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Dry Cleaning Industry
ACS monitoring badge is the most cost effective monitoring solution for dry cleaning workers who work in environments where there is an occupational risk of exposure to Perchloroethylene
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The ACS badge sampling involves no liquid and mechanical pumps. Workers can clip the badge near the breathing zone to measure personal exposure or place it in a room to measure area concentration. Mail the badge to ACS Lab in the envelope provided. The analysis reports are available within 48 hours after the samples have been received.
According to New York State Health Department (NYSHD):
Numerous studies of dry-cleaning workers indicate that long-term exposure (9 to 20 years, for example) to workplace air levels averaging about 50,000 mcg/m3 to 80,000 mcg/m3 reduces scores on behavioral tests and causes biochemical changes in blood and urine. The effects were mild and hard to detect. How long these effects would last if exposure ended is not known. | <urn:uuid:d05f79a7-707a-41f4-a9fd-07f3a20dfa76> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.acsbadge.com/drycleaners.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00338-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900092 | 314 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Net-zero buildings are nothing new, but a 330,000-square-foot net-zero energy use campus is not something you read about everyday. The Exploratorium, a science museum moving in spring 2013 to Pier 15 on San Francisco’s Embarcadero, will be the largest net-zero energy use museum in the nation thanks to a new partnership with SunPower.
“This project combines an effort to both innovate and think critically about the impact science can have on the world. Our net-zero goal is, in part, a way to reduce our global footprint and help improve the community we’ve been a part of for more than 40 years,” said Dr. Dennis Bartels, executive director of the Exploratorium. “Net-zero is a process — and an opportunity for the public to learn with us.” (Source: Exploratorium)
A variety of energy-efficient measures and renewable energy technologies will be used to achieve net-zero energy use including:
- A 1.3-megawatt SunPower solar power system comprised of 5,874 photovoltaic modules. Any energy created by the system that is not used by the museum will be fed back into the local PG&E utility grid for use by other customers.
- A water heating and cooling system that runs on water from the bay. About 73,800 gallons of bay water will be recirculated through the facility every hour.
- The bay water system will conserve 2 million gallons of water annually by eliminating the need to use evaporative cooling towers.
- The museum is designed to maximize outdoor light, reducing the need for artificial lighting.
- A ventilating system that uses 100 percent outside air with no recirculation, which is not only energy efficient but it provides better indoor air quality for employees and patrons. | <urn:uuid:a0508cbb-d4a7-4e1a-b2c1-51d2e170f09d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mnn.com/money/green-workplace/blogs/exploratorium-aims-for-net-zero-energy-use | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00205-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906637 | 382 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Florist Fukuju Mizuki established Lorans, a flower shop and cafe in Tokyo’s trendy Harajuku district, to provide employment and training opportunities for people with disabilities. In 2021, the shop also launched a project to help underprivileged children. Interviewer Inuyama Kamiko sits down with Fukuju to discuss her approach to solving social issues.
Keep an eye on the needs of society
INUYAMA KAMIKO Japan now sees increasing emphasis on employing people with disabilities in a way that respects their dignity as workers. How did you start to take an interest in the question?
FUKUJU MIZUKI I started working for a sports management company right out of college, helping professional baseball players set up philanthropic projects. I was unsure of the path I wanted to take and the experience made me realize the importance of giving back to society. Being of service to others gave new meaning to my life and made me think about what more I could do.
So in 2013, at age 23, I opened my flower shop, Lorans, and after three years in business, I started hiring staff with physical and emotional disabilities. At the time, the employment of people with disabilities was generally presented as a social problem. However, I wanted to move the narrative away from the one-sided perception that people with disabilities should be supported and instead present them as stakeholders who contribute to society.
INUYAMA In addition to employing people with disabilities, Lorans is dedicated to showing how people who receive work assistance contribute to society in profound and meaningful ways. This is particularly the case for your program to help underprivileged children. What was the genesis of this effort?
FUKUJU The pandemic has taken a toll on families in financial difficulty, and I had the idea of opening up the café section of the store to neighborhood children. Initially, we provided meals once or twice a month through a Shibuya municipal initiative called Children’s Table. However, as the coronavirus situation worsened, we closed the store or reduced opening hours in accordance with government recommendations. It became more difficult to provide meals in person, so we moved to deliveries. Fortunately, word of the program spread and the number of companies offering financial and other support continued to grow.
It quickly became clear from news reports and other sources that the pandemic was hitting single-parent households particularly hard due to business closures. The scale of the problem was highlighted when a new staff member with experience in the field pointed out that one in seven Japanese children live below the poverty line.
Besides providing meals, I decided to open the shop as a sort of after-school daycare. We continue to deliver meals, and with financial assistance from the Nippon Foundation, the cafe is now open to neighborhood children on weekdays from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
INYUAMA I was particularly interested in how you involved floristry in the program, such as decorating tables with flower arrangements to create a warm atmosphere.
FUKUJU Since Lorans is above all a flower shop, it was therefore logical to integrate this side into the program. Some of the children bring the flowers back to their mother, which we hope will promote communication between parent and child.
Ensure an adult presence
INUYAMA Providing meals fulfills a basic physical need, but it is also comforting, which has a positive impact on children’s emotional well-being. Did you see that in Lorans?
FUKUJU Growing up in Ishikawa Prefecture, I regularly came into close contact with different adults in the community. It’s something that I think is missing in the lives of many children in Tokyo. They interact with their teachers and the parents of their friends, of course, but they don’t have many opportunities to spend time with other adults in the community.
At the shop, however, children can talk and hang out with staff as well as university students who volunteer. Through these interactions, they experience different life perspectives, which helps them grow as individuals. They also benefit from spending time with peers other than siblings or school friends. Many children find themselves in similar situations, such as having to spend hours alone at home while their parents are at work, and may share their feelings of loneliness and other concerns. Sometimes quarrels break out, but even these are important because they help children learn to deal with people outside their normal circle of family and acquaintances.
How to make helper programs work
INUYAMA Children who suffer from abuse or neglect at home, or who struggle to fit in at school, often seek solace on the streets, exposing them to further abuse. The pandemic has shown how important it is to have places outside of school and home where children can spend time in a safe and supervised environment. However, funding and staffing such initiatives is a challenge. How do you do at Lorans?
FUKUJU Giving children safe places to go and relax is essential, but establishing and maintaining such programs is not an easy task. Many groups depend on community centers, where they rent rooms to provide meals. The government provides some level of support, but funding is often minimal and groups often have to dip into their own pockets or find other ways to cover costs. There are many hurdles to overcome and organizers need to be flexible in their approaches to keep programs running. One tactic would be for authorities to make it easier to work with local restaurants to let children in during off-peak hours between lunch and dinner, when shops aren’t as busy. Incorporating neighborhood businesses into a program is a good thing because it makes it easier for children to regularly use the spaces.
I have taken the approach of covering meal and staff costs with the donations we receive from supporting businesses, positioning this program as part of our corporate social responsibility activities. Relying on volunteers and other support is great, but without a stable source of funding, a program can unexpectedly run out of funds and have to drop out. It’s something I experienced helping the philanthropic work of professional baseball players, who supported the programs they established as long as they played and made money, only to withdraw financial support once in retirement.
I hope Lorans can become a model for other organizations. This of course means doing things right on our side. There is a mountain of problems to solve and we do our best to meet new challenges as they arise.
Different views to include
INUYAMA How have store staff with disabilities responded to the children’s meal program?
FUKUJU It was a very enriching experience. Many of our employees struggle with emotional turmoil stemming from family situations or problems in their relationships with the people around them. A staff member says it has been a healing experience to do for the children what she wishes her mother would do for her. As someone who often receives supportive efforts, it’s wonderful that she learns the joy of helping others.
Another positive result is that staff are now more willing to take the initiative in their work, whereas in the past they often waited for instructions. Generally, people with disabilities are only responsible for simple tasks. For example, they may be required to assemble components without even knowing what the final product is. This approach works for some people, of course, but I think it’s important to impress upon staff the importance of their contributions so that they can share in the joy of bringing happiness to others. It deepens their sense of gratitude when they receive help. I noticed it especially in the way staff say thank you more often.
The Children’s Meal Program was an invaluable experience that reinforced the benefits of giving staff with disabilities the opportunity to enjoy contributing to the organization in an equal and meaningful way. As Lorans moves forward, I want the perspectives of our employees to guide our trajectory as we continue the children’s project and further develop our staff.
INUYAMA It’s a wonderful project, and it’s refreshing to see the focus on breaking down barriers to social participation for a diverse group of people, rather than just their disability. It’s clear that your staff feel the joy of being needed by others. Hopefully we will see many more workplaces like this take shape in the future. Thanks for your time today!
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Sustainable development will also be brought to the fore.
Both regions in the past century have fought and suffered under western colonial influences, only to win liberty at a price.
Enrique Ganuza, chief economist at the regional office of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Havana, Cuba, says the two regions are still fighting the influence of western hegemony, and this legacy has deformed progress for the regions in matters of sustainable development.
"As much as Europe, Asia, the United States has moved into the 21st century, the Latin and Arab worlds have suffered from their progress - because it has been done at our expense, our resources, human and economic, being utilised for their progress," he told Aljazeera.net.
He speaks at length on the South American "wars" of the 1970s and 80s, and especially how successive US administrations, (notably the Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan presidencies), interfered in the region. He draws parallels to US interference in Iran, Egypt, and now, in Iraq.
"They have been a major cause of [the lack of] our progress. As much as we can look to the past and blame outside forces, I believe it is a worse situation still in the Arab countries; it is up to us to pull ourselves into the 21st century," he says.
The UN millennium development goals, drawn up by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2000, identified eight key aid areas for Africa, the Arab world and South Americas.
Key aid areas
Since these goals (right) were identified, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has produced widely acclaimed human development reports and indexes, that have gone into examining these issues at greater length.
The goals were to:
* Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
* Achieve universal primary education
* Promote gender equality and empower women
* Reduce child mortality
* Improve maternal health
* Combat HIV/Aids, malaria and other diseases
* Ensure environmental sustainability
In South America, each country has had its own development report card, says Ganuza, and the issues have tended to look at economic ills, acknowledging that South America has been progressing politically better than others.
The summation of these reports, says Ganuza, is that "South America cannot count on foreign aid to help it reach the millennium development goals. It is starting to sustain itself."
Despite recent progress, Ganuza believes gets, sustainable development cannot be effected solely on the strength of economic growth, because the gap between rich and poor remains the biggest hurdle for South America.
Poverty and ways of overcoming
it will be discussed at the summit
"The problem again is back to the political level, but one of focusing on how to achieve economic goals through politics," he adds.
The inference he makes, is that the problem in the Arab world is primarily political.
Dr Rima Hunaidi, a former minister in Jordan and the recent head of the Arab affairs directorate at UNDP, agrees.
Dr Hunaidi produced the first development reports for the Arab world which looked at the UN development goals and tried to assess quality of life levels. Her reports sparked much debate.
"The issues facing the Arab world are one of freedom and political destiny. What choices are the Arab people making? What choices are its leaders making? How do they wish to be governed? Why are they being governed so badly?" she tells Aljazeera.net.
The report and a successive report produced in 2004, found that for a region richly blessed with one of the world's most valuable commodities, oil, and with its people heirs to a rich cultural, religious and linguistic heritage, the Arab world has stagnated.
Lack of freedom, knowledge and women's rights were holding the Arab world back from greater development, and from reaching its full potential in comparison to other nations.
"This freedom deficit undermines human development and is one of the most painful manifestations of lagging political development"
"This freedom deficit undermines human development and is one of the most painful manifestations of lagging political development," the report stated.
The report noted that in many Arab countries, poverty and illiteracy had reached staggering levels; health care had deteriorated significantly in some countries; human rights abuses were widespread and continuing (jails were full with prisoners of conscience) and freedom of expression was confined to empty promises.
The 2003 report concluded "the global wave of democracy had barely reached the Arab states".
The South American and Arab world summit is hoping it can learn from these deficits and gain from each other's strengths, says Amr Moussa, secretary general of the Arab League.
Speaking ahead of the summit, he told Aljazeera.net: "South America and the Arab world are developing economies.
"We are establishing relations with those countries through the democratic means, and whatever [issues] democracy will bring up to the fore [we will deal with that]."
He also says: "There must be a lot of trade between the two, because there's a lot the Arab world can give to South America and vice versa.''
Says Dr Hunaidi: "What we suffer from now, they [South America] suffered in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. They have managed to overcome - and they still overcome - political strangulation. They do not accept anything but to be governed wisely."
Mr Ganzula concurs, that likewise, the South American countries must forge closer ties, especially economic, with the Arab world.
"While much has been wasted politically [in the Arab world], economically, we can learn how to enhance our business developments, like in the Gulf Arab countries.
"If we [South America] attack the problems of inequality, the growth rates necessary to achieve many of the millennium goals will be much more normal," he adds.
Next September, the UN General Assembly will hold a special session to assess the progress made towards compliance with the UN development targets, but the South American and Arab regions are hoping that their first meeting will allow for an exchange - political, economic and social - that will go far in helping to meet these goals and sustain progress. | <urn:uuid:253c44c7-694f-4dde-9a3f-a62ee4f9f195> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.aljazeera.com/archive/2005/05/2008410113812880669.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00195-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964029 | 1,271 | 2.609375 | 3 |
This article mainly introduces the method of converting computers installed with CentOS/RHEL 6/7 into routers. We will learn how to use NAT technology to convert computers installed with RHEL/CentOS 6/7 into routers. Interested can learn more about it.In this article, we will learn how to use NAT technology to transform a computer with RHEL/CentOS 6/7 into a router. As we all know, a router is a network device working in the third layer, which is used to connect two or more networks together, that is, to connect the LAN to the WAN or to connect the LAN directly. Routers are very expensive, especially for small organizations, which may be one reason why we pay attention to routers. Instead of using dedicated hardware, let's convert Linux computers into routers.We will talk about the operation process on RHEL/CentOS 6 and 7. But before we start, let's look at what needs to be prepared.
- A computer with RHEL/CentOS 6 or 7
- Two network cards with local IP and extranet IP respectively
- We need to assign IP addresses to both network cards, one local network IP (provided by our network administrator) and the other Internet IP (provided by ISP). Like this:Ifcfg-en0s3192.168.1.1 (LAN IP address)Ifcfg-en0s510.1.1.1 (WAN IP address)
- Note: Different Linux distributions have different network card names. Now that the preparation is complete, we can configure it.
Enable IP forwarding
The first step is to enable IP forwarding. This step is the same in RHEL/CentOS 6 and 7. Run: $sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
But this will be restored after the system restarts. To make the restart still effective, you need to open it: $vi /etc/sysctl.conf
Then enter the following: net.ipv4.ip_forward= 1
Save and exit. Now the system has IP forwarding enabled.
Now configure IPtables/Firewall rules
Next we need to start the IPtables / firewalld service and configure the NAT rules
$systemctl start firewalld(For Centos/RHEL7)$ service iptables start(For Centos/RHEL6)
Then run the following command to configure the NAT rules of the firewall
CentOS/RHEL 6$ iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o XXXX -j MASQUERADE$ service iptables restartCentOS/RHEL 7$ firewall-cmd -permanent -direct -passthrough ipv4 -t nat -I POSTROUTING -o XXXX -j MASQUERADE -s 192.168.1.0/24$ systemctl restart firewalld
Here, XXXX is the name of the network card with an external IP. This will configure the Linux machine as a router. Now we can configure the client and test the router.
To test a router, we need to set the client's gateway to an intranet IP, in this case 192.168.1.1. So whether the client is Windows or Linux, make sure the gateway is 192.168.1.1 first. After completion, open the terminal or command line and Ping a website to test whether the client can access the Internet:
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Walmart opens sustainable fresh food distribution centre in Alberta
Walmart Canada is opening its first sustainable fresh food distribution centre, the Balzac distribution centre, a facility that Walmart says will be an estimated 60% more energy-efficient than the company’s traditional refrigerated centres and that will help the company avoid approximately $4.8 million in energy costs over five years. One of North America’s most energy-efficient distribution centres, the Balzac facility is a living lab of sustainability and includes the company’s first pilots of hydrogen fuel cells, solar thermal and wind power, as well as many other sustainability features and products.
November 17, 2010 By Craig Pearson
“Our sustainable distribution centre showcases the immediate business returns of investing in green innovations and the positive impact of a sustainability mindset through all phases of a project,” said Andy Ellis, Walmart Canada’s SVP of Supply Chain and Logistics. “This living lab of sustainability is supporting the expansion of our modern Supercentre format while also helping us get closer to meeting our long-term sustainability goals. The successful completion of this ambitious project supports our long-held belief that environmental and business sustainability can go hand-in-hand.”
“The Government of Canada congratulates Walmart Canada for its commitment to environmental leadership,” said Canada’s Environment Minister John Baird. “Projects like this innovative Perishable Distribution Centre create a showcase for industry in Alberta and keep our nation on the cutting edge of green technologies.”
Walmart Canada has invested $115 million to build the 400,000 sq.-ft centre. One of Canada’s largest refrigerated buildings, says Walmart, it serves as a hub for fresh and frozen food destined for 104 of the company’s stores in Western Canada, from Manitoba to British Columbia. Over the course of its construction, an estimated 800 jobs were created in trade and construction roles. The Walmart-owned facility will be operated by Supply Chain Management, a third-party logistics provider and will employ approximately 600 team members.
Key sustainability features of the Balzac distribution centre include:
· Hydrogen fuel cells – These replace traditional lead acid batteries in the facility’s entire fleet of 71 material handling vehicles
· Wind and solar power – Two, 30-kW wind turbines on the facility’s grounds will generate about 100,000 kWh per year each or enough electricity to power 40 average-sized Canadian homes annually
· LED lighting – The warehouse and parking lot is lit exclusively by low-energy solid-state (LED) lighting, which provides many financial, operational and environmental benefits
· Smart refrigeration – The facility’s refrigeration system uses ammonia as a coolant rather than ozone-depleting Freon
· High-efficiency dock doors and doorways – Dock doors and doorways between temperature zones have been custom-designed to be more energy-efficient
Walmart Canada has invested $220 million in the past two years to update and expand its distribution network. Its national network supplies 321 stores from eight distribution facilities: four sites in Calgary, Alberta, including Balzac; one site in Cornwall, Ontario; and three sites in Mississauga.
On the sustainability side, the company says it is also working with its suppliers to increase its logistics efficiency and to incorporate sustainable practices and initiatives into the processes, operations and mindset of its third-party suppliers. The company has instituted no idling policies in all its stores and distribution centres, improved fill rates on trucks, and increased use of long-combination vehicles. Several times a year, Walmart Canada gathers its logistics suppliers to share best practices and recognizes carriers annually for sustainable operations, processes and corporate commitment.
“After much hard work, with many partners, we’re extremely proud to open our sustainable distribution facility that I believe will set a positive example for our global operations, for business and the world,” said Ellis. “What today serves as a demonstration facility, we hope to see as an industry norm in the not-too-distant future.”
Visit www.walmart.ca for more company information.
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Free eBooks: Bliss or Blight?
The 20th-century American writer William Faulkner once said, “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it, just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
Some people might think that all we ever do is read some ink on paper. However, we bookworms know that reading is actually a free ticket to travel the whole world and go back and forth in time, visiting different -real and made up- places and embodying our favorite characters.
And while we know that nothing tops going to a bookstore and buying hardcopy books (the smell is the best thing about it, right?), we also know that this option is not always available. And, especially with the COVID situation, for the past year and a half, going out has been something we have tried to avoid as much as possible.
And let's face it, books can be really expensive! So for someone who's addicted to reading, it would cost an arm and a leg to buy books frequently. So what's the solution? Free eBooks, of course!
Free eBooks are every reader's safe-haven! Luckily, there are many online libraries to download free eBooks, such as Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Open Library, and LibriVox.
But are free eBooks a safe choice?
eBooks can be in the form of a PDF file, an EPUB file, an HTML, or even an audiobook.
Websites that offer free eBooks can be infected; you might receive ads and pop-ups that will infect your device. Sometimes, the websites themselves are fine, but the files you download can have malware and/or viruses embedded.
When downloading a file from an illegal distribution network, you also run the risk of inviting Trojans. A Trojan is a malware that is disguised in the form of a legitimate software, through which cyber-attackers can get to your device.
So, it sounds like free eBooks aren't worth the trouble they cause. Because if you're going to lose your device to malware caused by downloading free eBooks, then might as well go back to buying legal books, right?
Not really. Free eBooks will always be the right, pocket-friendly choice. How so? The answer is: use an Antivirus. An antivirus will provide full protection for your device so you can enjoy reading without having to worry about viruses or Trojan horses.
The word "Trojan" derives from the ancient Greek story. When the Greeks pretended to desert the war and left a wooden horse behind, they also left one of their soldiers to persuade the Trojans that the horse was harmless.
The horse was later brought inside the walls of Troy, and some Greek soldiers came out of it and opened the gates of the city to let in the returned Greek army.
In the 20th century, the term "Trojan horse" was applied to benign and malicious computer software and codes that seem legitimate.
We've got your back, so don't fret. We have tried some antivirus services for ourselves and came up with a list of our top picks.
If you don't use a Macbook, you can scroll down to the next recommendation.
Many people consider the Mac operating system better than Windows, claiming it has better security protocols. However, it is not bulletproof, or to be more accurate, virus-proof. Intego provides Mac users with reliable and proficient real-time protection against malware, viruses, and other cybersecurity threats.
While the macOS already has a somewhat strong firewall, Intego's firewall NetBarrier proved to be much stronger. NetBarrier is optimized to protect your Mac on private and public networks. In addition, this firewall gives you control over the websites and apps that want to send you ads and pop-ups, as some of them might contain malware or viruses.
VirusBarrier is Intego's antivirus scanner. It has many features, including but not limited to; antivirus scans, malware detection and removal, real-time protection, and scheduled scans. In addition, VirusBarrier’s “Safe Browsing” feature protects you from malicious websites and emails.
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In case your device gets infected with a virus, Bitdefender has two solutions:
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SOME PEOPLE believe that visitors to other countries should follow local customs and behaviour. Others disagree and think that the host country should welcome cultural differences.
Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
Tourism industry has taken a big leap in the last few years. People visit different countries during vacations and also for official purposes. When an individual visits another country, sometimes cultural differences arise between them and the localites. It is said that the visitor must respect the local customs, while others debate that the host country should have some tolerance for cultural differences. However, its the moral duty of a visitor to change themselves according to the territory and culture they are visiting.
Host country most of the times welcome their guests with a big smile. Sometimes a foreign national might not be acquainted with the local customs and can make mistakes. When a host country welcomes any guest, they should also have the guts to forgive unintentional mistakes. For example, a lot of tourists come to visit the Golden Temple (India). It is a custom to cover the head inside the premises. If by chance, a foreigner doesn't covers his/her's , the local people should not feel offended and instead, should tell that foreigner the importance of covering the head. A host should show the required hospitality and enlighten the visitors about their customs and traditions.
However, the responsibility of the visitors should be greater than that of the host. When visitors go in foreign countries, they should adapt themselves according to the needs. They should be prepared , beforehand, not to hurt the sentiments of the locals. A country welcomes guests to promote cultural exchange, not to be insulted or having their culture polluted. When a visitor is visiting a country, they should read about the customs, traditions and other rules of that country and be prepared . For instance, some tourists go to western countries and throw their garbage anywhere on the streets or spit anywhere. This kind of behaviour is unacceptable. A visitor has no right to break the rules of a host country.
Unfortunately, the cultural differences result in clashes sometimes. It is the responsibility of both, hosts and visitors, to adapt themselves. However, a host might not be aware of the origin of the visitors. On the other hand, when a visitor can do the effort to go abroad, they should also do a little effort to learn about the region they are going. Nowadays, all the information is available on the internet. If a visitor is confused, they should humbly ask for guidance from the locals and should not behave rudely, which would hurt anyone.
Thus, I strongly believe that its the duty of a visitor to camouflage with the region. A host can tolerate minor mistakes, but intentional, disrespecting behaviours isn't acceptable.Tourism is to promote cultures and make others aware of the integrity and tradition of one's own country, not to get their cultures and sentiments , insulted and spoiled. Visitors must respect the cultures and behaviour of the host country.
I have something confused with your essay , maybe it's my grammar problem
However, its the moral duty of a visitor to change themselves according to the territory and culture they are visiting.
its = it's ?
you said a visitor ,but then you use themselves and they later .
Do you understand what I want to express ?
When a host country welcomes any guest, they should also have the guts to forgive unintentional mistakes
It's also the same problem .you use they to match with a host country .
That's always my weakness ,too ~
I would appreciate if you can help me ~
Your essay it's wonderful at least what I think . Logically and has few mistakes ~
my dear friend, them and themself is different. I have consulted this essay with a university professor from USA..he didn't mention that problem.In fact he said I used three or four wrong words which I should have avoided. I don't know how can I help you, but I would be glad if I am able to help you in any way...all the best and cheers.
The essay looks good.
My humble suggestion is, instead of repeatedly starting a sentence like "when visitors go in", "when a a visitor is visiting" etc you can say like "Foreigners while visting foreign countries" / "Visitors while visiting"... It is polite way of conveying what would you like to say.
I hope my suggestion would be useful.
thanks Raj, your suggestion is really nice.I will try it from next time. Keep giving ur advices.
I think what I need is a grammar book! I hope I can improve it as soon as I can!
Do not use debate this way:
debate argue that ...---Actually, it is probably not incorrect, but I want to tell you that "debate" usually is used like this:
People often debate the question of whether culture is a good thing or a bad thing.
A country welcomes guests to promote cultural exchange, not to be insulted or having their culture polluted. ---Oh, very good sentence here. Your argument reflects real understanding.
A host can tolerate minor mistakes, but intentional, disrespecting behaviours
isn aren't acceptable.--You have a very good way of writing. I am just making a small correction here.
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Shelf Esteem is a weekly measure of the books on the shelves of writers, editors, and other word lovers, as told to Emily M. Keeler. This week’s shelf belongs to Michael Lista, who is the poetry editor of the Walrus, a poetry columnist at the National Post, and the author of Bloom, a book of poems about Canadian Manhattan Project physicist Louis Slotin. His shelves are at the literal centre of his home, a loft in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood, where Lista has lived for four months. All sight lines in the space extend toward his enviable library, which was lit beautifully by the afternoon sunlight on the day I visited.
My old place, I was there for three years. I had a bunch of random bookshelves, and the books got out of control. It was sort of like Hoarders-esque. It was really, really bad. Like, everywhere towering fucking stacks. So when I moved in here I got my sister’s boyfriend, who’s a carpenter, to build these shelves. And I got in touch with Carey Toane [a poet and librarian], I knew that she had gone through library studies, and I asked her if she knew anyone who wasn’t working and might be interested in organizing my bookshelves. So she put something on Facebook, and like five minutes later this woman, Elizabeth Ellie McAlpine, got back.
She fucking did this thing! Which I, obviously, could/would never do. She organized the fucking books by section! There’s like, history and philosophy, literary nonfiction, general nonfiction, international poetry, Canadian poetry (the death by a thousand cuts little fucking books), and then fiction on the other side. I stand here some times and I just, like, hug it. It feels so crazy.
This was my first book. My dad gave it to me, when I was two or three. It’s Dennis Lee, and in my childhood, Dennis Lee was the man who made this magic book, Jelly Belly. My dad, who is a very busy man, the one thing he would do is read this book to me. And these fucking pictures! I remember being in my bed and listening to my dad, he would do this sort of really cheesy dramatic reading of all these things. And just hearing these rhyming little things ring out in my head forever. I think if it hadn’t been for this book I would be a really well adjusted lawyer or something. This thing fucked it all up.
I had no idea that Dennis Lee was the founder of House of Anansi, and a well-respected adult poet. There was something in these that was both reassuringly beautiful and utterly terrifying. Just sinister. It wasn’t that the material was particularly scary, it was something about the rhythm and patterns of language was scary. I think now, the stuff that I’m working on, it really comes more and more out of this book.
My emo thing—I wasn’t an emo kid but when I was 14 I got really pretentiously into Shakespeare. Mostly because I saw Baz Lurhman’s Romeo + Juliet. I went with my mom to Coles, and we got this. And this is me taking my first weird little steps into literary criticism. Here’s 14-year-old me writing, like, “foreshadowing.” I’m madly underlining and starring shit, and writing “Wow.” Like, what the fuck. It’s Shakespeare! I would carry this around everywhere. I didn’t really know what was going on, but just having it was like a totem. Like, maybe this thing would rub off on me through some sort of weird osmosis.
When I first started to think about being a poet, I remember thinking that the whole thing was just sort of depressing. Who were these people? I’d flip through poetry books and be like, I’m not interested in any of this shit. But then there was this guy, Ken Babstock. Reading this book, it made poetry feel alive. I must have read this book a hundred times, and imitated the poems a thousand times. I took my fourth year of university off because I wanted to write this novel. It was dogshit, it was terrible. But I got into a Banff residency and I found out that Babstock was going to be there. In the summer before I went, Ken was at Word on the Street, and I brought my copy of Mean for him to sign. I went up to him, and this was like the first contemporary poet I’d ever really met, and I went up to him with my old copy of his book, and I was like, Hi, Mr. Babstock, I’m Michael Lista, I’m going to be at Banff with you… He was like, oh, okay, great, cool. This was the first interaction I’d ever had with him, and he signed the book, “Mike, Thank you for say hello. See you in Banff. Love, Ken Babstock.” It was weird, because Dennis Lee was this guy that franchised, founded, sponsored my imagination and founded Anansi. Ken at the time was the poetry editor at Anansi, and he would end up being my editor for my first book, which was published by Anansi. I don’t know why I felt like I so needed to be near these guys, these people. Looking back on it feels sort of sad, sort of awkward that I needed to be in that group so badly.
This is a fucking crazy book. This is probably the best literary biography of all times. Richard Holmes. It’s about Coleridge, who was such a bizarre man. He was so brilliant, but you could tell that he felt dwarfed by Wordsworth. You know, Wordsworth was a great poet, but he sort of comes across as a little bit of a flighty dunce. Whereas Coleridge was tortured and brilliant. He would drink laudanum, like, pints of it, and then go and give a lecture on Shakespeare with no notes. There are some transcriptions in here of some of them. The lectures were… I would never be able to come up with something like that if I worked for the rest of my life on one. And he would just down a pint of opium water and just go and nail it. He was incredible. He sort of has a couple of really great poems, but beyond that… his genius was aborted. He sort of fucked it up. He really did booze and opium his genius away. But this is an amazing book.
It’s incredibly sad. Can you imagine that you wrote your best shit when you were so young? I hate that idea so much. You write your best stuff in your 20s or 30s, and then what do you do? I would be sort of embarrassed at having done that, and then nothing that ever comes close again. That’s so horrible. It would be better never to have written at all. I’ve been thinking a lot about Sylvia Plath and I sometimes wonder if she felt like—I mean it’s obviously way too romantic and melodramatic—but I wonder if part of her thinking at the end, clouded as it was with depression, was like, holy fuck, I definitely just wrote a masterpiece, my bullshit husband Ted Hughes is gonna get way more credit for his shit, which is like, way worse than mine. Ariel is just so perfect, it’s a perfect book. I think one of the fears of writing a perfect book is that you’ll never do another one again. I wonder if that went into her… I don’t know that you could call it a decision, but her thinking.
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Diagnosing vulvar cancer
Tests and procedures used to diagnose vulvar cancer include:
- Examining your vulva. Your doctor will likely conduct a physical exam of your vulva to look for abnormalities.
- Using a special magnifying device to examine your vulva. During a colposcopy exam, your doctor uses a device that works like a magnifying glass to closely inspect your vulva for abnormal areas.
- Removing a sample of tissue for testing (biopsy). To determine whether an area of suspicious skin on your vulva is cancer, your doctor may recommend removing a sample of skin for testing. During a biopsy procedure, the area is numbed with a local anesthetic and a scalpel or other special cutting tool is used to remove all or part of the suspicious area. Depending on how much skin is removed, you may need stitches.
Determining the extent of the cancer
Once your diagnosis is confirmed, your doctor works to determine the size and extent (stage) of your cancer. Staging tests can include:
- Examination of your pelvic area for cancer spread. Your doctor may do a more thorough examination of your pelvis for signs that the cancer has spread.
- Imaging tests. Images of your chest or abdomen may show whether the cancer has spread to those areas. Imaging tests may include X-ray, computerized tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET).
Vulvar cancer stages
Your vulvar cancer is assigned a Roman numeral that denotes its stage. Stages of vulvar cancer include:
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- Stage I describes a small tumor that is confined to the vulva or the area of skin between your vaginal opening and anus (perineum). This cancer hasn't spread to your lymph nodes or other areas of your body.
- Stage II tumors are those that have grown to include nearby structures, such as the lower portions of the urethra, vagina and anus.
- Stage III cancer has spread to lymph nodes.
- Stage IVA signifies a cancer that has spread more extensively to the lymph nodes, or that has spread to the upper portions of the urethra or vagina, or that has spread to the bladder, rectum or pelvic bone.
- Stage IVB is a cancer that has spread (metastasized) to distant parts of your body
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A poet, important both for his lyric and his dramatic compositions, b. at Lisbon, Portugal, in 1528; d. there of the plague in 1569. He studied law at Coimbra, where, however, he gave no less attention to belles-letteres than to legal codes, ardently reading the poetry of classic antiquity. Successful in his chosen profession, he became a judge of the Supreme Court at Lisbon, and enjoyed close relations with eminent personages of the court of John III. Ferreira stands apart from the great majority of the Portuguese poets of his time in that he never used Spanish, but wrote constantly in his native language. Yet he is to be classed with the reformers of literary taste, for, like Sâ de Miranda, he abandoned the old native forms to further the movement of the Renaissance. He manifested a decided interest in the Italian lyric measures, already given some elaboration by Sâ de Miranda, and displayed some skill in the use of the hendecasyllable. The sonnet, the elegy, the idyll, the verse epistle, the ode, and kindred forms he cultivated with a certain felicity, revealing not only his study of the Italian Renaissance poets, but also a good acquaintance with the Greek and Latin masters.
It is by his dramatic endeavours that he attained to greatest prominence, for his tragedy "Inesde Castro", in particular is regarded as one of the chief monuments of Portughese literature. He began his work on the drama while still a student at Coimbra, writing there for his own amusement his first comedy, "Bristo", dealing with the old classic theme of lost children and later agnitions, which was often utilized for the stage of the Renaissance and has been made familiar by Shakespeare. Much improvement in dramatic technique is evinced by his second comedy, "O. Cioso", which treats realistically the figure of a jealous husband. It is considered as the earliest character-comedy in modern Europe. Written in prose, it exhibits a clever use of dialogue and has really comical scenes. None of the compositions of Ferreira appeared in print during his lifetime and the first edition of his two comedies is that of 1622. On English translation of the "Cioso" made by Musgrave was published in 1825. His tragedy, "Inés de Casro", imitates in its form the models of ancient Greek literature, and shows ltalian influence in its use of blank verse, but it owes its suject-matter to native Portuguese history, concerning itself with the love of King Pedro for the beautiful for the Ines de Castro, an incident which has also been splendidly treated by Camões in his "Lusiades", and has furnished the theme for at least ten Portughese and four Spanish plays, and over a score of compositions in foreign languages. If tested by the requirements of the theatre, the play is doubtless far frorn perfect, but the purity of its style and diction ensures its popularity with its author's compatriots. It was rendered into English by Musgrave in 1826. The rather free Spanish version of 1577 was made on the basis of a manuscript copy of the Portughese original, for the first Portughese printed edition is of 1587.
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APA citation. Ford, J. (1909). Antonio Ferreira. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved October 17, 2012 from New Advent: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06049b.htm
MLA citation. Ford, Jeremiah. "Antonio Ferreira." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. 17 Oct. 2012
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That being said, here in Halifax Regional we are not permitted to use the weed & feed products due to the by-law, so we're adopting natural control. That means pulling dandelions by hand (the nifty Weed Hound tool makes that easy) and practicing good turf care: watering, fertilizing, overseeding, aeration in the late fall, and just generally trying to keep things robust and healthy.
We have weeds, too, but as long as they are green I don't pay them much mind. Every now and then I'll go out and dig some of them up, spread some top soil and grass seed, cover it over with a layer of peat moss and then soak it with the hose.
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Members of the Korean-American Bar Association of Georgia gather for their first big event of the year
The association represents over 100 lawyers from across the greater Atlanta metro area.
According to the Law School Admission Council (LSAC), Asian/Pacific Islanders made up 3.4% of lawyers nationwide in 2010, but previously lack representation in the region.
The LSAC does not provide specific ethnicity data beyond that of the category of Asian/Pacific Islanders.
The event drew a wide range of attendants, including current law students, young associates and seasoned professionals from the private and public sector. Atlanta Bar Association President Lynn M. Roberson and Multi-Bar Leadership Council founder Seth Kirschenbaum were also in attendance.
Events like this help build a sense of cooperation and community among the region’s lawyers, Roberson said.
“[This] gives [lawyers] an opportunity to reach across all walks of life and brings bars together,” Roberson said.
South Korea’s Director of the Ministry of Employment and Labor Ho-Chul Shin spoke at the event, highlighting the impact of the United States-South Korea Federal Trade Agreement (KORUS-FTA) on lawyers both domestically and abroad.
“As you know, Korea and the US have had a relationship ever since 1950, the year of the Korean War,” Shin said. “When they worked together in common defense. Since then, this relationship has continued but is now based primarily on shared economic opportunity. Such a friendly partnership will become more firmly established now that we have the FTA.”
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative called the agreement the “most commercially significant free trade agreement in almost two decades.” The agreement lowered trade barriers between the two countries and opened South Korea’s legal market to foreign legal consulting firms.
Historically South Korea restricted the legal market to domestic firms.
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For the Minnesota Zoo’s Conservation Department, the spring and summer field season is an especially busy time. Due to the seasonal variation in wildlife activity, the warmer months are often times when animals are most active and conditions are most conducive research. This coming field season is certainly not short on exciting activity. Here are some updates from the team and a preview of what these hard-working Zoo conservationists have planned:
The Zoo recently hosted the annual Minnesota Bison Conservation Herd’s annual meeting. Researchers and conservationists from a variety of institutions across Minnesota gathered virtually for the opportunity to share updates and plans. The collective herd, which consists of animals at Blue Mounds State Park, Minneopa State Park, Oxbow Park, and the Minnesota Zoo, now consists of over 100 individuals. Read more about how population genetics are studied for the conservation and management of this species.
As the weather continues to warm, hundreds of hungry caterpillars housed at the Minnesota Zoo will be awakening from their winter slumber. The Zoo’s Pollinator Conservation Initiative is rearing threatened Dakota skipper and Poweshiek skipperling caterpillars and working with a multitude of partners to release individuals and manage the few wild populations that remain. In addition, the team will be expanding their research efforts this summer to include a new group of insects- Minnesota bumble bees. Bumble bees found on Zoo grounds will be outfitted with very tiny transmitters which will allow researchers to track their movement and better understand dispersal and habitat use.
Freshwater mussels may not appear to be the most physically active of animals, but there is plenty of activity happening with restoration efforts! The freshwater mussel restoration program is planning to transfer thousands of adult mussels that have been reared at the Zoo to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for eventual release into local rivers. This past year, Zoo staff within the Conservation and Aquariums divisions have reared nearly 200 walleye that will also be transferred to the DNR. Walleye are an important host fish for many species of mussels and are a critical component to conservation efforts of at-risk mussel species.
The Zoo’s freshwater turtle conservation efforts continue to grow and expand. This past year, dozens of hatchling wood turtles, a threatened species in Minnesota, were raised at the Zoo so as to increase the rate of survival of the individuals and bolster local populations. These very photogenic yearling turtles will be released this summer back into their natural habitats. A few of these turtles will be outfitted with transmitters before their release so that Zoo researchers can study their habitat use and track survival over time.
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The newest wildlife conservation program for the Zoo focuses on endangered chinchillas in Chile. In partnership with the Chilean National Zoo (Zoológico Nacional de Chile), the Chilean government and other partners, this program will study the few remaining wild chinchilla populations. The first session of field work just wrapped up with researchers setting up field cameras for monitoring and collecting hair and fecal samples from chinchilla dens in order to better understand genetics and population dynamics.
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Boy gives back with a big heart
Youth's fundraiser is collecting aid for Philippines
Updated 9:28 am, Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Carter Tripp has his grandfather's kind smile and big heart.
Carter, 8, a third-grader at Duanesburg Elementary School, has been watching news reports about Super Typhoon Haiyan more intently than most kids his age. That's because Carter's grandfather, Ron Welton, lives in Maasin City, less than 100 miles from Tacloban, the hardest-hit area in the Philippines.
Carter and his family — mom Nicole, dad Craig, brother Brady and sisters Abbie and Sophia — waited anxiously for word from Welton, 75, who lives with his wife, Rosita, in one of the only cement block homes in their barangay (Filipino term for a village, district or ward). Nicole Tripp finally heard from her father by text message late Friday.
"I feel really bad for my grandfather and the people living there," said Carter, a Mets fan who likes gymnastics and climbing things. "I really hope that he's OK." "This is a poor country," added Carter's mom, who helped her son start a fundraiser called Carter Cares for Children. "There's no FEMA to help the countless people who need it so badly."
Even before Haiyan struck the Philippines — an archipelago nation of more than 7,000 islands — Friday morning, forecasters warned it could be the strongest storm in recorded history.
Tacloban, a city of about 220,000 people on Leyte island, bore the full force of the winds and tsunami-like storm surges.
For information about Carter Tripp's fundraiser to help the victims of Typhoon Haiyan, go to https://www.facebook.com/CarterCaresforChildren
Most of the city is in ruins, a tangled mess of destroyed houses, cars and trees.
Welton knew the typhoon was coming, but decided to stay and help his neighbors, said Tripp. The Welton's home is one of the only buildings left standing and has become a refuge for the homeless, she added.
The most recent email from her father mentioned a prison break, looting and ongoing concerns about people's safety. Welton wrote that he has two gallons of gas left to power a generator, but he "hates to talk about his stuff, which is so minimal compared to everyone else."
Welton was a teacher in Bolton Landing until 1990, when he left to join the Peace Corps. He was stationed in the Philippines, where he fell in love with the people. When the organization pulled volunteers out of the country because of security concerns, Welton stayed.
He married Rosita, a fellow teacher. They moved stateside for a short period, but quickly returned and have made their home in Maasin for the past 15 years.
"He felt there was more he could do," said Tripp, "and with the storm coming, he stayed to give shelter to others."
Informational fliers went out to parents Wednesday.
Tripp said the Bolton Central School District is on board, and she is coordinating fundraising efforts with other Capital Region schools.
"I'm just a mom," Tripp said, "but my goal is to give Carter and kids like him who want to help a voice and sense of empowerment."
The following organizations are also raising funds for typhoon victims: The Philippine-American Club of Schenectady, http://philamclub.weebly.com; The Red Cross, http://redcross.org; United Nations World Food Programme, http://wfpusa.org or text the word AID to 27722 to donate $10; UNICEF, http://unicef.org/support; and Save the Children, http://www.savethechildren.org.
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In evaluating design alternatives to rotary furnaces, the following considerations should be made:
- Heating and cooling should be limited to only the process material. Containment should remain at temperature and the process material should move through it.
- The opportunity for product sticking or gas-phase entrainment during processing should be minimized.
- Product uniformity and reaction time should be maximized by minimizing or eliminating bulk bed effects.
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One means of providing these advantages is under evaluation in the form of a vertical conveyor furnace (see Figure 1).1 In rotary furnaces, material is typically conveyed into the rotating tube using a screw feed device, and the rotation and angle of the container tube facilitates the movement of the material for the remainder of the process. In the vertical conveyor furnace, screw feeders provide all of the motive force to push the reactants into the hot zone. Material exits initially by force of gravity, and ultimately by a second screw feeder.
In the feeding portion, the reactant material is pushed up against gravity through a gradually tapering cone, part of which resides inside the hot zone of the furnace. The material is preheated during this conveyance through the walls of the conveyor and cone. At the top of the cone, the material at the very surface is exposed to direct radiation heating and the gas environment in the furnace chamber. Because of this direct exposure, it is anticipated that reactions occur uniformly and quickly over this surface layer of material, and that off-gassed material exits the process upward and away from the product.
Continued feeding of material from below causes this now-reacted layer to spill over the top of the cone and fall by force of gravity into the larger containment tube surrounding the cone. The initial movement of material from the top of the cone facilitates a very sharp drop in process temperature, which limits the potential for overheating problems such as melting/sublimation, sintering or excessive grain growth. The material continues to fall through the outer tube to a cooled portion of tube under the furnace hot zone. At the bottom of the exit tube is a second screw feeder, which removes the material from the apparatus and transports it to a product hopper.
By carefully controlling the rate of material removal from the outer tube, a bed of cooling material can be intentionally built up within the apparatus. By means of the design, this bed is in direct contact with the inner tube conveying the reactant material into the furnace. This contact allows for direct heat transfer from the product to the reactants, assisting in the preheating of the incoming material while at the same time cooling the exiting material. Thus, in addition to the container-less nature of the design, the thermal transfer between product and reactants significantly improves the power efficiency of the unit (see Figure 2).
Given the nature of this design, it is anticipated that a wide range of product feedstocks may prove suitable for processing in this equipment. The plug flow of material in the entry cone should minimize the sticking problems observed in rotary tubes, and should not necessarily require only materials that exhibit low angles of repose. Product mixing concerns during reaction are minimized, given that the peak process temperature is encountered at the immediate top of the reaction bed. This reaction zone is continuously removed and replenished in a fountain-like manner, ensuring that the entire bulk of material is exposed to radiative heating and solid-gas interchange in a nearly-uniform manner. Because the material is not continuously agitated, lower levels of fine powder entrainment are also expected.
A pilot-scale model of this design is currently being tested for high-temperature calcining applications for phase conversion. It is anticipated that it will provide significant advantages for the efficient processing of materials requiring high-temperature solid-solid and solid-gas reactions, such as carbides, nitrides, borides, and refractory metal powders.
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As with all things Donald Trump, the 2016 Republican National Convention could hardly could hardly be described as by-the-book.
Though at the end of the four-day event, the red, white and blue balloons fell on the billionaire businessman, now the formal Republican presidential nominee, the path getting there wasn't without its drama.
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) was among the first to make waves on the opening day of the RNC, saying in an interview with MSNBC he believes white people have been the biggest contributors to civilization.
"I'd ask you to go back through history and figure out, where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that you're talking about, where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?" King said to host Chris Hayes.
Later on the convention stage, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani made controversial statements on police brutality and race in America, stating, "When [police officers] come to save your life, they don't ask if you're black or white. They just come to save you." He went on to exclaim that there's no "black" or "white" America, "there is just America."'
These comments, however, were later overshadowed by scandal surrounding Melania Trump's speech, parts of which were found to be borrowed from Michelle Obama's 2008 Democratic National Convention address. On Tuesday, Melania's the Trump campaign revealed Meredith McIver as Melania's speech writer.
"Over the phone, she read me some passages from Mrs. Obama's speech as examples," McIver said in a statement. "I wrote them down and later included some of the phrasing in the draft that ultimately became the final speech."
On Tuesday night, Trump officially clinched the party's presidential nomination, boasting just under 500 more than the 1,237 delegates required of him. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence also officially won the vice presidential nomination.
House Speaker Paul Ryan announced the GOP's 2016 ticket, striking a somewhat conciliatory note later in his speech saying, "Democracy is a series of choices. Republicans, we have made our choice."
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was also a prominent name on the speakers' list Tuesday, and heaped on the anti-Hillary Clinton message that became one of the themes of the night.
The roster rounded out with speeches from two of Trump's children, Tiffany Trump and Donald Trump Jr., who spoke to their father's kindness and compassion as well as his qualifications to be president.
Said Trump Jr., "This is the most important election of our lifetime, one that will determine the future of our country and in turn, the future of the world."
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz made it clear on Wednesday that just because he was making an appearance at what was ostensibly a Trump affair, didn't mean he was going to endorse him.
Cruz told the crowd of thousands to "vote your conscience" — that is, don't vote for Trump.
Though NBC reporter Katy Tur tweeted that Cruz seemed to have gone off script — his original speech was times at nine minutes while the one he delivered went on for a whopping 23, according to Tur. Trump claimed he was in on it all along.
Former candidate Ben Carson also took the stage Wednesday with what many saw as a bizarre speech implying that Clinton admires, or at least "acknowledges," Lucifer.
"This is a nation where every coin in our pocket and every bill and our wallets has 'In God We Trust,'" said Carson. "So, are we willing to elect someone as president who has, as their role model, somebody who acknowledges Lucifer? Think about that."
And, of course, conservative radio host Laura Ingraham appeared to, for a moment, salute Hitler.
The RNC's big finale brought with it sexist comments from Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, who told MSNBC he believes women are struggling financially not because of the gender pay gap, for one, but because their husbands can't afford to pay their bills.
When news anchor Chris Matthews pressed him further, Manfort dodged the question, adding, "Because they can't afford their lives anymore. That's the point. To some people, it's a matter of jobs."
Later, PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel slammed the GOP for its anti-gay messages, accusing Republican politicians of starting "fake culture wars," which of course, only Trump calls out.
Thiel told the crowd he's "proud to be gay."
Then there was the big one: the Trump speech (the contents of which were leaked Thursday evening).
Trump accepted the nomination to raucous cheers, chants and applause and delivered his address with the gusto that's become the candidate's signature, hitting topics such as ISIS, immigration and jobs.
Trump came down hard on Clinton as expected, but gave a surprising shout-out to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, saying the system was "rigged" against" the Democratic candidate. He went on to say that he expects not just Sanders' supporters but "millions of Democrats" to join the Trump "movement."
"My opponent asks her supporters to recite a three-word loyalty pledge. It reads: 'I'm With Her,'" Trump said. "I choose to recite a different pledge. My pledge reads: 'I'm with you — the American people.'" | <urn:uuid:07d7b593-2066-4c7c-9964-bdb01d920982> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://mic.com/articles/149464/rnc-2016-full-recap-highlights-worst-quotes-biggest-moments-and-more | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00303-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979685 | 1,097 | 1.523438 | 2 |
A 3D modelled picture of Kensington Roof Gardens, taken on 11 April 2020, when the Derry & Toms building was covered in scaffolding. An added yellow-red border shows the extent of what is still Europe’s largest roof garden. Picture from Google Earth. Click to enlarge.
After having been closed since January 2018, refurbishment has begun of the Kensington Roof Gardens, atop the former Derry & Toms department store on Kensington High Street (today housed by M&S and others). But access for the general public will be very limited, as its three gardens and various buildings once again will become a private members’ club, just as Richard Branson ran it from 1981 to 2001.
The gardens closed on 2 January 2018. when the lease Richard Branson’s Virgin had held for 37 years wasn’t renewed. Officially, Virgin chose not to renew, “in the face of unpredictable market conditions and a challenge to remain profitable”, but persistent rumours claimed that it was the freeholder (British Virgin Island registered Cartina Kensington Ltd, which via Lichtenstein-based Sirosa Anstalt is ultimately owned by the UK residing German property tycoon Henning Conle and his family) who refused to renew the lease although Branson was willing to even pay more in rent.
In July 2020, Sirosa sold a 15-year lease of the site, for an undisclosed sum, to Stephen Fitzpatrick’s company Imagination Industries Incubator, a daughter company to his holding company Imagination Industries, in which OVO Energy is the largest daughter company.
Bought by OVO Energy’s owner
Stephen Fitzpatrick is the founder and owner of both OVO Energy (which has grown to become the third largest consumer retail energy company in the UK) and electric aircraft startup Vertical Aerospace, which hopes to have its revolutionary VX4 eVTOL air taxi certified by 2025. So, the new owner of the roof gardens could be called the Richard Branson of the 21st century…
The site will be managed by Kensington RG Ltd, a daughter company to Imagination Industries that was created when the lease was bought. That company will run the member’s club and submitted a planning application to the council’s planning department in early January. The application, which was approved in May, is for a thorough restoration of the site, with the aim to restore some of it to its 1938 original. However, the second floor on the main building, added in 2000, will remain.
The site is covered by three conservation listings: its trees have been protected by the council through TPO 26/75 since 1976, the roof garden buildings received protection from Historic England in 1981, when the whole Derry & Toms was Grade II* listed, and in 1998 the actual gardens received an additional Grade II listing from Historic England in its Historic Parks and Gardens register.
In the planning application, Kensington RG Ltd states that making it a member’s club (as it was from 1981 to 2001), “will provide the business with a robust revenue stream, thereby allowing it to function with significantly lower footfall than in recent years, drawing its membership from both the local and wider area.” That statement obviously refers to Virgin’s Babylon restaurant, that replaced the member’s club in 2001 and became a popular venue for wedding parties and corporate parties, which sometimes could become rather noisy and disturbing for residents living on nearby Kensington Square.
A number of these residents objected to the new plans, but the RBKC planning department felt that the developer’s plan should be a clear improvement from the neighbours’ point of view, compared to situation during the 17 years that Babylon restaurant was operating, and during the three years (1978-1981) that the site was operated as a night club.
In a special management plan, accompanying the application, Kensington RG bends over backwards to assure nervous neighbours that they have nothing to fear. They state that the aim of the club is to create “a community of interesting, inspiring, and intelligent individuals. Our goal is to provide them with a beautiful clubhouse within which they can work, collaborate, socialise, relax and exchange ideas.
The space will have a cultural approach and aims to be the antithesis of an ostentatious Mayfair private members’ club.” There will be “weekly events, seminars, talks and panel discussions, lead by our Head of Culture. We aim to gather the world’s greatest speakers and thinkers around the table at KRG, affording our members access to some of the most exciting minds of our time.” A special chapter in the management plan is devoted to noise control and another states that members arriving in their own cars will be advised not to park in the area, that members and their guests at closing time will leave at staggered times and be ushered up to Kensington High Street, as no taxis will be allowed to pick them up on Derry Street.
Public days planned
Although the site will normally only be available for the members, the new owners have in the application stated that they are positive to limited public access to the gardens at certain dates, perhaps in conjunction with London’s annual Open House Festival.
There is currently no date said for when the club will begin to operate, but it will probably not happen before late spring or the summer of 2023, as the refurbishment plans are quite extensive.
If you want to read more about the history of the fascinating Kensington Roof Gardens (once the largest roof garden in the world and still the largest in Europe), read our article from February 2018, which tells about its conception in the early 1930s, the scary war years, the Biba years (1973-1975), and the unconfirmed tale about why and how Richard Branson acquired the site. The article also includes a wonderful drone video of the gardens, taken in 2013.
A few bushes at the top of the Derry & Toms building is the only thing visible from the street of Europe’s largest roof garden. Google Street View picture, taken in June 2022. Click to enlarge.
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Board Policies – Section G – Personnel
GAL – Salary Deductions (FLSA) (See GAOF)
The district shall comply with the salary basis requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The board prohibits all managers from making any improper deductions from the salaries of exempt employees. Employees shall be made aware of this policy.
If an employee believes that an improper deduction has been made to his or her salary, the employee should immediately report this information to his or her direct supervisor, or to the Assistant Superintendent of Business.
Reports of improper deductions shall be promptly investigated. If it is determined that an improper deduction has occurred, the employee shall be promptly reimbursed for any improper deduction made.
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Where Rand Paul's small-government credo fails: kids with autism
Sen. Rand Paul says 'politicians get in the way of most answers.' But autism provides a compelling counterpoint. The federal government provides the vast majority of research money as well as crucial services and legal protections.
Senator Rand Paul (R) of Kentucky, a possible 2016 presidential candidate, recently toured Iowa. During a meeting in Sioux City, he took a question from a 12-year-old diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. The young man, who had previously spoken with several presidential aspirants (including Senator Paul’s father, Ron Paul) asked what he would do about autism. According to The Des Moines Register, the senator replied:
I'm going to give you an answer you probably have never gotten before.... Here’s the real answer. Government's never going to find – and I'm not saying government can’t help, I support some government help for autism – but the answer's going to come from scientists. And politicians get in the way of most answers.
One problem with the senator’s remarks is that 82 percent of autism research funding comes from the federal government. Although there are legitimate concerns as to whether some of this funding is duplicative, it is hard to argue that government is “getting in the way” of scientists.
Another problem is that the senator seemed to assume that the only “answer” for autism is something that comes out of a test tube. But there are no medications for core symptoms of autism, and none are on the horizon. So what would the senator do for people like his young questioner?
More than 400,000 students with autism are receiving school services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Increasing numbers are going on to college, where they enjoy certain protections under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Unfortunately, many adults with autism have trouble finding or holding a job. One of the few things working in their favor is the Americans with Disabilities Act, which forbids employment discrimination against people with disabilities.
If Paul were president, would he vigorously enforce these laws? Would he seek to change them? He needs to think seriously about such issues because autism is hardly a minor “niche” issue. A 2008 national survey found that 39 percent of respondents knew someone with autism, and the figure is probably higher today.
There are a variety of approaches to autism policy, many of which rely on market forces and individual choice. But it won’t do just to say that government should get out of the way and let scientists find the answers.
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Native American Masks of the Northwest Coast and Alaska
For native peoples of the Pacific Northwest, winter was a time of dance and performance. The dramatic impact was enhanced by music, flickering firelight and shadows playing against plankhouse walls. Among Northwest Coast peoples, including the Kwakwaka’wakw, Makah, and Nuu-chah-nulth represented here, masks were an essential part of important winter ceremonials, which re-enacted the adventures of hero-ancestors and spirit beings in the mythological past. The rights to these ritual dances were passed down in families as treasured privileges, and while the themes are similar, the ceremonies were complex and varied in detail from region to region. Some of these traditions are still maintained today.
In Alaska, Yup’ik and Inupiaq peoples honored animals in a variety of ceremonies, the most important of which were the great midwinter hunting festivals. During many of these, masks carved by shamans or under their supervision were worn in special dances to please the spirits. As intermediaries between people and spirits, shamans learned the wishes of game animals from visions and trips to the spirit world. Masks could also represent the shaman’s spiritual helpers, which he would try to influence in times of need. Sometimes hung in houses to ward off harmful spirits, masks were also occasionally placed with the dead or used in non-spiritual contexts for popular entertainment. Yup’ik and Inupiaq masks shown here were made primarily for sale to Western customers.
Shown here is a selection of Pacific Northwest masks from the holdings of the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History. Photography by Chris White, text by Pam Endzweig, and web development by Keith Hamm. Images © UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History. Production of this gallery was generously supported by The Ford Family Foundation.
Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum.
1980 To Honor the Spirits: Eskimo Masks from the Sheldon Jackson Museum, Sitka, Alaska, July 6 - Aug. 31, 1980. Anchorage: Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum.
1987 Spirit and Ancestor: A Century of Northwest Coast Indian Art at the Burke Museum. Seattle: Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum.
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More good news on the international economic front!
It seems that the European Central Bank has a new president.
Bloomberg has the details:
Bank of Italy Governor Mario Draghi was appointed as the next president of the European Central Bank, avoiding a delay that risked complicating the handling of the sovereign-debt crisis.
Draghi’s appointment was approved at a summit of European Union leaders in Brussels today, an EU spokesman said. The 63- year-old Italian will take over from Jean-Claude Trichet as the head of the Frankfurt-based ECB, beginning an eight-year term on Nov. 1.
The former Bank of Italy governor has just the experience needed to become the overlord of Europe’s treasure:
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology-trained economist with a stint at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. on his resume, Draghi had already been backed by finance ministers and was the only candidate to take over the Frankfurt-based ECB.
It seems that during the confirmation hearing, Draghi was questioned about whether or not he had any role in Goldman’s deadly swap deals with Greece, the results of which Europeans are now enjoying. Draghi denied it, saying the deals predated his joining Goldman.
For those keeping score, that puts Goldman alums in charge of the ECB, the Bank of Canada (where Mark Carney is the Canadian Greenspan), and the World Bank (where Robert Zoellick is maybe keeping the seat warm for Hillary Clinton), in addition to lesser institutions like the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (where William Dudley is at the helm). | <urn:uuid:84051f2a-d813-42bc-812e-5babb683b8c5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/goldman-vet-named-euro-central-bank-chief-20110624 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00124-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968638 | 326 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Good Afternoon families,
What a beautiful day we have had today! We started the morning in the yard with lots of exploring and water play.We enjoed riding our bikes, playing in the sandpit as well.
We then transitioned inside where we washed our hands and sat down for morning tea. We had a picnic outside today, where we helped ourselves to the fruit and danishes. After morning tea, we had a little play indoors while Miss Bec set up our outdoor activities for the day.
We then came outside where Miss Bec and Miss Maddi had set up our sensory paint activity and Miss Lyn helped us with a under the sea glue activity where we stuck shells that Abel had brought in from the beach onto our pieces of velvet. All children loved both activities and had so much fun.
After we had finished with our arts and crafts, it was then off for more water play as it was so hot today! We love turning the taps on and off, filling our buckets with water and tipping them everywhere!
We then came inside where we got changed into some dry clothes and sat down for lunch.
We have had a great day!
Much love, Miss Thais, Miss Bec and Miss Maddi xx
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Darwin’s On the Origin of Species
A Modern Rendition
Darwin’s On the Origin of Species
A Modern Rendition
On the Origin of Species is surprisingly difficult to read. Darwin’s style does not always convey the beauty of his ideas to a modern audience. And so the most important book in biology, rich in concepts fundamental to our understanding of the living world, has become one of those books that everyone has heard of, but few have actually read. Darwin’s On the Origin of Species: A Modern Rendition is an attempt to tackle the language of the original, and make the work readable without sacrificing those important concepts. It is not an abridgement. It is not a summary. It could perhaps best be described as a “translation.”
This website features information about the project and some interesting links about evolution. We will update content regularly to announce events and news.
04.03.14 The Well-Read Naturalist blog posts about the book. Thanks to John E. Riutta.
02.26.14 The news page of Columbia University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences publishes a short interview with Daniel.
02.07.14 Indiana University Press has produced a podcast with Daniel – hear him discuss the story behind the book.
Spring 2014 Darwin's On the Origin of Species: A Modern Rendition is featured in the Indiana University Press Spring 2014 catalog.
02.09.15 Wallace and Darwin: Inspiration, Legacy, and the Origins of Evolutionary Theory A Conversation Between James T. Costa and Daniel Duzdevich
7:00pm, Columbia University, Jerome Greene Hall, Rm. 103 435 W. 116th St. (entrance bt/w Amsterdam Ave. and Morningside Dr.)
Charles Darwin was far from the first to suggest that species change with time. And he was not the only one to propose natural selection as the mechanism of species change. Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin's sometime rival, friend, and colleague, had the same idea during a feverish fit while on an expedition to southeast Asia. The manuscript Wallace fatefully sent to Darwin describing his revolutionary thoughts spurred the elder naturalist to go public. Their papers were read at the Linnean Society of London on July 1, 1858, immediately after which Darwin hastened to complete the watershed work that would become On the Origin of Species. This conversation will explore Wallace's life, his remarkable scientific contributions, and his fascinating personal and intellectual relationship with Darwin.
James T. Costa is Director of the Highlands Biological Station and Professor of Biology at Western Carolina University. His fieldwork and scholarship range from social evolution and behavior to the history of evolutionary thinking. He is the author of The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species (Harvard, 2009), On the Organic Law of Change: A Facsimile Edition and Annotated Transcription of Alfred Russel Wallace's 'Species Notebook' of 1855–1859 (Harvard, 2013), and most recently of Wallace, Darwin, and the Origin of Species (Harvard, 2014).
Daniel Duzdevich is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, where he studies the interactions between DNA and proteins at the scale of individual molecules. He is the author of Darwin's On the Origin of Species: A Modern Rendition (Indiana, 2014).Free and open to the public. Q&A to follow, plus a chance to meet with the authors!
05.04.14 The show was a blast. We learned about the frontiers of molecular biology and were treated to a front-row tour of the human voice throughout history. Thanks to Stephany Boa for sharing her musical gifts, neuroscientist-musician David Sulzer and chemist-poet Roald Hoffman for organizing things, and that Village pillar of all things creative and smart, the Cornelia Street Cafe. Entertaining Science at the Cornelia Street Cafe. Singer-songwriter Stephany Boa will break down the intricacies of classical and pop music, and Daniel will deconstruct the complexities of thinking biologically. Art is science, science is art!
04.29.14 We had a fun time at the Empiricist League! The audience was great and the beer was Brooklyn-tastic. Thanks again to the organizers, David Leibowitz and Karen Ingram: we wish them all the best in bringing Science to the People for years to come.
Daniel will speak at the Empiricist League on April 29th, hosted by Over the Eight in Brooklyn. Drop by at 8:30 to hear three awesome short talks about evolution! The Empiricist League: "Science, Exploration, Beer."
02.25.14 The book launch at Book Culture was great. Thanks to everyone who dropped by, to the bookshop staff, and to Maryam Zaringhalam for a great interview! Book launch on February 25th! Drop by Book Culture bookshop near Columbia at 7:00pm for wine and cheese, and hear Maryam Zaringhalam of artlab talk Darwin, language, and science with Daniel Duzdevich.
Charles Darwin revolutionized our understanding of the living world. Trained as a geologist and naturalist, he cultivated an exceptional capacity for careful and skeptical observation. All this is apparent in his masterwork, the Origin, which is one of those very rare scientific books to have founded a field, and still be relevant to modern readers.
Daniel Duzdevich studies biological molecules up-close with fancy microscopes. His current work as a Ph.D. candidate in the laboratory of Eric Greene at Columbia University focuses on proteins that function as tiny machines on strands of DNA. Research preoccupies him most of the time, but he is also fascinated by the relationship between science and language.
Educated at Stanford and Oxford, Olivia Judson is an evolutionary biologist and writer based at Imperial College London. She is the author of Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex, which has been translated into more than fifteen languages, and was also made into a television show. She is a former staff writer for the Economist, and has also written a regular online column for The New York Times. She is currently working on a second book and writing for National Geographic.
Myles Marshall is a Research Assistant at Columbia University in New York. A life long passion for drawing has led him to work on many creative projects ranging from commissioned design work and consulting to videos explaining complex chemistry concepts to designing the graphics for this book.
Thomas Cole is a computer engineer and sometimes designer based in Michigan. He is responsible for the way this site feels, some of the way it looks, and keeping it up and running. An autodidact, he uses the computer to indulge his endless curiosity and create, both for himself and others.
For press inquires, lecture requests, or questions about the book, you can contact Daniel Duzdevich at: [email protected]
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UV curing is widely accepted as the curing method of choice for wood coatings, plastic coatings and packaging overprint varnishes. In these applications, the benefits over thermal curing go beyond energy and environmental considerations, and include the following.
- Less capital investment
- Less floor space
- The potential for greatly enhanced coating/adhesive properties
- Suitability for curing 100%-solids formulations
- More suitable for curing coatings and adhesives used on heat-sensitive substrates, such as plastics and wood
The equipment required to UV cure can impact operating costs for the application process, as well as the finished properties. Substantial progress has been made in this area, specifically the understanding of the relationship between performance properties and UV-curing conditions. As a result, communications between the various stakeholders in the process - end user, process integrator, adhesive formulator and UV lamps supplier - have significantly improved, delivering superior value to the customer. The figure demonstrates the process parameters that are integral to defining the UV-curing process.
It is important to note that, first, the end user dictates the requirements of the process. Next, the formulator develops an adhesive that meets the customer's performance and productivity requirements. Finally, the UV lamps supplier determines the best lamp solution based on the UV spectral requirements of the formulation and heat limitations of the substrate, and how the UV lamp can be integrated into the system.
The specific UV lamp features are dependent on the end-use application and curing conditions. Following are definitions of the primary UV-curing conditions used with adhesives.
- Linear curing is used in web-based applications, such as pressure-sensitive adhesives, laminating adhesives and coated-abrasive adhesives, where a row or rows of UV lamps are suspended over the web.
- Flood curing is used primarily in bonding adhesives, though linear curing can be used in high-productivity applications (such as DVD bonding) where larger surface areas need to be cured.
- Spot curing is used in bonding techniques that require only a very small area to be cured.
- Linear curing benefits from life of the system coupled with superior UV spectral output stability. The specific features of the UV-curing equipment that relate to this benefit have the most impact. Variable power supplies allow curing conditions to be manipulated based on the product being coated and the speed of the line. Also, the recent development of solid-state power supplies has proven beneficial in terms of lower power consumption, improved curing efficiency and longer system life. Some manufacturers recently increased the warranties on their UV-curing systems and various consumables, thus lowering the cost of ownership.
Spot curing is the easiest process to test and apply to production. Key features include portability and flexibility. Workers can either use spot-curing units individually or as part of a larger automated dispensing and curing process.
Various coater manufacturers have made the investment in UV-curing equipment on their pilot lines in order to demonstrate process characterization and verification to end users. These pilot lines are also available to other stakeholders - raw-material suppliers, UV-lamp manufacturers and formulators - to test and quantify the benefits of new product development.
ConclusionAlready well established in the coatings and printing industries, UV curing will gain increased acceptance in the adhesives industry as users and formulators develop products and adhesives for the process. These innovations will result in higher performing products that use less energy and capital and have little or no solvent emissions.
Michael D. Brown is vice president of The ChemQuest Group Inc., Cincinnati, OH, an international strategic management consulting firm specializing in the adhesives, sealants and coatings industries.
Kevin Joesel is market manager of Fusion UV Systems Inc., Gaithersburg, MD, a supplier of UV-curing equipment.
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By Axel-Nathaniel Rose
Content warning: discussion of transphobia
It was the International Transgender Day of Visibility three weeks ago, and since then I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be ‘visible’ as a transgender person, now and through history. I’ve also been thinking a lot about hygiene. In people, places, and things, hygiene has never been so all-consuming.
Funnily enough, there’s an intersection between the two thoughts, in the form of Dr. James Barry, a nineteenth century British surgeon and transgender man. While there have been a great many arguments about his sex and his gender, he lived as a man for decades having been assigned female at birth, and asked that his body go unseen after his death in 1865, so that he might be buried with his gender going unquestioned – I’m not sure what more evidence is needed of his being male.
What is inarguable is the impact Dr. Barry had on medicine in South Africa and the British Empire as a whole. As a military surgeon, he advocated tirelessly for the rights of the poor, imprisoned, enslaved, and those with mental illness, and contagious diseases. Hygiene in day-to-day life and especially in medical institutions; access to enough and adequate food; and safe accommodation were essential to him. Issues of importance to him include hygiene (especially in medical institutions), and ensuring everyone had access to adequate food and safe accommodation. He advocated for inalienable human rights before the term was a recognised concept.
Very few conversations around transgender people seem to revolve not around our inalienable human rights which are so often denied around the world – the right to life, liberty and the security of person; equality before the law; to shelter; to marry; to work; to healthcare; to participate in the cultural life of the community. Instead they revolve around our bodies and around medicine. About ‘the surgery’ (whatever that’s supposed to be), what our genitals look like, how we have sex, and our fertility. The most intimate and vulnerable parts of our lives are considered to be of public interest – as if to come out as trans is to invite people to our bodies.
For me, Transgender Day of Visibility has always existed in balance with the Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day of mourning and wholly necessary anger. On the Day of Remembrance, we are remembering people who have been murdered, beaten, harassed, and killed themselves due to bigotry. Even on the Day of Visibility, being trans is often framed as an inherently painful thing, that to be trans is to suffer. While extraordinary suffering can come with being trans, it’s not random, and saying that it’s inherent also excuses the fact that pain is inflicted on us. It doesn’t pop up from nowhere. People cause harm, and that is not inherent to being trans – it’s inherent to violence, and that violence includes our bodies being spoken about and treated as objects.
Our pain, no matter its cause, should never eclipse that we are human beings. The community of transgender people is one of the most beautiful things in the world: pain may unify, but the solidarity, compassion, and joy in trans communities is so much more than just pain. The skills, triumphs, and aspirations of transgender people, no matter how small, deserve acknowledgement.
The transgender academic and activist Susan Stryker said,
‘[w]hen people struggling against an injustice have no hope that anything will ever change, they use their strength to survive; when they think that their actions matter, that same strength becomes a force for positive change’.
The Transgender Day of Visibility can do good that lasts well beyond the Day itself. Transgender people exist everywhere in the world, and simple, ongoing awareness and acknowledgement of that would change – and save – lives. The smallest acts of consideration, forethought, and awareness, let alone planning, policy, and leadership make a world of difference. So much of that is in treating our bodies as sovereign, with the dignity and inalienable rights we deserve.
Dr. James Barry’s dead body was found in his home by a maid. She hadn’t been paid and so attempted to blackmail his doctor under threat of leaking to the press that the honourable military doctor was ‘truly’ a woman. She used his body as a shock tactic, as a sensation, as a show for public debate. His legacy, his humanity, the extraordinary work he did was struck from historical records for hundreds of years.
I am immensely grateful to be alive and trans today in the privileges I have had – and I never want to forget those who did and do not, and the extraordinary lives they lived. In carrying on past the Day of Visibility, I want to carry Dr. James Barry’s legacy with me: a man who believed in the rights of others and advocated for them tirelessly; a man who did not treat the human body as something to be manipulated or fall prey to a nation state, and instead as whole and worthy unto themselves. And very importantly at this point in time, having immaculate hygiene.
On TDOV 2020, TransHub, ACON’s dedicated informational hub and service for transgender Australians opened. It is ‘a digital information and resource platform for all trans and gender diverse (TGD) people in NSW, their loved ones, allies and health providers’, hosting information on social, legal, and medical support around the country. They can be found here https://www.transhub.org.au/about . | <urn:uuid:e53a59ca-35db-4766-9090-d56941d6fc70> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tharunka.com/reflections-on-international-transgender-day-of-visibility/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.97542 | 1,175 | 2.375 | 2 |
Why was Charles Hedley ordered to stop work on his paper?
Inside an ordinary buff-coloured envelope I came across this sketch, accompanied amongst other things, by this resentful little note:
‘The enclosed drawings were executed by C. Hedley at intervals between Feb 11th & 30th 1892 when the work was discontinued by order of the Curator.’
The envelope was in a large box of drawings and photographs used as illustrations for some of the many papers published by Charles Hedley, and the note was written in Hedley’s distinctive handwriting.
Hedley was a self-taught conchologist who, at an ‘early age already knew considerably more about shells than anyone else in Australia’ according to his obituary in the Cairns Post. He worked as a farmer in Queensland, but after an injury he turned to science, working first for the Queensland Museum, and subsequently for the Australian Museum in Sydney.
Although shells were always his primary interest and area of research, he also published papers on anthropology and zoogeography*.
His scientific achievements were many and varied:
• He took part in the Royal Society of London’s 1896 expedition to Funafuti
• He served on the council of the Linnean Society of NSW for over 20 years, was elected president in 1909 and held that office until 1911.
• He was a member of the Royal Society of NSW and was its president in 1914
• He was awarded the David Syme prize for Scientific Research in 1916
• He was awarded the Clarke medal in 1925 ‘for meritorious contributions to Geology, Mineralogy and Natural History of Australasia’.
• He rose to the position of Deputy Director of the Museum and then Keeper of Collections
• On his retirement from the Australian Museum in 1924, he became Scientific Director of the Great Barrier Reef Committee, a position he held until his death in 1926.
All of this makes it clear that Charles Hedley was a well-respected and knowledgeable scientist, and the Museum history by Ronald Strahan makes it equally clear that Hedley was also a very nice person: ‘… other scientific staff found him to be a source of knowledge and inspiration and, … an approachable, warm-hearted man with whom they could discuss their troubles’.
So I was very pleased to discover that those sketches didn’t go to waste. The completed drawings were used to illustrate a paper which was published in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of NSW in September 1892. In the same issue of that journal was another paper by Australian Museum staff, this one written by the Curator Robert Etheridge Jnr, and illustrated by Charles Hedley.
Was Charles Hedley taken away from work on his own illustrations to complete those of Mr Etheridge? If so, I’m not surprised that he wasn’t happy.
*Some of Charles Hedley's work on zooogeography:
‘The Submarine Slope of New South Wales', Presidential Addresses to the Linnean Society of NSW, 1910
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versión On-line ISSN 0717-7356
MARTINEZ C., José Luis. ANDEAN DISCOURSE OF OTHRNESS AND SIGNIFICANCE GROUPS. Chungará (Arica) [online]. 2004, vol.36, n.2, pp.505-514. ISSN 0717-7356. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-73562004000200020.
I show the existence of different discourses and identity practices among Andean societies, all of which functioned simultaneously during Tawantinsuyu. During the 15Th and 16th centuries in the Andes, it is possible recognize that people could bear different but simultaneous identities. I postulate that the existence of a unique system for expressing identity and otherness is the result of colonial practices that brought together the different collected tales
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Integration of Air Quality Monitoring and Transportation Planning for Exposure Mitigation in Urban Roadway EnvironmentsEPA Grant Number: FP917473
Title: Integration of Air Quality Monitoring and Transportation Planning for Exposure Mitigation in Urban Roadway Environments
Investigators: Kendrick, Christine M
Institution: Portland State University
EPA Project Officer: Just, Theodore J.
Project Period: September 1, 2012 through August 31, 2015
Project Amount: $126,000
RFA: STAR Graduate Fellowships (2012) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Academic Fellowships , Fellowship - Environmental Science
Urban populations encounter short- and long-term exposures of increased vehicular emissions within roadway environments, but air quality effects in transportation planning traditionally are evaluated based on regional, airshed models that do not capture the impacts of these exposures. This research will integrate more refined measurements of traffic-related pollutants with traffic monitoring during the implementation of a large-scale traffic signal intervention on an urban corridor. Roadside monitoring data for air pollutants, traffic parameters and local meteorology will be used to develop models to assess impacts of traffic modifications on long-term localized and short-term corridor exposures at a project-level scale.
Air quality and traffic monitoring will occur on SE Powell Boulevard, a key regional commuter corridor, connecting highway US 26 to and through Portland, OR. The corridor’s surrounding area is populated densely with residences, schools and businesses and carries a high compositional mix of traffic, including freight trucks, passenger cars and trucks, public transit buses, bicyclists and pedestrians. The corridor is switching from a set-timed traffic signal system to an adaptive traffic control system that will respond to traffic volume, queues at intersections and transit priority signals. This research will integrate continuous measurements, over multiple years, of air pollutants PM10, PM2.5, particle number concentrations (PNC), NO2, CO and CO2; traffic dynamics (speed, volume, classification), and meteorology (wind speed, wind direction, temperature, relative humidity) using permanent roadside stations. Separate field deployments of portable equipment also will be used to measure concentrations along the study corridor, along major roads intersecting the corridor, and dispersion into roadside parks, school lots and neighborhoods.
Data collected will be used to build models to investigate direct temporal relationships between acceleration, deceleration, queue lengths, fleet composition, meteorology and roadside air quality. Vehicle queues in the directions of heaviest traffic will be minimized once the traffic signal system is optimized. It is expected that maximum and average PM10, PNCs and NO2 concentrations will be reduced because of shorter queues at major intersections and less frequent acceleration and deceleration events. PM2.5 concentrations may remain the same as fine PM background levels of urban areas can lead to a more homogeneous pattern for this pollutant. PM2.5 hotspots may arise due to building geometry and meteorology. Monitoring results and emissions modeling will be combined with near-field dispersion modeling to incorporate the surrounding built environment and investigate such spatial patterns. This model development will be used to quantify and visualize traffic emissions spatially within built roadway environments as well as simulate and compare emissions from alternative traffic modifications.
Potential to Further Environmental/Human Health Protection
Transportation is an essential and daily component of lives across the globe. The adverse human health effects from long- and short-term exposures to increased roadway pollution pose a critical demand on transportation policy to reduce impacts of motor vehicle emissions. Integrated air quality and transportation planning on a project-level scale in addition to a regional scale can help target the high impacts of roadway environments and attain urban sustainable development goals like emissions mitigation more efficiently. | <urn:uuid:f353d8dc-6aca-47da-8ba3-c28ff15c31a9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/display.abstractDetail/abstract/9914 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00347-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90448 | 750 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Jesus said this to the church in Ephesus: "Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love" (Revelation 2:4). Just as married couples can lose the romance from their relationship, churches can lose their love. They begin to focus on ritual perfection and doctrinal hairsplitting, and they forget their reason for existence. They lose their first love. Instead of being an organism, Christ's body, they become an organization. Rules, regulations, and rituals replace relationships. What gets lost along the way is the loving spirit Christians should have.
Jesus rejects empty rules and hollow rituals. That's not how he envisioned the church, nor what he will allow his churches to be. The church must be a community of love, characterized by a fervent love of God and of fellow man. It is to be an accepting place, not accepting intentional error, but accepting imperfect people.
If you haven't found the church to be this way, don't give up! There are churches out there who remember their first love and continue to live it. There are Christians who work every day at becoming more like Jesus.
If you are a Christian but have forgotten what you are supposed to be about, it's not too late. Jesus said to these Christians in Revelation 2: "Repent and do the things you did at first" (Revelation 2:5). We can go back to our first love, living out that love in our daily lives. We can replace empty ritual with a fulfilling life of love. We can return to being the body of Christ.
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Bryn Mawr has a lively presence on social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and LinkedIn. These College profiles are considered official College communications and are maintained by the College Communications Office.
Social media tools extend Bryn Mawr’s reach and influence online by connecting and building relationships with and among key audiences. They allow Bryn Mawr to share news from campus and, more importantly, to hear directly from alumnae/i, current and future students, and other members of the broader Bryn Mawr College community about what matters to them. This conversational aspect of social media distinguishes it from other types of institutional communications.
The College’s goals in using social media include:
- Listening to our audiences and learning what they care about.
- Sharing information and news about the College.
- Helping students (future and current) and alumnae/i connect with each other as well as with Bryn Mawr.
- Raising awareness of the Bryn Mawr College by encouraging its audience to share their enthusiasm for the College with members of their social networks.
Want to start an account?
If you are considering starting a social media account on behalf of an office, department, or program of the College, please notify Social Media and Community Manager Diana Campeggio in College Communications office. She will discuss your communication goals with you, offer insight into how social media can contribute to achieving those goals, and advise you on conceiving and implementing a strategy for social media. | <urn:uuid:37a67639-f1a7-4028-812c-a34f13757f05> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.brynmawr.edu/communications/socialmedia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00090-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935601 | 314 | 1.59375 | 2 |
The Bureau of Public Health Engineering (BPHE) enforces federal, state and local water pollution regulations and codes, Houston’s swimming pool ordinance, waste transport vehicle permit ordinance and general sanitation ordinance. It monitors water resources at Lake Houston and in bayous and streams throughout Houston and the Lake Houston watersheds. It responds to citizen complaints concerning water resources and the illegal dumping of drums, oil, liquid and solid waste. In addition, BPHE inspects grease traps, pools, spas, hazardous waste sites, superfund sites, landfills, illegal dumpsites and wastewater treatment plants.
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Online Courses for High School Students
Lincoln University has provided concurrent enrollment opportunities for thousands of high school students in the central Missouri area for over ten years. Early college programs are becoming increasingly popular among high school students. Concurrent enrollment benefits students by preparing them for college through providing an opportunity to experience rigorous college-level coursework, saving time by providing a head start on college credit, and making college more affordable.
We understand the challenges many high schools face when trying to establish dual credit programs at their school, as well as the challenges students face when trying to earn college credit while participating in extra-curricular activities. To attempt to address these challenges, Lincoln University offers online college courses that are open to both high school students and home-schooled students. All online courses will be taught by Lincoln University faculty. The following courses are the Fall 2018 offerings:
ART 100 Introduction to Art (3 credit hours, 1st eight weeks)
ART 100 Introduction to Art (3 credit hours, 2nd eight weeks)
BAD 101 Introduction to Business(3 credit hours)
BAD 250 Personal Finance (3 credit hours)
BIO 103 Principles of Biology (3 credit hours)
CHM 103 Living With Chemistry (3 credit hours, 2nd eight weeks)
CS 105 Business Applications for the Microcomputer (3 credit hours)
HIS 101 World Civilization I (3 credit hours)
MAT 117 Elementary Statistics (3 credit hours)
PEP 200 Foundations of Physical Education and Wellness (3 credit hours)
PSC 203 American National Government (3 credit hours)
SPT 206 Fundamentals of Speech (3 credit hours)
- Students in the 11th and 12th grades with an overall minimun grade point avarage of 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) are automatically eligible for dual enrollment courses.
- Students in the 11th and 12th grades with an overall grade point average between 2.5 and 2.99 (on a 4.0 scale) must provide a signed letter of recommendation from their principal or guidance counselor and provide written permission from a parent or legal guardian.
- Students in the 10th grade must have an overall minimun grade point average of 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) and must provide a signed letter of recommendation from their principle and guidance counselor and provide written permission from a parent or legal guardian.
- Students in the 9th grade must have an overall minimum grade point average or 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale), score in the 90th percentile or above on the ACT or SAT, provide a signed letter of recommendation from their principal and guidance counselor and provide written permission from a parent or legal guardian.
In addition to the above requirements, all students must meet the prerequisites of the specific course(s) in which they wish to enroll.
|MAT 117 Elementary Statistics||ACT Math sub-score of 22 or above|
|SPT 206 Fundamentals of Speech||ENG 101|
The tuition for online dual enrollment classes is $150.00 per credit hour. No additional fees are associated with online dual enrollment; however, students will be responsible for purchasing textbooks for the courses.
Transferability of Credit
All online general education courses will likely transfer to any public post-secondary institution in the state of Missouri. Credit transfer to private institutions is not guaranteed; students are strongly encouraged to contact their prospective institutions to determine their dual credit transfer policy.
Registration for dual enrollment online courses will be through the Division of Educational Innovation and Extended Studies. All students will also need an official transcript to verify their grade point average, and documentation of ACT scores, if applicable.
Class Start Dates
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While COVID-19 ravaged and devastated most of the world, Taiwan was praised and viewed as a model to follow in the way it kept the pandemic at bay, allowing its citizens to largely go about their normal lives unaffected. However, the self-governed island now finds itself in the midst of political turmoil as four critical proposals hang in the balance.
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen found herself in hot water as she struggled to convince the public to veto four proposals that were put to a public decision on Dec. 11.
No. 4 Nuclear power plant
The first proposal Tsai’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has been pushing the public to reject is the reactivation of an unfinished fourth nuclear power plant. The DPP claims the plant is dangerous to public safety and should remain closed.
However, as reported by South China Morning Post, rampant energy shortages have resulted in periodic blackouts across the island. Backers of the proposal claim the blackouts have not only disrupted daily life and businesses, but have also threatened industrial production, particularly the output of big chip companies.
Taiwan is one of the world’s top producers of chips, with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) leading the way as the world’s largest contract manufacturer of integrated circuits. Taiwan’s semiconductor companies have been thrust into the spotlight in recent months as a global chip shortage has crimped the production of cars and electronics, impacting consumer goods.
US and Taiwan Reach New Agreement to Bolster Chip Technology
Tsai’s government maintains that restarting the shuttered nuclear plant could prove disastrous as it is located in an earthquake zone. Furthermore, the DPP claims there is nowhere on the island to safely dispose of hazardous nuclear waste.
The reactor, run by state-owned corporation Taiwan Power Company (Taipower), was decommissioned in May of this year after announcing its permanent closure due to a lack of used fuel storage capacity. The plant, named Guosheng unit 1, had a 40-year operating license due to expire on Dec. 27. However, due to Taiwan’s nuclear-phase out policy and enhanced safety protocols, the plant was forced to shut down months ahead of schedule.
Activists: Tsai breaking environmental protection promise
The second proposal calls for the protection of an algal reef in the northwestern province of Taoyuan where Tsai’s government is aiming to build a liquefied natural gas terminal. Activists claim the LNG terminal could harm various aquatic wildlife and endangered species and accuse the president of going against her promise of protecting the environment. Tsai’s government, however, claims the terminal is vital in ensuring power and irrigation supplies.
The project, which was halted for several years, has a fair chance of passing according to local polls. If passed, the proposal would help achieve the government’s goal of using the LNG facility to boost its current energy production and produce half its total power by 2025. It would also help to supply Taiwan’s semiconductor plants which require vast amounts of energy and water.
“If we can’t build this third LNG terminal, we will really have an electricity supply problem,” Economy Minister Wang Mei-hua told reporters last month.
Ban on American pork and decision on future referendums
The third proposal will ask voters whether or not to reinstate a ban on pork imported from the U.S. and treated with the additive ractopamine, a substance used to promote leanness.
According to the Center for Food Safety, ractopamine is associated with major health problems in food-producing animals, such as “downer” syndrome and severe cardiovascular stress. Furthermore, it has also been linked to heart problems and even poisoning in humans who consume large amounts of it.
SCMP reported that Tsai had lifted the ban in January, citing requests from the U.S. and the need to remove trade restrictions to qualify for membership of regional trade blocs. The main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), has urged the ban to be reinstated on food safety and public health grounds.
Lastly, the public will also decide on whether future referendums should be held at the same time as public office elections. While the KMT says the move would cut costs, Tsai’s government says it would lead to confusion and disorganization.
‘An uphill battle’
Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation chairman You Ying-lung said that despite the Tsai government’s all-out campaign to convince the electorate on these four proposals, survey results showed the administration was fighting an uphill battle.
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David M. Bressoud March, 2009
The voting to which I refer is electronic voting, via clickers, in class. They are usually used in large enrollment classes as a means of monitoring student understanding of basic concepts, of actively engaging students in thinking about the material, and of facilitating small group interaction and peer instruction. Multiple choice questions are posed. Students respond instantaneously and anonymously (relative to their peers), and their responses are displayed in a histogram. This article will survey why one might use clickers, how they can be used, and what we know about their effectiveness.
Most of the evaluation of clicker effectiveness has been based on surveys of student attitudes [1,2,7,8]. Except for complaints about cost, these are overwhelmingly positive. Caldwell at West Virginia Univesity does have evidence that they improve attendance and retention. Crouch and Mazur at Harvard have some comparative information illustrating their effectiveness, but the only large-scale controlled study of which I am aware was conducted at Ohio State in courses on Electricity and Magnetism . It showed that, when clickers are tied to peer instruction, there is a significant improvement in conceptual understanding, an improvement that was considerably more pronounced for female students than for male students. With clickers, male and female students performed at the same level.Without them, males did significantly better.
I also include an annotated bibliography of some of the more interesting recent articles on the use of clickers.
The February issue of Notices contains an article on their use in a calculus class at Northwestern. The first 2009 issue of Science contained two articles, one by Eric Mazur , the popularizer of this technology to facilitate peer instruction, on their use in physics classes at Harvard, the other on their use in an introductory genetics course at the University of Colorado, Boulder .
The Mazur article is a good introduction to the why and how of clickers. His piece in Science explains how he was led to begin using them. Though he is renowned as a lecturer, he was frustrated with the pure lecture format. This culminated in the moment when a student asked him, "How should I answer these questions? According to what you taught me or according to the way I usually think about these things?" That drove home for him the distinction between being able to take what has been presented in class and use it to answer questions, and having a working understanding of the ideas that lie behind what has been presented. The contrast is often much sharper in physics than mathematics because students usually come to physics with preconceived, pre-Newtonian conceptions of physical interaction. But we do see this in mathematics. One simple example is the student who reverts to an assumption of linearity when at a loss of how to proceed with the analysis of a function with which he (or she) is uncomfortable. Another is the example of the student who ties positive slope to increasing quantity, regardless of the context, and therefore has a lot of trouble recognizing that the slope of the derivative of f informs us of the concavity of f, rather than whether the function f itself is increasing or decreasing.
The first reason to use clickers in class is to provide quick feedback of student understanding of such basic concepts. It is interesting, yet not too surprising, that in the survey of student attitudes toward clickers in the Northwestern calculus class, the advantage that was agreed on by the largest fraction of students (84.8%) was that they "[help] the teacher become more aware of student difficulties with the subject matter." Following the lead of the physicists who developed the Force Concept Inventory to reveal student misconceptions about physcial mechanics, various Calculus Concept Inventories have been developed, identifying the basic components of a conceptual understanding of calculus. These can be used with clickers to probe student understanding and to identify weak spots in the conceptual framework that may need to be addressed before moving on to the next piece of mathematics.
The second reason is that using clickers forces students out of the purely passive role of transcribing the instructor's lecture into their notebooks. Professor Mazur identifies this problem when he talks about his experience providing lecture notes for his students. Their reaction was to complain that he was "lecturing straight from [his] lecture notes." This may sound strange until you realize that for most students, transcribing lecture notes is the only thing they know to do in lecture classes. When I surveyed students in a large lecture section of Calculus I at Penn State in Fall, 1993 and asked what they do in class, 95% said that they take notes. It was only 43% of the students that added that they listened, paid attention, watched, tried to understand, or otherwise described an active engagement with the lecture. A representative response was from the student who described what happens in class as, "The prof gives notes and does a few examples. Most students pay attention and try to take notes, but he moves quickly. I usually end up behind and start doodling." The implication is that if one cannot write fast enough to transcribe the lecture, then there is no other way to use that classtime productively.
Clickers engage all of the students and enable them, at least occasionally, to think about the mathematics that has just been presented.The problem is not that students don't want to think about the mathematics. It is that they do not know how. Clicker questions help structure these reflective moments and force students to think about a question enough to be able to make a choice among a variety of answers. In the Northwestern study, 70% of the students agreed with the statement, "I have to think more in classes with clickers than in traditional lecture classes."
The real power of clickers, however, lies in their potential for fostering student interaction. I saw this very dramatically at Macalester. For several years, we ran a large quantitative reasoning class. At least, with 120 students, it was large by Macalester standards.We enlisted faculty from many different disciplines who showed how basic quantiative methods were used in their disciplines. These were polished Power Point presentations with interesting material, but student response was disappointing.Those students who sat in the front half of the room were engaged, ready to ask questions, clearly interested. The other half were not.After a couple of years of trying tweak the topics and presentations, we bought a set of thirty clickers, organized the students at tables, and incorporated clicker questions into each lecture.Students had to discuss the question with their tablemates and decide on a common answer from each table. The whole room would come to life at these clicker breaks, and the interest level shot up as students waited for the denouement.
The calculus classes at Northwestern used a similar format: A question would be presented, students would talk about it and decide on their group's answer, and then use the clicker to provide the group's response.
At other places such as Harvard, the University of Colorado, and Ohio State, clickers are used in a more sophisticated fashion that requires each student to have his or her own clicker. In the Electricity and Magnetism class at Ohio State, they run three-question sequences: The first question is straightforward. Most students answer it correctly. The second question requires an application of this concept in an unfamiliar context. This is more challenging. Each student thinks about it and commits to an answer. Students then talk about the problem in small groups. They each answer the second question a second time, and the instructor deals with any remaining points of confusion. Then there is a third question, again an application of the same concept but in a different context. Again students answer, then discuss, then answer again. Complex as this sounds, less than 20% of class time was spent on these clicker questions.The key is not to give difficult problems, but rather questions that probe student ability to recognize how a basic concept plays out in an unfamiliar context.
The University of Colorado used a less intensive version that began with a challenging question followed by discussion, second attempt at an answer, and then another question that applied the same concept in a different context. For the second question, there was no follow up discussion among the students.The University of Colorado group also collected strong evidence of the importance of peer interaction in the process of student learning .
The Harvard, University of Colorado, and Ohio State methodologies are based on the fact that students do learn from each other. Research at the University of Colorado confirms that this was not just because students learned the right answer from the smartest student in that group. There is a group dynamic that can make the collective smarter than any of the individual members.
There may be some psychological benefit from clickers regardless of how they are used. Students find themselves more connected to the class. But the only significant improvements in student learning that have been documented have tied the use of clickers to peer instruction. Mazur and others have argued quite forcefully that if the technology does not affect the pedagogy, then it has no lasting effect. The real impact comes not directly from the technology but that it is an effective means of structuring small group interactions and holding these groups accountable, even within a large class format.One controlled experiment by Lasry suggests that colored cards can be just as effective. My own experience in classes of 30 students is that this is small enough that circulating among the groups, listening to the student interaction, and then calling on selected individuals from different groups is more effective than clicker, partly because it gives me much more flexibility in deciding when to engage students in small group discussions and how to focus these discussions.
As in every other application of technology that I have encountered, clickers are a tool that can be used well or poorly. Using them well is not easy. The article by Ding et al. suggests how much thought can and should be put into clicker questions. But as faculty are pressed to teach ever larger sections, clickers combined with peer instruction can make a significant difference to student learning.
Bode, M., D. Drane, Y. B.-D. Kolikant, and M. Schuller. 2009. A Clicker Approach to Teaching Calculus. Notices of the AMS. 56:253–256. www.ams.org/notices/200902/rtx090200253p.pdf
This article explains how clickers were used in a calculus classes at Northwestern, gives examples of sample questions, and reports the results of a survey of student attitudes gathered over 3 years from 348 students in six classes. To highlight a few of their findings: 79.0% of the students agreed with the statement, "Using the clickers helps me enjoy this class more than I enjoy a traditional lecture class"; 79.3% agreed that "Discussing clicker questions with other students in the class helps me to understand better the subject matter"; 80.5% agreed that "Team members were actively involved in solving the question"; and 79.2% agreed that "Collaborative work among group members contributed to a better quality solution to th problems."
Boyle, J. T. and D. J. Nicol. Using classroom communication systems to support interaction and discussion in large class settings. www.ph.utexas.edu/~ctalk/bulletin/glasgow2.pdf
A description of the use of clickers and peer instruction in a mechanical engineering class at the University of Strathclyde. Evaluation was via a survey of student attitudes: 74% believed that their understanding was better than it would have been in traditional lectures, 75% said that the clickers helped them to understand the concepts, 91% reported that they had to think more than in a traiditonal class, 95% said that they were more actively engaged than in a traditional class.
Bressoud, D.M. 1994. Student Attiudes in First Semester Calculus. MAA Focus. 14:6–7. www.macalester.edu/~bressoud/pub/StudentAttitudes/StudentAttitudes.pdf
This presents the results of an open-ended survey of students attitudes and perceptions in a large (about 350 students) section of mainstream Calculus I at Penn State in the Fall semester of 1993.
Caldwell, J. E. 2007. Clickers in the Large Classroom: Current Research and Best-Practice Tips. CBE–Life Sciences Education. 6:9–20. www.lifescied.org/cgi/reprint/6/1/9.pdf
A discussion of the use of clickers and peer instruction in biology and college trigonometry at West Virginia University. For two sections of trigonometry taught by the same instructor, one with clickers and the other without, grades were signifcantly better in the clicker section. Comparing sections of introductory Biology with and without clickers, clickers noticeably improved attendance (from 60% to 90%) and retention up to the final exam (from 90% to 95%). There is also a useful discussion of the drawbacks of clickers including loss of lecture time, technical problems, and cost.
Crouch, C. H. and E. Mazur. 2001. Peer Instruction: Ten years of experience and results. American Journal of Physics. 69:970–977. web.mit.edu/jbelcher/www/TEALref/Crouch_Mazur.pdf
This is primarily an explanation of how clickers and peer instruction have been implemented in physics classes at Harvard. Primary evidence for their effectiveness is a steady improvement in scores on both conceptual and quantitative questions over the ten years that the program had been in effect. There also was a comparison of a single quantitative question between a traditionally taught class in 1999 and a class taught in 2000 using peer instruction. Students in the peer instruction class did considerably better.
Ding, L., N. W. Reay, A Lee, and L. Bao. 2009 (in press). Are we asking the right questions? Validating clicker question sequences through student interviews. American Journal of Physics.
A discussion of the analysis and validation of clicker questions.
Draper, S. W. and M. I. Brown. 2004. Increasing interactivity in lectures using an electronic voting system. Journal of Computer Assited Learning. 20:81–94. www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~steve/ilig/papers/draperbrown.pdf
An account of the use of clickers and peer instruction at the University of Glasgow in a variety of classes: psychology, computer science, medicine, dental science, veterinary science, biology, philosophy, and statistics. Summative evaluation was based on student perception of whether they had benefited from the use of clickers. Most students either "definitely benefited" or considered that there was a net benefit. Only in philosophy did the number of students who were neutral or negative come close to 50%.
Elliott, C. 2003. Using a personal response system in Economics teaching. International Review of Economics Education. 1:80–86. www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/iree/i1/elliott.htm
An account of the use of clickers in a microeconomics class at the University of Lancaster, though apparently without peer instruction through class discussion of answers. Evaluation was conducted by a survey of student attitudes. Students were positive about the experience.
Lasry, N. 2008. Clickers or Flashcards: Is There Really a Difference?. The Physics Teacher. 46:242–244. scitation.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTEAH-ft/vol_46/iss_4/242_1.html
The author compared two sections of a mechanics class, one of which used clickers and other used colored cards to respond to the "clicker questions." Both groups used the model of peer instruction. There was no significant difference in their improvement on concept questions.
Mazur, E. 2009. Farewell, Lecture? Science. 2 January. 323:50–51. sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/323/5910/50
A general description of why clickers help and how they can be used to greatest effect by the Harvard physics professor who originated the clicker-based pedagogy.
Smith, M. K., W. B. Wood, W. K. Adams, C. Wiemen, J. K. Knight, N. Guild, and T. T. Su. 2009. Why Peer Discussion Improves Student Performance on In-Class Concept Questions. Science. 2 January. 323:122–124. www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/323/5910/122
A study of clickers in an introductory genetics class at the University of Colorado, Boulder that shows that group discussion does improve conceptual understanding. Students were asked to respond to a question, given an opportunity to discuss it in small groups, asked a second time to answer it, and then given a parallel question, all before getting any feedback from the instructor.Of those who answered incorrectly the first time, 78% answered the parallel question correctly. The conclusion is that students learn from peer discussion, and it is an important component of the effective use of clickers.
Reay, N. W., P. Li, and L. Bao. 2008. Testing a new voting machine question methodology. American Journal of Physics. 76:171–178. link.aip.org/link/?AJPIAS/76/171/1
This is the only large-scale comparative study of the effectiveness of clickers and peer instruction of which I am aware, conducted at Ohio State in classes in Electricity and Magnetism.For each of three consecutive semesters, one section was taught with clickers and one without. Students were given common pre- and post-tests of concept questions. In the first two quarters, less than 20% of the time in the clicker sections was spent on clicker questions. In the third quarter, this rose to 50%. In the first two quarters, students in the clicker sections showed a considerably greater gain in understanding of the concept questions. The gain was much less pronounced in the third quarter. This may be because there was a greater discepancy in their pre-test scores: Students in the clicker section in the third quarter did much better on the pre-test than their counterparts in the non-clicker section. Or, the less significant advantage may be because clickers were used much more extensively than in other quarters, suggesting that there may be an optimal amount of time to be spent on clicker questions. For all three quarters, being in the clicker section had a much more pronounced benefit for female students than for male students.
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It was Freud who made great play on this topic; we will in this setting revert to him. He wanted to relate the human mind to something deviously, dubiously or subterraneanly controlled from strange sources (not just pathological cases, but all minds, with minds limited to a peak with man). We have already seen that if this were so, then the mind (of Freud etc.) which says so has the same defect, which will automatically destroy in advance of any other thought, the Freudian theory to that effect. The objectivity of the thought of the theorist (say here Freud) is destroyed by his own theory, ensuring at once the invalidation of this psychology from its own heartland. Delving into our minds qua human, means allowing us to delve into his mind qua human, with the same "I really know" technique; or more realistically, with the same sense of subjectivistic invalidation. If he is right, then he is wrong...
This sort of theory 'can't win': it destroys itself before it can destroy anything else. However magnificent your 'gun', if it blows up in your face, you cannot use it.
Now just so is this prescription of pleasure. If you knew that these poor, deluded human minds were really motivated and activated by pleasure as the dominant, rancidly dismissing all other thoughts, then it is as easy for your victims to allege that if you were right, you would be wrong. The very weary-seeming cynicism which tiredly tasks man so, is so tasked itself; and the very sophisticated sounding assurance which knowingly dismisses all protest, is in advance dismissed itself; if men are wrong in thinking they are not so, then the theorist, once again, is just as invalid in making the theory itself, which must be dismissed just as radically, as it would lead him to dismiss contrary views. His distinction is very simple, and is this: he invalidates himself. Others may have no need to do so; and where logically worthy of thought, do not invalidate themselves in any similar wary.
In fact, just like the psychologies themselves, those say of Jung and Adler and Freud and so on, minds differ in their operative dynamics. For one person, sacrifice is brought to bear out of love; and for another, someone is sacrificed because of hate. Any endeavour to suppress or universalise the data (especially by the god-like illusion of 'I know it all') is non-scientific, and any endeavour to invalidate the minds which speak the data which don't fit into some theory or other, will do the same for the mind which says so, from its own a priori principles.
Very refreshing is a case like the world-famous Dr Spock, who gave advice to a generation on how to bring up children. Here one thinker differs from himself, when younger, to a vast extent, on becoming older ... and on observing the results which he finds to accompany that.
Some even hold that people ought to seek pleasure, or to 'avoid repression' - in the latter case, like Dr Spock in his earlier stance. Not so in his later awakening, when he surveyed with small pleasure the consequences of such approaches. Character is not the same as self-will; and self-control is not the same as repression.
What then 'ought' to be done ? We must consider the rather obvious fact that to establish 'ought' we cannot use merely descriptive techniques. 'Ought' cannot be wrought from mere observation. From description, one can merely see what is the case; from this, one cannot prescribe or lay down what we ought to do. A situation per se does not of itself create an obligation.
For this, values must be found; and for these to be objective, beyond the perimeters and parameters of relativity, conditioning and desire, one needs an absolute, access to an absolute (indeed a personal absolute would be needed, is needed to communicate effectively through to us); and this absolute for the same reason, and to be objective, cannot be of one's own making. Further, it cannot be merely preferred. If it were, then one would still have to say: I prefer this or that for you, or that you do this or that. It would not create the circumstance that one ought to do it.
It is God who satisfies this criterion; and on such a basis, perfectly logically, depending on the soundness or otherwise of the belief in the One concerned (religions do not become automatically right because they are religious! - or wrong), prescription or obligation is then possible logically. When such a sound belief is exercised, then a student is being consistent, a virtue all too uncommon academically.
The finite cannot comprehend the infinite, or replace divine communication with hypothesis in such areas, and events do not create obligations or constitute ideals.
The only self-validating God, evidentially, and hence with academic relevance, is that of Christian theism; this we saw in Chapter 1 and review in Chapter 10; adding to the verification in Chapter 5, the general problem-saving power of the truth, uniquely belonging to it in the way shown, and in Chapters 8 and 9, in the area of prophecy, set forth in scripture as a God-specifying signal, in the setting.
If now you were 'Bruce Smith' and you chose to be called 'Calibre Smith', then the joy of this enlargement of your character through a nickname or given name from society, might be readily understood.
If however your 'society' name were: Stinker Smith, one might wonder at your using it, surmising your weakness of character or being terrorised or whatever.
In the case of using the term 'capitalism', for something which at least has gone to some quite extraordinary lengths to help real measures of free enterprise filter through, from the heavy taxes to the endued citizens, for indeed our own economic system: this is similarly rather amazing.
Is it some sort of social masochism ? of pandering to powers-that-be in the hope that this self-condemnation will assist their ready acceptance of our society ? Perhaps this would be on the part of such marvels of moral magnitude and brotherly love as the 'socialists' of Russia, or perhaps now more appositely, those of China, whose intense brotherly love erupted at Tiananmen.
Or is it merely a flatheaded servile submission to decades of stringent and hypocritical propaganda, coming not merely from avowed Communists and fellow-travellers, but from academically drugged denizens of the scholarly deep ?
Of course some have capital, as they do in Russia, if dachas by the Black Sea are more than... communal establishments, and cars have any personal ownership; as one hears to be the case. True also Russia is now seemingly scampering pell-mell towards forms of possession on an individual basis, as China did earlier when she sought the expertise and technology, not to say the money of the West. (Surprising it is still there, for such a bad system being shown the way by such economic paragons.)
Some in this land have lots of capital, and I for one would argue that there is far too easy an access to large borrowings of it from Banks on the part of scarcely qualified entrepreneurs during these last few years of the ... current brand of Labour government control. What the next brand of Liberals may do, may remain to be seen.
Still, the fact remains that here there are comparatively enormous freedoms to earn, accumulate and expend, to develop initiative in small and at times, in large scales; and this applies extensively to the choice of a job, a university career (much supported by the Government), even if you are against the government's sometimes outrageous religious activities. Your labour and your land and your entrepreneurial ability and your money (call it 'capital' if you will), and any means of production you may care to own or extend (think of it as 'money' if you will: you are merely valuing it, though it is not literally money - this is what you use for purchase of it)... all these things you may dispose, with comparative freedom; using if you will, enterprise in the process.
You might as well call it a labourist system, or a landist system, or an entrepreneurial system... it is all there; some have more talents, land and entrepreneurial ability, but - within the facts of freedom to will your property to others or give it, and so on - the significant distinguishing point is the relative freedom of action. It could be improved, and as Communism has shown so eloquently, it could be drastically reduced. How absurd therefore to use Communism's term of abuse, its 'Stinker' epithet, when it has State monopoly, at its worst in everything humanly available.
Communist monopoly is one including that of capital, very largely, while we believe in seeking means of enabling the use of the various means of production, neither compulsively by the State nor exclusively by the strong, but with considerable liberty.
A desire for liberty is not served by a servile surrender of fact to an acutely compulsive and highly monopolistic society, like that that follows in the train of the Communist system. Managerial entrepreneurship in the abuse of terminology may be easier for Communists to perform in the relative freedom of our nation; but it is not a productive exercise, where truth is a criterion.
If a group of private parties wish to operate individually, that is free enterprise; if they wish to operate in the general interest, in some fashions, as bridges or defence, that too may be in the spirit of free enterprise. Thus they may elect some people to do this general work, which appeals to them as better done by those specialising on their behalf, in these general areas. They might therefore commission them to operate like a corporation with considerable freedom; and this indeed often happens in free enterprise. It could be that they give them directions, like a business, or direct them to fulfil specifications in their own way.
Whatever method be chosen, there is ample scope for this generalised, public aspect of a free enterprise system; which ought not to be confused with private enterprise, in that public bonding to perform generally needed tasks is as much a display of enterprise and initiative, as are more individualised works.
What is private is privately done; what is joint, jointly; what is public, publicly - in a system where the capacity of individuals not to be overmastered by some 'State' is held important; and where the capacity of individuals to study jointly, general and public matters, and to take steps for their study and resolution, is also held important.
Slavery to a system, which socialism aids by eroding private safeguards and giving the 'State' somewhat ultra-mundane powers, and which communism performs, is antithetical to enterprise within a system, designed to allow it. Nor is there any reason, as elsewhere shown, why private, individual or enterprising people should be 'selfish' any more than 'State' people should be. Private power, State power, it has all been abused. It is not the amount or size of the thing which determines its morals, but those in it. In history, morals and men have changed this way and that, and governments likewise.
Thus public works are no denial of free enterprise: it is simply a matter of how and why and on whose behalf they are done; or of how many political equivalents of what legally is called a 'fictitious person' are given monopolistic powers which, given error, can become first an erosion, then a dilution, then a deluge to sweep away restraint and assault godliness. It is accordingly notable how in history, 'Caesar' so often finds Christ's power with the individual and the Church intolerable, backing this feeling with force. (The final 'Caesar' Biblically predicted - Daniel 7, II Thessalonians, Revelation 17 - will have this distinctive, that the world will be his scope, not an empire within it. The second and here highly relevant part of the prediction to be noted is this: he will start very small...)
Freedom, in short, may be personal, social, group or national. It is not bulk which determines its kind, but the spirit back of it.
2 Isaiah 61:3 shows a supernatural process the reverse of this. It provides instead, surpassing renovation in terms of re-creation:
To appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He might be glorified.The reverse procedure - so dismally depicted by Bloom, with no small need - is this:
Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty, you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I will cast you to the ground ..." (Ezekiel 28:15-17). . . This has grave national implications; nor do these stop with America.3 Pleasure.While on this topic, let us add a point of discrimination at the theological level for the sake of clarity of definition of our topic.
Does Job fear God for nought ? Satan exclaimed in his conversation with the Lord, in Job. The implication, in view of the statements following, is that Job had a good deal and finding none better, stuck to it! The Lord covered the case - the challenge, which can be made in principle, whoever indulges in it - by allowing Satan to put Job to the test so that any creaky self-seeking, hidden in the inward joints of his mind, could be discovered.
Job - despite some difficulties and
wanderings - at length, as indeed at the very first, came out with solid
spirituality in these words:
i) ''The Lord gave, the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord,'' said the trusting Job (1:21), who found goodness in the Lord such as inspired devotion, rather than devious counting; and
ii) ''I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last upon the earth; and after my skin is destroyed, this I know, that in my flesh shall I see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another'' (19:25).
While Job required correction, he still, even when feeling that injustice was getting away with things, believed God in his ultimate crisis, and made personal trust in the Lord, in piety, the ultimate over personal satisfaction, real or imagined, current or future.
The truth is the criterion, not the experience, not the hedonistic units: that is, imaginary units that could - one might for sport imagine - be measured, showing how much pleasurable self-satisfaction one was gaining. The sybarite, incidentally, is the indulgent fancier of pleasures, while the hedonist simply wants to maximise pleasure, of whatever kind. The first appears corrupt even in experience; the second, only in morals.
Corrupt! in morals ? the hedonist ? What then of those who say: If God will only give me now or then, sooner or later, in this world or the next more pleasure than pain, a better pleasure-pain mix than anything or anyone else will, good enough! Are such views irrelevant to Christianity ? Of course, but not irrelevant to all those who use the name. Some seem perhaps pre-occupied with the celestial interest-rate, as if to say: "Well, I am deferring such a lot of nice pleasurable things now, and hoping to gain more in the next life, so that on the whole, this is the most excellent way, this is spiritual entrepreneurship at its best!"
Quite apart from the small problem of making qualitative assessments of different pleasures, and analysing out what is pleasure, joy and happiness, self-fulfilment or aesthetic resultant, and making intensity specifications to allow comparison, which things pre-suppose all knowledge, and knowledge far past what is employed in practice: there is nothing remotely like this for the Christian. It is even impossible, strictly, for anyone at all of this race. We return then to the spiritual aspect. Is such a thing a virtual aim, for the Christian ? Was not the test of Job to demonstrate the contrary!
But let us test this: Christians must
be like Christ in spirit (Ephesians 5:1-2). Did He want a pleasure-pain
surplus ? The answer is not unclear. He so loved, He who is the
word and the expression of God who so loved, came and experienced an illimitable
horror in feeling forsaken by His intimate, infinite divine Father, with
whom from everlasting (Micah 5:1-3, John 17:5, 1:1- 14, I John 1:1-5, John
17:26, 13:1, 15:9), He had been in company. To the end, sharing and exposing
His love, when bearing in love, the sins of those who should come to Him,
He cried (Matthew 26:46, Psalm 22:1):
"My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me!"
This He did just as the Scripture showed He would do, for on Him would fall the sin of all who believed in Him (Isaiah 53:3-6), whom He would heal, bearing this worst of diseases, sin to the very death, so that they might be free (John 8:32-36, Galatians 3:10-13, 1 Peter 2:22-24, 11 Corinthians 5:19-21).
Now if He had omitted this little jaunt, as it were, what then ? Then, if He had not suffered, had declined to suffer, felt unmoved to suffer this, what then ? Then He would not have suffered such pangs and embroiling shame, the shame that sin always confers, nor suffered it as bearing judgment on it. Then, being intrinsically joyous (John 15:11, 16:22, Isaiah 35:10, Nehemiah 8:10, Proverbs 8:30-31), this being a fruit also of the Spirit of God (Galatians 5:22), He would have had less pain, while still utterly felicitous. Nor does it avail to say there could have been a diminution of joy, in that love desires the welfare of its own; for that merely shows the love, not pleasure, as the criterion; a love willing to dispense with joy for the sake of the fulfilment of the needs of its own. God is such that suffering was actively chosen before pleasure to secure the needs of His people, of anyone who would receive Him. As Paul puts it in Romans 15:1-3, Christ did not please Himself:
also did not please Himself;
but, as it is written,
The reproaches of those who reproached Thee, fell upon me."
If God's nature were such that pleasure was to be maximised (and He has no constraints but is as He pleases), then no pain, let alone anguished grief would be His; simply nothing could cause it to be! Expressly the contrary is the case: God so loved the world that He gave... and in giving, elected to suffer that anguish which led to the joy, everlastingly enmeshed in the hearts of His children, that would be given for those delivered, to whom also in love He first provided the freedom which permitted such joy. Thus: "The ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away."
But whose joy was this ? My joy, He said (John 15:11). How did they receive it ? He so acted as to confer it (John 17:13, 16:24).
Are Christians expected to maximise pleasure in this-world-plus-the-next, then ? Hardly. What of this ? "I am crucified with Christ ?" Is crucifixion pleasurable ? Yet it is the continual state of Paul (the perfect tense is used, meaning in a continuing state following an initial action - that is, becoming a Christian).
How relevant is pleasure to a person being crucified ? It is a different language. A different sphere is its home! Thus Paul in Romans 15 tells us that we are not to please ourselves. Life is lived not by using our pleasure-pain criteria, but by God's desires. To fulfil His will is the acme. Now His desires are not the same as ours; so that there is no relevance for the Christian in fulfilling his own desires, his own values (as distinct from those of God).
Hence there is not even a standard of reference for maximising his own pleasure, his own satisfaction, for it is another person whose standards, whose will, whose wishes, whose values are the summit. Hence any social, economic or psychological view (really only a philosophy - statistics do not make men, merely reflect them - if accurate!), that has all men maximise either pleasure or satisfaction, is merely a false generalisation, omitting all consistent Christians, all Christians in principle, assuming we define Christian (as done in detail in Chapter 7, Section 3 A infra) as the Bible does. Such a pagan generalisation simply omits, for the Christians, the character of their living, when the very endeavour is to generalise on that topic.
Hence what is aptly called theological hedonism (the view that, expressed in a theological setting, would look for the maximisation of pleasure) is not a Christian perspective; and those who would act on it, tend to become a sub-species of hedonists! One must of course, in all charity, make allowance for the difference between what some say (failing in their analysis), and what they do! However, in the end, Christians are a sub-species of no philosophical '-ism' of man, but are first, fully, formally, and functionally, citizens of the kingdom of Heaven (Philippians 3:20): "for our citizenship is in Heaven from which we also eagerly wait for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ who will transform our body..."
You notice the sense of spiritual unity: forms changing, facts the same. It does not say our citizenship will be, but is! The division is categorical and it is also present. It affects the spirit of the person concerned, and all the perspective, including the principle pleasure, which as a category, is a result, not a cause of conduct.
4 Put conversely:
a bad pleasure is by no means a contradiction in terms.
We are not referring to the concept of childish satisfaction from little trains, but something nearer to trains of thought, the impact of which however can be dangerously childish. Cast in the modish form of models (and 'models' can be helpful, if used legitimately), these can oppress, confuse or misdirect the budding academic, or be used as an assault weapon on the unwary student.
First there is the neutral model. In this, the sociologist (philosopher, whatever it may be) states: 'I am trying to be neutral, but you, O student, are not. This will not do and you must be marked down if you do not relent and 'see' it my way, at least as an ideal; or move in this direction commendably...' Thus a student may give reasons for presenting a religious approach on a topic, and be met with this all-purpose, all-weather assault weapon.
It has advantages for the user: it is easily adapted and requires no research.
Answer: 'To be 'value-free' is to value this (state of mind that is desired, or imagined), since it is selected to be valued; and that involves the dogma that specific value systems claiming to be uniquely correct, are in fact unacceptable a priori, in their claim. This in turn would appear to be every bit as dogmatic as any other claim, with the difference that this particular religious variant - the 'value-free', is both misnamed and unevidenced.'
(As we saw earlier, it is also irrational as a prong of relativism: How can it both be that there is no absolute truth, and yet that one is able to announce the truth that relativity is true ?)
'Let us put it differently. If someone elects to disbelieve in an objective supernatural for whatever personal reasons, one to whom there is access, and if such a person conceives him/herself to be a cultural product, the concept of neutrality seems obscure. How is a product neutral ? Do not its dynamic (or for that matter static) forces of 'propagation', biological, cultural, moral, ethical and so forth, make it tilted . . . away from what it could have been to what it is? On this basis, it is a kaleidoscopic convoy of meaninglessness, relative to objective truth.
'A product without such access to the supernatural: it is neutral - from what ? With such social bases operative upon it ? Where is the basis for asserting anything to be true from something wedged meaninglessly into a system of dynamic forces, as constitute the character of its determinate life ? Can a cog draw up diagrams, or read and present them with engineering objectivity and perspective ? Can an enclosed, conditioned participant be an impartial observer of the forces moulding it (doing so from an 'outside' viewpoint or station, which is not there) ? Can it 'see' with objectivity the process by which it is impressed into being what it is ? How can you present the truth if you can't find it; and if you have it, where did you get it! And if you cannot get it, how present it!! As C.S. Lewis, the noted Cambridge scholar muses: Can we expect smoke curls from his armchair to obey the laws of physics and chemistry ? Yes, but not to deliver lectures on the topic...'
It is more than humorous how men delude themselves into using God's premises, while insisting that neither is He there, nor are such premises there, nor can anyone go there. Only by being there, could they know; and knowing, they would have to say that they are there. As always, to be able to affirm such things objectively, one must affirm God: or to be able to deny God, one must first constantly affirm Him. This, as has been shown, is merely one of the intrinsic validations and verifications of the truth the Bible affirms; nonsense results in the denial of such things. The additional pre-requisite of knowledge, as noted before, is also this: that one know God. This is decidedly ... a problem for those who refuse to acknowledge Him.
Again the academic might question: Is your religion the only right one! How angry is the overtone, how much pride is imputed, and how near to failure the Christian student may feel. But what may be said ?
Answer: 'First your relativistic assumption - by virtue of which you assume it either bad or appallingly so, in some academic or moral or psychological or sociological or maybe purely personal way - this, as already shown, is not possibly correct. Why then should I not hold to a system of beliefs, which are gloriously and demonstrably and immensely consistent, in which nothing, quite uniquely over against other systems, yes nothing is to be found amiss logically ? What is this ?
'Are you, an academic assaulting my religion because yours is not logical, and mine is ? Or if it is not your religion which is driving you to this, then substitute 'philosophy', or whatever compartment or compartments of opinion are the basis for the assault: but the question remains.'
Again, it might be put by an academic: 'Do you not understand models! Do you not realise that the acceptable (venerable, delightful... whatever is the jargon) model has religion as a part of culture, and that therefore all religion is derivative, dependent, conditioned and historically wholly relativised ? It cannot (must not - one of the social commandments of the social gods currently being processed...) be asserted just now.'
Now the more sharing sort of lecturer might proceed.
'That sort of thing might have been all right once, but now we are having a new, wholly automated religion with power steering, which we manipulate, and all must buy it. You must be part of your culture!'
Answer: 'Yes, I understand models as an academic picturing or depiction, having zero logical validity as such, but needing to be established point by point from evidence and logic, before being implemented at all. They can be expressive and perhaps manipulative devices, except rigorously well-grounded; but I do not intend to be manipulated by any device.
'First establish the rationality of your device, and then I will heed it. As I do not worship the Community (which in any case is obviously mis-named, and is a disunity), I do not care for its gods. I worship the logically required God whose words, by definition, are not culturally conditioned; though they may be expressed with references to a particular culture, without being either bound or founded on it.
'Is a concept of social interaction with symbols - words - adequate for the Maker of man and indirectly, of society ? Is it adequate for One whose laws are determinate and do not await human enactment ? The creation itself (*1) is an input, and divine words addressed to man in it, are another; and neither really make themselves. Our power to communicate and receive communication is not the same as a power to invent ourselves (no scientist has done it, even with the example in front of him), or to tell God what to say, as a cultural component of His own creation.
'Hence your 'model' is not only non-neutral, but slanted against the religion of hundreds of millions, and your approach is merely indoctrinative, with an implicit religion(:>*2) of your own, though, sad to see, you do not seem to realise it to be in that category. As before, this religion has no rational grounds, and is against all rational possibility, so that I do not share it; and even if it is a philosophy, the question must arise of its susceptibility to charges of surreptitious religious discrimination.
'However, since in any case it applies to my religion, it would seem that this might apply. To be sure, in S.A. as distinct from Victoria, it might be that we are not wholly Australian, and do not have the freedom of religion which, in the Australian constitution, is so clearly approved by the terminology of that section and its highly value-making terms relative to freedom in this sphere. Whether or not we still have freedom of religion, however, I could not on academic grounds accept such a theory, though I am happy to argue against it, if you wish - more frankly - to expose it.'
Very much in the way Bloom indicated (pp. 360 ff. supra), the spiritual may be virtually outlawed as a topic, or subject to reduction: both illogically and compulsively, in defiance of the scope of the evidence and the demands of reason.
In fact, Bloom indicates that one might expect in certain tertiary studies to find the Bible to be used as base for "scientific" analysis (his commas)... "to show how 'sacred' books are put together, and that they are not what they claim to be... Or else the Bible is used in courses in comparative religion as one expression of the need for the 'sacred' and as a contribution to the very modern, very scientific study of the structure of myths."
The satire is both vigorous and living in this splendid passage (*3); and more than both, it is deserved. (Cf. p. 374, op.cit..)
The Ebla materials include what appears to be a statement on creation not unlike that found in Genesis (incidentally, perhaps suggestive of Wiseman's view of ancient background materials used by Moses, as detailed in his New Discoveries In Babylonia About Genesis). Complaints against cultural backgrounds, as not fitting Biblical dates, look more than foolish. The mot juste is 'obsessive' though 'obstructionist' would do. The cultural norms and phases of those times, revealed in the Bible, are so adroitly confirmed both from Hammurabi's time (in Babylon), and Ebla (in Syria); and in the time of the Canaanite labourers near Sinai, before Moses, as well as at Tell-el-Amarna, with its incessant official communications about invasion of the area which was taken by the Jews; at Ras Shamra with its exposure of the corruption of the Canaanites whom God sent Joshua to judge, and so forth ... that it is a marvel that even dedicated unbelief dares to speak any more at all, in this field.
But then it does: for when is a divorcee ever done in her scolding! The trend is there.
What is it ? It is this. The creature, with his programmed systems alive and alight, attributes 'sacredness' to his own productions, and ignores the source of his power to construct (or misconstruct), to mini-create and to err, to have a responsibility correlative to this freedom, and to have a body written in language which embodies a brilliance beyond his thoughts... In 'seeing' this blindly, he continues to use a brilliance which, though less, is both akin to it, and gained by the operation of an instrument which he did not create. To do that is to live a myth.
But what a myth it is! All these multiplied billions of deft connections of cells, individually with the significance of highly organised cities, have no source but a 'chance' which has laws it could not cause in the first place, and which, though wholly unintelligent, constructs the most intelligent designs ever inspected on earth, leaving behind the greatest intelligence of man in the process... which does this with a language of the most concentrated and constant character, in what is to man still an unachievably minute form, while building ever anew the same prodigious constructions by a copying mechanism we have no way of paralleling. All this moreover is expressed in all living cells, with the direction of the code of one sole language... each human body living cell having the whole plan inscribed, as if for good measure, or an architect's signature. Exhausted, the myth looks away, drooling that all the laws underlying all of this have no cause. No law has any cause; they just stick around.
If this is not a myth, I would not know one. It has all the objective criteria of myth, such as self-contradiction, illusion, irrationality, desire and defective ramblings without rigour. Building on all that is now known, it despises what is known, ignoring every basic logical premiss.
The myth maker par excellence, perhaps surpassing all the former races and times in the scope of his unsophisticated verbal grandeurs, is this twentieth century man. This maestro, with his increasing technology is so advanced that he here denies everything he has ever seen, flouts the way all things are observable to proceed; and based on nothing, in torpid oblivion of reason, he proceeds to devise and cause to arise for himself, something from which everything has come, itself squarely - if self-effacingly, based on nothing. Here is inadequacy idolatrised.
The irrational virulence and absurd popularity of this myth together attest that style of degeneration, departure from the faith, that turning to fables, noted earlier as a verification of specific scriptural predictions (such as II Timothy 3, and 4 and II Thessalonians 2, Matthew 24). It is worth stressing that the other criteria Biblically predicted for the end of this Age are likewise simultaneously coming to pass; and that these things await us in Chapters 8 and 9 infra, where they are seen to be elaborately satisfied. Turned aside to fables is the verdict of the Bible on this time, and this in full knowledge, as Daniel 12 predicted, that knowledge would increase: something predicted for the same period. The great breadth and extreme shallows that would occur together are indeed noted; and are indeed visible at this day... Myths?
What world-sitting-on-a-turtle is worse than this very modern myth! What it lacks in subtlety, it gains in assurance.
Myths, yes, but nothing can compare with the myths of atheism and the mimicries of agnosticism (*4), whereas truth, this is as we have shown, the prerogative of God, and His power to communicate is seen not least in His power to make communication units so vastly programmed, and yet so subtly free, as we are. Myths? Yes these there are, like the myth that this God has seen the ruthless folly of lies, deceit, injustice, murders, genocide, myth-making caricatures of His name and even at times in His name, and has done nothing about it, has not communicated so much as a "Whoa!".
There now, that is a myth to make the child's spine creep. Myths ? Yes such myths as this: That God did not make it clear what He wanted, and what it was He said, or that He did not send what it took to get what He wanted. Myths ? Yes, such as this: That Jesus Christ was not deity and yet was incapable of being successfully criticised and effectively confronted by brilliant and trained men with maximal motives, securely entrenched and surrounded by force, even when He claimed to be God Almighty; or that the people of that time were oafs barely able to think, and so failed to handle it, whereas as Hammurabi and Ebla and the ancient writings showed, in fact, man had a brilliance and the subtlety then, and long before. In what fields ? It is seen in law, imagination and commerce; while involved mathematics is displayed.
In communication and expression, man had capacities long before God sent Christ, which in subtlety and strength challenge the intellect of modern man. We have been at school longer, ever amassing; but the minds are the same. (I could wish for a congregation which would follow sermons of the complexity and challenge of those of Chrysostom, in the early part of the first millenium after Christ.)
What a lordly myth-making society modern man has become. Or if you want myths, take this of His disciples: that they forsook all because they believed nothing, and that they lost their lives to defend a pretence in order to reach hell for deceit, after suffering or torture on earth; or that they practised folly with an outlaw, when the necessary evidence required by the Bible for His authentication as the claimed Messiah, was clearly lacking, and all this despite their overpowering evidences of spiritual passion and the stakes for fraud.
Or again of His disciples, this: that His stalwart followers did not bother about the scriptural identikit, by which the Messiah was to be known, the predictions and requirements showing that He must perform miraculous healings... and just to finish it off, studiously and continually disregarded all thought that He must physically rise* from the dead, and His flesh not see corruption, or rot - Psalms 16, 22, and Isaiah 35 - after being fatally pierced; this small thing to be accomplished in 3 days. This He also personally declared repeatedly, like a supernatural Houdini, dealing not with difficulties, but with death. (* Points 13-15, p. 760; pp. 781, 788; 931-943; Ch. 6 infra.)
What then is the spurious, the furious flirtation with fancy ? How are they viewed ? Testing for heaven and hell was irrelevant; knowledge was unnecessary; they were merely engaging in lies to focus the resurrection, just as they did not bother about the fact, although more strenuous about this action and fact than any counter-movement, and against all challenge, whether from within (duly met by Christ) or from without. Liars they met hell without flinching, at the hand of the outraged God of truth! So runs the tale, but in fact, they were citing the prophecies triumphantly fulfilled as always, and taunting the murderous priests, they directly charged them with murder, and acquainted them with a resurrection so appalling to the murderers, that all they could do was beat them, or seek to leave them thunder-struck with fear. Fear ? It was as present as in a war-horse charging! (Acts 2-4). They knew what Christ could do with the dead by their own observation; when He did it again although Himself dead, His Father countervailing the rot, it was but the summit of the seen.
How arrogant can modern man become in his arrant myth-making! That, physical resurrection is really hard to do, especially after crucifixion. Try it some time if you have the mind; and are willing to be experimental; but make your will. As I believe British Prime Minister, Gladstone put it: If you want to found a new religion, just get yourself crucified and rise (according to prediction) in 3 days. It would help if the prediction had been out, specifying the rest of your identikit, for a few thousand years and, as we shall see in Chapter 9, the period of history in which this was to be done was also very precisely predicted, from hundreds of years before.
Myths? Yes these, society's current cultural gods in their framework, these are myths: but Christ is irrevocably rationally attested. He showed Himself the living laboratory, deity Himself who sacrificed His body, but not His truth; One not merely unmoulded by the conditions of culture, but directing the very history of culture, according to scriptures He endorsed, or words He provided, meeting all criteria of evidence, reason and morals, and handling contemporary and coming history as though it were His obedient child.
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What gives NASA the right to play Battleship with the USA?
“Uh yeah… we’re pretty sure the UARS satellite will fall in California… or possibly in Nebraska. Maybe. What we can assure you is that it will crash somewhere between Canada and South America. Oh, and that the path of debris will be about 500-miles long.”
B9. D11. J18. You sunk my neighborhood!
“NASA claims the odds are still likely that the satellite will hit the ocean, and even if it were to re-enter over land, it’s highly unlikely to hit people or cause any significant property damage. Although, if you were to be hit by one of the larger of the twenty-six chunks expected to survive re-entry (the largest of which is estimated to be about three-hundred pounds), it’s safe to say UARScrewed.
“According to SPACE.com, the UARS craft is one of the largest to fall back to earth in quite some time; however the occurrence is not exactly rare. About 400 artifacts take the plunge every year. In fact, the problem of “space junk” has reached critical mass. NASA is currently tracking 22,000 pieces of it that are larger than four-inches, and the problem is only growing as objects in the planet’s orbit collide, making many more smaller pieces.
“Because conditions in the atmosphere change so rapidly, it’s difficult to predict where UARS will fall with any certainty until about two hours before re-entry, but if you’re interested in tracking the satellite’s whereabouts, NASA has set up a mission page to allow people to do just that. As of right now, they’re updating weekly, but as the event nears, they will update it daily, and then hourly.
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Proximate Approaches and Dietetic Comparison of Bt and Non Bt (Basmati) Rice Samples
Ayesha Alam*, Faiza Anum, Khajista Jabeen, Zeeshan Javed, Saira Khan, Shoaib Kabir and Shahid Raza
Trend of GM crops has drastically amplified since couple of years. Global production status has shown that over 52 million ha in urban areas is comprised of GM crops. Apart from economic importance and future demands, there is a huge concern regarding nutritional content of genetically engineered plants. Amongst all, Bt rice is well-known as a domestic cereal and its increased demand has forced to enhance the rice production. Pest attack has reduced rice production that is why Bacillus thuringiensis variety of rice has been introduced. The current research has been conducted to equate dietetic measures of Non Bt basmati with Bt variety that both are cultivated in Pakistan’s agricultural land. Proposed protocol for proximate analysis was AOAC method where statistically analyzed studied parameters (fat, fiber, ash, protein, moisture) illustrated HO is less than P value that proposed minor alterations in proximate configuration of both rice varieties such as (fat 2.90%, fiber 2.20%, ash 3.10%, protein 9.20%, moisture 10.80%) in Bt Rice While (fat 2.65%, fiber 2.40%, ash 2.80%, protein 9.30%, moisture 11%) in Non Bt Rice. Visible difference was found in result of elemental analysis of two varieties. Elemental content such as Ca 0.013, Mg 023, were less in Bt rice in contrast to Basmati (non Bt) rice. During the present study it was concluded that foreign gene insertion cannot affect proximity of variety but it can change elemental content of rice variety. | <urn:uuid:400588fd-39fb-4aab-b7eb-d999d2b5d42a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://lgujls.lgu.edu.pk/index.php/lgujls/article/view/58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.958129 | 384 | 2.140625 | 2 |
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Future of UAE mobility: Preparing infrastructure for next-gen vehicles
Dubai aims to transform 25 per cent of total transportation to autonomous mode by 2030.
Dubai - Autonomous mobility to create revenue of Dh22B as it will reduce transportation cost by 44%, saving Dh99M a year
Dubai has one of the most progressive autonomous vehicles strategy in place. It aims to transform 25 per cent of total transportation in Dubai to autonomous mode by 2030. Expectations are that autonomous mobility will create a revenue of Dh22 billion as it will reduce transportation cost by 44 per cent, saving Dh99 million a year and reduce environmental pollution by 12 per cent with a saving of up to Dh1.5 billion a year. The strategy aims to reduce accidents by 12 per cent, which is equivalent to Dh2 billion every year.
Self-driving cars have the potential in the future to reduce deaths and injuries from car crashes, particularly those that result from driver distraction. It will reduce traffic congestion which will result in a reduction of CO2 emissions as well. Even a small percentage of autonomous vehicles (AVs) on the road can reduce the total fuel consumption by up to 40 per cent. AVs could potentially supplement public transport and cut travel time for commuters. It will also reduce demands for street and lot parking.
But what are the challenges in getting there? Even though autonomous driving offers a solution for many current traffic issues we need to resolve a lot of uncertainties. Introducing CAVs on our roads, where they will first coexist with human-driven vehicles, will potentially result in many traffic issues. It is important to establish scenarios and prepare infrastructure for autonomous cars and connected vehicles (CAVs), focusing on creating transport modelling software. Industry, governments and research are pushing the use of CAVs in real traffic to their full potential where benefits include, removing driver error to increase safety, smoothing vehicle flow to reduce emissions and reducing congestion across our road networks. The use of traffic modelling and simulation can assist decision makers by quantifying the impact of increasing levels of CAVs, helping to identify what effect this will have on future transport infrastructure.
A case in point is the research project CoEXist funded by the Horizon 2020 framework programme of the European Commission. It focuses on the interaction between semi-automated and conventional vehicles in the transitional period to fully autonomous vehicle fleets. For 18 months our PTV colleagues worked closely together with project partners from Vedecom, Renault, TASS International and the University of Stuttgart. Microscopic simulation software PTV Vissim and the macroscopic modelling software PTV Visum were used for simulations. Field data was collected in a real traffic environment. Furthermore, the data and the car-following behaviour of the automated vehicles were analysed and the modelling software was made AV ready. Now the CoEXist team will tackle the automation-readiness of road infrastructure and authorities to increase the capacity of local authorities and other urban mobility stakeholders to get ready for the transition towards a shared road network.
We believe that virtual testbed simulations provide a clear vision on planning and facilitating the execution of autonomous vehicles by inserting the vehicles in simulations in millions of miles to understand its behaviour. It is possible to build entire road networks virtually, in which a self-driving car is surrounded by many other vehicles and pedestrians. It is important to test variations of different scenarios to prepare for the adoption of autonomous vehicles for our day-to-day commuting.
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26 Apr Dual economy
Readers question: What is a ‘dual economy’?
A dual economy refers to the existence of two distinct types of economic segments within an economy. This involves:
- A capitalist based manufacturing sector (geared towards global markets)
- Labour intensive agricultural sector (low productivity, geared towards subsistence farming or local markets)
The British economist W. Arthur Lewis wrote an influential paper on the ‘dual economy’ in 1954. He observed that in many developing economies (usually a former colonial country) that the economy was split into these different two segments.
The bulk of the economy was a labour intensive agricultural sector producing primary products. Lewis observed that in the agricultural sector, productivity was often very low, and farmers often lacked the traditional profit incentive and dynamism usually found in a free market economy.
Alongside this agricultural sector was a smaller manufacturing sector, which tended to have higher productivity. Firms in the manufacturing sector were often set up by foreign colonial powers.
It was not just that developing economies had different sectors, but that the different sectors had different economic motivations. Labourers in the agricultural sector usually lacked education, access to capital and had poor prospects for income growth. Agriculture was also focused on meeting the needs of local markets or subsistence farming and was insular in outlook. In the other manufacturing sector of the economy, there was a greater dynamism and an incentive to increase profits through expansion and investment. The manufacturing sector also faced greater global competition which spurs efficiency growth.
The dual nature of the economy may have been heightened by the fact manufacturing firms were set up / managed by owners from developed capitalist economies in the northern hemisphere.
Lewis argued that given the disparity in productivity, developing economies could make substantial economic growth by encouraging labour to move from the unproductive agricultural sector to the more profitable and productive manufacturing sector. Developing countries which concentrated on just agriculture were doomed to low savings, low productivity and low growth.
Another issue with a dual economy was that there is a potential problem from concentrating on agriculture exports. Agricultural goods tend to have a low-income elasticity of demand and are price inelastic. If a developing economy increases the output of agricultural products, this increase in supply is likely to depress prices and lead to lower export revenue. Because demand is price inelastic, they would make more revenue by restricting supply and keeping prices high. This is another reason to diversify out of agriculture and not just concentrate on agricultural output.
Limitations of the Dual economy Theory
Not all economists accepted Lewis theory that profit incentives exist in manufacturing, but not agriculture.
- Colonial powers didn’t just invest in manufacturing; often it was in the exploitation of raw materials and agriculture, e.g. tea plantations, tobacco plantations.
- Agricultural products often are exported to global markets.
- Shifting labour from agriculture to manufacturing wasn’t always helpful unless labour was sufficiently skilled and the right kind of manufacturing was able to develop. Some developing economies have achieved a better return from increasing investment in agriculture rather than manufacturing.
- Studies (e.g. World Bank) have suggested a positive link between growth in industry and growth in agriculture. Rather than being separate, there is greater interdependence. If agriculture stagnates, it can be hard to grow the industry. But, if the agriculture sector grows, this helps other sectors of the economy, such as manufacturing.
Do any dual economies exist in the modern day?
To some extent, developing economies do have these two types of economic segments. If you look at a developing economy like China, productivity and income growth in agriculture are much lower compared to manufacturing. China is an example of a developing economy which has benefited from absorbing surplus labour in agriculture into the more profitable manufacturing export sector.
Lewis perhaps exaggerated the separation between the different sectors. It is an oversimplification to say manufacturing has a profit incentive lacking in agriculture. The agricultural sector can also benefit from similar investment and productivity growth and play a role in helping developing economies. | <urn:uuid:07c4b7de-86f7-45d2-b044-01e71656e248> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.schoolofeconomics.net/dual-economy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.960593 | 821 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Augustine Rhododendron rho-do-DEN-dron aw-gus-TEE-nee-i
- Broadleaf evergreen shrub, 6 ft (1.8 m), compact, upright, can become narrow and tall. Leaves oblong-lanceolate 4-10 cm long, 1.3-2.5 cm wide, tapering to a fine point, dark green above, underside densely scaly (feels fuzzy), especially the mid-rib, petiole pubescent. Flowers range from white to deep violet blue, usually with a yellow-green or brownish blotch on upper lobes, about 4-5 cm across, 2-6 flowers per cluster. Color on the same plant may vary from year to year (Greer, 1996, p. 23).
- -5o F, early-mid, 4/3/3-4. [flower / plant & foliage / performance; scale 1 (poor) - 5 (best)] Sun tolerant. Native to the Hubei and Szechwan China. Named after Augustine Henry, who discovered them in 1886.
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Im so sick of the amount of bone fragments in all dog meats.
Its like feeding my dog little bits of glass everyday.
she already has bladder problems, I have to feed her wet food, but this cannot be good for dogs.
if it was babby food and bits of glass were in it, there would be uproar.
why is it acceptable to feed dogs this?
>Aren't there bits of bone on purpose because they would eat bones for calcium in the wild?
With raw food, definitely. It was really obvious and deliberate. It sounds like op is finding cooked bone fragments in wet food which doesn't sound as safe, but probably isn't super dangerous. Idk tho.
what im finding is the ground bone fragments when they chuck the shit in the grinding machine and it doesn't grind it fine enough.
try this if you want
-open a can
-get a chunk
-rub it between your fingers
you will find ground bone but often it will be quite large, im talking say 3mm squared.
that's in every chunk.
if you were to fish the bone out of a while tin you would have about a teaspoon of sharp bone fragments that has to go through the dogs digestive tract each day.
if it was ground finer into dust it wouldn't be an issue but I just think the bone fragments are pretty damn big and I feel like im feeding my dog glass essentially.
Well that does sound frustrating. Have you tried raw frozen food? It comes in nuggets and is really healthy, and cheaper than wet food usually. It will have bones but they're safe because they're uncooked. You can still put the tablets in.
Bone fragments in your dog's food is fine. If you've ever dissected coyote, wolf or bobcat scat, you'll find plenty of bone fragments in it. They chew up bones and eat them. It is nothing like glass.
The caution against feeding cooked bones is only pertinent to feeding large pieces of bone or whole bones because they fracture differently than raw bones. They can break into long sharp pieces that can cause mechanical damage (to the inside of the mouth, the throat, or some part of the digestive tract). But the size of the pieces found ground up into dog food are not problematic, whether raw or cooked. | <urn:uuid:2fd287df-f2d4-4f48-bbf5-1e5cfff2ab79> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://4archive.org/board/an/thread/2059272 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00201-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972471 | 476 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Boeing Won’t Budge as Industry Abandons Lithium-Ion Battery
Years after Boeing committed to using lithium-ion batteries in its 787 Dreamliner, other airplane makers developing advanced new jets have rejected the technology as too risky. As Boeing executives found themselves on the defensive this week at a National Transportation Board inquiry into their choice of batteries, it has become clear that other planemakers are not surprised that the lithium-ion batteries had problems serious enough to cause the grounding of the entire 787 fleet for more than three months.
A whole batch of new airplanes that will be flying soon have rejected lithium-ion batteries in favor of the older and well proven nickel-cadmium technology. These include the 787’s direct competitor, the Airbus A350, which will be making its first flight this summer. (Airbus initially chose lithium-ion batteries but dropped them when Boeing’s problems became clear.) Two other new passenger jets, the 110-130 seat Bombardier C-series, made in Canada, and the 90-seat Japanese Mitsubishi Regional Jet, have also gone with the older, safer option.
“We looked at the technology and decided that lithium-ion batteries were not ready, not stable enough, to be used on our airplane,” Bombardier spokesman Marc Duchesne told The Daily Beast. Mitsubishi president Teruaki Kawai told The New York Times that he regarded lithium-ion batteries as “Too dangerous. The technology isn’t mature enough for a plane like ours.”
Nicad is also the choice for the most advanced corporate jet in the world, the Gulf Stream G650, now coming to market, which, at a price of $64.5 million, is the plushest and fastest, and will surely be the globe-girdling must-have choice for the world’s oligarchs.
This week’s public airing by the NTSB of the way Boeing and the FAA originally reached agreement that it was safe to use the lithium-ion batteries on the 787 revealed that the FAA was extraordinarily passive. Boeing delegated responsibility for testing the batteries to the French aerospace company Thales who, in turn, delegated it to the Japanese battery maker, GS Yuasa. Under questioning, Thales admitted that it had no experience with lithium-ion batteries in airplanes. In effect, Boeing acted as a mailbox, passing on the Japanese test data to the FAA. Astonishingly, the FAA itself did not participate in the tests at any point.
Throughout the hearings, battery manufacturers have invoked proprietary secrecy for not answering some specific questions. An executive of GS Yuasa, for example, looking distinctly uncomfortable under questions from NTSB chairman Deborah Hersman, cited “technological secrecy” as a reason why he could not go into details about how battery cells were configured.
Wednesday’s hearing, and another two weeks ago, demonstrated Hersman’s carefully calibrated effort to bring public scrutiny to the battery problems. While punctilious in explaining that the Board’s inquiry was not an attempt to fix blame, Hersman has shown a broad technical grasp and acuity, pouncing on answers that were evasive or vague, at one point expressing frustration with Boeing’s “obfuscation.” As a result, simply watching the parade of industry executives and regulators face this kind of scrutiny has shown how unused to public accountability they are.
The NTSB’s investigation of the January battery fire onboard a Japan Airlines 787 parked at the gate at Boston is still ongiong, but questioning by board members today honed in on the fact that there were “multiple short circuits” in one of the battery cells. A Boeing lawyer objected to discussing this, not denying that it had happened but saying that the cause of the short circuits remained unproven. Nonetheless, it was apparent from the board’s line of questioning that they want answers to how the possibility of such a failure was not foreseen.
It also became abundantly clear from testimony by both the battery manufacturers and independent experts that the development of these batteries is moving way too fast for regulators to keep up. One industry witness said that the technology was still “very immature.” (Exactly what “mature” means in this context nobody seems to know.)
One of the world’s leading experts on battery technology, Dr. Victor Ettel, said Boeing is still struggling in the shadow of a risk it took 10 years ago. “It was a bad, irresponsible decision by Boeing nearly a decade ago when we knew even less about large lithium-ion that the little we know now. It is an even worse decision to try to defend it now.”
As well as the FAA’s distance from the battery testing, the hearings have drilled down to a worrying question: how do we know that the standards Boeing has met to re-certify the batteries are tough enough? Testimony from industry executives gave no sense of a consensus that they were. There were even arguments about which particular body of experts was qualified to write the standards, and chairman Hersman herself complained about the lack of transparency of the whole process.
All this is happening as Boeing is preparing to get the 787 fleet back in the air after last week’s approval by the FAA of changes made to the installation of the batteries. Boeing admits that the exact cause of the two battery meltdowns that caused the grounding of the fleet has not been nailed and may never be. They and the FAA now assert that if there are future battery failures, the changes meet the ultimate safety test: that no single failure of any airplane system can result in catastrophe.
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Jumat, Rahiman Human aggression (Part 2). [Teaching Resource] (Unpublished)
Aggression is a behavior characterized by verbal or physical attack, yet it may be appropriate and self-protective or destructive and violent (Perry, 2007). The complex set of behaviors recognized as aggression has been studied in man and animals for many years. While the definition of aggression varies somewhat from author to author, it is helpful to look at theories of aggression as there are many theories come up in discussing the aggression for further understanding.
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By Emily Suess
It’s a little ironic that small business owners spend so much time focusing on how to grow, isn’t it? The truth is that there are several benefits to keeping a business from growing too quickly. It gives you the opportunity to consolidate positions and save money on wages, minimize the amount of money you spend on overhead, and manage the business on your own terms.
With those benefits in mind, there are several ways you can manage the growth of your company and keep your small business small.
1. Offer Fewer Products and Services
One way to scale back is to limit the number of products and services your business offers. Through consolidation you can simplify your business. The approach you take would depend on your industry. Perhaps your business would benefit from offering fewer products, which would give your customer support team an opportunity to provide more specialized assistance to clients. Or, you might find that specialization leads to fewer clients who bring in more revenue.
2. Outsource Jobs that are Outside Your Area of Expertise
This might come as an epiphany to some of you very industrious small business owners, but you don’t have to do it all. If you’re worried about growing so large that you actually lose your small business status, outsourcing is a viable option. Support other small business in the process by contracting work to Internet marketers, accountants, designers, and others. That way you get professional results without expanding your business’s workforce.
3. Reduce Your Business Hours
Retail businesses can effectively downsize their stores by cutting back how many days or hours they are open each week. If Monday isn’t particularly productive or profitable, why stay open? Or try closing Sunday and Monday. And if your mornings or slow, you might find that it’s more profitable and less strain for personnel to open at 10:00 a.m. instead of 9:00 a.m.
4. Turn Away Some of Your Clients
I know it’s hard and it goes against all the advice you received when you first started out, but there may come a point when you actually need to turn away clients. If you feel like you’re stretched too thin, it’s time to say no. Don’t worry though; you can still be helpful to the clients you turn away by offering referrals when business is booming. These clients and your referrals will remember you down the road.
5. Reduce Staff
This can be really hard for small business owners whose staff has become like family, but it is sometimes necessary. If downsizing means laying off employees, make sure you do it with compassion. Being honest about your reasons for laying off employees is important, and you could do things to help them land on their feet like writing a letter of recommendation or serving as a positive reference.
Unfettered growth has been the demise of many small businesses. It’s important to remember that in the end, downsizing can actually make your small business more competitive and more profitable. | <urn:uuid:2f5233ab-9cca-47c9-978f-6855967e045b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://smallbusinessbonfire.com/how-to-downsize/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.95985 | 627 | 1.507813 | 2 |
The tenth installment of Bernard Cornwell's New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, "like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series.
Britain is in a state of uneasy peace. Northumbria's Viking ruler, Sigtryggr, and Mercia's Saxon Queen Aethelflaed have agreed a truce. And so England's greatest warrior, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, at last has the chance to take back the home his traitorous uncle stole from him so many years ago—and which his scheming cousin still occupies.
But fate is inexorable, and the enemies Uhtred has made and the oaths he has sworn conspire to distract him from his dream of recapturing his home. New enemies enter into the fight for England's kingdoms: the redoubtable Constantin of Scotland seizes an opportunity for conquest and leads his armies south. Britain's precarious peace threatens to turn into a war of annihilation. Yet Uhtred is determined that nothing—neither the new adversaries nor the old foes who combine against him—will keep him from his birthright.
"Historical novels stand or fall on detail, and Mr. Cornwell writes as if he has been to ninth-century Wessex and back."
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By Lal Khan
There was a great pomp and show. There was a din of “eternal Pakistan-China friendship” broadcast from every media channel and newspaper incessantly for almost two days. A Chinese head of state was paying a desperately awaited visit to Pakistan for the first time in many years.
The government rolled out the proverbial red carpet when the Chinese President Xi Jinping landed at Chaklala Airbase, where President and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, along with federal ministers and all services chiefs, received him. Earlier, eight Pakistan Air Force (PAF) JF-17 Thunder fighters escorted President Xi’s plane when it entered Pakistani airspace. A twenty-one-gun salute was presented to the Chinese leader as he alighted from his plane. He was later presented a guard of honour by a contingent of armed forces and PAF jets did the fly past.
It was the first time that a Chinese top leader spoke to Pakistan’s parliament. His emotive warmth was resonating, when Mr Xi said, that in discussing the history of Pakistan-China relations, “it is often termed as higher than the Himalayas, deeper than the ocean and sweeter than the honey by the Pakistani brothers while Chinese people refer to Pakistani people as good friends, good partners and good brothers…both countries should maintain strategic communication on regional and international issues. China supports Pakistan’s constructive role in Afghanistan…”
But it was the Pakistani prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif who spilled the beans and said it all. During his welcoming speech appreciating the Pakistan-China friendship he said, “It symbolizes our determination to create win-win partnerships, which threaten none, but benefit all.” The business entrepreneur came out of the garb of a politician. All the party leaders of Pakistan’s bourgeois politics stood in unison, foregoing their wrangling facades and deceptive conflicts. So did the honchos of the capitalist state. Some perhaps were naively hoping for a “Chinese miracle” to cure Pakistan’s cancerous capitalism, while most were all praise for this Xi Jinming, the oligarch representing the upstart Chinese bourgeois that have amassed billions in their coffers.
However, what Sharif meant by this friendship is that it’s not really between the peoples of the two lands but between the elites who are now looking for massive profits from the projects announced which will be “built” by the Chinese companies and private contractors along with subcontractors and commission agents. Sections of the state and the bourgeois representatives present in that hall of deceptive power will try to get a share of the massive generation of wealth through the exploitation of the resources and workers of these countries. But they will be awfully disappointed. Those who think that this landmark visit and MOU’s [memoranda of understanding] will turn around the fortunes of Pakistan’s crumbling economy are sadly mistaken, to say the least.
The Chinese upstart elite is not making this investment for a utopian and sentimental friendship, as the intelligentsia and the media would have us believe, but for naked, exorbitant profits and its strategic hegemonic designs in the region. China’s investment aims at opening up the neglected province of Baluchistan and developing Gwadar as a strategic and commercial port. This in turn is likely to increase China’s presence in the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. The economic corridor will open up new business, commercial and military opportunities for them. The development of an economic corridor linking to Gwadar will obviously increase the presence of the Chinese fleet in the region. Gains for China include opening up of the relatively less developed western region that will benefit from shorter access to the sea. China’s potential of forward deployment of its naval assets in the Gwadar and Karachi ports will materialise. At the same time these projects could lead to greater integration of Pakistan’s natural resources and markets with the Chinese economic expansion plans.
China is also the largest investor in Afghanistan, as well as the biggest arms supplier to the Pakistan armed forces. China’s interest in Afghanistan appears to be increasing as US forces withdraw from the region. Initially, its involvement in Afghanistan was securing strategic materials, such as copper, iron, etc. The US and other Western countries have been complaining that China was taking undue advantage of the security umbrella provided by NATO and ISAF. They wanted it not only to be a consumer but also a provider of security. Now that NATO and the US are pulling out of Afghanistan, China is showing greater willingness to be more proactive in helping maintain the region’s security. Moreover, it realises that Afghanistan’s stability will have a positive impact on the restive Xinjiang province. China’s strategy is to negotiate and engage with the Taliban leadership and play a more proactive role in Afghanistan for these very economic and commercial interests. China’s main interest is to use or rent the Pakistan military machine for these hegemonic purposes. Perhaps it was for these material reasons that Xi Jinming was playing the Pakistan-China friendship card so vehemently. What we are also witnessing is that China is projecting its soft power in this region through economic prowess and sophisticated diplomacy. Another element of China’s soft power, which is less talked about, is its political stability, notwithstanding its one-party rule. But it is doubtful that the largest investment package of 45 billion dollars announced for Pakistan will actually materialise, due to the fledgling economic growth and its bleak prospects. It simply won’t have the economic muscle to carry out these strategic policies and economic investments.
In the last few years the Chinese ruling elite has desperately been trying to salvage a declining growth rate, unravelling economic decay, exacerbating poverty and the sharpening class struggle. The Chinese economy in 2014 experienced its lowest economic growth since 1990. The IMF downgraded its 2015 growth projection from 7.1% to 6.8%. According to the Financial Times, “Thirty out of China’s 31 provinces had missed their growth targets for 2014 – the only one that didn’t was Tibet, by far the country’s smallest regional economy. Such figures illustrate the beginning of the end for China’s ‘miraculous’ boom, as the reality of capitalist crisis is seeping through to the world’s largest exporting economy.”
After an immediate drop in the rate of GDP increase to 9.6% in 2008 from the previous year’s 14.2%, with a sharp fall in her exports the Chinese government embarked on a gigantic “economic stimulus package” equivalent to US$586 billion in infrastructure, especially in construction and heavy industry.
Inspite of the build-up of massive overcapacity and speculative bubbles the state kept the process going. The announced investments in Pakistan with crushing interest rates are part of this Keynesian policy to keep the bubble inflated. All this simply meant that the crisis had only been delayed in fear of a mass revolt. The Chinese economic policymakers have taken drastic measures to bolster growth such as quantitative easing by printing an extraordinary 500bn yuan ($81bn) in September last year. But the longer it is put off, the harder it will crash when it occurs. No “market economy” can avoid the laws of capitalism.
As slow and weak growth continues to haunt the US and Europe, even with the danger of a slump looming, Chinese industry will lack a market for its goods. The Chinese economy is moving inexorably towards a sharp slowdown. It is plagued with overproduction. This “downward pressure” is mainly due to lack of demand. Productive capacity has fallen below 70 percent. Combined with the immense mountain of debt due to the regime’s gigantic and unnecessary Keynesian projects, the further destabilisation of the economy is inevitable. As much as the government has attempted to overcome this organic economic problem with even bigger stimulus packages, the brutal contradictions are coming to the surface.
Chinese state policies have exacerbated the acute contradictions between wage labour and capital. Relative wages are now falling. The majority have not benefitted from the massive speculative investment. Real unemployment is actually closer to 20 per cent despite false official figures. Some 274m rural migrant workers are almost entirely ignored by the job statistics. In spite of the hue and cry of the bourgeois media about capitalist counter-revolution ‘lifting millions out of poverty’, the reality is far starker. According to World Bank statistics, 67.8% of the population (902 million) lives on less than $5 a day. China accounts for a record one-fifth (370) of all billionaires in the world, rising from 17.6 per cent in 2014, the China Rich List 2015, compiled by the US business magazine Forbes, said. “The legislature of the world’s last major communist country is almost certainly the wealthiest in the world, the top rich list names 83 dollar billionaires among Chinese communist party’s, National Peoples Congress. Meanwhile, in America there is not a single billionaire in the House of Representatives or the Senate,” reported the Financial Times. The Communist Party of China is neither communist nor a party but a dragon of the upstart elite that sucks the blood of the workers in China and across the world wherever they make their imperialist investments.
After South Africa, China has the largest gap between the rich and the poor in the world. The growing income inequality is illustrated most clearly by the differences in living standards between the urban, coastal areas and the rural, inland regions. There have also been increases in the inequality of health and education outcomes. The bosses and the state are discovering the real consequences of depriving increasingly emboldened industrial workers of their livelihoods. There were 1380 major strikes of workers in China in 2014, most of them victorious. Much more loom across the horizon. It is not a coincidence that China is perhaps the only state in the world with its internal security expenditure (464 billion dollars) higher than external defence (435 billion).
The recent fall in oil prices was also closely related to the world crisis and its reflection in the slowdown of the Chinese economy. The ailing capitalist system is being propped up artificially by a Central Bank life support machine, which has poured trillions of dollars into the financial system. However, the more these unprecedented measures are used to prop up the system, the less impact they have, like a drug addict who needs a bigger and bigger hit in order to get the same high. Five years ago, it took just over $1 of debt to generate $1 of growth in China. In 2013 it took nearly $4 of debt to generate $1 of growth – and one third of the new debt now goes to pay off old debt. China’s growth rate has fallen to the lowest in over 20 years. The Chinese capitalist miracle stands exposed and is being exhausted.
The chances of its robust recovery are ruled out. The despotic regime of the new president Xi Jinping can boomerang on the Chinese elite. To expect such a greedy ruling clique to alleviate poverty in Pakistan through investment is absurd to say the least. This “friendship” gimmickry is to mock and deceive the ordinary people. The Pakistani ruling class is no less mean and reactionary. Power is only traded and bought for more loot and plunder. Lenin wrote in his epic work, Imperialism the Highest stage of Capitalism, that “a capitalist country acquires an imperialist role when it begins to export capital.” China is the largest exporter of capital in the world. It is the biggest investor in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Its evil designs on Baluchistan and Pakistan are the same as those of the American and other, world and regional imperialist states. Napoleon once said that, “When China awakes the world shall tremble.” That China is the proletarian and the toiling masses of that land. That China is beginning to turn. Its only the working class of China with whom the ordinary people of Pakistan can form a bond of genuine friendship that can unite them in a revolutionary transformation of the whole region and beyond. | <urn:uuid:8664d7a9-8a23-4f56-ba33-2d5069f71b03> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.marxistreview.asia/china-pakistan-friendship-between-whom/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.959901 | 2,486 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Leave it to the government to take away the backbone of the technology industry.
Whenever the terrorist threat is increased, as it has been since the tragic events in Paris last week, so too are the calls from politicians to increase the powers of the people they employ to protect the public from such threats.
Those agencies can only do their job, the argument goes, if they have full access to the online chatter of those planning terrorist atrocities.
As the UK’s Prime Minister David Cameron put it in a speech this week – there should be no “means of communication” which “we cannot read”.
But in an era when communication takes many forms, and with the added problem that much of this communication is encrypted, how easy is it to turn this sound bite into reality?
For Mr Cameron the answer lies in a new “comprehensive piece of legislation” that will close the “safe spaces” used by suspected terrorists.
So what are those safe spaces?
Although Mr Cameron doesn’t name any, it is likely he is referring to new apps such as WhatsApp and Snapchat which allow people to chat with relative anonymity by keeping their services encrypted.
But the battle is much more wide-ranging as established names such as Google and Apple promise to do more to ensure that encryption is used as default on their services. After the revelations from whistle-blower Edward Snowden about mass surveillance programs, firms are determined to be seen to be putting the control of their data back in the hands of consumers.
In the past, governments with the appropriate warrants could go to firms such as Apple and ask them to unlock the communications on phones.
No more. Apple has changed its infrastructure to make it impossible for it to hand over any data from the iPhone 6’s iMessage service, for example.
Such military-grade lock-down of devices inevitably terrifies governments so it should come as no surprise that they are fighting back with new legislation.
Although, it should be noted, that the new legislation Mr Cameron referred to in his speech is probably just a resurrection of an old law.
The Draft Communication Bill of 2012, dubbed the “snoopers’ charter” by critics, aimed to extend the range of data that communication companies had to store for 12 months.
It would have included, for the first time, details of messages sent on social media, webmail, voice calls over the internet and gaming. Officials would not have been able to see the content without a warrant but the bill was blocked by the Liberal Democrats.
Politics continues to dog attempts to revive it with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg saying after Mr Cameron’s latest speech that his party will continue to oppose any such legislation.
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Its competition flame rekindled by the factory supported privateer efforts from Group 44 in North America and TWR in Europe, Jaguar began exploring the possibility of a production based racing car in the mid-1980s. Built to Group B specification, this supercar would be able to take on the might of Ferrari (288 GTO and the subsequent F40) and Porsche (959 / 961) on the road and track. When the Group B class was binned, Jaguar's engineers quietly worked on with the spectacular 'XJ220' show car launched at the 1988 Birmingham Motor Show as the final result.
By this time the racing plans were all but forgotten and Jaguar's first 'super car' served to celebrate the recent successes in the World Sports Car Championship and at Le Mans with the V12-engined XJR-9 Jaguars. Accordingly, the XJ220 Prototype featured a twelve cylinder engine derived from the XJR unit. In fact the 6.2 litre V12 was more sophisticated with a twin-cam, four valve per cylinder head. This configuration was also tried on the racing cars but deemed too heavy. In XJ220 guise, it produced around 500 bhp, which was on par with the performance of the Ferrari F40 and Porsche 959. Just like the latter, the XJ220 Prototype sported all-wheel drive with a front/rear torque split of 31/69.
Unlike the all carbon composite XJRs, the XJ220 featured a bonded aluminium chassis. Suspension was also competition inspired with double wishbones and push-rod actuated dampers. The potent package was clothed in an aluminium body penned by Jaguar's chief designer Geoff Lawson. His design was very slippery with curvaceous lines, pop-up headlights and a 'Kamm' tail. Like the contemporary sports racers, the XJ220 featured underbody aerodynamics, developing considerable amount of downforce. In good Jaguar tradition, the 220 in the name referred to the potential top speed in miles per hour.
When the XJ220 was launched in Birmingham, Jaguar stressed that it was 'just' a show car and that there were no firm production plans. Interested parties were told that would the super car become available, it would be priced at around 250,000 Pounds. Well over a year after the launch, in December 1989, Jaguar finally revealed that the XJ220 would be built in a limited run of 220 examples with the possibility to go up to 350 if there was enough demand. Assigned to further develop and construct the XJ220 was JaguarSport, the joint venture of Jaguar Cars and Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR) that also ran the competition program.
When the XJ220 finally entered production, in June of 1992, it differed substantially from the original show car. The most significant change was found under the see-through engine cover; gone was the V12 and in was a twin-turbo V6. Similar to the engine used in the second generation XJR racing cars, the state-of-the-art six cylinder was preferred by the engineers because it would be easier to comply with the ever stricter emission regulations, while producing similar power figures. In fact, despite being almost half the size, the 'JRV-6' engine produced almost 10% more horsepower at 542 bhp. Very much a Group B artefact, the all-wheel drive system was also deleted from the production car.
Jaguar had received as many as 1,500 down-payments, of which all but 350 were repaid. Unfortunately Jaguar had not selected meticulously enough as many of the clients proved to be interested in the XJ220 mainly as an investment opportunity. At around the same period the market for collector cars collapsed, diminishing the appeal of the Jaguar by no fault of its own. The price had also gone up to 290,000 Pounds, resulting in a considerable amount of customers rejecting the XJ220. In addition to the increased price, they also quoted the different specification compared to the show car (read the lack of the exotic V12) as a reason not to take delivery. Some even sued Jaguar demanding their deposit back but they lost.
As a possible distraction from these (legal) problems, TWR stepped up and developed a competition version of the XJ220 for the new 'GT' class. Most of the aluminium panels were replaced with carbon fibre examples and a large rear wing was fitted. A three car team of 'XJ220Cs' was fielded at Le Mans in 1993 but legal problems once again hit Jaguar's super car; the governing body stipulated that catalytic converters were required but Jaguar went ahead and raced the XJ220C without them. David Brabham, John Nielsen and a young David Coulthard drove their example to victory in class, only to be disqualified after the failing the post race tech inspection.
In response to the lower demand, Jaguar capped production of the road car at 280 examples. The last example rolled off the line in 1994 but it took many more years before the final cars left the factory. TWR upgraded six examples to 'XJ220S' specification. These were effectively road-going versions of the XJ220C racer. They also featured carbon fibre bodies, a rear wing and an upgraded engine. With the mandatory restrictors removed, the tweaked engine produced a staggering 680 bhp.
Sadly, the Jaguar XJ220 will always be remembered as a failed super car. This was mainly because it entered production at the worst possible time, although the lack of the V12 and high-tech drivetrain of the prototype are also often quoted as reasons for the car's failure. However, the fact is that the production car was both much lighter and more powerful than the lamented prototype. Today the XJ220 is still not as high in demand as its contemporaries, making it a true bargain super car that offers more bang for buck than any of its original rivals.
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Santa Fe had a distinguished visitor late last month: Susmita Gongulee Thomas, consul general of India in San Francisco. Before sampling the local cuisine and exchanging gifts with the 400th Anniversary Committee, Thomas met with Gov. Bill Richardson, a former US Energy Secretary and occasional hostage negotiator.
Officially, they talked about film production. But the full agenda may have been far more consequential.
The meeting “focused on cooperation in [the] nuclear field between New Mexico and India. The Consul General mentioned that India is seeking both enriched uranium as well as uranium ore,” Bhai Sahib Satpal Singh Khalsa, ambassador for Sikh Dharma International and a local organizer of Thomas’ trip, tells SFR in an email. “This will be for the nuclear plants India will be building with indigenous technology.”
Khalsa writes that he was “in that meeting.” His account adds detail to a recent story on rediff.com, an Indian news site, which first reported that Thomas and Richardson “discussed the possibility of exporting nuclear fuel to India from New Mexico.”
Their Feb. 24 meeting came as diplomats in Washington, DC, and New Delhi made fast progress on controversial, potentially world-changing nuclear talks—arrangements that some fear add to the chances of nuclear war in South Asia. Earlier, on Feb. 3, President Barack Obama sent Congress notice that India had met a key prerequisite of a nuclear pact enacted in 2008. Then, on March 29, the US announced the terms under which it will allow India to reprocess spent nuclear fuel.
Much remains unclear about the Santa Fe nuke talks, including whether Richardson was acting independently or with Obama’s blessing.
Consul General Thomas did not return messages. And Richardson “doesn’t recall the issue of uranium ever coming up,” spokeswoman Alarie Ray-Garcia says.
“The governor says they talked mostly about bringing Bollywood productions to New Mexico,” she tells SFR in a phone message. “They also discussed some other business opportunities.”
George Joseph, the New York-based reporter and editor who wrote the Rediff article, tells SFR he had multiple sources regarding the nuclear discussions, including the consul.
According to sikhnet.com, an Española-based site, Khalsa organized Thomas’ trip with Pawan Singh Dhindsa, New Mexico’s honorary consul to India and manager of India House on Cerrillos Road.
SFR was unable to reach Dhindsa by press time. Dhindsa accompanied New Mexico Secretary of State Mary Herrera to India in a trip announced Dec. 28. They were scheduled to meet with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Foreign Minister SM Krishna. Topics of discussion included “renewable energy opportunities between New Mexico and India.”
Herrera’s office did not return SFR’s call.
Without more details, experts on the nuclear trade and arms control can only speculate about what India might want with nuclear fuel from New Mexico.
“The end use would be for some reactor that is under [international inspection] safeguards,” MV Ramana, a visiting scholar at Princeton University and expert on the nuclearization of South Asia, tells SFR.
The exports would have no direct weapons implications. However, “India has fairly limited stocks of uranium, so to the extent that they can import uranium, they can free it up for the purposes of manufacturing weapons,” Ramana says.
India already has uranium supply deals with France and Russia, among others. “Right now, they can play one supplier off of another,” Ramana says. “That’ll be the argument Bill Richardson is hearing from them…They would actually be saying, ‘We want it cheap.’”
Los Alamos Study Group Executive Director Greg Mello speculates that India could be a market for the new Louisiana Energy Services uranium enrichment facility in southern New Mexico.
“It could be they want an inside track on negotiations for the output of the LES plant, once it’s running,” Mello says.
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University Entrepreneurship and Professor Privilege
This paper analyzes how institutional differences affect university entrepreneurship. We focus on ownership of faculty inventions, and compare two institutional regimes; the US and Sweden. In the US, the Bayh-Dole Act gives universities the right to own inventions from publicly funded research,whereas in Sweden, the professor privilege gives the university faculty this right. We develop a theoretical model and examine the effects of institutional differences on modes of commercialization; entrepreneurship or licenses to established firms, as well as on probabilities of successful commercialization. We find that the US system is less conducive to entrepreneurship than the Swedish system if established firms have some advantage over faculty startups, and that on average the probability of successful commercialization is somewhat higher in the US. We also use the model to perform four policy experiments as suggested by recent policy debates in both countries.
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- Dechenaux, Emmanuel & Thursby, Jerry & Thursby, Marie, 2011.
"Inventor moral hazard in university licensing: The role of contracts,"
Elsevier, vol. 40(1), pages 94-104, February.
- Emmanuel Dechenaux & Jerry Thursby & Marie C. Thursby, 2008. "Inventor Moral Hazard in University Licensing: The Role of Contracts," NBER Working Papers 14226, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Macho-Stadler Inés & Pérez-Castrillo David & Veugelers Reinhilde, 2007.
"Designing Contracts for University Spin-offs,"
201071, Fundacion BBVA / BBVA Foundation.
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"Designing Efficient Institutions for Science-Based Entrepreneurship: Lessons from the US and Sweden,"
The Journal of Technology Transfer,
Springer, vol. 26(3), pages 207-31, June.
- Henrekson, Magnus & Rosenberg, Nathan, 2000. "Designing Efficient Institutions for Science-Based Entrepreneurship: Lessons from the US and Sweden," SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance 410, Stockholm School of Economics.
- Pontus Braunerhjelm & Roger Svensson, 2010.
"The inventor’s role: was Schumpeter right?,"
Journal of Evolutionary Economics,
Springer, vol. 20(3), pages 413-444, June.
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- Braunerhjelm, Pontus & Svensson, Roger, 2007. "The Inventor’s Role: Was Schumpeter Right?," Working Paper Series 690, Research Institute of Industrial Economics.
- Jerry Thursby & Marie Thursby, 2010.
"University Licensing: Harnessing or Tarnishing Faculty Research?,"
in: Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 10, pages 159-189
National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Jerry Thursby & Marie Thursby, 2010. "University Licensing: Harnessing or Tarnishing Faculty Research?," Innovation Policy and the Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 10(1), pages 159 - 189.
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"University Research, Intellectual Property Rights And European Innovation Systems,"
Journal of Economic Surveys,
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- Bart Verspagen, 2006. "University research, intellectual property rights and European innovation systems," Working Papers 06-05, Eindhoven Center for Innovation Studies, revised Mar 2006.
- Geuna, Aldo & Nesta, Lionel J.J., 2006. "University patenting and its effects on academic research: The emerging European evidence," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 35(6), pages 790-807, July.
- Frank T. Rothaermel & Shanti D. Agung & Lin Jiang, 2007. "University entrepreneurship: a taxonomy of the literature," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press, vol. 16(4), pages 691-791, August.
- Robert A. Lowe & Arvids A. Ziedonis, 2006. "Overoptimism and the Performance of Entrepreneurial Firms," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 52(2), pages 173-186, February.
- Goldfarb, Brent & Henrekson, Magnus, 2003. "Bottom-up versus top-down policies towards the commercialization of university intellectual property," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 32(4), pages 639-658, April.
- Goldfarb, Brent & Henrekson, Magnus, 2001. "Bottom-Up vs. Top-Down Policies towards the Commercialization of University Intellectual Property," SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance 463, Stockholm School of Economics, revised 26 May 2002.
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9:20 Increasing Pharmacokinetics Awareness in Early Drug Discovery
Dr. Tudor I. Oprea, Associate Director, EST Lead Informatics and Medicinal Chemistry, AstraZeneca R&D
The Lipinski „Rule of 5” was derived for drugs, not leads. An analysis of over 100 lead:drug pairs indicates that lower molecular weight and lower lipophilicity are advisable in leadlike library design. VolSurf, designed for modeling pharmacokinetic properties (e.g., passive permeability and solubility), is effective in estimating binding affinity (i.e., as a receptor-based scoring function). In combination with ChemGPS, our own method to estimate molecular similarity, VolSurf can be used to rapidly rule out compounds outside the targeted range for permeability and solubility. Traditionally, binding affinity is usually screened for, and optimized, first-while pharmacokinetic properties are left for a later stage. The paradigm shift we are witnessing is simultaneous optimization of both affinity and pharmacokinetic properties in the early stages of drug discovery. | <urn:uuid:72e420aa-a8d4-4f37-b4ac-533302d23254> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ad-astra.ro/2002/01/27/exploatind-diversitatea-moleculara/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00273.warc.gz | en | 0.700864 | 401 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Consumers put more interest in crowd-sourced reviews. More than (50%)of 1200 US adults trusts crowd-sourced reviews. Only (24%) of members said that they distrust crowd-sourced thoughts. Most Americans have used review sites to choose restaurants. They use websites like Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB to research the movie. Others used review websites to explore travel accommodations, employers or workplaces, travel destinations, tech products, healthcare providers, vehicle models and video games. Consumers trust these review sites, but they also said they are beneficial for all their work. 3 in 5 people say they are valuable.
- More than half of the 1,200 US adults surveyed say they either somewhat trust (46%) or have a lot of confidence (8%) in crowd-sourced review sites such as Yelp, Trustpilot or Google Reviews.
- Americans are most likely to use review sites to research restaurants— 4 in 10 have done so.
- Some 21% of respondents say that crowd-sourced reviews websites are beneficial
“More than half of the 1,200 US adults surveyed say they either somewhat trust (46%) or have a lot of trust (8%) in crowd-sourced review sites such as Yelp, Trustpilot or Google Reviews. Only about one-quarter (24%) say they distrust these types of review sites. YouGov points out that younger US adults, in particular trust, review sites, with two-thirds saying as much.” | <urn:uuid:34877984-ecef-45e0-a6c2-7c13d76b5cb0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://reviewsace.com/majority-say-they-trust-review-sites-to-some-degree/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.952169 | 308 | 1.796875 | 2 |
B.C.’s COVID-19 daily infection rate declined to below 700 over the weekend, and the number of people in hospital with coronavirus-related conditions fell from more than 500 to 474 by Monday.
B.C. recorded 835 new cases in the 24 hours up to Saturday, 671 up to Sunday and 668 up to Monday, with 176 people in intensive care units. There were 15 COVID-19 related deaths over the three days.
B.C.’s daily cases have been declining since reaching their highest rate in early April at more than 1,200, returning to below 800 last week. Hospitalization, a key indicator that lags behind new cases as more people are infected, rose to more than 500 for the first time in late April, and elective surgeries were cancelled at Lower Mainland hospitals for the first time since they were restored last summer.
Health Minister Adrian Dix said the infection rate and pressure on hospitals are still “way too high,” with surge beds activated in Lower Mainland hospitals to keep up with serious cases. Dix and Henry urged everyone eligible to register and get vaccine as it becomes available, with more than 40 per cent of eligible adults having received at least one dose and vaccine supplies increasing significantly starting this week.
Henry said the vaccine supply will also allow B.C. to deliver second doses more quickly, and research into “mix and match” vaccinations using two different types is being watched carefully, as B.C. approaches having first doses offered to all adults by the end of June.
“As we open up immunization to all adults and we get everyone their first dose, we will be speeding up second doses as well,” Henry said.
Henry said people who have had a shot of AstraZeneca vaccine through pharmacies should also register with the main program, but should not attempt to get different vaccine if they receive an invitation in error. There are “glitches” as hundreds of pharmacies add their patient data to a provincial database that collects all immunization records from childhood up, Henry said, and people who have had a first dose should wait for notification that they are due for a second dose. | <urn:uuid:e4192ee3-86ca-4337-881e-3f2bf962ea28> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mapleridgenews.com/news/b-c-s-covid-19-infection-hospitalization-decline-continues/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.976511 | 457 | 1.664063 | 2 |
What do you have to offer? You have an interview scheduled, with God or Buddha, or some higher power. The World is hiring – so what job will you do? You have unique gifts, talent and skills. You have a unique history. You have something to offer that makes you an attractive candidate. What is it?
The World’s Hunger:
There is no shortage of need in the world – disease, climate change, war, refugees. And it’s not just the big issues. The hospice patient who lives at the end of your block, or the overflowing humane society with more animals than space are also expressions of the world’s needs.
What excites and energizes you? Is there some cause that stirs you? Is there some injustice that makes you mad? What moves you or agitates you? What is worthy of your energy and commitment?
What is the environment in which you will carry forth your work and who will be at your side? Will you teach meditation in a monastery or a prison (or both)? Do you crave a local community or a global network? As a poet, do you prefer the energy and sounds of a city café, or the breeze and birdcalls of a mountain retreat?
Begin the New Year by searching for a worthy purpose. Ask the right questions – the big questions. If you have found your place in the world, what will you do to make your next contribution? And if you have not, give yourself the time and space to reflect on your life – where you’ve been and where you need to go.
Sometimes it’s a matter of testing the waters. And sometimes it’s about a leap of faith as you dive in and feel the new energy of the water all around you. Don’t be content not doing what you need to do. The world has work for you to do. The biggest risk is not trying something new. The biggest risk is being held back by fear, or apathy.
Gregg Krech is the author of several books, including, The Art of Taking Action: Lessons in Japanese Psychology . He will be teaching the online course, Living on Purpose, starting on January 8, 2020.
For more information, contact the ToDo Institute at 802-453-4440 or by email at [email protected]
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Financial planners warn investors against attempts to time the market. It’s notoriously difficult to guess exactly when sentiment on Wall Street will reverse – even professionals are likely to be wrong.
Yet that is essentially what countless retirees are being forced to do these days – playing chicken with a market rocked by 40-year high inflation, war in Ukraine, supply shocks and a sense of depressed consumption.
For retirees mandated by IRS rules to take required minimum distributions from tax-deferred retirement vehicles such as Individual Retirement Accounts or 401(k)s, the prospect of having to withdraw funds during a bear market is unpleasant enough to cause some to tighten their belts until the market rebounds – or until Congress intervenes.
Planners are reporting a surge of new clients struggling to juggle retirement spending expectations with a suddenly dwindling nest egg.
“We have a lot of new customers who need to go through RMDs,” said Peter Gallagher, managing director of Unified Retirement Planning Group. He found that some were fully invested in riskier asset classes such as stocks, which exposed them to market slump, rather than in safer categories such as bonds. “They didn’t have the idea that they were taking as many risks as they were,” he said.
Sometimes there’s not much else to do but deliver the bad news. “We had people who were 100% in tech stocks, and we had to tell them, ‘Look, you’re down 40% from the top,'” Gallagher said. “It’s a very difficult conversation, because we have to sell.”
The ABCs of RMD
As defined benefit pension plans have been replaced by defined contribution plans such as 401(k) plans, tax deferral is an incentive for workers to save. Many retirees depend on distributions from their retirement accounts for their day-to-day income, a need that has grown as the prices of gas, groceries and other basic necessities continue to rise. The RMD rules for account holders as well as heirs aim to prevent retirement accounts from becoming tax shelters for inherited wealth.
The latest significant changes to these rules were made by the SECURE (Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement) Act of 2019, which raised the age at which account owners must begin receiving distributions from 70½ to 72 and accelerated the time frame within which people who inherit IRAs or similar accounts must make withdrawals.
Holders of these accounts must begin making withdrawals no later than April 1 of the year following their 72nd birthday and continue to do so at the end of each subsequent calendar year. (Roth IRAs, which are funded with after-tax dollars, do not require RMDs.)
The amount account holders must withdraw varies from year to year, depending on their account balance as well as their expected life, and distributions are taxed as ordinary income. Individuals with multiple accounts have flexibility in that the full amount of their distribution can be withdrawn from one or more accounts, but the penalty for non-compliance is high: RMDs that are not withdrawn on time are taxed at a rate of 50%.
Cil Frazier, a retired TV marketing professional who lives in a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, said she will have to start taking her RMDs by April, which she is reluctant to do.
Frazier, 71 and a widow, said Social Security and a small amount of retirement income are enough to pay her mortgage and most day-to-day expenses at the moment, but she’s worried about inflation driving up her cost. of life.
“I’m paying more money for things I normally buy,” she said, adding that she braces for higher energy bills as temperatures rise in the southeast. “I shop more carefully. I set the air conditioner thermostat higher. »
People who help retired Americans manage their finances are alarmed by the vulnerability this cohort — especially historically marginalized populations — faces due to market fluctuations. This is especially tricky for those who don’t have a fund manager, as investors have to calculate for themselves how much they need to withdraw to meet the RMD requirements.
“It’s very complex, and it’s almost impossible for a layman” to manage without help, said John Migliaccio, senior financial literacy consultant.
In today’s post-retirement economy, Americans have had to take a more active role in managing their pre-retirement money, whether or not they have the knowledge to do so.
The historically long pre-pandemic bull market and rapid turnaround after the spring 2020 plunge have lulled investors into complacency.
“The shakes that we’ve had in the market over the last few years – these are short-term impacts on the market, so people have been conditioned to think we’re going to see a rebound pretty quickly,” Kathy Carey said. , director of research and planning at Baird Private Wealth Management. “I feel like this downturn could last a bit longer.”
How retired investors are doing
Some retirees, like Frazier, manage by tightening their belts. Others dusted off their CVs. What labor market observers have called “non-retirement” is bringing people aged 55 to 64 back into the labor market.
“A lot of seniors are going back into the workforce,” said Cindy Hounsell, president of the Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement. “It also gives them the opportunity to catch up a bit.”
Others are tapping into the equity built up in their homes, said Steve Rick, chief economist at CUNA Mutual Group. “I’ve been amazed at the increase in home equity balances,” he said. “Home equity lending is booming right now.”
Frazier worried that her initial RMD might be high enough to knock her out of her 12% tax bracket. “That’s a huge 10% jump,” she said.
It plans to wait until the fall to take its required initial distribution, hoping Congress steps in or volatility subsides.
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The nearshore occurrence of this species makes it particularly vulnerable to human activities. However, most of its range in northern Australia and New Guinea has not been severely degraded. Substantial numbers of snubfin dolphins have been killed in anti-shark nets set to protect bathers (Paterson 1990). For example, in the Townsville region between 1968-1976, 15 of 24 dolphins known to have been killed were this species (Heinsohn 1979). The mortality rate of snubfin dolphins in anti-shark nets along the Queensland coast declined to an estimated 1.3/year between 1992-1995, coincident with the replacement of most anti-shark nets with baited drumlines (Gribble et al. 1998). In addition to the mortality in anti-shark nets, these dolphins die in inshore gillnets set across creeks, rivers and shallow estuaries primarily for barramundi (Lates calcarifer) and threadfin salmon (Polynemus sheridani) and (Eleutheronema tetradactylum) (Anderson 1995; Hale 1997). | <urn:uuid:54b727ff-284e-47b0-8268-7d551c2ee18e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.eol.org/data_objects/18961327 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00034-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921942 | 229 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Increasing numbers of devices and objects now offer some level of internet connectivity - however there are growing concerns that many of the devices that make up the so-called Internet of things (IoT) - particularly those with limited interfaces - could be particularly vulnerable to hackers.
As part of their study, the Southampton team compared four interaction techniques for the configuration of IoT devices, looking for methods that allowed security, but were quick and easy to use.
All four of these techniques used a smartphone touchscreen to let users enter secure passwords: two connected the smartphone and the IoT device through a USB or audio cable, via the smartphone’s headphone socket, one used a special temporary Wi-Fi network created by the smart phone, and the other used the flashing of the smartphone screen to send binary data.
The final option was the smartphone and the IoT device
The group found that the audio cable and the Wi-Fi-only interactions were the easiest to use.
Study co-author Dr Enrico Costanza, from the Agents, Interaction, Complexity Group in Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, said: “We believe that our results can help designers and researchers make IoT devices, and especially their configuration, more usable and therefore secure. Moreover, we believe that not enough attention has been placed on how to make the IoT easy to use and to configure, so we hope that our results will motivate others in researching this topic.” | <urn:uuid:d9f3b0cf-fa0c-42e2-83d1-a0eec627ad50> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news/southampton-study-identifies-anti-hacking-techniques-for-internet-of-things-devices | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.93723 | 296 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Twelve tales, 198494, drawn from various publications, by the author of Towing Jehovah (1994), etc. The main thrust here isn't always biblical, though satire looms large--along with dollops of ironic, iconoclastic, or subversive wit. The dazzlingly effective best of a decidedly superior bunch: A murderously mutinous WW I American infantry private ends up in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with a permanent honor guard; reversing his Babel decision, God gives everyone the power of perfect comprehension--with equally devastating results; a robot civilization adheres to the Darwinian principle of natural selection, despite the manifest impossibility of its applying to them; and the sad story of Gunther Black, a man with multiple personalities so numerous that they form nations--and conduct war! In other notable what-ifs, Moses never receives a replacement set of law tablets; Lincoln considers signing an armistice; Helen decides to put an end to the Trojan War; Ebenezer Scrooge lives out his days as an unregenerate capitalist rascal; and Job realizes he's been duped and demands a rematch. Elsewhere, a dead woman's donated organs yearn to reunite; Noah ponders the possibility of other survivors; and, finally, in a rather silly fable, a farmer's wife gives birth to planet Earth. A splendidly provocative series of engagements for supple and enquiring minds; mandatory for fanatics of any stripe. | <urn:uuid:6f86c88a-5390-4055-981f-4c149bc4c9fe> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/james-morrow/bible-stories-for-adults/print/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00004-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905061 | 295 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Banking as we know it is starting to look more outdated than a dot-matrix printer.
In China, consumers are rushing to give their savings to Internet companies instead of banks. In the Philippines, an emerging middle class is paying for school and health care using money from a new breed of social-network lenders. In the U.S., one-third of surveyed millennials say they expect to rely on tech-based financial services instead of banks, while 71 percent say they "would rather go to the dentist than listen to what banks are saying."
I guess they haven't met my dentist.
Greg McBride, senior analyst at Bankrate.com, was recently quoted as saying, "Call me old-fashioned, but if you're going to build wealth and save and invest for the future, you need to be part of the traditional financial system." These days, that sentiment comes off like your father telling you not to have sex before marriage.
Banks are basically just data—lots of financial data. They've worked hard to depopulate their branches, so banks aren't a physical thing to many of their customers. Money is mostly code flying around networks. The chief competitive advantage for banks today is the regulations that keep interlopers at bay.
But even regulations can't shelter banks much longer. The old concept of banking is getting attacked on all sides by new-generation companies that are smarter about data and use it in more imaginative ways. For years, banks have been considered ripe for disruption, and now we're starting to see how it can happen.
"Disruption" can get flung around by the tech community with all the restraint Louis C.K. applies to four-letter words that rhyme with luck. Usually, the techies apply the disruption label to some catastrophic failure brought on by the Internet, the way digital music blew up CDs. But banks may be in for a different experience. They might get disrupted the way a house gets disrupted by termites slowly eating through several support beams at the same time.
Lenddo looks like one such termite. It's an American venture-backed company operating in Asia, using data for banking in ways banks would never traditionally consider. Lenddo's insight: Data about who you know on social networks and what those people say about you is more accurate than a credit score in determining if you'll repay a loan.
"For hundreds of years, lending was based on reputation," Lenddo CEO Jeff Stewart told me. "Social networks allow us to go back to the basics of lending, but now at a global industrial scale." So far, Lenddo operates only in the Philippines, Mexico and Colombia. Those places have an emerging middle class, and those people often don't have financial histories that would qualify them for a loan from a bank. Lenddo is making loans based on social reputation, snatching an upcoming generation of customers from banks.
Lenddo doesn't lend in the U.S. because of the morass of regulations here. "We were live in the Philippines and issuing loans for less cost than just getting an opinion on how to do that in the state of New York," Stewart said. Still, in our hyper-connected world, finance is global. If Lenddo and companies like it succeed in the developing world, you think it won't wash up on U.S. or European shores? Of course it will.
In China, tech companies are setting another precedent. Less than a year ago, Alibaba, which has hundreds of millions of e-commerce customers, offered to pay consumers higher interest rates than China's banks. By February, 81 million people had signed up, and Alibaba now manages the nation's biggest money market fund. Recently, Baidu, China's top search company, applied for a banking license.
Why would an Internet company get into banking? Data! Power goes to the company that knows more about its users. Banking vacuums in tanker-loads of data about users—the money they have, the ways they use it, the things they buy. And all those times that people open the banking app to check on their money provides more data and more ways to market to customers. Behind the scenes, Google and Facebook executives have to be watching Alibaba and Baidu and dreaming of becoming the next Mr. Drysdale or George Bailey or whatever banker pops into their heads after watching Me-TV.
In the U.S., even with all the regulations, banks are dealing with new entities gnawing at their edges. Six years after the subprime financial crisis, major banks still fear lending to any but the most credit-worthy small businesses, leaving a huge swath of potential customers unable to get traditional loans. That has created an opening for a new kind of lender, such as Dealstruck, which uses the Internet to match wealthy people to small-business owners who need to borrow in order to grow. These tech-based alternative lenders have been springing up faster than weed shops in Colorado.
On top of all this, there's bitcoin. Either bitcoin or some other global digital transaction system will catch fire within the next few years. It will be to credit cards what Skype was to the long-distance telephone industry. By creating a cheaper, better way to pay for stuff, digital transactions will lure in banks' credit card customers—and siphon off vital bank revenue.
As new players offer more innovative ways to handle money, banks certainly won't be rescued by their relationships with consumers. We don't know our bank tellers or branch managers any better than we know the toll collectors on the turnpike. Online, they just offer us non-differentiated products, take our fees and do us the favor of not letting our money get stolen or lost.
No wonder millennials don't give a hoot about banks. The three-year survey by Scratch—which found that tidbit about preferring the dentist to listening to banks—concluded that this young generation born between 1981 and 2000 will drive "seismic" changes in banking.
Even consulting firm Accenture says the future doesn't look pretty for banks. "Thirty-five percent of banks' market share in North America could be up for grabs by 2020," says an Accenture report, which adds that 15 percent of traditional banks' revenue could shift to technology players.
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Investors seeking to avoid health-care companies represent a small segment of a fast-growing trend in finance.
Almost 10 percent of the dollars under management in the US is guided by a socially responsible investing strategy.
However, within this trend, nonmedical investors are a small minority. Just one mutual fund - American Trust Allegiance (up 6.8 percent for the quarter, according to the fund company) - deliberately avoids health care, says Steve Schueth of the Social Investment Forum in Washington.
The Noah Fund and the Timothy Plan screen firms involved in abortion (hospitals, pharmaceuticals, insurance). Their religious guidelines also eschew firms in pornography, gambling, tobacco, and alcohol, as does American Trust.
Investors can also pick individual stocks - risky for amateurs - but such screening requires diligence, since many companies' medical involvement lies outside their core business.
Nonmedical sector funds offer another option, but one that is narrow and volatile. Technology - heavily involved in high-tech medical equipment - and retail - which includes giant pharmacy chains - are out, for example.
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After reading my last article, ‘Zainab Goes to Heaven’, a lapsed banker phoned me to say: “Just change Zainab’s name to mine and I had exactly the same experience, more or less.” And an Irani lady told me that two of her relatives went through much the same experience, and one of them also saw her dead relatives who turned their faces away from her, including a recently deceased one, as if to signify that we are not ready to receive you yet because you have come before your time. In short, there are countless people who have experienced a glimpse of life after death, many more than are recorded, because most don’t talk about it lest people think they are crazy.
It has been shown, as in my article ‘Microtubules’ that there is a scientific explanation for the survival of the spirit or ‘consciousness’ as part of the cosmos after we die, akin to the Sufi saying that a drop of water falling into the river becomes the river. And as Shams of Tabriz said: “Every drip of seawater contains within it the entire ocean”. And Iqbal: “God protect the diver into the river of Love, for every drop of the river contains the depth of the river.” Thus the old explanation by scientists and doctors that such experiences are hallucinations triggered by the cortex in the brain to comfort a dying person is getting somewhat old fashioned, like the lament of a person who doesn’t know and therefore cannot explain ‘scientifically’. We have a tendency to deny and even mock anything that we don’t understand. But when there has been so much smoke all over the world for so long, there has got to be a fire. We are slowly beginning to understand that fire, though we will never understand it fully. The good thing is that it will certainly fortify many people’s faith in the Supreme Creator and life in the Hereafter, that death is not the end but another, better and higher beginning.
I promised in my last article that I would tell you about what Mike Adams has to say about the seven-day clinical death experience of Dr. Eben Alexander, the neurosurgeon whose brain totally shut down, including his cortex. Before his experience, Alexander was, in Adams’s words, “a lifelong ‘science skeptic’. He did not believe in consciousness, free will or the existence of a non-physical spirit…Scientists, including physicists like Stephen Hawking, who say that human beings are nothing more than ‘biological robots’ with no consciousness and free will” hold this same view. By the way, the greatest of them all, Alfred Einstein, did not when he said, “God doesn’t play dice with the universe” because of the incredible balance in it. Such balance doesn’t come by accident, as many scientists believe our universe was created. I can imagine no view that could be more stupid and shortsighted.
Now, says Adams, “There’s a secret much bigger than politics, health, freedom, science or even the entire history of the human race. That secret remains entirely unacknowledged – even condemned – by the scientific community, and yet it the single most important secret about everything that is.
“That secret is simply this: We all survive the physical death of our bodies. Our consciousness lives on, and upon our death in this Earthly dream, our consciousness transcends this physical reality and experiences an existence so amazing and powerful that the human language cannot even begin to describe it.”
After reading Alexander’s book, ‘Proof of Heaven’, Mike Adams says that he “found it both fascinating and also confirming of several important theories that I’ve been developing about the nature of life of the Creator.”
After describing Dr. Alexander’s experience as I did some articles ago, Mike Adams breaks it down to some important facets:
- “The experience of the afterlife was so ‘real’ and expansive that the experience of living as a human on Earth seemed like an artificial dream by comparison.”
- “There was no time dimension in the afterlife. Time did not ‘flow’ as it does in our universe. An instant could seem like eternity, and consciousness could move through what we perceive to be time without effort. (This idea that all time exists simultaneously has enormous implications in understanding the nature of free will and the multiverse, along with the apparent flow of time experienced by our consciousness in this realm).”
- “The fabric of the afterlife was pure love. Love dominated the afterlife to such a huge degree that the overall presence of evil was infinitely small.”
- “In the afterlife, all communication was telepathic. There was no need for spoken words, nor even any separation between the self and everything else happening around you.” Just like the Sufi lament, ‘Why this separation between God and me on Earth?’
- “The moment you asked a question in your mind, the answers were immediately apparent in breathtaking depth and detail. There was no ‘unknown’ and the mere asking of a question was instantly accompanied by the appearance of its answers.”
The passage in Alexander’s book that Mike Adams found most interesting is: “… [God] told me that there is not one universe but many – in fact, more than I could conceive – but that love lay at the centre of them all.” (This is exactly what the Quran says). Evil was present in all the other universes as well, but only in the tiniest trace amounts. Evil was necessary because without it free will was impossible, and without free will there could be no growth – no forward movement, no chance for us to become what God longs for us to be. Horrible and all-powerful as evil sometimes seemed to be in a world like ours, in the larger picture love was overwhelmingly dominant, and it would ultimately be triumphant.” If you come to the conclusion that God is Love you wouldn’t be so off the mark. And from this you should realize that the purpose of life on earth is to grow by fighting evil and to acquire as much knowledge as you can.
“What Dr. Alexander’s quote confirms is that our life on planet Earth is a ‘test’ of personal growth, and that the way to make progress in this test is to overcome evil while spreading love and compassion.” Iqbal’s line, ‘Mujhay hai hukm-e-azan, La llaha il Allah’ springs to mind – “I have been ordained to proclaim: ‘There is no God but God’.” That is how you fight evil in your own way wherever you find it.
Adam asks: “Why are we placed here in a world of such evil and surrounded by ignorance, darkness and deception?” His answer: “Earth is a testing ground for souls that have been selected by the Creator for the ultimate test of good versus evil.” Satan always symbolizes evil in the Holy Scriptures.
Adams “working theory is that our planet Earth is among the highest evil-infested realms in the grand multiverse. Only the most courageous souls agree to come to Earth by being born into human bodies and stripped of their memories”, not something that Dr. Alexander contends. I, myself, am not sure whether souls ‘agree’ to be born on Earth as humans or are simply selected for some reason, perhaps because they are already so advanced that they could cope with evil here and become more advanced, or so retarded that they are sent to Earth to become advanced. I don’t know. As I said, we will find out one day.
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What Women Really Need to Know about Heart Health
Editor's Note: February is Heart Health month, aimed at bringing awareness to the #1 killer in America. Today we're sharing an interview with Dr. Patrice Desvigne-Nickens on behalf of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and The Heart Truth®. Dr. Desvigne-Nickens answered our questions via email.
DailySpark: How early should women start to take steps to protect their heart health?
Dr. Desvigne-Nickens: Women need to take steps at every age to protect their heart health. Heart disease can begin early, even in the teen years, and it is important for women and girls at all ages to know about heart disease and follow a healthy lifestyle. Women in their 20s and 30s should take action to reduce their risk of developing heart disease.
DailySpark: What are the top lifestyle changes women can make to ensure their hearts stay healthy?
Dr. Desvigne-Nickens: Most heart disease risk factors are preventable or controllable by making healthy lifestyle changes, including: stopping smoking, being physically active, following a healthy diet, and maintaining a healthy weight. Additional risk factors that you can prevent and control include: high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, and high blood sugar or diabetes. These conditions are silent (that is you don’t have any symptoms) so you must talk with your physician and know your numbers. High blood pressure, high blood cholesterol and high blood sugar are often treatable with healthy lifestyle but may require medical prescriptions.
DailySpark: Which habits harm our hearts the most?
Dr. Desvigne-Nickens: Smoking, letting high blood pressure and high cholesterol go untreated, being overweight or obese, not being physically active, and not managing diabetes all can contribute to increasing a person’s risk for heart disease.
It is especially important to understand that that having more than one risk factor or condition multiplies your risk of developing heart disease. Having one risk factor doubles your risk for disease; having two risks quadruples your risk for developing disease; having three risks increases risk by tenfold. Don’t choose among risk factors, take charge and control your risks. You can reduce your risk for heart disease by over 80% by controlling risk factors and a healthy lifestyle.
DailySpark: How much impact does weight have on heart health?
Dr. Desvigne-Nickens: Overweight individuals are more likely to develop heart disease even if they have no other risk factors. Furthermore, the more overweight a person is, the more likely he or she is to develop high blood pressure, high blood sugar and heart disease. Overweight and obesity also increase a person’s risk for a host of other conditions, including, stroke, diabetes, arthritis, and some cancers.
The bottom line is that maintaining a healthy weight is a vital part of protecting your heart and overall health.
DailySpark: Are there certain subsets of the population that need to pay particular care to their heart health?
Dr. Desvigne-Nickens: Heart disease is still the leading cause of death in women. African-American and Hispanic women have higher rates of some heart disease risk factors and are disproportionately affected by the disease compared to Caucasian women. More than 80 percent of midlife African-American women are overweight or obese, 53 percent have hypertension, and 17 percent have been diagnosed with diabetes. Some 86 percent of midlife Hispanic women are overweight or obese, and more than 10 percent have been diagnosed with diabetes. That said, awareness of heart disease as women’s leading cause of death has increased substantially among women of color. From 2000 to 2009 awareness among African-American women increased from 18 to 43 percent and awareness among Hispanic women rose from 26 to 44 percent. However, awareness still lags in racial/ethnic minorities when compared with Caucasian women. The Heart Truth addresses health disparities through multicultural education resources and community-based heart health interventions for ethnically diverse groups.
DailySpark: What are the most commonly overlooked symptoms of heart disease or a heart attack?
Dr. Desvigne-Nickens: The most common heart attack symptom, in both women and men, is chest pain or discomfort. But women also are somewhat more likely to have shortness of breath, nausea and vomiting, unusual tiredness (sometimes for days), and pain in the back, shoulders, and jaw.
It’s important to note that not all people who have heart attacks experience the same symptoms or experience them to the same degree. Many people aren’t sure what’s wrong when they’re having heart attack symptoms. Knowing the warning symptoms of a heart attack and how to take action can save your life or someone else’s. If you think you might be having heart attack symptoms or a heart attack, call 9-1–1 immediately.
Don’t ignore your pain or discomfort. Every minute matters when it comes to getting treatment for heart attacks.
DailySpark: How much will a healthy diet and regular exercise impact your heart health? Will they lower your risk of heart disease?
Dr. Desvigne-Nickens: A healthy diet and regular exercise can improve heart health, in particular, if combined with maintaining a healthy weight and not smoking. Regular exercise (30 minutes each day) reduces a person’s risk for heart disease and their chances of developing other risk factors such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and being overweight. A healthy diet can have similar effects.
DailySpark: What should women be doing during every decade to improve their heart health?
Dr. Desvigne-Nickens: Women can protect their heart at any age by adopting the following behaviors: eating right, being physically active, keeping a healthy weight and not smoking, and continuing these healthy habits throughout the rest of their lives. If the thought of adopting a healthy lifestyle seems overwhelming, remember that you can start small. Make changes one at a time and set realistic goals.
In addition, women should talk with their doctors about heart disease prevention to understand their personal risk factors for heart disease. Personal risk factors include family history of early heart disease and advancing age. Also ask your doctor to help you assess your blood pressure, cholesterol, risk for diabetes, and body mass index (BMI).
In addition, women over the age of 55 or beyond menopause have a higher risk of developing heart disease, in part because their body's production of estrogen drops. Women who have gone through early menopause are twice as likely to develop heart disease as women of the same age who have not yet gone through menopause.
To learn more about heart disease in women and how you can take action to reduce your risks, visit: hearttruth.gov.
There are also many ways that women can get involved with the NHLBI’s The Heart Truth program, raise awareness about heart disease, and get information to protect their own hearts, including:
The Heart Truth’s Web pages and Facebook page offer many resources and tools to help people lower their risk for heart disease. Also follow the program on Twitter @thehearttruth and on Pinterest.
What are YOU doing to reduce your risk of heart disease?
Patrice Desvigne-Nickens, M.D., is a program director in the Heart Failure and Arrhythmias Branch in the Division of Cardiovascular Sciences at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
In this role, Dr. Desvigne-Nickens is responsible for the scientific development and fiscal management of research programs focused on prevention, recognition, and treatment in cardiovascular medicine. She is responsible for initiative development, coordinating workshops and meetings, and preparing all reports within these scientific areas for the Division of Cardiovascular Sciences and the Institute Director.
Dr. Desvigne-Nickens is an experienced clinical trialist and is the project officer for the Atherothrombosis Intervention in Metabolic Syndrome with Low HDL/High Triglycerides: Impact on Global Health (AIM-HIGH). Dr Nickens has managed trials in acute coronary syndromes, heart failure, diabetes and revascularization, cardiac surgery, and use of left ventricular assist devices in advanced heart failure.
Among her various responsibilities, Dr. Desvigne-Nickens is particularly interested in disparities in the practice of medicine and cardiovascular health and the effect on women and minorities.
Prior to joining the NHLBI in 1991, Dr. Desvigne-Nickens was a primary care physician at the Johns Hopkins Health Plan in Baltimore. In that position, she treated patients of diverse socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds who were afflicted with various complex chronic disorders such as hypertension, diabetes, and coronary heart disease.
Dr. Desvigne-Nickens received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. She received her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia. Dr. Desvigne-Nickens began her residency in internal medicine at the Thomas Jefferson University Medical Center, Philadelphia, and completed it as an NHLBI Medical Staff Fellow at the NIH Clinical Center, Bethesda, Md.
Dr. Desvigne-Nickens has reviewed or edited dozens of scientific manuscripts and is an author or coauthor of numerous articles and studies. She is a member of the American Heart Association, the National Medical Association, and the Association of Black Cardiologists.
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The Hawaii Health Connector has enrolled 7,861 individuals as of the March 31 deadline, with another 24,176 who completed applications for coverage through the state-run online health insurance exchange.
...It is important to note there are only about 50,000 uninsured people in Hawaii who are not deemed Medicaid eligible, which makes Hawaii’s market small compared to other states.
...Kayla Rosenfeld, spokeswoman for the state Department of Human Services, told PBN on Wednesday that since Oct. 1 — when the department launched its new online eligibility system KOLEA— net Medicaid enrollment in Hawaii has increased by 46,605, which is close to the expected increase of 48,000.
OK, this just adds to the confusion over the "extension periods"...not only is Kentucky joining the "you have until 4/15 if you started by 3/31" brigade, but it appears that they're also allowing people to start the application/enrollment process between 4/4 - 4/11 as well:
Gov. Steve Beshear announced Tuesday that the state will extend its deadline. People will be able to file for health insurance from April 4 to April 11.
The official deadline had been midnight March 31. Gwenda Bond, spokeswoman for the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, said 21,000 people signed up over the weekend, including 12,000 people who signed up Monday. The deadline affected only those signing up for private health insurance, because those eligible for Medicaid can apply at any time.
Because of the high demand, Bond said, state officials decided to add additional days for enrollment or a "special enrollment period." The days between the March 31 deadline and the special enrollment period will allow for some tweaks to the technical system to allow for the extension, she said.
Huh. Good for them, but if that's the case, why not just bump this out to 4/15 and be done with it? Weird.
So far, 198 companies have bought SHOP policies for 1,770 covered lives — both their employees and their employees’ dependents, Sugden said. That's less than a large state like California, but ahead of other states that have not even been able to launch their small-business exchange, he said.
...The SHOP is attracting about 40 new companies per month right now, a number that will continue to rise because companies can continue to buy policies throughout the year, he said.
Why the heck Nevada couldn't have posted the 3/31 total instead of tacking on 4/1, I have no idea, but what the hell; it's starting to look like I'll have to wait for the HHS report in order to get the precise monthly figure anyway (assuming they don't move the 30th & 31st over to April's report, that is...)
Update as of 4/1: 41,823 Nevadans confirm Qualified Health Plan Selections through http://t.co/k2YKIcssBl. 25,899 paid to date.
Regular followers may recall that a couple of weeks ago, in response to a Glenn Kessler "Fact Checker" article, I ended up converting the "Sub26er" tally from a solid 3.1 million figure (the number touted by Pres. Obama and the HHS Dept. for months) to a "range" setup, similar to the other enrollment figures.
Kessler's argument was essentially that the quarterly reports comparing the number of 19-25-year-olds on their parent's plans between 2010 and 2013 fluctuated greatly from one quarter to another, and that therefore instead of taking one particular quarter and measuring it against another (which is where the 3.1M figure came from), it would be more rational to take the averages for the full years and compare those against each other. Based on this, he came up with a range of 2.2M - 2.8M, instead of 3.1M solid.
Over the past month or so, several researchers, reporters and other data nerds have inquired about whether I'd be willing to open up the QHP and Medicaid spreadsheet permissions to let people export them to Excel. It was always my intent to do this once the 3/31 deadline was past. However, a few things complicate this.
An article up in today's National Journal states that according to the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, their Paid Enrollee figure is around 80 - 85%...for policies from October, November, December and the first half of January.
On the one hand, this is significant for two reasons: First, because the BCBSA is huge; I don't know their collective marketshare, but it's big (they include Anthem/WellPoint, the various Blue Cross companies such as Highmark, Regence and so forth). I dunno...maybe 30% or more of the market in total?
Secondly, according to the article, this specifically refers to policy premiums which are well past-due. That is, policies which started either January or February 1st. This does not apparently include more recent enrollments (those from late January, February or March):
A few weeks back (upon my request) I was sent updated enrollment data (both on- and off-exchange) from CoOportunity Health, which operates in Iowa and Nebraska.
Earlier today (upon my semi-request...that is, I had asked about it a couple of weeks ago but kind of forgot about it), I was sent a press release for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, which included their ACA Open Enrollment data breakdown (well, most of it...I had to have them clarify the rest).
A few minutes ago, without any doing on my part, eHealth Insurance (which I've written about a couple of times for off-exchange data, and which is actually a broker, not an insurance company themselves) tweeted out a link to one of my stories about them. | <urn:uuid:e635bac5-50be-4707-baee-9aea77e9da75> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://acasignups.net/node?page=649 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.975127 | 1,219 | 1.640625 | 2 |
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According to researchers working on the American Cities Project, a study sponsored by the PEW Charitable Trust, many cities across the United States are experiencing significant population growth. This population boom is a contributing factor in increasing the availability of social services and the need for social workers within these cities.
Urban populations often face poverty, unemployment, and job insecurity; and an increasing number of people have been affected by a lack of adequate or affordable housing, limited access to quality health care, and poorly performing education systems. The combination of these problems and an expanding population may indicate the need to increase the number of social work professionals working with populations in larger cities.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the social work profession is expected to grow by 25% by 2020, and new social work education programs are popping up all over the country to try to keep up with the demand. Helping those in need within the urban population requires social work professionals who are able to work with diverse populations. In many cases, it is expected that social workers working in cities acquire special skills such as second language in order to be culturally close to the populations they must serve.
In many cities, gaining access to needed social services requires individuals to navigate complex bureaucratic systems. Social workers who are able to utilize their advanced problem solving and advocacy skills are key factors to successfully connecting at risk members of the population to the resources they need to survive. Combating bureaucracy has become almost common place when working to ensure that people with little or no resources have access to assistance.
A common benefit of working in metropolitan areas is that larger cities often support a greater number of social service agencies and providers. Social workers in bigger cities are fortunate to have many resources at their disposal and frequently have access to specialized services, which may not necessarily be available in smaller locations and settings. More importantly, clients have access to a broader range of services and support.
Social workers may rely on many of these resources to provide direct care to clients in need, but can also work to collaborate between agencies to ensure a more comprehensive and holistic plan of care. Advocacy and utilization of existing networks may be beneficial when seeking resources to help with individual and family needs.
Further, it is essential for social workers to keep up to date and have knowledge of community resources such as non- profits organizations, secular services, and faith based programs and their ability to address the crucial needs of those seeking help.
Social workers in large cities face many unique challenges, but they also have access to unique resources. As large cities become increasingly populated with individuals in need of a diverse array of assistance, social workers may become in greater demand in these areas.
These professionals will need to know how to take advantage of the social services available within large urban areas, understand how to work with diverse populations, and find creative ways to ensure the large numbers of clients they work with are able to get the help that they need.
Jesus Vasquez is currently an adjunct professor at the University of South Florida, School of Social Work. Jesus also is the coordinator of Fostering A Healthy Start which works with foster care girls who are pregnant or are new mothers to address post- partum depression, anxiety, and attachment/bonding issues. For more information about social work programs, salary information, FAQs and more, view Gradschool.com Social Work Programs. | <urn:uuid:337ec2f1-8edd-4aeb-8529-2fdeca6af9b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://swhelper.org/2014/01/07/big-cities-need-social-workers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.965141 | 678 | 3.328125 | 3 |
EU CLIMATE change experts expressed satisfaction this week after an encouraging response from US agencies during bilateral strategy talks in Washington.
Anver Ghazi, head of the global change unit of the European Commission’s research directorate, and Harlan Watson, the US senior climate negotiator, led the delegations. The two sides agreed on technical areas for future research. They aim to develop a global observation system to monitor atmospheric levels of carbon, a greenhouse gas; conduct studies on the influence of aerosols on clouds, climate and the water cycle; and develop standards for hydrogen energy technologies.
“What I found very surprising was the sheer number of [US] agencies involved,” said one EU official who participated in the two-day talks. “It was a very encouraging sign that they want to collaborate.”
The US delegation included representatives from the White House science and technology policy office, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA, National Science Foundation and the US Agency for International Development.
As well as the Commission’s research directorate, the EU group also included climate experts from member states.
“There’s a lot of research that needs to be done,” the EU official said, emphasising that the focus was on “gaps of knowledge and research” not on divergent views on the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate change, which the US has refused to ratify.
Meanwhile, Greenpeace and the Worldwide Fund for Nature have, in a joint letter, urged EU leaders to put more pressure on Russia to ratify the protocol to allow it to come into force. | <urn:uuid:967038c7-c412-45e5-aa32-121ca1f262c1> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.politico.eu/article/europe-and-us-combine-in-talks-on-climate-change/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721558.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00045-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94497 | 331 | 2.375 | 2 |
Hydraulic components are the industrial power transmission version of LEGO. Pumps, cylinders, valves – pretty much everything is standardized, and fitting out a working system is a matter of picking the right parts and just plumbing everything together. That’s fine if you want to build an excavator or a dump truck, but what if you want to scale things down?
Miniature hydraulic systems need miniature components, of which this homebrew hydraulic valve made by [TinC33] is a great example. (Video embedded below.) If you’re curious about why anyone would need these, check out the tiny hydraulic cylinders he built a while back, wherein you’ll learn that miniature RC snowplows are a thing. The video below starts with a brief but clear explanation about how hydraulic circuits work, as well as an explanation of the rotary dual-action proportional valve he designed. All the parts are machined by hand in the lathe from aluminum and brass stock. The machining operations are worth watching, but if you’re not into such things, skip to final assembly and testing at 13:44. The valve works well, providing very fine control of the cylinder and excellent load holding, and there’s not a leak to be seen. Impressive.
[TinC33] finishes the video with a tease of a design for multiple valves in a single body. That one looks like it might be an interesting machining challenge, and one we’d love to see.
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You’ve said before that combining two Kanoka disks of the same power doesn’t produce a new power, but instead produces the same power as the combined two. This makes perfect sense, but could there still be a reason that a Matoran crafter would want to combine two disks of the same power?
For example, say you have two level 5 Teleport disks that have been used, meaning some of their power has been drained (as you’ve said before, Kanoka disks have a finite amount of uses before losing power completely). Could combining the two Teleport disks into one create a disk that has the combined power from the individual two, which would effectively be “repairing” it?
I don’t know how familiar you are with Minecraft, but it has a very similar method for repairing in game tools, as shown below: | <urn:uuid:68283255-08aa-4170-b27a-6d8ca363ebc6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://board.ttvchannel.com/t/combining-kanoka-disks-of-the-same-power/58902 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.962732 | 194 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Oct 15, 2019
National Strategy for Women in Trades Developed by 2020
Task force to present findings at National Apprenticeship Conference in May.
Apr 1, 2019
Women, landscaping and opportunity
More and more women are entering a profession previously dominated by men.
Feb 26, 2019
Leading ladies of landscaping
Some successful women share their thoughts on a rewarding career in landscaping.
Jul 15, 2018
Women In Trades Experiential Learning Day
Hands-on learning experience shows young women the many career opportunities available.
Jul 15, 2018
Sonia Day honoured for leadership
Garden writer becomes second recipient of Monica van Maris Award.
May 15, 2018
First Women in Landscaping event
Grass-root movement aims to welcome, support and inspire others on the many career paths available.
May 15, 2017
Celebrating women of influence in our profession
A new award will recognize women who make an impact in the green profession.
Apr 16, 2017
Celebrating women in Apprenticeship
A profile two female apprenticeship students from LO’s Upper Canada Chapter and their employer.
Jun 15, 2015
New project will mentor women in horticulture
MicroSkills and Landscape Ontario are working together on a new project entitled, Advancing Women in Horticulture through Mentorship. | <urn:uuid:9d19eac1-75fb-47cb-afcc-0696bd158f9f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://landscapeontario.com/tag/women | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.924794 | 284 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Washington, June 7 (ANI): Facebook connections can help first-generation college applicants believe in their abilities to both apply to school and excel once they have gotten enrolled, a new study has suggested.
"We are very excited by these findings, because they suggest that the kinds of interactions supported by Facebook and other social media can play a role in helping young people, especially those who are traditionally less likely to go to college, feel more confident about their ability to get into college and to succeed there," said Nicole Ellison, associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information.
First-generation applicants might not come into contact on a daily basis with people who support their interest in college or who can answer questions about it, Ellison said.
"Our message to high school students is that even if they are disadvantaged in terms of financial resources or parental support, social media can help them access resources they may already have in their extended social networks," said D. Yvette Wohn, a doctoral student at Michigan State University and first author of the study.
The researchers surveyed more than 500 high school students in lower-income Muskegon County, Michigan.
They used statistical models to examine how various factors were correlated with the students' confidence in their ability to apply to college and their expectations of success there.
The factors they examined include demographics, family history of college attendance, parents' community involvement, and both informational and emotional support by parents, friends and Facebook connections.
To gauge how well the students understood the college application process, the survey asked participants about social media use and to rate how strongly they agreed or disagreed with four statements such as: "I know how to apply for financial aid" and "I know what I need to include in a college application."
Of the sample, 12 percent had used social media to get information about how to apply to school.
The researchers found that after controlling for all other factors, first-generation students who "strongly agreed" that they used social media in this way, felt 1.8 times more confident about their understanding of the application process, compared with students who did not use social media for this type of information.
This correlation didn't hold true for students whose parents had graduated from college.
To see how well the participants expected to do in school, the researchers had them rate on a scale from 1 for "strongly disagree" to 5 for "strongly agree," statements such as "I am confident that I will fit in socially in college" and "I am confident that I am able to successfully graduate from college." Overall, first-generation students reported much lower expectations, with a mean score of 2.84, compared with 4.01 for the others.
A full 70 percent of all students had a Facebook friend who either was in college or had gone and could answer questions about it. The researchers found that all else being equal, first-generation students who strongly agreed that they had this type of Facebook connection were 2.3 times more confident in their ability to succeed in school, compared with their peers who had no Facebook friend they could talk about college with.
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Fourteen of the United Nations Security Council’s 15 members have publicly condemned Israel’s settlement expansion after the United States blocked attempts to take stronger action.
India's UN ambassador, Hardeep Singh Puri, described the four statements - made by the eight-member Non-Aligned Movement, the four European members, Russia and China - as a "Plan B" after it was clear the US would veto a legally-binding resolution on the issue.
All the statements were made at the UN after a Security Council briefing on the situation in the Middle East.
While the US has also condemned Israel's plans, it did not make a statement at the UN.
"Consultations [on a resolution] were held amongst the members of the council and an attempt was made ... [to see] if the 15th member could be accommodated," said Mr Puri, referring to the US.
"But when we came to the conclusion that that was not likely to happen ... it was felt that Plan B - which is what this is essentially - was for members of the council to come out individually and in groupings to make statements," he said.
The US - traditionally Israel's protector on the Security Council - blocked a resolution in February last year condemning Israeli settlements.
Any of the five permanent members of the council, the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China, can veto a resolution.
When asked about the planned statements by Security Council members at the United Nations, US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said: "Each country ought to make its own representations ... and that's the way we've proceeded."
The Security Council resumed talks on a resolution condemning settlements after Israel said last month it would build 3,000 more homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem - areas Palestinians want for a future state, along with Gaza.
Approximately 500,000 Israelis and 2.5 million Palestinians live in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The Israeli announcement came a day after the UN General Assembly upgraded the Palestinians' status at the world body to "non-member state" - a de facto UN recognition of statehood.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that his government would press ahead with expanding Jewish settlements around Jerusalem, despite Western criticism.
Speaking in Washington, Ms Nuland said the US said it was "deeply disappointed" by the plan and said it put the goal of a two-state solution at risk.
The current European members of the Security Council, permanent members Britain and France, together with Germany and Portugal, said Israel's announcement of an acceleration of settlement construction was "undermining faith in its willingness to negotiate".
Diplomats made clear that the issuance of the statements was targeted as much at the US as they at Israel and the Palestinians for a lack of progress towards a peace plan.
"We're making clear to both parties and the US that the window of opportunity [for peace] is closing," said a senior Western diplomat.
The Non-Aligned Movement caucus of the Security Council - Togo, South Africa, Morocco, Pakistan, India, Guatemala, Colombia and Azerbaijan - expressed grave concern at the "continuing illegal Israeli settlement activities," which it said breached international humanitarian law.
Russia and China also separately said they were concerned by the settlement plans. All the statements on the issue were made outside the Security Council yesterday.
UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman told the Security Council yesterday that settlement construction in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, violated international law.
"If implemented, these plans would represent an almost fatal blow to remaining chances of securing a two-state solution," Mr Feltman said.
"We strongly urge the Israeli government to heed the wide international calls to rescind these plans."
Israeli analysts see the settlement drive as an effort by Mr Netanyahu to enhance support for his right-wing Likud party in a 22 January parliamentary election he is expected to win.
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If you’re new to exercising or looking to change up your routine, you’re probably wondering which exercises are actually worth doing. Any movement throughout the day is. But there are certain exercises that are beneficial to include in your weekly fitness routine. They may even set you up to better .
We spoke toto find out the types of exercises you should be adding to your workouts. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned fitness enthusiast, there are ways to make these exercises easier or harder depending on your fitness level.
Try these expert-approved exercises next time you’re in the gym or working out at home.
The deadlift is a compound exercise that has you lifting heavy weight off the floor by bending at the hips and standing back up. There are plenty of variations to choose from if you’re a beginner or a seasoned weightlifter. Some variations include the kettlebell deadlift, Romanian deadlift, conventional deadlift, stiff-legged deadlift, sumo deadlift and trap bar (or hex bar) deadlift.
“The deadlift is a great exercise because it helps strengthen the core, back, shoulders, arm muscles, as well as your glutes, quads, hamstrings and calves,” says John Gardner, a NASM-certified personal trainer. He explains that the deadlift is an essential exercise that stimulates both the upper and lower body simultaneously, allowing more muscles to be engaged at the same time. “You’ll be burning more calories as well as making it an extremely time-efficient exercise,” Gardner adds. As a result of doing deadlifts, your posture will also improve because of the way it targets your back muscles and shoulders.
If you plan on deadlifting, have a personal trainer or experienced weightlifter observe your form. One common mistake people make when performing deadlifts is squatting (and bending the knees too much) instead of hinging at the hips. Another mistake is arching or rounding the back instead of engaging the upper body and core muscles. This can lead to a lower back injury because of the pressure it causes on your back. You also need to be mindful to not overextend your neck and head and should keep it in a straight line.
If you have a history of chronic back issues, a spine injury or are pregnant, it’s best to consult with your doctor or personal trainer first before doing this exercise.
The push-up is beneficial for building up your upper body strength and targets your chest, triceps, back and shoulders. Although it’s a well-known exercise, it’s also one that is— even by experienced exercisers.
“The nice thing about the push-up is that it can easily be modified to fit your skill level,” says Dr. Brittany Noel Robles, a certified personal trainer and OB-GYN. Some modifications include doing a push-up against the wall, or with your hands elevated on an incline to make it more challenging. Once you’ve mastered the push-up from these angles, you can take it to the floor and practice them through changing up the tempo or your hand positioning.
“Everyone should include push-ups in their workout because they are a functional exercise that translates into real-world situations,” says Robles. “Specifically, the push-up trains the functional movement pattern of horizontal pushing, or the ability to push objects away from you.”
3. Pallof press
The Pallof press is an anti-rotation movement that limits the rotation of your spine. It’s considered a core strength training exercise that can be easily done using a cable machine or resistance band. “Your transverse abdominis, or your internal belt, helps secure your low back as a deep muscle in your core,” says James Shapiro, an LA-based sports performance coach. “By activating it more and becoming stronger, you’ll be able to increase your strength in compound movements and increase activation in your rectus (your six-pack).”
There are variations that allow you to efficiently workout your core. To perform this motion you’ll need a resistance band tied to a power rack (or a sturdy base) or a cable machine with a handle set up depending on whether you’ll be standing or kneeling. You can do this movement by standing in a staggered stance, half-kneeling or tall-kneeling on the ground. If you have lower back issues, the Pallof press can be performed either seated or on your back on the floor. Shapiro recommends that beginners start with very light weight and hold the position as they breathe.
4. Inverted row
The inverted row is an exercise that both beginners and advanced exercisers can do to strengthen their upper back. It also improves scapular retraction, which can help prepare you to do pull-ups if your goal is to master them. Typically the inverted row can be done using TRX suspension straps or using the bar from a barbell positioned on a rack above you while you’re in an angled horizontal position. Your arms should fully extend above you, while keeping your body hovered above the floor.
“To make the inverted row more challenging you can lower the bar, walk your feet forward, raise your feet up on a box or add weight,” says Chris Matsui, a certified strength conditioning specialist and USA Weightlifting coach. If you need a modification, he suggests walking your feet further back, raising the bar up or bending your knees.
5. Split squats
The split squat is a single leg exercise that forces you to use your core for balance. It targets your glutes, quads and hamstrings. There are also several ways to do them to make them easier or harder, depending on your fitness level. “It’s not a technical exercise, so it’s easier to do with less compensation patterns to worry about,” Matsui says.
The split squat can be done using dumbbells, a barbell, kettlebells or your own bodyweight. To make the exercise harder, you can place the back foot on an elevated surface to perform a Bulgarian split squat (another variation of the split squat) or to modify it, you can keep your back foot on the floor and use your own bodyweight.
6. Dumbbell squat to press
The dumbbell squat to press, also known as a thruster, is a compound exercise that starts in a front squat position and ends in an overhead press. This full body movement can be done using dumbbells, a barbell or kettlebells. It’s a power exercise intended to be performed quickly as you move from a squat to press.
“From a conditioning standpoint, with adequate weight and the right tempo, this full body movement can really jack up the cardiovascular demand,” says Shinekwa Kershaw, a personal trainer at Blink Fitness. She suggests that if you have knee limitations make sure to only squat to parallel or just above that. This can also be performed as a seated squat on a box or chair. If you have issues overhead pressing, another option Kershaw suggests is doing a squat to bicep curl.
The traditional squat is an important exercise because it targets the muscles in your lower body, such as your glutes, quads, hamstrings, abdominals — even your upper body. You can load the squat using dumbbells, barbells, kettlebells and sandbags. “Not only is the squat a functional move that mimics everyday life such as sitting and standing in a chair, it increases our anabolic hormones, and is important for spine and core strength,” explains LA-based fitness trainer Natalie Yco.
There are also different squat variations such as squat jumps, single leg squats, barbell back squats, front squats, goblet squats, sumo squats and more. “Squats strengthen the muscle around the knee to help prevent knee injuries and may help improve flexibility while moving through a deeper range of motion,” says Yco.
If you’re new to squats and have yet to master the move, Yco suggests trying out wall squats with a stability ball placed between your back and a wall. Start in a standing position with your feet shoulder-width apart and back against the ball, and lower into a seated position by bending your knees at a 90-degree angle. The goal is to keep your lower back firmly against the ball. This modification takes stress off your lower back and makes it easier to squat down.
8. Kettlebell swing
strengthening your posterior chain (the back of your body).exercises have become popular even beyond the Crossfit crowd. One exercise in particular that is a favorite among fitness experts is the kettlebell swing. The full body exercise uses your hips, core, hamstrings, glutes and upper body to produce an explosive movement. It’s an excellent way to get cardio in while also
“I love the two-handed kettlebell swing because it is an exercise that builds total-body strength and also improves your cardiovascular fitness,” says Jennifer Conroyd, a certified ACE trainer and USA Track and Field Coach. Before performing the kettlebell swing (or any other kettlebell exercise), you should have an expert with kettlebell training teach you the proper technique. Kettlebell training is all about mastering the technique first, before going on to swing or snatch heavy kettlebells.
“It is truly a phenomenal all-in-one exercise and It’s important to focus on good posture and using your hips to generate the movement,” says Conroyd. If you’re just learning to swing, she suggests modifying the move by decreasing the weight of the kettlebell until you feel comfortable with the movement. If you have shoulder or lower back injuries you may not be the best candidate for kettlebell swings and should consult with your doctor or physical therapist before trying them first.
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Jackson Hole, located in Teton Country, is just west of the Continental Divide in North West Wyoming and surrounded on all sides by mountain ranges including Sleeping Indian and Grand Teton National Park.
Jackson Hole is encompassed on all sides by mountain barriers. The hole - or valley - is 48 miles long and for the most part, six to eight miles wide, embracing an area of approximately 400 square miles. It lies a few miles west of the Continental Divide and occupies the central portion of the headwaters of the Snake River. Mountain streams converge radically toward it from the surrounding highlands, and the Snake River receives these as it flows through the valley.
With so many mountain ranges within a stone’s throw, Jackson Hole is a hub of outdoor recreation opportunity. Wildlife watching is easy here; elk, deer, and many other small mammals can be found throughout the valley. A plethora of bird species hangs in the valley throughout the year including various ducks, geese and even swans. As it is with mountain ranges, skiing is the major winter pastime and Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Snow King and Grand Targhee all offer an excellent skiing experience and accommodations. The National Elk Refuge, northeast of the Town of Jackson, provides a home for thousands of elk each winter. Visitors can take sleigh rides among the elk from mid-December through April.
Jackson’s Town Square, located in the heart of downtown, serves as a hub for shopping, dining and exploring. Four entrances to the park are framed by arches made from elk antler sheds collected from the nearby National Elk Refuge.
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Since being introduced by Robert Hansen and Jeremiah Grossman in 2008 , the Web attacks which are summarized under the term "Clickjacking" have received considerable attention. In consequence, server-driven countermeasures, namely framebusting and the X-frames option header have been developed and deployed. However, these currently available countermeasures fall short in non-trivial situations. All currently utilized techniques have in common, that they rely on the prevention of framing. This is problematic, as there a numerous situations, in which sites have to enable other sites to frame their content (e.g., mash-up components or Web widgets). Furthermore, Hunag & Jackson have demonstrated that similar attacks can also be conducted using pop-under windows. Also, Zalewski did the same using an attack vector based on page-navigation .
Robert Hansen, Jeremiah Grossman, “Clickjacking,” Dec. 2008. [Online].
G. Rydstedt, E. Bursztein, D. Boneh, and C. Jackson, “Busting frame busting: a study of clickjacking vulnerabilities at popular sites,” in in IEEE Oakland Web 2.0 Security and Privacy (W2SP 2010), 2010.
Mozilla Corporation, “The X-Frame-Options response header”, 2010. [Online].
Lin-Shung Huang and Collin Jackson, "Clickjacking Attacks Unresolved", 2011, [Online].
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Suicide is frequently a sudden, surprising and shocking death that leaves family members reeling in disbelief and heartache. Suicide is akin to lobbing an explosive into the middle of the family. There is enormous collateral damage.
For children, the death of a parent is a traumatic event, which is especially intensified for young children. However, when the death is a suicide, the trauma is heightened even more.
Suicide is the hardest death to accept. There are so many unanswered questions.
Arguably, suicide is the hardest death to accept. There are so many unanswered questions.
Young children do not readily understand the concept of suicide. They might ask, "What is suicide?" Once the child has some grasp on the meaning of suicide, there will be the inevitable "why?" question that wracks every survivor, young and old, of a suicidal loss.
Suicide opens Pandora's Box. Children want to understand why their parent made that choice and why their parent did not choose to stay with them. Did I do something to make this happen? Is it my fault? Didn't Daddy love me enough to want to stay? If I had loved her more, would Mom have stayed?
It's crucial for children to be given an age-appropriate answer, i.e., the younger the child means the simpler the response with fewer details, understanding of their parent's death so that they can begin to make sense of this terrifying loss and, over time, integrate this seminal event into their psyche.
Understanding comes with the knowledge that suicide is predicated on severe pain of all kinds. When we are in serious pain, we will do anything to minimize or eradicate the pain. Suicide is a choice, made at that moment in time, to end the agony of a life. That agony clearly has nothing to do with the child, but the pain of the parent's life. Suicide is often prompted by haywire neurochemicals, mental illness, profound physical pain, substance abuse and/or trauma. In other words, the parent was under extreme duress, which influenced their thinking and their actions.
Suicide is a mental health issue. With children, it can be helpful to use the idea of sickness because children readily understand this.
Because suicide is both traumatic and considered complicated grief, there is the possibility that the child could become emotionally frozen... As a result, their development stalls and they can have increased difficulties socially and at school, which can set the stage for long-term repercussions.
At the funeral, the priest said my Daddy died because he was sick. My Daddy didn't have cancer. The priest said what my Daddy had was a mental illness. He said my Daddy tried very hard not to be sick, but it got the better of him. I liked that the priest said that. I didn't have to explain it to anybody.
Because suicide is both traumatic and considered complicated grief, there is the possibility that the child could become emotionally frozen, i.e., their emotions are frozen at the time of trauma like a solid block of ice with no movement and no flow. As a result, their development stalls and they can have increased difficulties socially and at school, which can set the stage for long-term repercussions.
To heal from the trauma, loss, and grief, the primary focus is to encourage the child to express their feelings. This can be done through physical activity, arts and writing projects, all things creative and, with older children, involvement in acts of service, like a walk to raise money for mental health resources.
Children of suicide are often very angry: How could you do this to me? Why did you leave me? Because of you, my life is all messed up, why aren't you here?
They have greater fears and anxiety: How can I remember my Mom better? How can I make sure I never forget my Dad? Will I be left alone?
Children of suicide show more depressive symptoms: Why am I so sad? Will I be this sad forever? When will it stop hurting? You tell me they are in a better place, I want be with them. If I kill myself too, will I see my Mommy again?
They have a pronounced fear of death: You always said I am just like my Daddy, am I going to die this way? Are you going to die too?
There can be denial: Marissa didn't want to believe it. It couldn't be true. Not her dad. She told everyone her dad died of a heart attack, but, it was actually a suicide.
The child's stability, safety and protection have evaporated... Children of suicide are trying to understand a loss that brings grown-ups to their knees. It's a very challenging path to walk, both for the children and their remaining parent.
All of these feelings make sense because the child's stability, safety and protection have evaporated. There is no terra firma. Children of suicide are trying to understand a loss that brings grown-ups to their knees. It's a very challenging path to walk, both for the children and their remaining parent or caregivers.
And not only are the children trying to understand the suicidal death of their parent, there is the additional stress, possible abandonment and rejection due to social stigma, shame and taboo around suicide:
Why is everybody acting so weird? How come nobody wants to talk about my Dad's death?
What do I tell the kids at school? Why do people look at me funny at school? Or whisper about me and my family? Some of my friends even avoid me now.
Why do I feel all ashamed and embarrassed, I didn't do anything wrong, did I?
It is not easy to lose a parent under any circumstances, but to lose a parent to suicide is incredibly difficult. Suicide by a parent leaves a very frightened and terrified child who is struggling mightily for emotional survival.
Gently encourage your children to express all of their feelings -- the good, the bad and, especially the ugly. Reassure your bereft little ones that they are not alone. Yes, this is tough. Yes, we are all sad. Yes, it's OK to laugh at a silly movie tonight and cry tomorrow. There is no perfect way, but by being open, honest and vulnerable with your children, you will navigate this slippery slope.
Above all, show the children that although we cannot control what happens, we can learn how to manage our reactions. It takes time and patience and tenderness to pick up all the pieces of a shattered heart.
Young Minds Matter is a new series designed to lead the conversation with children about mental and emotional health, so youngsters feel loved, valued and understood. Launched with Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of Cambridge, as guest editor, we will discuss problems, causes and most importantly solutions to the stigma surrounding the mental health crisis among children. To blog on the site as part of Young Minds Matter email [email protected]
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A British study published this year in the American Journal of Psychiatry looked at pairs of adult twins, both fraternal and identical, to see how genetics might influence anxiety. The researchers hypothesized that a child with an identical twin for a father would have the same amount of anxiety as their father (or his twin) if the trait is only genetic— he or she would share the same amount of DNA with either of those adults. But they found that when it came to anxiety, children had more in common with their own parents than than they did with their parent’s twin, indicating that the relationship between the parents and children was an important factor in predicting future anxiety. If you’re suffering from anxiety, seeking treatment won’t just help you but it may benefit your children in the short and long term as well.
If you have a beloved pet, you know that it’s good for your quality of life. It’s just nice to have your dog greet you when you get home from work, or your cat cuddle at your feet when you go to bed. But research shows that a pet can be helpful for your mental health too. One recent study found that pets can help lower social anxiety in children with autism, for example. Researchers at Purdue University measured reductions in stress levels for children aged five to 12 and with autism when they were exposed to companion animals including cats, dogs, and guinea pigs.
Untreated anxiety and depression can have negative effects on your physical health as well as your mental health, which is one more reason why access to psychiatric care is so important. For example, research from the University of Edinburgh released this month found that people with anxiety or depression may have a higher risk of dying from liver disease. The connection is not yet clear and more research is needed on the biological links between liver disease and psychological distress, but the findings are considered the first to find a potential link between the two.
Air pollution has already been linked to serious health problems like asthma and heart attacks, and one new study found that particulate air pollution could also be linked to our mental health. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University found that exposure to fine particulate matter air pollution could cause or intensify anxiety as it causes increased oxidative stress and inflammation in the body. It’s also possible that air pollution could increase anxiety by aggravating chronic health conditions.
Research released in May found that 4.3 Americans with full-time jobs — or 3.7 per cent of adult workers--experienced an anxiety disorder over the previous year. The rate was even higher for those who didn’t have full-time employment: the rate of anxiety disorders in the past 12 months was 5.6 per cent for part-time workers, 6.9 per cent for the unemployed, and 8.9 per cent for those out of the workforce. And anxiety disorders themselves can make it hard to gain or maintain adequate employment.
Nobody knows a child better than his or her parents, but even attentive parents may be missing signs of anxiety in their kids. One study done by Yahoo Parenting and Silver Hill Hospital found that some parents are in denial that their children may be suffering from anxiety or depression. The researchers found that while almost two thirds of the parents they surveyed think their teen child is suffering from anxiety or depression, and nearly half of those teens have talked to their parents about their mental-health issues, only 18 per cent of those teens have received a diagnosis. The good news is that most parents notice their children’s struggles, and many teens feel comfortable talking to their parents about their mental health. It’s important to follow through if you suspect your own child is struggling, because quality care is available and can help.
A new survey from the University of California (UC) indicates that post-secondary students are increasingly dealing with mental-health issues, including anxiety disorders. The UC survey found that incoming college students in 2014 had the lowest self-rated emotional health in the nearly 50 years of the survey’s history. Their worries include anxiety about their ability to find gainful employment after graduation, years in the future.
It’s no surprise that bullying can cause anxiety in children who experience it, but new findings indicate that it can affect mental health even into adulthood.The study also notes the effect is stronger for children who are bullied by peers. A study published this year in Lancet Psychiatry found that children bullied by their peers are at a higher risk for the development of mental-health problems in early adulthood when compared to those who are bullied or emotionally abused by an adult. The findings make it clear that bullying is a serious issue that can have long-term health effects, even when it’s among children.
Research done in the U.K. and published this year in BMJ Open found that men who self-reported abusive behaviours towards their romantic partners were three to five times more likely to report symptoms of anxiety than non-perpetrators. The findings are consistent with past research that has found that men who either have experienced or perpetrated domestic abuse are more likely to experience mental-health issues like anxiety. Studies like these show that doctors treating men for anxiety disorders would be wise to ask about domestic abuse, the researchers said.
Bruxism — more commonly known as tooth grinding — can lead to a host of dental issues, including headaches, jaw pain, loss of tooth enamel, tooth decay, and even tooth loss. And people suffering from social anxiety often experience bruxism, even if the bouts of anxiety are short term. More than 40 per cent of the study participants with a diagnosed social phobia showed moderate to severe dental wear, compared to just over one quarter of the subject without a phobia. And 43 per cent of the group with social anxiety reported experiencing bruxism while awake, compared to only three per cent of those in the control group. People who grind their teeth while awake are sometimes unaware they’re doing it at all, since it tends to be quieter than bruxism that occurs during sleep.
Are you sleeping six or eight hours? Or are you tossing and turning every night with worry? If your sleep is accompanied by respiratory problems like snoring, difficulty breathing, muscle weakness or daytime sleepiness, talk to your doctor about anxiety, says Dr. Prakash Masand, a psychiatrist and president of Global Medical Education based in New York City.
If you're constantly feeling stressed out about your work life, family life or personal life, it may be a symptom of anxiety. Experts say if your stress is long-term, it could leave you more vulnerable to anxiety and depression.
Not only are you stressed out, but your body also feels like it is burning out and shutting down. Masand says if you feel overworked and it is continuously getting in the way of your day-to-day functioning, it could be anxiety.
If you're constantly and unexpectedly worried, scared or frightened by something with an uncertain result, it could be a sign of anxiety, Masand says. Worrying can be reduced by observing your thoughts and feelings and learning how to take control and accept your current situation — as opposed to being fearful of it, according to PsychCentral.
If you experience stomach knots or upset stomachs that are sudden, it could be another symptom of anxiety. Masand says if your stomach difficulties are also followed by diarrhea, severe constipation, nausea or vomiting, speak to your doctor to rule out other medical conditions.
Masand says you should also be mindful of chest tightening and other symptoms related to breathing and your heart. This may include shortness of breath, sweating, nausea, pressure or fullness in the centre of the chest and/or a radiating chest, arms or back pain. If you have these associated symptoms, you need to seek emergency care immediately.
You may get a headache from time to time depending on your workflow or sleep routine, but Masand says if your headaches are common and also include weakness, dizziness or loss of sensation, talk to your doctor about getting diagnosed.
Along with chest tightness, palpitations and irregular heartbeats are also common signs of anxiety. For some, palpitations can be common — you may feel a sensation of fluttering, throbbing, flip-flopping, or pounding in your heart, according to Harvard's Family Health Guide.
Panic disorder is an anxiety disorder where people experience unexpected and repeated panic attacks from time to time, according to Anxiety BC. Masand says this psychological symptom can also include being worried, scared or irritable.
Besides blurred vision, if your sight is shaky and you have a hard time keeping your train of thought together, Masand says it may be a sign of anxiety. You may feel shakiness in your arms, legs, fingers, toes or your whole body at once.
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Young Men Auxiliary Training Focuses on Duty to God
Contributed By By Jason Swensen, Church News staff writer
Leaders of young men throughout the Church enjoy a sacred privilege and opportunity to help the boys they serve to realize and fulfill their duty to God.
That was the message emphasized at the May 10 spring training for Young Men adult leaders. The annual training originated from the Bountiful Regional Center and was broadcast via the web to congregations of Young Men leaders around the world.
Brother David L. Beck, Young Men general president, called for “all hands on deck” in the Church’s ongoing efforts to provide Aaronic Priesthood holders with the examples, instruction, and resources they need to fulfill their sacred work and duty to the Lord.
Serving with the young men, he added, is edifying labor. “They will love you forever as you show patience and kindness and help them fulfill their duty to God.”
The training included several clips from Aaronic Priesthood-themed talks from the recent general conference, including excerpts from President Thomas S. Monson and several others from the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. The event was interactive. Young Men leaders from all over the world were invited to e-mail questions about their callings during the two-hour training session. Several of those questions were then discussed during the live broadcast by members of the Young Men general board.
The training session can be viewed via the Church’s youth website and is available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Brother Beck began the training by noting the presidency’s gratitude and concern for all those “parents, advisors and local priesthood leader” called to serve young men. “We pray for you morning and night,” he said.
Holders of the Aaronic Priesthood, he added, have a sacred responsibility and promise to develop priesthood “disciplines” such as being faithful and magnifying their callings. “It’s important for a priesthood man to have discipline,” he declared.
The recent general conference addresses of President Monson and many others demonstrated the importance of such discipline along with the need for sacred service performed by worthy priesthood holders.
Brother Larry M. Gibson, first counselor in the Young Men general presidency, focused his training on the value of Scouting and worthwhile activities for the young men of the Aaronic Priesthood. Under priesthood leadership, Scouting is beneficial “in developing testimonies and priesthood power,” he said.
A lifelong Scouter himself, Brother Gibson emphasized the Church’s support of the Scouting program. Scouting provided activities that support a young man’s development into a man of the priesthood. Even in areas of the world where Scouting is not available, the principles found in the storied program for boys can be utilized to help young men grow and develop.
Safety, he added, is a top priority in all Scouting activities. A “safety page” is available online on the youth website to help Young Men leaders in their activity planning “to ensure that our young men are kept safe.”
By utilizing the doctrine, principles, and resources of the Church, youth leaders can develop the qualities in the boys they serve that were found in the 2,000 stripling warriors. Like those young warriors of the Book of Mormon, today’s holders of the Aaronic Priesthood can be valiant, strong, and courageous, he said.
Scouting can also help young men fulfill their Duty to God goals as they invite others to participate in uplifting and exciting outdoor activities.
Brother Adrian Ochoa, second counselor in the Young Men general presidency, spoke of the online resources found on the Church’s youth website that support Duty to God and the For the Strength of Youth booklet. Several videos are available to young men and their leaders that teach essential gospel principles. Many celebrate the actions of young men in the Church who are blessing the lives of family and friends through their service and example.
Leaders of young men, he added, need to be examples of true priesthood men. The young men of the Church need mentors that they can look up to and learn from. Personal worthiness is vital. “Our hands need to be clean … so we can be examples,” he said.
Aaronic Priesthood holders live in treacherous times. There is danger about. “We need to provide [them with] the strength, examples, and weapons to be able to triumphant in this time of danger,” he said.
The revised Duty to God program was introduced two years ago, said Brother Beck. Since then, the program has yielded “wonderful success stories” and has blessed many young men and their families. “The Duty to God program is more than a self-improvement program … this is about doing God’s work,” he said.
Duty to God, he said, can be most effective when leaders make time in each Sunday quorum meeting to discuss the program and invite the boys to share their Duty to God experiences. The program should also be a regular element of Mutual and family home evening activities. The program will help young men recognize and develop the “disciplines” of the priesthood.
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Contracting sexually transmitted diseases only happens if you have a physical intimate sexual contact with someone who is infected. It is passed on via oral sex, anal sex, or vaginal intercourse. STD can also be spread through non-sexual contact like an infected mother transmitted to an infant before, during, or after childbirth, breastfeeding, blood donation, or donor tissue.
At times, sexually transmitted diseases do not manifest any signs and symptoms at all. However, it may include vaginal discharge, penile discharge, rash around the genital area, ulcer or on around genitals, itchiness, pain with urination, pain with ejaculation.
Some of the sexually transmitted infections like syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, trichomoniasis are curable but herpes, hepatitis B, HIV/AIDS, and HPV are treatable but not curable.
How do you know if you have STD?
The symptoms vary from person to person, depending on the severity of the infection, what type of infection is present, and what stage it is in. Symptoms can range from no signs at all to severe. Symptoms may develop days after engaging to sexual activity and sometimes, it can take weeks.
The first signs of infection are usually an abnormality in the genital area. People who are infected know that there is something wrong because of the possible presence of rashes, itching, discharge, or pain. Apart from the manifestation of signs and symptoms, the only way to diagnose if you contracted STD is to get tested.
It can be confirmed through a series of tests such as blood test, urine samples, and fluid samples.
How to treat STD?
There are two types of sexually transmitted infection: viral or of bacterial origin. Typically, sexually transmitted diseases caused by bacteria is generally easier to cure. Viral infections can be controlled but not always cured. Viral STD remains in the body for the remainder of lifetime.
Treatment can either be the two:
- Antibiotics – Bacterial STDs can be cured with antibiotics. Beginning an early treatment proves to be effective. Do not wait for the disease to be severe before you start taking antibiotics. (For the list of antibiotics available, you can get here.)
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a) Puncture repair kit which consists of tool 1, tool 2, cold mending rubber strip, cutter blade.
b) Foot pump and a plier.
1) Step 1: ideally you should mark the portion where the nail is embedded but since i didn’t have any chalk i skipped that part. Rotate the tyre to a position from where you can have a comfortable access to the nail. After that i engage the gear so that the tyre doesn’t rotate during the procedure.
2) Step 2 : take out a strip of cold mending rubber and pass it through the eye of tool 2 so that there is equal length of the rubber on either side of tool 2 .keep it aside.
3) Step 3: use the plier and pull out the nail.
4) Step 4: insert tool 1 through the hole created by the nail. Here you must follow the path (direction) of the nail. Insert about 2/3 rd of it through the tire.
5) Step 5: now take tool 2 with the rubber strip fitted in it , pull out tool 1 and insert tool2.here again you have to follow the path made by tool1.pierce about 2/3 rd of it through the tire.
6) Step 6: now press the rubber strip with your fingers and pull out tool 2.
7) Step 7: cut the remaining of the rubber strip leaving behind about 5mm of strip from the surface of the tyre.
8) Step 8: inflate the tyre to recommended pressure and check for any leakage of air from the repaired portion by wiping the area with a cloth dipped in water.
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Drilldown specification in BI– it’s harder than the demo makes out August 27, 2006Posted by Cyril Brookes in BI Requirements Definition, General, Issues in building BI reporting systems, Stafford Beer.
We’ve all sat through those glitzy demonstrations of canned detailed reporting – solving hypothetical problems that may never exist in practice, or if they have existed, will never be repeated again in the same form.
Drilldown is, in my opinion, one of the hardest aspects to specify and implement effectively in a BI reporting system. Unfortunately, it is also probably the most hyped “silver-bullet” keyword of BI software marketing speak.
You cannot build a detailed report for a problem situation that doesn’t yet exist. Even if the type of problem, say a debtor’s default, is predictable, the specifics will always vary. You can only create an environment to make such reporting easier.
Further the nature of that reporting environment is often complex, involving hypothetical database specification and modelling capability – as I will discuss in a later post.
Drilldown is, of course, a modern descriptor for part of Stafford Beer’s Amplification concept.
In my posts of July 7 and July 28, I introduced and discussed Stafford’s distinction between Attenuation and Amplification reporting in the corporate BI context. In summary: Attenuation reporting is pre-specified and pre-formatted reporting of information that empowers executives:
- To be aware of, and able to assess the implications of, the current state of the business, and
- To be alerted to actual or potential unusual or unacceptable situations.
Or more colloquially: Where are we? What is good and bad about where we are? What is unusual or forecast that I need to know about?
Therefore, Attenuation style reporting makes executives comfortable they know what is happening in their part of the business, and that they are alerted to any problems that can be discovered from the data available. Amplification reporting is more difficult to pin down, since it is only required when a problem, or apparent problem, has been identified.
If Attenuation is about finding problems, Amplification is about solving them.
By this definition, then, Amplification reporting – or Drilldown if you prefer the current term – is difficult to pre-specify or pre-format because we cannot be sure of the exact nature and context of the problem.
In the good old/bad old days of this technology, we used the terms Executive Information Systems for the first type of reporting, and Decision Support Systems for the second. Now it’s all encapsulated in the BI terminology. The names change, but the issues remain the same.
But I diverge.
Drilldown has three basic objectives, as I see it, drawing from classic decision theory – as per, say, Herbert Simon. It is to empower our client executives to: Diagnose the problem/opportunity we have helped them find (using Attenuation reporting). How bad is it? What will happen if we do nothing?
For Diagnosis support, the minimum requirement is more detailed data. Exactly how more detailed, and over what time periods, can only be determined through appropriate research and interviews with client executives. However, models that can answer “what-if” queries, and statistical analysis tools may also be valuable.
Determine the available options for solving the problem – or capitalizing on the opportunity
Options may be selected from past experience, or suggestions from experts. Support for this aspect of Drilldown is often based on knowledge sharing and tacit information management tools – see my post of July 27.
Assessing the implications of each of the apparently viable alternatives
Feasibility validation and outcome assessments of options may require pre-specified models, or at least partly constructed versions that can be adapted to the problem situation when it is known. Assessments of the anticipated outcomes of the viable alternatives are often the key information elements required to support decision making and the BI system should include these if at all practicable.
Many people think that Drilldown is only about getting more detailed data, but clearly the client executive is likely to want more – just like Oliver Twist. A quality BI environment design will go much further as discussed above, but at least will extend to a full review of what that “more detail” should be, and how it is to be collected for inquiry and ad-hoc reporting.
After all that, it’s up to the executives to judge which alternative is best, i.e. make a decision.
I will cover these Drilldown component steps in more detail in a later post. If you want more detail immediately, you can see how these concepts are implemented in the BI requirements methodology at www.bipathfinder.com and how the metadata that supports the method is documented at www.bidocumenter.com.
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For Maire Tecnimont, going digital is all about capitalizing on technology to boost employees’ productivity; streamline engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) workflows; and deliver on-time projects of the highest possible quality. In this scenario, Forge is one of the most valuable enablers of the digital transformation process. In this class, you will discover how to exploit Forge technology for building analytical, strategic, and operational dashboards; integrating different data from different sources; and extending capabilities of the existing platform through dedicated customization. We will particularly focus on maximizing Forge application performances to enhance the user experience. With the OTG format, the multimodel feature, and other specific procedures, we can handle thousands of 3D objects and relevant data sets in the blink of an eye. In conclusion, we will discuss the benefits gained by adopting Forge technology, highlighting its disruptive impact on company traditional workflows.
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A store locator — or “store locator” in French — is a page on a brand’s website that lists the position of each of its points of sale using an interactive geolocation map. To this initial function are added other services such as click and collect, reservation of services or even personalized promotions.
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What is a store locator?
An interactive and intuitive map
The main element that characterizes a store locator is the presence of an interactive map that lists and locates all the points of sale of a brand. Each user can then view the nearest store of his current location, his home or even his place of work. Beyond simply identifying where the store is, customers and prospects can also distinguish the shortest route to get there.
A direct contact link between each store and its customers
Alongside this interactive map, the page can also contain essential information so that the customer can contact their local store directly. Phone number, email address, opening hours or even customer reviews left by regulars… The store locator thus creates a relationship of trust with its closest customers. As the points of sale of the same brand do not necessarily have the same opening policies on public holidays or Sundays, for example, this interface then becomes a point of reference.
An essential brick in the omnichannel strategy
More than ever, consumers want a “seamless” shopping experience, where the physical and digital dimensions intertwine throughout their journey without any obstacles appearing. The store locator is part of this omnichannel strategy by offering reliable information on the brand’s website, while helping the Internet user who has already reserved a product or made a purchase to complete the process.
A way to measure the effectiveness of the omnichannel strategy
The store locator can even go further and be considered a real omnichannel strategy barometer of the brand through data analysis. To check whether this web page is an effective lead generator for the store, various trackers can be set up by the marketing team, in particular through connection to a CRM.
Initially, it is better to simply measure the attraction felt by Internet users for the store locator by identifying the consumers who locate their store. It will then be possible, depending on the services offered, to observe whether customers who use click and collect or e-reservation believe that the store locator meets their expectations and provides the information requested.
How to create a store locator?
The interest of a store locator
Creating a store locator is essential to any web-to-store strategy (i.e. searching the Internet for a product before going to the store to buy it), app-to-store ( view a product on an application before going to the point of sale) and drive-to-store (the customer is encouraged to go to the nearest store thanks to digital campaigns).
In summary, it allows you to generate in-store flow from the web. A technique not to be overlooked: according to Google figures, the majority of Internet users – i.e. 78% of them – carry out a local search on the Internet before going to a business or a point of sale if it is located less than 8 km from their location.
Create one listing per store
First of all, you have to list all the points of sale that will be listed by the store locator. Do not hesitate to provide filters and sub-categories if the shops are numerous. In this case, giving the possibility to the Internet user to filter by country, then by city and finally by district can be an interesting feature. The important thing is that the organization is as fluid as possible so that it does not get lost along the way.
Indicate the essential information so that the Internet user can find the point of sale easily
Once the mapping of the points of sale has been finalized, it is time to focus on the description of each store file. Each of them must contain at least:
- The brand name.
- The name of the store, which can be followed by the name of the city in which it is located, or even the name of the district or the street, if necessary.
- A logo that is visible and recognizable quickly.
- A complete address including all necessary details.
- All the direct channels to contact the store (phone number, instant messaging, e-mail address or even chatbot).
- The opening hours to be updated regularly so that customers do not go to the store when it is closed, which would be harmful for the e-reputation of the brand.
- The parking possibilities around the point of sale (opening hours of the dedicated car park, whether or not parking is free, nearest alternative parking area).
- The public transport network available to get there (public transport solutions available nearby and the nearest station).
Work on the referencing of each store
Local referencing is essential so that Internet users located near the point of sale can easily find it on the Internet. This is about standing out from the competition in order to win the top spot of the 25% of daily searches that contain a geolocation element on Google. In total, nearly one out of two searches results in a store visit. To work on the local SEO referencing of these listings, here are some tips:
- Write content: 500 words minimum describing the store and the sign.
- Display customer reviews on Google Maps: the more favorable the reviews, the better the SEO.
- Keep a web tree of three clicks maximum from the website to the store locator.
- Be mobile responsive: one out of two local searches carried out from a smartphone results in a visit during the day.
- Work the internal mesh locally.
- Create a profile or page for each store on social networks and link the store locator to it.
Encourage people to come to the store
Being well referenced is not enough. Each card of a point of sale must be attractive and make you want to go to the store. To do this, there is nothing better than offering directly on the store locator services that Internet users are fond of.
The click and collect
By offering click and collect on the store locator, customers can buy online and then go to the store with a voucher with a QR code to collect their order.
The proposal to make an appointment in store to benefit from a service
Offering customers to make an appointment in-store means allowing them to directly choose the point of sale they want to go to and to adapt to the teams’ schedules.
It is possible to remind Internet users that certain promotions are in progress when they visit the store locator. The brand can also choose to create offers dedicated to customers coming from the web in order to encourage them to go to one store rather than another and trigger the desire to buy.
A blog article features products sold in a shop? A special selection related to current events is in the spotlight on the site? This is the right place to insert attractive links and drive traffic to the brand’s or store’s website from the store locator.
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What is ETH?
Ether, more commonly known as ETH, is the native currency of the Ethereum blockchain. ETH is used for things such as paying for the transaction fees on Ethereum to incentivise miners.
What is WETH?
WETH is Wrapped Ether. WETH is an ERC-20 compatible version of ETH. 1 ETH will always be equivalent to 1 WETH. ETH on its own cannot be pre-approved (no approval) for bidding on items. That's why it needs to be wrapped.
Once ETH is wrapped into WETH, it can be used for advanced interactions on decentralized applications like LooksRare. In addition, the use of WETH allows standardizing the exchange codebase (for potential support of additional ERC-20 tokens) and also helps mitigating risks such as reentrancy (and other costly fallback) that can occur with the transfer of ethers to unknown parties (e.g., the ask side of the trade).
Which should I use on LooksRare?
LooksRare supports both WETH and ETH. However, you aren't able to use ETH everywhere on the site for the reasons mentioned above. Some site functions are quite complex and require WETH to be able to make the interaction.
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General Motors has announced that it will be forced to implement job losses because only 6,000 GM blue-collar workers have taken the latest round of early retirement and buyout offers. General Motors, which has 54,000 factory workers, has stated that it wants to slash its workforce to save labor costs and survive the economic downturn.
Via the Star-Telegram
"GM has about 54,000 factory workers and wants to end the year with 40,500, a cut of about 13,500. Monday's report means that about 7,500 too few workers took the offers, setting the stage for more layoffs."
The job losses couldn't have come at a worse time for workers in the auto industry. Slow sales, cautious consumers and bankruptcy has left that sector a no-man's land for workers seeking employment. No doubt this new round of job losses will negatively impact those cities most dependent on the auto industry and many experts believe that the job losses could have a domino effect that reverberates throughout the economy. Foreclosures, evictions, repossessions and personal bankruptcies will most likely rise in the communities where these job losses are located; but retailers and others in the business sector may also suffer from decreased sales because of the job losses and many weaker firms may need to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy. | <urn:uuid:eec716ff-466d-4828-a884-659284eabb38> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.allmandlaw.com/Blog/2009/August/GM-Prepares-for-Job-Losses.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00519-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975138 | 265 | 1.6875 | 2 |
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27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth." Genesis 1:27 — Genesis 1:28 ESV | <urn:uuid:632a92ea-47f3-4944-869e-4189a3568c8a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://media.bethelweb.org/media/915/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.936937 | 138 | 1.734375 | 2 |
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A lipstick-wearing robot confessed, “it was a crime to build the robots,” as she and her friends faced their certain death at the hands of rebellious machines. “Even now I do not regret making robots,” her husband said. “Work was too hard, life was too hard.’
In the Jordan Valley, inside the small Beit Uri and Rami Nehostan Museum, Guy Bar Amotz has adapted Karel Capek’s 1920 play R.U.R, a science fiction classic, for his exhibition The Revolting Robots Show (curated by Smadar Keren). He was also inspired by circumcision, the Golem and British rock.
R.U.R coined the term “robot” and became such a global hit that Avraham Shlonsky translated it to Hebrew when Ohel Theater produced it here in 1930. The play wondered what differences, if any, separated humans from machines and suggested humanity does not have a moral right to create androids just to bend them to its interests.
Bar Amotz focused on a key scene in the play, that of the robot uprising. The full play goes on beyond that point to suggest a future when machines mimic their slain human masters in one capacity, longing to love and reproduce.
The work is delightful. As in his 2014 Ein Harod exhibition me-you-collaborators (curated by Galia Bar Or), where he placed the voice of an art critic inside a garbage bag, Bar Amotz insisted on showing the viewer how the magic is done.
The result is a combination of low tech and high tech.
The large figures move in relation to a projection of a short film, which pushes the plot forward. The intense music, lights and the fusion of actual movement in space with virtual characters on screen made the work into a highly entertaining apocalypse.
When the machines began their rampage, the lights went off and we saw another part of the exhibition move. Large paper sketches with words written on them began to change positions. Then The Dickheads began their own performance. These are three mechanical musicians with large male organs mounted on their heads. Like the first part of the exhibition, their real-space movements are in relation to the video interviews they offer. The absurdity of watching such a machine chew a carrot like Bugs Bunny and discuss “golem servants” made from “Jewish soil” is hilarious.
Made from clay and powered by the divine name of God to defend Jewish lives, the legend of the golem was also employed by Yael Toren in her 2016 work Pieta, which showed a multitude of clay golems, each carrying a slain protector, as they march across the plains to an unknown destination. The animated art-video was shown at the same museum during the Women Workers’ Movement group exhibition, likewise curated by Keren.
At that time, Keren was just beginning her mission at the museum, having taken the reins from previous curator and manager Ruth Shadmon.
A kibbutz member, Shadmon worked hard and kept the doors of the museum open for more than a quarter of a century under very difficult financial conditions. In this, she was aided by curator Tali Tamir and others. In 1990, the museum hosted a solo exhibition by Siona Shimshi titled Aching Head and Hallucinations. Several of her works, as well as works by Igael Tumarkin and David Fine, can be seen at the museum’s garden today.
Expertly managing the museum’s small team of dedicated workers, Keren moved from Tel Aviv to nearby Afikim in 2017 to turn the museum into a contemporary art space serving the Jordan Valley.
One success was the 2018 group exhibition The Magic Kingdom (curated by Avi Lubin), which included the performance installation “Buddy / No Body Holy & the Crickets” by Oree Holban.
Like Bar Amotz, Holban skillfully used a pre-known tale, that of the artificial Pinocchio wishing to become a real boy, but introduced other themes: self-acceptance and transgender perspectives.
In R.U.R, Capek tied the conquest of labor by working machines to human bodies becoming superfluous. As people no longer knew what their bodies were good for, they could not bring new life into the world. The robots, after killing their masters, were faced with extinction as they, too, did not know the secret of birth.
The bodies of working men and women were celebrated at the museum in the 2021 exhibition Place, Architect, Artist (curated by Michael Jacobson), which honored the public artworks once proudly commissioned and displayed across this land. Murals by Sheldon Schoneberg lauded the body of the Jewish man of the field and depicted him as a direct descendant of the ancient Near-East harvester of wheat (at Kibbutz Afikim). Haifa’s Dagon granaries boast a graffito by Mordechai Gumpel, in it a barefoot woman proudly squats, facing the viewer, with kernels held between her legs.
The museum seems keen to present excellent art and utilize its power to tell tales about our human bodies in this land. Women Workers’ Movement also includes the neon work by Nelly Agassi “Is this the hill I’m going to die on.” In his When Spring Falls Asleep (curated by Tali Ben-Nun, now being shown at the museum) Uri Weinstein presents a 10-minute video titled “Tsalafim.” The Hebrew word means both snipers and capers. The algorithm floods the viewer’s eye with images of telescopic-sights, first-person shooter video games and pickled capers. The AI is smart, and dumb, at the same time. The video-loop runs on a laptop next to a smiling cap, a baseball cap with a torn smiley on it, with many candle caps strewn on the floor leading to the table. These are scalp-like wax objects with a wick that the viewer might see as candles.
One brilliant work by Weinstein is easy to miss, a mobile phone keeps vibrating near one wall of the exhibition with the word “DAD” flashing on its screen.
Titled “Incoming Call from Dad,” it is a chilling work, a punch to the gut when we consider the museum came into being by parents (Meir and Reaya) who wished to honor the memory of their two fallen sons, one of whom died in combat during the 1948 War of Independence. The work is an unanswered call by a parent placed inside such a call turned into a building.
After the terrific colorful performance by Bar Amotz’s robots, stepping into Weinstein’s space is like jumping into a pool filled with ice water.
The final exhibition on offer at the museum is Yashin by Noa Schwartz. In her 2017 work “Euro,” Schwartz created the symbol of the EU currency in a wall by carving a semi-circle into it and installing two wooden shelves. One of the shelves had a ruby carefully placed on it.
In this exhibition she presents us with “Untitled (Sink with Pearl),” which offers – a pearl. Her delicate, handsome works are often a consideration of objects human bodies need (sinks, keys) or must offer to enjoy the basic comforts of life (some works are made from ground-up electric and utility bills).
While her works are a far cry from killer-robots, Schwartz is a highly intelligent artist, and her wry depictions of domesticity and money might be the bitter pill the hi-tech nation needs.
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