2021 – Before automated vehicles are allowed to take to the road, their safety must be tested using numerous simulations as not all driving situations can be tested on real roads. In the joint SET Level project, PROSTEP is working together with 19 partners from industry and academia on developing an appropriate simulation technology for this purpose. It has to be flexible enough to be used for different applications and stages in vehicle development as well as make it possible to shift a significant proportion of driving tests over to simulation. Initial solutions were presented to an international audience of industry professionals at a virtual half-time event on April 29, 2021.
Automated vehicles must react safely in all driving situations. Testing this on the road would take years. If vehicles are to be approved for use on the road, it is crucial that simulation can be carried out efficiently. “Getting automated vehicles onto the road requires powerful, simulation-based tools and methods that can be used both during development and in the context of approval,” states Prof. Frank Köster, founding director of the DLR Institute for AI Safety and Security, who is coordinating the project together with Dr. Stefan Rude from BMW.
“Getting automated vehicles onto the road requires powerful, simulation-based tools and methods that can be used both during development and in the context of approval.”Prof. Frank Köster, founding director of the DLR Institute for AI Safety and Security
The SET Level project partners are developing a method that will allow critical traffic situations to be mapped digitally in their entirety, thus enabling them to be simulated. This will significantly reduce the future cost involved in approving automated vehicles. What makes the method special is the use of open standards and simulation tools. This means that once the project has come to an end, it can be used and even further developed by numerous companies and research institutes.
The project partners used three simulated traffic scenarios to present the initial solutions to those attending the virtual half-time event. This involved simulating digital representations of vehicles in traffic situations under a wide variety of different criteria in order to draw conclusions about the reliability of the sensors and algorithms. The researchers focused on the test method, the simulation tools and the interaction between the software components.
PROSTEP provides the partners with support when it comes to the testing and industrialization of the project results and, as part of the project, is developing a demonstrator for a traceability solution that will be used to document the simulations. “We can, for example, use it to determine when which simulation models led to which results and decisions, using which software and hardware configuration, and subject to which constraints and requirements”, explains project manager Dr. Steven Vettermann. Once the project has been completed, PROSTEP will develop the demonstrator into a commercial product and market it under the name OpenCLM.
SET Level will run until August 2022. The project has a total budget of more than 30 million euros and is receiving funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). It builds on the PEGASUS cooperative project, which was completed in May 2019 and in which quality standards and methods for validating highly automated vehicles were developed. However, unlike SET Level, which is primarily concerned with flexibly automated and networked driving functions in urban areas, the focus of research back then was the highway.
The partners involved in the SET Level project are ADC Automotive Distance Control Systems GmbH, Audi AG, BMW AG, dSPACE GmbH, DLR Institute of Transportation Systems, ETAS GmbH, Ford-Werke GmbH, Fraunhofer LBF, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI ) at the University Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), IPG Automotive GmbH, MAN Truck & Bus AG, Oldenburger Institute for Information Technology (OFFIS), Opel Automobile GmbH, PROSTEP AG, Robert Bosch GmbH, RWTH University in Aachen (Institute for Automotive Engineering), Braunschweig Technical University (Institute of Control Engineering), Darmstadt Technical University (Institute of Automotive Engineering), Volkswagen AG, ZF Friedrichshafen AG. | <urn:uuid:1b3b2f9b-6f9f-436e-bdff-733703412588> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://prostep.us/2021/05/03/set-level-partners-present-simulated-traffic-scenarios/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.937121 | 877 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Marine engineering broadly refers to the engineering of boats, ships, oil rigs and any other marine vessel or structure. Specifically, marine engineering is the discipline of applying engineering sciences, mostly mechanical and electrical engineering, to the development, design, operation and maintenance of watercraft propulsion and on-board systems; e. g. power and propulsion plants, machinery, piping, automation and control systems etc. for marine vehicles of any kind like surface ships, submarines etc. The engineering of a vessel’s propulsion system, see Marine propulsion.
* The engineering of shipboard systems and machinery, see Engine room. * A ship’s engineering department, an organizational unit that is responsible for running the vessel’s propulsion systems and support systems for crew, passengers and cargo; this field career track within marine engineering is, more specifically, referred to as seagoing engineering; see Engineering officer (ship). * In limited and specific ship-related context, the engineering of structures to support vessels, see Marine architecture. Oceanographic engineering, also called marine electronics engineering, is concerned with the design of electronic devices for use in the marine environment, such as the remote sensing systems used by oceanographers.
Not all marine engineering is concerned with moving vessels. Offshore construction, also called offshore engineering, ocean engineering or maritime engineering, is concerned with the technical design of fixed and floating marine structures, such as oil platforms and offshore wind farms.
Marine engineering can be a highly lucrative career for those who are built for a highly challenging job. A marine engineer is a professional who is responsible for the operation, maintenance and repair of all major mechanical and engineered equipment on board a ship.
Ships these days use the most modern technology and equipment that can be understood, maintained and handled only by marine engineers. This job requires a high degree of discipline and responsibility since the chief marine engineer is in charge of a ship and its cargo which cost millions of dollars.
They manage the enormous power of the ship and all its complicated machinery and help it cross the ocean. Marine engineers may have to work on cargo ships, container ships or oil and gas tankers. They have to spend months together at the sea which can get tiresome and they might get homesick. But all the hardship is compensated with the pay, which is obscenely high even at the starting level, with the time off (4-6 months in a year) and with the chance to sail around the world. The demand for marine engineers in public and private shipping companies has risen sharply, with the increase in international global sea traffic.
The construction, operations and maintenance of the engine room are the main obligations of a marine engineer. This means that they deal with the technical area of the ship. In fact, they are the overall in-charge of the engine and its crew. The top rung of the hierarchical ladder is the post of a chief engineer. Marine engineers usually sail for 15-20 years after which they land jobs in shipyards, maritime universities or in management of a shipping company. There are job opportunities in other sectors too like banks, hotels, and power plants.
Besides this, marine engineers can work in governments as well as the Indian Navy. A career in Marine Engineering is challenging and rewarding. Marine engineers have complete responsibility of the ship’s engine room and range from development and designing of the engines related to ships and propulsion system. Eligibility Criteria For doing a bachelor’s degree in Marine Engineering or nautical science one should have passed 10 + 2 science with physics, chemistry, maths and English. The course is of 4 years duration. After successful completion of the course, degree viz.
B E or BTech is awarded to the students. In most institutes candidates are admitted through an entrance examination, which is normally held in the month of May every year at various centres all over India followed by viva-voice and medical examination. Candidates aspiring for a degree course at TS Chanakya, Mumbai and Marine Engineering Research Institute Kolkata, should qualify the Joint Entrance Examination conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), which assesses the candidate’s knowledge of physics, chemistry and mathematics.
The examination is followed by personal interviews/counseling, where the interviewers assess the degree of alertness, and awareness of the external environment in the candidates and their suitability for such a career. Career Prospects After successful completion of BE/BTech in Marine Engineering/nautical science, one can join as fourth engineer or third assistant engineer. Since the job on the ship entails residing on ship for a major part of the year there are other exciting avenues as well.
Marine engineers are also employed by engine production firms, ship building firms, research bodies, ship design firms and also in the Indian Navy. The marine engineers can remain within the ambit of the shipping industry and join marine workshops at land (i. e. ) at the ports. Alternatively, the marine engineers can join ship manufacturing companies, which are equally good paymasters. These days the marine engineers are employed in the IT sector in a major way, apart from consultancy companies like Price Waterhouse Coopers and DCL, in construction companies, power sector, steel industry, and electronic industry.
Those who want to join Government Service can consider Directorate General Shipping of India. Those with entrepreneurial skills can also explre the entreprenuerial scope in the field. Those marine engineers who have a passion for academics can pursue post graduation and enter the field of academics where the demand for qualified academicians in this field is growing very fast. Pay Package Starting salary of a fresh marine engineering graduate are usually higher than other engineering branches.
It can go even high if the candidate wishes to join an oil tanker. There are various levels from first engineer to fourth engineer culminating in Chief Engineer. Marine jobs are highly paid and enjoyable. The marine engineers get NRI status, which is, tax-free income based on their service at sea, ex-India. They also get the opportunity to see the world through sailing as a profession without any extra expense. Luxurious life through lucrative salary comes as a big compensation being away from home. | <urn:uuid:f4f1d16a-69ad-4651-991a-8d8c470468a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://paperap.com/marine-engineering-application-and-careers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.960756 | 1,256 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Hebrew College is situated in a vibrant learning community. They share the belief that education is vital to Jewish vivacity, and they are fanatical about the arduous study of the full breadth of Jewish religion and culture. Together, they foster lifelong Jewish learning that involves the whole person, challenging the mind and nourishing the soul.
They are on a mission to produce a kind of Judaism that is spiritually gripping and knowledgeably honest, deeply engrained in the sources of tradition, and driven by a spirit of religious creativity and the constant question of how the new Judaism will materialize.
Reimagining Jewish education and leadership for a consistent world like ours are really interesting. Making our lives more meaningful, our communities more vibrant, and our world more whole.
At Hebrew College-Jewish Institute you will enjoy unrestricted opportunities to improve as a leader of the leading global Jewish Movement and diverse communities throughout North America, Israel, and around the world.
They are also willing to share with you the numerous opportunities. Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion has to offer those who desire to serve as leaders in the Jewish community and wish to grow academically, intellectually, professionally and spiritually.
Whether you are just starting out or looking for a career change, Rabbi Dan Judson offers advice on the importance of choosing a career that feels useful and brings you meaning.
A Brief History on Hebrew College
Louis Hurwich issued a call to revolution: Midway through his announcement of the opening of Hebrew College, on the18 of August 1921 front page of the issue of the Jewish Advocate.
“In the next five years, no less than 75 percent of the present Jewish teachers in Boston will go over to other professions,” warned Hurwich, the superintendent of the Bureau of Jewish Education of Boston.
“The inability of the Jewish school to hold its own is sufficient challenge to the American Jewish community to wake up and to create bases for permanent improvement.” You can get more of the school’s history here.
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Application Process for Hebrew College
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What We Discuss in this Episode:
- We know life is about compromise, but once we know why you have been placed on this earth, you can life an uncompromised life that centers on your purpose.
- Finding your purpose requires you to take the uncommon road. You might have to reflect and do things that are uncomfortable and unpopular. But it is the root of happiness.
- To find your purpose, start the process by thinking about what you’re really good at doing, what you’re passionate about, and what you would do for free.
- Practically, the way to keep your purpose front and center is to find what fills you up and get in that space before the day starts.
- When you are acting within your purpose, other people can sense that and will seek you out. Delaying that process only adds stress to your life.
- We can’t always determine what our purpose is because we need to embrace the process and life experience that allows that clarity to come.
- All meaningful purposes will impact others in a positive way.
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Steve White’s path from the housing projects to president of Comcast was punctuated by defining, and often heart-wrenching, moments. Moments that lead him to associating uncompromising with never giving up, always looking to learn and improve, investing in yourself, and maintaining a positive attitude through it all.
Steven A. White grew up as the son of a fiercely determined and hard-working single mother. His family moved often in the hopes of creating a better life and future. From Florida to Georgia and eventually Indiana, Steve was influenced by his mother’s strong will and work ethic. It was her incredible resolve that led him to be the first in his family to pursue a college education at Indiana University and a successful career in sales, marketing, and general management.
As President of Comcast’s West Division for eleven years, Steve White created a culture defined by Working Together To Win Together. Driven by continuous learning, radical responsibility, and an unwavering commitment to excellence, Comcast’s West Division became a pacesetter by delivering industry-leading results. Steve White was responsible for all Comcast Cable operations in the Western U.S., leading nearly thirty thousand employees, serving almost ten million customers, and driving annual revenue of nearly $18 billion.
Steve currently serves on the board of directors for Hormel Foods, W.W Grainger, Shaw Communications, and New Leaders. He’s a member of the Colorado Forum, Executive Leadership Council, and Delta Eta Boulé of Denver. Steve is also an executive in residence for the University of Denver. Having experienced his own success thanks to the advice of key mentors, Steve now offers guidance to others in support of businesses across the country.
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We know that Catholic archdioceses throughout the country have had to close churches within their jurisdiction.
We know that the reasons for the closings are related to shifting population patterns, financial troubles and a shortage of priests.
We know that since Hurricane Katrina, other religions have seen some of their buildings closed locally because of population loss.
We know that to many people, a church is a place they want to avoid.
Yet we also know this about churches, especially in post-Katrina New Orleans:
They are an energy center for the neighborhoods, a part of the landscape and culture.
Churches are links to the city for many generations of people, places where family marriages and burials where held; where relatives went to school; where love was first sparked at dances in the gym.
To many people, especially in Catholic New Orleans where there has historically been a large native base, the history of their lives traces through the neighborhood church.
Instead of following the template established by other jurisdictions for closing churches, the Archdiocese of New Orleans could have made a strong statement for the recovery by being the exception. It could have created a new model by establishing a face-to-face dialogue with interested parishioners and sincerely trying to create partnerships to save the churches.
Not all parishes were salvageable, but some were. Because of its resistance to dialogue, the Archdiocese has alienated some of the people who care the most about the church.
We know also that the Archdiocese knows that it can last longer than the resistance and that sooner or later those who care about the churches will tire and the resistance will go away. Therein lies the tragedy – matters that are personal and spiritual to parishioners, and that are critical to neighborhoods, have been reduced to strategic standoffs by the church.
Last Christmas Eve, midnight Mass was held at Our Lady of Counsel Church. Recently a throwback CYO dance enlivened the neighborhood around St. Henry’s Church. Both are Uptown churches that could have survived. There was money; there was willingness by parishioners to develop a plan. Citizens of a democracy are accustomed to there being channels of communication with people in authority but the church isn’t a democracy, yet it cannot survive without its parishioners.
We know that archbishop Alfred Hughes faces the argument that if he reverses himself about some churches then he might have to do the same with all closed churches. But the argument is spurious; some former parishes clearly cannot support themselves but those that can deserve a chance.
We urge the archbishop for the sake of the city, if not his archdiocese, to change his position, meet with parishioners and try to save the churches.
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Commodities slump to give India relief from inflationBloombergIndia’s policymakers and consumers would be cheering a steep slump in commodities, especially palm oil, which could bring about a few months of “surprisingly low” food inflation. India is the world’s biggest buyer of edible oils and relies on imports for about 60 percent of its needs. Palm oil, which rallied after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and as Indonesia temporarily banned exports, has plunged 40 percent from a record close in April. The average retail prices of edible oils in India have dropped as much as 8 percent in the past month, government data showed. The sharp declines in palm oil, wheat, sugar and rice are good news for inflation, ING Group said.
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About 10,000 people were camped near the remote Amarnath temple, nestled in a Himalayan mountain cave, when a sudden cloudburst triggered a deluge. Soldiers in Baltal Base Camp in Indian-administered Kashmir yesterday carry a person recovered after a flash flood swept away hundreds of tents near a popular Hindu pilgrimage site. Photo: AFP“We found 16 bodies so far and at least 40 are missing,” an official from the state disaster response agency said. The annual pilgrimage sees hundreds of thousands of people trek up for days through rugged mountain passes to reach the shrine. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several senior government officials expressed their grief over the loss of lives.
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Exports gain for 24th month in a rowHEADWINDS: The Ministry of Finance expects the uptrend in exports to be muted given a high base last year and softening demand due to surging global inflationBy Crystal Hsu / Staff reporterExports last month surged 15.2 percent year-on-year to US$42.2 billion, the second highest on record and 24th straight month of gains, as global demand for electronics remained strong, the Ministry of Finance said yesterday. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (台積電), the world’s largest chipmaker, posted its second-highest revenue of NT$175.8 billion (US$5.9 billion). That was despite exports to China, Taiwan’s largest trading partner, tumbling 15.8 percent to NS$941.6 billion, Tsai said. For the second quarter, exports picked up 15.4 percent to US$125.75 billion, largely in line with the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics’ forecast, data showed. For the first six months of the year, exports gained 19.2 percent to US$246.68 billion, while imports climbed 24.8 percent to US$218.97 billion, it said.
July 08, 2022 23:43 UTC
The TAIEX joined other Asian stocks falling in afternoon trading after Abe’s assassination erased gains made earlier yesterday, the exchanges’ data showed. Photo: Chien Li-chung, Taipei TimesTurnover on the TAIEX was NT$257.3 billion (US$8.64 billion), as foreign institutional investors sold a net NT$3.93 billion of local shares, the third-largest this week, TWSE data showed. SinoPac Securities Investment Service Corp (永豐投顧) said in a research note that it expects the TAIEX to rebound gradually after tumbling 18 percent over the past five months. Local institutional investors have a higher confidence in the local market than foreign investors, PGIM said, citing their net purchases of local shares for three weeks in a row. They bought a net NT$10.3 billion of local shares this week, the second highest in a single week this year, it said.
July 08, 2022 23:43 UTC
Last month’s revenue was up 59 percent from a year earlier and 3.4 percent higher than a month earlier, the company said. Evergreen said it plans to receive four new vessels with 24,000 TEUs each by the end of this year. However, falling freight rates lowered its annual revenue growth in the second quarter after the previous quarter’s 92 percent increase. Average freight rates for small and medium-sized vessels slid in the second quarter, as the war in Ukraine disrupted supplies of grains and raw materials. The recovery being slower than expected in China’s manufacturing activities also weighed on freight rates, it added.
July 08, 2022 02:32 UTC
Apple plans extreme sports watch with larger screen and metal casingBloombergApple Inc plans its largest smartwatch display to date, with a bigger battery and a rugged metal casing, as part of the upcoming Apple Watch geared toward extreme sports athletes, people with knowledge of the plans said. The rugged version of the Apple Watch is to feature a screen that measures about 5cm diagonally, while a new Apple Watch Series 8 is to retain the 4.8cm diagonal screen size of Series 7. A planned update to the low-end Apple Watch SE is also to retain its screen size. A person tries on an Apple Watch at one of the company’s stores in Sydney on March 18. First released in 2015, the Apple Watch has become a key piece of the company’s hardware lineup.
July 07, 2022 19:01 UTC
NATO creates new space for TaiwanBy Joseph Tse-hei Lee 李榭熙The Russian invasion of Ukraine, as well as tensions in the Taiwan Strait, dominated the agenda of last week’s NATO summit in Madrid. As NATO has the Indo-Pacific region in its radar, it is paying closer attention to Taiwan’s security needs. In reality, many Indo-Pacific states are craving the attention of great powers, and the benefits and resources that might come from such interactions. Because the Indo-Pacific region is far away from launching its singular security framework like NATO, Taiwan should pursue a wide range of bilateral defense initiatives. While working with the US and NATO to improve its national defense capability, Taiwan could still partner with other Indo-Pacific powers to consolidate its sovereign status and global recognition.
July 07, 2022 16:55 UTC
Chunghwa Express staff launch strike over wagesBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporterChunghwa Express Co employees yesterday began a nationwide strike after failing to secure a raise following two years of negotiations with the company’s management. The first group of workers to strike were from the company’s offices in Taipei, Taoyuan, Hsinchu City and Yilan County, the Chunghwa Express Workers’ Union said. The delivery firm, which is a subsidiary of state-run Chunghwa Post, receives most of its revenue from delivering checks and other paperwork for local financial institutions. Photo: Chen Hsin-yu, Taipei Times“Because of the strike, our clients must deliver the paperwork themselves,” Chunghwa Express chairman Huang Cheng-chung (黃振忠). Profits generated by Chunghwa Express should not be used to feed the “fat cats,” retired management from Chunghwa Post who have stakes in the delivery firm, it said.
July 04, 2022 22:24 UTC
EDITORIAL: Tech must be made to pay for newsIn a research report published earlier this year, a National Taiwan University academic issued a “wake-up call” about the state of the news media’s dwindling revenues. By contrast, 2020 saw NT$48.26 billion of online media ad volume, creating what Lin called an “avalanche of losses” for newspapers. News remuneration legislation is favored by many governments, starting with the European Copyright Directive passed by the EU in 2019, requiring platforms to pay publishers for content aggregated on their sites. Google especially has complied with the rules wherever necessary, signing deals with hundreds of media companies to pay for rights to display their news content. It is only fair that tech giants share their spoils, which hopefully would be the first step toward reinvigorating a stagnant industry.
July 04, 2022 22:23 UTC
FootballRonaldo wants to escape from Manchester UnitedCristiano Ronaldo wants to leave Manchester United this summer if the English Premier League club receives the appropriate offer, reports said Saturday. United finished 6th in the league, missed the UEFA Champions League qualification and won the Ballon d’Or five times. This Ballon d’Or has a contract period and one year of options left and may play in the Europa League. Manchester United categorically claims that Ronaldo has not been put up for sale. England struggled on the second day of the rain in the series decision test at Edgbaston, England.
July 03, 2022 21:29 UTC
In group interactions, children with better memory also have greater social skills. From the researchers’ findings, preschool children with better memory do have an advantage. The teacher suspected that he was a “slow student.”Teachers might often categorize students with poor memory as slow learners. Especially given the low birthrate today, when all children are precious to their parents, teachers have an even greater responsibility. The classroom must be a friendly learning environment, not “killing fields” for students thought to be “slow.” This is the classroom management ability teachers must possess.
July 03, 2022 16:43 UTC
US President Joe Biden last month signed into law the Ocean Shipping Reform Act as part of efforts to fight inflation. The PC sector has performed brilliantly since the outbreak of COVID-19 due to work-from-home and remote-learning trends. The PC sector’s decline has affected supply chains, including the flat-panel display, power IC and PC hardware segments. They have also been paying attention to actions taken by central banks to address rising food and energy prices. The current market correction is of course worth great attention, but for investors, the underlying macro challenges and cyclical changes facing local industries and enterprises are even more of an issue worthy of pondering.
July 03, 2022 16:37 UTC
Tellez hits his fifth home run in five gamesAP, PITTSBURGH, PennsylvaniaRowdy Tellez on Friday homered for the fifth time in five games, and drove in five runs, while Corbin Burnes took a no-hit bid into the sixth inning as the Milwaukee Brewers routed the Pittsburgh Pirates 19-2. Milwaukee Brewers first baseman Rowdy Tellez hits a three-run home run against the Pittsburgh Pirates during their MLB game at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Friday. Tellez also had a two-run double in the fourth to push the Brewers’ lead to 9-0. The ball hit the top of the fence, bounced off a railing and back onto the field. “I got tagged out at second base by Javy Baez” on home run No.
July 03, 2022 02:29 UTC
India’s women water warriors transform parched landsA volunteer network of around 1,000 women are working across Bundelkhand to rehabilitate and revive disappeared water sourcesBy Jalees ANDRABI / AFP, CHHATARPUR, IndiaAs the monsoon storms bear down on India, a dedicated group of women hope that after years of backbreaking labor, water shortages will no longer leave their village high and dry. Women on June 9 collect water from a well in Agrotha village, in Tikamgarh, Madhya Pradesh. “All our wells have dried up.”Three years ago, Rajput joined Jal Saheli (“Friends of Water”), a volunteer network of around 1,000 women working across Bundelkhand to rehabilitate and revive disappeared water sources. Rajput said their work had helped them retain monsoon rainwater for longer and revive half a dozen water bodies around their village. Photo: AFPThough not yet self-sufficient, Agrotha’s residents are no longer among the roughly 600 million Indians that a government think-tank says face acute water shortages daily.
July 03, 2022 02:29 UTC
Driven by sustained growth in aquaculture, global fisheries and aquatic farming together hauled in 214 million tonnes, the UN agency said in a report. The total first-sale value of 2020 production topped US$400 million, with US$265 million coming from aquaculture, a sector poised for further expansion. “The growth of fisheries and aquaculture is vital in our efforts to end global hunger and malnutrition,” said FAO director Qu Dongyu. Production of aquatic animals in 2020 — totaling 178 million tonnes — was evenly divided between fisheries and aquaculture, according to the FAO report. Asian countries were the source of 70 percent of the world’s fisheries and aquaculture of aquatic animals in 2020.
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Writers today are hardly any different from entrepreneurs who dwell on their idea, work on it to bring it to life after intensive work and then take their product into the market, often managing the marketing propositions themselves. They are well aware of their product and know how it is different from other similar offerings in the market. Therefore, they know well, how to communicate its central message correctly.
While the very first time literature was successfully targeted to be consumed by masses in India was through Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone, the second wave was captured by Amish Tripathi’s Shiva Trilogy. It is to be remembered that both these waves generated huge market for consumption of literature in India. The first wave gave rise to popular love-romance light hearted fiction that saw many first time authors gaining popularity and acceptability like Ravindra Singh, Sachin Garg, Durjoy Dutta, etc. But the second wave has been more remarkable because this gave rise to some sort of a cult niche that was backed by strong understanding, knowledge and the interplay of philosophical dilemmas that usually accompany the narrative of an epic. The success of Amish’s novel gave the fillip to the genre of mythological interplay in the novels by new age authors, and somehow, this has been more impactful and sustainable model for the writers that have come around later.
It can be well argued that, almost everyone could have a love story, and so, the trend of many writers jumping onto composing a love-romance novel was making the genre unattractive for readers who would like a standard and quality product to spend their time and money on. While this was true for the first wave, the second wave is much differentiated. Adventure and fantasy could still be weaved, but to digress, distort and to again draw from an established plot to unveil newer perspectives in a business of the learned. Not surprisingly, many writers who have released their novels in this genre have done well, both financially as well as qualitatively. Some examples include the highly gripping retelling of the Mahabharata and Ramayana tales from an alternative perspective of Kauravas and Asuras, respectively, by the author Anand Neelakantan in the Ajay Trilogy, Jaya by Devdutt Pattanaik, The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Arjuna by Anuja Chandramauli and The Aryavarta Chronicles by Krishna Udayasankar.
Most of these writers have been into formal corporate jobs and having found their true calling, took a jump into a venture where the market has been graduating, but the tide was not always in favour of them. The latest in the series of exceptional new writers is an ex- merchant navy officer who was also employed by P&G and now works with Philips India- Rahul Rajan whose mythological fiction- ‘Rudravan’ is being hailed as a good read lately and has garnered an impressive 4.7 stars on Goodreads.com.
Some of the characteristics of the novel indeed mark it as of a distinguished quality construct. A narrative from the perspective of Ravana, the greatest and the most infamous villain in Indian mythology is bound to raise curiosity, just because of the fact that his own version of the tale hasn’t been spoken in ancient Indian classical literature. Also, the narrative is fast paced, logical, at times even scientifically explained and sans the frills of a plethora of inter-related stories that usually accompany the main narrative in any epic- styled mythological fiction. In fact the subject matter in itself challenges the set motions and traditional beliefs that is a very post-modern approach to literature. Highlighting the greatest enemy as anything else becomes the quest of a subaltern and so the narratives even becomes symbolic of the unheard voices in the fabric of our society. The novel in a symbolic manner challenges the accepted notions of truth which, seen from a broader view, resonates across the economic set up of our world today. We get reminded of Tughlaq by Girish Karnad.
The book seems to have risen from the lack of explanations provided in the narrative of Ramayana for example, why would Ravana keep Sita chaste when he has abducted her against her wishes? “Rāvan’s origin, as the descendant of Lord Brahma, his devotion to Shiva and his conquest of Swarga speak of a great king, stronger and wiser than even the Devas. How then does he succumb to lust, cowardice and finally, foolhardiness? Why did Vishnu stood against him, when he was blessed by both Shiva and Brahma? How was Rāvan, blessed with invincibility, defeated so conveniently, by a God in human garb? Could Rāvan not have thought of that, and prepared against it?” Or rather, the whole plot was designed to manifest Rama as the virtuous wherein the better man was actually Ravana. Did the epic merely serve as tool for a specific propaganda just as it is with all power-political establishments trying to evangelise their own versions of truth/belief? As a mythological fiction the fact that the book tries to decimate a myth, becomes a matter of a dark and yet fascinatingly comic irony. | <urn:uuid:36d1ec41-0435-4735-bf70-f90baef147b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thepolicytimes.com/the-business-of-myth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.976306 | 1,092 | 1.859375 | 2 |
There are two main considerations in swimming:
Most improvements in swimming are made through improved technique, especially with less experienced swimmers. Therefore there should always be a strong focus on technique especially early on. In the beginning, strokes per length would be the best measuring
stick for improvement. Some swimmers may start out taking as many as 30 strokes per 25m then as they improve they should be able
to get it easily below 20. Ian Thorpe easily does 9!
The best drill I know for improving strokes per length is fist swimming. As it sounds just make your hand into a fist and swim. This forces you to use the rest of your arm most efficiently and when you start using your hands again you really feel you are getting a “good grip” on the water.
Why would we want to spend time training for the swim when it is the shortest leg of the race (especially in Ironman) when a good swim may only earn us a few minutes. The reason is cumulative fatigue. We may only come out of the water a few minutes faster, but we will be much fresher saving needed energy for the bike and run to come.
When I was at school I used to ride from the swimming pool to school and I could definitely feel the fatigue from swimming. I think CYCLING AFTER EVERY SWIM session also helped me ADAPT QUICKER at the start of the bike – another reason why I was one of the fastest triathlon cyclists.
HOW MUCH TIME you put into swim training depends on your goals. If your main events are Olympic or Sprint distance races swim training is essential even during the off-season.
If you are already a good swimmer and your main goal is Ironman or Half Ironman then swimming is less crucial during the off season. You may be better off focusing on the longer bike and run legs.
On the other hand if you are a very weak swimmer, it can be a very good investment of time to learn good technique and improve your confidence and strength in the pool.
Either way 3 times a week is usually enough to make good progress along with the other training you are doing. Always remember that swimming is part of triathlon. You need to work out how much time you need to put into it according to your current ability and goals. | <urn:uuid:aa11db17-30ee-4bfa-8648-43c910822495> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://timelesstriathlon.com/triathlon-swim-training | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.976616 | 488 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Polly is an analytics and visualization platform of interpersonal polymedia mobile communication. The platform is currently used by linguists to study polymedia nature of mobile communication, and for studying communications taking place during emergency events. [Currently under development]
Ambulatory Telemedicine Solution
The Ambulatory Telemedicine solution started as a project exploring new possibilities of tele medicine provided by low cost “off the shelf” mobile computing and communication devices and the Swedish 4G mobile networks. The initial focus on a strict paramedics use was soon expanded to also cover home care. The low cost, but high quality, solution allowed physician to meet and talk with their patients, either being inbound to hospital, or while being provided professional care within the patients home. The Ambulatory Telemedicine solution was developed in collaboration between Gothenburg University, Region Västragötaland, Region Västragötaland IT, Uddevalla County, NU Hospital Group, Skaraborg Ambulance Services, and TUCAP Lindholmen Science Park.
LiveResponse is an infrastructure, online platform and mobile toolset used by emergency responders to produce live-streaming visual situation reports, capture ongoing work, and much more. LiveResponse was developed in collaboration with the Fire and Rescue Service of Greater Gothenburg, 112 – SOS Alarm AB, Region Västragötaland, and the Swedish Traffic department. More information at www.liveresponse.se
Roadsmart is a precursor to LiveResponse, enabling emergency response personnel to utilize the network of traffic surveillance cameras deployed by the Swedish Traffic department and Gothenburg City Roads office. Roadsmart was developed in collaboration with the Fire and Rescue Service of Greater Gothenburg, Region Västragötaland, and the Swedish Traffic department.
Synaps PatientView is a mobile medical platform intended to deliver patient information to medical personnel in their acts of mobile work. This was at the time considered a radical break compared to the hospital standard of “computer stations”. PatientView was developed as a module to the larger Synaps medical platform in collaboration between Gothenburg University, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, and Synaps AB.
Columbus was an early attempt at exploring the use of geo-tagged content, location services, mobile maps, and emerging mobile computing platforms. Columbus allowed the user to explore their digital surroundings while physically moving about. Images posted by Flickr users would become visible for the user while moving into proximity of the geotag location. The work included the development of a mobile maps service, maps API, API integration, and mobile client for the Nokia S60 series devices.
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“Currents” is a dashboard/mash-up style application designed to provide firefighters a window to the world outside of the station. The information presented to the user is a combination of geo-located incident reports from previous local incidents, location specific notifications, news, as well as traffic and weather information. This allows the users to be aware of the work and incidents attended to by other local fire crews, vital information such as planned over-night events at schools or sport centers, current local conditions including road works, but also the reporting from local news. The mobile device was introduced and used in the social areas of a fire station where social dialoge was common. The work was conducted in collaboration with Gothenburg University, the Greater Gothenburg Fire and Rescue Service, Angered Fire Station, and the Viktoria Institute. | <urn:uuid:394beda5-7ae6-46d4-8624-9e592ee36f28> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fredrikbergstrand.wordpress.com/portfolio/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.934152 | 750 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Tobacco use can lead to tobacco/nicotine dependence and serious health problems. Cessation can significantly reduce the risk of suffering from smoking-related diseases. Tobacco/nicotine dependence is a chronic condition that often requires repeated interventions, but effective treatments and helpful resources exist. Smokers can and do quit smoking. In fact, today there are more former smokers than current smokers.
- Nicotine is the psychoactive drug in tobacco products that produces dependence. Most smokers are dependent on nicotine.
- Nicotine dependence is the most common form of chemical dependence in the United States.6 Research suggests that nicotine may be as addictive as heroin, cocaine, or alcohol.
- Quitting smoking is difficult and may require multiple attempts. Users often relapse because of stress, weight gain, and withdrawal symptoms.
- Nicotine withdrawal symptoms may include irritability, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and increased appetite.
Health Benefits of Cessation
Breaking free from nicotine dependence is not the only reason to quit smoking. Tobacco smoke contains a deadly mix of more than 7,000 chemicals; hundreds are toxic, and about 70 can cause cancer. Tobacco smoke can cause serious health problems, numerous diseases, and death.
Fortunately, people who stop smoking greatly reduce their risk for disease and premature death. Although the health benefits are greater for people who stop at earlier ages, cessation is beneficial at all ages.
Smoking cessation is associated with the following health benefits:
- moking cessation lowers the risk for lung and other types of cancer.
- Smoking cessation reduces the risk for coronary heart disease, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease. Coronary heart disease risk is substantially reduced within 1 to 2 years of quitting.
- Smoking cessation reduces respiratory symptoms, such as coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath. The rate of decline in lung function is slower among people who quit smoking than among those who continue to smoke.
- Smoking cessation reduces the risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), one of the leading causes of death in the United States.
- Smoking cessation by women during their reproductive years reduces the risk for infertility. Women who stop smoking during pregnancy also reduce their risk of having a low birth weight baby.
Methods to Quit Smoking
The majority of cigarette smokers quit without using evidence-based cessation treatments. However, the following treatments are proven effective for smokers who want help to quit:
- Brief clinical interventions (i.e., when a doctor takes 10 minutes or less to deliver advice and assistance about quitting)
- Counseling (e.g., individual, group, or telephone counseling and quitlines; online smoking cessation programs)
- Behavioral cessation therapies (e.g., training in problem solving)
- Treatments with more person-to-person contact and intensity (e.g., more time with counselors)
Cessation medications found to be effective for treating tobacco dependence include the following:
- Nicotine replacement products1
- Over-the-counter (e.g., nicotine patch, gum, lozenge)
- Prescription (e.g., nicotine inhaler, nasal spray)
- Prescription non-nicotine medications, such as bupropion SR and varenicline tartrate
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT as it is commonly called, is a short-term, goal oriented form of psychotherapy. It involves helping clients learn and implement new skills and techniques to practically solve the problems that are troubling them. The goal is to change non-productive patterns of thinking and behavior, which will in turn change the associated feelings. CBT is most commonly used for treating anxiety and depression, but it can be applied in many other areas of people’s lives as well, such as working on relationships and managing health concerns. We are seeing an increase in primary care providers referring clients for CBT, recognizing that emotional health plays a significant role in physical health.
Our highly trained and skilled counselors at Counsel Connections utilize CBT as a part of the treatment process when appropriate, helping you to maximize your therapy sessions and to take charge of your healing and growth processes. Many clients have told us that they like the direct, skills based approach and that they feel empowered by the tools they have acquired. | <urn:uuid:cd458cd9-5be2-4dbb-ab83-e9649c289fad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://counselconnections.com/what-we-do/cognitive-behavioral-therapy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.973737 | 206 | 2.5 | 2 |
LTC Dr. Željko Heimer held the lecture »Croatian Municipal Identity – Coats of Arms and Flags of Cities and Communties in Croatia«, in the small classroom of the Trešnjevka Cultural Centre, on 16 May 2019, as part of the cycle »Croatian Symbolic Identity«. The lecture cycle is a joint project of the Trešnjevka Cultural Centre and the Croatian Heraldic and Vexillological Association. The project is led by Ass. Prof. Dr. Tijana Trako Poljak. The Trešnjevka Cultural Centre coordinator is Veselko Leutar, sociologist, head of the Sociocultural Department. | <urn:uuid:4cab122c-7b75-4cb3-8a1c-ae7bcfb27b77> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hgzd.hr/en/mirko-marijan-croatian-municipal-identity-lecture-in-the-cycle-croatian-symbolic-identity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.861697 | 149 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Global design firm Gensler today revealed its ambitious plan to center climate change in its work with the goal of transforming "the built environment for a net-zero future with every project, in every location, and for every person."
The report comes at an apt time, when businesses are rethinking post-pandemic office environments, extreme weather events are laying bare the shortcomings of energy systems, and the Biden administration works to get a national climate agenda back on track. It emphasizes the urgency of a focus on climate in design and building and calls on industry, clients, and colleagues to join in the critical effort.
While "there's no vaccine for climate shift," the pandemic provided insight into how work environments can affect wellness and underlined the need for businesses to invest in their comunity's health and well-being, said Rives Taylor, a principal and the global resilience research lead at Gensler. Creating and maintaining healthy work spaces goes hand-in-hand with sustainable design practices, since both can include such things as improving ventilation, creating and preserving outdoor green spaces, and choosing building materials.
The urgency of change
According to Gensler's report, demand for healthy and sustainable buildings has beome a major driver of real-estate markets for both owners and occupants. In addition, it reads, new rules and codes to address "energy efficiency, carbon emissions, and other climate-positive regulations" are being instituted rapidly. It's a situation that "could result in real estate losses of $360 billion per year in US alone by the year 2100 if we do nothing," reads a National Resources Defense Council statement quoted in the report. Taylor echoed this view, saying that "inaction is the worst possible thing we can do."
Gensler's research also acknowledges that addressing inequality and inequity is a crucial part of adapting to climate change. It notes that "poor communities, people of color, and marginalized groups" often live in areas of cities without the infrastructure to handle extreme heat and flooding and where they are more likely to suffer the health problems caused or exacerbated by "industrial locations and disinvestment." In addition to entrenched climate-related problems, the report notes, global migration from places that have become uninhabitable will create increasing demand.
Paths to a net-zero future—and present
Gensler's report—a veritable manifesto, really—is clear and detailed about the ways in which net-zero buildings (i.e., those that reduce the building’s operational carbon impacts to zero) can and must become a reality. Those actions include designing for energy efficiency and renewable sources; using low-impact and low-carbon materials in new construction (local sourcing also "checks a lot of boxes" for sustainability, said Taylor); and adaptive reuse of existing buildings. Some of the ways the company plans to achieve its net-zero design goals include having design resilience experts in every project area; starting with clear sustainability goals on every project; making data-based decisions informed by new technology; and continuing to invest in design resilience research.
As a design company, of course, Gensler also has the task of bringing developers and other real estate professionals into the process, showing them both the wisdom and cost-effectiveness of sustainable buildings. That can include anything from demonstrating the increased ability of net-zero buildings to lease space to tenants seeking energy efficiency and healthy environments to encouraging them to incorporate access to transit and rethink parking needs. Perhaps most important—at least out of the gate—is making that case that an investment in sustainability and community is economically sound. Taylor notes that sustainable and nonsustainable building materials cost about the same and that the net-zero approach lengthens the life and utility of a structure. "It's not a cost issue," he said, "it's a choice issue."
"We plan to bring these insights to our clients, policy makers, industry partners, consultants and the rest of the architecture and design community as it will take all of us to tackle the issue of climate change," adds Gensler Austin Design Director Travis Albrecht via email.
Gensler has been involved in the design or redesign of many high-profile Austin buildings, including the Seaholm complex, Yeti headquarters, and the new Q2 soccer stadium. Current local projects include the new Moody Center at UT and repurposing of the old Dillard's store in the former mall that is now Austin Community College's Highland Campus.
Another project, located at 618 Tillery Street and being developed by LA-based CIM, is emblematic of Gensler's design approach of allowing "every project to begin with a carbon focus," said Albrecht. "Here in Austin, we are looking to transform the office building as a typology."
Going forward, some of the climate-related challenges inherent in net-zero building will be present regardless of where the structures are. Others have more immediate resonance. "A hot market that is moving quickly to meet real estate demands can lead to developers and teams defaulting to 'business as usual' because of limited time to explore alternatives or the long-term impacts of the project," said Albrecht. "But our job as partners is to demonstrate how investing in sustainable design and planning approaches can deliver the healthy, durable buildings that tenants are asking for today."
"Key strategies outlined in the report, such as reducing extreme heat and resilience against flooding, adaptive reuse as a 'build only what you need to' strategy, and a focus on local materials and manufacturing to reduce embodied carbon impacts, are all relevant to the Austin building industry," he added. "Austin must also continue to focus on equity and inclusion in its built environment so that everyone in the city benefits from this current boom, not just the few. The social costs of displacement and gentrification still pose a huge challenge for Austin and threaten the promise of sustainability to create environments where all people can thrive." | <urn:uuid:fdb497bc-247a-4d59-9708-63db4dfb3a51> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://austin.urbanize.city/post/gensler-goes-big-sustainability | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.957678 | 1,211 | 2.296875 | 2 |
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Teenagers who suffer no fever or flu-like symptoms after being given the anti-parasite drug diazinon are just as likely to suffer “severe fungal infections” as those treated with the standard drug, a South African doctor has said.
Serum sales of diazinon have nearly doubled in South Africa, pushing it to the top of the non-antibiotic class in the market, the Daily Sun newspaper reported.
The medic was addressing the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban on Monday during a case between the health department and two doctors, one of whom submitted an email showing that the national DHB had no knowledge of reports linking diazinon to fungal infections.
Meanwhile, the newspaper also reported, the DHB and doctors involved admitted using the drug to treat babies and toddlers but said none of the tests at clinics had confirmed such infections.
“The indications in the emails are disturbing,” said Stuart Williams, one of the doctors named in the case. “We have a duty of care to our patients and to do the best we can to help them. That role requires not only medicines, but also medical care.”
Diazinon is one of the top-selling drugs, accounting for nearly a quarter of the $28.6 billion in global sales of anti-parasitic drugs in 2010, according to the 2012 Journal of the American Medical Association.
Because the effectiveness of the drug is linked to the acute fever that is its side effect, the Department of Health has considered withdrawing the medication from the market.
While none of the 96 affected teenagers have a fever or fever-like symptoms, diazinon has been known to cause severe fungal infections, according to toxicologist and South African expert Neville Rainford, who alerted the Department of Health to diazinon’s side effects.
“This kind of parasite has been known to cause severe infectious diseases and has been known for some time,” he told the Daily Sun. “Symptoms such as fever, headache, muscle aches and headache require action.”
Zithaleca fungal infection, one form of the disease, was responsible for more than 2,000 deaths in South Africa in 2012, according to Dr Rebecca B. Azhari, medical director of Ngwezi Memorial Hospital, the UK’s International Antibiotic Research Institute, and the largest antibiotic research centre in Africa.
While the Department of Health said the issue had been “deliberately manipulated by those who would want to take advantage of patients and patient trusts” and that it was aware of the safety concerns over diazinon, it was banning from the market new batches of diazinon that were deemed to be difficult to control.
“There will be changes within the supply chain of diazinon,” Alex Shrieves, a DHB official, told the Daily Sun. “To the extent that this puts diazinon out of stock, the department has put in place measures to ensure that it doesn’t, and that there is a complete flow of the product through the supply chain.”
But according to the DLH spokesperson, there have been no reports of illness or death relating to the current diazinon batch or its more recent replacement batch.
“We do not know which batches will be out of stock,” said the DHB’s Neil Maxwell. “When these are consumed they will cease to be available for treatment and we are reviewing guidelines in the manufacturing of diazinon as a result.”
The DHB now advises that patients with known with Dengue, dengue fever, meningitis, encephalitis or malaria are not to receive diazinon.
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The new tool developed by TrustToken use a central wallet to avoid spend gas. Called AutoSweep, the solution allow the application to manage millions of ethereum wallets in contracts ERC-20, like TrueUSD. Furthermore, AutoSweep has a open source licence, allowing many others contract to becoming cheaper ether. Therefore, the application shall have a big impact in the ethereum network, improving all the system.
The cost reduction will start with the stablecoin TrueUSD, the main product of TrustToken. So, it will reduce the gas consume in the process to register new wallets in the contract. According to Rafael Cosman, head of engineering at TrustToken, the tool brings an opportunity to standardization. On that way, the use of an alias to the tokens makes necessary less time and resources to do transactions.
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The gas is an internal currency on ethereum and represents the cost to do modifications on ethereum blockchain. The ethereum community tries to develop solutions to reduce the consume of gas. Therefore, recently an ethereum hard fork was scheduled aiming to improve the system and reduce the gas consume. However, the announce of the postponed came just one day before the planned implementation.
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Carmen Danae Azor’s “environmental ARTivism” (art and activism), as she calls it, crystallized as a passion in her twenties—soon after the fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report was published.
She returned home to Samaná, Dominican Republic, and visited a favorite, remote beach (Playa Rincon) she’d remembered as pristine. The pale sands were littered with soda bottles, candy wrappers, tiny Styrofoam pieces, and cigarette butts.
Carmen considers Mallorca and the Dominican Republic her two true homes. Roaming the Dominican Republic beaches and spotting octopuses in the coves in Mallorca inspired a lifelong fascination with water and wildlife. As a child, Carmen moved every few years to a new country—Costa Rica, Mexico, Uruguay—with her father, a diplomat from Spain, and her mother, a model from the Dominican Republic, before going to college for art and film in California.
There, she started a local chapter of Parley for the Oceans, an arts-centric environmental organization focused on the ocean and plastic pollution. She collaborated with governmental ministries and a local network to partner on a series of over 200 beach cleanups and recycling opportunities, coral reef driftnet removals, mangrove reforestation, and an ongoing fishers-led plastic interception in national parks.
Carmen uses photography and video to communicate about the ocean she loves. For one project, Carmen went on a two-week Parley expedition intended to gather whale DNA from the mucus exhaled by humpbacks when surfacing in the Samaná Bay. Over the course of two weeks, Carmen used a hydrophone to record hours of underwater whale song.
She then combined the songs with selections from a 1970 album called Songs of the Humpback Whale by Dr. Roger Payne, who helped launch the Save the Whales movement. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Wind Ensemble traveled to the Dominican Republic to play the resulting piece, “In Praise of the Humpback,” live at the Santo Domingo National Conservatory of Music. Three weeks later, the work was premiered and introduced by Dr. Payne at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium for MITWE’s 20th anniversary.
The peril of plastic
In July 2018, Carmen bore witness to what she refers to as “ecocide,” or ecosystem destruction that is committed with knowledge of the risks. Her videos of plastic waves crashing into Montesinos beach have been viewed by over 30 million people around the world, and can also be seen in the film Aquaman.
Today, Carmen is deeply involved in advocating for a ban on single-use plastic.
Carmen believes that “we’re in a battle against greed.” Both U.S.- and Canada-based oil companies extract raw material from lower income destinations, she notes, “over-exploiting resources while damaging the local public health and ecosystems.” These actions are a chief threat to oceans, Carmen states, and in numerous ways: drilling-related air and water contamination, fossil-fuel-based plastics, and underwater sound pollution that interferes with mammal communication.
Companies do things in small island developing states (SIDS) that would never be permitted—by the government or the people—within their own country’s boundaries. For example, one Canadian company has been awarded an oil exploration contract in a Dominican marine mammal sanctuary and marine protected area.
Standing up to the status quo
“If we continue with business as usual, we’ll face 3 to 5 degrees in warming by the end of the century and lose 90 percent of coral reefs,” says Carmen. “Eventually, oceans could be functionally dead, unable to hold life and soak up the vast amounts of carbon we’re emitting.”
Many women are involved in the fight for preservation in the Dominican Republic, and Carmen believes their strength will soon be felt worldwide. Millions of women live near the ocean, and we need to shift from the idea that “fishermen and conservationists are only men,” she says—and empower women to claim seats at the decision-making table to contribute to real solutions.
One thing Jacques Cousteau never had to deal with? Online trolls. After her photo of plastic polluting a scenic beach in the Lower Yuna Mangrove National Park won a British Vogue photo competition in 2020, Carmen was the recipient of racist and sexist harassment, even death threats.
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Thousands of scientists are calling on the world to think better to preserve the conditions for the existence of the living on the planet.
More than 15 thousand scientists from 184 countries signed the document Prevention of Mankind, which describes the main threats to the existence of all living things on the planet, says the journal BioScience.
This document became the second, the first was signed 25 years ago. During this time, as scientists say, some environmental problems have only become more serious.
People and nature are moving towards collision with each other
An active group of environmentalists from the Union of Concerned Scientists and about 1,7 thousand independent scientists, including most Nobel laureates, in 1992 issued the first warning to World Scientists Warning to Humanity.
The initiator of the document, which begins with the words “People and nature are moving towards collision with each other,” became the founder of the Union and Nobel Prize winner in physics Henry Way Kendall.
Concerned about the problems of global climate change, scientists described in it the main threats that existed at that time for the environment, and steps that should be taken to reduce the negative impact of anthropogenic factors on global climate change.
Scientists predicted that a person would destroy life on Earth, because of its activities, ozone holes are formed, water and air are contaminated, forests are cut down, soil is depleted, and so on.
Preventing calls to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce the use of fossil fuels, stop cutting down forests.
“If we do not take measures, many of our actions will put the future that we wish for humans, animals and plants, threaten and so change the planet that we will not be able to lead a customary life on it,” the scientists wrote in 1992.
For a quarter of a century it only got worse
The new Warning contains disappointing results from the first publication 25 years ago. The authors considered nine major threats to the existence of all living things that appeared as a result of human activity.
In preparing the publication, scientists used data from national climate organizations that publish annual reports on temperature measurements and greenhouse gas emissions.
Change in key indicators over the past 25 years: a) emission of substances that deplete the ozone layer; (b) Fresh water per capita; (c) The amount of fish caught; d) the number of dead zones in the ocean; (e) Forest area; f) the number of species of vertebrates; (g) Carbon dioxide emissions; h) temperature increase; i) the total population of the Earth and the number of ruminants
The main problem is global climate change. Since 1992, the average temperature has increased by more than half a degree Celsius, and the annual carbon dioxide emissions have increased by 62 percent. The amount of fresh water available per person decreased by 26 percent.
Also, scientists noted a decrease in forest areas – about 120 million hectares were cut down, and the number of fish in reservoirs decreased. In the oceans, the volume of dead zones increased, in which the oxygen content became lower than necessary for the existence of marine creatures.
At the same time, the world population grew by 35 percent or two billion over 25 years, and populations of many species of mammals, reptiles, fish decreased by 30 percent.
“Mankind has become the cause of the sixth in the last half a billion years of mass extinction of animals and catastrophic loss of biodiversity, it will soon be too late to evade our trajectory of falling,” the document says.
However, the scientists noted some progress in increasing the share of renewable energy sources and reducing the release of substances (the gradual phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons) that destroy the ozone layer, thereby reducing holes.
Scientists offer a number of ways to solve the problem, including the creation of nature reserves, reducing the amount of food waste, introducing more environmentally friendly technologies, changing consumption patterns through economic incentives.
To develop new methods for improving climate, documentation, and assessing the current climate situation on Earth, an active group of scientists created a new organization, the Alliance of World Scientists.
The state of the climate on Earth at the moment, its susceptibility to anthropogenic influence and trends in its change are also discussed in the framework of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is being held in Bonn.
One of the consequences of anthropogenic impact on the Earth’s climate is the reduction in the number of animal species. Thus, it is human intervention that can lead to the complete extinction of northern smooth whales over a hundred years.
Individual scientists even argue that the current rate of increase in the carbon content in ocean water can trigger a massive extinction of marine animals as early as 2100. At the same time, the largest and smallest animals are in the zone of maximum risk.
The most ambitious international agreement
In 2015, 197 countries signed the Paris Climate Agreement, which aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty.
If the average temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere rises by about two degrees, then, scientists say, this can lead to dangerous and unpredictable climate changes – unprecedented floods, droughts and forest fires. And this in turn will trigger a new global wave of migration.
The agreement provides:
– retention of global average temperature increase;
– limiting greenhouse gas emissions to a level where they will be fully absorbed by plants and oceans, until the end of this century;
– Countries themselves determine the contribution to the achievement of the goal and review them every five years;
– developed countries have some financial obligations – they should help other states in the fight against climate change.
The countries that signed the agreement, themselves determine the contribution to the achievement of the goal and review them every five years.
Developed countries have some financial obligations – they must help other states in the fight against climate change.
The Paris agreement is criticized for the lack of sanctions if the signatories fail to reach their goals or for lack of it.
Critics also point out that the phrase “fossil fuel” is not mentioned in the text of the agreement.
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Excavated in 1901 from the Adena Mound, this pipe is the oldest known three-dimensional representation of a human found in eastern North America. The Adena culture (800 B.C.E. to 100 C.E.) flourished in southeastern Indiana, southwestern Pennsylvania, the Scioto River and Hocking Valleys of southern Ohio, and the Kanawha Valley near Charleston, West Virginia—well over a millennium before contact with European settlers.
The Adena Pipe—Ohio’s state artifact as of 2013—was discovered in the burial of an adult male. Although tubular pipes were common among the Adena people, the effigy of this pipe is unique. Carved from Ohio pipestone and measuring 8 inches long, the pipe depicts a man (perhaps a shaman or medicine man) wearing a loincloth—decorated with a feather bustle at the back—and ear spools. Mostly hollow, the pipe would have been used to smoke tobacco, a widespread practice among Adena people.
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China Passes Data Protection Law
The law, called the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), is set to take effect on November 1, 2021. It was proposed last year -- signalling an intent by China's communist leaders to crack down on unscrupulous data collection in the commercial sphere by putting legal restrictions on user data collection. The new law requires app makers to offer users options over how their information is or isn't used, such as the ability not to be targeted for marketing purposes or to have marketing based on personal characteristics.
It also places requirements on data processors to obtain consent from individuals in order to be able to process sensitive types of data such as biometrics, medical and health data, financial information and location data. While apps that illegally process user data risk having their service suspended or terminated. Any Western companies doing business in China which involves processing citizens' personal data must grapple with the law's extraterritorial jurisdiction -- meaning foreign companies will face regulatory requirements such as the need to assign local representatives and report to supervisory agencies in China. | <urn:uuid:f2a055ab-c871-489f-8803-3a7b064ce4d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://weekly-digest.ownyourdata.eu/en/weekly/2021-08-20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.948218 | 219 | 2.28125 | 2 |
EES 2020 - Environmental Engineering Fundamentals II
4 Credits (3 Contact Hours)Overview of fundamentals related to environmental engineering processes, including water treatment, wastewater treatment, solid and hazardous waste management, air pollution control, risk assessment, and pollutions prevention strategies. Laboratories cover measurement techniques and applications to process engineering. Preq: CH 1020; and EES 2010; and CHE 1300 or ENGR 1090 or ENGR 1410. Students must have a C or better in EES 2010 and ENGR 1090 or ENGR 1410 to meet the prerequisite requirement. Coreq: EES 2021. | <urn:uuid:18aa68a0-6e26-4c85-8932-612897eb92c9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://catalog.clemson.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=18&coid=74315 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.796313 | 124 | 1.53125 | 2 |
It's no secret that people have been using tobacco for a long time, but just how long has it been, and what were they doing with it? Recent archeological finds are providing priceless insight into these and other questions with potentially paradigm-shifting implications.
In 2018, a team of archaeologists from Troy University in Alabama began a new examination of artifacts recovered in the 1930s. Originally excavated as part of an archaeological rescue operation when workers discovered the site during the construction of a hydroelectric dam, the assemblage was archived in brown paper bags and without being studied. The team from Troy, led by archeologist Stephen Carmody, revisited the finds as part of a project in collaboration with Native American communities to learn more about the ritual use of plants in pre-Columbian societies.
What the archaeologists found in those paper bags included animal bones, fragments of pottery and one partial bowl from an early tobacco pipe, referred to as a "medicine tube." The pipe, though found broken, likely took the form of a straight cylinder with an opening at either end, not unlike the chillums used in India. Instead of clay, as was popular later, this piece was carved from limestone. The pipe was tested and determined to contain nicotine residue, not entirely out of character for a pipe. What was most remarkable about the find, however, was its age.
Based on the radiocarbon dating done on the animal bones associated with the pipe, the team determined that the limestone tube dates to between 1685 and 1530 B.C.E. That makes this seemingly insignificant piece of rock the earliest known evidence of tobacco smoking in North America. It predates the formerly oldest evidence by at least 1,000 years. Personally, I find it extremely interesting to know that while Babylon was being sacked by the Hittites, people across the Atlantic were already enjoying tobacco. But, as we'll see, this discovery does more than just change the dates in history textbooks.
this seemingly insignificant piece of rock the earliest known evidence of tobacco smoking in North America
Even more remarkable is what Carmody found in the age-old pipes in addition to tobacco residue. The researchers were able to identify the aromatic alkaloids vanillin and cinnamaldehyde in the same pipe that was used to smoke tobacco. These compounds are, as their names might suggest, the active ingredients in vanilla and cinnamon, responsible for the flavoring properties of the plant. In essence, it appears that ancient North Americans were smoking aromatic blends thousands of years before the first vanilla cavendish was ever produced.
ancient North Americans were smoking aromatic blends thousands of years before the first vanilla cavendish was ever produced
The presence of these botanicals presents a serious question, however, as Carmody's team was unable to match these compounds to specific plants from North America. Vanilla is native to South America, as well as several species of cinnamomum; such compounds being present in a pipe in modern-day Alabama could suggest not only that they were a part of customary tobacco consumption, but that trade networks at that time could have been far more extensive than previously thought. After all, the plants had to come from somewhere.
Another recent discovery in the Great Salt Lake Desert of Utah has unearthed the earliest known evidence of human consumption of tobacco. A team made up of researchers from the Far Western Anthropological Research Group and the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center found the seeds of Nicotiana Attenuata, a species related to the tobacciana we know and love, around the remains of a campfire that dates back to the Pleistocene era, also known as the last ice age.
The site also turned up hundreds of bones from various species of waterfowl, giving the location the name of the Wishbone site. According to Daron Duke, the lead researcher, the seeds were most likely left behind from quids, which are wads of tobacco for chewing. Since tobacco seeds are very small, it's likely they were wrapped among leaves unnoticed and preserved in the mud of the ancient marshland of ice age Utah.
Since no evidence of pipes was present at the site, the researchers ruled out smoking as a method of consumption. The research team also had to contend with the question of whether or not humans at such an early date were the ones responsible for depositing the seeds. For example, what if the seeds were contained in the stomachs of the waterfowl eaten at the site? Duke addressed this hypothesis in an interview with Haaretz, stating, "theoretically, it is possible a duck could nibble on a tobacco plant, but that duck would have to avoid hundreds of square kilometers of its typical diet, go up a rocky mountain range, which they don't do, and eat a fairly uncommon plant." This is a truly rare breakthrough discovery, one that proves that human beings have had a relationship with tobacco for the last 12,500 years, predating the rise of agriculture by roughly two millennia.
human beings have had a relationship with tobacco for the last 12,500 years
The discoveries surrounding the long history of tobacco use among Native Americans has led many researchers to hypothesize that tobacco was one of the earliest, if not the very first, crops to be domesticated and farmed in the Americas. While it may seem far-fetched at first glance, the idea that ritually significant plants, rather than food staples, were the first to be cultivated has been a matter of discussion for decades among experts of ancient agriculture on both sides of the Atlantic. For instance, evidence of fermented grain shows up in the archaeological record at roughly the same time as intensive wheat and barley cultivation, leading some researchers to ask whether it was bread or beer that kickstarted the agricultural revolution.
In North America the question is especially relevant, as the evidence suggests that indigenous people here thrived as hunter-gatherers for millennia. Why make the transition to large-scale agriculture if not a matter of putting enough food on the table? Having easier access to larger quantities of sacred plants for consumption and trade may well have been a primary motivator in adopting a more settled lifestyle. While we're not likely to find definitive answers to such questions, they certainly provide a wealth of ideas to ponder during a long smoke. I, for one, will think of my favorite tobaccos the next time I order a side of hash browns. | <urn:uuid:ba9b9978-08d9-431f-a34b-ec5856e123ea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/single.cfm/post/prehistoric-pipe-tobacco-new-discoveries-light-the-past | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.975821 | 1,301 | 3.796875 | 4 |
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This video was created by Jim Barry, Esri Solutions Engineer, for the Yale EcoHack 2021 participants and participants from other universities.
The video covers most of the Esri software and SaaS platforms. It also talks about data and how to map different file extensions.
Please keep in mind the video was aimed at those who do not have access to the Yale login. Therefore, you should not follow Jim's steps to log in to the Esri ArcGIS Online or other products. Instead, use the login instructions offered in this guide.
This tutorial will demonstrate how to join census data to a GIS file, both downloaded from NHGIS.
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For anyone who’s been following my desperate Tweets about bread making, you know by now that my past failures were due to insanely old (spec. 10-year-old) flour in the kitchen cupboard. So before you try this recipe, go buy new flour. It can be all-purpose or bread flour, or a combination of one of those and whole wheat. Doesn’t really matter, just make sure it’s FRESH!!!
I am not an expert.
Now, I’m going to briefly list the lessons I’ve learned over the past 6 months while learning to bake bread. And I’m by no means an expert, I mean SERIOUSLY, 6 months does not an expert make. I’m still a novice but thanks to some great pals, learning faster.
Snarky’s lessons in bread baking.
- Use only fresh flour. It can be difficult to smell when flour is rancid because it’s not as obnoxious as rancid canola oil so play it safe and buy a new bag.
- Keep your flour in an airtight container. I use a giant Rubbermaid thing.
- Keep your flour container easily accessible or you won’t make bread if the container is too heavy to pull from the cupboard easily.
- Use another smaller plastic lidded container to mix your dough so you’re not polluting the landfill with plastic wrap. My mixing container holds 14 cups/3.3 liters and it’s a squarISH Rubbermaid w/rounded corners, not a totally round tub. Since I have no room in the fridge for dough containers, I only make one batch at a time on the counter. Instructions in those no-knead books often call for a hugeass bucket in your fridge. Honestly, where would I put the beer?!
- Choose a glass bowl for the second rise and just invert your 14-cup plastic container over it rather than use that evil plastic wrap or a towel that seems to stick to the dough. This means your glass bowl has to fit under your plastic bowl. The main benefits to my method are no cat hairs, beard hairs or husbands who accidentally plop their dirty dishes on top of your dough during the second rise.
- Experiment with your oven temperatures to see what works best in your specific oven. Mine is a 24-inch wide apartment-sized oven with gas heat radiating from the bottom so I tend to get burned bottoms on my loaves. Tweaks I’ve made due to my oven structure include: raising the rack on the highest setting that still allows room for my dutch oven and its lid, placing a second rack a few inches below the dutch oven rack for an old cookie sheet to help dissipate the heat from the bottom of the loaf, and try preheating at 500F then lowering temperature to 450 or 400 after popping in the loaf.
If you’re getting burned bottoms on your loaves, try: using a darker colored dutch oven (the dark finish on the interior of mine is gone and my smaller dutch oven with a dark interior finish doesn’t burn the bottoms), try lining your dutch oven with parchment paper before putting the dough into it, or try sprinkling some corn meal in the dutch oven. Unfortunately none of these completely eliminated the burnt bottoms on mine but they aren’t as bad. But they may help with your oven setup.
- To add more flavor to your bread try adding 1/4 to 1 teaspoon of red wine vinegar to the water before mixing your dough. Or if you want a slightly sweeter bread, add a little sugar to the dough. I add 1/4 cup sugar to whole wheat bread but sometimes only a tablespoon to bread flour dough. The red wine vinegar seems to me to taste better in white bread rather than whole wheat but that may be just my own preference.
SnarkyVegan’s whole wheat no-knead bread experiment.
I got an awesome crust, texture and flavor with this recipe but am still plagued by a burnt bottom on the loaf. The only thing I can do next to try to alleviate this issue is to buy a dutch oven with a darker interior or try a cast iron dutch oven rather than Caphalon. Buying a stove with a larger oven is just not an option right now.
- 3 cups flour, I mixed 2 cups whole wheat and 1 cup all-purpose
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon dry yeast, from a jar, nothing fancy
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon red wine vinegar
- 13 ounces—just over 1.5 cups—of warm water from tap between 110 and 115F (*see note after recipe)
- Using a wooden spoon, mix your dry ingredients in the plastic lidded container.
- Measure out your warm water and add your red wine vinegar to it then pour into the dry mixture.
- Mix dough well so all dry bits are incorporated. It will be what they call a ‘shaggy dough’, not a neat ball but not pourable either. I scrape the bits off the sides of the bowl to get everything mixed in and then scrape the dough off the spoon.
- Put the lid on your bowl so 3 corners are secure and leave one corner not secure. There will be gas developing inside the bowl so don’t seal it securely but do put a weight on it like a measuring cup to keep it from getting jostled by husbands looking for cookies.
- Set the bowl on a kitchen counter, not in a cold window, for 16-20 hours. I aim for 18 hours but have been known to forget about it until the 20 hour mark. It still worked.
Materials for next day:
- glass bowl
- rubber spatula
- dutch oven
- corn meal/flour mix, I keep a mixture of this 50/50 in a small recycled carryout container and use this to sprinkle on the counter and in the bowl for the second rise so I don’t get too much flour in the dough
Steps for baking day: There is a picture reference after the steps below.
- At the 18-hour mark, sprinkle some corn meal/flour on your counter and in your glass bowl.
- Using the rubber spatula, scrape/pour/push your dough out onto the sprinkled counter, GENTLY. Plopping will make a mess on your shirt and you’re likely to sneeze on the dough.
- Gently tug and fold the four sides of the dough over as if you’re folding an envelope. No need to do this a lot, I do it just enough to make the dough take a neater shape.
- Gently lift the dough and place it in the glass bowl with the folded side DOWN.
- I have a micro-sized kitchen so this is where I set the bowl aside and quickly wipe up the mess on the counter so I can continue working. I also rinse out the Rubbermaid bowl so I can invert it over the glass bowl instead of using plastic wrap.
- After inverting the plastic bowl over the glass bowl for the second rise of 1 and 3/4 hours, I watch the dough and if it gets high enough to touch the plastic bowl, I just raise it up on bottle caps or lids so the dough can rise without flattening. Probably too much fuss on my part but that’s just me.
- At the 1 and 3/4 hour mark, preheat the oven to 500F with the dutch oven and its lid inside.
- In about 15 minutes, you’re going to pull the preheated dutch oven out, remove the lid, transfer the dough via parchment paper into the dutch oven so that the seam side of the dough is facing UP.
- Replace the lid quickly and pop that baby back into the oven and turn the temperature down to 450F.
- At about 20 minutes, I turn the temperature down to 400F.
- In 10 more minutes, I remove the lid of the dutch oven and lower the temperature to 350F.
- In 15-20 more minutes, I pull the loaf and use a thermometer to check its internal temperature. If it’s about 200F, I’m done. I put it on a rack to cool and then enjoy the residual heat from the oven.
I know there are recipes online that have fewer steps and seem simpler. I’ve simply tried to outline here all the wee little things that make it work for me and answer some of the many questions that I had when starting.
*Warm Water Note: All the recipes I found online called for 1 and 1/2 cups water but I found through experimenting that I get more lift in the loaf if I used a teensy bit more water. It added a bit more moisture which works great in the dutch oven method. I have NOT tried the above recipe on a baking stone so it may spread too much on a stone, I have no idea. I also use a thermometer to check the heat of the water so I don’t kill my yeast. No one else does this that I could find. It seems most folks just use tepid water and don’t worry about it. I should really check to make sure this doesn’t make a difference because it may just be something that is totally unnecessary.
Mix-Ins aren’t just for ice cream!
This no-knead bread process makes it so easy to try all kinds of mix-ins. So far, I’ve tried adding finely chopped fresh rosemary from my living room winter garden or Vietnamese cinnamon and both were smelly and yummy. I also plan to try a variety of other chopped fresh herbs like sage, thyme, basil and dill. Basically, I just added ‘an amount’ (yeah, I know that’s vague, sorry) to the dry ingredients before adding the water. Worked great. I’d love to try dried cranberries, chopped nuts, or kalamata olives. Not sure how the olives would work sitting out in the dough on the counter for 18 hours but my guess is they’d be fine given that they’re brined.
If SnarkyVegan can do it, so can you!
After two years of thinking I could never bake bread, I’m beginning to accept that I actually can. And that I may not suck at it. So, if I can do this, there’s absolutely NO REASON that you cannot do it too! Now get going. Buy that fresh flour. | <urn:uuid:7a729e34-8295-420a-b2e8-3a3846187397> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://snarkyvegan.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/first-experiment-with-mostly-whole-wheat-no-knead-bread/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.926602 | 2,252 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Tropical Wave Forms in Eastern Atlantic Ocean
It's that time of the year.
The National Hurricane Center will be monitoring a tropical wave in the Eastern Atlantic, that is moving westward, in the next five days.
It is way too early to even suggest that this could form into a storm, but it is something worth watching as we move through next week.
Currently, forecasters give this area of disturbed weather in the ocean about a 20% chance of forming into a storm.
Again, while it's too early to speculate what may come of this, as we get closer to the peak of hurricane season, you should already have a hurricane plan for action.
It is never too early to prepare you and your family for hurricane season, and as we move through the months of August and September, that is when we normally see more storms from out in the Atlantic.
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This year, the White Ribbon campaign has a focus on asking people to Challenge the #Outdated.
Message from White Ribbon Ambassador, Very Rev Ray Coster
Ray is encouraging men to speak about messages around masculinity they received growing up that they later found unhelpful for building healthy relationships. Ray says that change begins by focusing on the attitudes which enable men to think that violence is ok, or that it is ‘masculine’ to exercise power or control over another person. Watch Ray interview four male Presbyterian Church ministers on the theme below. Read or download Ray’s White Ribbon message
Watch interviews with Presbyterian ministers on how they Challenge the #Outdated
In November 2020, Very Rev Ray Coster interviewed Moderator Right Rev Fakaofo Kaio, Rev David Sang-Joon Kim, Rev Martin Stewart and Rev Ryhan Prasad. You can download all the interviews here or watch on the PCANZ vimeo.
Part 1:“What messages did you receive about being a man that you now consider outdated?”
Part 2: “How did you come to reject outdated messages about masculinity?”
Part 3: “What would you say to boys and men about masculinity in 2020?”
Part 4: “In what ways have churches shared unhelpful messages about masculinity?”
Full video interview (52 minutes)
About Challenge the #Outdated 2020
This year, White Ribbon is talking about the #outdated – stereotypes that boys and men are handed down from their role models. The things we teach our kids about “how to be a man” might seem harmless, but actually carry messages that can create a really negative impact.
When we say things like “Show them who’s boss”, “Kids should keep quiet” or “Treat em mean, keep em keen” we’re putting limits on how kids interact with their world and how they develop their relationships. Many men have grown up hearing these things and end up copying these unhealthy attitudes and behaviours – even if they don’t like or agree with them. At their worst, these attitudes and behaviours can lead to violence toward women. This violence affects our families, our communities, and our whole country.
So how do we change it? In all of our relationships – whānau, friends, colleagues, teammates – we can challenge the #outdated stereotypes of what it means to be a man. We can role model healthy relationships and focus on strength that comes from a kaupapa of respect and aroha. We can call each other out and encourage more kōrero about gender equality.
If you are doing something to mark White Ribbon day, and spread the message about stopping men’s violence against women, please let us know. We’ll help you get the word out!
If you, or your parish, want to do something to mark White Ribbon day, but aren’t sure how to get started, then check out these ideas: take the White Ribbon Pledge, become a White Ribbon accredited workplace, talk about respectful relationships with young men and women in your family and church, host an event, participate in the White Ribbon ride in your area; or consider making contact with your local Presbyterian Support or Family Works office, and doing a joint activity.
White Ribbon NZ resources
Presbyterian Support Northern White Ribbon 2020
Presbyterian Support Northern with Rev Roxy Gahegan have developed White Ribbon Day resources for churches with 2020 themes, “Don’t Give Up, You Matter, You Are Not Alone”.
Roxy’s White Ribbon blog includes an opening prayer, scriptures, video clips, a short audible story - and a power point presentation that includes some of the material found on the blog; a myth buster flyer along with a powerful story of an older NZ woman who spent many years in an abusive relationship; and a poster encouraging people to pray, share and talk with others. Download all of these resources here. | <urn:uuid:b8c8154d-3b3e-4a07-8426-f89dd2a6c4f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.presbyterian.org.nz/white-ribbon-2020 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.936095 | 840 | 1.929688 | 2 |
As a enterprise analyst, I am repeatedly asked what it’s that I do. Typically I will need to take a second to articulate my job and my rationalization all the time manages to sound somewhat ambiguous. The BA is predicted to reply on behalf of the enterprise, assist requirements related discussions throughout design, improvement and testing phases of the mission. Business analysts might not require any technical information. Just about all business analysts have bachelor’s degrees, though many go onto achieve master’s levels and other superior schooling.
This information supplies the steps essential to becoming a business analyst, detailed job information, as well as the job prospects and average salary projections. Relevant experience of managing projects can present a pathway into working as a enterprise analyst, though that is extra seemingly for somebody with a couple of years’ business experience, somewhat than someone looking to start their career in this field.
An understanding of security expertise could be important, however safety business analysts would not essentially have to execute or implement these applied sciences themselves. BAs on waterfall projects carry in depth understanding of the business requirements, and so not to have them around full time doesn’t benefit the venture staff.
Beginning salaries for business analysts are between £21,000 and £31,000. For those who do have even just a few years of professional expertise, and a good quantity of the 42 reasons to grow to be a business analyst resonate with you, then you have got transferable skills.
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K.THERAPY <span>active shampoo</span>
Revitalising shampoo which prevents hair loss.
THE PRODUCT’S BENEFITS
Provides energy and vigour to devitalised hair.
Thanks to its gentle cleansing action it can be used every day.
- Apply to the scalp.
- Massage and leave to act for a few minutes.
- Olive leaf extract
- Stimulates cell dynamism to delay hair loss.
- – Prevents ageing of hair. – Stops hair loss and increases density of hair. – Improves blood circulation.
- Regulates activity of the sebaceous gland, reducing production of DHT.
- Regulates and normalises the scalp’s sebaceous secretions.
- Water from the Zermatt glacier. Water containing minerals and oligoelements with decongestant and natural properties which soften and protect the skin.
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GATE | GATE-CS-2007 | Question 74
Consider the following Finite State Automaton. The language accepted by this automaton is given by the regular expression
Explanation: In this case, we would at least have to reach q1 so that our string gets accepted. So, b* a is the smallest accepted string.
Now, at q1, any string with any number of a’s and b’s would be accepted. So, we append (a + b)* to the smallest accepted string.
Thus, the string accepted by the FSA is b* a (a + b)*.
Thus, C is the correct choice.
Please comment below if you find anything wrong in the above post.
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More than any at other conferences I have attended, participants in the annual Mars Society meeting, which was held this year in Boulder, Colorado (August 2013) — their 16th such meeting, my first — like to nod their agreement. In contrast, attendees at the meetings I more regularly visit concerning the ecological fate of the planet signal their comprehension with aghast motionlessness. When Robert Zubrin, director of the (currently Earth-bound) Mars Society, announced in Boulder this summer, that Mars is our future, the audience nodded. Rather, I should say, we nodded.
Not only is a manned mission to Mars technically feasible with existing, or almost-existing, technology but Zubrin insists that it is desirable for us to go to Mars sooner rather than later. Zubrin was reasserting an argument that he has been making for some time. In The Case for Mars — The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must (1996) he set out his blueprint for Mars Direct, a plan for manned missions to Mars that would pave the way for colonization and would be both cost-effective and possible with current technology.
Why should we go to Mars? There are economic arguments in favor of us doing so, Zubrin claims. Certain elements, such as deuterium used in nuclear reactors, are hyper-available elements on Mars could be profitably used on Earth. Additionally, rare metals: platinum, gold and silver, can be recovered from Mars and returned to Earth. The economic arguments are important to the case for Mars, but central to Zubrin’s argument, is what exploration of Mars says about us as a species. We should go because we can; it’s who we are. According to Zubrin “virtually every element of significant interest to industry is known to exist on the Red Planet”. Of all the planets in our solar system Mars has by far the greatest potential for self-sufficiency. The resources on Mars will cater for both initial colonists and for the subsequent expansion of a civilization on the Red Planet. For example, subsurface accumulation of water can provide supplies to explorers. Moreover, the colonization of Mars “reaffirms the pioneering character of our society.” Drawing parallels to Roald Amundsen’s successfully traversing the wilderness of Canada's Northwest Passage in 1903, an expedition which adopted a “live off the land” strategy, Zubrin appeals to a pioneering grit and esprit in forging his plans for Mars. Summarizing his reasons for colonizing Mars, Zubrin wrote, “For our generation and many to follow Mars is the New World”. Considering that as of the 9th September 2013 more than 200,000 have applied for a one-way settlement mission to Mars over at the Mars One website, it would seem that Zubrin’s assessment is confirmed.
The form that Zubrin’s argument follows is familiar from the history of rhetoric on space exploration. Expanding human economic activity into space is a common defense of exploration. However, there is an increasing reluctance in the space community to use the term “colonies”, many advocates preferring more neutral terms like “settlements” and “outposts”. Even that great space advocate Carl Sagan (1934 –1996) spoke of space “cities” rather than “colonies” to avoid such negative connotations. By and large, however, those advocating our transformation into a true space-faring species tend to couch their arguments in much of the same sort of idealistic language that Zubrin employs. “Reaching the stars” or “facilitating the spread of life beyond the planet” are proposed as selfless goals, ones that are galvanizing for all humanity. Such reasons rest upon an assumption, usually implicit, that we have a predisposition, possibly a genetic one, to explore. Furthermore, this exploratory tendency, in the view of space advocates, is regarded as one of the many fine things about us. It is the destiny, manifest or otherwise, of humans to hurtle off the planet.
One important category of idealistic motivation for planetary escape is that colonization of space responds to environmental concerns on Earth. Space exploration emerges therefore as a response to many of the same sorts of challenges that are discussed in mainstream ecological circles.
Gerard K O’Neill (1927 – 1992) the Princeton physicist and space exploration enthusiast, framed his advocacy for space colonies explicitly in the context of concern over environmental pollution and the ‘evils” consequent from the Industrial Revolution. Moreover, in The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space (1976) O’Neill wrote “the evils of environmental damage [pollution and so forth] are minor compared to others that have appeared: sharp limits on food, energy and materials confront us at a time when most of the human race is still poor, and when much of it is on the edge of starvation.” The solution as O’Neill saw it was not to “retreat to a pastoral, machine-free society…” No, the future rather is in space colonies which should be free-floating in space and thus open to constant solar radiation supplying us with unlimited energy. Such space colonies, O’Neill wrote, will follow on as “an inevitable result of the large-scale development of space resources.” Space will ultimately become a “new Earthlike environmental range for humanity, bathed in continuous free energy…” — humans’ newest habitat.
In January 1976, O’Neill appeared before the Senate Subcommittee on Aerospace Technology and National Needs laying out a case for an Apollo-style program for building power plants in space. Ultimately, these plans were regarded as “nutty” and funding space colonization research was cut from NASA’s budget.
THE ultimate environmental reason for creating off-Earth settlements is the possibility of Earth’s destruction. Global catastrophic episodes, doomsday scenarios, include numerous monstrous events that could wipe out our entire species. Catastrophic comets or asteroids, nuclear annihilation, the sterilization of the planet from the sun’s increased luminosity (in about 3.5 billion years) and so forth, are all ultimately environmental disasters which would leave little environment to speak of in their wake. Recently, Nick Bostrom, the University of Oxford philosopher, has analyzed a category of problem that he terms “existential risks”, the sort that often stimulates discussion of extra-planetary colonization. In a paper entitled Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards (2002) Bostrom defined the term existential risk as those “threats that could cause our extinction or destroy the potential of Earth-originating intelligent life. Some of these threats are relatively well known while others, including some of the gravest, have gone almost unrecognized.” Of particular concern to the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, a Cambridge-based research group with which Bostrom is associated, are artificial intelligence, biotechnology, global warming and warfare. Bostrom and Milan Cirkovic have compiled a fine, thorough, and horrifying list of cataclysms in their volume Global Catastrophic Risks (2008).
Now, these “existential risk” assessors have not been seen running for the interplanetary life-boats just yet, though there is discussion in these circles about the long-term relevance of space exploration in hedging our bets against the ultimate demise of the home planet. Bostrom recently wrote to me arguing that “space colonization (at a level that has globally significant economic impact or relevance as a safeguard against existential risk) will not happen until after the creation of machine superintelligence, and that any preparations we might have made towards space colonization will then be irrelevant and obsolete.” (E-mail, 14th Sept 2013).
Surely, however, any super-intelligent species would have figured out the long-term reasonableness of pan-galactic colonization in the face of their own existential risks. Some may even have gone beyond the Bostrom threshold of superintelligence required to efficiently explore space. Assuming that the galaxy supports several such entities (let’s not, chauvinistically, call them species) physicist Enrico Fermi once famously asked: “Where is everybody?” contrasting the supposed high likelihood of extra-terrestrial intelligence with the astonishing silence of the universe. This contrast is termed the Fermi Paradox. Taking up to this question with reference to the search for extra-terrestrial life on Mars, Bostrom voiced the hope that none will be found, speculating that there is a Great Filter (the term pre-dates Bostrom’s work) either in our past or future (though possibly both in the past and future) which explains the silence of the universe. A Great Filter consists of a highly improbable transition, the occurrence of which is required in order for a habitable planet to produce an intelligent civilization (one that would be visible to us with current technology). In Bostrom’s paper, provocatively entitled Where Are They? Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing (Technology Review, May/June issue (2008): pp. 72-77), Bostrom wrote:
“If it is true that almost all intelligent species go extinct before they master the technology for space colonization, then we must expect that our own species, too, will go extinct before reaching technological maturity, since we have no reason to think that we will be any luckier than most other species at our stage of development…. If the Great Filter is ahead of us, we must relinquish all hope of ever colonizing the galaxy; and we must fear that our adventure will end soon, or at any rate, prematurely. Therefore, we better hope that the Great Filter is behind us.”
Assuming that the Great Filter is in fact already behind us (perhaps the arguably inprobable origins of life itself was the filtering event), and marvels await our species in a gleaming future, prospects of a global annihilation by means of a freak cosmic accident give some force to a suggestion that we are depositing all of our eggs vulnerably in just one planetary basket. Therefore we would be wise to decrease our extinction risk by colonizing elsewhere. Such vulnerability is the reason behind physicist Steven Hawking’s urging us to explore space. He recent wrote, “We are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history. Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill…Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.”
It may be cold comfort to those of us that will stay behind, but the successful colonization of space may ensure that the enterprises of life, and perhaps even civilization, endures beyond the demise of the home planet.
IN Bostrom’s assessment there is little likelihood that an intelligent species will “choose to stay at home and live in harmony with nature”. I will call this the sustainability option (this is not the language Bostrom uses). He considers the probability for the sustainability option as being low for the following reasons: life spreads, a fact that Bostrom finds consonant with evolutionary theory; humans are an exploratory species; space is where the resources are, whereas a planet is finite; a sustainable society might “change its mind after a hundred years or fifty thousand years”; finally, even if many species chose to live sustainably, other civilizations may opt to colonize. Bostrom’s point here is to underscore Fermi’s paradox. I am especially interested in this discussion because it also underscores a general distinction between the ways in which environmentalists think about solutions to our planetary problems (sustainability options) and the way in which space enthusiasts do (colonization inevitable).
Traditional environmentalists (perhaps, most environmentalists) have asserted that our solutions need to be exactly of that type that Bostrom regards unlikely, in a probabilistic sense, for intelligent entities, that is “choosing to stay at home and living in harmony with nature.” Space advocates, however, do not, of course, have an appetite for curtailing the human enterprise in this manner. Though sustainability and space advocacy are, in a sense, forms of environmentalism — sharing apocalyptic visions and responding to similar planetary threats — one nevertheless expects a degree of tension between them.
Robert Zubrin’s latest book Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism (2012) seems to confirm the suspicion that sustainability and space exploration are indeed the opposite ends of the solution spectrum. In it Zubrin claims that radical environmentalists (inspired by the Rev Thomas Malthus 1766 – 1834) promote the idea that “humans are a cancer upon the Earth, a horde of vermin whose unconstrained aspirations and appetites are endangering the natural order.” Zubrin writes that a properly conceived environmentalism is “an effort to apply practical solutions to real environmental problems, for the purpose of making the world a better place for humans to thrive in.” The “anti-humanist” tendencies of radical environmentalism he claims attempts to suppress human activities “in order to protect a fixed ecological order with interests that stand above those of humanity.” A centerpiece of this anti-humanist thread is to be found in actions to abate global warming, which, according to Zubrin at least, has “significantly enhanced the abundance of nature, to the benefit of both agriculture and the wild biosphere alike.” Most ecologists do not share this assessment.
I will not review the substance of Zubrin’s claims here — I think he paints with a rather broad brush and consequently smears outside the lines at times — but rather I use this to illustrate a claim that those advocating for the colonization of space often are examining the same terrestrial problems as environmentalists but come up with radically different solutions. The differences in approach are mediated, it seems to me, by different conceptions of the human being. Space enthusiasts, even when mindful of our capacity to wreak havoc are optimistic sorts. Traditionalist environmentalists, by reputation at least, incline to pessimism. As we reflect upon our environmental challenges, two poles therefore define our actions. On the one hand is the ascetic modesty of sustainability, on the other the hubristic desire to colonize the galaxy. In some ways Mars colonization may seem the more immediately attractive solution as it come with all the thrill of a technical challenge and the allure of subsequent conquest. This may be the reason why back in August at the Boulder meeting we all nodded in agreement with Zubrin. The adrenaline rush of sustainability may be a modest one in contrast. The challenge for sustainability advocates will be to convince us all that staying on Earth and tightening our planetary belt is the most exciting challenge of our times. In making this an attractive proposition environmentalists have a lot to learn from Mars enthusiasts.
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with free tools: Google Translate, Quizlet, and Loop
My hints throughout this article should help you if you’ve ever encountered at least one of the below obstacles during learning and memorizing words:
- you don’t want to pause and take long breaks as it distracts you
- saving words takes more time so you end up not saving them
- the learning process isn’t specified or you’re bored
- you’re breaking the routine of repeating
- you’ve got your words-to-remember scattered across many places
Here is a summary of the process which helps me get rid of the above difficulties:
- Saving — translate and save the world with translation or definition
- Collecting — once you will gather more words than dozen or so, you should pack them (export) to a place that allows you to effectively memorize them. It’s actually better to have several dozens, but if you’re saving rarely then it’s better to have a few words than waiting a long time for more
- Practicing frequently by forming a habit
Let’s take a look at these in detail. You can also check how to do it on gifs presented throughout the article.
1. Saving words
If you find yourself distracted with writing down words to remember after translating them, I think the best way is to learn how to do it fast and efficiently.
Taking into account that in order to understand a particular sentence you need to check some word translations, it’s a good opportunity to also save it in one go.
Let me show it on the example when you’re watching a long podcast and during that, you’ve spotted a new word to assimilate.
What you can do in such a scenario is: hit pause, write down words in Google Translate, pick the best possible translations, click the star icon next to the translation (which essentially saves it). Then go back and resume the podcast. Everything in 5–15 seconds, to not lose the thread of conversation.
How to make that quick and efficient? (you can skip that part and go to the next point if you’re not into technicalities)
If you’re using a chrome-based browser, once you’re logged into your google account, the way to do it fast without installing additional tools is:
- cmd+t (ctrl+t on windows/linux) to open new tab
- type first characters of the word translate i.e. “tr” until the search bar give you a hint of searching within google translate
- click the tab button on the keyboard to accept the fact that you want to search within google translate
- type desired word
- accept by hitting return.
To sum up: cmd+t, tr, tab, word, return, pick right translations (usually first that appears), click star icon to save (the only mouse usage required).
There is also a second way of saving words. Google translate has a “history” option, which stores your recent searches and where you can also hit star icons for each position. So if you forgot to save but you translated it with google translate, then you’re covered.
Let’s assume that during that podcast you’ve added 20 new words using the above technique. Now it would be good to review and remember them. How to do it?
Go to google translate, click on saved (large star icon on the bottom), then on the sidebar that appears pick “export to google sheets”.
If you were translating only from one foreign language then you’re set-up, but if you sometimes swap the order of source-target, then you need to put them manually in a spreadsheet in a way that in the first column you’ve got one language, and on the second you’ve got the second language and they’re not mixing.
If you need further explanations on saving/exporting go to official google documentation for that topic.
3. Importing & Learning
I will show you the process on Quizlet, as I’m using that personally. It’s working on both the web and mobiles.
Once you’ve got an account there, add new words by importing the file (on the web version) that you saved in the previous step. Of course, you can also add them or edit them by hand.
If you did the previous step correctly, then import should go smooth. Once it’s complete you’ll see words with translations. Just confirm it, put some name for that collection and you’re done.
Now just use the app “learning” feature to learn them.
Once you’ve got your learning set imported, it’s good to clear the saved list on google translate (unless you want to have duplicates in the futures set).
4. Forming a habit
For me personally, the hardest part was to actually repeat the process of learning every day. Tracking it with an app on the phone was very helpful. I’m using Loop, as again it’s free, has minimal UI, and everything you may need from such an app.
Just add i. e “One lesson on Quizlet” as a habit, and start tracking it.
Also once you’ll install it, you may start tracking other habits too. If you’re wondering how to make new habits effectively I can recommend the book “Atomic Habits” by James Clear.
It’s also worth to check an article about Ways to Expand Your Vocabulary with guide and useful Infographic!
That’s it. I hope my quick guide will help you to learn and memorize things more efficiently.
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Paperback Homework for grown-ups : everything you learned at school and promptly forgot / Elizabeth Foley, Beth Coates.
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Originally published: London: Square Peg, 2008.
Extent: 416 p. : ill., maps, ports.
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While many corporations are realizing a return on their information technology (IT) investments in terms of increased productivity and effectiveness, higher education is still struggling with applying IT to its core processes: teaching and learning. Providing computers, software, networks, mediated classrooms, and user support personnel is necessary to meet this challenge, but is not sufficient. Faculty are highly autonomous. They have different levels of technical skill and interest in technology. The sheer variety of academic disciplines also prevents any quick and easy solution to integrate technology into the curriculum. One size will not fit all.
How then does an institution develop a program or set of strategies that will enable faculty to use technology to enhance teaching and learning? While no silver bullet exists, a variety of approaches can facilitate integrating technology into the classroom. Any approaches used should take care to:
- Provide reliability, robustness, and ubiquity,
- Initiate training in both general-purpose and discipline-specific software,
- Start with pedagogy rather than technology,
- Use early adopters as champions and mentors,
- Think big: develop strategic and financial plans, and
- Think small: templates, pilot projects, and incremental implementation
Reliable, Robust, Ubiquitous Infrastructure
According to Maslov's hierarchy of needs, human beings cannot progress to self-actualization until they have the fundamentals of food, clothing, and shelter. Similarly, faculty cannot begin to explore the uses of IT in the classroom until they are supplied with the basic tools of the trade. These include a machine capable of running current software, a variety of software applications, reliable and robust communication networks, training on the use of these tools and devices, technical support, and well-equipped classrooms. Each institution has to balance the cost of these products and services against other competing needs. If integrating information technology into the curriculum is a priority, money for these basics has to be found, often through re-allocation or technology fees.
Reliability and ubiquity of services deserve special attention. If faculty cannot count on a network connection or a projection device working, they are much less likely to use such technology. If faculty and students cannot rely on access to Internet from a lab, office, dorm room or home, faculty are not going to assign projects using the World Wide Web as often or in as much depth.
A Variety of Training Experiences
"Faculty don't attend training classes," IT staff often complain. But faculty are eager for training in the tools of information technologyat the right time and with the right incentives. Instead of classroom training, with faculty from a variety of interests and abilities all lumped in together, training should be tailored to a particular discipline or skill level. Extended training sessions are best offered during the summer, when faculty have more time. As an added incentive, free or discounted software can be provided upon completion of a training program. Online training in the use of general-purpose software is also important. Offering just-in-time training at windows of opportunity during the school year will encourage faculty to attend as they are able. Capitalize on the fact that faculty like working and learning with other faculty members. Train students to support faculty in software use, development, and Web design tasks. For specific suggestions on providing instructional support, see "Building the Faculty Support Pyramid" (1998).
Pedagogy, Not Technology
Many well-meaning efforts at integrating technology into the curriculum have failed because they begin with the technology, rather than with teaching and learning outcomes. Information technology professionals are not usually teachers, and tend to be unfamiliar with learning theory and content. For this reason, teamwork makes the most sense. Integrating technology beyond e-mail and PowerPoint into a class requires a lot of work and a variety of expertise. Teams of faculty (perhaps a few in the same discipline, communicating with their peers at other institutions), librarians, user support staff, media and instructional design specialists, and bookstore staff, for example, can combine their knowledge to integrate technology effectively. Teaching and Learning Centers, where they exist, are excellent places to locate these teams of professionals. Above all, information technology should be seen as another tool to improve teaching or learning, rather than as an end in itself.
Using faculty more proficient with the technology to support their less knowledgeable or more reluctant peers is another way to focus on teaching rather than just the technology. A faculty mentor program, with release time or other special incentives, is often an excellent way to jump-start innovation. Unless faculty are rewarded, or at least not punished, for both the mentoring and testing of new technology, many will be reluctant to take the risks and the time to develop new approaches to teaching using information technology.
The words "strategic" and "financial planning" usually conjure up images of long documents and spreadsheets never read except by those committee members who prepare them. Careful planning on integrating technology into the curriculum, however, is a key ingredient in its success. Strategic plans today need to be brief, readable, and widely circulated.
Planning must begin at the institutional level with an interactive, participative process that links the organization's goals with IT strategies. Commitment from top administration is necessary to ensure support for funding and implementation of the robust, reliable infrastructure of equipment, software tools, networks, and support services. Since everything cannot be done at once, a plan should communicate priorities and timelines, and serve as an aid to decisions regarding purchases and core services. Another advantage to having a documented strategic plan is that it can be used in obtaining support from and partnerships with corporations, other universities, and external funding agencies.
Additionally, operational plans need to be developed by the instructional technology staff in cooperation with faculty and other affected stakeholdersfrom the provost's office, to librarians, the bookstore, and media specialists. The focus needs to be on strategies that are replicable across the institution and the curriculum. Without this kind of planning, efforts at integrating technology are isolated, unable to provide models for other interested parties and unable to sustain themselves with adequate institutional support.
Planning efforts identify priorities that can then be addressed by pilot projects, which are free to take risks and to fail, thus serving as learning experiments. One advantage of starting small is that large expenditures are not needed, and the risks of wasting time and money are lessened. These pilots can also develop templates, either of software tools or approaches, that can be reused in other classes without the necessary start-up efforts.
Another tactic, especially useful in a time of rapidly changing technology, is to implement projects in stages, evaluating the technology and the approach at each stage of the implementation. New equipment or software may become available at later stages that simplifies tasks or costs less. Lessons learned in one part are applied to subsequent implementations. Once evaluative instruments are being used, best practices can be documented.
Developing a shared vision of where to go with instructional technology is the key to success with all these strategies. If no plan exists, then a planning process should be initiated, broadly involving faculty, IT professionals, the library and media services. While adopting a cookie cutter approach of using other institutions plans wont help buy-in or meet unique needs, looking at others experiences can provide a place to start. One online planning resource is the Technoplanning site of Maricopa Community Colleges Center for Learning and Instruction (http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/technoplan/). This Web site lists guides to creating plans, formats and examples of plans, and other planning resources.
Joining the TLT Group (http://www.tltgroup.org) listserv and roundtables is another way to begin using the strategies described above. TLT, which stands for Teaching and Learning with Technology, facilitates planning and implementation activities through campus roundtables, listserv discussion, an annual conference, and varied programs. Maricopa Community Colleges version of the TLT roundtable, named "Octotillo," publishes "Teaching and Learning on the WWW," a searchable collection of over 500 different uses of the web by instructors, organized by subject matter (http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tl/). Armed with visions of the future and specific examples of possibilities, an institution can build a roadmap for how to use technology more effectively to support teaching and learning.brain teaser gamesplatform gamespc game downloadsmatch 3 gameshidden object gamesbest pc gamestime management gamesword gamesmanagement games | <urn:uuid:5f909064-3555-4c50-857a-88a33020f1bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.technologysource.org/article/faculty_instruction_and_information_technology/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.939735 | 1,745 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Disability Identity and Pride
The discussion of the models and frameworks of disability begs the question: so what? It is one thing to learn abstractly about these topics, but it is different to allow them to change your perspective of disability. I recommend thinking, writing, or talking about some of the following questions. Am I disabled? (Or, do I have a disability?) How do I view disability in general? How do I view my disability? (Or, how would I view myself if I acquired a disability?) Is there anything about the other models that resonate with me? What would it look like if I thought about my disability from a different perspective? This is just a starting point to help you along your journey.
As someone who has dealt with chronic pain, chronic migraines, and other neurological and psych disabilities, I resonate most with the disability justice framework. Check out the introduction for more on how I think about my own disability identity.
Here are some other people’s** descriptions of what disability means to them, and how it has impacted the way they think about themselves:
- “It has enabled a greater sense of understanding and sense of self.”
- “My disability has allowed me to embrace who I am and have a greater understanding of who I was and why things were so difficult for me growing up without accommodations.”
- “I feel like I am more forgiving and accepting of myself after identifying as disabled; consequently, I can be more forgiving and accepting of others.”
- “My disability means that sometimes, I have to stop. I just have to stop and retreat inward and away from entities outside of myself i.e. school, work, friends etc.”
- “An explanation for sites of struggle in my life, where my ways of thinking and being were made to be incompatible with the environments I was living in (school especially). A source of community and support, once finding people who shared in those experiences. Sometimes incredibly draining and frustrating, when my brain is my own worst enemy. Sometimes a bringer of joy. It’s complicated!”
- “I understand how I fit (or don’t) into broader society better now that I’ve learned more about myself and the disability community.”
- “Tiring. So very tiring.”
- “Something I don’t quite understand yet. I’ve been told to try to suppress it and act ‘normal’ since I was diagnosed when I was young and haven’t really been exposed to disability acceptance until I joined this lab. Seeing everyone so accepting of themselves has been quite eye opening for me.”
- “The community is beautiful and great… the thing that gets you access to this community sucks. It’s so tiring and frustrating. It makes you often hate the medical establishment and almost every other establishment. Often in the beginning of my struggle with my disabilities I felt like they were my fault, now I am becoming more comfortable with my disabilities.”
- “It makes me feel lost whenever I can’t hear and I feel like I get left out of conversations a lot since it’s hard to keep up in a group convo. A benefit is that it has compelled me to be an advocate for myself and my needs.”
- “I feel like there was a point in my life where I wasn’t impacted by my disability, but now and today, so much of my life is shaped by it. It’s like an invisible passenger that never leaves me alone.”
- “My disability means that I get to experience college and job tasks in a way that makes me feel comfortable and empowered. When I’m within the disabled students community/disability lab and share my disability, I feel supported and understood. I also struggle with imposter syndrome, and debate on whether or not I have the right to identify as disabled. This has been an ongoing feeling, but being in spaces where I am supported (like the ones I mentioned above), I realize that I do have the right to do so based on my lived experiences.”
- “While I hate being sick and being dependent upon medication, the experience of the world through the framework of disability is so valuable. I have learned advocacy skills that have helped me in other places in my life, making me an empowered and proud queer, disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent Latina. I have grown to love my brain and my body in a way I never thought I would. I expect my relationship with disability to change, as everything does.”
**note: testimonies gathered from the UC Berkeley Disability Lab
Disability identity and disability pride look like a lot of different things for different people. In her essay “Why My Novel is Dedicated to my Disabled Friend Maddy” in Disability Visibility, A.H. Reaume (2020) eloquently describes Disabled kinship as “fierce and patient and tender and rare… It’s tinged with grief and pain and also with defiance. It’s gentle and it’s incredibly kind.” Similarly, in Ellen Samuels“Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time” in Disability Visibility, she appeals “for us to hold on to that celebration, that new way of being, and yet also allow ourselves to feel the pain of crip time, its melancholy, its brokenness.”
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Dr. Jason Oliver Chang is Associate Professor of History, as well as Asian and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. We use Dr. Chang's zine “Unmasking Yellow Peril” (co-written with Turner Willman and the group 18 Million Rising) as a jumping-off point for discussing the history and present of exclusion, discrimination, and violence against Asian Americans, as well as the field of Asian American Studies more generally.
In this time of rising anti-Asian rhetoric and violence, many have looked for educational resources. As Dr. Chang tells us, the lack of familiarity with this history is itself a familiar dynamic because of the “perpetual foreigner” stereotype, which leaves out Asian Americans from the American story. For Dr. Chang, Asian American Studies isn’t only about adding another lost chapter to history, but also about interrogating how our “common sense” historical narratives depend on the absence of certain stories.
We also discuss Dr. Chang’s 2017 book Chino: Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico 1880-1940 as well as his support for a recent push to get Asian American Studies in Connecticut public schools. A similar effort is currently underway here in Illinois.
You can download the zine Unmasking Yellow Peril for free or pick up a copy from the Deerfield Public Library’s Podcast Collection shelf. You can also find Asian America: A Primary Source Reader (co-edited by Dr. Chang) in our collection, as well as many other resources here at the Library. Dr. Chang can be found @chinotronic on Twitter. | <urn:uuid:9b9eadfb-2cb0-4fbb-b42a-57aa2725c156> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://deerfieldlibrary.libsyn.com/podcast/2021/04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.943275 | 335 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Melinda Isler, Archivist
1010 Campus Drive
Big Rapids MI 49307
1970 Presidential Search Committee. 1970. 0.4 cubic feet
In 1970, a campus-wide appointed committee headed by Dacho Dachoff oversaw the process to replace retiring president Victor Spathelf. These records document their processes and procedures.
Academic Program Review Council Records. 1987-2015. 22.5 cubic feet
This collection contains the records of the Academic Program Review Council. It consists primarily of the reports submitted to the group as part of the review process, but also contains some of the recommendations of the group to the Provost/ Vice President of Academic Affairs and the responses from the Provost regarding to the recommendations and other committee materials.
Alumni Bulletin. 1972-1994. 2.0 cubic feet.
The Alumni Bulletin is the official publication of the alumni association. This publication includes alumni success stories, columns by university administrators and information about current campus activities. It replaced the School Bulletin. The collection contains a complete run of the publication between 1972-1994.
Alumni Journal/ School Bulletin. 1925-1972. 1.7 cubic feet.
The Alumni Journal is a publication produced through the Office of Public Affairs for graduates and others interested in affairs of the institution. It is a monthly (later quarterly) publication produced in tabloid format. It was later replaced by the Alumni Bulletin. This collection contains all known issues of the publication between 1925-1972.
American Association of University Women (Big Rapids, Mich. Branch) Records. 1954. 0.5 cubic feet.
The records consist of individual surveys called the Community Survey of Women Power and a report summary of the survey conducted by the American Association of University Women in 1954.
Archives Task Force Records. 1989-1993. 0.14 cubic feet.
The Archives Task Force was formed to advise the Vice President for Academic Affairs and the President on the management of historical records between February-December 1993. The records in the collection consist of correspondence, membership lists, minute, reports and a cancelled search for a University archivist position.
Association of Ferris Women Records. 1955-1988. 1.5 cubic feet.
The Association of Ferris Women was an organization founded in 1958 to promote fellowship and to be of service to the Ferris Dames organization. Membership was open to all women faculty and wives of faculty. The organization provided a variety of activities and monthly programs that enabled the members fostered friendship with other Ferris women. Records include administrative records, committee records, financial records, membership lists and programs.
Athletic Advisory Committee Records. 1963-2006. 0.52 cubic feet; 1 electronic collection.
The Athletic Advisory Committee is a faculty based committee providing assistance, guidance and support to the athletic programs at Ferris State University. The records in the collection consist of agendas, correspondence, eligibility lists, minutes and other records relating to the meetings.
Autobiography of Woodbridge Ferris Records. 1927-1996. 1.5 cubic feet.
he Autobiography of W.N. Ferris Records contain the records relating to the publishing of the autobiography in 1995. It includes drafts of the manuscript text, photographs, the introduction and book cover. It also includes administrative records about the production and distribution of the publication. The records cover 1937-1948 and 1994-1996.
Aviation Program Records. 1939-1943. 1.5 cubic feet.
The aviation program was run in cooperation with the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) during World War II. The records of the program consist primarily of student records and of informational materials supplied by the CAA.
Big Rapids Industrial Newsletter. 1884-1885. 0.2 cubic feet.
The periodical called the Big Rapids Industrial School Newsletter was the earliest known publication of Ferris Institute. It provided course and class information and served as an advertisement. The last known issue was in 1885. It was replaced by the publication Useful Education.
Board of Trustees Records. 1894-ongoing. 28 cubic feet.
The records of the Board of Trustees includes minutes, board packets, correspondence, reports and legal records of the governing board of Ferris State University. The records document the creation of a state university, the growth of both the physical campus and the student body, the financial status and the curricula of a career based education.
Brophy, Byron J.- Papers. 1938-1952.
Bryon J. Brophy (1895-1962) served as Ferris' eighth president from 1946-1952. During his term, Ferris Institute became a Michigan state college and suffered a devastating fire which destroyed over two-thirds of the campus. His papers include materials relating to the fire, the building of veterans related program, the struggle for financial support and the administration of the school.
Brown, Ernest T.- Papers. 1932-1935. 1.5 cubic feet.
Ernest Edward Brown (1892-1958) was president of Ferris from November 1932- February 1936. During his tenure at Ferris, Brown struggled with Ferris Institute's heavy debt load. During one year, Brown served without pay. He also focused on student recruitment. The papers consist of student recruitment and advertising strategy correspondence.
Budget Records. 1955-1999. 3.0 cubic feet.
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Remember when picnics and barbecues were the easiest, most relaxed way to feed people? You’d throw a load of sausages on the grill and hand out buns indiscriminately, or unleash tubs of hummus and triangles of cucumber sandwiches on people without a thought.
But in lockdown, picnics and barbecues are a little more restrictive than that. We can gather in socially-distanced groups of up to six people from different households, outdoors, including in people’s back gardens, but Professor Chris Whitty, chief medical officer for England, has said it is “absolutely critical” to maintain strong hygiene standards.
“If you were to do something like a barbecue,” he said, “remember that passing things from one person to another, if you haven’t washed your hands, you can transmit the virus that way.”
So, how can you get the barbie going and feed your friends and family safely?
Firstly let someone else do the hard work and order in instead? We have hundreds of incredible restaurants, bars and eateries featured in our Delivery Directory here.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is very clear that “Everyone should wash their hands regularly with soap and water, for at least 20 seconds, to reduce the risk of illness”. In relation to food, they note, it is especially important “to wash hands before handling food or eating”, and “to wash your hands with soap and water, for at least 20 seconds before and after you prepare food”.
So, before any barbecuing or picnicking begins, before any burgers are layered with cheese, before any pork pies are sliced, hands must be thoroughly washed.
According to the FSA, “It is very unlikely that you can catch coronavirus from food, cooking thoroughly will kill the virus.” Additionally: “It is not known to be transmitted by exposure to food or food packaging.” So, largely, you needn’t worry about eating food prepared by someone else. But to keep contamination risks to a minimum, if you’re hosting a BBQ, instate a head chef, so just one person is handling and prepping food. Arguably, it’s only fair that someone else is made head washer upper…
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Sharing bags of crisps, or everyone grabbing snacks from the same bowl, isn’t ideal. Instead, decant crisps etc into separate containers, so each household has their own. The same goes for dips and carrot sticks. Basically, any item you’d ordinarily nibble on repeatedly, and go back for more of, divvy up safely between households, and stick to your individual serving.
While in normal life ketchup and mustard would get merrily passed round everyone, it currently makes sense to reduce the number of items being touched by multiple people. So, whether it’s for sausage rolls at a picnic in the park, or hot dogs at a BBQ in a back garden, it might be time to start keeping a bottle of ketchup in your bag at all times (it’s not a bad rule for life anyway).
The same goes for utensils. We’re not meant to be handling items that have been touched by people from outside our household, unless they’ve been thoroughly washed with soap and water. Passing cutlery and disinfecting it as you go isn’t overly practical while picnicking, so save yourself a job and bring your own. However, if you are attending a BBQ, it’s OK to use your host’s clean cutlery and utensils, as long as you just use your own set (i.e. don’t start haphazardly – and rudely – drinking from other people’s glasses).
…and instigate a queueing system (after all, we’ve all gotten so good at it). Unless you have ridiculously long arms, it’s not likely you’d be able to pass someone a plate and maintain a two metre distance anyway. Instead, lay the food out on platters, and get people to help themselves – one household at a time – using their own utensils to dish up. It’ll help avoid cross-contamination, and will minimise people knocking elbows over the corn on the cob, and then rowing over who gets the last one.
After a couple of drinks, social-distancing guidelines can become a little hazy, and your concept of two metres may end up looking more like 10cm – or even less if you get huggy after a glass of wine. We’ve all been close!
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“How great thou art” is a hymn written by Carl Boberg in 1885 and belongs to the collection of ancient hymns. It is one of the most sung and most translated Christian hymns, since it has been sung in more than 100 languages and in different dialects.
This beautiful Christian song has been sung by the church for more than a century, because its lyrics exalt the greatness of the powerful and sovereign God. It also invites us to see all of nature and in it find the greatness of God and praise him for it.
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The litany of great financial scandals is long, and sadly unending. Dickens himself covers scandals we would recognise today in Little Dorrit and Nicholas Nickleby. Beyond Dickens, the South Sea Bubble (of course), railway shares, bonds in newly independent countries (Kingdom of Poyais), never again... IOS, Saavundra, Rolls Razor, Bank of Gibraltar, BCCI, never again... endowment mortgages, Barlow Clowes, Equitable Life, Maxwell, Lloyd's names, Lehman Brothers, payment protection insurance, never again... This symposium seeks, through the ghosts of scandals past, present and future, to see what lessons we can learn and to assess which is rosier, the future of finance or of financial scandals.
10 January 2013
What the Dickens?
Some thoughts on City Scandals
Professor Tim Connell
One of the key problems with City scandals, whether current or historical, is the damage that they cause to reputation and hence to far more people than those who are involved originally. Such scandals can also cause untold damage to the commercial activity itself.
This is clearly illustrated by a historic event which, at first sight, may seem somewhat removed from the Square Mile. I should perhaps note here that I wrote my thesis on income tax – something which has made me welcome in more than one business school. Until, that is, I have to admit that I wrote about income tax in the Aztec Empire. There are actually more parallels than may at first appear, and I make it a rule for my contribution to a symposium never to overlap with what the other speakers might want to say. Not to digress, the Aztecs set up an empire based on conquest and levying tribute from subject peoples, in an area that today covers Mexico and parts of Central America. The key point is that they set their rates of taxation at a figure that the locals could afford which, oddly enough, came out at about twenty per cent, not unlike the quinta real, the one fifth taken by the Spanish Crown on all overseas ventures, and of course rather like VAT today. When the Spaniards arrived, they were overwhelmed by the sheer wealth of the region, but in thirty years the damage had been done: the population fell in less than one hundred years from around fifty million to fewer than two million: European diseases, ill-treatment and social disruption had caused a catastrophe. The Spanish response was to set up two Royal Commissions, one in the 1550s and another a decade later. They key question that emerged was: what tribute had been paid to the Aztecs and in what form? From this a sustainable system emerged which was reinforced by the Bourbon reforms in the Eighteenth Century, and was commented upon by the early scientist Alexander von Humboldt when he visited New Spain in 1810, ironically on the eve of the War of Independence, which led to a further lengthy period of instability.
The key point is that no-one initially thought how best to exploit the system in a sustainable fashion, to allow for long-term wealth and prosperity, rather than the one-off impact of plunder and rapine. And many people did know better: the first laws to protect the inhabitants in the Indies were passed in 1512, and there were more in 1542. But vested interests in the meantime were too strong, and central authority too weak to establish proper systems of control. So there are perhaps more parallels here to today’s topic than might at first have appeared!
Ultimately, it seems to me that there are two methods of control: the external one of regulation, backed up by sanction, which appears to be very difficult to get right. If the regulation is too fierce, then it will simply drive people away, and if it is too lax, then someone will find a way to get round it, and then the danger is that it will simply be ignored.
The other method is essentially internal: people do not knowingly break the law, at least not regularly and in large numbers, because they are aware of the long-term damage to their produce, their company or the market. “My word is my bond” is no more than a pleasant memory, and although the thought of social sanction or ostracism might have been enough to keep people generally on the straight and narrow, it did not deter the avowedly criminal from pursuing their own ends, and history is full of collective mania, ranging from railway shares to the dot.com bubble.
All this puts me in mind of a market trader I once knew. Louis did not work in a City exchange – he was a genuine market trader somewhere in South London. He was a permanent fixture, liked, respected and even a little feared by the people who knew him. And sometimes people who didn’t know him would come up with an offer or a deal that he knew to be bogus or dodgy. With a twinkle in his eye, he would simply say, “Yeah, I should oko boko!” which is, of course, a variant on the Cockney phrase “I should cocoa”. It encompassed a number of things: I wasn’t born yesterday; what kind of fool do you take me for; and I’m not that daft.” And Louis prospered – indeed, he retired in his old age to Canvey Island.
So in his memory, I would like to present to a Gresham audience the Oko Boko Principles of Banking:
If it looks too good to be true, then it probably is.
High rewards equal high risks – and high risks may break the law.
Some get rich quick – so others get poor quicker.
Or can we perhaps sum it up by saying, “The quick buck stops here – and now”. Even if you take more than enough for yourself, then you should leave something for the next person, and leave the market still intact. Whatever the activity, it should not leave damage in its wake.
Perhaps none of that would have stopped the Black Tulip, the South Sea Bubble or even Gulliver’s Projectors. And however much we regulate, I rather fear that the next Rolls Razor, Emile Savundra, Ponzi scheme or Salami swindle will still somehow get through. But it is up to everyone to ensure that the City of London restores and maintains its reputation as a major world trading centre. We will all be the poorer for it if not.
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Greenlandic Local Intuitive Climate Knowledge
Exploration of the Arctic dates western exploration back several thousand years, and has influenced how we imagine the Arctic. Accounts of Erik the Red, Robert and Josephine Diebitsch Peary, Knud Rasmussen, Fridtjof Nansen, E.A. Nordenskiörd, Fridtjof Nansen, and others have explored the polar regions, Greenland in particular. For many centuries, Greenland was described as ‘unexplored’, ‘mysterious’ and ‘desolated’. Above all, peoples of the north were inextricably involved in Arctic exploration. Yet, the portrayal of Inuit peoples at that time was reductive, additionally, Inuit knowledge was secondary to the science of the expedition. As we are aware of explorers’ legacy rooted in the ideas of western polar exploration, what continues to influence and validate scientific activities should not echo past exploration, and only be through the activities underpinned by national sovereignty. Accordingly, consistent with the spirit of exploration, there is a need to broaden Arctic knowledge and widen the imaginaries of western exploration.
Today, attention has been placed on Greenland’s melting inland ice as a source to the rising sea levels contributing to global environmental change GEC. Although we may agree global warming effects our lives, the benefits or virtues of preventing climate change may not be justified by the costs or future risks involved. While Greenland is a place where climate change is happening, it would be a misstep to think the environment is valued for the same reasons as it may be globally. We may be concerned for our own lives, or we might also be concerned for the lives of others living in other parts of the globe, or those not yet born. Some of us have concern for the natural world. The tumultuous sound of calving icebergs tumbling into the sea may be regarded as a risk of coastal flooding beyond Greenland, or a potential investment of bottled glacial water. Certainly, there is some reason to resist ideological views of nature and even regret the disappearance of sea ice, but that reason may be from one particular perspective entangled within the discourse of modern science. Within the climate science discourse, portrayals of Greenland’s icy landscape are of rapid climate change from frequent and stronger windstorms, changes in weather patterns, rising sea temperatures, thawing of permafrost, calving of icebergs, and the melting ice cap. Considered a source to the rising sea levels, Greenland’s melting ice cap is a sign of the anthropogenic global environmental change, GEC. True, climate change is a reality, however representations of Greenland seem un-balanced with alarm over polar bears’ survival on one end and on the other end the isolation of people surrounded by a desolate but awe-inspiring environment. It is rather, Greenlanders are effected by climate changes and profoundly have an intricate and social relational aspect to their surrounding icy landscape that is always moving, forming and changing.
Documenting climate change locally advances field science and knowledge of the Arctic environment in which to further explore other ways that show how local Greenlanders value their environment. In exploring the ways how the environment is of value, this allows for a study within how we account and document the Arctic’s icy landscape, for instance how hunters use their intuition in his/her environment. In documenting, how hunters use their intuition is to explore how hunters value their environment such as noting the reliability of the snow cover and accounting for the reasons why it is reliable. In other words, this expedition accounts by describing the purpose or reasons for ‘first hand knowing’ or intuition, and secondly, documents the ‘reliability’ of passage or journey of the hunt. Subsequently, this expedition advances field science by being in place of climate changes; capturing and observing the ‘intuitiveness’ of those living in the extremes of their environment.
With the ice cap covering ninety percent, Greenlanders living along the coast have an intricate connection to both land and sea. Living close to the sea is invariably a multisensory experience. It is as much auditory and olfactory as it is haptic and optical. After spending the last five months in Greenland, the Greenlandic Inuit we’ve spoken to do not disentangle their sensory modalities while being there hunting. Living close to the sea is to know the climate. Hunters talk of intuition. Yet, climate changes are happening in ways that the hunters are utilizing their sensory modalities less instinctively now as they did before, for instance how the wind is shifting the snow to know where to traverse.
An example from an Inuit hunter noted that sometime before, a snow-covered crevasse was a reliable passage over the ice cap because the snow stayed in place. However, in hesitation, mentioned that the northern winds are so aggressive today he no longer knows (intuitively) where the snow is going. Such that, it is not the case that there was/is less snow, rather the direction of the snow is a matter of consistency, known to develop intuition, and when the winds are changing, the climate changes; the snow moves, the ice breaks, and the skies glow longer. With these changes happening rapidly, their intuition needs to be tested for the very first time, and time again. Accordingly, this expedition explores: in what ways are changes rapidly occurring seasonally over periods, and how has the icy landscape been intuitively tested in which new routes were/are navigated in different periods of before and after that were adjusted to.
The specific observations will gather how local Greenlanders know of their environment by hearing, smelling, seeing, feeling and tasting what is in their icy landscape. Yet, it is not as simple. Questions that came up while talking to these hunters concerned: does the wind effect the shade of darkness during winter months; how can an Arctic animal’s physiology give signs of climate (e.g. hare droppings); what can be known when the ground is touched; what can be captured in the changing light and glow of darkness; how is the wind heard as it blows; when is there a smell of air ‘unclean’ to breath: what happened to the haze that once was; when it does rain, does it smell? These research questions revolve around the experience of climate through how the icy landscape is surveyed.
In order to answer these research questions, we need to explore the difference between how we perceive the climate and how the ice on the landscape is perceived. In other words, the difference between the air and the surface landscape. Pinpointing these differences is in the certain kinds of extreme conditions such as aggressive winds. Winds can be seen as the ‘medium’ of climate. To capture climate changes is to capture the effect on the landscape, e.g. blowing snow and bergy-bits onto the icy waters. Thus, capturing in this particular way of the medium onto the landscape, climate changes can be documented visually. Thereby, the methodology is to capture the ‘medium’, whether winds, falling snow, darkness and glowing of skies, greasy ice and more, as it effects the landscape. The ethnographic approach, that we call an Extreme Ethnography is an anthropological method.
Ethnography, anthropologically speaking is a representation of peoples, in ways that capture part of their social and cultural aspects that relates to the ways they are and how ‘things’ come to be. Extreme ethnography is influenced by anthropological methodology for which to explore visual practices, and sensory media represented through filmic images and sound done in the extreme environments. Due to Greenland’s changing climate, we’ve come to take an extreme ethnographic view of the environment and landscape as centre points – a mind-set to perceive and live through multisensory ways of feeling, tasting, smelling, seeing, hearing the landscape and be in place, fully aware of the high-risks in the environment. In high-risk environments, our bodies and mind are closely attuned. We become aware and receptive to what is beneath our feet. We sharpen our senses.
When we sharpen our eyes onto a particular object, the object becomes the foci. On the icy surface, when we focus on the rough rock or shape of the ice, the foci become distinct yet, the things among it are less distinct, blurred, out of focus. Similar to how we focus a camera. Just bringing the camera into focus entails what we perceive. With a film camera, the icy landscape is brought into successive framings. The film camera captures the changing climate in a particular way where the before and after events can be captured. In just the same way, intuition is experienced prior to the sight of things. What we experience of climate and on landscape, is happening in our everyday lives, yet it is when we begin the journey or the hunt we identify our surroundings with more openness and attunement. Each of us will be attuned to our surroundings differently and our senses diffused widely. This being so, Greenlandic Intuitive knowledge will be indispensable.
Greenlandic Local Intuitive Climate Knowledge (GLICK)
To begin to broaden western imaginaries of the Arctic, this expedition collaborates with Greenlandic Inuit hunters in how they intuitively navigate their icy landscapes. Greenlandic Local Intuitive Knowledge can be taken as a unique, essential and relevant way to capture the climate ‘medium’ in the months of seasonality. The sea ice maximum (ice covering of Arctic seas) begins from September and ends April/May. At the start of the September, the ice begins to freeze. A Greenlandic Inuit, a hunter and his/her family will also lead us out to a place ‘where there is much to see’. Film cameras will be given to Greenlanders who show an interest in the expedition, and who we will take as our Greenlandic ‘family’. The ‘Greenlandic family’ will gradually acquire specific skills in using a camera in which to capture climate changes from their point of view, through their lens. Two film cameras will be given to them to utilize and to capture climate change, as they experience it.
Systemically, at the very onset, we will document our journey to the site, at the site for a period of change from daylight or night skies and document our journey back home. This may be 10 km or 25 km from the settlement. Thereafter, we will return every 30 days to the exact place documenting from September maximum ice to April minimum ice. April/May begins the melting of sea ice. April is also the beginning period when the inland ice is crossable. This expedition not only captures the ‘medium’ of climate though Greenlandic local intuitive knowledge, this expedition captures the traversing of the ice cap.
Crossing the Ice Cap: navigating climate changes new routes over the ice cap
Perceptions of the ice cap from the perspective a western exploration is to simply traverse the ice cap from one end to the other, and this is to only preoccupy with the ‘surface’ of the ice cap without further understanding changes in climate. The third part of this expedition is an attempt to cross the inland ice sheet with a member of our Greenlandic family testing the ‘reliability’ of passage. The months of September to April is in preparation to explore how we cross. From the April/May crossing, what we hope to document is the ‘intuition’ of traversing and testing of new routes as we cross the ice cap.
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A joint research project kicked off Sunday to map the marine mammal population in a little-explored area of Israel’s stretch of the Mediterranean Sea that is set to open for gas and oil exploration.
Collaborating on the research, described as the most comprehensive to date, are scientists from the Morris Kahn Marine Research Station at the Charney School of Marine Sciences at the University of Haifa, the Greenpeace International Research Unit, and Greenpeace Israel.
Some 15,000 square kilometers (5,790 square miles) of waters within Israel’s exclusive economic zone face threats from drilling, according to Greenpeace Israel’s calculations.
Last month, the organization appealed to Energy Minister Karine Elharar and other senior government figures to scrap the granting of new licenses and the renewal of existing licenses for the extraction of natural gas for export.
Most existing research on the distribution, behavior, and ecology of marine mammals in Israel’s economic waters focuses on areas close to the coast.
But the Mediterranean Sea is also home to vast, deep plains, with canals bounded by slopes, which provide an important habitat for marine mammals, of which 12 species have been spotted in the Eastern Mediterranean in the past.
These include sperm whales and Cuvier’s beaked whale — defined as “endangered” and “vulnerable” respectively — as well as fin whales and several species of dolphin.
Visiting species include false killer whales, orcas, and minke whales.
The marine research, which will combine observation with the use of hydrophones to acoustically identify the mammals, will be led by Dr. Aviad Sheinin on behalf of the University of Haifa in northern Israel and Dr. Kirsten Thompson of Greenpeace’s Scientific Unit at the UK’s Exeter University.
They will sail aboard Greenpeace’s newest research sailboat, “The Witness.”
“The marine survey is designed to document the presence of whales, dolphins, and other deep-sea marine mammals, some of which are endangered as a result of plastic pollution, damage from high-speed sailing vessels, and marine drilling by the fuel industry that includes marine life-endangering seismic explosions,” a Greenpeace statement said.
Sheinin, who heads research into super-predators at the Morris Kahn Marine Research Station, was recently elected as an Emerging Explorer by the global National Geographic organization for his contribution to the field of research and his unique discoveries in the Mediterranean Basin.
“Since 2006, no systematic acoustic marine mammal survey has been conducted in the deep sea of Israel,” he said. “The knowledge gaps on the deep sea in the eastern Mediterranean are enormous.
“The lack of information impairs our ability to map and protect areas of importance to marine mammals in particular, and to the deep-sea ecosystem in general. Marine mammals, as super-predators in the system, are an important bio-indicator of the state of the entire marine system.”
In March, Greenpeace Israel submitted to the Energy Ministry an independently researched economic assessment of plans to drill for gas.
This found that the Energy Ministry’s cost-benefit calculations were mistaken and had failed to take into account the roughly NIS 30 billion ($9.3 million) that the public will have invested in the country’s fossil fuel gas industry by 2030.
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Let's Take a Walk event to raise awareness for caregivers
This year's Let's Take A Walk charity event aims to raise awareness for caregivers
For 20 years, Rae has been helping her parents care for her younger sister Faith, who has bipolar disorder.
Today, Faith, 35, no longer shows any symptoms. To show support for others in similar situations, the sisters are taking part in this year's Let's Take a Walk (LTAW) event in the 50km category.
The non-profit endurance walking event is organised by volunteers from Raleigh Singapore, a group which helps young people through adventure-based learning activities. There are three categories - 10km, 50km and 100km.
Started in 1997, the event challenges participants to push their mental and physical limits for worthy causes.
Faith said: "My sister and I want to take part in this year's LTAW as a milestone for our journey for the past 20 years through the toughest moments.
"We hope to encourage other caregivers and loved ones to believe that recovery is real and to always carry the hope."
All proceeds will be donated to Caregivers Alliance Limited (CAL) to help caregivers of the mentally ill and also to support Raleigh Singapore's projects.
In previous editions, beneficiaries had included HCA Hospice Care, Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore and Boys' Town.
This year, it's CAL's turn after Faith, who has been volunteering at CAL, suggested it to Rae, who volunteers at Raleigh. The sisters did not want their full names published.
Recalling their plight back then, Rae, a 36-year-old teacher, said: "As her family, we felt helpless because we didn't know what was wrong and how to help her. There weren't many avenues where we could seek help back then, both as someone who has bipolar disorder and as caregivers.
"CAL is doing a great job and they are not getting enough awareness. This year's walk also acts as a platform to raise more awareness for CAL and what it does."
This year's walk starts on Sept 23 at 7am and aims to raise $150,000 through registration fees and donations.
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Immunology and Microbiology
Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research, Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Medicine
First Thesis Advisor
Masanori Terajima, MD, PhD
Influenza A virus, Influenza, Human, Cross Reactions, Immunity, Cellular, T-Lymphocytes
Human influenza is a contagious respiratory disease resulting in substantial morbidity and mortality worldwide. With the recent cases of avian influenza infections in humans and the heightened concern for an influenza pandemic arising from these infections, it is essential to understand host responses that would confer protective immunity to influenza. The cell-mediated immune responses to influenza virus play an important role during influenza infection.
To analyze the specificity and diversity of memory T-cell responses, we performed a genome-wide screening of T cell epitopes to influenza A virus in healthy adult donors. We identified a total of 83 peptides, 54 of them novel, to which specific T cells were detectable in interferon-(IFN-γ) enzyme-linked immunosorbent spot assays (ELISPOT) using peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from four healthy adult donors. We found that among 11 influenza viral proteins, hemagglutinin (HA) and matrix protein 1 (M1) had more T-cell epitopes than other viral proteins. The donors were not previously exposed to H5N1 subtype, but we detected H5 HA T cell responses in two of the four donors. To confirm that HA is a major target of T cell responses we also analyzed H1 and H3 HA-specific T-cell responses using PBMC of additional 30 adult donors. Fifteen out of thirty donors gave a positive response to H3 HA peptides, whereas five of thirty donors gave a positive response to H1 HA peptides.
Because we detected T cell responses to the H5 HA peptides in donors without prior exposure to H5N1 subtype, we asked if cross-reactive T cells to H5 HA peptides can be attributed to a prior exposure to H2N2 subtype, the closest HA to the H5 based on their phylogeny. We compared younger donors who have no prior exposure to H2N2 subtype and older donors who were likely to be exposed to H2N2 subtype, and both groups responded H2N2 peptides at similar level, suggesting that memory T cells cross-reactive to H5 HA peptides can be generated by prior exposure to the H1N1 and H3N2 subtypes, and the exposure to H2N2 subtype is not necessary. We subsequently identified a CD4+ T cell epitope that lies in the fusion peptide of the HA. This epitope is well conserved in all 16 subtypes of HA of influenza A and the HA of the influenza B virus. A CD4+ T cell line specific to this epitope recognizes target cells infected with various influenza A viruses including seasonal H1N1 and H3N2, a reassortant H2N1, the 2009 pandemic H1N1, H5N1 and influenza B virus in cytotoxicity assays and intracellular cytokine staining assays. Individuals who have the HLA-DRB1*09 allele have ex vivo IFN-γ responses to this epitope peptide in ELISPOT. Although natural infection or standard vaccination may not induce strong T and B cell responses to this very conserved epitope in the fusion peptide, it may be possible to develop a vaccination strategy to induce these CD4+ T cells which are cross-reactive to both influenza A and B viruses.
Babon JA. (2012). The Subtype Specific and Cross-Reactive T Cell Responses to Influenza Viruses in Humans: A Dissertation. Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Dissertations and Theses. https://doi.org/10.13028/xaap-nf51. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/gsbs_diss/603
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Dear people of Latvia in every region, city, town, and everywhere in the big world,
Friends of Latvia,
The past year will always remain in our memory as the year marking the Centenary of the Republic of Latvia. The year when we saw ourselves anew, and we have seen how big and strong Latvia is.
While celebrating the first century of Latvia, we have assessed our accomplishments, and we are looking forward with new expectations and in full swing.
We have created new cultural treasures; we have expressed a whole century in the song and in the dance. We have made responsible decisions boosting the economic growth of our country and building a strong and prosperous country together.
The red-white-red flag of Latvia has proudly flown and the prayer of our nation, the national anthem, has sounded proudly all over the world. We have been engaged in shaping our common future in a united Europe even more. We are delighted about our land and our people. Self-confidence built up for a century blossomed out this year!
I am confident that everyone has contributed and will contribute so that love, security, harmony, and prosperity would also reign in Latvia and at every home in the New Year and during the second century of our country.
We saw how much we have grown up, and the rest of the world saw it as well. The royal families and the leaders of many countries visited us to congratulate on the Centenary of Latvia. They were truly happy about our accomplishments, the beauty of our land, and the strength of our people.
Latvia is so near and dear for ourselves that we see every minor imperfection, but it can sometimes discourage us to make it better.
Therefore, let us put the daily worries aside at least during the holiday to proudly say, “Here is my country, this is my Latvia!”
We shall always remember that we are shaping Latvia gradually ourselves with our actions, our deeds, and our words. The story of Latvia is and shall be what we will create and tell ourselves.
In the past year, we saw what we could achieve. I urge you to draw your strength in the accomplishments, inspire, and support each other to achieve even more by a joint effort in the New Year. Let us be determined to fulfil our dreams and meet our goals to the delight of our loved ones and in honour of our country!
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GUATEMALA CITY – Cardinal Rodolfo Quezada Toruno called for restraint and calm as Guatemala confronted its worst political scandal since its civil war ended in 1996.
Cardinal Quezada, archbishop of Guatemala City, urged the avoidance of “an irrational conflict of classes” May 17 as the country sorted through allegations that the president and three others in his inner circle were responsible for murder and corruption.
The same day, outside the metropolitan cathedral, tens of thousands of Guatemalans rallied in support of President Alvaro Colom. Less than a mile away, tens of thousands of others marched to the government plaza, pressing for Colom’s resignation.
The dueling demonstrations came one week after a lawyer, Rodrigo Rosenberg, was killed. Rosenberg left behind a video in which he accused Colom of orchestrating the murder as well as the killings of two business leaders who were shot in April.
“If you’re watching this message, it is because I was assassinated by President Alvaro Colom with help from (presidential secretary) Gustavo Alejos,” the video said.
In the 18-minute video, which was posted on YouTube and spread across the Internet in mid-May, Rosenberg alleged that Colom, the first lady and two associates were involved in a multimillion-dollar money-laundering scheme that diverted public funds into dummy corporations.
Colom and the others have repeatedly denied any involvement in the scheme or the murders.
Although Cardinal Quezada called for Guatemalans to withhold judgment on the case while the investigation is carried out, he said in his remarks, “I would like to have been at the demonstrations to advocate for peace from the Guatemalan society.”
On May 19, a group of demonstrators presented a petition with more than 30,000 signatures against Colom to Guatemala’s Congress. His political opponents have said he should step aside to assure the independence of the investigation, which is being handled by the government’s equivalent of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Colom has refused calls for his temporary resignation.
“I was elected and there is no proof, other than a recording that I completely discredit,” Colom said in an interview with CNN en Espanol.
Colom has said the accusations are part of a right-wing political conspiracy designed to bring down his administration. Rosenberg, he said, was coerced into making the video, a charge Rosenberg’s family members have denied.
Rosenberg was shot dead in a wealthy city neighborhood May 10 while riding is bicycle for exercise. The video in which he asserts Colom was behind his murder was distributed a day later, during his funeral.
The video “created the greatest political crisis for this democracy, because never before has a democratically elected president been accused of murder,” said the influential newspaper Prensa Libre. Since its 36-year civil war, the country has struggled with violent street crime and a growing drug-trafficking problem.
Nery Rodenas, director of the Archbishop’s Human Rights Office in Guatemala City, told Catholic News Service that, because of the nation’s fragility, an independent, exhaustive investigation is critical.
“We’re very worried but it is very difficult to pass judgment on these allegations because there are elements in Guatemala that complicate the situation,” Rodenas said. “We need to support the government and the democracy, so we have to wait and allow the investigation to go forward.”
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Pregnancy brings out a plethora of new experiences and behavioral changes for moms-to-be.
For instance, you may suddenly have a strong urge to clean the house until everything is impeccably clean and orderly. This sporadic change is called pregnancy nesting, and if you wonder why you’re experiencing this phenomenon, it all boils down to natural instinct.
What is Pregnancy Nesting?
Nesting is the sudden urge to maintain a sparkly and orderly living space in preparation for the baby’s arrival. Commonly observed behavioral changes include excessive cleaning, stocking, and organizing things. You may find mundane things like dust and skewed decorations a bit more bothersome than before.
Just like our innate fear of something unknown, nesting is considered an evolutionary instinct to protect newborns. According to research from McMaster University, nesting is primary a maternal instinct that is characterized by controlling the environment to minimize danger.
Does Every Pregnancy Involve Nesting?
Not all pregnant women catch this cleaning craze, and that’s okay. According to a poll conducted by Baby Center, 73% of the participants shared that they experienced nesting during pregnancy. If you’re one of those in the 27%, you don’t have to worry since nesting does not indicate anything about your pregnancy health.
Is Nesting a Sign of Close Labor?
Most expecting moms consider nesting as a sign of the baby’s arrival soon, but that’s not really the case. Nesting can appear in any stage of pregnancy and is not considered by medical professionals as a sign of labor. Fun fact, if you’re expecting labor in late spring or summer, you will likely have a stronger urge to nest according to American Pregnancy.
Signs of Nesting
Nesting behaviors and intensities are not equal for every mom-to-be. There are women who are contented after cleaning the nursery room, while others indulge in a cleaning spree at 3 AM. Nesting signs and their intensity might vary from one person to another. But all in all, the signs below commonly occur in the majority of expecting women.
1. Deep Cleaning
Maintaining cleanliness in the commonly-used living spaces is often enough for a lot of people. But for a nesting mom-to-be, all the parts of the house should be sparkling. A single dot on the floor or a light smudge in the mirror will haunt them all day. This includes cleaning areas that are rarely used until all are clean as new.
2. Hunting For Random Household Items
Another commonly-observed sign of nesting is the sudden urge to search for a very specific item. The involved items are usually things that are essential in caring for the newborn. But it could also be anything random such as mugs, notebooks, or an item purchased 5 years ago.
3. Overstocking Baby-Related Items
Yes, your urge to start planning a registry or listing things for the nursery can also be considered as a nesting behavior. You might find yourself buying diapers, baby towels, toys, clothes, and other supplies. Obsessive stocking can also take other forms such as doing meal plans for the next week and beyond.
4. Re-organizing Furniture
The furniture’s positioning is a significant factor in the safety and comfort of a room or overall environment. And due to this, nesting mothers would often have the impulse (and ungodly amount of energy) to arrange furniture until they’re satisfied.
5. Completing a Project
Nesting appears in a lot of forms, it’s not always cleaning, organizing, and shopping things. It can also be about finishing all outstanding projects that you’ve been procrastinating on for months. If you suddenly find yourself focused on finishing an art project, then nesting might be the reason.
6. Obsessing Over the Nursery Room
And completing a project can also mean finishing the nursery room. Parents often focus on building this room because it is a central place in the baby’s growth and development. You may find yourself very determined to finish this room (paints and all) as soon as possible to prepare for the baby’s arrival.
7. The Laundry Marathon
Have you been going more frequently in your laundry room trying to wash and organize clothes? Excessively doing laundry is also a sign that a pregnant woman is nesting. You would be strongly tempted to wash and fold every clothes, towel, and sheet in your home.
How To Handle Nesting Impulses Properly?
Nesting impulses can be useful in coping up with pregnancy stress. It also helps in mentally preparing the soon-to-be mother for some challenges after birth. You can use these urges to your advantage to avoid some inconveniences later on. Here are things you can do to nest safely and productively.
1. Plan Your Activities
The best way to have a productive nesting is to plan ahead before working on any task. Doing all things at once gives off mediocre results at best and unsuccessful execution at worst. So instead of multi-tasking, prioritize your task and break it into a smaller checklist.
Focus on finishing your current item before moving on to something else. As for shopping, go back through your list several times to make sure that you’re not missing anything important.
2. Opt for Online Shopping
You can also opt for online services to get your items for convenience and possible discounts. Amazon gives frequent discounts on their baby products, especially when you set up a baby registry. Checking out items online is often enough for some to alleviate the nesting urge.
3. Don’t Forget to Rest
Even if you enjoy the cleaning process, taking a quick break when tired is still a priority. Overexertion can be fatal for pregnant women due to some risks of complications. Don’t exhaust yourself to the point wherein you feel uncomfortable or uneasy. Always make sure that you constantly have enough rest.
4. Avoid Climbing, Lifting, and Other Heavy Tasks
Be mindful of your planned nesting activities to avoid getting injured. Ask your partner to assist if the task involves climbing, lifting, and tasks that involve harsh chemicals. Never attempt a job that requires you to work on heights and balance-related activities. Try to pick lighter tasks such as prepping meals, packing things for the hospital say, or folding clothes.
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Local SEO is a search engine optimization strategy that plays the role of helping your business to be more visible in the local search results on Google. A business that serves a geographical area or has a physical location can reap very many benefits from local SEO.
The evolution of SEO.
In the early days of the internet, websites were quite a few hence it was easy browsing on a website. Since the internet expanded extremely quickly, search engines were designed to enable users to find their desired sites easily and quickly.
Just by typing a phrase into a search engine, it will be matched with the websites that include the keywords in the search phrase. Google was able to use the same approach and then was able to dominate all the other search engines the moment it became the first to use link between sites as an indication of which websites had authority and were trusted.
Currently, Google considered a variety of factors both on and off the website to determine whether it’s relevant to be displayed as a search result. These factors normally form your digital footprint and every other factor carries a different value or weight which the search engine combines and then returns results. Your digital footprint normally determines whether or not you are a top an inquiry that a user types into Google.
What normally matters most for local SEO?
What does this exactly mean to search marketers? Although the local map pack is displayed within the standard Google organic search listing, separate algorithms power the main Google search results for local rankings as well as the local map pack results. As a local business, you do have the chance to appear with both the local map pack as well as the main organic search results. Make sure you look for a good agency, such as local seo with impressive digital who are based in Melbourne.
If you are new to marketing your business over the internet, you will face the challenge of figuring out what you should focus on to make your efforts efficient.
Local link popularity and localized content are some of the major factors which are similar to Google’s traditional search algorithm hence it’s essential to create local landing pages for each of your locations. This is important especially if you have several businesses at different locations. You should ensure that you include the name of your business as well as its address and contacts. Ensure you also optimize the Meta description, title tags, and also follow SEO best practice. | <urn:uuid:305683b4-cb08-4116-9c10-f8933e126c2c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bicgraphic.com.au/what-is-local-seo/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.959678 | 476 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Ornamental Pear Tree Plant. ‘bradford’ is the most massive overall pear reaching 40’x40′ size. They also grow in partial shade, but make sure they get enough sunlight.
A tree that is not recommended for planting by most experts, as it quite fragile. Each tree blooms with the same showy white flowers in spring and excellent fall colors. There are plenty of pear, apple, plum, and cherry trees that are cultivated equally for their taste and their appearance.
There are plenty of pear, apple, plum, and cherry trees that are cultivated equally for their taste and their appearance.
Chanticleer has a dense upright habit. Ornamental tree care is very similar to that of the edible variety of pear trees. Its characteristic oval shape, thick foliage and changing colours are eye pleasing, and it can be easily pruned or shaped as required.
They also delight with vibrant fall colors.
But due to their dense, multiple and vertical branch growth, these varieties are susceptible to damage from fluctuating weather conditions. An ornamental pear tree is an attractive and low maintenance tree, making it perfect for your front yard. It has small inedible fruit and greyish brown bark.
Some trees, however, are bred as ornamentals and produce fruit more as an afterthought.
Terms such as flowering (plum) or blossom (cherry) are also some examples or clues to the fruit tree/plant being an ornamental fruit tree. Ornamental pears are a beautiful and versatile tree that can be used for screening or as a feature in the garden. The ornamental pear tree (pyrus calleryana) is an excellent tree with an abundance of different uses in the landscape.
Highly ornamental deciduous trees providing masses of spring blossom and autumn colour.
A history of the ornamental callery pear tree in the united states. A case study of the ornamental pear tree pyrus Dig a hole twice as wide and just as deep as the tree's current root structure.
Bradford has glossy, rounded leaves, a pyramidal shape and is a moderate to fast grower.
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Nicolas Lopez-Villalobos focuses on Animal science, Dry matter, Dairy cattle, Pasture and Grazing. Nicolas Lopez-Villalobos has included themes like Pregnancy, Ice calving and Lactation in his Animal science study. His Dairy cattle research includes elements of Hectare, Crossbreed and Genotype, Gene–environment interaction.
His study focuses on the intersection of Crossbreed and fields such as Breed with connections in the field of Veterinary medicine. His Grazing study is concerned with the field of Agronomy as a whole. His Herd study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Milking and Beef cattle.
His scientific interests lie mostly in Animal science, Lactation, Herd, Dairy cattle and Pasture. Nicolas Lopez-Villalobos frequently studies issues relating to Ice calving and Animal science. His work in Lactation covers topics such as Heritability which are related to areas like Random effects model.
His Herd study necessitates a more in-depth grasp of Veterinary medicine. Nicolas Lopez-Villalobos combines subjects such as Weaning, Dry matter and Grazing with his study of Pasture. His Grazing research integrates issues from Willow and Domestic sheep reproduction.
Nicolas Lopez-Villalobos mainly investigates Animal science, Breed, Herd, Lactation and Crossbreed. His Animal science research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Grazing, Pasture and Heritability. His Breed research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Jersey cattle, Variance components, Milk yield and Random effects model.
As part of one scientific family, Nicolas Lopez-Villalobos deals mainly with the area of Herd, narrowing it down to issues related to the Ice calving, and often Body weight. Nicolas Lopez-Villalobos works mostly in the field of Lactation, limiting it down to topics relating to Milking and, in certain cases, Silage and Lactose, as a part of the same area of interest. His work deals with themes such as Dairy cattle and Reproduction, which intersect with Crossbreed.
Nicolas Lopez-Villalobos mainly focuses on Animal science, Breed, Lactation, Herd and Live weight. His study connects Pasture and Animal science. His Breed research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Livestock, Beef cattle and Milk yield.
His work in Lactation tackles topics such as Heritability which are related to areas like Dairy cattle and Food science. Within one scientific family, Nicolas Lopez-Villalobos focuses on topics pertaining to Ice calving under Herd, and may sometimes address concerns connected to Genetic variability. His work in Live weight addresses subjects such as Dairy heifer, which are connected to disciplines such as Milk production and Random regression.
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Profitabilities of Some Mating Systems for Dairy Herds in New Zealand
N. Lopez-Villalobos;D.J. Garrick;C.W. Holmes;H.T. Blair.
Journal of Dairy Science (2000)
The effect of ewe maternal behaviour score on lamb and litter survival
J.M. Everett-Hincks;N. Lopez-Villalobos;H.T. Blair;K.J. Stafford.
Livestock Production Science (2005)
Effects of stocking rate, supplementation, genotype and their interactions on grazing dairy systems: a review.
J Baudracco;N Lopez-Villalobos;CW Holmes;KA Macdonald.
New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research (2010)
Use of Lotus corniculatus containing condensed tannins to increase reproductive efficiency in ewes under commercial dryland farming conditions
C.A. Ramírez-Restrepo;T.N. Barry;N. López-Villalobos;P.D. Kemp.
Animal Feed Science and Technology (2005)
Estimating the effect of mastitis on the profitability of Irish dairy farms.
U. Geary;N. Lopez-Villalobos;N. Begley;F. McCoy.
Journal of Dairy Science (2012)
NEONATAL MORTALITY IN NEW ZEALAND SEA LIONS (PHOCARCTOS HOOKERI ) AT SANDY BAY, ENDERBY ISLAND, AUCKLAND ISLANDS FROM 1998 TO 2005
A. Castinel;P. J. Duignan;W. E. Pomroy;N. López-Villalobos.
Journal of Wildlife Diseases (2007)
Effectiveness of mid-infrared spectroscopy for prediction of the contents of calcium and phosphorus, and titratable acidity of milk and their relationship with milk quality and coagulation properties
V. Toffanin;M. De Marchi;N. Lopez-Villalobos;M. Cassandro.
International Dairy Journal (2015)
Crossbreeding: implications for dairy cow fertility and survival.
F. Buckley;N. Lopez-Villalobos;B. J. Heins.
Controlling the onset of natural cryptosporidiosis in calves with paromomycin sulphate.
A. Grinberg;A. Markovics;J. Galindez;N. Lopez-Villalobos.
Veterinary Record (2002)
Dystocia in beef heifers: a review of genetic and nutritional influences.
R E Hickson;S T Morris;P R Kenyon;N Lopez-Villalobos.
New Zealand Veterinary Journal (2006)
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With all the distractions of work, technology, and life in general, how can parents be mentally and emotionally available to their children? In the present, there is the opportunity to show up, pay attention, and become the parent you want to be.
This article is an excerpt from the book The Present Parent Handbook. With an easy-to-follow A-Z format, every parent will be able to implement the book’s 26+ simple tools to become a more present parent for their children.
Children grow well in the soil of our attention. They look for us to provide nourishment as they blossom. They sink roots in our love and see their own reflection in our eyes. They bask in the light of our attention. Our presence provides these vital conditions that hold our child in the center of our world and create a sense of continuity and safety.
Present parenting invites us to pause and unplug from external distractionsincluding jobs, errands, and other responsibilities. We don’t attend to our children so that we can get back to our daily tasks; we attend to these tasks so that we can be with our children. The degree to which we are able to be with ourselves and attend to ourselves reflects the degree to which we are comfortable being with our children. Our children will always be our greatest
The Child ZONE
A child’s sense of smell has a potential far greater than ours. Their sense of taste is so developed that it is common, if you listen, to hear your child reference the taste of color. Their eyes take in everything around them: ants as they parade across the floor, birds as they soar, a white speck in an infinite blue sky. Children live in a world where sounds are not separate from the image or the thoughts connecting them. The child zone is a beehive of activity. If we listen closely, we may hear the hum while they live within the dynamic activity of it all.
Children live in a timeless world of possibility. The very phenomenon that children don’t know what time is helps us to be present with them. They remind us again and again that the only time that actually exists, and matters most, is the moment at hand.
In order to help our children learn how to manage time, we have to understand the topography of our child’s world: the child zone. Adults think primarily in terms of deadlines and results, while children think about infinite possibility and the freedom to play, dream, and create.
Scheduling our children based on our expectations never works. Forcing them to relate to time through our lens will most likely lead to a struggle. Playing the “parent as cop” may achieve results, but it rarely rewards anyone involved.
Moments unfold differently in a child’s world: hours can feel like minutes and seconds like hours. “Hurry, Daddy; we have been driving forever.” Children often find their parents’ expectations around timing very limiting. When they hear, “Hurry up; you will be late for school,” the frustration behind our words lands like the boots of a paratrooper in a garden of sweet peas. What is two minutes, really? Imagine if you allowed an extra two minutes to get out the door. Better yet, maybe you rise a little earlier in the morning. Perhaps you get your children out of bed with plenty of time to spare.
At any age, a child, left to their own way, is not connected to the time and space continuum necessary for them to make a smooth transition. It isn’t that they are deficient in some way; their minds are simply considering possibilities that adults don’t even imagine.
If we patiently and consistently support our children in making successful transitions, then a schedule becomes co-created. How we manage time in our life will determine how seamlessly we teach our children to manage time in theirs. Maintaining a “child zone” mindset helps both of you to navigate the day-to-day trajectory of your lives and prepares everyone to handle even the most unexpected moments with ease.
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The smokers in the study did not receive counseling or other support, HealthDay reports.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- More than one million households in New York have fallen delinquent on their energy, water, telephone, and internet bills since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, which has created a utility crisis in the state.
Advocacy groups say without a resolution in the state’s 2022-2023 budget, the crisis will continue to get worse.
The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) and the Public Utility Law Project (PULP) are urging the Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie to include a resolution in the budget to address the billions owed by New Yorkers in unpaid energy, water, telephone and high-speed internet bills.
At least $1.7 billion is owed in unpaid energy and utility bills, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars more in telephone, water, and internet arrears.
Between February 2020 and December of 2021 energy utility consumers’ debt increased by more than $960 million, the letter to Heastie and Stewart-Cousins says.
In October 2021, the U.S. government said it expected households to see their heating bills jump as much as 54% compared to last winter -- making it harder for those already behind on their bills to catch up.
The government released a separate report showing that prices were 5.4% higher for U.S. consumers in September 2021 than September 2022. That matches the hottest inflation rate since 2008, as a reawakening economy and snarled supply chains push up prices for everything from cars to groceries.
The groups are asking for $1.25 billion of the federal American Rescue Plan monies be allocated in the 2022-2023 state budget.
They’re also asking for an authorization of $200 million for a dollar-for-dollar state sales tax to be available for forgiveness for non-energy utilities for low- or fixed-income households.
“Without action from Albany, the risk of wholesale utility shutoffs climbs each day,” said AARP New York State Director Beth Finkel.
“Recent reports from around the state of energy bills doubling and tripling will only plunge more New Yorkers into debt from which they may not recover. It’s time for the leaders of New York State to confront this growing crisis,” Finkel continued.
“Even before the bill surge affecting New York, one in five New Yorkers were deep in debt to utilities with little prospect of ever paying their way out to financial health,” said PULP Executive Director Richard Berkley. “Implementing the simple three-part plan PULP, AARP and our partners have advanced will avert multi-generational poverty caused by COVID-19, soothe the additional harms created by the bill surge, and provide a pathway for our communities’ economic recovery.”
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Play is much more than just fun for developing children. It is a vital ingredient in developing a healthy young adult. Engaging in play, sports and movement-based physical activities builds motor skills and enhances a child’s creativity, self-confidence and social skills.
The benefits of playful physical activity on cardio-respiratory fitness, strength and endurance hold true for all children including those with special needs. Through these activities, children learn to become self-reliant and competent to face day to day challenges.
In this scenario, children with special needs are often severely disadvantaged in benefiting from play. They face 3 primary challenges:
Very few opportunities for,
- playing in socially inclusive groups
- playing appropriate games suitable for their developmental challenges
- There is an acute paucity of a safe and supportive environment where parents of children with special needs can let the child offer the freedom to enjoy a play or outdoor activities.
- Children with special needs require additional inputs to derive maximum benefit from play activity.
It is proven that participation in physical activities greatly enhance the benefits of therapeutic interventions such as occupational, speech and physical therapy that children with special needs require to mitigate their developmental challenges. Professionally planned and supervised play activity is indeed the secret input for accelerated benefit accrual.
In India, children with special needs face many hurdles to engage in gainful play. Adequately trained, empathetic teachers, trainers and coaches are one of them. Coaches and trainers seldom have adequate knowledge and training to,
- recognize every special child’s strengths
- identify their developmental challenges
- help the children reach their maximum potential
- create a socially inclusive environment
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History isn’t just important to our nation, it’s also ripe with opportunities for fun family travel destination. There are historical sites all over the United States that remind us of our roots. If you have a history loving family, then these historical sites are the perfect destination for your vacation. Here are 5 family travel destinations you need to visit if you and your family love history.
5 Family Travel Destinations for History Loving Families
The capital of our great nation is a great place to take your history loving family on vacation. This city is filled with history, including historical museums and monuments. You can even take your kids to Arlington National Cemetery and teach them about those who have died for our country.
Williamsburg is a historical city that was important during the Revolutionary War. If you bring your kids to this place, you can let experience history for themselves in the Revolutionary City, playing games that children of the time played.
Do you want your kids to experience the heart of our country’s immigration? Then you need to take a family trip to Ellis Island. Nicknamed the Island of Hope and the Island of Tears, your kids will enjoy learning about their ancestors who landed on Ellis Island with high hope for a better life.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, is a town filled with history. This is the location of the Gettysburg Battlefield and the subsequent Gettysburg Address. When visiting this town, you can schedule a battlefield tour, letting your kids experience historical events for themselves.
Boston is another historical site that you need to take your history loving family! This city is filled with historical museums and landmarks, including the famous Bunker Hill Monument and Paul Revere’s House.
While all of these particular family travel destinations for history lovers happen to be on the East Coast (because they’re geared toward early American history), you can find historical sites in just about any state. California families, for example, can check into towns highlighting the history of the Gold Rush. Of course, you’re also not limited to the US! Get together as a family and decide on the time period or historical event you’d love to learn more about, then choose a place to visit.
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Every June 21, we celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day by recognizing the unique heritage, diverse cultures and outstanding contributions of the First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples. National Indigenous Peoples Day coincides with the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, and a day that holds significance for many Indigenous peoples and communities.
Many take the day to raise awareness and appreciation of the contributions Canada’s Indigenous peoples have made to our nation’s social and economic fabric, whether through artistic expression or enterprise.
It’s also a time for solemn reflection on the tremendous losses and struggles Indigenous Peoples have faced and to honour their histories.
Let’s stand in solidarity with our Indigenous colleagues and communities, by committing to educate ourselves about their languages, cultures and experiences to strive for a more inclusive society.
Three Indigenous groups
Indigenous peoples is a collective name for the original peoples of North America and their descendants. The Canadian Constitution recognizes First Nations, Inuit and Métis as Indigenous peoples, also known as Aboriginal peoples. Although these three groups share many similarities, they each have their own distinct heritage, language, cultural practices and spiritual beliefs.
Here are some ways you can join the celebrations:
- Check out National Indigenous Peoples Day virtual activities happening in your region through Celebrate Canada!
- Attend this year’s summer solstice indigenous festival
- Listen to and learn about some Indigenous artists
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As 2014 draws to a close, we momentarily step back from the mince pies to take stock of what has been another monumental year for Carbon Tracker with our research evolving from high-level risk statements to deep-dive analytics on oil and coal projects globally (with gas to follow in 2015), unprecedented progress being made within climate risk financial regulation, all made possible by the expansion of our team from 3 to 10 employees.
Back due to popular demand, this summary of how the landscape for Carbon Tracker’s work has progressed will take a certain festive form.
“On the 12 days of Christmas, 2014 gave to me:
One elephant in the atmosphere
Volatility in the price of oil, especially in the latter parts of 2014, has increased scrutiny on the viability of future oil production with high break-even points in the mainstream media. Back in July the Economist concluded that managers of oil firms betting on high oil prices despite the need for a climate fix are taking a ‘gamble’ – the ‘elephant in the atmosphere’ as the Economist put it, is the possibility that this will backfire and lead to investors dumping their oil shares. In light of the current oil price, this will certainly be an area to watch in 2015.
Two many sub-prime assets
The Telegraph have been issuing similar warnings this year. The breakthrough article titled ‘Fossil industry is the subprime danger of this cycle’ continued to focus on breakeven points, specifically the fact that not a single large project has come on stream at less than $80 a barrel for three years while capital expenditure continues to soar. The newspaper continued flagging such risks in November when it reported that climate regulations, typified by the US and China agreement, could lead to ‘trillions of stranded assets’ for the oil industry.
Three oil sands projects shelved
Carbon Tracker research has found that almost 40% of investments to 2025 on ‘risky’ projects requiring $95+ a barrel are in Alberta’s oil sands. 2014 saw the Corner, Joslyn and Pierre River oil sands projects get shelved due to unfavourable market conditions therefore avoiding at least $11 billion of stranded investments – at significantly higher oil prices than we see today. Carbon Tracker’s report questions whether the market will upturn sufficiently to make some projects economic. And in December the FT ran a letter from Carbon Tracker pointing out how the Keystone XL pipeline would only make production more attractive in the short run – a real trap as argued by our research.
Four majors engaging on the carbon bubble
Shareholder resolutions from As You Sow and Arjuna Capital challenging oil and gas companies to demonstrate their consideration of and resilience to carbon asset risk led to unprecedented comments from BP, Shell, ExxonMobil and Statoil on the issue. As expected, each company dismissed the possibility of carbon constraints constraining future demand for oil and gas, while asserting that the risk of the ‘carbon bubble’ is overstated. Interestingly, however, each company acknowledged that climate change is a serious issue on which action must be taken – but none proposed a solution – Carbon Tracker issued analytical rebuttals to Shell and ExxonMobil.bq. FIVE COAL THINGS!
1. Carbon Tracker’s Carbon Supply Cost Curve report on thermal coal forecasts demand to peak in 2016 rendering $112bn of future capital expenditure in potential production at risk of being stranded. The highlight of media coverage of this report was a detailed piece from FT Lex.
2. Underpinning this forecast of global peak coal demand was the suggestion that thermal coal demand will peak in China in 2016. This year Carbon Tracker released a report looking specifically at stranded asset risk in China’s coal sector.
3. Since 2011 the US coal sector has crashed, largely due to the emergence of shale gas and US EPA regulations. Peabody Energy, the largest producer, has lost 78% of its market capitalisation.
4. Outside the US, a growing number of mining companies are trying to exit thermal coal, with Rio Tinto, Anglo American and Vale trying to sell its cost assets, as well as Japanese trading houses Itochu and Sumitomo, while BHP Billiton are spinning theirs off.
5. The coal industry has responded by stating that in the future coal will be fundamental to any efforts to eradicate global poverty. However, Carbon Tracker’s report on coal and energy access suggests that in most instances renewable energy is a more cost effective solution to provide energy for all.
A SIXth of European utilities-a-spinning (off)
In 2014, E.On became the first of the six major European utilities to adapt their business model in light of the energy transition occurring in the region which has already cost the sector trillions to date. This will involve E.On splitting into two companies, one focusing on growing renewable energy, power grids and energy efficiency, the other potentially winding down its coal and nuclear assets.
Seven engagement comments for the Norwegian oil fund
December saw the expert panel of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global release its review of their holdings in terms of unburnable carbon and stranded assets. They concluded that more active ownership and additional climate change criteria was the best approach to allow the most extreme companies to be excluded on a case-by-case basis. Carbon Tracker published seven key points on this analysis.
Eight hundred thousand years since current greenhouse gas levels…
…was one factor that led FT columnist Martin Wolf to conclude that ‘humanity is making risky bets in the climate casino’. Citing Carbon Tracker’s research, Martin Wolf went on to state that if humanity wakes up to this risk fossil fuel reserves would be stranded and that, crucially ‘the risk of that cannot be zero’. Wolf’s emergence as a voice on this issue, and the ‘climate casino’ more broadly, has been vital to introduce climate risks to investments to previously untapped audiences this year.
Nine members of the FPC to examine climate risk
A major breakthrough this year was the announcement from Bank of England Governor, Mark Carney, that the bank will conduct a deeper and wider inquiry into the risks associated with unburnable carbon and stranded assets. Furthermore, Mr. Carney said he expects the Financial Policy Committee (FPC) to consider these issues in examinations of financial stability risks. This announcement was quickly followed by a statement made by Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Ed Davey MP, calling on financial authorities to examine the risk of coal, oil and gas assets to pension funds in what could become ‘the sub-prime assets of the future’.
*Ten*-uous link to Barack Obama
In a public broadcast interview in June, US President Barack Obama made a hugely significant admission that ‘we’re not going to be able to it [fossil fuel reserves] all’. He said, ‘if we burned all the fossil fuel that’s in the ground right now, that the planet’s going to get too hot and the consequences could be dire’. This was supported by Obama’s climate change envoy, Todd Stern, who has since said global warming needs ‘a solution that leaves a lot of fossil fuel assets in the ground’. These announcements have helped accelerate mainstream support for the unburnable carbon and stranded assets theses.bq. Eleven hundred billion of potential oil investments too expensive
Carbon Tracker’s Carbon Supply Cost Curves report on the oil sector, launched in April 2014, found that $1.1 trillion (or 1100 billion to shoehorn into song format) of future oil investments to 2025 requires a market price of $95 a barrel or more. Especially in light of today’s oil price, Carbon Tracker recommend investors seek to reduce their exposure to the high end of the production cost curve.
Twelve NYPD officers-a-popping
The biggest climate march ever happened in New York City around the UN Climate Summit in September. The carbon bubble was present as an inflatable prop, travelling up and down the hundreds of thousands of marchers…until NYPD officers (numbers unconfirmed but either 12, less or more) decided to pop the bubble on the Wall Street Bull! The hashtag #ironyoverload subsequently trended on social media.” Link | <urn:uuid:bee6fa5e-ac09-4388-8f91-0b5fab68760a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.responsible-investor.com/carbon-trackers-12-days-of-christmas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.954498 | 1,716 | 1.664063 | 2 |
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For a company, growth and improvement could have multiple subtexts - an increase in revenue, improved sales, company growth, etc. All these factors should align positively with the successful development and progression of an enterprise.
Thus, with multiple parameters involved, it can become a tricky prospect for employees to be in cognizance of the business improvement strategy of their company if their tasks and goals are not associated with the same. This is where Key Performance Indicators (KPI) come into place. KPIs are quantifiable measures of performance for a particular objective over a specific time.
What are smart KPIs?
KPIs can be simple or elaborate, based on an organisation's vision for its progression and the inclusion of people, processes, and programmes as useable metrics. Progressive and forward-thinking organisations set 'SMART’ KPIs to ensure optimum metrics are used in supporting the organisation. SMART KPIs should be Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Attainable to be effective for the organisation. The performance measurement with these indicators is periodically assessed, discussed, and modified to guide the organisation towards its goals.
Performance tracking through KPIs
Imagine going on a road trip without any signs on the road - it would be far more difficult if not impossible to complete your journey. KPI's are like the road signs, they indicate and enable you to track your performance to assess whether you are moving in the right direction. So, for example, your goal for the quarter is enhanced customer satisfaction, a KPI in that domain will give you quantifiable measure in terms of customer satisfaction index/score. This way, the employees as well as the organisation can be on the same page with complete visibility. This can translate into better performance management.
If a certain KPI output is not met over a period, it can be an indicator that the team requires further skill up gradation. This can then be achieved by providing the right training to the employees. Similarly, employees can identify learning gaps in their profile by assessing the KPI's and approach the learning department to seek appropriate training and skills. In this way, a KPI model can be created wherein a KPI is grouped with related event/ activity and a process flow established to add crucial information pertaining the requirements.
Better decision making
In this digital era, you can get curated dashboards and KPI scorecards on your screens to help you get all the performance related metrics right in front of you. When the stats are available for everyone to see, people management and self-management gets more effective. Such transparency also enables executives to identify factors that are contributing to the growth of the company and the ones that are not. Such data forms the basis of sound decisions. By generating actionable insights from the KPI's, a plan may be established for each department, every team and all the employees to work collectively towards business improvement.
The workplace today is dynamic. A bottom-down approach is not only conservative, but it also leaves employees feeling left out. SMART KPI's address this issue by making employees aware of their individual progress and its relation to the overall organisation performance. Thus, with any KPI, an employee is gaining crucial knowledge about company goals. This makes them feel empowered and they can proactively participate in achieving the organisation goals.
Better team management
Often team leaders and managers struggle to help their team members achieve their goals because they lack any proper measurement of performance. With KPI's, your team’s performance for a particular period (quarter, half year, annual) is right in front of you and you can identify areas for further improvement. Thus, managers can make better calls for their team in terms of individual growth and skill up gradation. By continuously recording KPIs, at the end of the year, managers can get a bird’s eye view of their team’s strengths and weaknesses and they can create the upcoming year’s plan accordingly.
In summary, no matter what the size of your organisation or what goals you are targeting, setting SMART KPIs can put you on the path of performance improvement. Maintaining KPIs may take some practice and consistent discipline, but the payoffs are worth the efforts. Once you start tracking the progress and respond to the areas of improvement in a proactive manner, the SMART KPIs will begin to become a permanent tool for organisational improvement.
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The word “Peranakan” refers to someone who is of mixed Chinese and Malay/Indonesian ancestry. Some Peranakans in Singapore may trace their roots back to Malacca in the 15th century. According to mythology, Hang Li Poh, a Chinese Ming princess, arrived in Malacca with a big cortege after marrying Sultan Mansur Shah of Malacca. This group of people lived in the area and married locals; their progeny was known as ‘Peranakans.’ The word itself primarily means “locally-born”.
From a certain vantage point, you’ll see Singaporean Architecture and Interior Design as the result of the combination of modernism and innovativeness in art and design. However, Singapore is rich in history and culture, and behind the sleek contemporary façade of its buildings lies an intricate scene of historical design etched in the walls, floors, and ceilings of Singapore heritage houses. In this blog, we are going to shed light on what is considered one of the most popular textiles seen in Singaporean homes. The Peranakan tiles design.
The Origin of Peranakan Tiles Design
Peranakan tiles design can be likened to Majolica tiles which were initially created in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Belgium. The Peranakans admired their intricate designs that they became a distinctive feature of the culture. They were known as Peranakan tiles as a result of their popularity. Perankan tiles were utilized as aesthetic panels in porches, halls, washstands, and even courtyards, and were mostly employed as ornamental tiles in Peranakan residences. Houses adorned with these colorful and ornate Peranakan tiles design are regarded as a symbol of wealth and prominence.
Why are Peranakan tiles Popular in Singapore?
As a form of embracing and preserving culture, Peranakan tiles are deemed a valuable attribute to a home. They will always be that distinctive feature that makes homes one-of-a-kind. The bright and ornate varieties of these tile designs can be found on the façade and interiors of Peranakan residences in the streets of Everton Road, Blair Plain, and Joo Chiat. Culture is an important aspect in every community and like countries and communities with strong cultural ties, Singaporeans choose to include a hint of their ancestral origin through interior design.
What Makes It Different?
There are several differences between other tiles and Peranakan tiles in terms of history, provenance, and, most importantly, visual appeal. These tiles have interesting designs and themes. The original Peranakan tiles were composed of earthenware and were beautifully cut and glazed for long-term use.
What makes them truly different from other tiles popularly used in western interiors such as Zellige, herringbone, Arabesque, and other geometric patterns is their much more intricate and colorful designs. Peranakan Tiles design often depicts florals, geometry, fruits, and greeneries.
How to Incorporate It Into The Modern Interior Spaces of Today’s Homes?
A lot of people in today’s era would prefer streamlined contemporary interiors compared to traditional ones. But if you want to include a hint of culture and luxury in your spaces, there are many creative and truly stylish ways to incorporate Peranakan. Here are several interior spaces where you can add them and how you can style them.
The bathroom is perhaps the most popular room in a house to place stylish and colorful tiles. Bathroom design is often utilitarian, but that does not mean it has to be dull. Add busy patterned tiles to one wall, such as the shower stall, to enhance your bathroom; use a neutral finish and less intense designs on the other walls to retain harmony.
2. Kitchen Backsplash
If you wish to create contrast and add an interesting feature to your kitchen, consider changing your old backsplash tiles with Peranakan tiles. Many kitchens in condo units, apartments, and HDB homes have this general sterile look which is common in minimalistic and contemporary kitchen concepts. However, these types of kitchens are saturated in the market. If you really want something different and eye-catching, don’t be afraid to incorporate colors and throw in unique artistic features.
The Patio or sunroom is the perfect place to showcase your unique Peranakan tiles. Not only will they give a splash of color into your space but they will also be considered a distinctive feature of your property. Features like these add value to the home so whenever you decide to sell the property, you can highlight this particular design. People love detailed and ornamental crafts. It surely is a must-have.
Impress your guests with a colorful array of intricately designed Peranakan tiles right in your hallway while they walk towards your doorstep. The hallway is an excellent place to show off your lovely tiles as they glow in the sunlight. Hallways are oftentimes deemed as uninteresting but with Peranakan tiles, you can make them an important factor in your home’s interior scheme.
Balconies are common in Singapore. Some HDB properties and apartments have small balconies attached to their units. What’s great about having a balcony is you can use the extra space to create a cozy nook either for relaxation or a place to do your hobbies and fitness activities like meditation and yoga. Make your balcony extra special by decorating it. You can install Peranakan tiles on the balcony flooring and spruce it up with the right outdoor furniture, décor elements, and other outdoor accessories.
6. Living Room Flooring
Designed to accommodate guests and a place where the family can bond and spend time together, the living room is the ultimate space to put up a stylish tile design like Peranakan tiles. There are a variety of Peranakan designs and colors you can choose from that will fit your living room’s color scheme. Living rooms with bold colorful styles are quite rare. This kind of style is not for everyone but if you’re into creating an exquisite interior space unique from the rest, then you should definitely try installing Peranakan tiles on your living room flooring.
Peranakan tiles are a fantastic accent to any room. They have sophisticated and appealing patterns that create an incomparable visual result. They’re not only adaptable, smoothly blending into any environment, but they also add to the aesthetic appeal of the room with a wide range of symbols and themes. These tiles are the perfect option for your home if you want culturally influenced architecture and decor.
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- Indirect readout of DNA sequence at the primary-kink site in the CAP-DNA complex: recognition of pyrimidine-purine and purine-purine steps.
- J Mol Biol. 2006 Mar 17;357(1):173-83. Epub 2006 Jan 3.
- The catabolite activator protein (CAP) bends DNA in the CAP-DNA complex, typically introducing a sharp DNA kink, with a roll angle of approximately 40 degrees and a twist angle of approximately 20 degrees, between positions 6 and 7 of the DNA half-site, 5'-A1A2A3T4G5T6G7A8T9C10T11 -3' ("primary kink"). In previous work, we showed that CAP recognizes the nucleotide immediately 5' to the primary-kink site, T6, through an "indirect-readout" mechanism involving sequence effects on energetics of primary-kink formation. Here, to understand further this example of indirect readout, we have determined crystal structures of CAP-DNA complexes containing each possible nucleotide at position 6. The structures show that CAP can introduce a DNA kink at the primary-kink site with any nucleotide at position 6. The DNA kink is sharp with the consensus pyrimidine-purine step T6G7 and the non-consensus pyrimidine-purine step C6G7 (roll angles of approximately 42 degrees, twist angles of approximately 16 degrees ), but is much less sharp with the non-consensus purine-purine steps A6G7 and G6G7 (roll angles of approximately 20 degrees, twist angles of approximately 17 degrees). We infer that CAP discriminates between consensus and non-consensus pyrimidine-purine steps at positions 6-7 solely based on differences in the energetics of DNA deformation, but that CAP discriminates between the consensus pyrimidine-purine step and non-consensus purine-purine steps at positions 6-7 both based on differences in the energetics of DNA deformation and based on qualitative differences in DNA deformation. The structures further show that CAP can achieve a similar, approximately 46 degrees per DNA half-site, overall DNA bend through a sharp DNA kink, a less sharp DNA kink, or a smooth DNA bend. Analysis of these and other crystal structures of CAP-DNA complexes indicates that there is a large, approximately 28 degrees per DNA half-site, out-of-plane component of CAP-induced DNA bending in structures not constrained by end-to-end DNA lattice interactions and that lattice contacts involving CAP tend to involve residues in or near biologically functional surfaces. | <urn:uuid:71c9cacd-fecc-40fb-b972-0163db2384c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/pmbin/getpm?pmid=16427082 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.904979 | 623 | 1.617188 | 2 |
The word "rock" has a few different meanings:
There are a lot of expressions that use the word "rock."
Note: Rock’n’roll music has had a powerful effect on American culture and English language over the last fifty years. You should learn a little about this form of music if you don’t already. In conversation, the word "rock" often comes up as a verb or as an adjective.
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In a side event about deforestatrion this morning, researchers from the Woods Hole Research Institute talked about the science of emissions from tropical deforestation. I was disappointed that they did not go into specifics of monitoring procedures and how they got their numbers, but the message was clear: deforestation is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions (mostly carbon dioxide, but also methane and black soot) and that it needs to be addressed in the Kyoto Protocol. The scientists highlighted Brazil’s proposal to include prevention of deforestation in the market for CERs (Certified Emissions Reduction credits). How to measure how much carbon is actually not realeased through preventing deforestation? That’s the problem.
The panelists stressed the positive feedbacks that deforestation causes in emissions: Deforestation releases CO2, which causes climate change, which causes moist tropical forests to dry out and burn more easily, which causes deforestation. According to the presentation, 70% of Brazil’s total emissions are a result of deforestation. Emissions could double in dry years, said Dan Nepstad, senior scientist at Woods Hole. “We’ve got to harness globalization,”he said, pointing out that as space runs out for agricultural expansion to meet a growing food demand (especially soy and meat, he said), South American, followed by Africa. will be the next continents to be used for agricultural production. Globalization, and the global market, have major effects on land use- for example, because the EU has banned GMO soy, they get their soy from Brazil rather than the US. Incresed demand for agricultural products means clearing more land. Nepstad highlighted the positive progress the Brazilian government has made in increasing protected forest areas, improving enforcement of environmental law, and working with communities to sustainably manage forests (he gave the example of a program in which small communities make furniture from sustainably harvested wood and then sell it to Europe). Nepstad also credited this to the growth of Brazil’s economy.
However, in this presentation, many questions were left unanswered (perhaps it is impossible to answer them). For example. the furniture that gets shipped to Europe still seems to feed the capitalist system which seems to have society stuck in a place that, it is generally agreed upon, is not really great for our well-being and survival (not the least of which because it contributes to the kind of climate change that might make us go extinct). Also, I am not sure what it means to “harness globalization;” it seems to imply a market-based approach to things. And what about some more science of deforestation- monitoring, feedbacks, causes? I guess it all comes back to the fact that the study of climate is a relatively new thing, and will be ongoing.
On two interesting asides, John P. Holdren, director of Woods Hole and one of the presenters, pulled up the statistic that in 2004, the emissions in the US from coal-electric power were more than the emissions from motor vehicles (an important point to consider when Bush touts coal as a renewable energy, falsely labelling it “green”simply because it is abundant). Secondly, the US released a compilation of articles refuting the gloabl warming theory, in which was included an article by Bjorn Lomborg, head of the Copenhagen Consensus and a much-disliked Dane among environmentalists. The article may have been over-the-top (but, as I’ve learned, everything is spin and a matter of interpretation), but it made an interesting point to consider: perhaps one of the reasons we see environmental factors, such as extreme weather events, as causing more destruction than ever is because we have so much more to destroy- more people, more goods. | <urn:uuid:d96315eb-6adf-430c-b64f-4025830f478b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.earthinbrackets.org/2006/11/16/a-not-so-small-problem/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.966121 | 772 | 3.203125 | 3 |
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