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A recent study from Oxford University showed that red meat can give you heart attacks. Specifically, the researchers conducted a metaanalysis of 1.4 million people and followed them for over 30 years. They found that 50 Grams (1.75 ounces) of unprocessed red meat including beef, pork and lamb caused 9% more heart attacks after 30 years of observation than those who never ate that food. People who only consumed chicken or turkey meat showed no increased rates of heart attacks. However, consumption of 50 Grams (1.75 ounces) of processed meats in the form of sausages, bacon and ham caused 18% more heart attacks in comparison to those who did not consume processed meats.
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Other studies linking red and processed meat consumption to heart attacks
A 29-year (1987 through 2016) follow-up study determined that plant-based diets help you live longer. The study appeared in the Journal of the American Heart Association on Aug. 7, 2019.In the beginning the study population consisted of 12,168 middle‐aged adults. The findings were also summarized in an article by CNN. The main finding was that people eating a mainly plants in their diet or a diet that consisted of more plant products than meat products, had a 16% lower risk of coming down with cardiovascular diseases. It also had an association with 25% less mortality from early death.
Plant-based diet
The study did not insist on 100% plant food, but rather monitored what percentage of plants in food the individual consumes. The senior author of the study was Casey Rebholz, an assistant professor at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. “Plant-based diets emphasize higher intakes of plant foods and lower intakes of animal foods. Foods derived from plants include ,” Rebholz said. Animal products were meat, eggs, dairy, and fish or seafood.
Results of the study
The researchers compared the individuals who adhered to mostly plant-based foods and compared them to those who ate more animal-based foods. The persons who mostly favoured plant-based foods had 16% less heart attacks, strokes, heart failure and arrhythmias than those who loved animal-based foods. Persons who ate mostly plant-based foods also had a 32% lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and an 18%-25% lower risk to die an early death from any cause. According to the WHO cardiovascular disease remains the number 1 killer in the world.
Conclusion
Researchers knew for some time that red meat and meat products like sausage, bacon or ham are harmful to our health and lead to more cardiovascular disease. However, newer studies have proven without any doubt that plant-based diets are healthier than meat-based ones. Over the years I have changed my diet from a diet with more read meat to a diet richer in plant foods and with much less red meat and no processed red meat. If we want to live a healthier and longer life, this type of nutrition helps us. While I find a balanced diet enjoyable, I know many people who find that they cannot do it. It may be initially difficult to quit the love affair with steaks, hamburgers and bacon. But it is not impossible to adjust to recipes. You can make meat an accompaniment rather than the center of a meal. Gradual change works!
Suggestion for healthy food intake
My suggestion is to gradually introduce more vegetables and salads into your diet. At the same time, you can replace some of the red meat with chicken and turkey meat. Avoid red meat products because they contain potentially harmful nutrients such as animal fats, animal-based iron and nitrite preservatives. You will stay healthier for longer than individuals who insist on red meat and processed red meat. Heart attacks in that group are more common.Note: Part of this review was previously published here. | https://nethealthbook.com/news/red-meat-can-give-you-heart-attacks/ |
One-quarter of world’s tropical land could disappear at the end of the century if global consumption of meat and dairy isn’t curbed, resulting in the widespread loss of species and their habitats.
According to a new report published in Global Environmental Change, within 80 years nine percent of some of the planet’s most biodiverse natural land, 95 percent of which is in the tropics, will be cleared for agricultural purposes as demand for animal products grows. Researchers say the solution is simple: the world can safeguard its biodiverse natural ecosystems through dietary change.
“Reducing meat and dairy consumption will have positive effects on greenhouse gas emissions and human health. It will also help biodiversity, which must be conserved to ensure the world’s growing population is fed. Changing our diets will lead to a more sustainable future and complement food security goals while addressing global food inequalities,” said study lead author Roslyn Henry.
In all, replacing meat with plant-based alternatives will result in a reduction in global agricultural land demand reduced by 11 percent — an important challenge as the world sees increasing income levels and with it, an increasing demand for meat, milk and refined sugar.
To understand how food consumption habits affect species in biodiverse home to a host of mammals, birds, amphibians and plant species, researchers analyzed a “spatially explicit global food and land system model.” Their results different by species, which the researchers say suggests that land-use change will be taxon-specific.
But reducing meat consumption alone isn’t enough to mitigate the effects of climate change. Industrial feed systems were shown to reduce agricultural expansion but add to environmental degradation by emitting high levels of agricultural pollutants like fertilizer.
The study comes after a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published last week identified reducing meat consumption as an important initiative for climate change mitigation in order to keep the warming of the globe under 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. To do this, land needs to be managed more sustainably in order to release less carbon. Agricultural communities need to shift how land is used, such as improving access to “agricultural services and strengthening land tenure security,” reported The Guardian at the time. As the BBC notes, these strategies don’t mean every person needs to become a vegan or vegetarian, but cutting back on eating meat may significantly reduce land being used for agricultural purposes.
At current levels, global consumption of certain meats is expected to rise by nearly 90 percent between 2010 and 2050, according to a report by the World Resources Institute. With a global population anticipated at nearly 10 billion by 2050 — roughly 3 billion more mouths than in 2010 — experts say turning away from animals and instead to plant-based foods will help bridge sustainability gaps in food, land and greenhouse gas emission mitigation strategies. | https://www.ecowatch.com/tropics-land-conservation-meat-consumption-2639816896.html |
Potential risks associated with plant-based milk and meat alternatives:
1. Overreliance on plant-based dairy and meat alternatives can cause nutrient deficiencies, especially in vulnerable subgroups of the population, i.e. infants, women of childbearing age and the elderly.
Animal products are an important source of nutrients, and are described as "complete" protein sources with "high biological value" because they contain all nine essential amino acids. Adequately meeting requirements for all essential amino acids from a calorie-sufficient plant-based diet can be achieved when consuming nutrients from a diverse range of foods. Protein from animal and plant sources should therefore not be considered as interchangeable, additional amounts may be needed. According to a study, up to 22g additional protein per day was required if sourced from plants as opposed to animal source.
Dairy and meat are key sources of several important nutrients in Ireland including calcium, iodine, iron, selenium, and vitamin B12. Replacing these foods with alternatives that are not sufficiently fortified therefore poses a risk of lower nutrient intakes, and potential nutrient deficiencies. This is of particular concern in vulnerable population groups.
According to a study, the use of plant-based alternatives in infants have resulted in severe nutritional deficiencies, which could have been preventable. Dairy products contribute to greater growth in children compared to plant-based alternatives. The elderly are more prone to vitamin B12 deficiency, so are well-advised to regularly consume sources of vitamin B12 such as dairy and meat to achieve their reference nutrient intakes, but this is harder to achieve through plant-based alternatives.
2. Plant-based products are generally associated with a having natural and healthy composition, however, according to the literature, many of these products have a higher sodium and fat content after being prepared. Another potential risk associated with these products is that they contain a higher number of ingredients than their traditional alternatives, several of which are concentrated or highly processed products.
Food intakes and ingredient interactions may therefore become more complex to monitor. EFSA has been working to add an additional layer of safety to consumers through cumulative risk assessments which disaggregate composite foods on the market, but this is still at a preliminary level, and more advanced risk assessment methodologies are required to keep up with the expanding food market (EFSA, 2019, EFSA 2020a, EFSA 2020b).
3. These products may also contain contaminants from processing, such as acrylamide, 3-MCPD.
New technologies and processes may also pose food safety risks e.g., the use of methylamine when isolating pea protein, and potential allergenicity risk which has emerged. | https://dfi.univet.hu/en/nutritional-impact-of-plant-based-meat-and-dairy-alternatives/ |
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Americans are spending more than half (54%) of their food dollars on food away from home; that’s the highest level in history (Lyons Wyatt and Parker 2019a).
Although more than eight in 10 dinners are eaten at home, the number of evening meals prepared at home continues to fall. On average, U.S. households prepare 4.5 dinners at home per week, down from 4.9 in 2017; 28% of households prepare meals three nights per week or less; and 28% do so on six or more nights (FMI 2019a).
Over the past year, for the first time, the number of meals prepared at home by Baby Boomers and by those who live in rural areas has dropped dramatically, down from 5.0 to 4.6 meals per week and 4.9 to 4.4, respectively (FMI 2019a; Figure 1).
On average, U.S. adults eat breakfast 4.9 times per week, lunch 5.5 times, and dinner 6.4 nights per week; those living alone eat breakfast slightly less frequently (FMI 2019b).
Forty-six percent of eating occasions are alone; that includes 53% of breakfasts, 45% of lunches, and 24% of dinners. Most people snack alone (Hartman 2018a). Four in 10 visits to restaurants are also alone (Packaged Facts 2019a).
Interest in eating with others is on the rise; 60% say they’ve “eaten well” if they have eaten with family or friends (FMI 2019b).
Although only 3.6 dinners, 2.0 breakfasts, and 1.4 lunches per week are eaten at home with the family in households with children, 76% of parents say eating together is very or extremely important (FMI 2019b).
Kid-specific foods and takeout/take home–oriented menus are becoming increasingly important as parents make separate meals for adults and kids on 49% of family eating occasions (FMI 2019b).
Millennials continue to drive demand for more specialty foods/drinks. Over the past two years, gourmet food sales jumped 9.8% to reach $113 billion at retail and an additional $2.8 billion online (SFA 2019).
Cheese/plant-based cheese alternatives; frozen/refrigerated meat, poultry, and seafood; chips, pretzels, and snacks; coffee/cocoa; bread/baked goods; chocolate/ confectionery; refrigerated entrées; frozen desserts; frozen entrées; and yogurt/kefir (in descending order) are the largest specialty food categories (SFA 2019).
Refrigerated/frozen plant-based meat alternatives, rice cakes, waters, refrigerated ready-to-drink tea/coffee, creams/ creamers, frozen desserts, jerky/meat snacks, and refrigerated pasta posted the largest specialty dollar sales gains (SFA 2019).
Over the past few years, the U.S. food culture has focused consumers on eating “fresh.” When shopping, 67% of consumers prioritize fresh; 55%, clean; 49%, real; and 47%, pesticide-free (Hartman 2018b). Of the 38% who experimented with a diet in the past year, 10% did so for clean eating (IFIC 2019).
But while fresh still makes up onequarter of multi-outlet food/drink retail sales, growth slowed to 1.3% for the year ended (Y/E) Sept. 8, 2019, versus overall food/drink sales, which grew 2.0% (Lyons Wyatt and Parker 2019a). Deli/ prepared food, seafood, and packaged/ fresh bakery were the only major fresh departments posting positive dollar gains (Lyons Wyatt and Parker 2019a). During the same time frame, center-store sales growth outperformed fresh foods for the first time in 10 years (Lyons Wyatt and Parker 2019a).
Lastly, consumers have more choice than ever; 13,000 new UPC food/beverage brands were launched in 2018, with only four reaching year one sales of more than $100 million (Lyons Wyatt and Parker 2019b).
It’s time for restaurants to start catering to the younger generations—literally. Millennials (80%) and Gen Z (70%) are now the most likely to visit a restaurant at least once a week versus 67% of Gen Z and 50% of Boomers (Technomic 2018a).
In 2018, these younger generations each sourced 45% of their lunches, 40% of dinners, one-third of their breakfasts, and 30% of their late-night snacks from foodservice (Technomic 2018a).
Quick-service restaurants serving beef, barbecue, or burgers remain by far the most visited restaurant by menu segment—used by 74% of the U.S. population or 182 million adults. That is followed by restaurants that focus on chicken, patronized by 47% of the population; coffee/bakery outlets, 42%; Mexican/Asian/ethnic restaurants, 41%; sandwich shops, 33%; ice cream/ smoothie/juice outlets, 11%; and seafood-focused restaurants, 8% (Packaged Facts 2019a).
McDonald’s is the most popular restaurant, with 127 million U.S. customers visiting in the 12 months ending in spring 2019. Chick-Fil-A, with 66 million patrons, outpaced KFC in the chicken sector.
Applebee’s, with nearly 54 million patrons, still has the most diners in the casual dining segment despite Olive Garden, with about 49 million patrons, taking over the top spot in sales earlier this year. Steakhouses and seafood restaurants still reign in full-service (Packaged Facts 2019a).
Diners ordered 6.4 billion beef burgers and 4 billion chicken sandwiches versus 228 million vegetable burgers and vegetable/salad sandwiches for Y/E April 2019 (NPD 2019).
Chicken sandwiches/strips, other desserts/snacks, pizza, and tacos are the fastest-growing quick-service items (NRA 2019). For the first time, sales in Asian/noodle limited-service and fullservice restaurants outpaced Mexican in 2018 (Technomic 2019a).
Build-your-own items are the top trend for quick-service and fast casual restaurants and will gain in popularity on restaurant menus along with iced tea, mini-desserts, snack-sized versions of regular meal items, healthy meals for kids, specialty coffees, and ethnic condiments (NRA 2019).
All natural/minimally processed, vegetarian/vegan, gluten-free, housemade, locally and eco-sourced produce/ meats, and organic and free-range/grassfed meat and poultry are the healthy and sustainable menu descriptors projected to get more attention.
But consumers are not dining out more often. Diners eat at the restaurant on only 38% of all visits; 39% of visits are for carryout; 22% are drive-through visits; and 3% involve food delivery (NRA 2019).
Customers dine off-premise on more than three-quarters of quick-service and coffee/bakery/snack shop visits, half of fast casual, 20% of family, 18% of casual, and 6% of fine dining visits (NRA 2019). Off-premise traffic is equally split between lunch and dinner for quickservice and fast casual restaurants; breakfast dominates in coffee/snack outlets (NRA 2019). While visits to restaurants by Millennial parents with their kids are increasing faster than those of any other group, 40% of the meals they buy are eaten at home (Technomic 2018a).
Sales of retail prepared foods topped $12.5 billion for Y/E March 24, 2019. Sales of entrées/prepared meats were up 2.6% to $5.3 billion; appetizers were up 13.5% to $1.8 billion; and dips/sauces, up 12.7% to $313 million (Dubois et al. 2019a).
Sushi accounts for 10.4% of prepared food sales. Prepared salad sales topped $1.8 billion; sales of sandwiches were $1.7 billion; sides, $412 million; and soups, $227 million.
Sales of fresh prepared breakfast sandwiches were up 39%; egg roll appetizers, +34%; chicken appetizers, +16%; vegetable entrées, +14%; hot sandwiches, +11%; jalapeno popper appetizers, +7%; and pasta side dishes, +5%. Pizza sales fell 3% (Dubois et al. 2019a).
Home entertaining is driving party appetizer platter sales, up 25% to $337 million; holiday meal sales jumped 17%. One in 10 consumers buy prepared foods at gourmet retailers; 9% purchase prepared foods at convenience stores (Lyons Wyatt and Parker 2019b).
Sales at olive, caper, and pickled vegetable food bars reached $450 million; trail mix and gelato bars are other popular in-store stations (Dubois et al. 2019a).
Forty-five percent of consumers have increased their purchases of frozen foods for Y/E Sept. 8, 2019 (Lyons Wyatt and Parker 2019a). Although two-thirds bought more frozen products for convenience, 61% did so to try a new food, cuisine, or flavor (AFFI 2019).
With sales of $9.2 billion in 2018, dinners/entrées remain the largest frozen food category, followed by ice cream at $6.8 billion; novelties, $5.2 billion; pizza, $4.9 billion; seafood, $4.8 billion; poultry, $4.2 billion; breakfast food, $3.5 billion; meat, $2.7 billion; vegetables, $2.5 billion; and appetizers/snack rolls, $2.3 billion. Nine out of the top 10 frozen categories grew sales; frozen appetizers led unit growth (AFFI 2019).
Nearly half (45%) of workers bring frozen food to work for breakfast, lunch, or snacks at least occasionally. Real, no artificial ingredients, and all natural are the claims that matter most to frozen food users (AFFI 2019).
Serving home-prepared meals using meat/poultry has returned to levels not seen since 2011–2012, with frequency at four nights/week. This is despite all the talk about cutting back on meat consumption (FMI 2019c).
The U.S. Department of Agriculture projects meat/poultry consumption overall will remain essentially the same in 2019 as last year. In terms of pounds, chicken and beef are now consumed at about equal levels (USDA 2019).
Chicken tops the list of foods Millennials typically eat for a weekday dinner, with 70% doing so; 46% eat beef; 39%, a burger; 31%, fish; and 28%, pork. Pasta, pizza, salad, rice, and Mexican foods are other popular weekday dinner items for young adults (Ypulse 2018).
Added-value meats/poultry (e.g., premarinated/seasoned meats), drove 50% of the growth in the fresh meat department for Y/E Jan. 19, 2019. While still the largest sector, whole fresh items accounted for only 24% of growth; ready-to-eat/precooked accounted for 22% (Dubois et al. 2019b).
Sales of fresh chicken stir-fry/kebabs/ fajita cuts and ground pork each grew 14% in 2018; ground chicken, +12%; chicken thighs, +9%; variety beef cuts, +8%; beef ribs, +6%; chicken wings, +6%; and ground turkey, +6%. Valueadded chicken sales rose 8.8%; value-added pork, +6.3%. Sales of fresh prepared grab-and-go meats jumped 16.1% in the deli (Dubois et al. 2019b).
All-natural meat/poultry sales reached $7.3 billion, up 2.4% for Y/E Jan. 19, 2019; antibiotic-free was $4.9 billion, up 3.1%; hormone-free was $3.4 billion, up 5.2%; organic was $950 million, up 13.1%; humanely raised was $515 million, up 0.6%; and grass-fed was $489 million, up 11.7%. Grass-fed tops the list of claims shoppers want to see more of in their fresh meat case (FMI 2019c).
Over the past two years, 14% of adults say they have increased their frequency of eating meatless meals (HealthFocus 2019). Fourteen percent describe themselves as flexitarian, and 4% say they are pescatarian (Datassential 2019).
While 32% of consumers are interested in vegetarian menu items and 28% are interested in vegan menu items, the percentage who are practicing these eating plans is a much smaller group; 5% of consumers define themselves as full-time vegetarians, and 3% say they are fulltime vegans. Vegan descriptors appear on 11% of restaurant menus (Datassential 2019).
Young adults aged 18–24, followed by those aged 25–39, Asians, and both low-income and very high-income individuals, are most likely to be true non-meat consumers (Packaged Facts 2019b).
One-third of consumers purchased a meat alternative in a recent three-month period in 2019 (Hartman 2019a). Threequarters of those who buy meat alternatives also eat meat. U.S. retail meat alternative sales topped $979 million for Y/E Jan. 19, 2019, up 17.6% (FMI 2019c).
Right after burgers, chicken/poultry, hot dogs, pizza, breakfast items, and deli meat are the most popular forms of meat alternatives. Morningstar Farms, Boca, and Gardenburger are the most purchased brands (Packaged Facts 2019b).
Beyond Meat’s investment prospectus projects sales of $213 million for yearend 2019, including both restaurants and retail (Beyond Meat 2019).
At least on occasion, 73% of meal preparers serve plant protein–based meals for dinner. Beans, chickpeas, lentils, and legumes are used by 49%, nuts/ seeds by 48%, veggie burgers or similar by 30%, quinoa or other grains by 29%, and tofu/tempeh by 17% (FMI 2019d). Just over half of consumers eat legumes at least once a week (Datassential 2019).
Two-thirds of adults eat fish; 58% are eating more fish/seafood, at least occasionally. Shrimp, salmon, tuna, tilapia, Alaskan pollock, pangasius, cod, crab, catfish, and clams are America’s most consumed fish/seafood (NFI 2019).
Four in 10 consumers (43%) purchased milk alternatives in a recent three-month period; 30% bought dairy product alternatives. Plant-based spreads, creamers, yogurt, cheese, and ice cream posted significant double-digit growth albeit from a small base for Y/E April 2019 (PBFA 2019).
Cheesy now tops the list of flavors that consumers crave; next is savory, which has led the list for the past few years. It is followed by sweet, buttery, and spicy (Technomic 2019b).
Sales of natural and specialty cheese are projected to exceed $23 billion by 2023 (Packaged Facts 2019c). More restaurants are specifying the type of fromage being used in their menu items. Rather than labeling something as simply blue cheese, for example, menus mention other more upscale forms (e.g., Gorgonzola). The name of the cheesemaker is also becoming more popular on menus (Datassential 2018).
While Italian, Mexican, Chinese, and U.S. regional (e.g., Southern and Tex-Mex) still top the list of favorite cuisines, Asian cuisines are quickly moving center stage. Half of consumers have now tried Japanese cuisine, like it, and think it is unique. In addition, 43% have tried Thai food; 36%, Korean; 34%, Indian; 28%, Vietnamese; 24%, Indonesian; 20%, Filipino; and 12%, Malaysian fare (Technomic 2018b).
Trying new flavors is increasingly aligning with dining in at home as takeout/take-home meals increase. Four in 10 adults find a simple twist to a familiar flavor, a seasonal flavor, or a regional/local flavor unique (Technomic 2019b).
Although one-third of consumers are looking for bolder flavors, half of consumers prefer food that is not spicy. Expect restaurant operators to feature more herbs and milder spices on menus (Technomic 2019b). It’s important to note that only 20% of consumers seek out new flavors all the time; 66% do so from time to time (Technomic 2019b).
Four in 10 consumers eat fresh produce daily; 36% eat fresh fruits/ vegetables three days a week or less often. Dinner, followed by snacks, are the dayparts where Americans are trying to increase their produce consumption; the demand for more fresh produce snacks is up 17% versus 2017 (FMI 2019d).
In descending order, bananas, apples, grapes, strawberries, watermelon, oranges, lemons, blueberries, peaches, and pineapple were the most purchased fresh fruits in 2018. Pineapple moved up into the top 10; honeydew and mango are new additions to the top 20 (Johnson 2019).
Potatoes, onions, tomatoes, carrots, bell peppers, lettuce, broccoli, salad mix, cucumbers, and celery topped the list of the most purchased fruits. Green beans,green onion, and bell peppers moved up significantly among the top 20 (Johnson 2019).
While sales of value-added fruit remain flat, sales of value-added vegetables increased 6.6% in dollars and 6.7% in pounds. Organic produce remains the largest organic food category, up 5.6% in 2018 to $17.4 billion (OTA 2019).
Ranch, followed by “other Italian,” Caesar, vinaigrette, Thousand Island, and blue cheese are Americans’ favorite salad dressings; watch for more ethnic flavored dressings (e.g., tzatziki) (Datassential 2018).
Chia, kamut, sorghum, and flaxseed grew more than 50% on menus over the past four years; quinoa was up 33% (Datassential 2018).
Eighty-five percent of young adults aged 18–35 and 92% of teens ate lunch on a typical weekday last year (Ypulse 2018).
Sales of retail fresh prepared refrigerated lunches reached $2.5 billion in 2018. For Y/E March 24, 2019, sales of prepared salads topped $1.8 billion; prepared sandwich sales were $1.7 billion; and deli soup sales were $227 million. Sales of hot sandwiches rose 11% (Dubois et al. 2019a).
Sandwiches top the list of offerings deli managers plan on expanding this year, with 43% planning to do so. Also slated for expansion by deli mangers are catering, side dishes, lunches, dinners, hot/cold bars, daily specials, rotisserie programs, breakfasts, and soup stations (Dudlicek 2019).
Six in 10 consumers order deli sandwiches during a typical month; 56% order subs/heroes; and 53% order wraps. Other popular options are salad sandwiches, mini sandwiches, panini, flatbread sandwiches, and ethnic sandwiches (Technomic 2018c).
The traditional lunchbox staple, peanut butter and jelly, was also the sandwich consumers most often consumed at home last year, followed by ham, turkey, and grilled cheese (NPD 2018). Brioche, naan, and Cuban breads have been among the fastest-growing sandwich carriers on restaurant menus over the past four years (Datassential 2018).
Deli presliced cheese reached nearly $9.9 billion in sales, up 9.9% for Y/E March 24, 2019; presliced meat sales were $3.0 billion, up 7.1%; and specialty cheese sales topped $2.9 billion, up 7.1% (Dubois et al. 2019a).
Sales of refrigerated meat/cheese/ cracker/dessert snack kits grew 8.5% in 2018 and 6.5% in 2019 for Y/E May 18, 2019 (Lyons Wyatt 2019a).
Two-thirds of consumers like to order dessert when eating out (Culinary Visions 2019). Fresh bakery is having a banner year, with dollar sales up 14% and pounds up 8.8% for Y/E March 31, 2019 (Lyons Wyatt 2019b).
In descending order, cookies, breads, cakes/tortes, doughnuts, rolls, celebration cakes, cupcakes, and pies are the best-sellers in the in-store bakery (ABA 2019).
Eight in 10 operators of in-store bakeries sell gluten-free bakery products; nut-free and egg-free bakery products are also on the rise (Martin 2019).
Within the center-store bakery aisle, dessert brownies, croissants, artisan/ other bread, pastry crust/shells, sweet dessert bars, and tortilla shells were the fastest-growing categories (ABA 2019).
Nearly half (47%) of adults eat more than three snacks per day. Two-thirds snack in the afternoon, 57% in the evening, 40% in the late evening, 36% at midmorning, and 26% in the early morning (Lyons Wyatt 2019a).
Snacks that are both healthy and indulgent drove growth last year, with sales up 3.9%, followed by traditional indulgent snacks, +2.9%; seriously healthy snacks, +1.6%; and treats, +1.2% (Lyons Wyatt 2019a).
Salty snack sales rose 4.9% to $24.9 billion for Y/E May 19, 2019; potato chips remain the largest category. Sales of pork rinds grew 17%; puffed cheese snacks, +8.2%; other salty snacks, +8%; popcorn, +3.9%; tortilla chips, +3.8%; and corn snacks, +2.8%. Sales of ovenbaked chips and apple chips enjoyed strong gains (Peckenpaugh 2019).
Chocolate candy, other candy, cookies, chips, crackers, tortilla chips, snack nuts, frozen novelties, yogurt, and ice cream are the largest snack categories; only yogurt and ice cream did not post strong growth last year (Lyons Wyatt 2019a).
Two-thirds of adults want more snacks that provide an energy boost; 57% want snacks that contain vitamins/minerals; 50% seek snacks that provide a serving of fruits/vegetables; and onethird want organic snacks (Lyons Wyatt 2019a).
Plant-based snack foods and beverages are other fast-growing sectors. Chickpea salty snacks are projected to grow 35% in the next few years; sales of bean-based snacks are expected to grow by 25% (Lyons Wyatt 2019a).
Frozen novelties, snack/ granola bars, refrigerated olives/peppers/pimentos, frozen cooked foods, snack cakes, refrigerated peanut butter, eggs, fruit snacks, and refrigerated readyto- drink coffee have been posting the largest gains (Lyons Wyatt 2019a).
Sales of snack bars overall grew 2.4% to reach more than $6.3 billion for Y/E March 24, 2019. Granola bars posted a 4.5% sales decline to $1.6 billion (Reilly 2019).
Breakfast/cereal/snack bars grew 7.2% in sales to $1.4 billion; sales of private label bars grew by 26%; and sales of KIND bars shot up 44% (Reilly 2019). The total hot/cold cereal market reached $11 billion in 2018 and is projected to decline by a CAGR of 1.4% between 2018 and 2023 (Packaged Facts 2019c).
Two-thirds of adults frequently have a beverage as a snack (Lyons Wyatt 2019a). Three-quarters of Millennials, 63% of Gen X, and 58% of Boomers say they always have a beverage close at hand. Millennials regularly consume products from 10 beverage categories, Gen Xers consume products from 8.3 beverage categories, and Boomers consume products from 7.1 categories (Hartman 2019b).
Half of all drinking occasions are alone. Categorized by need state, 51% are for refreshment, 50% are for energy, 48% are considered fuel/fill, 47% are for health, and 45% are for pleasure/indulgence (Hartman 2019b)
Mostly due to its use in water, hibiscus is the fastest-growing beverage flavor at lunch and dinner, up 32% over the past two years. It is followed by Mexican flavors, up 17%; honey, +14%; lemon, +13%; cucumber, +12%; watermelon, +8%; and pineapple and blueberry, each up 6% (Technomic 2019b).
Half of consumers are very concerned about the calories in their beverages, and 45% of consumers would like their drinks to do more for them (e.g., provide energy, nutrients, or other benefits) (Hartman 2019a).
Nearly half of consumers say their diet could be somewhat healthier; 23% say it could be a lot healthier (FMI 2019b). Four in 10 closely monitor what they eat, 43% try to eat healthy but don’t pay close attention, and 9% claim to be on a strict diet (Datassential 2019).
Three-quarters of consumers say they’re trying to include more vegetables; 71% want to eat more fruit; 53%, more nuts/seeds; 48%, more fish; and 44%, more beans, lentils/legumes (Datassential 2019).
Sixty-two percent are adding more fiber to their diet; 60%, more protein; 59%, more vitamin D; 56%, more calcium; 55%, more whole grains; 51%, more olive oil; and 47%, more antioxidants (Hartman 2019a).
Sales of foods/drinks with a protein claim grew 9%. Sales of products with a protein plus no hormones claim were up 15%, the same growth as products with a protein plus no preservatives claim. Other claims and the sales growth associated with them include the following: protein plus a non-GMO claim, +21%; protein plus whole grains, +27; protein plus no antibiotics, +41%; and protein plus probiotics, +69% (Dubois et al. 2019b).
Over two-thirds of grocery shoppers look for avoidance claims on food packages; leading avoidance claims are about sugar, sodium, and no homones/ antibiotics. Six in 10 consumers look for minimal processing claims, of which no artificial ingredients/preservatives and non-GMOs are most important. Free-range and grass-fed are the most sought-after ethical claims on foods (FMI 2019b).
Heart health has fallen to fourth place as the benefit consumers are most often trying to get from foods; weight management, followed by energy, and digestive benefits, now top the list (IFIC 2019).
Although nearly six in 10 consumers say they’re eating more plant-based foods than two years ago, consumption of fruits/vegetables and meat have not changed accordingly (USDA 2019; HealthFocus 2019).
Those under age 39, those with kids in the household, women, Asians, and those of upper income and higher levels of education are most likely to say they’re eating more plant-based foods (HealthFocus 2019).
Half of adults (50%) have tried a new diet or eating approach in the past year, up from 40% in 2017 (Hartman 2019a). Among the 50% who have experimented with a diet/eating plan during the past year, 12% have tried a low-carbohydrate regimen; 9% each have tried a dairy-free/lactose-free diet, intermittent fasting, or a glutenfree plan; 8%, the Mediterranean diet; 7%, the Whole30 diet or a juice/detox cleanse; 6%, Weight Watchers; and 5% each, the elimination, ketogenic, or paleo diet (Hartman 2019a).
But what is different from previous dieting behaviors is that only 3% of those who tried a diet stayed on a specific diet/eating plan exclusively. Nearly two-thirds of adults are simply “not interested” in the keto, paleo, Whole30, or Atkin’s diet (Datassential 2019).
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We have heard many times that the commonsense world of classical physics was shattered by Einstein's revelation of the laws of relativity. This is certainly true; the shift from our everyday notions of time and space to those revealed by relativity is one of the greatest stretches the mind can make. What is seldom appreciated is that the laws of classical physics yield equally strange ( or arguably even stranger ) results if the observer happens to be in a very high velocity reference frame. This article addresses two questions: In part I we examine what the world would look like if relativity was not in effect, and you happened to be in a reference frame traveling at a high percentage of the speed of light or faster than light, ( perfectly allowable in this model), a world which existed on a conceptual foundation of Newtonian Physics and the aether. It turns out that this is a weirder place than is generally realized. In part II we see that classical physics in these frames is self-contradictory. Neither the consideration of Maxwell's equations, nor the Michelson-Morley experiment was necessary to see these contradictions; they were implicit in the logic of the physics itself.
Part I
Living in a world going at high V in which worked by the Newtonian rules would be "weird". To see just how weird, lets play baseball according to the model of classical physics in a world going almost the speed of light. This speed is measured relative to the Aether (see below).We will call this situation: High V close to c.
Our native planet (Hermes)happens to be hurtling through space, such that at this part of its orbit around its sun, it is going through the aether at 99.99999985%....c. (i.e 1mph less than the speed of light) .There is absolutely no physical reason, in this model of the world, why this would be impossible, so we will choose it for ease of visualization. We will call the direction of our planet’s travel through the aether Northward, for the sake of conversation (knowing full well that North has no real meaning in space, but we need to call our direction something). We will denote North as N. and South as S. This would imply a high speed of the sun through the aether since the orbital speed itself would never be this high. This, in turn, could be due to that sun being in agalaxy hurtling through the aether with high V. In the most common classical model, the aether would blow right through the planet with no resistance. Now, in our laboratory, and outside on Hermes, we would measure the speed of light as about 1 mph in the northward direction but at almost 2c in the Southward direction, with light propagating through space at intermediate speeds at intermediate angles.
We are attending a baseball game on Hermes. If the stands surrounded the baseball field in a circle with a 300 foot radius, then we would witness the following: When a player struck the ball, if you were situated in the N end of the stands, then you would first hear the bat strike the ball and then much later (about 3.4 minutes) see the bat hit the ball. This is how long it would take for light to reach you, propagating through the furious aether wind against it. The sound which is propagating through the medium of air, which is not moving relative to you, would travel at its normal speed of about 740 MPH. Worse, during that 3.4 minute period, you would see a procession of previous batters hitting the ball, so that the sound you heard would be difficult to assign to any batter. Still worse, the ball could fly through the air invisible to you in real time and hit you on the head.Only after the impact would you see the image of the ball, and then, in a truly bizarre fashion: The first thing you would see would be the ball just before it hit your head and then a few feet before your head, and than gradually you would see the image unreel backwards, as a movie played in reverse, till a little over three minutes after the impact you would see it leave the bat to start coming towards you, information no longer useful. This reverse unfolding is due to the fact that the baseball is traveling so much faster than light, that the first light you would see from the baseball would be the light that reflected from it when it was a few inches from your head, because that light would get to your eye before the light which had left the baseball as it was hit by the bat, even though the light from that impact had been traveling for a longer time (but so slowly that the baseball leaves it far behind).
People in the south end of the stands would see the game pretty much normally because the image would reach them at nearly 2c, while the sound would lag behind, in the way we are used to.
This may sound ridiculous, but it is a direct consequence of following the assumptions which were deeply embedded in pre-relativistic Physics. Before we go on, we should make those assumptions explicit.1
For physicists then:
1) All Space was pervaded by a luminiferous aether-the medium through which light propagated. This aether was invisible itself, weightless, and matter passed through it without any drag. Light was a wave that propagated through the aether at a fixed speed (relative to the aether ) which was known to be about 3 x 10 8 m/s (in a vacuum), and is denoted c. The Aether could be considered to be the absolute framework against which all motion could be said to be measured.2 So the phrase "a very high velocity frame" above means high velocity relative to the either, and the phrase "traveling at the speed of light" is also relative to the aether. In addition, Newton's three laws explained all mechanical phenomena, and the laws of electromagnetism explained the propagation of light and the other electromagnetic waves.
2) The measured velocity of light ( denoted c) would depend entirely on the observer’s velocity relative to the aether. If you (the observer) and your experimental apparatus were moving through the aether, in the direction of the light source, you would measure a higher velocity. If the observer was moving, (with respect to the aether), in the direction away from the source you would measure a lower velocity. These velocities would add or subtract in a straightforward linear way; if you were moving through the aether in the direction of the source at, say, half the speed of light (relative to the aether), you would measure a light velocity of 1.5 c; if in a direction away from the source, .5c. It was exactly such a change in the speed of light due to the Earth’s motion through the aether that the Michelson-Morley experiment was expected to detect..3
Now that we understand what light should behave like to a 19th century Physicist, lets go back to Hermes where the strangeness is just beginning to unfold.
If you were looking south through a telescope at something 25 miles away, you would see what had happened yesterday.
If you were having a conversation and your interlocutor claimed you had said something 5 minutes ago, which you remembered otherwise, you could just walk N at 5 mph until you overtook the light from the conversation, turn around, focus your telescope on your own lips, record a videotape, bring the tape back to your friend and show it on a VCR (you should sit south of the screen), and prove by lip reading what you had said a few minutes before. (Very convenient.)
Going south, light would propagate at a little under 2c, a little too fast to walk past.
In the event that the above proof caused a fistfight with your friend, then you would do well to position yourself S of him because you would see him normally, but he would see your fists coming towards him after the fact.
What would an object rotating around a vertical axis look like? Very strange indeed.Lets use a ruler for an example. Assuming it was rotating at any speed sufficient to have its extremities move faster than 1 mph, if you were standing N of it, you would see the following: the edge coming towards you would be time delayed, (as would all parts of the image), you would see the approaching edge of several rotations ago. The actual light from the approaching edge now (In this pre-relativistic scheme , the word "now" has a quite real and unambiguous meaning) would be seen after the edge had already started retreating. The edge which would actually be retreating at the moment you were looking, would dim, change color.The parts of the ruler at different radii are all moving at different speeds, some above, and some below the propagation speed of the light carrying the image. This makes the actual detailed math of what a simple spinning ruler would look like quite daunting ...and I leave it as an exercise for the reader.
If, while walking North at 5 Mph, you turned around and (still moving) looked backwards, the world would disappear. The entire southern hemisphere would be a black hole to you optically. You would be able to hear, smell ,taste, and feel the world normally, but the south facing hemisphere would vanish from sight. No light that was leaving any object in that direction would be able to catch up with you. Only when you stopped and waited would the light from the south be able to impinge on your eye. As you were walking, you would have cleared a path through some of the "old light" that had been moving slowly in your path and you would have absorbed it on your body, leaving a sort of light-void path in the shape of your body, a kind of three dimensional shadow. Therefore, when you stopped there would be a delay before the unabsorbed light from the south caught up, and the world turned itself on again.Looking directly ahead as you walked, you would see events that happened directly behind you being played out in reverse.
Now let us consider another world whose velocity relative to the aether was 1 ½ c. (Assume the same direction as the previous example.) In the classical view, there would be absolutely nothing to prevent this,So again, we will choose it, for visualizing the logical consequences.
Fig 1 by Albert Fayngold
In such a frame (call it planet superluminous, see Fig 1), even if you were sitting on the ground, when you faced south the world would be black, and if you faced N look normal (but blue shifted). The only way to look at an object south of you would be to walk south past it and turn around to face N to see it .The south side of it, that is. The north side of any fixed object (building, tree, etc.) would be permanently invisible; there would be no way (that I can think of) to get that light into your eye or a recording instrument. Your other senses would work as usual.
You would have some pretty interesting temperature problems, because along with light, radiant heat energy (infrared) would not reach you from the South but you would be radiating with a vengeance in that direction, so the South side of your body would be quite cold, even if the air were at normal temperature.The North side, however, would be receiving radiation from the environment (north of it) normally and therefore be warmer than the south facing side. You’d be normally warm on the N side and freezing on the S side and had better turn yourself quite frequently, like a rotisserie chicken, to maintain some sort of equality.. Even if the air and ground temperature were uniform in the environment (something, in fact, quite hard to maintain here), and there was no extraneous radiation impinging, you would have this permanent hot and cold side to every object.
In this frame you would have a permanent temperature disequilibrium maintained, even if you sealed the whole planet in a perfectly reflective enclosure, with no influx of radiation from the outside, no leakage of radiation, and no potential energy source being depleted on the inside. This is, to put it mildly, not in accordance with the laws of thermodynamics as understood at the end of the nineteenth century. This introduces us to more than mere strangeness, we now have our first intimations of theoretical inconsistency, which will be considered in part II, with other examples.
I think the above justifies my claim that the non-relativistic (classical) world is as strange or stranger than the relativistic one; it's just that you have to pick the right frame to appreciate the strangeness. In the non relativistic world, each separate frame of reference presents a quite different physical reality. Children brought up in one wouldn't be able to function in others. In the relativistic framework, all reference frames are blissfully indistinguishable.
I would guess that the reason the implicit strangeness of the classical world was not more obvious and not more often dwelled upon is a historical accident. Before classical physicists happened to ask themselves the question of what life would be like in a high V frame, Einstein came along and offered a totally "other", and empirically provable, world view which made the question moot.
Part II
The necessity of reformulating classical physics.
The entire foregoing discussion is based on a conceptual framework which works with the first two ideas (The existence of the aether as medium, and the speed of the observer through the aether as determining the speed of light), which were understood in the nineteenth century. However, by the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, the structure of the atom was revealed (the essential features worked out by 1912), and it became known that the electrons carrying the negative charge were confined to the outside of the atoms with the protons confined to the center. This, in turn, generated a new understanding of the way forces pass through solid objects, (i.e. how a force applied to the one end of a rigid body results in the acceleration of matter at the other end), These last two aspects of physics were still within the framework of classical physics.
When this aspect of forces is considered, it turns out that the entire previous discussion is superficial and in need of radical restructuring, producing a set of predictions, if anything, stranger than the preceding ones.
It is germane to expand on how a force works its way through an object. For example, if one pushes on a stick with your hand, at the area of contact between your fingers and the stick, the atoms of your skin are impinging on the atoms of the stick. When an attempt to push atoms together is made, the electrons of one atom repel the electrons of the neighboring atom, which then push on the electrons in the next atom, etc., transmitting the force through the stick and causing all the atoms to start moving, so the force with which your hand pushes on the stick turns out to be transmitted by an electromagnetic field which surrounds each electron.
It was also understood, quite independently of relativity theory, that the electromagnetic field itself propagated through space at the speed of light (in this model, relative to the aether). This was given by Maxwell’s equations, the second pillar of classical physics after Newton’s laws. Even without Maxwell, empirical evidence from such everyday devices as the telegraph showed that the advancing wave front of the electromagnetic field traveled at light speed.
Therefore, in this model, when you push something the "push" can only go as fast as light through the aether.
Now, when we include the above idea, the previous analysis changes radically.
Let us go back to Hermes. Velocity through the aether is Northward at such a velocity that the speed of light Northward is 1 mph (relative to the planet frame). Let's (try) to push a stick northward. The atoms of your fingers move toward the atoms of the stick and the electomagnetic field starts to increase to transmit the force. The atoms of the stick push on adjacent atoms and the push is transmitted as a chain reaction through the stick. But since the force is transmitted through the electromagnetic field, it can only travel through the stick at the speed of light, which is 1 mph in the northward direction. In effect, a wave of compression carrying the force passes through the stick, but this wave cannot travel faster than light. It is important to stress here that this limitation on propagation speed reflects a pre-relativistic understanding of force. The difference between this and the modern conception, is that, in this model, the speed of light itself is frame dependent..
What happens here is that the logic of pre-relativistic physics tells us that in this situation it would be physically impossible to push a stick faster than 1 mph N no matter how hard you tried. Increasing the force a millionfold would not help, because the wave carrying the force could not possibly get to the front of the stick faster than light speed. (This is a weird kind of pre-Einseinian speed limit...in neither system (late classical or modern) could you push an object past the speed of light).
In the example in part I about walking faster than light to catch up to the visual record of your conversation, we now have a problem: it is now evident that you couldn't walk faster than light, because when the push to accelerate your body comes up your legs, it can't go faster than 1 mph N.
Nor could the baseball in the first example hit you before its image got to you, because no matter how hard you hit it, the baseball and its image could at most travel together. The sound of the baseball being hit would also be limited to this speed because sound is transmitted by one molecule pushing on another which is also through the agency of the electromagnetic force. Therefore, with the transmission of forces reckoned, the baseball, its image and the sound of its launch would all hit you at the same time, about 3.4 minutes after it was hit. In fact, the transmission of forces precludes any object on Hermes from ever going more than 1 mph N, if it was originally going slower.
I don't even want to think of what a rotating object would look like, and worse, be like on this version of Hermes. Let us say you put a motor on the axis of a horizontally placed rod and started it with a given angular acceleration. The advancing edge could not go faster than 1 mph N; as each outer radius section achieved 1mph, it would cease accelerating, but the adjacent inner radii section which would have a slower speed could still accelerate. But all parts of a straight spinning rod cannot be going 1mph, so does this mean the rod starts to bend and spiral around itself? Or perhaps the rod stays straight and the outmost point limit of 1 mph N puts a constraint on the inner sections of the rod which go slower towards the center, in the ordinary configuration of a spinning rod.
What spoils the simplicity of the latter idea is that there is no reason why the force spinning the rod, and propagating from the center, can't be made great enough to bend or break the material the rod is made of. So when the outside edge reached 1 mph N, would the rod on that end proceed to bend or break in an inward moving sequence? The retreating outer end, (going S) can accelerate up to any speed up to 2c, but then must slow down when it starts going N. Or does it have to? If it is already traveling faster than the speed of light when it swings around, and enters the N direction, does this mean it has effectively become the analog of a tachyon in this system, permitted to exist because it entered the northward direction going faster than light, and requires no further force transmission from other parts of the rod to maintain that speed? Is the spinning rod composed of sections going N at 1 mph top speed, sections retreating S at an ever increasing rate and then becoming sections going north as effective tachyons? Just what is the shape of this rod at any moment?
I don't know, and I think this would take some rather intensive work by mathematical heavyweights to get ironed out. I leave this as well as an exercise for the reader.
This is a very lopsided world indeed, and more important for physicists, here we have grounds for more than the mere strangeness we had in part I; here we have grounds for an actual contradiction within classical physics.
Assuming only the properties given above, (each well within the legitimate assumptions of classical physics) we find that on Hermes in some cases F ¹ ma. Newton's second law is not in effect because if you push on an object and continue to push indefinitely, it will not continue to accelerate, it will reach a top speed of 1mph N. . The third law, in its original formulation, was compromised, as soon as the transmission of forces at finite velocity was understood. If you have two electrically charged particles A and B where B is positioned 100 meters South of A, and you then move A closer, then at the moment (again, a unique, and universal instant in the classical model) the higher electrical force from A impinges on B, B is NOT exerting an equal and opposite force back on A. This difficulty was already known at the end of the nineteenth century, but, in our high V frame, what was an inconsistency of small duration, becomes highly exaggerated, and worse, asymmetrical, because the increased force propagating southward, would take less than a millionth of a second, but at 1 mph in the N direction it would take 3+ minutes to reach back to A.
One cannot exaggerate the depth of this contradiction. Newton’s second and third laws are not something the body of classical physics can readily dispense with, they are the logical foundation of it. We have reached an impasse. This means that if you were living in the early years of the twentieth century, you would not need the Michelson Morley experiment or Einstein’s relativity to realize something was amiss with physics; all you would need were the standard assumptions of your time, and the thinking through of what your physics would predict at high V reference frames, in order to see that your conceptual framework was incomplete or even inconsistent. The examination of the world of high V frames would not in itself point to the specific solution of special relativity, but it is surprising to see that such contemplation would have revealed a striking rift within the body of classical physics, and showed that some such radical revision was a necessity.
Post Script:
It is important to realize that the entire analysis given in parts I and II is itself only a beginning, intended to "open the door" on this topic. I think that many of the results arrived at above will show themselves to be in need of addition, modification, or correction.. When a complete thinking through of the implications of high V reference frames in classical systems is carried out, additional unnoticed influences and effects will come to light. I look forward to this process, and predict with confidence that what a further analysis of these frames will reveal is that the classical world had even stranger features than the ones depicted above, and many more inherent inconsistencies. This has strong implications for the history of ideas. It is intriguing to see that hidden in classical physics, which seemingly was circumscribed by a common-sense based and intuitive framework, was an implicit world of deep strangeness, and even contradiction. There are even implications for the ongoing process of constructing consistent physical theories today, especially in theoretical developments which treat space as a fluid..4
"Cut nature at the edges" Plato enjoined us. This particular edge yields a truly intriguing vision of a classical world which we mistakenly took as always behaving in a sensible and ordinary way.
Endnotes:
1) This is not to say that the viewpoint of classical physics was monolithic. By the end of the nineteenth century, even before Einstein, many of these assumptions were being reexamined by Lorentz, Poincare FitzGerald and others. The thought that something needed to be changed within the classical framework goes back all the way to Newton himself who refused to believe that objects could exert an instantaneous force at a distance on each other, and therefore thought that his own third law would need revision. The assumptions given here could be called the mainstream, or the working set of assumptions that most physicists used everyday.
2) Holton, Rutherford, and Watson, Project Physics (Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1975) ,
Unit 4 pp117-1193)
3) T.M. Heliwell, Special Relativity, (Allyn and Bacon) p12
4) Theodore A. Jacobson, Renaud Parentani "Echoes of Black Holes" Sci Am293 (6) , 68-75 (Dec 2005).
5) In Special Relativity it is not actually specified that an object can never move faster than light…a particle moving originally slower than light through space can never be accelerated up to, or beyond light speed, but many physicists interpret the equations to say that a particle which was always going faster than light might be permitted to exist. Such a hypothetical particle is dubbed a tachyon and has many delightful and bizarre properties. | http://aetherambler.net/strange.htm |
The idea of developing a coherent, complete presentation of an entire? Many older physicians remember with real pleasure their sense of adventure and discovery as they worked their ways through the classic series by Sommerfeld, by Planck, and by Landau and Lifshitz.
Classical [note 1] mechanics is a physical theory describing the motion of macroscopic objects, from projectiles to parts of machinery , and astronomical objects , such as spacecraft , planets , stars , and galaxies.
For objects governed by classical mechanics, if the present state is known, it is possible to predict how it will move in the future determinism , and how it has moved in the past reversibility.
The earliest development of classical mechanics is often referred to as Newtonian mechanics. It consists of the physical concepts based on foundational works of Sir Isaac Newton , and the mathematical methods invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , Joseph-Louis Lagrange , Leonard Euler , and other contemporaries, in the 17th century to describe the motion of bodies under the influence of a system of forces.
Later, more abstract methods were developed, leading to the reformulations of classical mechanics known as Lagrangian mechanics and Hamiltonian mechanics. These advances, made predominantly in the 18th and 19th centuries, extend substantially beyond earlier works, particularly through their use of analytical mechanics. They are, with some modification, also used in all areas of modern physics. Classical mechanics provides extremely accurate results when studying large objects that are not extremely massive and speeds not approaching the speed of light.
When the objects being examined have about the size of an atom diameter, it becomes necessary to introduce the other major sub-field of mechanics : quantum mechanics. To describe velocities that are not small compared to the speed of light, special relativity is needed. In cases where objects become extremely massive, general relativity becomes applicable.
However, a number of modern sources do include relativistic mechanics in classical physics, which in their view represents classical mechanics in its most developed and accurate form. The following introduces the basic concepts of classical mechanics.
For simplicity, it often models real-world objects as point particles objects with negligible size. The motion of a point particle is characterized by a small number of parameters : its position, mass , and the forces applied to it.
Each of these parameters is discussed in turn. In reality, the kind of objects that classical mechanics can describe always have a non-zero size. The physics of very small particles, such as the electron , is more accurately described by quantum mechanics. Objects with non-zero size have more complicated behavior than hypothetical point particles, because of the additional degrees of freedom , e.
However, the results for point particles can be used to study such objects by treating them as composite objects, made of a large number of collectively acting point particles. The center of mass of a composite object behaves like a point particle. Classical mechanics uses common sense notions of how matter and forces exist and interact. It assumes that matter and energy have definite, knowable attributes such as location in space and speed.
Non-relativistic mechanics also assumes that forces act instantaneously see also Action at a distance. The position of a point particle is defined in relation to a coordinate system centered on an arbitrary fixed reference point in space called the origin O. A simple coordinate system might describe the position of a particle P with a vector notated by an arrow labeled r that points from the origin O to point P. In general, the point particle does not need to be stationary relative to O.
In cases where P is moving relative to O , r is defined as a function of t , time. In pre-Einstein relativity known as Galilean relativity , time is considered an absolute, i. The velocity , or the rate of change of position with time, is defined as the derivative of the position with respect to time:.
In classical mechanics, velocities are directly additive and subtractive. Velocities are directly additive as vector quantities ; they must be dealt with using vector analysis. The acceleration , or rate of change of velocity, is the derivative of the velocity with respect to time the second derivative of the position with respect to time :.
Acceleration represents the velocity's change over time. Velocity can change in either magnitude or direction, or both. Occasionally, a decrease in the magnitude of velocity " v " is referred to as deceleration , but generally any change in the velocity over time, including deceleration, is simply referred to as acceleration.
While the position, velocity and acceleration of a particle can be described with respect to any observer in any state of motion, classical mechanics assumes the existence of a special family of reference frames in which the mechanical laws of nature take a comparatively simple form. These special reference frames are called inertial frames. An inertial frame is an idealized frame of reference within which an object has no external force acting upon it.
Because there is no external force acting upon it, the object has a constant velocity; that is, it is either at rest or moving uniformly in a straight line. A key concept of inertial frames is the method for identifying them.
For practical purposes, reference frames that do not accelerate with respect to distant stars an extremely distant point are regarded as good approximations to inertial frames. Non-inertial reference frames accelerate in relation to an existing inertial frame.
They form the basis for Einstein's relativity. Due to the relative motion, particles in the non-inertial frame appear to move in ways not explained by forces from existing fields in the reference frame. Hence, it appears that there are other forces that enter the equations of motion solely as a result of the relative acceleration.
These forces are referred to as fictitious forces , inertia forces, or pseudo-forces. Consider two reference frames S and S'. For observers in each of the reference frames an event has space-time coordinates of x , y , z , t in frame S and x' , y' , z' , t' in frame S'. This set of formulas defines a group transformation known as the Galilean transformation informally, the Galilean transform. The limiting case applies when the velocity u is very small compared to c , the speed of light.
For some problems, it is convenient to use rotating coordinates reference frames. Thereby one can either keep a mapping to a convenient inertial frame, or introduce additionally a fictitious centrifugal force and Coriolis force. A force in physics is any action which causes an object's velocity to change; that is, to accelerate. A force originates from within a field , such as an electro-static field caused by static electrical charges , electro-magnetic field caused by moving charges , or gravitational field caused by mass , among others.
Newton was the first to mathematically express the relationship between force and momentum. Some physicists interpret Newton's second law of motion as a definition of force and mass, while others consider it a fundamental postulate, a law of nature. The quantity m v is called the canonical momentum. The net force on a particle is thus equal to the rate of change of the momentum of the particle with time. So long as the force acting on a particle is known, Newton's second law is sufficient to describe the motion of a particle.
Once independent relations for each force acting on a particle are available, they can be substituted into Newton's second law to obtain an ordinary differential equation , which is called the equation of motion. As an example, assume that friction is the only force acting on the particle, and that it may be modeled as a function of the velocity of the particle, for example:. Then the equation of motion is. This means that the velocity of this particle decays exponentially to zero as time progresses.
In this case, an equivalent viewpoint is that the kinetic energy of the particle is absorbed by friction which converts it to heat energy in accordance with the conservation of energy , and the particle is slowing down. This expression can be further integrated to obtain the position r of the particle as a function of time.
Important forces include the gravitational force and the Lorentz force for electromagnetism. Illustrations of the weak form of Newton's third law are often found for magnetic forces. More generally, if the force varies as a function of position as the particle moves from r 1 to r 2 along a path C , the work done on the particle is given by the line integral.
If the work done in moving the particle from r 1 to r 2 is the same no matter what path is taken, the force is said to be conservative. Gravity is a conservative force, as is the force due to an idealized spring , as given by Hooke's law.
The force due to friction is non-conservative. The kinetic energy E k of a particle of mass m travelling at speed v is given by. For extended objects composed of many particles, the kinetic energy of the composite body is the sum of the kinetic energies of the particles. The work—energy theorem states that for a particle of constant mass m , the total work W done on the particle as it moves from position r 1 to r 2 is equal to the change in kinetic energy E k of the particle:.
Conservative forces can be expressed as the gradient of a scalar function, known as the potential energy and denoted E p :. If all the forces acting on a particle are conservative, and E p is the total potential energy which is defined as a work of involved forces to rearrange mutual positions of bodies , obtained by summing the potential energies corresponding to each force.
This result is known as conservation of energy and states that the total energy ,. It is often useful, because many commonly encountered forces are conservative.
Classical mechanics also describes the more complex motions of extended non-pointlike objects. Euler's laws provide extensions to Newton's laws in this area. The concepts of angular momentum rely on the same calculus used to describe one-dimensional motion. The rocket equation extends the notion of rate of change of an object's momentum to include the effects of an object "losing mass". There are two important alternative formulations of classical mechanics: Lagrangian mechanics and Hamiltonian mechanics.
These, and other modern formulations, usually bypass the concept of "force", instead referring to other physical quantities, such as energy, speed and momentum, for describing mechanical systems in generalized coordinates.
These are basically mathematical rewriting of Newton's laws, but complicated mechanical problems are much easier to solve in these forms. Also, analogy with quantum mechanics is more explicit in Hamiltonian formalism. The expressions given above for momentum and kinetic energy are only valid when there is no significant electromagnetic contribution. In electromagnetism, Newton's second law for current-carrying wires breaks down unless one includes the electromagnetic field contribution to the momentum of the system as expressed by the Poynting vector divided by c 2 , where c is the speed of light in free space.
Many branches of classical mechanics are simplifications or approximations of more accurate forms; two of the most accurate being general relativity and relativistic statistical mechanics. Geometric optics is an approximation to the quantum theory of light , and does not have a superior "classical" form.
When both quantum mechanics and classical mechanics cannot apply, such as at the quantum level with many degrees of freedom, quantum field theory QFT is of use. QFT deals with small distances, and large speeds with many degrees of freedom as well as the possibility of any change in the number of particles throughout the interaction. When treating large degrees of freedom at the macroscopic level, statistical mechanics becomes useful.
Statistical mechanics describes the behavior of large but countable numbers of particles and their interactions as a whole at the macroscopic level. Statistical mechanics is mainly used in thermodynamics for systems that lie outside the bounds of the assumptions of classical thermodynamics.
In the case of high velocity objects approaching the speed of light, classical mechanics is enhanced by special relativity. In case that objects become extremely heavy i. In that case, General relativity GR becomes applicable.
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Это было одной из ее многочисленных хитростей: мужчинам казалось, что она сгорает от страсти, поэтому они стремились прийти к ней снова и. Росио погладила руками свои пышные загорелые формы - дай Бог, чтобы они сохраняли свою привлекательность еще лет пять-шесть, пока она не накопит достаточно денег. Сеньор Ролдан забирал большую часть ее заработка себе, но без него ей пришлось бы присоединиться к бесчисленным шлюхам, что пытаются подцепить пьяных туристов в Триане. А у ее клиентов по крайней мере есть деньги. Они ее не бьют, им легко угодить. Росио натянула ночную рубашку, глубоко вздохнула и открыла дверь в комнату.
Думаю, нет нужды спрашивать, куда направился Дэвид, - хмуро сказала. ГЛАВА 17 Дэвид Беккер ступил на раскаленные плиты площади Испании. Прямо перед ним над деревьями возвышалось Аюнтамьенто - старинное здание ратуши, которое окружали три акра бело-голубой мозаики азульехо. Его арабские шпили и резной фасад создавали впечатление скорее дворца - как и было задумано, - чем общественного учреждения. За свою долгую историю оно стало свидетелем переворотов, пожаров и публичных казней, однако большинство туристов приходили сюда по совершенно иной причине: туристические проспекты рекламировали его как английский военный штаб в фильме Лоуренс Аравийский. Коламбия пикчерз было гораздо дешевле снять эту картину в Испании, нежели в Египте, а мавританское влияние на севильскую архитектуру с легкостью убедило кинозрителей в том, что перед их глазами Каир.
Я вовсе не хочу с ней переспать. Мне нужно с ней поговорить. Ты можешь помочь мне ее найти. Парень поставил бутылку на стол. - Вы из полиции. Беккер покачал головой. Панк пристально смотрел на .
Я был. Но сейчас я. ГЛАВА 69 - Эй, мистер.
На экране перед ними высветилось сообщение об ошибке: НЕДОПУСТИМЫЙ ВВОД. ТОЛЬКО В ЦИФРОВОЙ ФОРМЕ - Черт его дери! - взорвался Джабба. - Только цифровой.
Она услышала шелест одежды, и вдруг сигналы прекратились. Сьюзан замерла. Мгновение спустя, как в одном из самых страшных детских кошмаров, перед ней возникло чье-то лицо. Зеленоватое, оно было похоже на призрак.
Черные всепроникающие линии окружили последний предохранительный щит и начали прорываться к сердцевине банка данных.
Дэвид Беккер поднялся на последнюю крутую ступеньку и, едва держась на ногах, шагнул в крошечную каменную клетку. Со всех сторон его окружали высокие стены с узкими прорезями по всему периметру. Выхода. Судьба в это утро не была благосклонна к Беккеру. Выбегая из собора в маленький дворик, он зацепился пиджаком за дверь, и плотная ткань резко заставила его остановиться, не сразу разорвавшись.
Перила были невысокими. Как это странно, подумал Стратмор, что насчет вируса Чатрукьян был прав с самого начала. Его падение пронзило Стратмора холодным ужасом - отчаянный крик и потом тишина.
Белл. Светлые волосы тщательно уложены. - Прошу меня извинить, - пробормотал Беккер, застегивая пряжку на ремне. - Мужская комната оказалась закрыта… но я уже ухожу.
Это придает правдоподобность его электронной переписке. - Тебе следовало бы работать в полиции, - улыбнулся Стратмор. - Идея неплохая, но на каждое послание Танкадо, увы, поступает ответ. Танкадо пишет, его партнер отвечает. - Убедительно.
Так какая разница. Повисла тишина. Фонтейн, видимо, размышлял.
Кто он. - Понятия не имею. - Похож на китайца. Японец, подумал Беккер.
Она узнала этот запах, запах плавящегося кремния, запах смертельного яда.
Я думала, что она мне заплатит, но ничего не вышло. Ну, мне было все равно. Я просто хотела от него избавиться.
Просто все привезти. Абсолютно. Ничего не упустив. Беккер еще раз обвел глазами кучу вещей и нахмурился.
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Object Faster Than Speed of Light
The studies related to the inception and creation of this universe have been an all time favourite with the scientific researchers as well as the masses. Ever since humans learnt ways to dig out facts, various theories have come up that explain the hidden mysteries behind the formation of this universe. However, only few of these theories were accepted and recognised, like the famous Big Bang theory.With gradual advancements in the scientific research field, some other important theories have also made their mark on topics related to different components of the universe. One of the most interesting theories have been those related to the speed of light.For decades now, the theory of travelling faster than the speed of light has the focus of research for many scientists, and is truly considered as an accepted scientific belief than just a mere theory. This concept has further cemented, courtesy science-fiction movies and books that show people zipping from galaxy to galaxy, performing extravagant adventures and gathering the attention of us all. Remember Back to the Future?
Faster than light
The notion of travelling faster than light carries the anticipation that the human existence may one day reveal the yet unanswered questions regarding the enigma of universe. However, to travel faster than light, there are few important challenges to be faced first.
One of the most important challenges is of the Special Relativity theory which says that speed of the light - (roughly 300,000 km/sec (186,000 miles) - is the greatest speed at which energy, information and signals can be transmitted, and it is not possible for anything to travel faster than that. It is a fundamental law of physics, and a fact that is built into the architecture of the universe and taught to every student. Since the idea is very significant and there are many advanced concepts of physics which have been based on it, it would require an entirely new overhaul to challenge this theory in order to re-explain the universe. Hence, it is very difficult to find an alternative, efficient method of interstellar travel without infringing the keystone of physics. For example, bound to a speed equal to that of light, with time dilation, travelling to the nearest star would take around 2.3 years.
With time dilation, travelling at the speed of light would take a spaceship approximately 11 years to reach the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. To go beyond this limitation of this speed, maintaining a presence outside of our solar system would not be an easy call. But all is not lost yet.
The theoretical physicists have found some directions to travel the stars without violating the Special relativity theory. In space, around 20 years ago, astronomers were bewildered, briefly, by distant objects that appeared to go faster than ‘c', the physical constant for light.
According to some recent researches and experiments, physicists now suggest that there are certain things in universe which can travel little faster than light. For example, there are certain velocities in connection with the process of wave transmission, which are well capable of exceeding the speed of light. Those who understand the mechanism of wave travel and its velocity must have an idea that the phase velocity of a wave or the group velocity of a wave packet are not in principle restricted below light speed. The speed connected with wave phenomena that, according to special relativity, must never go beyond the light speed, is the front velocity of the wave or wave packet, which generally can be seen as the speed of the first little stirring.
Besides, special objects called ‘Tachyon' (from the Greek word ‘tachys', meaning swift) were found by late Gerald Feinberg of Columbia University, which are capable of travelling faster than light. These particles have not been found in experiments as real particles travelling through the vacuum; however physicists predict theoretically that the tachyon-like objects are present and have the capability to move faster than light. The tachyons are also called ‘Quasiparticles' which travel through laser-like media. This is why they exist as particle-like excitations, comparable to other quasiparticles called phonons and polaritons which are seen in solids. The laser-like media is a scientific term referring to those media that have reversed atomic populations, that is, the conditions existing inside a laser.
Experiments
In order to gather clues on the concept of faster-than-light, various experiments are being performed. One of such experiments was performed by the scientists of the Italian National Research Council on microwaves which were sent through a constringe ring-shaped opening onto a large mirror, which sent the waves back and behind the source.
On a simple level, a flashing row of lights can display signals that move from one end of the row to the other end faster than ‘c' if the lights flash on and off in time. The time of arrival of these pulses revealed that they moved at a speed five per cent greater than the speed constant ‘c' of light. The experimental work is further discussed and described in a recent issue of the Physical Review Letters.
However, the research critiques say that such effect could be an illusion produced by a shorter route through the optical system than anticipated.
In another experiment, a pulse of light, which moves into a translucent chamber filled with caesium gas, comes to the speed 300 times than that of the normal speed of light. Physicists suggest that the important aspect is the light pulse leaves the far side of the chamber even before it enters at the near side.
With all the progress in faster-than-light speed experiments and researches, there is lot of controversy and debate about these kinds of research experiments since it is difficult to carry out such experiments which could inundated by numerous unidentified errors. Many physicists would say that these experiments are interesting, but that in every case, there will be an ambiguity which will allow nature to protect the causality effect.
According to scientists, if we accept the notion of travelling faster than light then it would make the information to be transmitted faster. However with this, strange results would come on surface. For example, for some observers it would appear that the information is received even before it was sent, which at present is a tough thought to digest. It would be a violation of causality and for many researchers it is a troublesome situation to meet with.
In spite of the upcoming research experiments and conclusions related to faster than light, for the time being the special relativity command, that neither matter nor information should move faster than light, is the significant basic. And this is not easy to be rejected or ignored.
Comments
i do not understand it is too hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If speed is relative to the observer and the entire envelope of matter in question is traveling at the same speed in context with itself, why would physical science as we have have defined it still conclude that something cannot travel faster than light?
I think the object faster than speed of light is just a manipulation through theoritical physics,However,this is 2 say it cannot exist by experiment.but eventhough it will exist,is only God can move faster than speed of light.
sounds hard
Yes you can travel faster than the speed of light, it is just like breaking the sound barrier, just that when traveling faster than the speed of light, you would not be visible, because you are traveling faster than visible light, the only problem is how to get an object with mass to that speed, impossibly at the time.
As for as being at your point of arrival before you launch, this is true if your target is millions of miles away, when you look at your target of arrival from point of origen, yes you would have been there well before you would be visible there, but not there before you would be able to get there at a slower speed.
Travel at faster than speed of light can not be seen because it would be in a dimension that is not visible.
awesome job!
No, Naveen, no-one can, since it is most likely absolutely impossible that we ever could exceed "c."
One thought has been that the result would be uncontrolled time travel, and I think that science fiction novels have been built on this idea. But this remains purely--hypothetical? Unsupported? Speculative?--probably all of the above.
Can someone tell me that what happens when we achieve speed greater than speed of light
Good hub. Interesting stuff. Thanks.
Bottom Line: Light Speed cannot be accomplished with a space ship..... problem of matter! Excellent article Hassam, my hats off to you!
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I enjoyed reading this hub, Very informative.
Tachyon is just a Hypothetical concept which occurred by manipulating special theory of relativity. Scientific community doesn't accept Tachyons at all for the obvious reasons...
If your point...struggle is to show that we can travel faster than light then in quantum mechanics it's a normal proven fact that particles do communicate each other with infinite velocity!
This is real future light cone stuff.
Great Hub on a fascinating subject. Thanks.
This is mind opening. Travel faster than light is hard to conceived but if there is, guess we are heading to a next level of changes.
Good text. I think you should stress that a Tachyon is a purely hypothetical construct. You do say that it has not been observed but that's not quite saying the same thing. For example, the Higgs boson search is a crucial and important observation that is currently theoretical but not a hypothetical construct. The Standard Model predicts a zoo of particles and all have been measured except the Higgs so far. You probably know that the LHC with the billions of dollars that nations have spent on it intends to detect the Higgs boson. There is no such testable theory that I know of for a Tachyon. | https://hubpages.com/education/Object-Faster-Than-Speed-of-Light |
Noise can be considered the natural enemy of quantum information. Until now, it has always stood in the way of quantum communication outside of research laboratories. This is because one of the most important quantum phenomena, entanglement, which is characterized by strong correlations between particles over arbitrary distances and forms the basis for the advantages of quantum communication over conventional methods, is considered to be particularly susceptible to any disturbances from the environment. Even a minor interaction with the environment can lead to the destruction of entanglement.
An international team of researchers at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) has now succeeded in making quantum entanglement much more robust than before, as they report in the journal "Physical Review X". Not only does the entanglement itself become more secure, but it can also be maintained over greater distances. This breakthrough is paramount for long-range quantum communication, such as between satellites and ground stations.
High-dimensional entanglement reduces noise
The so-called "noise" is mainly caused by the loss of particles during transmission. Usually, light particles (photons) are used for the entanglement, since they move at the speed of light and interact only slightly with the environment. Generally, the polarization, i.e., the direction of oscillation, or the time at which the photons were generated, is used as information carrier.
In their experiment, the quantum physicists used the direction of oscillation, as well as the time and place of production. The information was thus written in the spatial and temporal properties of the entangled light particles. The research team successfully demonstrated that this high-dimensional entanglement can overcome strong noise, even outside well-insulated laboratories.
"The reason for this is that entanglement in many distinguishable states exhibits special correlations that can be clearly differentiated from classical correlations, even with strong background noise", explains Marcus Huber, coordinator of the study and physicist at the OeAW.
Quantum experiments during the day instead of at night
For the first time, this method of quantum entanglement could also work in daylight conditions. Until now, there were only a few experiments that also worked during the day. Because the sun causes a high level of noise, most quantum physics experiments over a free-space link are performed at night.
OeAW physicist Sebastian Ecker, first author of the publication, explains why robust entanglement suitable for everyday use is important for future applications of quantum technologies. "Quantum entanglement is the backbone of quantum communication. A secure quantum internet can only exist if the entanglement is transmitted largely undisturbed. With our experiment we were able to show how the entanglement can be made more resilient. This is another important step towards the quantum internet of the future." | https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/detail/news/less-noise-in-the-quantum-network |
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A dielectric material does slow down the rate at which information is transmitted by light, which is given by its 'group velocity'. Usually light's 'phase velocity', which determines the refraction of a continuous plane wave when it encouters regions of different refractive index, is also reduced below the vacuum value, c, but not always. The phase velocity can be bigger than c. /mike w.
"Information" can still travel at speeds up to the speed of light, however. In particular, high-energy particles can be thrown at dielectrics, and before they slow down, they are still traveling at close to the speed of light (in vacuum, not in the material). Cosmic-ray muons are constantly flying through materials, dielectric or no, it makes no difference, and it takes a lot of material to slow them down. In the mean time, because they are charged, they carry with them the electromagnetic field of a moving, charged object. Since the muons are moving faster than the phase velocity of light in a material, they create a "shock wave" of Cherenkov radiation as they traverse a dielectric. Some physicists use this radiation, which gets emitted in a cone around the muon flight path, to detect muons in big tanks of water or oil.
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reachability horizon. The longer one waits, the larger becomes the area with which one can communicate. I show the division of our world into reachable and unreachable areas in the following picture.
This division depends, of course, on the speed of the messenger – the faster he is, the further we can penetrate into the space in the given time.
Let’s take a look at the means of transport available to us today, they take us to our destination in hours instead of days, weeks or months. Further, we have, as said with the Skat, thus something in the „hind hand“. The journey from Europe to the Far East, which took several weeks a hundred years ago, does not take ten hours today. And if it is only a matter of establishing a connection with the „other side of the mountains“, today the telephone and radio can do it almost immediately.
The following statement is therefore sustainable :
the time distance in communication with distant regions thus depends only on how fast we can send signals there or receive them from there !
I say therefore, dIe most important realization in our understanding of nature was the first step that there is also for the speed of the information transmission a limit, the finite „speed of light“. Only we feel little of it on the earth.
The resulting delay is mostly to be called insignificant and also hardly affects the communication on intercontinental level. Only what happens with us here and today, that distant worlds will experience only later, and what is transmitted to us by them, is just their past. Because the light of the stars, which we see today, has already been radiated millions of years ago from there. We cannot know whether these stars exist now, thus there still, and if yes the following question arises, where they are now. Accordingly, there are already horizons behind which we cannot penetrate in no case.
But even these horizons are still largely determined by ourselves. Because if we could wait long enough, the light of distant stars would reach us after all, and as we have made a reachability diagram for the post rider, so we can do the same for radio signals which propagate with light speed. Only it must be mentioned, of course, what took days for the post rider, the light brings in fractions of seconds. There is a difference in the speed of transmission. Let us consider it. A new, a quite essential aspect still comes into play. In the case of the post rider the horizon could be extended, by a faster horse or more frequent change, later by the use even of motor vehicles. Speed of light however remains speed of light – we have reached an absolute limit there. The propagation of the light defines the space-time horizon, determined by the light cone in space and time. Please remember: What lies beyond this horizon, that is unreachable for us.
In astronomical dimensions, in the space, the areas in space and time inaccessible for us grow of course enormously. A star that is a hundred light years away cannot send a signal today that we will receive in our lifetime, and it will not hear anything from us in that time period either. But this is our personal problem; in sufficiently distant future our descendants can receive quite the signal sent today by said star. With radio waves, thus with light as the fastest transmission possibility, a new accessibility diagram is created in this way.
The light cone determines for us what we can influence in the future, it defines our space time horizon. What lies outside the light cone is in the „beyond“, out of reach for us now. The distant star ∗ lies there today and is out of reach for us. But if we wait long enough – very long for light years distant stars – then it will become visible in our future, we can send it a signal and it us.
The speed of light determines the space-time horizon, which separates for us reachable from unreachable areas.
In physics, on the other hand, absolute boundaries play an essential role today: last horizons, final frontier horizons. They limit the parts of the universe from which no one at our location can ever receive a signal, not even in the far future. How is this possible? This question leads to some of the most amazing phenomena in physics and cosmology today. If we can’t connect with areas of the universe in any way, that must mean that light „from there“ can never reach us. These can only be areas that are far away and also continuously moving further away, or those that do not let out any light. In fact, both forms exist.
How old is the universe? Today’s cosmology assumes a big bang, about 14 billion years ago, in which infinitely hot and dense primordial matter was created, which then expanded, creating our universe. The Big Bang is fixed in time, but not in space; 14 billion years ago, it started everywhere – the primordial world was not a small, hot ball that then exploded, but infinitely dense matter that was then diluted by expansion. Therefore, the time since the Big Bang is not sufficient for a signal to reach us here and now from areas that were sufficiently distant from our starting point at that time. The light from those areas has simply not yet had enough time to make it to us. The world we see is a result of the speed of light and the age of the world. Thus, it seems that we simply have to be patient: In time, more and more of the realm not yet visible to this day will come into our field of vision. The light of distant stars is already „on the way“ into our world.
Only, while we wait, the universe does not keep still. Astronomical observations show that it expands in constantly increasing speed. If this expansion takes place fast enough, there will be stars that will remain eternally beyond our horizon, whose light can never reach us. Even more, stars that we can still see today will be pushed behind our horizon by the expansion – they will be extinguished and disappear for us. Somewhere in distant space there is a horizon behind which we can never penetrate, neither today nor sometime later.
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Thus, we see how relativists impose on the science their absurd ideas by a trivial substantiation of the meaning of terms of classical physics. And this is not the limit. Let us pay attention to the phrase of the above citation from the Einsteins work of 1905 of some absolutely resting space having special properties. This is the clue to see the L-postulate false. Just the physical properties of space hindered Einstein to introduce his L-postulate. He has distinctively formulated it in his paper The ether and theory of relativity: In the equations of electromagnetic field there are included, above the density of electric charges, only the field strengths. Electromagnetic phenomena in the void are quite determined by the laws that these equations contain, independently of other physical values. Electromagnetic field is a primordial cause, a reality that cannot be reduced to something, so it is absolutely excessive to postulate additionally the existence of homogeneous and isotropic ether and imagine the field as a state of this ether [13, p. 686].
But this clearly perverts the reality, as well as the cited above statement that the L-postulate continues Maxwells theory. While really the electromagnetic field is determined in Maxwell theory not only by densities of charges and field strengths. Maxwells electrodynamics has a mere mechanical origin, all its statements have been rigorously derived from the relationships of mechanics of continuum (of which the authors of later textbooks prefer failing to mention) [14, p. 11]. In mechanics, we could calculate the speed of elastic waves propagation (the speed of sound) in some or other substance, knowing before two values that characterise the properties of this substance, e.g., the values of its tension factor and density . These values were interrelated with the speed of sound by the relationship
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Having got to know of electric waves, we can understand and derive this equality [15, p. 222223]. As we see, relativistic claims of primordial and so non-reducible to whatever essence of the EM field, as well as their claims that EM fields are determined exceptionally by the field strength and charge density are invalid. If the propagation speed of this field is directly expressed through the parameters 0 and 0 characterising the physical properties of the very space, it is senseless to mind the field out of the physical essence of this space. The more that (2) is directly derived from the Maxwell equations.
Similar relativistic distortion of the standpoint of classical physics we see in relation to the absolute value of the speed of light propagation. In particular, making a limit passing from the Lorentz transformation to the Galilean transformation, relativists stipulate it in the following way: We have to mark that the transformations compatible with the Newtonian mechanics are immediately yielded from the relationship
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if we assume c = in it. Thus, following the way which we went before, we can yield the equations of trivial kinematics, if instead the principle of constant speed of light we assume the existence of signals that need not time for their propagation [16, p. 160]. Or, in other words, There in classical mechanics existed an idea of absolute space and time, of a unified flow of time uniformly flowing everywhere and consisting of instants each of which sets in the whole space. This idea was based on the assumed infinite speed of light signals propagation [17, p. 339].
Bu this is basically incorrect! Relativists themselves, when it concerns their own theory, have other opinion on the classical physics attitude to the infiniteness of the light speed: Except direct measurement of the light speed, there exist many experiments in which the light speed is important. We obtain all interference and diffraction phenomena, making the waves of light to pass different paths, then meet at one point and coincide. Refraction of light at the border of two media occurs because the speed is different in each of them; thus, the light speed takes a part in all optical instruments containing prisms, lenses and other such parts [18, p. 130]. And all these phenomena have been studied and systematised in frames of same classical theory of aether which Einstein took away from the nature for sake of his L-postulate.
Thus, we clearly see that Einsteinian L-postulate does not continue the Maxwell theory. Einstein made a selection, taking from the classical theory few formulas convenient for him, breaking them from the physical ground and omitting the basic parameters that determined their connection with this ground. Nothing of surprise when relativists admit: We have so many fine principles and known facts and nonetheless the ends dont meet [19, p. 183]. Ends cannot meet if the relativists based their study not on the investigation of physical laws but on the shortening of physical foundations and interrelations for sake of doubtful postulates convenient for some invented abstract conception. Of course, such intentional disregard of the physical meaning of phenomena unavoidably causes an avalanche of paradoxes and discrepant statements. Namely this we see in the relativistic conception. | http://selftrans.narod.ru/v6_1/postulate/p30/p30.html |
LATEST DIALOGUES The ‘Big’ Questions in Physics Today
At its heart theoretical physics deals with Big Questions, from black holes to quantum mechanics to the Big Bang. In a recent article on NPR, Marcelo Gleiser, a professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College, presented his list of the top challenges faced by theoretical physicists today.
- Dark Energy: In 1998 astronomers discovered that the universe is expanding faster than expected. What’s causing this cosmic speed up? One answer is dark energy, which is estimated to make up about 70 percent of the universe.
- Dark Matter: There’s more to galaxies than meets the eye. Surrounding these celestial bodies is an unknown kind of matter—named dark matter—that isn’t made up of either electrons or protons. Scientists estimate that dark matter makes up about 25 percent of the universe (leaving 5 percent for ordinary matter).
- Quantum Mechanics: This branch of physics describes how atoms and subatomic particles act—often in very strange ways. At a mathematical level, quantum mechanics works well, but scientists don’t always know how to explain all that math in words and images that the rest of us can wrap our heads around.
- Gravity: Some physicists wonder if gravity still belongs in the same category as electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces, all of which work on “stuff” in the universe. Unlike those, gravity affects the fabric of spacetime itself, which puts it in a class of its own.
- Black Holes: Resulting from the collapse of large stars, black holes continue to puzzle physicists. Although gravity is thought to be infinitely strong at the core—known as a singularity—black holes still emit radiation. Physicists aren’t quite certain how this loss of information occurs and what it means for gravity and quantum mechanics.
While theoretical physicists ponder these grand cosmic problems, other scientists continue to study classical physics — anything from fluid mechanics to understanding why dragonflies fly so well. No doubt some people would prefer to leave this branch of physics in the past — favoring quantum weirdness and strange relativity phenomena — but at the non-cosmic scale of our everyday world of airplanes and buildings, classical physics still functions quite well and it is still utterly amazing. And when you look at the problems tackled by both classical and modern physicists, you can’t help but see it they way Einstein put it: “Contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we can dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend even an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.”
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Einstein was a great scientist, I have not understood the mathematics of this brain that perceived the General Theory of Relativity. But I could perceive his thoughts. He for much part of His life was contemplating on a SECOND SPACE-TIME FIELD and force that opposes gravity field. He probably imagined the nonsensical Big Bang Point and singularity where every laws of science collapse. He did try to introduce it and then retracted it under experimental poof of expanding universe and his own inability look to nature once he was in Temples of science. The clue to this New Space –Time field exists in life. Life unfolds from an inner space –time field. Life is information unfolding from a point and enfolding back on it. The only way to understand the universe sensibly is to understand it as living one as the ancient east did. The material world including the humans enquiring into it is juxtaposed between two opposing space-time fields. It is sustained by spirit or LIGHT or information moving in and out of it. There are two spirits or forces or information or knowledge or LIGHT. one belongs to the material world that winds and tends to collapse to a point in BLACK HOLE and the second belongs to living world that unwinds and works against gravity such that the system exist perpetually. All life is instinctively anti-gravitational. The only exception is human who are self-centered and become slave to material force. The antidote to this collapse in BLACK HOLE is SUPREME SELFLESS SPIRIT, SOUL AND HUMAN BEING which opens a WHITE HOLE within black hole to restore the system back to its initial point. To understand it we need to visualize the conception in life, where the spirit of Father [information] conceives in the womb to create New World where time gets conquered and initialized. Universe is LIGHT or information or Consciousness unfolding and enfolding to install Truth and Justice. The only way to understand it is to visualize it from eastern living universe point – Templeton foundation spend so much money feeding temples in west seek the truth – It is ignorant that this truth is not accessible to anyone who exist in temples. Truth cannot be sought it comes by Grace for Divine Purpose. Universe form living point has duality and non duality. When the Spirit of the father or his creating information exist within the feminine it is in non duality- Once this creating and life giving information unfolds universe starts a new journey of duality – thus Bible speaks of judgment and emergence of the Lord as King http://www.scribd.com/doc/220409302/Grand-Design-and-Truth-of-Nature-Reinventing-Big-Bang-Origin
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I have searched popular science books for an answer to my question. I have asked scientists on twitter I have asked on other science websites,. All to no avail.
Are gravitons a real force carrier like gluons and photons?
If the gravity in a black hole is so strong that photons cannot escape how is gravity able to ‘get out’ to bend space and affect other bodies? Is this “spooky action at a distance”? What is the mechanism by which mass bends space? Is there a gravity boson? HELP
My email is [email protected] My name is Les Robertshaw
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Because when you put oil in water you can see it, when you put a thing that has different mass and volume from the other thing that was already there you can see it, I know it may not make sense, but in my head does! Sense it’s a perspective of seing things!
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Here’s another Einstein quote: “Our separation of one other is an optical illusion of consciousness”. How about applying ourselves first to exploring that great truth – the truth of our non-duality? We need neither classical or theoretical physics to contemplate that greatest of realisations. Nor do we need expensive conferences with ‘expert’ speakers.
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Richard Feynman's "least-action" approach to quantum physics in effect shows that it is just classical physics constrained by a simple mechanism. When the complicated mathematics is left aside, valuable insights are gained.
The birth of quantum mechanics can be dated to 1925, when physicists such as Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger invented mathematical procedures that accurately replicated many of the observed properties of atoms. The change from earlier types of physics was dramatic, and pre-quantum physics was soon called classical physics in a kind of nostalgia for the days when waves were waves, particles were particles, and everything knew its place in the world.
Since 1925, quantum mechanics has never looked back. It soon became clear that the new methods were not just good at accounting for the properties of atoms, they were absolutely central to explaining why atoms did not collapse, how solids can be rigid, and how different atoms combine together in what we call chemistry and biology. The rules of classical physics, far from being a reliable description of the everyday world that breaks down at the scale of the atom, turned out to be incapable of explaining anything much more complicated than how planets orbit the sun, unless they used either the results of quantum mechanics or a lot of ad hoc assumptions.
But this triumph of quantum mechanics came with an unexpected problem-when you stepped outside of the mathematics and tried to explain what was going on, it didn't seem to make any sense. Elementary particles such as electrons behave like waves, apparently moving like ripples on a pond; they also seem to be instantaneously aware of distant objects and to be in different places at the same time. It seemed that any weird idea could gain respectability by finding similarities with some of the weird features of quantum mechanics. It has become almost obligatory to declare that quantum physics, in contrast to classical physics, cannot be understood, and that we should admire its ability to give the right answers without thinking about it too hard.
And yet, eighty years and unprecedented numbers of physicists later, naked quantum weirdness remains elusive. There are plenty of quantum phenomena, from the magnetism of iron and the superconductivity of lead to lasers and electronics, but none of them really qualifies as truly bizarre in the way we might expect. The greatest mystery of quantum mechanics is how its ideas have remained so weird while it explained more and more about the world around us.
Perhaps it is time to revisit the ideas with the benefit of hindsight, to see if either quantum mechanics is less weird than we usually think it is or the world around us is more so.
Classical Mechanics in Action
When we think of planets orbiting the sun, we usually adopt Newton's view that they are constantly accelerating-in this case changing direction-in response to gravitational forces. From this, we can calculate the motions precisely, and the impressive accuracy of predictions for total solar eclipses shows how well it works.
There is, however, another way of thinking about what is happening that gives exactly the same results. Instead of the Principle of Acceleration by Forces, as we might call it, there is an alternative called the Principle of Least Action, or more correctly, Hamilton's Principle.
It is a principle that was first put forward about fifty years after Newton's, in its earliest form by the Frenchman Pierre Maupertuis, and in its ultimate form by the Irishman William Rowan Hamilton.
The general idea is that when a planet travels through space, or a ball travels through the air, the path that is followed is the one that minimizes something called the action between the start and end points. Action, for our purposes here, is just something that can be measured out for some particular object moving along a particular path. It is exactly defined and is measured in units of energy multiplied by time. The details are not important unless you need to make calculations.
We therefore have two quite different ways of describing situations in classical physics that are equally good in terms of giving the right answer. To give the simplest possible example, we can think of a golf ball travelling across an idealized, frictionless, flat green. In Newton's view (figure 1), the ball moves in a straight line at constant speed, because that is what Newton's Law says it must do. In Maupertuis' view (figure 2), the ball does this because this path is the one that has the least action between the start and end points. This trivial example can be made more interesting by making the green have humps and dips, which are like having forces acting on the ball, but the principles stay the same.
Hamilton's Principle is fundamentally equivalent to Newton's Laws, and comes into its own when solving more advanced types of classical problems. But as an explanation, it has a major flaw-it seems to mean that things need to know where they are going before they work out how to get there.
Actually, this is where classical mechanics makes its first big step toward quantum mechanics, if only we look at it another way. The mathematics of Hamilton's Principle can be described in words alternatively like this: given its starting points and motion, an object will end up at locations that are connected to its starting point by a path whose action is a minimum compared to neighboring paths. If locations away from the classical path are considered, no such paths exist-there will always be a path with the least action, but this is not a minimum.
It is an unfamiliar idea, but well worth a little effort to try and digest. One vital change to note is that, while still being classical physics, the emphasis has moved away from knowing the path that is followed to having a test to check whether possible destinations are on the right track. And the crucial factor is being able to compare the actions of different paths.
It leads to a third picture for our moving golf ball, central to the later move to quantum physics, which we can call Feynman's view of classical physics (figure 3).
If we stay within the world of classical physics, we can choose to ignore this strange new description and stick with the more comfortable idea that things are accelerated along paths by forces, but this would be a personal preference rather than a rational one. The new view prompts the question: "How do things work out whether possible destinations are linked to the start by a path of minimal action?" We should appreciate, however, that the old Newtonian view prompts equally difficult questions like: "How do things respond to forces by accelerating just the required amount, instant by instant?" Moreover, as we will see, the action version is the one that the world around us seems to use.
Roll on, Quantum Mechanics
Suppose we take the action question seriously and give it a rather simple answer: Nature has to check out all possible destinations to see if they are on the right track. It must do this by trying to find out if there is a path of minimal action to each destination. It uses a device that can measure the action along all possible paths to each destination.
The device is a simple surveyor's wheel for measuring action-just a wheel with a mark on the rim (figure 4). There isn't literally a type of wheel that measures action, but we can imagine that there is. The mechanism assigns probabilities to each destination according to whether, with just this simple measuring tool, it can find a path of minimal action.
When the actions it is trying to measure are large compared to the size of the wheel, the system typically works just as classical physics requires. But in some situations the mechanism fails to produce classical mechanics and gives us quantum mechanics instead. We call the circumference of the wheel "Planck's constant," after Max Planck, who discovered its importance by an indirect route in 1900.
You may be wondering how exactly the wheel can tell us what we need to know, but we don't need to go into the details here-those interested should read Richard Feynman's book, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, or see the summary given in the box on page 43.
Differences from Classical Physics
As we might expect, the introduction of a mechanism for carrying out classical mechanics only makes a difference when the mechanism can't do its job properly. Specifically, if we want to check out destinations that are too close to the start, as gauged by the size of the wheel, the mechanism doesn't work. It cannot say where the object should be going, and there is an intrinsic fuzziness associated with it, with a scale set by the amount of action known as Planck's constant. This is otherwise known as the Uncertainty Principle.
A second feature arises from the simple circular nature of the measuring device. It cannot tell the difference between paths that differ by an amount of action that is an exact whole number of Planck's constants. This can lead to patterns of probabilities that look just like classical waves, because the mathematics of waves is very similar to the mathematics of circular motion.
The most important change comes when we consider objects in very small orbits, like electrons around nuclei. The mechanism gives zero probability unless the orbit (or more correctly the state) has an action that is an exact multiple of Planck's constant. This crude mechanism explains why atoms can only shrink to a certain point, to a state with an action of Planck's constant, where they become stable.
With one extra idea, which we will mention later, the mechanism seems to explain the workings of chemistry, biology, and all the other successes of quantum mechanics, without ever really stopping being classical mechanics.
Three Conceptual Problems with Quantum Mechanics
The way it is normally introduced, quantum mechanics is something quite baffling, and certainly stranger than just classical mechanics with a mechanism. It is worth addressing the three most obvious difficulties directly:
1) Quantum mechanics gives answers that are a set of probabilities all existing at the same time. This is totally unreal. As Schrödinger pointed out, quantum mechanics seems to say that you could create a situation where a cat was both alive and dead at the same time, and we never see this. But this is in fact a very curious piece of ammunition to use against quantum mechanics.
We already have a very good nontechnical word for a mixture of possibilities coexisting at the same time-we call it the future. Unless we believe that all events are predetermined, which would be a very dismal view of the world, this is what the future must be like. Of course, we never experience it until it becomes the present, when only one of the possibilities takes place, but the actual future-as opposed to our prediction of one version of it-must be something much like what quantum mechanics describes. This is a great triumph for quantum mechanics over classical mechanics, which by describing all events as inevitable, effectively deprived us of a future.
Of course, there is now a new big question of how one of the possibilities in the future is selected to form what we see as the present and what becomes the past, but we should not see the lack of a ready answer as a fault of quantum mechanics. This is a question that is large enough, encompassing such ideas as fate and free will, to be set aside for another time. The headline "Physics Cannot Predict the Future in Detail" should be no great embarrassment.
2) Quantum mechanics means that there is a kind of instant awareness between everything. This is quite true, but by introducing quantum mechanics in the way that we have, the "awareness" is of a very limited kind-limited to the awareness gained through the action-measuring mechanism as it checks all possible destinations. It is very hard to see how the only result of this-a probability associated with each destination-could be used to send a signal faster than light or violate any other cherished principle. It is rather revealing that one of the few novel quantum phenomena is a means of cryptography-a way of concealing a signal rather than sending one.
3) Quantum mechanics doesn't allow us to say where everything is, every instant of the time. This is the most interesting "fault" of quantum mechanics, and it can be expressed in many ways: particles need to be in more than one place at a time; their positions are not defined until they are "observed"; they behave like waves. We will summarize this as an inability to say exactly where particles are all the time.
The "classic" illustration of this is the experiment of passing a steady stream of electrons through two slits (figure 5). Instead of the simple shadows we would expect if the particles were just particles, we see an interference pattern, as if the electrons have dematerialized into a wave and passed through both slits at the same time.
There are several ways of coming to terms with this. The first thing to note is that the lack of complete information is not really a problem that arose in quantum mechanics-it originates in the third version of classical mechanics. In the Feynman version, the essence of motion is a process of determining if a destination is on or off the right track. Before the move to quantum mechanics, we can do this as often as we like, so that we can fill in the gaps as closely as we like, but the precedent has been set: physics is about testing discrete locations rather than calculating continuous trajectories. If it is inherent in old-fashioned classical physics, not just "weird" quantum physics, perhaps we can relax a little.
The second point is to clarify what the problem is. To take the two-slit example, we never see electrons dematerialize, or rippling through something, we just find it necessary to think that they do to explain the pattern that we see on the screen. If we deliberately try to observe where the electrons go, we see them as particles somewhere else, but the interference pattern disappears. In effect, the problem is that we cannot say what the particles look like only when they cannot be seen.
Now this is an uncomfortable thought, because all our instincts tell us that particles must be somewhere, even when we cannot see them. But if quantum mechanics can accurately describe all the information we can ever obtain about the outside world, perhaps we are simply being greedy to ask for anything more. The headline "Physics Fails to Describe Events That Cannot Be Observed" is, again, rather lacking in impact.
The final point is a little vague but more fundamental. If we accept that the future is not fixed, we expect it to contain surprises. Crudely speaking, this is not very plausible in a world where particles have continuous trajectories and an infinite amount of information is freely available. It is much more plausible in a world that is in some way discontinuous, where the available information is limited. Even though we have set aside the question of how a future full of possibilities turns into an unchanging past, it must involve something that seems pretty weird compared to our normal experience. Perhaps this example of physics not conforming to our expectations is weirdness of the right sort.
The Addition of Spin
It was mentioned earlier that another new idea is needed before the classical physics of electrons and nuclei properly turns into chemistry. That idea is spin, a third property of electrons and nuclei alongside mass and electrical charge. Paul Dirac showed that spin is a natural property of charged particles within quantum mechanics. Wolfgang Pauli showed that the spin of the electron prevents more than one electron occupying the same state at the same time-the Exclusion Principle-a fact responsible for the whole of chemistry. The details are not important here, but quantum mechanics with spin seems to account for pretty much all the world we see around us.
Quantum Mechanics-Bringer of Stability
One of the benefits of viewing the quantum world as not fundamentally different from the classical world is that we can imagine how one changes into the other. With a few simple assumptions, a classical world of point-like electrons and nuclei is blindingly chaotic. Atoms are continually trying to collapse, but are prevented from doing so by the huge amount of electromagnetic radiation that is released in the process. It is not the comfortable place that the word classical implies.
As we imagine moving to the quantum realm by increasing the size of Planck's constant from zero, something remarkable happens. At some point, the blinding light disappears to reveal stable atoms, capable of forming molecules. Far from making everything go weird, quantum mechanics makes it go normal. To be sure, if Planck's constant increases too far, the atoms fall apart and a different form of chaos takes over, but that just makes the story even more interesting.
So it seems that quantum physics is not weird and incomprehensible because it describes something completely different from everyday reality. It is weird and incomprehensible precisely because it describes the world we see around us-past, present, and future.
Reference
Feynman, Richard P. 1985. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
About the Author
Paul Quincey is a physicist at the National Physical Laboratory, Hampton Road, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 0LW, United Kingdom. E-mail: [email protected].
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"Nothing. It's branches, all the way down."
Right On. Every time I read that little gem I love it.
Thenks fer the inspiration fer the new tagline.
Sometimes the path not taken is not taken for a reason. Like, it's scary.
Murphy has a personal grudge against me.
Murphy's First Law is "P!$$ on Hardastarboard".
The math works, the layman's interpretation does not.
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The future is not yet set. What a hopeful thing!
Perhaps this is how God gave us "free will" and how Einstein was misguided in saying that "God does not play dice with the universe".
PH: please deploy your obligatory "Path of Least Action" ping list....
Fascinating post, snarks_when_bored!!! Thank you so much for posting it!
As Robert Nadeau and Menas Kafatos point out, [in The Non-local Universe], classical physics evolved in the framework of customary points of view and forms of perception, which are ultimately rooted in visualizable experience.
But neither the world of relativity nor the quantum world are visualizable in the standard sense of that word. Which is likely why we think phenomena at the quantum level are so weird.
[Niels] Bohr often emphasizes that our descriptive apparatus is dominated by the character of our visual experience and that the breakdown in the classical description of reality observed in relativistic and quantum phenomena occurs precisely because we are in these two regions moving out of the range of visualizable experience . [p. 90f]* E.g., this is not a clockwork universe!!!
[Quoting Bohr here] Just as relativity theory has taught us that the convenience of distinguishing sharply between space and time rests solely with the smallness of the velocities ordinarily met with compared with the speed of light, we learn from the quantum theory that the appropriateness of our visual space-time descriptions depends entirely on the small value of the quantum of action compared to the actions involved in ordinary sense perception .
Just as we can safely disregard the effects of the finiteness of light speed in most applications of classical dynamics on the macro level because the speed of light is so large that relativistic effects are negligible, so we can disregard the quantum of action on the micro level because its effects are so small. Yet everything we deal with on the macro level obeys the rules of relativity theory and quantum mechanics, and unrestricted classical determinism does not universally apply even in our dealings with macro-level systems.* Classical physics is a workable approximation that seems precise only because the largeness of the speed of light and the smallness of the quantum of action give rise to negligible effects.
Bohr always insisted, however, that the classical language of Newtonian mechanics must be used in describing quantum phenomena, in part for epistemological reasons based on the above observations. Plus he thought of quantum mechanics as a rational generalization of classical mechanics, and so the results of quantum mechanical experiments must be expressed in classical terms.
For Bohr, quantum mechanics is not an extension of classical mechanics. Instead, he viewed classical mechanics as a subset, or approximation that has a limited domain of validity, of a more general physical situation which is comprehensively described by QM.
This is totally amazing stuff!!! The categories of thought that arose in and were shaped by visualizable experience truly are no help here. We need a new way "to look at" the world.
Thanks again for this stimulating essay, snarks!
Statistics is a little unusual compared with ordinary kitchen variety calculus. There are a couple of leaps they make because of the form of the math. I suppose the leaps are okay so long as they seem to be working. They do solve that pesky calculus integral with the -e^2 in it, which most calculus books wave their chalk at and appeal to higher powers.
Maybe you should go hardaport for a while, and then Murphy would get to like you?
Britney certainly knows her density of states....
Feynman was an absolute master in his ability to look at things from many different directions, many different points of view.
True.. I'am here to serve d;-)~'.'.'.
There are two dimensions..
This one (length,width, depth and the illusion of time) call it the Maze of Physical Observation.. by the human brain according to time..
-AND-
Another dimension composed of spiritual things.. God, Angels(two kinds) and US.. call it the Matrix of Spiritual Observation.. by the spirit of spiritual beings according to timing not time..
Two dimensions or paradigms.. existing parallethe Matrix of Spiritual Observationl to one another like two sides of a coin, reciprocals.. Mixing them up randomly makes mud... but addressing each in its own ugh!.... realm makes colors of thought.. And ultimately a mental/ideolological painting displaying a "painting/view/vista/homogeny".. Like when a two dimensional portrait/painting/landscape appears to be three dimensional but isn't.. Its two dimensional(the drawing) but shows shadows of something deeper than two dimensions..
If we(humans) are spirits riding a human body then both realms are/can be available to us.. And our "observations" should be of "the coin" not one side or the other.. Observing from the Maze of Physical Observation then is flawed(science) or from the Matrix of Spiritual Observation is flawed(religion) just the same..
I agree we need a new way to look at things..
Fascinating.
Wonderful as usual, Betty. Thanks.
Sharp as a tack, that one
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A-level Physics/Electrons, Waves and Photons/Quantum physics
Quantum physics tries to explain the properties of matter and energy at the atomic and subatomic levels. We use quantum physics to model behaviour and properties of microscopic objects that cannot be modelled by Einsteinian physics, which is the physics used for objects at the macroscopic level (as viewed with the naked eye).
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Does light behave as a wave or as particles?
Interference experiments, such as Young's Slits (see below) can only be explained if we assume light is a wave. However, the photoelectric effect can only be explained if light is a particle. So what is light - particle or wave?
The best thing to remember is that both waves and particles are nothing more than physical models for explaining our observations. For example, someone might think of counting apples when they are learning basic arithmetic; this does not mean that numbers are apples, only that we can think of them as such in certain specific circumstances. When we get to the concept of negative numbers, using apples as a model breaks down unsurprisingly. Similarly, in quantum physics, we find that we must use different models for different situations.
Young's Slits
Thomas Young conducted a famous experiment in which light was diffracted by a double slit and produced an interference pattern on a screen. An interference pattern is a pattern of bright and dark bands caused by the constructive and destructive interference of the rays from the two slits, and is only a feature of waves. Electrons are usually considered to be particles, but produce apparent interference patterns by diffracting. To produce an interference pattern, you must have a wavelength. This gives more evidence of Wave-particle duality.
The Photoelectric Effect
In analysing the photoelectric effect quantitatively using Einstein's method, the following equivalent equations are used:
Energy of photon = Energy needed to remove an electron + Kinetic energy of the emitted electron
Algebraically:
where
- h is Planck's constant,
- f is the frequency of the incident photon,
- is the work function, or minimum energy required to remove an electron from atomic binding,
- f0 is the threshold frequency for the photoelectric effect to occur,
- is the maximum kinetic energy of ejected electrons,
- m is the rest mass of the ejected electron, and
- is the velocity of the ejected electron.
Note: If the photon's energy (hf) is less than the work function (), no electron will be emitted. The work function is sometimes denoted . Light is made of photons in which they are equal to hf. Electrons near a metal surface would absorb one photon hence its energy would be transmitted to the electron If the photon's energy is equal to or greater than the metal surface's work function, the electron would be able to escape the surface.
Planck constant
The physicist Max Planck studied a phenomenon known as black-body radiation, and found that the transmission of light was best treated as packets of energy called photons. The energy of a photon, , is given by the following formula:
where is the energy of the photon, is the Planck constant, , and is the frequency of the light. Since the velocity of light (which is c in a vacuum) is given by , it may be helpful to use the equation
if you are given the wavelength of light and not the frequency.
The Photon Model
Over the ages, scientists have argued what light actually is. Newton argued that light is composed of particles called corpuscles and theorised that diffraction was due to the particles speeding up as they entered a denser medium, being attracted by gravity. However he has since been proved wrong, now we can measure the speed of light and have proved it to slow down in a denser medium. Albert Einstein thought that light were discrete packets of energy which he called quanta.
Wave-particle duality
In 1924, Louis-Victor de Broglie formulated the de Broglie hypothesis, claiming that all matter has a wave-like nature; he related wavelength, λ (lambda), and momentum, p:
This is a generalization of Einstein's equation above since the momentum of a photon is given by p = E / c where c is the speed of light in a vacuum, and λ = c / ν.
De Broglie's formula was confirmed three years later for electrons (which have a rest-mass) with the observation of electron diffraction in two independent experiments. At the University of Aberdeen, George Paget Thomson passed a beam of electrons through a thin metal film and observed the predicted interference patterns. At Bell Labs Clinton Joseph Davisson and Lester Halbert Germer guided their beam through a crystalline grid.
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Welcome back to the Flybrix “Learn More About” series! Each blog, we’ll explore another aspect of flight, science, or technology and learn more about it. This time, we’re learning more about physics.
Physics is the study of the world (and universe) around us, and the theories that explain how it all works. Everything from gravity, heat, motion, electricity, and even the stars above can all be better understood through physics. What we know today as physics began as “natural philosophy” in the ancient world, used by people like the great Greek philosopher Aristotle as an attempt to explain the workings of nature.
Much like other sciences, engineering (as an example), physics comprises several different areas, or branches. The most common branches of physics can be grouped into two categories: classical physics and modern physics. Classical physics deals largely with concepts that were explored prior to the 20th century, while modern physics deals with ideas that were developed primarily within the past 100 years.
You’re already familiar with the different types of classical physics -- because you experience many of their principles firsthand every day. Take classical mechanics. It’s rooted in Sir Issac Newton’s laws of motion and gravity, published in 1687. Among other principles, these laws state that an object moves as the result of a force acting upon it. For example, when you move a glass across the dinner table, you are “the force” acting on the glass. Newton also used his principles to explain Johannes Kepler’s laws of planetary motion, which, along with the earlier work of Copernicus and Galileo would prove that the earth revolves around the sun.
Two more types of classical physics you’ll definitely recognize are optics and acoustics, the science behind how we see and hear. Some of the most significant developments in optics, the study of light, were made by Islamic scientists like Ibn al-Haytham, who shortly after the first millennium published his Book of Optics. al-Haytham supported a theory of vision where light enters the eye to produce sight, opposed to the Ancient Greek theory where light beams emanating from the eyes shone onto objects and rendered them visible. This paved the way for more informed studies of lenses, mirrors, and the properties of light itself. Like optics, experiments in acoustics originated in Ancient Greece, continued through the centuries, and gave rise to modern technology like microphones, speakers, and ultrasound machines.
These last two examples of classical physics have the ability to power some familiar machines. Thermodynamics is the study of how thermal energy can be transformed into different types of energy. The most recognizable application of thermodynamics is steam locomotives, in which the steam produced by the burning of coal is used to drive the pistons that make the wheels of a train go. Electromagnetism is the study of electricity and magnetism, which are actually the results of the same natural force. You can see this idea at work when you coil an electric wire around a piece of iron to make an electromagnet, as the flow of electricity through the wire generates a magnetic field. Electromagnets can be found in all sorts of things, from speakers to computers to power generators.
Classical physics is fine for explaining the “normal” everyday world around us, but when dealing with things traveling at high speed or that are very, very small (or very, very large), its principles don’t always hold up. Modern physics, particularly quantum mechanics, helps to pick up the slack, so to speak, when classical physics fails. Quantum mechanics explains how things work on the subatomic level -- opposed to classical mechanics, which helps to explain how things of everyday size act and react. Remember our example earlier, where we used classical mechanics to understand how when you apply a force to a glass it moves across the table? Quantum mechanics helps us understand how the protons, electrons and other particles inside the glass behave.
Conversely, two other significant examples of modern physics help explain how things work on the large scale of the universe: special relativity and general relativity, developed by the great Albert Einstein. These come into play when dealing with things that have strong a gravitational pull, like a star. Special relatively establishes that the speed of light in a vacuum such as outer space is constant no matter your vantage point, and that space and time are intertwined -- referred to jointly as spacetime. It also gave rise to Einstein’s famous equation E=mc2 which holds that energy is equivalent to an object’s mass multiplied by the speed of light squared.
The second concept, general relativity, is more or less an updated theory of gravity. It explains that the force we know as gravity is actually due to curves in spacetime caused by massive bodies. Imagine the sun as a tennis ball suspended on a long sheet of paper, representing spacetime. The mass of the ball causes a curve in the center of the paper. If you place a golf ball on the outer edge of the paper, the curve in the paper will cause the golf ball to roll toward the tennis ball at the center -- much like an unlucky astronaut would be “pulled” in by a star. These ideas were revolutionary when Einstein first published them at the beginning of the 20th century, and paved the way for further breakthroughs in the world of modern physics.
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Comments: 10 Pages.
The basic laws of mechanics, conservation of linear momentum and angular momentum have been considered along with a third equation—a new one-- to bring out conflicting features in the subject by considering two body motion.
Category: Classical Physics
viXra:1911.0235 [pdf] submitted on 2019-11-13 15:41:29
Authors: Alexander Bolonkin
Comments: 10 Pages.
Conventional modern rocket has existed for more than a half century. However, there has been little or no significant progress in their basic data. They are very exceedingly complex and generally very expensive to build. Designers ordinarily try to improve them by simplifying in order to reduce the cost payload launches. They try to use the first stagy of rocket sometimes, because the rocket engine and body are expensive. But no significant success.
The author offers a new type of rocket which does not have the usual rocket body and engine (only open solid rocket fuel). This new rocket is cheap to fabricate, may be switched on and switched off many times and has specific impulse more than conventional solid fuel engine (i.e., close to liquid fuel). One can be used for launch as well as vector correcting rocket.
This method is particularly suitable for micro-spacecraft (up to 1 kg). It allows to reduce the launch weight of the rocket to 50 ÷ 1000 kg.
Category: Classical Physics
viXra:1911.0146 [pdf] submitted on 2019-11-08 04:45:16
Authors: Durgadas Datta.
Comments: 14 Pages. Reality of our existence in time.
The concept of time in multiverse.
Category: Classical Physics
viXra:1911.0140 [pdf] replaced on 2019-11-11 17:03:06
Authors: Domenico Oricchio
Comments: 1 Page.
I hypothesize that the mass spectrum of the standard model is infinite, and I try to evaluate a simple formula for the masses.
Category: Classical Physics
viXra:1911.0105 [pdf] submitted on 2019-11-06 03:37:43
Authors: Wan-Chung Hu
Comments: 439 Pages.
This book contains theories in physics, chemistry, biology, geosciences, and mathematics. Spinity is a force to drag spacetime to rotate around central mass. Rest mass produces gravity, spinning mass produces spinity; rest charge produces electricity, spinning charge produces magnetism. Gravitospinity Maxwell equations can be obtained. Light is also the gravity wave, and light decides time. Space-time has smallest unit as new Planck volume and Planck time. Flight principle is given. Lightity is dark energy. Photon emitted from galaxy expands the universe acceleratedly via light pressure. General relativity suggests mass induces spacetime curvature; charge relativity suggests charge induces spacetime torsion. There is no dark matter, and spiral galaxies are formed due to charge relativity which replaces quantum electrodynamics. Integrating general relativity, charge relativity, and light pressure, we get 4x4 universe field tensor. The birth and end of universe can be deducted. Unified field theory can also be obtained by integrating electric field, magnetic field, gravity field, spinity field, and temperature field. Combining gravitospinity, electromagnetism, and matter standing wave, I deduct a determinative atom model replacing quantum mechanics. In addition, I propose a new chemical bond theory according to the new atom model. Homochirality is due to co-catalysis of L-amino acids and D-sugars. Extinction is due to Milankovitch cycle. Earthquake is caused by abrupt light release from inner earth which explains electromagnetism/ ionosphere anomaly and intra-tectonic earthquakes replacing plate tectonic earthquake theory. Tornado genesis is related to charge relativity.
Category: Classical Physics
viXra:1911.0098 [pdf] replaced on 2019-11-13 06:49:10
Authors: Valery Timin
Comments: 20 Pages. [email protected], p.20, russian
In Galilean space 3 (three) metrics describing its geometrical properties in various cases are possible.
These are 1) 1-dimensional time interval, 2) 3-dimensional distance and 3) 4-dimensional wave
interval. The main question of this work is: will we be able to determine some geometry by wave
standards? Suppose there are two researchers (hereinafter-the objects "researcher", "observer", "experimenter"
- identify: this is homo sapiens): can we measure the distance between them? Is it possible
to measure the mutual velocity and its direction? And is it possible to synchronize his watch with
mine? And what is clock synchronization? And in General – is there a synchronization problem? Are
there inertial frames of reference outside absolute frames of reference? Is it possible to use wave
standards of one ISO in other ISO and how do they differ?
The word "Galileo"is often used in the work. This word is the main thing in this work. Galilean
space, Galilean standard, Galilean metric. Other main word-combinations are connected with the
word "wave" - wave in Galilean space, Galilean wave space, wave standard, wave metric. Etc.
The practical physical model for the application (use) of these words and phrases is the fixed air
medium in which the wave propagates, and where this "air" medium is located is the empty absolute
Galilean space. In itself, this medium is not an absolute inertial frame of reference (hereinafter -
AISO), but for propagating waves as independent entities it is a real AISO. A wave in a medium in
Galilean space can propagate only with one specific velocity – the speed of sound. Once the waves
are defined as entities, they can be viewed separately from its basis, forget about the existence of the
material basis for its existence, leaving only the essential points of this fact. In this case, the wave as
an independent object itself determines the AISO. Despite the possibility of independent groundless
consideration of the existence of the wave, there is a risk of the existence of this basis.
In addition to waves, non-wave objects can exist in it, the speed of movement of which is not
limited to the speed of sound. The word "relativistic"is hardly used. This is the next level of abstraction
of the independent existence of the wave.
В ГП возможны 3 (три) метрики, описывающие ее геометрические свойства в различных случаях. Это 1) 1-мерный промежуток времени, 2) 3-мерное расстояние и 3) 4-мерный волно-вой интервал. Главный вопрос этой работы: сможем ли мы определить какую–то геометрию волновыми эталонами? Рассмотрены вопросы эффекта Доплера, аберрации и их использова-ние для локализации в АИСО (далее - АИСО) и взаимной локализации. Предположим, име-ются два исследователя (далее – объекты "исследователь", "наблюдатель", "экспериментатор" – отождествляем: это homo sapiens): можно ли измерить расстояние между ними? Можно ли измерить взаимную скорость и ее направление? И можно ли синхронизировать его часы с моими? И что такое синхронизация часов? И вообще – есть ли проблема синхронизации? Су-ществуют ли инерциальные системы отсчета вне абсолютных систем отсчета? Можно ли вол-новыми эталонами одной ИСО пользоваться в других ИСО и чем они отличаются? В работе очень часто используется слово "галилеево". Именно это слово – главное в этой работе. Галилеево пространство, галилеев эталон, галиллева метрика. Другие главные слово-сочетания связаны со словом "волна" - волна в галилеевом пространстве, галилеево волно-вое пространство, волновой эталон, волновая метрика. И т.д. Практической физической моделью для применения (использования) этих слов и словосо-четаний является неподвижная воздушная среда, в которой распространяется волна, а то, где находится эта "воздушная" среда, есть пустое абсолютное галилеево пространство. Само по себе эта среда не является абсолютной инерциальной системой отсчета, но для распростра-няющихся волн как самостоятельных сущностей это настоящее АИСО. Волна в среде в гали-леевом пространстве может распространяться только с одной определенной скоростью – ско-ростью звука. После того, как определены волны как сущности, их можно рассматривать от-дельно от ее основы, забыть о существовании материальной основы для ее существования, ос-тавив только существенные моменты этого факта. В этом случае волна как самостоятельный объект само определяет АИСО. Несмотря на возможность самостоятельного безосновного рассмотрения существования волны, есть риск существования этой основы. Кроме волн, в ней могут существовать и не волновые объекты, скорость движения кото-рых не ограничена скоростью звука. Практически не используется слово "релятивистское". Это – следующий уровень абстракции самостоятельного существования волны.
Category: Classical Physics
viXra:1911.0041 [pdf] submitted on 2019-11-03 14:33:57
Authors: Anil Gupta
Comments: 28 Pages with illustrations
This paper makes the following predictions: | http://vixra.org/class/1911 |
Great site! I am a recent college grad from UC Berkeley, and I double-majored in Math and Economics. However, I do enjoy doing a lot of outside reading on topics of science, so I found myself here.
In any case, my question is in response to the answer for the question entitled "How can the Universe expand faster than the speed of light during inflation?" The answer was written by Kristine Spekkens, and in it, she stated that information cannot be propagated at faster than light speeds. I'm not quite sure what exactly is meant by information, but I have a thought experiment which I cannot reconcile with this assertion about propagating information faster than light.
Suppose I live on Earth and have a friend who lives on Pluto. If I want to send him a message, I could do so by radio, but the information would not arrive to him faster than light, and would take several minutes to reach Pluto. However, suppose instead that I had a really, really long stick that stretched all the way from Earth to Pluto. If I wanted to send a message to my friend, I can do it nearly instantly simply by tapping out a message in Morse Code onto the surface of Pluto, using my stick. In this manner I have transmitted information at a speed much greater than light.
Is there something wrong with this experiment? How do you reconcile this?
Your idea of communicating with your friend by tapping a stick won't let you do this faster than the speed of light, unfortunately. When you tap a stick, the "tap" is the result of a wave travelling through the stick from your end to the other end. To see this, try the following experiment: get a friend, and stand a few feet apart with a string between you and your eyes closed. Get your friend to shake one end of the string, and your job is to tell him when you feel the shake. When you're a few feet apart, you'll know "instantaneously", since the speed of the wave your friend is sending along the string travels much faster than a few feet in a second. Now try the same thing, but on opposite sides of a football field. Now, the wave will take a few seconds to get to you, so there will be a delay between your friend's shake and your reaction. Now, if you take a string and make it more dense and rigid, you've got the stick in your example: the physics is the same. So, it will take a finite amount of time for your tap to get from the Earth to Jupiter. What is the maximum speed that a wave can travel through your stick? The speed of light, of course!
We could try to be even more devious in trying to communicate faster than the speed of light: suppose that your friend on Pluto had a very sensitive detector that picks up small changes in the gravitational force on Pluto caused by the Earth. In order to communicate with him, you develop a technology that lets you change the separation between the two planets. Your friend detects this on his meter, all the way at Pluto, and you proceed to "wiggle" the Earth into a morse code of sorts. That's instantaneous, right?
It turns out that again here, the answer is no: gravity travels at the speed of light too! Even though they have not yet been directly detected, the waves that carry information about the gravitational field around an object (gravity waves) were proven to travel at the speed of light just last October, in an experiment involving the bending of a quasar's light around Jupiter (this result is still somewhat controversial, however, check out this posted answer for details).
For reasons that people haven't yet worked out, the speed of light appears to be the fundamental limit in every branch of physics, from the materials in your tapping stick to gravity waves, even when light is not being used for communication. That's why I used the term "information" in my previous answer, since there are more ways to send information then by simply sending light signals.
And, there is no harm in making something move faster than the speed of light, as long as you're not sending information along with it. As a final example, imagine that you're in a football stadium packed with people, and they're doing the "wave". This works because you stand up just as you see the person next to you standing up, so that a wave propagates around and around the stadium. If you do the wave in this way, the fastest it can ever travel around the stadium is the speed of light, because you have to take your cue to stand (or to push a button, say, if standing takes too long) from the person next to you, and that can only travel at the speed of light. Suppose, however, that the stadium manager wanted to make a really spectacular show, and gave everybody in the audience a piece of paper with the exact time at which to stand. Then in principle, you could make the wave go arbitrarily fast, since you can tell people to get up at arbitrary times. So with some careful coordination of times, you could make a wave go faster than the speed of light. Does this defy the most fundamental law of physics? NO, because the orchestrated wave made by giving everyone a piece of paper carries no information in it: you gave them the information (when to stand up) beforehand, on the papers. In the extreme, you could tell everyone to stand at exactly the same time on their papers: again, since you gave them the information of when to stand beforehand, the "infinitely" fast wave doesn't violate physics at all. In the "real" wave, when you take your cue from the person next to you, the information of when to stand can only go at the speed of light.
Suppose the same "stick" (between the Earth and Pluto) was pushed and pulled (in Morse code) instead of tapped...being solid, wouldn't the entire "stick" move at the same time? Obviously the stick would not be moving at the speed of light but (it seems to me), the information being sent/received would be.
Unfortunately, your idea doesn't stump the finite speed of light either! The next time you're in a pool (or near some water), stand a foot or two from the edge and "push" the water with your hands; the "push" doesn't reach the wall right away, but takes some time to get there. Essentially, your "push" initiates a wave in the water, that carries the push to the edge. The exact same thing happens in solid objects; although you don't notice it, a "push" gets to the other side of a stick via a wave similar to that in water, and the more "solid" you make the stick the faster that wave goes. However, to the best of our knowledge, the maximum speed of a wave in a solid is the speed of light. So, even if you push and pull the stick instead of tapping it, you are still limited to transmitting information at the speed of light.
Trying to use a long stick to communicate faster than the speed of light is a fairly common idea, but it doesn't work. Here are some pages on other sites that discuss this:
- What happens if you take a light-year-long stick? (Reddit AskScience) https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2dw2qq/what_happens_if_you_take_a_1lightyear_long_stick/
- Is faster-than-light travel or communication possible? (U. C. Riverside) http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/FTL.html#4
- No rigid rods (University of Illinois) https://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=1398
- Rotation and the speed of light (NASA Cosmicopia) http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/qa_gp_sl.html#rotlight
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This position is responsible for the repair and maintenance of fleet vehicles operated by Xcel Energy Corp. This person will be working out of the Lubbock TX service center location. This includes preventive maintenance, minor and major repairs of cars, trucks, aerial devices, construction equipment and other types of equipment operated by the company. This position is a Monday-Friday shift.
Requirements for A Mechanic:
- High school diploma or GED
- Four years of experience in the automotive and/or truck maintenance and repair field
- Minimum requirements of 8 certifications from Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) for a Fleet Mechanic A
- Included in these could be certifications from Fluid Power Society (FPS) or a State Welding certification
- Must have a current Class A Commercial Driver's License (CDL) and a DOT medical card (or the ability to obtain a Class A CDL within 120 days of employment)
- Must be willing to respond to after hour emergency work, call-outs and overtime as assigned
- Must have the fitness and ability to lift 50 lbs. Be able to work from elevated heights and off ladders
- Must be self-motivated and capable to work alone
- Must reside within 20 miles from the Lubbock, TX service center
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Steps in Xcel Energy’s hiring process
- All qualified candidates will be sent an online assessment via e-mail. Applicants must successfully pass in order to be further considered.
- Candidates who successfully pass the assessment will be contacted to come in for an information session and interview.
- After attending our information session/interview, our Team Leaders will collaborate to decide which candidates are best qualified and offers will be made.
- Candidates who accept the employment offer will be required to pass Xcel Energy’s background check and drug test. This process can take up to two weeks before clearance is issued.
- After successful passing of the background check and drug test, candidates are ready to start the training class.
As a leading combination electricity and natural gas energy company, Xcel Energy offers a comprehensive portfolio of energy-related products and services to 3.4 million electricity and 1.9 million natural gas customers across eight Western and Midwestern states. At Xcel Energy, we strive to be the preferred and trusted provider of the energy our customers need. If you’re ready to be a part of something big, we invite you to join our team.
Posting Notes: TX - Lubbock || TX - Lubbock || United States (US) || Generation || 18750:Fleet Amarillo I40 || Full-Time || Bargaining ||
The anticipated starting base pay for this position is: $37.71 per hour
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Requisition Number: 32239
Equal Opportunity Employer: Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran
Individuals with a disability who need an accommodation to apply please contact us at [email protected]
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ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT
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The Customer Support Specialist, under the direction of the Customer Support Manager, will primarily be responsible to support the customer base by resolving questions, concerns, and technical issues, as well as handling customer inquiries and complaints which are escalated from other departments.
This position will ensure that customers are responded to within a reasonable timeframe and satisfied with the issues resolution as well as the resolution process itself.
This role will also attempt to work with and come to a resolution with customers who are not satisfied with their experience of our products or services through the explanation of the situation while attempting to resolve the issue to the best of your abilities.
The Customer Support Specialist must possess the ability to analyze and interpret the needs of clients and offer the appropriate options, solutions, and resolutions required, and the ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing.
Must love people, conversation, and be primarily service-minded while keeping the interest of the company and its policies top of mind.
Competencies:
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Job Requirements:
Work Conditions: | https://northresults.humi.ca/job-board/customer+support/2414 |
Marketplace Policies May Require Additional Information
The Health Insurance Marketplace recently sent notices requesting validation of information provided during the Marketplace enrollment process to certain policyholders. If you have received one of these notices we encourage you to immediately contact the Marketplace if you have not already done so.
There are about 30 different reasons why a Marketplace customer may need to provide additional information. The Marketplace may refer to these reasons for additional information as “inconsistencies.” We have not been informed by the Marketplace as to which reason applies to any given policyholder.
Since the Marketplace mails the notice to customers directly, we do not know ahead of time which customers will be contacted by the Marketplace. However, now that customers have received the Marketplace notice, carriers may also be sending reminder notices to affected customers based on the mailing list provided by the Marketplace.
If you receive such a notice, it is critical that you respond to the Marketplace directly with the additional information within the timeframe outlined in the letter.
Do not send any information regarding noted inconsistencies to carriers. Customers must sign in to access HealthCare.gov or call the Marketplace and provide the required information directly. We cannot facilitate responses to the Marketplace on behalf of our Marketplace policyholders.
What happens if policyholders don’t respond?
Failure to provide the Marketplace with the requested information may result in the cancellation of current coverage, changes to plan coverage, changes or loss in current tax credits and/or impacts to cost-sharing reductions.
Failure to verify citizenship or immigration status with the Marketplace within the timeframe they provide will result in the loss of eligibility for coverage. Depending on residency status, policyholders may have the option to continue their coverage off the Marketplace. However, they won’t be eligible to receive a tax credit or cost-sharing reductions.
Failure to verify income information may result in reconsideration of a policyholder’s eligibility and/or recalculation of the amount of tax credit or cost-sharing reductions they are eligible for. This means policyholders may lose some or all of their premium credit, and their premium responsibility could increase. As a result, policyholders may owe additional money to the federal government when filing their taxes.
Note: Termination of coverage due to failure to pay premium is not a Qualifying Life Event (QLE) and would not constitute special enrollment eligibility outside Annual Open Enrollment.
If any of these events occur, policyholders may be eligible for coverage during a Special Exception Period (SEP) off the Marketplace.
Who should you contact with additional questions?
For more information about Marketplace validation requests, to get online document upload instructions and/or to request paper copies of any required documents, existing policyholders should: | https://ronstadtinsurance.com/1843-marketplace-policies-may-require-additional-information |
Updated August 03, 2022
A real estate purchase counter-offer is a response made by either a buyer or seller during negotiations for the sale of a property. It is common to give the other party between 48 to 72 hours to agree to the terms stated in the counter-offer. If the other party doesn’t agree or respond, the agreement and all prior offers become void and non-binding.
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How to Make a Counter-Offer (3 steps)
Step 1 – Receive the Offer
Most commonly, the seller will be making a counter to the buyer’s offer. The seller will reference the purchase agreement by entering its date.
Step 2 – Write the Counter-Offer
The seller will make the counter-offer and include terms they would like to include. Once complete, the seller will sign and attach to the original purchase agreement.
Step 3 – Wait for Acceptance
After sending, the buyer will have until the end of the expiration period to accept its terms. After the buyer signs, the counter-offer becomes legally binding after the seller has been made aware the buyer has accepted the terms.
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Section I
(1) Counter Offer Effective Date. Present the effective date when the original offer for the property was made.
(2) Buyer. The Buyer of the real estate must be identified with a record of his or her complete name.
(3) Seller. Report the full name of the Seller of this real estate.
(4) Property Description. The property being discussed should be defined with its physical address, the type of structure (if any) on the property, and (if available) its legal description.
Section II. Terms
(5) Counter Offer. Present the formal counter-offer being made through this agreement. This should be a complete record of any changes wanted in the pricing, payment schedule, conditions, and terms the Seller wishes the Buyer to agree to.
(6) Expiration. Naturally, the counter-offer will need to be subject to a time limit so that a response can be attained within a reasonable period of time. For this, document the final time and date that the Seller will accept a formal response to this counter-offer.
(7) Seller’s Signature. The Seller should carefully review the counter-offer being made. Once this document is signed it will be considered a legitimate answer from the Seller to the Buyer’s original offer.
(8) Seller’s Printed Name.
(9) Date. The Seller’s signature date should be delivered to this document when he or she signs it.
Buyer Response
(10) Accepts. This paperwork allows for a quick response from the Buyer. For instance, if the Buyer accepts the counter-offer made through the above document, then he or she will need to mark the “Accepts” checkbox.
(11) Rejects. If the Buyer does not intend to accept the conditions and terms of the counter-offer, then the “Rejects” checkbox should be selected.
(12) Partially Accepts. The Buyer may wish to accept certain points of the Seller’s counter-offer but intends to reject other conditions or terms. If so, then the “Partially Accepts” checkbox should be selected.
(13) Expiration To Response. If the Buyer responds by altering the counter-offer made by the Seller, then a deadline to the Seller’s response should be imposed. Furnish the last time and date when the Seller may accept or reject the counter-offer to keep the current negotiations active.
(14) Terms And Conditions Of Response. The Buyer should explain which aspects of the Seller’s counter-offer are acceptable and which are not in the space provided.
(15) Buyer Signature. The Real Estate Buyer will be expected to respond to the counter-offer by signing his or her name.
(16) Signature Date. After signing his or her name, the Real Estate Buyer must document the calendar date the signature was provided.
(17) Date. The Buyer’s response must be shown as given before the Seller’s expiration date. To this end, the Buyer must report when he signed this paperwork with the date. | https://eforms.com/purchase-agreements/counter-offer/ |
Under the general direction of the Director of Athletics, the Graduate Assistant (GA), working in athletics, will assist the Fitness Center Coordinator in all services and programs of the fitness center on a daily basis. The Fitness Center Coordinator is responsible for scheduling supervision so that all students, faculty, and staff can use this facility. The Graduate Assistant will also support the mission and goals of the athletic department. The field hockey assistance will be, under the general direction of the field hockey head coach and will assist in recruiting qualified student-athletes to the program, instruct and develop the student-athletes, assist with game preparation, and community involvement. Instruction will include, but not limited to the rules, strategies, and techniques relating to practice and competition in this sport.
General Information
Accepted into a Master's Degree Program at **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. is required.
Compensation may consist of a tuition waiver and an annual stipend for a full-time GA.
Typically a full-time GA is required to work 20 hours per week from mid-August to mid-May.
Requirements
Fitness Center/Game Management (40%)
Carry out supervisory responsibilities in fitness center on a daily basis.
Assist in overall management and supervision of the fitness center.
Maintain and inventory equipment.
Help develop budget for necessary equipment.
Complete other duties as assigned by the Fitness Center Coordinator.
Represent Department of Athletics at selected home athletic events.
Coaching, Instruction, and Team Administration (30%)
Assist the head coach to organize and conduct practices during the traditional season (as defined by the National Collegiate Athletic Association) for the sport. Non-traditional (or out of season) season practices may be required.
Assist the head coach to serve as the representative of the department and the College during team travel for in- and out-of-season competition.
Assist the head coach in management of operational budget issues: Participate in uniform and equipment purchase process; help plan and coordinate team travel under the supervision of Director of Athletics' Office; help develop and implement fund-raising strategies.
Assist the head coach to complete in-and off-season scheduling for the program. Work within NCAA guidelines regarding start of season, dates of competition and end of season.
Represent the Department of Athletics at all on-campus Admissions Open Houses and/or other predetermined events.
Other duties as assigned by the head coach.
Recruiting (30%)
Assist the head coach in developing a recruiting strategy to achieve recruiting goals as pre-approved with the Director of Athletics. Work with head coach and Office of Admission to recruit qualified prospective student-athletes, both incoming freshmen and transfers to **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***.. Included are off-campus contacts and evaluations as well as serving as College representative during on-campus prospect visits.
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Proven integrity, leadership, and a thorough knowledge of volleyball are required.
Candidate should possess a strong commitment and ability to motivate, teach, counsel, and recruit academically qualified student-athletes.
Must have valid driver's license.
Education
Bachelor's degree required. Proven successful coaching, with 2-3 years experience preferred, preferably at the collegiate level. Knowledge of NCAA Division III rules and regulations preferred. Strong oral and written communication skills required.
Technology Skills
Computer proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, such as, Microsoft Word, Excel, etc. Proficient with internet and email. Ability to use available instructional technology resources to effectively teach in a manner conducive to classroom presentation including, but not limited to, use of audio visual equipment, computer, educational software, etc.
Language Skills
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to effectively provide information and positively respond to questions from both external and internal customers both in person and by phone. Ability to develop marketing or promotion materials. Ability to speak effectively before groups of students, parents, or others.
Mathematical Skills
Ability to work with and apply basic mathematical concepts timely and accurately, either manually or by using a calculator.
Reasoning Ability
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form. Ability to hypothesize, draw conclusions, and support conclusions. Ability to work in theoretical arena and apply logic as appropriate.
To Apply
Qualified candidates are invited to apply on-line via our electronic application which requires submission of a cover letter, resume and three professional references. When saving documents, all document titles related to your application should include your name and the job requisition number.(i.e.c.smith, 18-0054).
The electronic application is found at the end of the job description on the lower right hand side, Apply On-line. If you need assistance with the on-line application process, please email **** or ****.
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**MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, disability, religion, or age in recruitment, admission and access to, or treatment, or employment in its programs, services, benefits, or activities as required by applicable laws including Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and complies with the law regarding reasonable accommodation for disabled applicants and students. Inquiries about discrimination or reasonable accommodation should be referred to the Title IX and Section 504 Coordinator at Alumnae Hall, 401 Rosemont Avenue, Frederick, MD. 21701 (AD 312), (301) 696-3592. For complete information on **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***.'s nondiscrimination policy, please visit ****Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities. | https://www.volunteercrossing.com/job/id-20be320d1a45554fa328f9ea1fb697c9 |
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Explain the Legal Rules Regarding Valid Acceptance. Define Acceptance.
Acceptance.
Section 2 (b) of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 defines acceptance in these words: When one person to whom the proposal is made signifies his assent thereto, the proposal is said to be accepted. A proposal when accepted becomes a promise. In the words of, Sir William Anson, Acceptance is to an offer what a lighted match is to a train of gunpowder. It produces something which cannot be recalled or undone. But the powder may have laid till it has become damp or the man who laid the train may withdraw it before a lighted match stick is set to it.
Similarly, once the offer is accepted it is converted into a binding contract and cannot be revoked. Who can accept? An offer can be accepted only by the offer. If anyone else attempts to accept it, no contract will arise with that person.
Modes of Acceptance: Acceptance may be express or implied. An express acceptance is one which is given by words spoken or written. By implied acceptance we mean an .acceptance which is by performance of some required act.
Legal Rules Regarding a Valid Acceptance
Acceptance must be absolute and unqualified (Section 7): An acceptance to be valid must be absolute and unconditional and according to the exact terms of the offer. The word absolute implies acceptance of the offer into. It should be of the whole of the offer. The offer can not accept a part of its terms which are favorable to him and reject the rest. The acceptance should be unconditional also. This means that accept or should not attach any conditions to the acceptance.
Acceptance must be expressed in the prescribed manner: Acceptance must be made in the prescribed manner. Section 7 (2) states that the acceptance must be expressed in some usual manner, unless the proposal prescribes the manner in which it is to be accepted. If the proposal prescribes a manner in which it is to be accepted, and the acceptance is not made in that manner, the proposer may, within a reasonable time after the acceptance is communicated to him, insist that his proposal should be accepted in the prescribed manner and not otherwise but if he fails to do so, he accepts the acceptance.
Acceptance must be given within the time prescribed or a reasonable time: To make it legally binding the acceptance must be given either within the period prescribed, and, if no period is specified, within a reasonable time. What is reasonable is in each case depends upon circumstances.
Acceptance must be given before the offer lapses or is revoked: Acceptance must be given before the offer lapses by the expiry of fixed or reasonable period or before it is revoked by the offeror.
An acceptance can never precede on offer: There can be no acceptance of an offer which is not communicated. Similarly performance of conditions of an offer in a general offer without the knowledge of the offer is no acceptance. Acceptance can be given only for an offer which has been communicated.
Acceptance must be communicated by the acceptor: The communication of acceptance may be express or implied. Acceptance should be made known to the offeror. A mere mental acceptance is no acceptance in the eyes of law.
Silence can not be a mode of acceptance: Offeror can not impose a condition that offeree’s silence would be considered as acceptance. Silence does not normally amount to acceptance.
Acceptance must show an intention that acceptor is willing to fulfill the terms of the offer: A valid contract can arise only when the acceptance is given with the intention of fulfilling the terms of the contract.
Rejected offers can be accepted only, if renewed: Offer once rejected cannot be accepted unless a fresh offer is made. | https://www.owlgen.in/explain-the-legal-rules-regarding-valid-acceptance-define-acceptance/ |
From 27 September 2021, Australian businesses employing over 15 people will be expected to comply with changes made to the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth). They must examine whether casual employees hired before 27 March 2021 will be eligible for conversion to part-time or full-time positions.
Employers must remain aware of their legal requirements set out by the Fair Work Commission and their obligations to existing casual employees.
We have prepared this article to help you understand what’s expected of your business and make sure you’re prepared before the 27 September deadline.
Employer Expectations
Following the amendments to the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth), employers by 27 September will need to assess whether any existing casual employees are eligible to convert to permanent employment types.
Before the deadline, employers must assess, identify and communicate in writing to any eligible employees that they will be making a conversion offer or an explanation as to why they won’t be making an offer. In either instance, this must be accompanied by a copy of the Casual Employment Information Statement.
Eligibility Criteria
Employees are eligible to receive an offer to convert their casual employment status to permanent if:
- They have been employed for 12 months or longer,
- They have worked a regular pattern of hours for an ongoing basis of at least the past 6 months and
- Could continue working these hours as a part-time or full-time employee without significant changes.
How to Make an Offer to Convert?
The offer to convert to a permanent position should be made in a letter that clearly explains and outlines the benefits and entitlements granted to permanent employees, highlighting that the casual loading entitlement will be removed upon acceptance of a permanent offer. If the employee accepts the offer, the employer should clearly outline:
- The employee’s new status,
- Their hours of work and
- The date on which their permanent status comes into effect.
Should an employer have reasonable grounds not to offer a full-time contract to an existing casual employee, they must communicate in writing that the employee is ineligible at this time or that they are eligible, but the employer has reasonable grounds not to make an offer. Employers should explain why the given employee is ineligible or the employer’s grounds not to offer the conversion.
As previously mentioned, employers must also provide employees with a copy of the Casual Employment Information Statement (CEIS), as published by the Fair Work Ombudsman.
This offer must be:
- Communicated by no later than 27 September 2021 if the casual employee commenced employment before 27 March 2021 or,
- Within 21 days of the casual employee’s 12-month anniversary.
Employers will not have to make a conversion offer if the employee does not fit the eligibility requirements set out by the Fair Work Act amendments or if the employer has reasonable grounds not to make an offer. Regardless of whether employers will be making an offer or not, their response must be given to their employee in writing, by or before 27 September 2021.
What Are Reasonable Grounds for Not Making an Offer?
The Fair Work Act amendment offers a brief summary of examples that constitute reasonable grounds for not making an offer, which includes:
- The employee’s role/position ceasing to exist within 12 months,
- The employee will experience a significant reduction of working hours within the coming 12 months,
- The employee’s days/times of work significantly change in the next 12 months and cannot be accommodated within the employee’s available days or times for work, or
- The employer would have to make a significant adjustment to the employee’s work hours for them to be employed full-time or part-time.
Conversion Offer Deadlines
Casual employees have a period of 21 days to respond to the offer and a further 21 days to discuss and complete employee arrangements. If an employee does not respond to the offer within the 21-day period, the employer can assume that the employee has declined the offer to convert to permanent work.
In Short
- Employers have until 27 September 2021 to offer eligible employees an offer of casual conversion or to communicate an offer will not be made and the reason for the same.
- Employers should explain what entitlements permanent employees receive in addition to changes from casual employment.
- Employers should clearly explain the process for accepting and commencing permanent employment.
- Should employers fail to take these steps, casual employees may have legal options to challenge the employer’s failure to offer conversion through Fair Work or in court.
If your business requires any assistance navigating the changes to the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth), your obligations, or any further questions, please contact the team at Morrows today. | https://www.morrows.com.au/casual-conversion-deadline-rapidly-approaching/ |
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (NASDAQ:MXIM) received notice of an unsolicited mini-tender offer by TRC Capital Corporation (TRC Capital) for the purchase of up to 2 million shares of Maxim Integrated common stock at a price of $56.90 per share in cash, which is below the current market price.
Maxim Integrated does not endorse TRC Capital's offer and furthermore, recommends that stockholders reject the offer and not tender their shares in response because the offer is at a price below the current market price for Maxim Integrated shares and is subject to several conditions. TRC Capital's offer price is approximately 4.4 percent below the closing share price of Maxim Integrated common stock on September 21, 2018, the last trading day prior to the date the offer commenced. The offer is for less than one percent of the outstanding shares of Maxim Integrated common stock.
TRC Capital's offer states that it may terminate or amend the offer if, among other things, the market price of Maxim Integrated stock decreases or TRC Capital fails to obtain necessary financing.
Maxim Integrated is not associated with TRC Capital, its offer or the mini-tender offer documentation.
Maxim Integrated encourages investors to consult with their broker or financial adviser and exercise caution with respect to TRC Capital's offer. Maxim Integrated stockholders who have already tendered their shares may withdraw them by providing notice in the manner described in the TRC Capital offer documents prior to the expiration of the offer, which is currently scheduled at 12:01 a.m., New York City time, on Tuesday, October 23, 2018.
TRC Capital has made many similar below-market mini-tender offers for shares of other public companies. Like its prior offers, this mini-tender offer presents risks to investors who may not realize they would be selling their shares at a discount to the current market price. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which has cautioned investors about these mini-tender offers, offers tips for investors regarding mini-tender offers at http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/minitend.htm.
Maxim Integrated encourages brokers and dealers, as well as other market participants, to review the SEC's letter regarding broker-dealer mini-tender offer dissemination and disclosures at www.sec.gov/divisions/marketreg/minitenders/sia072401.htm.
Maxim Integrated requests that a copy of this news release be included with all distributions of materials relating to TRC Capital's mini-tender offer for shares of Maxim Integrated common stock.
About Maxim Integrated
Maxim Integrated develops innovative analog and mixed-signal products and technologies to make systems smaller and smarter, with enhanced security and increased energy efficiency. We are empowering design innovation for our automotive, industrial, healthcare, mobile consumer, and cloud data center customers to deliver industry-leading solutions that help change the world. Learn more at http://www.maximintegrated.com/. | http://business.am-news.com/am-news/news/read/37008854/maxim_integrated_recommends_stockholders_reject_mini |
Hertz Accident Support is regulated by and follows, Information Commissioner Office (ICO), Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) guidelines.
The FCA is an independent non-governmental body, given statutory powers by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. The FCA set out the rules for how firms must deal with complaints. These are contained in the FCA handbook under subsection DISP.
The Financial Ombudsman Service was established by Parliament in 2001 as the independent expert in settling disputes between consumers and businesses providing financial services.
From the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 the FCA and FOS developed standards and rules with regards to how businesses respond to complainants and ensure they are treated fairly.
According to FCA DISP 1.3.1a all complaints can be made free of charge.
4. What is a justified unresolved complaint?
A justified unresolved complaint is a structured specific complaint with reasonable grounds for Hertz Accident Support to be solely or jointly responsible for the matter alleged in the complaint taking into account all relevant factors. This complaint was unable to be resolved immediately and therefore require an investigation and written outcome within an 8 week’s timescale.
5. What is a justified resolved contact?
A justified resolved contact complaint is a structured specific complaint with reasonable grounds for Hertz Accident Support to be solely or jointly responsible for the matter alleged in the complaint taking into account all relevant factors. This complaint was resolved within 24 hours and does not require further investigation.
6. What is an unjustified contact complaint?
An unjustified contact complaint is a general complaint with no reasonable grounds for Hertz Accident Support to be solely or jointly responsible for the matter alleged in the complaint. This complaint was resolved within 24 hours and does not require further investigation.
Hertz Accident Support follows the FCA DISP 1.2.1 publishing appropriate information regarding the internal transparent procedures for the reasonable and prompt handling of any complaints and ensuring that a written final response is provided to all complainants. Hertz Accident Support Managers are responsible for monitoring and resolving complaints, with the Compliance committee responsible for ensuring that all complaints met the FOS and FCA standards.
All Hertz Accident Support staff must log any expressions of dissatisfaction accurately on the internal CRM complaints log and try to resolve complaints themselves at first contact. If they are unable to do so to the client’s satisfaction then the complaint must be logged and passed to a department manager to investigate as per the complaints resolution process in section 20.
9. How does Hertz Accident Support receive complaints?
10. How are complaints recorded?
Hertz Accident Support complaints are logged on an internal CRM complaints log. This log is monitored weekly by the Hertz Accident Support Managers who are responsible for monitoring and resolving complaints. On a monthly basis the department Managers collates all the complaints information and these are reviewed quarterly by the Hertz Accident Support Compliance Committee to identify if significant changes are needed in the operations of the company.
In accordance with FCA ruling and the FOS all Hertz Accident Support complaints must be resolved and a final response letter sent to the complainant within 8 weeks from receipt of the initial complaint. If for some reason Hertz Accident Support requires an extension of this timescale then a written request for extension must be sent to the complainant advising why they are not in the position to make a final decision within the 8 week timescale and offer an indication of when they can expect a final response.
If an extension of the 8 weeks is required Hertz Accident Support must also advise the complainant that they can now refer to the Financial Ombudsman Service if they would like and enclose a leaflet advising how to do so.
12. What is a final response?
• Offer the customer their right to dispute Hertz Accident Support decision to the Financial Ombudsman Service within 6 months, if they are unhappy with our response.
13. Can the complainant appeal the final decision and if so how?
The complainant has the right to dispute Hertz Accident Support’s decision to the Financial Ombudsman Service within 6 months, if they are unhappy with the response. A leaflet of how to do so will be sent to the complainant with the final response letter.
14. Does Hertz Accident Support offer compensation for a complaint?
Any complaint, where the complainant has suffered a loss or damages due to the actions or service by Hertz Accident Support, we will investigate the claim for redress or loss and we will offer compensation where we feel Hertz Accident Support has been negligent in our operations and we feel it fair and reasonable for the claim to be made.
There may be cases where alternative compensation is made as a ‘gesture of good will’ these gestures will only be made by instruction of the Operations Director.
Treating customers fairly is an essential element of all areas of the business and fair and consistent complaints handling gives Hertz Accident Support an opportunity to ensure we are meeting and managing our client and customers experiences and expectations of the services we provide.
Following FCA complaint resolution rules 1.4.1, once a complaint has been received Hertz Accident Support will investigate the complaint competently and impartially ensuring the assessment is fair, consistent and prompt, considering if there are reasonable grounds for Hertz Accident Support to be solely or jointly responsible for the matter alleged in the complaint taking into account all relevant factors.
According to FCA ruling if there are more than 500 complaints in 6 months then Hertz Accident Support must declare this and add to their website.
According to DISP 3.7.2b the maximum money award which the Financial Ombudsman Service can make is £150,000.
17. What happens if a complaint is taken to the Financial Ombudsman?
If a complaint is referred to the Financial Ombudsman, Hertz Accident Support will cooperate fully and comply promptly with any settlements or awards made by it.
18. How does Hertz Accident Support use complaints to our advantage?
Hertz Accident Support appreciates any feedback about their service and by reviewing each complaint are able to identify the root cause of the issues and try to avoid any reoccurrence in complaint types.
All complaints are reviewed quarterly by the Hertz Accident Support Compliance Committee to identify if significant changes are needed in the operations of the company.
19. Does Hertz Accident Support conduct Customer Service surveys?
Hertz Accident Support send customer service surveys to random clients by use of email mail shot, these surveys ensure that Hertz Accident Support are operating & providing the service our customers expect. It also gives Hertz Accident Support the opportunity to establish any dissatisfaction in our service that had not previously been raised by the client. | http://hertzaccidentsupport.com/complaints-policy/ |
The Essential Services Commission (Victoria) has published its final decision on ‘supporting energy customers throughout the coronavirus pandemic.’
The final decision includes an initial temporary package of reforms that will take effect from 1 October 2020 and will last for six months until 31 March 2021. The commission notes that it has the discretion to extend this timeframe if required and if in the long-term interests of Victorian consumers.
The package of reforms is summarised below and interested parties can review the final decision here: https://www.esc.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/supporting-energy-customers-through-coronavirus-pandemic-final-decision-20200824.pdf
Need for change
The commission has been monitoring the consequences of coronavirus on energy consumers and this has led to the decision that additional reform is required:
Based on the evidence available to us since the start of the pandemic, we consider there is a need for targeted reforms to support residential and small business customers paying their bills through the pandemic.
The package of reforms developed by the commission is in addition to commitments made by the Victorian government including a $3.7 million package of support targeted at Victorians struggling to pay their energy bills as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
The government package includes the recruitment and training of new financial counsellors, training of over 1100 frontline community workers to give targeted advice on dealing with energy bills, a new energy brokerage program to help 3000 households at risk of payment difficulty to get the best value energy deal, and an education campaign to ensure that Victorians are aware of their rights under the existing Victorian payment difficulty framework.
URGS applications
Retailers will be required to support residential customers in completing URGS applications including by submitting forms online on behalf of customers where possible and with customers’ consent.
Tariff check
Retailers will be required to do a tariff check for all residential customers receiving tailored assistance, not just those who cannot afford the ongoing cost of energy.
Small business
The commission has developed a mandatory guideline that will set out assistance that must be offered by retailers to small businesses experiencing financial stress due to the coronavirus. This assistance will be in addition to the requirements existing in the Energy Retail Code that small businesses adhering to a payment plan must not be disconnected for non-payment.
The proposed guideline is set out in Annexure C to the final decision. For the purposes of the guideline a relevant business customer is a business customer, defined in clause 3 of the Energy Retail Code, who is experiencing financial stress attributable to the coronavirus pandemic.
Pursuant to the guideline, a retailer who is contacted by a business customer regarding, or in connection with, potential or actual difficulty paying for energy costs must provide that business with information about assistance that may be available under the guideline including how it may be accessed.
Retailers must also use best endeavours to contact the business customer who has not paid a bill by its pay by date within a reasonable time prior to any disconnection to provide the customer with information about assistance that may be available under the guideline and how it can be accessed
The assistance that must be provided to relevant business customers is set out in clause 4. This includes, but is not limited to, providing the option of making payments of an equal amount over a specific period, or at different intervals, payment plans that would result in any arrears of the relevant business customer being fully paid within a period determined by the retailer and clearly set out to the relevant business customer, extending the pay by date for a bill for at least one billing cycle in any 12 month period, and practical assistance to help lower energy costs.
Clause 5 prohibits retailers from commencing or continuing with proceedings for the recovery of arrears from relevant business customers. It’s interesting to consider whether this is consistent with the Corporations Act and the rights of recovery for retailers therein.
Clause 5 also prohibits a retailer selling or otherwise disposing of the debt of a relevant business customer who is in arrears at any time other business customers receiving assistance under the guideline or within 10 business days after the business customer has been disconnected. | https://www.compliancequarter.com.au/victorias-new-reform-package-supporting-consumers-throughout-the-covid-pandemic/ |
Summary:
The IT Cloud Farm Specialist will be responsible for the daily monitoring, management, and support of our digital services in a third-line position while working with the latest technologies in an innovative environment. This position functions within the digital operations center on a team with international colleagues. The team is operationally responsible end-to-end; from the PC on the farm to the Cloud platforms in Azure. The IT Cloud Farm Specialist will have direct interaction with customers in addition to service technicians and product developer colleagues all over the world. This position will work remotely as an active member of the international digital operations team with frequent interaction with Lely international teammates. This role is very versatile and offers opportunities for personal development and professional growth. This position includes occasional travel approximately 20% domestic and/or international via car or plane. Preferred location, USA or Canada.
Main Tasks
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide third-line support on questions, problems, and bugs related to our digital products, such as T4C and Lely Horizon. T4C collects data from various Lely products active on the farm, including the milking robot, feeding robot, and manure robot, and Lely Horizon is the management system positioned for modern-day farming.
- Investigate complex technical issues by gathering technical information from the field, analyzing the cause of common problems, and testing variables and scenarios.
- Collaborate with Product Development to seek solutions to improve products.
- Routinely involved in the validation of new products or product versions.
- Develop technical manuals and training manuals to define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.
- Manage cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines.
- Analyze Field Intelligence data and find opportunities for technical improvements. Document problems and implement preventative measures.
- Continuous on-the-job training and certification.
- Perform occasional Lely Center onsite training.
- 24/7 Hotline phone support on a rotational schedule
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience
- Bachelor's Degree from four-year college or university
- 3 years of proven experience in a 2nd or 3rd line support position
- Experience with Agile/Scrum/Lean manufacturing methodologies
- Experience with Microsoft Azure and cloud services preferred
- Experience with Microsoft SQL preferred
- Experience with ITSM (IT Service Management) Processes preferred
Key Skills and Abilities:
- Team player who inspires a team culture
- Collaborative and approachable spirit
- Solution driven mindset
- Effective verbal and written communicator, ability to effectively communicate with people from other regions and cultures
- Employ exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to see and solve issues before they affect business productivity
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, multi-tasking environment independently
- Ability to collaborate, effectively present information, respond to questions, and provide assistance when working with the public/customers, co-workers, supporting the Lely Centers, and with a wide range of dairy professionals
- Skilled at reading, analyzing, and interpreting common and/or product-specific technical information
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
Computer Skills:
Advanced Proficiency:
- PC-Networking
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Outlook
- Presentation Software
- Communication and Collaboration Tools
Our Organisation / The Department
About Lely:
Founded in 1948, Lely directs all its efforts towards creating a sustainable, profitable, and enjoyable future in farming. With the focus always on the cow, the company develops premium robotics and data systems that improve animal welfare, flexibility, and production on the dairy farm. For more than 25 years, Lely has been a market leader in the sale and service of automated milking systems to successive generations of dairy farmers across the globe. Lely inspires its employees every day to offer customers innovative solutions and be a reliable partner for long-term advice and support. With a head office in the Netherlands and a worldwide network of dedicated Lely Center locations for tailor-made sales and support, the Lely Group is active in more than 40 countries and employs around 1,700 people.
Lely North America is the world leader in automated dairy equipment and offers competitive compensation and excellent benefit package. Post offer background screen, physical and drug screen and job assessment screening required. Lely North America is an EOE and participant in E-Verify.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Lely provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
If you are interested in this position, please click HERE and search for IT Cloud Farm Specialist. | https://www.lely.com/us/job-openings/it-cloud-farm-specialist/ |
Dear Compliance Officer:
In order to fulfill our contractual obligation with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Novitas Solutions, Inc. your Jurisdiction L Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC), performs reviews in accordance with the CMS instruction. CMS has authorized Jurisdiction L to conduct the Targeted Probe and Educate (TPE) review process. The TPE review process includes three rounds of a prepayment probe review with education. If there are continued high denials after three rounds, Novitas Solutions, Inc. will refer the provider/supplier to CMS for additional action, which may include 100% prepay review, extrapolation, referral to a Recovery Auditor, etc. Note, discontinuation of review may occur at any time if appropriate improvement is achieved during the review process.
This letter serves as notification of the TPE process and to notify you of the initiation of the review. The purpose of the claim review is to ensure documentation supports the reasonable and necessary criteria of the services billed and follows Medicare rules and regulations.
Novitas Solutions, Inc., your Part A Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC), is tasked with preventing inappropriate Medicare payments which is accomplished through provider education, training, and the medical review of claims. Novitas Solutions, Inc. performs dataanalysis on a regular basis on all providers that it services to assure compliance with the Medicare Program requirements. Based on routine data analysis, Novitas Solutions, Inc. has identified a potential aberrancy with your facility in regard to the billing of IRF - Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility.
Your probe___, which was closed in Month of 20xx had an ___% claim error rate and a ____% dollar error rate. Due to the new Targeted Probe and Educate approach, all reprobes resulting from an initial probe with a moderate or major error classification will be placed in round 2 of the TP&E process. The initial probe will be considered the Round One TP&E probe.
A sample of 20 randomly selected claims are chosen to determine if a provider is billing and coding according to Medicare guidelines and to ensure services are reasonable and medically necessary.
Federal law requires that providers/suppliers submit medical record documentation to support claims for Medicare services upon request. Providers/ suppliers are required to send supporting medical record to Novitas Solutions, Inc. when they are requested. Providing medical records of Medicare patients to Novitas Solutions, Inc. does not violate the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Patient authorization is not required to respond to this request.
If the requested documentation is not returned within 45 days, the claim will be denied due to lack of documentation which will contribute to your error rate. It is your responsibility as a provider to provide the requested documentation within the allotted time frame. Additionally, if providers/suppliers do not respond to the ADR request, MACs have the option to refer to the RAC or ZPIC/UPIC as a result. Novitas Solutions, Inc. will review your claim within 30 days. After all claims selected for the probe are reviewed, you will receive a letter that includes specific findings of our review.
Please do not send any documentation at this time. Your facility will be notified with an Additional Documentation Request (ADR) letter on each claim selected for review. This letter will include a list of specific elements needed to support the service on review. Please ensure the process for routing these documents to the person(s) responsible for submission is timely and effective. Inform your staff responsible for receiving the ADR letters and submitting the required documentation for this review. Authorization for the release of this information is included in Federal Law regulations reference 42 CFR 411.24(a), 424.5(a)(6) and 44 USC 3101.
The documentation submitted for this review must be a copy of the patient's medical record for each encounter clearly identified for each requested beneficiary and the date of service. Providers/suppliers are responsible for obtaining supporting documentation from third parties (hospitals, nursing homes, suppliers, etc.).
When submitting medical review records via fax or mail, the DCN specific cover sheet must be placed face up and on top of its corresponding medical documentation.
You are responsible for providing documentation for the services identified for the timeframe specified on the Additional Development Request (ADR) which will be mailed to your facility for the beneficiaries that are included in this review. When submitting medical records, the first page of the ADR must be placed face up and on top of its corresponding medical documentation. It would be beneficial if you submit the documentation for all the identified claims at one time to my attention by one of the following methods:
USPS
Commercial/Courier/Express Mail:
Clinical Reviewer
Medical Review – Part A
Novitas Solutions, Inc.
Post Office Box 3385
Mechanicsburg, PA 17055-1829
Clinical Reviewer
Medical Review – Part A
Novitas Solutions, Inc.
2020 Technology Parkway Suite 100
Mechanicsburg, PA 17050
If the requested information has not been received within 45 days of the date on the ADR mailed to your facility, Novitas Solutions, Inc. will initiate claim adjustments or overpayment recoupment actions for these undocumented services.
Upon completion of the claim sample, the nurse reviewer will contact you to schedule a 1:1 educational session regarding any errors noted during the claim review. Novitas Solutions Inc. offers webinars, which are web-based presentations using internet technology. If your office does not have internet capabilities, a traditional teleconference will be offered. We can offer other methods of direct communication if these methods are not convenient. Medical Review will also provide you written notification at the end of the review to include your results. This letter will include the number of claims reviewed, the number of claims allowed in full, the number of claims denied in full or in part and limited education on the results.
Thank you for your participation with this review. Please contact ____ referencing the case number above upon receipt of this letter to provide the name of a contact person, if not already communicated, or with any questions regarding the information in this letter.
If you have any additional questions regarding this request, please contact me at or via postal mail at the following:
Sincerely,
Clinical Reviewer
MAC Jurisdiction JL
Medical Reviewer Part A
Novitas Solutions, Inc.
cc: Dr. Patterson, Vice President & Contract Medical Director
Dr. Hayes, Contract Medical Director
enc: 1) Novitas Portal Information (Novitasphere)
2) Documentation Checklist
3) TPE Process Flowchart
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This checklist is intended to provide Healthcare providers with a reference for use when responding to Medical Documentation Requests for Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) services. Healthcare Providers retain responsibility to submit complete and accurate documentation.
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Documentation Requirements
Please submit a mandatory advanced beneficiary notice (ABN) if issued.
Pre-admission screening
Post-admission physician evaluation
Physician’s orders and progress notes for dates of service, as well as the overall plan of care
Nurse’s notes, medication and treatment records.
Completed admission/discharge IRF PAI assessment
Clinical documentation to support PAI assessment (i.e. clinical records from preceding acute care stay, transfer sheets, discharge summary, social service, history & physical).
Records for physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and *initial evaluation/all progress notes/treatment records (verifying treatment plan, goals, minutes). *decubitus records (if applicable) for service.
Documentation to support HIPPS code. | https://www.novitas-solutions.com/webcenter/portal/MedicareJH/pagebyid?contentId=00170306 |
Position Summary:
Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service. Establish and maintain a safe and clean environment that encourages our customers to return. Embrace the Customer 1st strategy and encourage associates to deliver excellent customer service. Demonstrate the companys core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety of others.
Essential Job Functions:
: Promote trust and respect among associates.
: Create an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important and appreciated by answering questions regarding products sold within the department and throughout the store.
: Gain and maintain knowledge of products sold within the department and be able to respond to questions and make suggestions about products.
: Inform customers of grocery specials.
: Strive for at least five items in the bag while ensuring that contents or items are not damaged.
: Follow best practices for bagging items in various types of bags (reusable/plastic/paper).
: Assist in removing customers merchandise from bottom of bascart for checkout.
: Offer assistance to customers with loading bags into their car.
: Return merchandise to store shelves.
: Gather bascarts and return them to designated areas.
: Understand the stores layout and have the ability to locate products and conduct price checks for cashiers.
: Display a positive attitude.
: Stay current with present, future, seasonal and special ads.
: Adhere to all food safety regulations and guidelines.
: Reinforce safety programs by complying with safety procedures and identify unsafe conditions and notify store management.
: Practice preventive maintenance by properly inspecting equipment and notify appropriate department or store manager of any items in need of repair.
: Notify management of customer or employee accidents.
: Clean up spills as needed, collect and pick up trash inside store and parking lot.
: Clean all areas inside and outside of store.
: Report all safety risks or issues, and illegal activity, including: robbery, theft or fraud.
: Collaborate with Front:end associates to encourage teamwork.
: Adhere to all local, state and federal laws, and company guidelines.
: Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation. Minimum Position Qualifications:
: Ability to handle stressful situations
: Effective communication skills
: Knowledge of basic math (counting, addition, and subtraction)
: Must be at least 16 years of age
: Current food handlers permit once employed Desired Previous Job Experience
: Second language (speaking, reading and/or writing)
: Retail Experience
Leadership Behaviors: Achieves Results through Teamwork, Coaches and Develops Others, Communicates Effectively and Candidly, Executes with Excellence, Leads Change and Innovation, Leads through Positive Influence, Provides Clear and Strategic Direction, Puts the Customer First. For more information on the Kroger Leadership Behavior model, click here.
Education Level:
None
Required Certifications/Licenses:
None
Shift(s):
Day; Evening
Regions:
West
States:
Washington
Keywords:
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Michigan State University researchers in East Lansing have received a National Science Foundation grant for $500,000 to continue their work designing smart cities with infrastructure and policies to support the creation of an electric vehicle charging station network within Michigan and throughout the U.S.
By 2030, there will be an estimated 18.7 million electric vehicles (EVs) on U.S. roads with the goal of reducing the nation’s carbon dioxide levels at least 50 percent below 2005 levels. Recently, the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Transportation made $7.5 billion available to develop an EV charging network across the country that is convenient, reliable, and affordable.
“The goal of this NSF project is to advance the understanding of and develop tools to guide how EV charging infrastructure impacts the sustainability and equity of people between urban and rural regions,” says Dong Zhao, an associate professor in the School of Planning, Design and Construction at MSU. “The investment in EV charging infrastructure not only reflects financial and economic decisions but also environmental and social decisions, as they influence regional sustainability and equity across urban and rural areas.”
Zhao and his team will consider individual issues like how EV charging will impact peoples’ daily lives commuting to work or making a quick trip to the grocery store. But they also will examine broader issues related to where everyone will charge their cars and where EV charging stations should be located.
“Current decision-making models and tools for infrastructure investment focus on economic and engineering efficiency and rarely consider region-level environment and equity,” Zhao says. “This project will create a geographic information system or GIS-based decision system that will integrate regional economic and engineering efficiency, environmental sustainability and social equity into the EV charging infrastructure planning and design.”
The researchers use a smart city approach considering multiple layers of information in forming their recommendations, including energy use, sustainability, fuel consumption, social equity, rural versus urban locations, and decision and policy making. The research and recommendations Zhao’s team develops will provide city planners, engineers, and policymakers a more complete picture of the issues, needs and best practices surrounding the installation of EV charging stations. The team has conducted previous research studies focused on Detroit and Grand Rapids to examine smart city infrastructure and technology. | https://www.dbusiness.com/tech-mobility-news/msu-researchers-get-500k-nsf-grant-to-continue-ev-charging-station-work/?_hsmi=232840139&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--8Tb3v0QTIj5IEsMiqhJwIVF15efg-QFqP9FrIfBNEU3FPB4kXWdzQkavYKSWIYWesfoCU7YpHkHGmtMEw3NLWlKRCvQ |
NO CONSIDERATION OF SUSTAINABILITY ADVERSE IMPACTS
Disclosure requirements for CCGM Pensions Administrators Ltd. as the Retirement Scheme Administrator (the “RSA”) to the Lifetime Pensions Scheme - Private Pension Scheme (the “Scheme”) pursuant to Regulation of the EU 2019/2088 on sustainable-related disclosures in the financial services sector (the “SFDR” Regulation).
Dated 10 March 2021
The SFDR requires specific disclosures by manufacturers of pension schemes, namely the RSA, on the assessment of pre-defined metrics on environmental (E), social (S) and governance (G) (together referred to as “ESG”) outcomes on its investment process of the Scheme and its investment Strategies outlined in Annex 1 of the Scheme Particulars.
- Glossary
‘sustainable investment’ an investment in an economic activity that contributes to an environmental objective, as measured, for example, by key resource efficiency indicators on the use of energy, renewable energy, raw materials, water and land, on the production of waste, and greenhouse gas emissions, or on its impact on biodiversity and the circular economy, or an investment in an economic activity that contributes to a social objective, in particular an investment that contributes to tackling inequality or that fosters social cohesion, social integration and labour relations, or an investment in human capital or economically or socially disadvantaged communities, provided that such investments do not significantly harm any of those objectives and that the investee companies follow good governance practices, in particular with respect to sound management structures, employee relations, remuneration of staff and tax compliance;
‘sustainability risk’ an environmental, social or governance event or condition that, if it occurs, could cause an actual or a potential material negative impact on the value of the investment;
‘sustainability factors’ environmental, social and employee matters, respect for human rights, anti‐corruption and anti‐bribery matters.
‘Principal Adverse Impacts’
(“the PAI”) impacts of the investment decisions and advice that result in negative effects on sustainability factors, that include granular ESG Indicators applicable to investments in ‘investee companies’ which are of (i) mandatory type relating to E(nvironmental) indicators, and (ii) at least one additional Indicator related climate or other environment, and (iii) at least a further additional indicator related to social, employee, human rights, anti-corruption or anti-bribery, as well as (iv) optional other indicators used to identify and assess additional principal adverse impacts on a sustainability factor.
- Transparency of adverse sustainability impacts
The SFDR requires the RSA to disclose on its website whether Principal Adverse Impacts of investment decisions are considered.
Accordingly, No consideration of the principal adverse impacts (PAI) on its investment decisions on sustainability factors are considered by the RSA in respect of the Scheme and its strategies.
PROSPECTIVE MEMBERS ARE URGED TO NOTE THAT CCGM DOES NOT CONSIDER THE ADVERSE IMPACTS ON ITS INVESTMENT DECISIONS ON SUSTAINABILITY FACTORS.
2.1 The reason why CCGM does not consider PAI on its investment decisions of the Scheme and its strategies on sustainability factors is deemed due to the following:
- In view of the way that the Retirement Pension Scheme/s are structured and the strategies offered within the Scheme/s, the RSA does not receive instructions from its members in relation to their preference for any underlying investments that either promote environmental or social characteristics and/or investment targeting sustainable investment as its investment objective.
- The Investment Strategies including the current underlying investments of the Scheme are currently specified in Appendix 1 of the Scheme Particulars;
- Disclosures to end investors on integration of sustainability risks are to date insufficiently developed and not yet subject to harmonised disclosures. Unless divergent measures and approaches are harmonised, it remains difficult to compare difficult financial products with respect to their environmental, social, and governance risks and sustainable objectives. While the requirements in the SFDR relating to the entity-level disclosure of principal adverse impacts apply from 10 March 2021, the earliest information relating to a reference period to be disclosed in accordance with would not be made until 2023 in respect of a reference period relating to 2022.
2.2 Whether and when CCGM intends to consider such principal adverse impacts of its investment decisions on sustainability factors
CCGM may consider whether to apply principal adverse impacts (PAI) on its investment decisions on sustainability factors, after having regard to:-
- the nature and scale or assets under management of the Scheme,
- any Preferred Investments by its Members,
- after having reviewed relevant disclosures under SFDR including inter alia by an investment universe of UCITS that promote environmental or social characteristics or target sustainable investments as its objective.
- Remuneration policy
The RSA has a remuneration policy in place pursuant to rule MFSA Pension Rules for Occupational Retirement Schemes. In line with our Remuneration Policy, no variable remuneration is paid to our staff unless it is determined to be justified following a performance assessment based on quantitative (financial) as well as qualitative (non-financial) criteria. We deem that there is no risk of misalignment with the integration of the sustainability risks, if any, in our investment decision making process with respect to our investment decisions in lieu of the Schemes. As such, we believe that our existing structures are sufficient to prevent excessive risk taking in respect of sustainability risks, if any.
- Extracts from ESG Policy
CCGM maintains an ESG policy (the “ESG Policy”) which integrates sustainability risks into the identification, analysis, selection, and investment decision-making processes in respect of the Scheme, where applicable. The ESG Policy forms an integral part of the investment process and seeks to mitigate ESG and sustainability risks by ensuring that the Scheme only invests in companies and/or assets that are operated in an environmentally responsible manner, with respect for human and labour rights and providing good, healthy and safe working conditions and promote good governance conduct, always to the extent applicable and appropriate. Where applicable, consideration of potential ESG and sustainability risks related to a company or asset is integrated in the Scheme’s investment process, from identification, analysis, selection to approvals and execution. The ESG policy forms part of the further internal risk management controls and restrictions that apply to the Investment Manager, always to the extent applicable and appropriate.
A copy of the full ESG Policy may be made available upon request from the RSA.
This disclosure have been issued by CCGM pursuant to the requirements of the SFDR Regulation. | https://ccgm.com.mt/sfdr-disclosure.html |
The Chancellor unveils his plans for the UK’s version of SFDR
The Green Finance Roadmap (the "Roadmap") outlines the UK’s proposed approach to go beyond leading global standards in order to support the UK’s ability to withstand climate related risks and transition to net zero, by shifting investment into sustainable projects and green technology.
The Government’s view is that the financial system is critical to achieving net zero and protecting the UK’s natural environment. The Roadmap is almost exclusively focussed on climate change and other environmental issues and there is little mentioned at this stage of driving change in social and governance matters.
The key components of the Roadmap are as follows:
1. Aims
The Government considers there are three phases to “greening the financial system”: (i) improving the flow of information on environmental sustainability from companies and financial market participants to investors and consumers so they can make more informed choices; (ii) ensuring that sustainability information is integrated into businesses and financial decisions, for example in risk management and investor stewardship; and (iii) shifting financial flows to green projects to align with the UK’s net zero carbon commitment and broader environmental goals.
Policymakers envisage that the Roadmap will help to tackle "greenwashing" in which businesses make misleading or unsubstantiated environmental claims about their products or services.
2. Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR)
What is the SDR: The SDR is the UK’s sustainability disclosure framework designed to ensure that sustainability information flows into the real economy in order to empower investors and consumers to make financial decisions which align with their values.
What are the requirements: It will require those in scope to disclose information around governance, strategy, risk management and performance against metrics and targets in the context of sustainability related risk. The idea is that the same types of disclosures are required by those in scope in order to ensure consistency in the metrics that are reported through the chain of investment to end investors.
In particular, the SDR framework will require disclosures on transition plans to net zero, and incorporate the UK’s economy-wide roll-out of mandatory reporting in line with the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation’s work on a global company ESG reporting standard (under a new International Sustainability Standards Board).
Who is in scope: UK registered corporates and certain UK listed issuers, UK asset managers and asset owners such as pension schemes and insurers, and investment products are all in scope.
Timing: A discussion paper on SDR disclosures will be launched in November 2021 and the requirements are unlikely to be in place for at least a further two years.
Those in scope of TCFD reporting may need to implement TCFD reporting before SDR becomes applicable in accordance with the economy-wide roll-out from this year through to 2025.
3. Sustainable investment labelling regime
What is the sustainable investment labelling regime: All UK investment products must be labelled objectively in accordance with specified sustainability criteria (taking into account products’ objectives, policies, strategies and asset allocation).
Who is in scope: UK investment products.
Timing: The FCA intends to publish further detail in an Autumn 2021 discussion paper and is establishing an advisory forum to help inform the work. The requirements are unlikely to become effective for at least a further two years.
4. UK Green Taxonomy
What is the UK Green Taxonomy: The UK Green Taxonomy will define the criteria which specific economic activities must achieve to be deemed environmentally sustainable and therefore "Taxonomy-aligned".
What are the requirements: Those in scope will be required to disclose the proportion of their activities which are Taxonomy-aligned, and providers of investment funds and products will have to do the same for the assets in which they invest.
The UK Green Taxonomy will adopt the same six environmental objectives that comprise the EU’s version, each underpinned by technical screening criteria (TSC), and the principle of "do no significant harm" to the other objectives. The six objectives comprise climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, water use and marine resources, circular economy, pollution, and biodiversity. Like the EU’s Taxonomy, the UK’s version also recognises activities which are working to meet environmental objectives in the future, for example by enabling contributions to environmental objectives, but which are not yet sustainable themselves e.g. manufacturing components for wind turbines.
Who is in scope: As for SDR.
Timings: The Government expects to consult on the draft TSC for the first two objectives of the UK Green Taxonomy (climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation) in Q1 2022. It aims to pass legislation by the end of 2022. Consultations on the TSC for the remaining four objectives (sustainable use and protection of water and marine resources, transition to a circular economy, pollution prevention and control, and protection and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystems) are likely in Q1 2023, before legislation is put to Parliament.
The Government intends to review the Green Taxonomy every three years. After the UK’s primary legislation receives Royal Asset, the Government will require the most "economically significant" UK-registered and UK-listed companies to incorporate ISSB and Green Taxonomy disclosures in their company annual reports within one to two years. Subject to consultation, other in scope entities (asset managers and asset owners, investment products and financial advisers) will be required to similarly report after two to three years.
5. Investor stewardship
What are the requirements: Those in scope will be required to use the information generated by SDR to integrate ESG considerations into their investment decision-making, their shareholder engagement, their escalation and collaboration practices, and in their voting practices.
Practically, this means that firms are expected to apply standards such as the UK Stewardship Code 2020, to make use of information provided by the SDR, to be activist in their investee company engagement, to be transparent about their stewardship, and to have developed net zero transition plans. Financial advisers will also be required to consider their client’s sustainability preferences.
Who is in scope: UK asset managers and asset owners.
Timing: The work on stewardship is more piecemeal, comprising existing standards and regulatory work underway, in addition to the series of expectations set by the Government. The Government intends to assess progress against its expectations at the end of 2023.
6. International engagement
The UK Government intends to act on a global level through its membership of organisations such as the International Platform on Sustainable Finance, and the Network for Greening the Financial System. The FCA is also working closely with the IFRS Foundation (which resides in London) on the creation of a global company ESG reporting framework, which will be incorporated into the SDR. The Roadmap also details the UK’s green finance-related priorities for COP26.
7. Other aspects
- UK regulators will consider the role of ESG data and ratings providers and the Government will set out further detail next year.
- The Government and regulators are considering how to deliver an approach to digitisation of sustainability data which includes assessing the value of a centralised register for ESG data.
Initial reaction
The Government should be commended for proposing a framework that is comprehensive in its scope, and therefore that might succeed in achieving its policy aims.
The UK appears to have learned from the EU’s experience by seeking to implement its reforms across the economy, helping to resolve issues around data gaps and data quality that can arise if parts of the investment chain are subject to ESG regulations at different times. It is also clear that the UK wishes to draw on the EU’s successes, not least in its Green Taxonomy.
There remains a lack of detail in many areas that should be resolved by consultation. Whether proposals such as company ESG reporting and a green product label are helpful or too onerous, useful, or too complex, is yet to be seen. The scope of captured entities is also not clear; namely, which companies and which types of funds will be required to report.
It is helpful that the Government wishes to ensure that its rules are consistent with comparable international standards. Although, as expected, it seems the UK’s SDR framework will not be the same as the EU’s SFDR framework, which will cause compliance headaches for those operating in both jurisdictions.
However, it will be a challenge for the Government to strike a balance between its policy aims and its dependence on other countries’ or organisations’ standards. A lot will depend on the degree to which the UK can lead or influence international agreements.
Listen to episode 1 of our policy in practice podcast where our team of experts discuss green finance. | https://www.macfarlanes.com/what-we-think/in-depth/2021/the-chancellor-unveils-his-plans-for-the-uk-s-version-of-sfdr/ |
Sustainability risk means an environmental, social or governance event or condition that, if it occurs, could cause an actual or a potential material negative impact on the value of the investment (“Sustainability Risk”). Lee Equity Partners take into account Sustainability Risks as part of their investment decision-making and ESG considerations are integrated into Lee Equity’s investment process.
Lee Equity Partners’ criteria used to determine the remuneration level of employees currently do not take into account Sustainability Risks. Lee Equity Partners may in the future decide to implement certain environmental, social and governance policies which would promote a focus on financial sustainability among their employees (as is relevant to their role).
Lee Equity Partners do not currently consider the adverse impacts of investment decisions on sustainability factors within the meaning of the SFDR. The detailed rules underlying the SFDR will require Lee Equity Partners to ascertain the availability of the data expected to be reported under the new requirements of the SFDR. As such, the position will continue to be monitored and reviewed by Lee Equity Partners as the underlying rules and their application become embedded in the market practice. | https://www.leeequity.com/privacy-policy |
Information on the latest Un-Habitat report on the State of the Worlds Cities from SustainableCitiesCollective by Maggie Comstock
While green buildings, by their most obvious definition, address environmental impacts, they also have wide implications for human health, safety and productivity. Well-ventilated green schools can reduce instances of asthma in students. Green offices with day lit spaces boost employee productivity and attendance. Patients feel faster in green hospitals with views to nature.
As we plan for the future of our planet, it is imperative that we consider the effects of development on both the environment and human populations. A city is only truly sustainable if it uses natural resources efficiently while still fully meeting the needs of its inhabitants and a decent standard of living.
Recently, the UN Human Settlements Program (UN-HABITAT) launched its “State of the World’s Cities Report 2012/2013” which addresses the prosperity of cities. According to the report, the first step to achieving prosperity is to define the goal: What does prosperity mean in 2012? This is a difficult question to answer given the vast disparity of living conditions throughout the world. Additionally, it is imperative that the definition of prosperity today consider the needs of future generations. To this end, UN-Habitat developed a “City Prosperity Index,” which translates the five dimensions of prosperity identified by UN-Habitiat—productivity, infrastructure development, quality of life, equity and social inclusion, environmental sustainability—into measurable indicators (see page 15 of the report). This definition of the prosperous city is consistent with the principles of a smart, sustainable and just city.
Cities are ideal vehicles for mitigating the effects of and adapting to climate change. Local governments have greater flexibility to create effective policy solutions and are more likely to pursue innovative and creative strategies than their national counterparts. In addition to being better suited to address sustainability, UN-HABITAT identifies cities as a remedy to global crises, such as the financial and democratic crises that characterize conflicts plaguing all regions of the globe. If cities are a remedy to global crises, policies are the mechanism by which cities achieve prosperity.
The “State of the World’s Cities Report” outlines multiple policy best practices aimed to improve the prosperity of cities, including sustainability measures:
“Environmental sustainability offers cities huge scope for the balanced economic growth that can pave the way to prosperity. This includes opportunities for new types of employment and investment, poverty alleviation and reduced inequity together with new types of infrastructures and services” (82).
The report identifies construction projects as having the greatest potential for green job creation in urban areas compared to renewable energy, waste and recycling, and urban transport programs. Currently employing more than 111 million people worldwide, the construction industry supports approximately on average 5-10 percent of total employment per country. This figure rises to 75 percent in developing countries (84). Green construction is rapidly accelerating its market share globally, compared to conventional construction, and has the potential to support both job creation and job retention through the retrofitting of existing buildings and construction of new development to support growing urban populations.
For more examples of how sustainable design, construction and operations are driving social inclusion and urban prosperity, please see the United Nations Environment Program Sustainable Building and Climate Initiative’s report. | https://urbanchoreography.net/tag/city-prosperity-index/ |
LOMBARD BANK MALTA P.L.C. (the “Bank”) falls within scope of Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 of the European Parliament of the Council of 27 November 2019 on sustainability-related disclosures in the financial services sector (the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation or SFDR), which will come into force on the 10th March, 2021 requiring financial market participants and financial advisors, including the Bank, to make certain sustainability-related disclosures to end investors.
No consideration of sustainability adverse impacts
The Bank currently provides (amongst others) advisory services and discretionary management services, to a number of clients. Presently, when making discretionary management decisions and, or providing investment advice, the Bank does not consider the adverse impacts of its investment decisions and investment advice on sustainability factors in terms of the SFDR as this is not relevant to: (1) the composition of its clients’ portfolio; and (2) the investment strategies and/or policies of its clients. The Bank may possibly consider such adverse impacts in respect of future mandates in line with its Sustainability Risk Policy (further details of which are set out below).
Sustainability Risk Policy
In line with the requirements imposed on in-scope financial market participants and financial advisors, the Bank has formulated its Sustainability Risk Policy outlining the approach that the Bank will take to integrating environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) considerations into its discretionary management and advisory processes by assessing not only all relevant financial risks but also relevant sustainability risks, with a view to mitigating risks and enhancing returns over the medium to long-term.
Although the Bank does not currently integrate sustainability risks in its discretionary management and advisory processes, the Bank will, in respect of other clients which may be onboarded in future, incorporate ESG considerations and make an assessment of sustainability risks to the extent relevant to: (i) the nature of the clients’ mandates; and (ii) the appetite of the Bank’s advisory and discretionary management clients.
To the extent that ESG considerations and, or assessment of sustainability risks are relevant to future mandates, the below approaches may be undertaken.
1) ESG integration
The Bank describes its ESG integration approach as the systematic and explicit inclusion of material ESG factors into investment analysis and investment decisions and, or advice at varying levels. Such approach could span the breadth of the investment process - from identification of trends, analysis of investments through to portfolio construction and investment advice.
2) Screening
The Bank could apply a set of filters for the purpose of determining which companies, sectors or activities are eligible or ineligible to be invested in or advised on based on its preferences, values and, or ethics. The Bank could implement a mix of positive and negative screens in accordance with ethical inclusion or exclusion criteria. Once invested in or advised on, the on-going eligibility of said companies, sectors or activities is likely to be revisited on a periodic basis, or if there are significant changes.
The Sustainability Risk Policy will be reviewed at least once a year to measure success and determine whether it continues to reflect the Bank’s investment beliefs.
Remuneration Policy
The Bank views its remuneration policy to be consistent with the integration of sustainability risks. Indeed, there is no component of the Bank’s remuneration structure which is geared towards creating an incentive or bias towards excessive risk taking to the detriment of environmental, social or governance matters and/or sustainability generally (“ESG Factors”). Also, the Bank’s remuneration structure has been designed to promote a sound and effective risk management culture to protect value, without any incentive or bias towards risk taking which could have a material impact on ESG Factors. Further details concerning the Bank’s remuneration policy is available from its published accounts that can be accessed here. | https://www.lombardmalta.com/en/sustainable-finance-disclosure-regulation |
Littering has been a subject of inquiry by environmental economists, as well as social and environmental psychologists, each using a different theoretical and analytical toolkit. While economists see littering as an externality problem or a market failure, psychologists see it as a social behavior problem. Regardless of the discipline, both theories have a common goal: What factors affect littering behavior and how can it be curtailed? This paper, therefore, adopts theory-triangulation approach to review theories concerning littering. It concisely reviews the economist’s and the psychologist’s approaches to littering and their respective solutions. The finding from this review is that the psychological approaches to litter control are narrower in coverage than the economic approaches in that the former are applicable to smaller environmental settings or areas, such as school premises, office places, factories, and market places, as opposed to such lager settings as cities, states or the country at large to which economic instruments are usually applied. Despite the plethora of research extolling the virtues of economic approaches to litter control, their real-world application has not caught on. One of the factors responsible for this is the implementation costs and difficulty involved. The economic instruments are costlier than the psychological instruments, because the former cover a larger setting and entail a lot of bureaucracies. To better understand littering and find appropriate solutions to it, studies on littering should consider looking at littering holistically from this interdisciplinary perspective. Both the economist’s and the psychologist’s approaches to litter control should be synthesized for sustainable waste management. However, policymakers need to consider the available financial resources and the multifarious views of litter in policies relating to litter. An option for policymakers is to minimize those costs associated with implementing economic instruments.
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Environmental, social and governance investment standardization: moving towards sustainable economyAlex Plastun , Inna Makarenko , Yulia Yelnikova , Serhiy Makarenko doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ee.10(1).2019.02Environmental Economics Volume 10, 2019 Issue #1 pp. 12-22
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This paper is devoted to the investigation of environmental, social and governance investment (investment with ESG criterion) normative base in the context of standardization process in sustainable economy financing. Complexity of such standardization and the lack of commonly accepted regulations, indexes metrics are under discussions of scholars, which encourage the need for clear guidance in ESG investment. 651 sustainability rating products and more than 300 investment policy instruments in different countries show the need for classifying the ESG standards. The solution of this scientific and practical task is based on the developed ESG investment standards system classifications. Proposed classification incorporates such criteria as level of standards adoption, mandatory degree, sectorial specificity, degree of companies’ awareness of responsible activity, ensuring transparency and the benchmarks formation, creating the institutional support of the ESG investment standardization process in sustainable economy and making more grounded investment and regulatory decisions.
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Green behavioral (in)consistencies: are pro-environmental behaviors in different domains substitutes or complements?Environmental Economics Volume 10, 2019 Issue #1 pp. 23-47
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Households’ consumption patterns and behaviors have profound influence on natural resources and environmental quality. This paper explores whether environmental behaviors and willingness to pay (WTP) in the household domains transport, energy consumption and water consumption are substitutes or complements. Using a cross-country data set from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Survey on Environmental Attitudes and Behavior from 2008, a random-effects (ordered) probit model is used to answer this question for the following countries: Australia, Canada, France, Mexico, Italy, and South Korea. It is found that in most countries, actual environmental behaviors are substitutes, while WTP for environmental public goods in different domains is mostly complementary. Grounding in these results, policies aiming to encourage overall environmentally friendly lifestyles should therefore be all-encompassing of several public domains, instead of individual ones, to avoid the risk of negative spillovers.
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Sustainability issues in maritime transport and main challenges of the shipping industryEnvironmental Economics Volume 10, 2019 Issue #1 pp. 48-65
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Considering the rapid development of oceanic logistics, the maritime traffic is one of the worst offenders for air and water pollution. This paper primarily aims to explore the key concepts and terms applied to denote the sustainability issues in maritime transport and main challenges for the shipping industry. The present study investigates the existing sustainability frameworks on the relationship between sustainability and maritime industry. Also the author proposes to use modelling approaches to measure the relationship between oil prices, exchange rate, services export and ocean transport value added. The empirical findings indicate that growth rate of the crude oil prices has negative impact on ocean transport value added growth, and it can be traced that the oil industry has a strong influence on value creation in maritime clusters and their competitiveness, especially on the shipping sector. The analysis also sheds light on the impacts of relationship between environmental pollution and maritime cluster activity (through the validation of the EKC hypothesis in Norway). The current paper reveals that there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between economic growth and CO2 emissions. The empirical evidences show that the links between CO2 emissions and ocean transport value added are more significant than with energy consumption indicator. It can be assumed that, due to the energy efficiency policy and technological leadership in the shipping industry, the environmental impact of energy use (renewable energy) has improved.
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Agro-ecology in action: The environmental oasis projectsEmmanuelle Reynaud , Francois Fulconis , Gilles Paché doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ee.10(1).2019.05Environmental Economics Volume 10, 2019 Issue #1 pp. 66-78
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Agro-ecology is now considered as an alternative model to the industrial agricultural model. Faced with the limitations of conventional production models, agro-ecology is emerging today as a possible response to the challenges of the 21st century: food security, circularity, respect for the environment, and development of employment. More generally, the adoption of circular principles aims to decouple environmental pressure from agricultural productivism. Agro-ecology is a relevant research topic because it aims to ensure sustainable and resilient agricultural production, to empower local farmers, to protect the environment and to fight against climate change. This article focuses on the French Oasis projects, as part of the “Hummingbird movement” initiated by Pierre Rabhi, and which represent a successful agro-ecological experience, in economic, social and environmental terms. Different data were collected by compiling information available on the website of 76 Oasis projects across France: people living in the community; lodging possibilities; availability of a school; and direct relationship with local farmers. Then, a social factorial correspondence analysis and an environmental factorial correspondence analysis were realized to evaluate the impacts of environmental Oasis projects. The results show that profitable organizations seem to conduct more social and environmental activities in an agro-ecology context, and they put in place more actions than those who have no profitable aims.
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Opportunities and barriers of the Ukrainian industry transition to the circular economyLiudmyla Deineko , Olena Tsyplitska , Oleksandr Deineko doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ee.10(1).2019.06Environmental Economics Volume 10, 2019 Issue #1 pp. 79-92
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The paper aims to highlight the status of the circular economy implementation in the EU and Ukraine, as well as to determine the advantages, challenges, opportunities and barriers to transition to circular supply chains. The main problems of waste management in Ukraine are explored, including faulty legislation, underinvestment, state policies and enlightenment regarding the circular economy, formal approach to the implementation of programs and strategies that should improve economic conditions, dominance of most waste-generative – extractive – industries in the economic structure of Ukraine. It is found out that the legislative framework for circular- and bio-economics in Ukraine does not meet the global challenges and requirements of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU and needs urgent improvement measures. Studying the EU experience allowed describing the advantages and challenges of a circular economy that emerge in Ukraine. The article presents a mathematical model aimed at describing the peculiarities of a circular economy in the countries with low and high levels of industrial ecologization as well as understanding conditions for resource conservation during production processes. An econometrical model of the correlation between the solid waste generation, GDP and capital investment into environmental protection in Ukraine is used to demonstrate the absence of the latter’s influence on the waste generation at the current technological level of the national industries. The research results allow developing recommendations for state policy for the industrial sector and environmental protection that may be implemented at the current stage to achieve Sustainable Development Goals 2030.
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Aligning the social, environmental, and economic interests of “green growth” of the Ukrainian nature reserve fund objectsNatalya Andryeyeva , Nina Khumarova , Tatiana Nikolaychuk doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ee.10(1).2019.07Environmental Economics Volume 10, 2019 Issue #1 pp. 93-104
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The article is devoted to the issues of forming the institutional basis for “green growth” of the Ukrainian Nature Reserve Fund territories in the context of aligning the society’s social, environmental, and economic interests. The methodological approaches to forming the institutional basis for “green growth” of the Ukrainian Nature Reserve Fund territories in conditions of the need to transform the approaches regarding the interaction with small and medium-sized businesses were developed. The main focus is on the issues of studying the existing institutional risks, institutional “traps,” and ensuring the stakeholders’ functional interaction. The proposed scheme for managing and planning the spatial development of the Nature Reserve Fund territories is based on business planning, “micro-K modeling” method, strategic monitoring method. Based on the complex combination of ecosystemic and polyfunctional approaches, the typology of Nature Reserve Fund territories management functions and “green growth” indicators system was defined. The institutional framework was formed, which enables to ensure aligning the society’s social, environmental, and economic interests.
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Forest resource security in Ukraine: assessment and provisionEnvironmental Economics Volume 10, 2019 Issue #1 pp. 105-112
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The activities of forestry enterprises suffer from ecological and economic conflicts of interest that are long- and short-term in nature. As a result, productive forest stands are depleted and forest ecosystem sustainability is reduced. Therefore, this article is aimed at justifying recommendations to evaluate and ensure forest resource security. The article also defines the essence of forest resource security as qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the forest fund that ensure the desired level of economic efficiency of the forestry subject to rational use of forest resources, maintaining the quality of the forest ecosystem and performing all other functions of the forest.
Based on the functional and process approach, the methodology of forest-resource safety assessment has been developed, which considers main features of forestry activities and provides for the definition of an integral index of forest resource security as the sum of three groups of indices. The methodology was tested in the context of four forestry enterprises of Volyn and Rivne regions (Ukraine). The results reveal a high level of forest resource security. However, the study identified many problems and, on that basis, the proposals were made to improve forestry practical activities. The results obtained can be considered as the basis for developing environmental policy and taking current and strategic management decisions to ensure the sustainable development of forestry enterprises.
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Developing the system of instruments for business sector in order to transfer the environmental innovations effectively: case of UkraineOlena Shkarupa , Yelyzaveta Kalchenko , Ivan Shkarupa doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ee.10(1).2019.09Environmental Economics Volume 10, 2019 Issue #1 pp. 113-121
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The article analyzes the need to transfer the environmental innovations effectively in the system “enterprise-region-state” and to establish the relevant innovative changes promotion channels for the country’s sustainable development. The authors study this problem in the context of priority directions of UNO Sustainable Development Strategy and Sustainable Development Strategy “Ukraine – 2020”. Its solution is a key factor of influence on Ukraine’s economic growth and security. The study is based on methods for defining the influence of national economy innovative activity on the choice of relevant ecological modernization state regulation channels for sustainable development. FCM analysis was used for the study. Six groups of instruments were defined and characterized depending on the influence on sustainable development subjects. The system of instruments was formed, and the approach towards making the managerial decisions in order to ensure Ukraine’s national economy sustainable development was proposed. Practical value of the obtained results is that the established relevant channels can ensure the fastest reaction of business environment to state regulatory impact, which is the main constituent of state administration and sustainable development processes regulation system. | https://businessperspectives.org/journals/environmental-economics/issue-312 |
Q: What is sustainability science?
A: Sustainability science is a framework of decision-making that uses interdisciplinary science within a defined region to examine and solve problems related to the interrelationship of environment and economic development.
The approach is neither pure science nor applied science. Instead, scientific disciplines are tools for problem solving, with the scientific approach defined by the problems being addressed rather than the particular discipline employed.
Sustainability science is an approach utilized at the regional or local level, and it is necessarily place-based.
Sustainability science utilizes the best of science and stakeholder input to drive decisions. Grounding decisions in real world, concrete situations brings the relationship between these factors into view.
Tracking the results and impact of these respective decisions allows for short-term corrections to policy and technology. Thus, the iterative process can inform and influence the desired outcome in the medium-to long-term.
Q: Why does the foundation consider sustainability science a priority?
A: The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation utilizes a sustainability science approach in our programs due to its rigorous scientific framework, interdisciplinary approach, and focus on the real-world challenges of balancing economic, social, and environmental trade-offs.
Q: How does the foundation's sustainability science program relate to Cynthia and George Mitchell’s philanthropic investments at HARC, Rice University, and the National Academy of Sciences?
A: In 1996, Cynthia and George Mitchell provided a $1 million grant to support the original scientific work on sustainability at the National Academy of Sciences. This effort involved a high-level interdisciplinary team of scientists, the Board on Sustainable Development, to examine the scientific underpinnings of the sustainability concept. The resulting book, Our Common Journey, was published in 1999 and communicated the Board’s results and helped launch the sustainability science field.
The Mitchells followed their original gift with a $20 million endowment to establish the George and Cynthia Mitchell Endowment for Sustainability Science, making this new field of study a permanent effort at the National Academy of Sciences.
George founded the Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC), which, after a strategic refocus in 2001, aligned around a mission to operationalize the sustainability science approach in Texas using the research-to-action framework set forth in Our Common Journey. At about the same time, George endowed a chair at Rice University's Shell Center for Sustainability.
Q: How does the sustainability science framework influence the foundation’s grantmaking decisions?
A: The emphasis in foundation programs is to gather and utilize the most balanced and current scientific knowledge of an issue to inform philanthropic program design.
Scientific knowledge, combined with savvy political information and risk management, drives programmatic strategy. Strategies are constantly refined to capture new information, thus utilizing a dynamic, adaptive management approach that is a hallmark of sustainability science.
Q: Why is a Sustainability Science program important to the foundation?
A: The sustainability science approach to solving complex environmental and social problems continues to be promising, but it needs to be widely disseminated to influence decision makers and community leaders in order to create widespread benefit.
An initial step in expanding the use of sustainability science is to educate a new generation of future leaders about the concept and its application. The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation’s Sustainability Education Program supports these science practices by establishing new academic programs in the university community in Texas.
This approach aims to bring together scholarship and practice, global and local perspectives, and disciplines across natural and social sciences. Importantly, sustainability science is not defined as either a purely academic exercise or an applied research program. Instead, as explained by Bill Clark in 2007 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the field is “defined by the problems it addresses rather than by the disciplines it employs, advancing both knowledge and action by creating a dynamic bridge between the two.
Q: Are there college-level academic programs that focus on sustainability science?
A: There has been a recent emergence of a small group of universities and colleges committed to developing curricula, experiential learning opportunities, and campus-based programs on sustainability science.
The leader in this effort is Arizona State University, with its School of Sustainability. Other U.S. programs have been established at Harvard, Portland State, Kean, Cornell, and the University of Michigan, among others. The Shell Center at Rice University includes some interdisciplinary sustainability work and student-led initiatives. Several Texas universities have developed so-called sustainability programs, but the foundation-funded sustainability science initiative is a first for the University of Texas System’s institutions.
Q: Why is a university-based network of sustainability programs needed in Texas?
A: With the stresses on its uniquely diverse natural systems—from expanding development, industrial and agricultural activities, rural and urban demographic mix, and associated increases in demand for resources, goods, and services—the state provides an ideal “laboratory” for studying sustainability science and using its approach to solve real problems. The link between the CGMF, the National Academy of Sciences, and the university community in Texas is a foundation for supporting the creation of a statewide, state-of-the-art, university-based network of sustainability science programs.
An important emphasis in the Sustainability Education Program is the experiential component of the academic programs. Sustainability science offers a fresh way to view intractable social and environmental challenges, but this perspective is best utilized to examine real-world problems in a particular geography with its associated natural resource challenges.
Faculty develop curricula and course work around a particular topic or issue and design a site-specific project to utilize the lessons from the course to solve a practical problem for an experiential learning opportunity for an interdisciplinary group of students. | https://cgmf.org/p/sustainability-science-faqs.html |
Every business is closely linked to environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Therefore, it makes sense that a strong ESG proposal could create better values. In this article, we provide a framework for understanding 5 ways ESG creates value.
What is ESG?
ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) is a framework used by investors. ESG values responsible investment, and the organization’s ability to ensure long-term value. Let’s briefly breakdown each environmental, social, and governance (esg) criteria :
1. E in ESG, environmental criteria
includes the energy that companies take in and the waste they dispose of, the resources they need, and the consequences that are fatal to living things. At the very least, E includes carbon emissions and climate change. Environmental refers to the environmental impact of the organization. Including natural resources, pollution, waste, and climate change.
2. S, social criteria
discusses the relationships companies have and the reputations companies build with people and institutions in the communities in which they do business. S covers labor relations and diversity. Every company operates in a wider and more diverse society.
3. G, governance
is an internal system of practices, controls, and procedures that a company employs to regulate itself, make effective decisions, comply with the law, and meet the needs of external stakeholders. Every company, which is a creation of law, needs governance.
ESG’s strong position creates long term value. Below is a selection of some interesting articles on ESG value creation – follow the links to read more:
1. Financial performance
A paper entitled Investing for long-term value creation, in the Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment cites evidence for the ESG business case. With the statement that “companies that perform well on material ESH issues, also demonstrate superior financial performance”.
2. Increase investment
A Gartner article entitled “The ESG Imperative: 7 Factors for Finance Leaders to Consider” points to a growing interest in ESG investing. The article published findings that “85% of investors consider ESG factors in their investments in 2020”.
3. Long-term competitiveness
An insightful article by S&P Global highlights the competitive advantages of integrating ESG principles. The article opens with a statement that “Research is increasingly showing that companies that do not integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into their business strategies will jeopardize their long-term competitiveness.”
4. Attract and retain employees
The example of ESG value creation continues. A strong ESG strategy also helps with: risk and opportunity management, cost reduction through efficiency and innovation, and preparation for current, imminent, and future ESG related legislation.
5. Strong ESG proposition to improve public relations
It’s not just governments and investors who analyze an organization’s ESG. These are B2B clients, consumers, partners, brokers, developers, suppliers, job seekers – the list goes on. | https://rentpuntacana.com/the-ways-esg-creates-long-term-value-environmental-social-and-governance.html |
TRANSPARENCY OF SUSTAINABILITY RISK POLICIES
The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 (hereinafter the "SFDR Regulation" or "SFDR") imposes transparency obligations on financial industry participants, including management companies, regarding sustainability risks. The degree of disclosure that must be given to investors also depends on whether the financial product promotes, among other features, environmental or social characteristics, or a combination of such characteristics (Article 8 SFDR) or has sustainable investments as an objective (Article 9 SFDR), with a different impact on the investment process. To provide such disclosure, fund managers must assess the sustainability risk inherent in their investments and the possible negative impact of such risk on their investments, and, to that end, must first supplement their investment policies with policies designed to assess and measure on an ongoing basis the status of sustainability factors in their investment targets, as well as their monitoring and management. 'Sustainability risk' is defined as an environmental, social or governance event or condition that, if it occurs, could cause a significant negative impact on the value of the investment. 8a+ SICAV S.A. and the Management Company 8a+ Investimenti SGR S.p.A. (hereinafter collectively the "Companies") are aware that managing risks and opportunities related to Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) issues and integrating related factors into the investment process supports value creation and growth in the medium to long term. The objective of the companies is to adopt an approach focused on social and environmental responsibility, creating value for all stakeholders: investors, financed and/or participated companies as well as for the communities in which they are inserted. The Companies invest in the well-being and professional growth of the people who are part of the Companies, ensuring a working environment that favours professional growth and the ability to attract and retain new talent. It should be pointed out that at present sustainability risks, being only one of the types of risk factors taken into consideration by the Companies, do not directly affect the remuneration and incentive policies and practices (including the mechanisms for determining the variable component or the ex-post adjustment mechanisms such as claw backs and maluses) adopted. In addition, The Management Company's objectives include acting responsibly and promoting sustainability in the financial sector and becoming, among other things, a signatory to the UN PRI, and adopting a responsible approach to investing in order to create value and increase industry awareness of the benefits of leveraging ESG issues. With this strategy, Companies intend to contribute to the achievement of certain United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs or Agenda 2030), selected on the basis of the impact that Companies, through their business, can have. Through the definition of a sustainability strategy, the Companies are committed to integrating ESG issues at all operational levels, both in the Companies and in the products established and managed by them. As a responsible investor, the Companies have defined, for certain products, a "list of exclusions" within the investment policy, which may be extended to additional activities identified by the Companies and/or product underwriters and/or potential investors. The responsible approach to investment is reflected in all stages of the investment process and in the process of creating new products. In the light of the above-mentioned regulations, the Companies have therefore classified the UCITs set up, currently managed by the Management Company 8a+ Investimenti SGR S.p.A., according to the provisions of article 6.1 of SFDR. From this analysis the sub-funds are divided as follows:
1. Products with the characteristics set forth in Article 8 SFDR ("ESG Products"); 2. Products that primarily take into consideration criteria other than ESG criteria, but which may nevertheless be impacted by them; 3. Other products that do not consider factors linked to sustainability;
For each type of product there is a different integration of sustainability risks in the investment decision-making process. Depending on the type of product, the Management Company has adopted different policies, also in order to identify the main negative effects of investment decisions on sustainability risks. The following is a brief analysis in this regard. 1. The Companies intend to start up a new sub-fund called 8a+ SICAV Etica during the current year, subject to completion of the authorization process underway. The Ethics sub-fund aims to generate a moderate growth of the invested capital, promoting at the same time the core values of the Catholic Church and the instances of sustainability. Under the first profile, an exclusion grid oversees the investment in sectors, activities and productions considered harmful to human dignity according to the canons of the Catholic Church. On the other hand, the promotion of good practices linked to environmental, social and good governance issues of economic organizations is entrusted to a careful policy of selection of issuers that must comply with sustainability rating levels above a certain threshold. The ESG ratings of specialized providers are used. Finally, with the aim of carefully monitoring the risk of serious controversies also for issuers that have exceeded both the exclusion grid and the rating limit, the specific ESG Controversies methodology of specialized independent research providers is applied. These exclusions indirectly support certain United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
The management of the Ethics Subfund is entrusted to a Delegated Manager. The Management Company will exercise controls over the compliance of the activity carried out by the Delegate with respect to the stated promotion objectives in the following manner. In particular, the Management Company receives from the Delegated Manager the Investment Universe and Sustainability Report and verifies that the portfolio is composed exclusively of securities included in the investable universe defined on the basis of the exclusion criteria and the minimum ESG rating standards and ESG Controversies established. The Management Company carries out specific checks on individual issuers included in the portfolio, requesting from the Investment Manager the documents supporting the choices made. In addition, the Management Company avails itself of an independent non-financial research provider which provides the information necessary to carry out a second level check on the consistency of the Investment Universe with the promotion criteria and to verify the reasons for the choice illustrated by the Investment Manager. 2. For all products falling under this point 2, the Management Company has provided, in support of the Investment Area, a Sustainability Report so that it can eventually consider sustainability factors in its investment choices. In particular, after classifying the assets making up the portfolio of each sub-fund into three bands on the basis of a rating provided by a provider specialized in ESG issues, it will be possible to assess the distribution of investments in the bands, create an overall rating for the portfolio calculated by weighting the individual ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) factors of each individual investment and finally highlight any exposure to controversy. The instruments belonging to the lowest band will also be subject to a specific risk/return analysis in order to assess the impact of sustainability risks on the return of the funds pursuant to the SFDR. 3. For the products referred to in this point 3, sustainability-related factors are not taken into account as they have a strategy that adopts exclusively a quantitative model that does not consider any ESG factors. For the products referred to in this point 3, factors linked to sustainability are not taken into consideration because their nature, characteristics, target investments or management model do not allow for their applicability. In particular, funds that have an investment strategy that adopts quantitative management models and that invest in assets for which it is not currently possible to apply ESG factors (e.g. funds that invest in instruments that replicate indices and/or in other funds on a global level) fall into this category. The following table shows the products set up/managed and the indication of the relative classification according to the points set out above.
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|8a+ Sicav Eiger||2|
|8a+ Sicav Monviso||3|
|8a+ Sicav Etica||1|
This statement is issued for the financial year 2021, subject to any updates in the range of products offered. More information in relation to the integration of sustainability risk into the Management Company's internal procedures can be found at the Management Company's registered office and on its website: www.ottoapiu.it. | http://ottoapiusicav.eu/esg.asp |
Before investing in a company we carefully assess it from a sustainability perspective. The assessment is made using our sustainability model, which provides a solid foundation for our work with integration.
Integration is about applying a systematic sustainability analysis during investments. More specifically, it is about making sure all sustainability issues are considered, analysed, quantified – and that sustainability is promoted – before, during and after each individual investment decision.
SEB Investment Management’s sustainability model
SEB Investment Management has developed its own sustainability model which – employing several external and internal data sources – gives each potential investment a sustainability rating. The rating is based on risks, adverse impacts, opportunities, the global sustainability goals, carbon footprint, etcetera and gives us an overview of each company's sustainability profile.
The purpose of the sustainability model is to give each company an individual, relevant, significant and forward-looking rating. The sustainability rating provides guidance on which sustainability factors that may have a negative impact on long-term risks and returns for the company in question.
Through our sustainability analysis we focus on specific sector risks, adverse impacts, the sustainability aspects of different products and services, as well as impact in relation to long-term sustainable value creation.
SEB Investment Management’s sustainability model is a dynamic tool that will be continuously developed to ensure adaptation to both scientific research and changes in legislation. In our Sustainability Policy and in our Climate Statement you can learn more about how we work with identifying companies that contribute to a sustainable development.
The European Commission's Green Deal and SEB Investment Management
The European Commission's Green Deal contains several initiatives in the field of sustainable financing which include mandatory rules that affect asset managers. According to the new regulation – sometimes called the “disclosure regulation” or “SFDR” (Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation) – asset managers are obliged to report on how their funds consider sustainability risks and aspects, starting from 10 March 2021.
The regulation categorizes funds according to three articles: Article 6, Article 8 and Article 9. At SEB IM we have reviewed all our funds, in order to assess which article they best correspond to. You can find information about each fund's sustainability profile in the fund list on our website.
Below we describe how we have classified our funds:
- Article 6 are funds that consider sustainability risks when making investment decisions and that follow SEB IM's sustainability policy but – due to their investment focus, methodology or investment universe – are not able to fully promote environmental or social characteristics.
- Article 8 are funds that promote environmental or social characteristics. These funds invest in companies that work actively to manage risks and opportunities related to sustainable development – from an environmental as well as a social perspective. The funds have an ongoing dialogue with companies regarding improvements, while they exclude companies that have a negative long-term impact.
- Article 9 are funds that have sustainable investment as their primary goal. The purpose of these funds is to create a long-term sustainable effect by investing in companies that actively contribute to mitigating climate change, through e.g. providing solutions that reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
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SEB Investment Management AB is a wholly owned subsidiary of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB. The fund company was formed May 19, 1978, with headquarters in Stockholm and organization number 556197-3719. | https://sebgroup.com/about-us/our-business/our-divisions/seb-investment-management/our-sustainability-approach/integration |
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Smart community leaders look to the future to insure the long-term safety and sustainability of their entire communities. Factors they consider are: economic viability and diversity, job creation and growth, education for residents, crime, traffic, environment and so on. They also consider their community's risk from natural and manmade events which could negatively impact their residents.
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Work, as we know it, has changed dramatically in recent weeks. In some industries, all operations moved online and into people’s homes. In others, employees were furloughed or lost their jobs entirely. Unemployment statistics in the United States continue to soar, surpassing those of the Great Recession and trending toward the Great Depression, when a quarter of the labor force was out of work. With the stressors employees are feeling, leaders need to take action.
Business leaders emphasize an active, positive mindset during difficult times
Economic downturns can be devastating, to be sure, but they also can bring out untapped reserves of innovation, resilience, and leadership from every corner of our society. I found the following quote especially relevant: In difficult times, while “the natural tendency of many may be to 'just survive,' the innovators will 'thrive.'" These words come from Gary Burnison, the CEO of Korn Ferry, the global consultancy on human resources and talent development. In a recent article on the company website, Burnison underscores the role of organizational culture as a critical component of an organization’s resilience. Punit Renjen, the Global CEO of Deloitte, the professional services consulting giant, elaborates on the theme: “We believe that a typical crisis plays out over three time frames: respond, in which a company deals with the present situation and manages continuity; recover, during which a company learns and emerges stronger; and thrive, where the company prepares for and shapes the ‘next normal.’”
Sustainability professionals are poised to seize the opportunity to build a better future
Whether or not you have an official sustainability role in your organization, you can thrive in this time and help shape the “next normal.” Sustainability professionals seek to challenge the status quo of unsustainable consumerism, packaging, energy use, etc. Climate change professionals want to transform the established use of fossil fuels. To thrive in these professions, you must be able to perform in times of change and disruption. In a world where things change quickly, feeling comfortable in uncertain places and making decisions without sufficient information are skills that sustainability professionals use regularly. In addition to thriving in this time of uncertainty, you can help create a future normal that is more climate- and people-friendly, and more in line with the Sustainable Development Goals championed by the United Nations.
Now is the time to incorporate sustainability into new policies, as companies pivot and modify their supply chains and other processes to ensure resiliency tomorrow. We must consider what needs to be done about climate change as policies are written to reinvigorate the economy, to deal with COVID19, and to handle working from home. There are opportunities for a reset. Consider the policies that your company is undertaking right now. Even if you are not in a formal sustainability role, what can you do to influence these policies from your current role? Are there opportunities for you to be involved and to influence the outcomes to be more sustainable?
Leading from where you are
I have written about the importance of “soft” skills before, skills that are key for sustainability leaders: empathy, communication, flexibility, ability to learn, etc. These skills remain important at this time; arguably, they are even more important when working with teams remotely, and when dealing with the pressures and anxieties that this time is producing in many people. There can be leadership opportunities for you beyond incorporating sustainability concepts into policies. Consider ways to lead your colleagues, teams, and subordinates through this new time. Your ability to learn new online collaboration tools, develop best practices, and become the go-to person for working-from-home dilemmas can give you the opportunity to use your soft skills. For instance, when colleagues contact you about work-from-home issues, you can use emotional competence, teaching, and communication skills. In addition, your company leadership will appreciate your initiative and dedication.
Remaining competitive in a challenging job market
If you want to be competitive for a new career now or in the future, consider ways you can use your current role. Take advantage of upskilling or professional development programs your employer offers. As noted by Boston Consulting Group, “Individuals who want to remain in demand in a changing job market must take responsibility for keeping their skills up-to-date and accept that job-related training is a career-long commitment.” If your employer doesn’t have such programs, create your own development plan. Consider taking online courses through Coursera on sustainability, or learning new sustainability concepts through International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP) webinars and self-paced courses.
And if you find that your next career step requires a degree, I highly recommend our Master of Natural Resources in Global Sustainability program. As both faculty and an alumna of the Executive Master of Natural Resources (XMNR), I know full well the value of this degree. The XMNR program is built around the needs of adult learners, and the professional network you will build during your studies will provide great support for the rest of your career.
Whatever direction you choose, make the most of your situation by leading from where you are, developing your leadership skills, influencing your company’s policies, and learning new skills. Consider what it means for you to thrive in this time.
For more than 15 years, Jennifer Wills has been advising and problem-solving with clients to reach their goals. She’s been an attorney with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and a Brookings Fellow on Capitol Hill. She teaches International Environmental Law and Policy in the Online MNR program and is a 2017 graduate of the XMNR program. Wanting to have an even greater impact in the field of sustainability and helping others succeed, Jennifer started her coaching business for environmental and sustainability professionals in 2018. | https://cligs.vt.edu/blog/time-to-thrive--leadership--resilience--and-opportunity-for-posi.html |
Job Description:
- A leading Commercial bank in Mauritius is looking to strengthening its team through the appointment of Sustainability & Debt Governance Manager to ensure compliance with environment, social and debt governance practices in its banking operations. This individual will report to the Chief Risk Officer and will be responsible for promotion of best international practice standards in sustainable development and environmental protection, provision of advice and support to clients that help manage environmental and social risk, enhance development outcomes, support and add value to client’s businesses.
Responsibilities:
- Ensuring that environmental and social risks inherent in company credit and investment portfolios are effectively identified, measured and managed, within the framework provided by the company’s Environmental and Social Risk Management Policy.
- Ensuring that an environmental and social risk identification, assessment and monitoring is fully embedded in the company’s Enterprise-wide Risk Management Framework (EWRMF) and Management Information System.
- Ensuring effective monitoring, management and reporting of the governance surrounding DFI debt to ensure compliance with all terms and conditions of the facilities granted.
- Monitoring of the variables assigned by Care Ratings, together with assessment of metrics and a quarterly basis supplemented by stress tests and scenario analysis.
- Work collaboratively with the different stakeholders across the Bank to develop, coordinate, promote and embed the Sustainability initiatives.
- Educating the Bank’s Employees about environmental and social risk management training, particularly as regards the Business originators.
- Carry out and Assess/audit current working and business practices to establish targets for sustainability efforts and to ensure measurable and continued improvement in sustainability practices.
- Implement the approved sustainability program across the Bank.
- Devise metrics/key performance indicators to enable informed decisions & Provide data and input in annual and other relevant reports
- Provide recommendations to incorporate sustainability strategy with the Bank’s strategy.
- Participation in external sustainability forums and platforms;
- Monitor E & S and sustainability projects budgets and take necessary steps to optimise use of resources.
- Whenever required, work with clients to define steps (often in the form of E&S Action Plan) needed to meet the requirements of IFC’s Performance Standards and the World Bank Group’s Environmental, Health and Safety Guidelines.
- Actively work with Transaction/Front Office Teams to ensure the effective monitoring of obligor environmental and social risk performance, carry out regular site visits, directly with the client and/or in collaboration with the Transaction/Front Office Teams and flag any breaches.
- Identify opportunities for adding value in an investment project structure related to environmental and social opportunities above and beyond risk management, if and when appropriate
- Periodically review and continuously ensure that the company’s Environmental and Social Risk Management Policy is fully and appropriately implemented and flag any breaches.
- Keep abreast of latest developments in the fields of sustainable development, particularly about applications to the finance sector.
- Maintain and foster mutually beneficial relationships with DFIs and the Rating Agencies.
- Minimisation of losses caused through impairment of equity investment through effective portfolio management and use of risk mitigation measures.
- Ensure Company’s management of Environmental and Social Risk Management adheres to international best practice, as defined by the IFC Performance Standards of Sustainability, as subsequently updated.
- Proactive advisory role in respect of potential issues that could negatively affect the DFI funding and the Bank’s credit rating.
Requirements: Qualification and Skill
- Graduate degree in relevant discipline.
- A minimum of 4 years of practical experience in environmental and/or social management and 15 years’ experience working in a financial institution will be a definite advantage.
- A combination of E&S and engineering training and skillsets would be a definite advantage.
- Experience and familiarity with the IFC Performance Standards, World Bank Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Guidelines. Alternatively, experience and familiarity with the ILO Core Labour Standards, will be an advantage.
- Excellent verbal and written English & French language skills.
- Strong analytical skills, ability to think strategically, analyse diverse information and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Good team player who can work as a member of multi-disciplinary teams.
- Mauritian nationals preferred.
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Achieving sustainable infrastructure through asset management
The principles of asset management are key to making the necessary investment decisions to transition to sustainable infrastructure but changes from traditional to whole life costing approaches and agility to cope with short- and long-term changes are needed, writes Matthew King, Head of Infrastructure Asset Management, Director Infrastructure and Government at KPMG Ireland.
Asset management has long been the practice of balancing investment decisions across the creation of infrastructure assets and the management of existing ones to achieve the best value over the life of the assets. Historically there have often been competing outcomes that require value and outcome objectives to be balanced against cost. However, whilst some industries have long had environmental performance objectives, the imperative to consider the full suite of ESG is now clear to all. Environmental factors and governance practices have long been discussed by the infrastructure sector.
It is the social focus where the balance of economics and engineering now come to the fore; how do we appraise the social benefits of investment in tandem with the asset lifecycle? Asset management principles aid this dynamic by setting the strategic objectives so that the line of sight to specific assets in operation is clear and aligned. As such, asset management becomes a tool to deliver sustainable infrastructure, with the societal benefits as a key measure.
Furthermore, we are in a period of seismic change driven by climate change, the pandemic and global political and economic patterns. How we live, work, travel has changed and whilst we do not know how much of the change will stay for the long term, the demand on our existing infrastructure has changed and questions are raised on the investment case for new infrastructure — at least as it may have been conceived or indeed approved only a short time ago.
The good news is that the principles that define asset management are key to making the necessary decisions but changes from the traditional approaches and decision support tools are needed.
- Our infrastructure systems are more connected than ever, and these connections are fundamental to achieving sustainable infrastructure. At the national level, strategies and government policy are needed to foster collaboration across industries and joined up planning and decision making.
- Whole lifecycle costing to inform the capital injections needed to achieve sustainability targets.
- Asset policies to deliver on sustainable strategies consistently across sectors.
- The balance between opex and capex — how to use existing infrastructure effectively in the circular economy.
- What is the return on investment on capex vs opex funding? How benefits are defined and measured is key and needs to be consistent. Capex could need longer term incentives to drive the right behaviours and decisions in construction.
- Future proofing — integration of new assets and manage asset obsolesce proactively and responsibly.
Ireland has a maturing asset management capability complimented by the growing capital projects capability to deliver the Project Ireland 2040. With these skills and ambition, the infrastructure sector will be an important catalyst, and needs to be ready to take on the challenge and lead the change at the most senior level in our infrastructure organisations. | https://www.eolasmagazine.ie/achieving-sustainable-infrastructure-through-asset-management/ |
CHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTIONBackground of the StudyCorporate sustainability is essential to long-term corporate success and for ensuring markets deliver value across society (United Nations Global Compact, 2014). Aware of that, investors have adopted sustainability as a criterion to be considered in the configuration of their investment portfolios, which has led to the emergence of sustainability indices linked to the financial market. Among these are the Dow Jones Sustainability Index in the United States, FTSE4Good in the United Kingdom, Corporate Sustainability Index (ISE) in Brazil, and the STOXX Global ESG Leaders Index in Germany.The idea underlying these indices is that sustainability practices constitute a potential element for long-term value creation from which shareholders will benefit. To belong to sustainability indices, firms are required to develop and disclose information that reflects the criteria adopted in matters of sustainability, and this information usually appears in their sustainability report(SR). There are various benefits arising out of a firm’s engagement in sustainability. Some of them are employee involvement within the firm and the motivation improvement (Becchetti, Di Giacomo, &Pinnacchio, 2008), reputation and image benefits (Orlitzky& Swanson, 2012).The failures of companies such as Enron and Parmalat, among others have promptedquestions about the adequacy of traditional financial reports in assessing corporate performance Calitz, Cullen, and Bosire (2015). These unpleasant incidences are stirring demands from different governments, stock market regulators, media and academia, for increased corporate transparency and disclosure in order to assess performance in diverse areas that are potential sources of risk. Transparency and disclosure practices of companies are major determinants for successful corporate governance.Sustainability reporting provides information that increases corporate transparency and accountability in economic, environmental, social and governance terms; it provides information not entirely captured in corporate financial statements such as statement of financial position, statement of comprehensive income and statement of cash flows. Sustainability report increasingly becomes a trend and a necessity for progressive companies to inform about their performance of economic, social, and environmental, as well as to all stakeholders of the company (Chariri & Firman, 2009). The collapse of corporate giant (Enron) has created concerns about corporate transparency and the inability of financial reports to convey the entire information needed to ascertain the performance of a business enterprise. This has also led to the notion that companies should report information that portrays its sustainability performance.The use of Sustainability Reporting (a term used to describe a company’s reporting onits economic, environmental and social performance) techniques has been increasing rapidly in recent years. An understanding of the basis of this reporting system, and its impact on financial performance is very crucial in determining the essence of its application. The financial performance of companies has been under the front of academic discuss. Financial performance connotes the ability of the firms to fulfil the major of the firm which is to maximize profit and ultimately maximize the shareholders wealth. Over the years financial performance of firms has been the focus of financial reporting but in recent times investors and other stakeholder have begun to raise questions as to performance of the firm beyond the financial aspect. The move gave birth to the concept of sustainability reporting which requires the firm to disclose social, environmental and economic impacts. In investing this new movement on reporting company activities, some scholars have come to say that sustainability reporting has an influence on the financial performance of firms while others are reasoning otherwise. In reaction to this a number of studies have been carried out on the sustainability and firm performance. The results of the various studies have generated conflicting views as to the extent of influence that sustainability reporting has on the financial performance of firms. It is against this background that is study is being carried to further ascertain the truism in this assertion with particular reference to the Breweries industry in Nigeria.1.2 Statement of ProblemRegardless of the importance of sustainability to creating long-term value and corporate success, there is no clear consensus as to whether the sustainability reports affect the financial performance of companies in Nigeria. So far it is unclear what impact Sustainability reporting has actually had on organisation strategies, practices and outcomes. The result of most researches conducted on sustainability reporting and financial performance are either inconclusive or contradictory, reporting positive or sometimes negative results. In the light of these limitations, this study is therefore set to find out the impact of Sustainability Reporting on financial performance of listed breweries in Nigeria.1.3 Objectives of the StudyThe main objective of this study is to examine the impact of sustainability reporting on the financial performance of Listed Breweries in Nigeria. The following were the specific objectives of the study;To examine the impact of social reporting on the financial performance of listed breweries in Nigeria.To evaluate the influence of economic reporting on the financial performance of listed breweries in Nigeria.To assess the effect of environmental reporting on the financial performance of listed breweries in Nigeria.
1.4 Research QuestionsThe following research questions were raised for this study;What is the impact of social reporting on the financial performance of listed breweries in Nigeria?What is the influence of economic reporting on the financial performance of listed breweries in Nigeria?What is the effect of environmental reporting on the financial performance of listed breweries in Nigeria?
1.5 Research HypothesesThe following hypotheses were formulated for this study;Ho1: Social reporting does not significantly affect financial performance of listed breweries in Nigeria.Ho2: Economic reporting does not have any significant influence on financial performance of listed breweries in Nigeria.Ho3: Environmental reporting does not have any significant impact on the financial performance of listed breweries in Nigeria.
1.6 Significance of the StudyThis study through its findings will be of immense benefits to organizations, regulatory authorities, professional bodies in accounting, stakeholders, host communities of organizations and academia.This study would aid management of various organizations in ascertaining the specific sustainability guidelines and tenets to follow. This study would help to broaden the horizon of knowledge of regulatory agencies, legislative arm of government and relevant professional bodies in accountancy, by putting in place measures to encourage sustainability reporting amongst registered firms in Nigeria.In addition to these, this study would help future researchers who might want to dig deep on the subject matter as it serves as a basis of reserved knowledge to be consulted by future researchers.
1.7 Scope of the study.The trust of this study is on the ascertainment of the level of impact of SustainabilityReporting on Financial Performance of Breweries listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. This study will consider the economic reporting, social reporting and environmental reporting. The study focused on brewing sector of the Nigerian economy and only listed breweries were used and the research covered the period of 2010 to 2018. | https://eduproject.com.ng/accounting/impact-of-sustainability-reporting-on-financial-performance-a-case-study-of-listed-breweries-in-nigeria/index.html |
The question who should administer or control the process by which Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) are granted has long been contentious in Peru. Up until now, it has been the responsibility of the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM). Since the extractive sector of the economy was liberalised in the 1990s under Alberto Fujimori, the prime role of the MEM has been to attract investment, particularly foreign investment, in the mining and hydrocarbons (oil and gas) industries. Having the same ministry regulate the environmental studies is hardly conducive to the protection of the environment. There is a clear conflict of interest here.
Among other organisations, the Peru Support Group has long called for responsibility for EIAs to be removed to a different authority whose job it is to protect the environment. This was a suggestion that was highlighted in the influential PSG report into the conflicts surrounding development of the Majaz project in Piura. The creation of an Environment Ministry by Alan García seemed like a move in the right direction, even though it transpired that this initiative was due more to pressure from the United States (as a condition for approving the Free Trade Agreement with Peru), than it was to the political conviction of the García government.
The conflicts that have been generated over mining in the first 15 months of the Humala government – particularly the Conga dispute — have resulted in some decisions that respond to widespread criticism of the role played hitherto by the state in the granting of extractive concessions and the regulations governing how these are developed. One such move is the decision, announced in September, to shift responsibility for EIAs from the MEM to the Environment Ministry. The cabinet presided over by Prime Minister Juan Jimenez, appointed in July, appears more amenable than its predecessor to pressures to meet some of the criticisms about state support for mining whatever the environmental or social cost. The Conga dispute highlighted the shortcomings of EIAs.
Predictably, the extractive industry lobby groups – which are hugely powerful in Peru today – opposed this initiative. The Sociedad Nacional de Minería, Energía y Petróleo (SNMEP), argued that the creation of Senace, as the new institution charged with administering EIAs is to be called, would simply add further red tape to administrative procedures and delay investment decisions. The legislation to set up Senace is still before Congress, and it can be taken for granted that the SNMEP will use its political muscle to block the legislation, or at least to ensure that the teeth of Senace in standing up for good environmental practice are drawn.
The small print of the new legislation points in this direction. Two aspects merit emphasis here. The first is that the board of directors of Senace will be drawn not from the Environment Ministry but from a range of ministries including the MEM. The second is that, in certain circumstances, supreme decrees can be used to override Senace decisions on EIAs. When push comes to shove, firms in extractive industries will be able to use their influence over government to bypass the regulatory system. Assuming that the bill to create Senace is finally approved, it will be important to examine the detailed regulations (when these are published) to see how the new organisation’s remit is further compromised.
So it is still too early to say that this move is a significant shift in the way in which EIAs are produced and accepted (or not) by the authorities. It seems all too likely however, that the new institution will lack the authority to make robust decisions to protect the environment when these threaten powerful corporate interests. | https://perusupportgroup.org.uk/2012/08/all-that-glitters/ |
According to a new report from Field to Market, the prolonged period of low commodity prices in recent years has created significant financial pressures for U.S. agriculture, jeopardizing many farming operations and challenging the ability of supply chains to meet ambitious sustainability goals absent more direct support for growers. The findings underscore the critical relationship between farm financial well-being and a producer’s ability to make operational changes needed to deliver improved environmental outcomes.
Key Findings:
- Financial well-being of U.S. farms has decreased steadily since 2013, largely due to weaker commodity prices. These conditions have been exacerbated in the past two years by trade disputes, more frequent extreme weather events and the COVID-19 pandemic, which upended traditional supply chains leaving many farmers without a market.
- While overall financial health has not reached crisis levels like that of the 1980s, downward trends are a sign for caution, particularly given the extent to which the federal government has supported farm receipts in recent years with programs that are not guaranteed to continue.
- The current financial situation will have a significant influence on the types of sustainability practices farms will undertake. Any management decisions that have immediate positive profit implications are likely to have priority. On the other hand, practices that reduce immediate profitability are less likely to be adopted, particularly if those practices negatively impact yields or come with investment expense.
- Now more than ever, the value chain should consider creative mechanisms that support farmers in transitioning to practices that will deliver more sustainable outcomes.
More below: | https://agcouncil.net/news/field-to-market-report-identifies-financial-sustainability-strain-for-farmers/ |
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Job Description
Set-up, lead and manage an Environmental Social and Governance ("ESG") finance capability within CBRE Capital Advisors. Responsible for integrating ESG across the department as well as business development, quality assurance, training and marketing. We define this as covering both the integration of ESG considerations into 'mainstream' investment and lending decisions, as well as products with specific environmental or social aims. Key Responsibilities ESG integration:
Provide expertise on sustainable finance specific to the built environment;
Build ESG knowledge and capacity within the Capital Advisors function;
Partner with the teams across Capital Advisors to help them integrate ESG into their existing businesses and develop new products;
This will encompass our investment arm (including lending and direct investment), loan servicing and our corporate finance group (including debt advisory, equity raising and corporate advisory activity); and
Lead the Capital Advisory department to a market leading position and innovator on this topic. Key Initiatives
Specific initiatives include enhancing the firm's Impact debt fund and lending platform, support the growth of loan servicing into ESG reporting, develop green lending advisory services and ESG complaint capital raising amongst others.
Develop and integrate an ESG finance framework, to allow the integration of ESG into all loans, investments and advisory services;
Represent Capital Advisors on company-wide ESG Working group and overseas departmental training in ESG principles; and
Oversee, and quality assure, the collection and analysis of data and develop best practice systems and standards. Additional responsibilities:
Working with teams on new business pitches and client meetings with institutions, pension funds, propcos, banks, impact funds, local authorities and councils;
Provide thought leadership and generate research outputs on sustainable finance that provide insights for internal and external stakeholders;
Continue to evolve and innovate processes, products and services to drive efficiencies and effectiveness, and to stay abreast of legislative and market developments; and
Support the delivery of wider Environmental Consultancy initiatives across Client portfolios, including working with subject matter leads in delivering programs relating to specific sustainability themes such as due diligence, energy management and social / health impact, as well as assisting in the implementation of a sustainability strategy into the UK and Irish business.
Candidate Description
Experience of key ESG issues affecting businesses, as well as reporting and disclosure and associated key performance indicators (e.g. GRESB, EPRA, TCFD, SFDR, EU Taxonomy etc.)
Experience of key sustainability tool / methodologies (e.g. LEED, BREEAM, nZEB, WELL Building Standard etc.)
Excellent communication and presentation skills, strong attention to detail
Ability to foster and maintain collaborative relationships across department, geographies and Clients
Flexible mindset for a new role, we need a self-starter! Desirable Knowledge and Skills
Experience of applying sustainable finance principles, mechanisms, and rating methodologies in the built environment including but not limited to green and sustainability linked loans and credit facilities, and green bonds
Expertise in statistical analysis, geospatial data analysis and knowledge of open data
Ability to understand and analyse information to be able to recommend informed solutions to problems
Experience of operating in a complex, commercial environment
Able to influence third parties to achieve desired sustainability outcomes,
Candidates should have an appropriate degree and post graduate qualification plus around 8 years' experience within the sustainability sector. Candidates will be supported in working towards Chartership with an appropriate institution where this is not already held.
Employer Description
London - England - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ABOUT CBRE CBRE Group, Inc. is the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with 2019 revenues of $23.9 billion and more than 100,000 employees (excluding affiliate offices). CBRE has been included on the Fortune 500 since 2008, ranking #128 in 2020. It also has been voted the industry's top brand by the Lipsey Company for 19 consecutive years and has been named one of Fortune's "Most Admired Companies" for eight years in a row, including being ranked number one in the real estate sector in 2020, for the second consecutive year. CBRE offers a range of integrated services, including facilities, transaction and project management; property management; investment management; appraisal and valuation; property leasing; strategic consulting; property sales; mortgage services and development services. In central London, CBRE advises on more commercial property than any other adviser and across the United Kingdom with offices in Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, and Southampton. | https://www.bridgeofhope.careers/jobs/head-of-sustainable-finance-director-1 |
Before his tragic death, he was a social media influencer. On Instagram, he is followed by about a thousand people. Although he only has 74 followers, he is very active on Twitter.
The 15-year-old regularly posts YouTube videos to his Twitter. He also enjoys watching gaming videos and chatting in virtual reality.
He is most active on Facebook, often sharing photos of his loved ones and family.
What happened to Rubin Finnegan?boy may have asthma attack
When Rubin Finnegan’s family learned he may have suffered from asthma at an early age, it was too late to treat him because he died of an asthma attack.
His family was devastated by the loss of what could be the youngest member of the family, and they received their sincerest condolences from his close friends and relatives.
Where is Rubin Finnegan’s mother now?
The mother of a toddler who was initially thought to have died from an asthma attack has said how terrifying this time has been for her. Rubin’s mother is heartbroken by the loss of her son’s lovely soul.
Grief has become too complicated for everyone to bear, but it is even more difficult to hold on to my mother.
Leaigh Moore, the girlfriend of a 15-year-old girl, was saddened to learn the worst. She paid tribute to her late boyfriend in an emotional video she uploaded.
Rubin Finnegan Funeral and Obituary
The funeral took place on Tuesday, August 28, at 10 a.m. Mass at St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Jobstown.
At twelve o’clock, the cremation took place at Newlands Cross Cemetery. All donations, with the exception of family flowers, should go to Crumlin Children’s Hospital.
His grieving mother Danielle, father Gareth, stepfather Craig, sister Neva (Faith), grandparents, girlfriend Lily, aunts, uncles, other family members, and a small group of his friends attended his final ceremony.
Everyone was talking about the young hero, even his close associates.
How old was Rubin Finnegan when he died?
Born on February 16, 2007, Rubin Finnegan died in a tragic accident at the age of 15.
In particular, his gorgeous family, friends, and devoted fiancée Rubin left a legacy of compassion, respect, and love for everyone.
He has won the hearts of many people and despite his youth, he is still very popular. | https://naijacampusjams.com/what-happened-to-rubin-finnegan-to-be-an-asthma-attack/ |
James Robert “Rob” Ashmore II, 50, of Spartanburg, SC, passed away Wednesday, August 25, 2021. He was the loving husband of Lori Annette Ashmore and the son of Frances Smith Ashmore and the late James Robert “Butch” Ashmore. Rob was a chef by trade and passion. He believed that feeding people was his gift and calling and an act of love. He worked at Spartanburg Regional where he met his wife, Lori. They fell in love quickly and married in Charleston, SC on the beach: his favorite spot. He loved being outdoors, especially on the water. He enjoyed woodworking and being creative. He was devoted to his family and close friends, whom he loved fiercely. He and his family were members of Mountain Bridge Community Church in Greer. In addition to his wife and mother, Rob is survived by his children, Avery Ashmore (Savannah Holden) and Carson Duthu; his sister, Regina Betsill (Steve); nephew and niece Dallas and Savannah Betsill; and his loving aunts Margaret Ann Godfrey (Jimmy) and Ginny Gwinn. He is predeceased by his son, Gavin Ashmore. A Memorial Service will be held at 4:00 PM, Monday, August 30, 2021 at Living Waters Funeral Home & Crematory, 529 Spartanburg Hwy S, Lyman, SC 29365. Masks are requested. Pastors Annie Smith and Steve Boiter are officiating. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) or Sharing Hope SC. | https://www.livingwatersfh.com/obituaries/James-Ashmore-3/ |
Introduction: Charity refers to aids, assistance, donation, and other help to those in need. Home refers to the permanent place of residence for the member of a family. The proverb highlights that our most important responsibility is towards our family and friends.
Meaning
The phrase ‘charity begins at home’ means that “we should take utmost care and give unconditional love to our family members and friend, and dear ones.”
Charity comes from the Latin word caritas, which means love. Thus, though we may think that charity means giving to an organization known as a charity, charity actually refers to any loving action.
Charity begins at home means that “we should care for those around us first and foremost”. It is our responsibility to assist and take care of our parents, brothers, sisters, husband, wife, children and everyone who are closely related or associated to us.
This proverb means that “kindness starts with those closest to us”. If our our near and dear ones are in need of us, then we should surely be ever ready to help them by all possible means. In other words, we should first direct our love to our family, or other nearest and dearest.
This saying also emphasizes that we cannot be loving people unless we care for our nearest and dearest. Those at home might mean:
- People in our house.
- Our circle of friends.
- People in our town or city.
As such, this proverb can mean:
- Care for people close to us first.
- We cannot care truly about wider problems in the world unless we first take care of those near us.
Explanation
Love flows through our heart for our fellowmen. When a new-born baby joins a family, he spends time with his parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, and starts loving them. He develops an emotional connect with his family members. As he grows us, he starts understanding about the relationships that he has with other people. This helps him in build connect with other people. He makes new friends at school. Friends are those people with whom we share emotional bond and connect. We share both our joys and sorrows with our friends.
When a person grows up as an adult, he enters the world and get in touch with the society. This provides him with great opportunity to develop relationship with people outside his family and friends. He develops a sense of responsibility towards the society.
This sense of love and responsibility towards the society is a natural extension of his love for his family and friends.
A person who avoids his responsibilities and disregards parents and family members is an unkind person. Public donation of huge sum of money to charitable institutions for the welfare of public is merely a show. Charity and love is rooted in the form of affectionate relationships among family members and close friends. A person who cannot love his parents and other people with whom he has shared the most important moments of life, such person cannot really love other.
Relevance of the proverb:
- Countering hypocrisy. We are hypocrites if we claim to care about global problems whilst neglecting our own family.
- Family life. This proverb reflects the importance of family life.
- Marriages and romantic relationships: We should always be a rock of support to our partners.
- Kindness to all. This saying means that we must be kind to all people, near and far.
- Definition of charity. The definition of charity in this proverb is wider than simply giving money to charity.
- Neighborliness. Neighborliness helps to keep communities together. Remembering this proverb will help us to be a good neighbor.
- Moving outwards: The love we practice at home can spread outwards into the wider world.
Arguments against the proverb: Some people have debated the validity of this proverb. They have argued that it is easier to empathize with our family. Moreover, kind deeds done to people we know are more likely to be repaid.
It is more moral, one argument goes, to help a stranger whom one has never met. That stranger will perhaps never meet us, or be able to repay us.
However, a balance can be struck. It can be argued that we should help all people: both near and far.
Conclusion: One should never forget that charity begins from home. Hence, we should love, respect, and care for our family and friends, particularly our parents and elderly member. This is the first step towards charity, love and spiritual success. | https://importantindia.com/22651/charity-begins-at-home-1/ |
The Monday evening Spanish language study group at St. Martin of Tours Parish in Northeast Philadelphia always begins with a Spanish translation of a prayer for the family written by St. John Paul II.
It says in part, “Grant that your grace may guide the thoughts and actions of husbands and wives for the good of their families and of all of the families of the world. Grant that the young may find in the family solid support for their human dignity and for their growth in truth and love.”
The prayer is a lead-in to the fundamental text studied by the group, St. John Paul’s 1981 apostolic exhortation on the family, “Familiaris Consortio” (“Of Family Partnership”).
“We present the program based on the document; we put it into words the people can understand,” said Margarita Marlin, who along with her husband Yvan, is a leader of the group.
The presentation might also have words from Father Rafael Vargas, the group’s chaplain, plus feedback on the lesson, small group discussion and even individual counseling.
“We feel the family is the first step for a good society,” Margarita said. “If we care about families we work to strengthen the family.”
The meetings at St. Martin’s, which have been going on for a year and a half, generally attract 30 to 60 couples or individuals ranging from their 20s through their 70s. Even some children come along and they are given an age-appropriate session in another room.
Within the Latino community the meetings are multi-cultural, drawing at this time from the Dominican Republic and from Colombia, Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica or wherever Spanish is the native tongue.
The real objects of the program are faith-strengthening and family strengthening. Among the positive fruits of the sessions have been several baptisms, reception of sacraments and even weddings of previously unmarried couples. Through the program some have gone on religious retreats or become part of the Cursillo movement.
It helps that both Margarita and Yvon are trained psychotherapists. Although they provide their service free at the meetings, in their professional life they are both therapists at Nueva Vida Behavioral Health Care on Allegheny Avenue.
“I studied medicine in the Dominican Republic and have master’s degrees from Holy Family University and the Universidad Autonomo de Santo Domingo,” said Margarita, who was originally from the Dominican Republic and has lived in the Philadelphia area for the past two decades.
“We support the community when they need some kind of intervention,” Margarita said. “They can’t pay for therapy, but we are here to help them to handle family situations.”
Perhaps non-Hispanics cannot fully appreciate how truly diverse Hispanic culture is. In this study group the glue is faith and family, but certainly with variations within that.
Edison Bonilla, a Honduran who has been in Philadelphia for seven years, finds the group brings him closer to the church and to love. “We learn a lot from the Bible with an approach to the family,” he said.
Since coming, “in my opinion I have a more active involvement with the church and in its activities and my family,” he said. “I think my wife Rosanna and I are closer; we have a stronger relationship and a stronger commitment with God.”
Becky Espanol has been coming for a year and two months. In her case the commitment to God has been strong for a long time. Her husband of 30 years, Manuel Beltran, will be ordained a permanent deacon next year and they have been sharing his faith journey through his studies. They have three children, a 29-year-old daughter and twins with disabilities who are 24.
“Through the group we study what marriage means, understanding ourselves as human beings and how we are created by God,” she said. “We are biological; we have demands from both sides — how we can be better Christians, better parents and better brothers and sisters in the church. We look around and try to understand, not to be judgmental, and support each other in the community.”
Adalisa DeJesus has been coming for a year and a half. She and her boyfriend have three children.
“I love coming here, I can’t wait until Mondays,” she said. “It is like friends and family.”
Does she plan to marry? “Yes,” she said. “We are taking classes for marriage, maybe at the end of this year.”
Yvan Marlin, whose degrees are from the Universidad Autonomo de Santo Domingo, like his wife, believes that the group is an opportunity for them to give back.
“We’ve been coming to St. Martin for 10 years,” he said. As for the group, “I like the philosophy, how the people respond. It is like a family.”
While he and Margarita do provide free psychological counseling informally but privately to individuals if they come to the meeting on a one-on-one basis, “It is our dream to have it as a ministry at St. Martin’s,” he said.
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The Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun, marked his 60th birthday on the 29th of May, via a party with his close family, while Pastor E.A Adeboye, his friends, associates, others joined via Zoom.
Sharing photos from the party, the celebrant wrote: "We gathered online today for my virtual 60th Birthday Thanksgiving Service officiated by Pastor Ben Akabueze.
We gave glory to God for the gift of life at this Diamond Age, for family and well wishers, for Ogun State and where we are a year after our Administration came on board.
We prayed to Almighty God to chart us a divine course out of the pandemic that has struck the whole world, even as we further our own human efforts."
The virtual occasion, which was graced by dignitaries from their various locations, was attended by Pastor Adeboye of RCCG, the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, senior religious leaders, former President, incumbent and former Governors, members of my cabinet, family members, friends and well-wishers.
Pastor Adeboye had earlier today celebrated him via his official Instagram page "Happy birthday Governor @dapoabiodunmfr , I pray that God in his infinite mercies will continue to work with you and grant you the required wisdom to continue in the right path in the name of Jesus." He wrote.
See more photos below... | https://www.gboah.com/2020/05/see-how-pastor-ea-adeboye-yemi-osibanjo.html |
Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, NY “ Grace Church Brooklyn Heights launched its 2012 Capital Campaign with an wonderful evening of cocktail parties followed by a celebration dinner at the Guild Hall.
A House for All People Preserving Our Past “ Building Our Future is the theme of the Capital Campaign, which held a Capital Campaign Celebration Dinner on the evening of January 22nd. Even with a local professional football team playing for a spot in the Super Bowl, Grace Church’s Guild Hall was filled to capacity with members and friends who were treated to fine roast beef, rosemary potatoes, string beans almandine and candied carrots. A delicious layer cake adorned with a sketch of Grace Church topped off the meal.
Campaign Co-Chairs Patricia Kavanagh and David G. Booth explained to the overflow crowd why it was necessary for Grace Church to undertake a capital campaign at this time and how the campaign would be conducted. They reminded attendees that the Restoration and Renovation Committee had spent a nearly two years studying the needs of Grace Church and how best to address them. The Co-Chairs described to the attentive audience the improvements to their treasured building which parishioners said through a series of focus group meetings are necessary to support the mission of Grace Church.
Senior Warden, Thomas Chittenden reflected on what Grace Church has meant to his family over their 45 year association with the parish. He used the sharing of these very personal memories to reinforce the importance of Grace Church to its members and the community it serves in a touching and inspiring way.
Rector Stephen Muncie spoke of his own sacrificial gift and encouraged others to give generously and lovingly. He told the celebrants that, We are all shareholders in Grace Church and I encourage you to give extravagantly in support of the campaign. There was a collective gasp of delighted surprise throughout the Guild Hall when the Rector shared that a small number of Grace Parishioners had already pledged $1,930,000 in support of the campaign. | http://jdklote.com/pressrelease/grace-church-kicks-off-capital-campaign/ |
“A sign and bearer of the Love of God to all men”
Santiago, 11/11/14 (Sodalitium News – Chile). On Friday, November 7th, the eve of the day when the Church in Chile begins the month of Mary, Sebastián Correa Ehlers, deacon of the Sodalitium of Christian Life, was ordained a priest by Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati, Archbishop of Santiago.
In the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in downtown Santiago, family, friends and members of the Sodalit Family gathered to celebrate Sebastián Correa Ehlers, the first Chilean priest in the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae. The ceremony was attended by the Superior General of the Sodalitium, Alessandro Moroni, as well as members of his Superior Council.
During his homily Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati highlighted God’s action among men, reminding those present that the family is a domestic Church where the first signs of God’s presence are received through the sacraments, and also where one first learns to live love. He then explained how the Church is a larger family – a sign of communion among human beings -, in which it continues to grow as we learn to live love. “In the Church, (Sebastián) has learned that the Lord gives a special gift, a vocation. He has discovered a charismatic community as a special way to follow Jesus, an original way to emphasize the Gospel of Jesus. And in the Sodalit community he has found direction.”
“Here we have before us not only Sebastian, but also the Church, who has accompanied him from childhood and now as an adult and servant of the Lord – he said speaking to those present. This is his community that discovers in his vocation a gift from the Lord, and a Church who wants to be for him a gift and the help that he needs to faithfully live his priestly ministry. This is the community, the Sodalit community, a small part of the universal Church, present as a gift of the Spirit at the service of the People of God. Here is the local Church of Santiago, the Church of his parish, the Church represented by priests and their pastor. It is a Church with a universal face. Here is the Church, present in Mary and the saints.”
Emphasizing that the protagonist of this story is God, he reminded Sebastian that “the Spirit of God is here; He is sending you, and He gives you a mission. You are an ambassador of Christ. In your life as a priest love will not lack, but neither will the cross.”
Cardinal Ezzatti ended his homily urging Sebastian to “be a living sign of the love that you are called to give to your brothers, always following the example and guidance of Jesus to give love especially the most needy. May the Mother of Jesus accompany you, as She gave the world Jesus and stood at the foot of the Cross.”
After the ceremony Fr. Sebastian, deeply touched by the experience of being chosen despite being a sinner, thanked God, the Church, his family and his community by their accompaniment, and he asked them to help “bridge the gap between God and our brothers, to be a sign of reconciliation.” Sharing aspects of the experience of his ordination, he pointed out the positive response that his vocation had among his friends, and he highlighted how the grace of God works in those chosen. “I have my trust placed in God today, because He chose me and He keeps me strong,” he said. He also recalled as being chosen to the Sodalitium was because of a call, which was followed by the voice of the Lord, in which there has been a very special Marian experience. “I have great moms, and they have always been with me,” he said with deep gratitude.
Alessandro Moroni thanked God for the gift of a vocation for the Church and at the service of the community. Recalling the years in which Sebastian encountered the Sodalitium, he explained that we are celebrating the faith, because the generosity of a young man who responds to a call today must be celebrated. Finally he also thanked everyone for their support, generosity and accompaniment, asking for everyone’s prayers. | https://sodalitium.org/news/sign-and-bearer-of-the-love-of-god-to-all-men/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sign-and-bearer-of-the-love-of-god-to-all-men |
On December 7, Friday, Pearl Harbor Day our father, Edward B. Feathers, passed away silently, peacefully in his sleep, in his easy chair, at home.
Known to his family and close friends as Talking Bear (a name given him by a friend of the family when he embarked on his five-year long, daily chat group) Dad proceeded to play on the theme of a Family Council and subsequently named each member of the online community: Morning Star (Beverly), Laughing Waters (me), Bluebird (Barbie), and Skylark (Kathryn) – his daughters. He christened each grandchild also: He-Who-Digs (Tom), She-Who-Paints (Heather), Evening Star (Jennifer), Little Eagle (Nathan), Columbine (Amelia), and Little Bear (Liberty). Mary Hampton (his niece) and Aunt Marynelle (his only sibling) were on the Council as well as daughters of his WWII flight crew and life long friends of council members.
Each day Dad delivered the word for the day; Farmers’ Almanac, a link to a great performance, or (more likely) a link to the latest on alternative remedies for various ailments. He quoted poetry and invited council members to send their favorites. My sister Kathy inherited his gift for remembering poems and the two of them entertained us for years. Dad was a big fan of Jacquie Lawson e-cards which we all received on our birthdays, holidays, and just for fun. At work it was great to take a moment to watch one of these beautiful renderings, with music and serendipity, and always Dad’s warm greeting.
We loved our father, this man of deep emotions never shown, of constant and steady love, and a bit of the rascal mixed in to keep the balance.
Dad had a profound influence on each of our lives and will continue to do so though he is now in another dimension. But as each day passes beyond his military burial – taps and the final words, “Please accept this flag from a grateful nation” – we are more and more in the knowledge of how much his life supported and enriched ours.
Members of the Council are casting about wondering who can take over to keep the online community going, but no one has stepped up to do so. Perhaps that is an acknowledgement that no one can take Talking Bear’s place. But I imagine after we all grieve and heal, a few of us may take up the staff to keep something like it going. | https://walkearth.org/2012/12/ |
Joe Biden's eulogy for a staunch conservative segregationist shows that political disagreements don't have to turn into personal enmity.
Erich J. Prince is the co-founder of Merion West, a Philadelphia-based group promoting civil discourse in the age of polarization.
Fifteen years ago this June, then-Senator Joe Biden gave perhaps the most memorable of all political eulogies.
It was for Strom Thurmond, a man whose very name was synonymous with defending the racial policies of the Old South.
But Joe Biden traveled to Edgefield, South Carolina to speak on behalf of his late colleague. From the beginning of his remarks, Mr. Biden seemed strikingly aware of his fish-out-of-water role, delivering the eulogy for a man whose views were so distant from his own.
“I disagreed deeply with Strom on the issue of Civil Rights and on many other issues, but I watched him change. We became good friends," Biden said.
As extreme an example as it may be, if Biden can develop a healthy working relationship with a segregationist, perhaps there’s hope for our polarized times.
With members of Congress singing “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" to colleagues after an important vote, State of the Union outbursts, and the complete inability, for many, to utter a single kind word about a political opponent, perhaps it’s worth remembering Mr. Biden’s words that day in South Carolina.
Today, 70 percent of Democrats call Republicans “close-minded,” and nearly half of Republicans return the favor and describe Democrats as “more immoral” than the average American. Among consistent conservatives and consistent liberals, around a quarter of each expressed disappointment at the prospect of a family member marrying someone from the other party.
However, similar Pew studies suggest that having even a couple of close friends from the opposite party can help people get along. To this effect, researchers found that a Republican was half as likely to describe a generic Democrat as “cold,” if he had at least some friends who were Democrats.
Perhaps this is among the reasons that stories of cross-party friendships carry the weight that they do. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, who served as an aide to Tip O’Neill, described the well-known friendship between his boss, a liberal stalwart, and President Reagan. Sharing a light moment in a back room before Reagan’s first State of the Union, Reagan put personal acrimony aside, remarking, "The speaker says that here in Washington we're all friends after 6."
But such gestures do have their critics. Hugo Schwyzer argued, just days before the 2014 midterm elections, that, "It's okay to end a friendship over politics." His argument, in brief, suggested that to sidestep political issues in the interest of friendship is to undermine their importance.
Although this makes for a provocative counterpoint to the conventional wisdom, the conventional wisdom likely exists for good reason.
It’s what Biden meant when he said toward the end of the eulogy that “Friendship and death are great equalizers.” We ought to be more than just the pros and cons of the various issues.
It's perhaps what people are starting to wake up to with rumors of a possible 2020 bipartisan “fusion ticket” and an ailing John McCain reaching across the aisle to Biden, encouraging him to stay in politics.
Regardless, Biden’s eulogy for his colleague from South Carolina reminds us that there is a place for friendship, even if there are no politics to agree on. | https://www.delawareonline.com/story/opinion/contributors/2018/06/06/biden-eulogy-strom-thurmond-friendship-politics/676708002/ |
By Kiran Singh Sirah, a 2011-13 Rotary Peace Fellow and president of the International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough, Tennessee, USA.
I recently had a chance to reconnect with my fellow Rotary Peace Fellows at a Rotary Peace Symposium in São Paulo. I was in the company of many talented friends and colleagues, including representatives from organizations like the World Bank and the United Nations, as well as global peace consultants and specialists in health, government, peace, security, and education. It was an incredible group of some 80 interdisciplinary peace advocates and Rotary members from all over the world.
Of course, I approached our conversations through the lens of story. I was there not just as a Rotary Peace Fellow but also as a representative of storytelling and the International Storytelling Center (ISC). (I even led a workshop on using storytelling as a tool in collaborations.) As I moved around the conference, talking with other Rotary members, I shared ISC’s vision of building a better world through storytelling. But as a folklorist, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to collect stories, too. What I found was that everyone had a story to tell about what originally inspired them to work for peace.
Cafe stories
In the World Cafe that was part of the symposium, I spoke to people who, like me, have felt called to serve in places far from home. Juliana, a Ugandan peace fellow who’s now located in Sudan, told me about the very moment she became committed to working for peace. She was in Kampala, Uganda’s capital, enjoying a quiet moment that she realized was marked by the lack of a familiar sound: gunfire. She wanted everyone to be able to experience that feeling.
I also learned about the experiences of Jewish and Muslim fellows who had worked on interfaith projects in war-torn Sierra Leone. I heard from people working with Syrian refugees, people studying the aftermath of Ebola in Liberia, and people working to build peace in Myanmar, Somalia, and Cambodia. I spoke to two friends based in the Amazon rainforest who are establishing a peace center that supports indigenous cultures and communities. Through tears, a fellow Brit told me about the reason he works for peace: his two granddaughters. I also listened to a Brazilian Rotarian, a shy man who shared a powerful personal story of growing up in extreme poverty and losing his father at a young age. That hardship had inspired him to build a better world for others.
Building a better world
Taking in these stories, I was struck by how these different regions around the world share a deep connection through story. As Rotary Peace Fellows, we are all people who have dedicated our lives to building a better world in the best way we know how. While there is no one strategy that will accomplish this, I saw how important it is to share best practices across locations and disciplines to inspire innovation and promote creativity. Sharing our personal narratives strengthened our fellowship and will no doubt influence our work.
Human rights and global peace are huge — and even intimidating — topics, but they are not larger than life. This work starts at the local level. As Gandhi once said, to achieve peace in the world, we must start with ourselves. By sharing stories at home or at conferences, we establish the connections we need to work for larger change. To share a story is a gift of love. Listening to my fellow Rotary members, I understood it is a gift that is changing the world. | https://blog.rotary.org/2015/06/30/stories-that-are-changing-the-world/ |
It is with broken hearts that we announce the passing of Walter Henry Cowan. Walter was a man of great integrity, kindness and compassion, and he will be deeply missed by his family and friends, who were always his number one priority. We remember Walter through his quiet, and gentle spirit, his generosity and selflessness, and as a man who loved animals, gardening (and grew amazing vegetables – especially tomatoes!) and was a talented BBQ-er. But most of all, Walter will be remembered for his love of being in community with family and friends, where he enjoyed sharing in food, laughter and quiet conversation.
Walter was born in Edmonton and grew up in Riverdale, attending Rossdale Elementary and Victoria Composite High School. He worked for over 40 years as a purchaser for Lockerbie and Hole, and was held in high esteem within this industry.
Walter leaves behind the love of his life Eva, married for 61 years, his children Donna and Joan (Michael), grandchildren Matthew, Morgan (Matthew) and Rebeccah (Jason) and great-grandchildren Henry and Charlie. He was predeceased by his parents, Thomas and Ruth Cowan and his brother, Harry Cowan.
In lieu of flowers, we know Walter would love for you to give the gift of time by getting together with the people that mean the most to you. Share food (perhaps BBQ a roast – yes even in the winter), enjoy fresh vegetables (especially tomatoes) and then sit back and enjoy. Our family will especially miss this time with him each Sunday, his quiet presence, warm sense of humour, and his unconditional love for each of us. His memory can additionally be honoured through making a donation to the Christmas charity of your choice; as Walter loved Christmas. | https://www.trinityfuneralhome.ca/obituary/walter-henry-cowan/ |
Going through the holiday season during your grief recovery period can be challenging and painful. The thought of not having your loved one around can turn family gatherings into stressful events, especially if your family have particular traditions that involved the participation of the loved one.
During this holiday, if you are having a difficult time acknowledging your loss, we recommend that you think about creating a small healing ritual as a part of your grief recovery. Connect with a few close friends and family members that you feel safe and can be vulnerable with and remember your loved one during this special time of the year. You can also have this small ritual by yourself, whatever makes the most sense to you. The benefits are that you may feel more connected and grieve in your unique way to help you heal.
When it comes to starting new rituals and traditions as a part of your grief recovery, keep it simple. Holiday rituals should bring hope, joy, and comfort to those who take part in it. It allows you, your family, and friends the room to embrace the changes that will take place in your loss. The ritual itself will serve to remind you of the significance of your loss while bringing security to you for what the future may hold.
Start a conversation. If you would like to do something special to remember your loved one and would include your family and friends into the ritual, ask each person what significant memories they have of their loved one during the holidays. Conversations are a considerable part of the grief recovery process, especially if you are looking to start a small ritual to help with your grieving process during the holidays.
Being flexible. Be open and prepared for the significant changes this holiday season with your loss. Changes can be hard, but being present in these changes will help your family stay connected despite your holiday grief. Keep holiday rituals flexible to accommodate the adjustments to your family dynamic. Otherwise, they may become more bothersome than therapeutic in your grief recovery process.
Define the meaning of the rituals. Rituals become routines if they are not meaningful to your family. The holiday ritual should merely be a time to bring family and friends together to connect with one another.
This simple holiday ritual can be done by yourself or within a group, where you can write a letter or find a special card to record your emotional highs and lows with the loss of your loved one. Reflect on your journey of grief in the past few months leading up to the holidays as well as your hopes for the future. From there you can gather a box of these letters from friends and family and do with it as you please. Whether that’s keeping it as a keepsake, burying it in a special place outside, or have one of your friends read the letters to your ritual group, this ritual will help you feel more connected to your loved one, as it also serves as a grief journal.
Bond over stories with your family and friends and create a ritual group to share stories about your loved one. Have everyone in the group recall their favorite recollections and tell stories about holiday memories that involved your loved one. By sharing positive memories, you can share your loss in a loving way amongst those involved in your loved one’s life, allowing you to connect during the grief recovery process.
Lighting a candle in memory of your loved one during a special holiday such as over Thanksgiving dinner or the lighting of Hanukkah candles.
A great holiday ritual to honor your loved one is by giving your time or financial resources to help others. It can be giving a gift to your loved one’s name, helping others is an admirable way to pay respects to your loved one. Perhaps your loved one had a special cause that was close to their heart, why not offer a scholarship in their name or volunteer your time for that cause during the holidays? Putting your eyes on others is a healthy way to process the pain of your loss during your grief recovery period.
As a part of many family’s holiday traditions, decorating for the holiday season is something to look forward to partaking. In respect of continuing the tradition despite your loss, you can create new rituals to decorate with the rest of your family. Perhaps it’s decorating a wreath with items that reminded you of your loved one or displaying pictures of happy memories of loved ones; a healing way to grief is to craft with your children or grandchildren.
If you want more help and tips to enjoy this holiday season more, you can contact our therapist in Houston at the Grief Recovery Center for more info today. | https://www.griefrecoveryhouston.com/healing-rituals-holidays-grief-recovery/ |
Christmas is coming and I’ve got no idea how it will go.
We are all looking forward to it with a great deal of anticipation.
We hope that we will all be able to enjoy the holidays and make memories together.
There is nothing quite like it and even though I’m not quite sure why, it’s a lot of fun.
I think that Christmas is one of the most important holidays of the year.
I think that it is the first time that Christmas really becomes a part of our lives.
I believe that people come together for that, especially when they have to spend time together in this way.
The holidays bring us together in a way that we cannot fully do otherwise.
We need to be able, when we’re all together in the same place, to be present in the moment.
It’s a time of great reflection and renewal.
I’ve found that it’s the most meaningful time of the season for me, and I think Christmas is that time.
It’s time for people to step out of their comfort zones and get out of the box and let their heart be their own.
It is a time to let go of everything and embrace who we are.
There are so many ways to enjoy Christmas, and for me it’s about sharing the joy of the holidays with my family and friends, and doing something special for them.
It is a celebration of all the wonderful things that have happened this year and to be thankful for all of the blessings that have come from all the people who have made this a special year.
We should all be grateful that we have the gifts that we do have.
We should be thankful that we are so blessed to have the kind of people who are willing to give us gifts.
We have so much to give and we are blessed to be surrounded by people who want to give back.
It reminds me of the story of how the Savior came to our village.
We all had our own stories about what was going on in the world, but this was a community of people from all over the world who came together and said, We want to know the truth.
They wanted to know how Jesus Christ came to be.
It was a little miracle of the Lord.
The stories were told in tongues and the people all had their own stories, but everyone knew that Jesus was the Messiah and that he came from the Father.
It made the community feel like a family and it was so wonderful to be around them.
I just love to have this community, to have all these wonderful people around me.
The gift of God is a wonderful gift, but it is a gift that is not all we have.
God has made us so blessed that we all have to give our gift.
We can’t control the gift of the gifts and the gifts cannot control us.
God is the only true judge of who is worthy of the gift and who can receive it.
But I think everyone should give something back to the community.
I have a little story about Christmas and how we can be thankful.
I had a friend who worked at a clothing store who used to tell me stories about his Christmas.
He would always tell me about how he would have loved to be a teacher and how he could have done all the teaching that he did, but that it was not going to happen because he had no money to buy Christmas decorations.
He told me that his mother and grandmother would never forgive him if he tried to do it and that if he did not have the money to pay for decorations he would probably lose his job.
He was so proud of his work ethic and how hard he worked and that Christmas was the most wonderful time of his life.
I am so blessed because I have so many family and close friends that are also teachers.
I know that the Christmas gift is a very powerful thing.
I’m thankful that they are able to share their Christmas with us.
There’s a very special time to celebrate Christmas.
I hope that every family will have a special Christmas together.
Christmas is a great time to share with people the joy and love of Christmas.
We shouldn’t try to force it or put it on the table.
We really should let it be.
You shouldn’t force Christmas on people and it should be an individual experience and celebration that we can all be very thankful for.
There is a lot to celebrate this year in this time of year.
We know that we’re celebrating a very significant day and we’re excited to see all of our friends and family in a festive mood.
It has been a very important and special time in our lives and I’m excited to be with them again this year.
I hope that our friends who love us all will celebrate the holidays together and that we’ll all be sharing this special time of day with our families.
We need to have a wonderful time and be together as one family.
That is what Christmas is all about. | https://huynhdetruyenky.com/2021/08/why-christmas-is-more-than-just-a-movie-video-game-and-comic-book-holiday/ |
Judy Goetz believes in divine providence – literally.
More than four years ago, she and her husband Aaron found themselves having to relocate their family from North Carolina to Pennsylvania due to work. Packing up was a daunting task; one daughter had just started high school, the other was going into fifth grade.
But the thought of uprooting their oldest son, Garrett, seemed utterly impossible. With severe disabilities and only 5 percent of his vision, the 20-year-old needed the support system his family had worked so hard to build.
And that care was more critical than ever. Six months earlier, Garrett’s longtime cardiologist had advised Judy and Aaron that their son only had months to live.
A move would be a devastating shock for all of them, and the journey ahead would take a turn the devout Catholic family couldn’t begin to imagine.
A life against the odds
Born with a congenital heart defect, Garrett had suffered a cardiac arrest when he was just two weeks old, nearly dying during a 12-hour surgery. Six months later, he was back in the operating room to repair a calcified valve. Intubated 10 times in two weeks during that hospitalization, he spent the next 16 years on a feeding tube.
Due to his blindness, Garrett also endured well over a dozen surgeries on his eyes, leaving him with only scant vision. Brain damage from the cardiac arrest left Garrett nonverbal and impaired his physical mobility. Scar tissue precluded additional heart surgeries; during his last procedure at age 10, “he almost bled out,” said Judy.
Yet Garrett defied daunting odds, bolstered by his loved ones and a network of physicians and therapists. By age 20, he had settled into a rhythm of life, communicating through his unique version of sign language and developing a passion for music and books.
Judy had even started a nonprofit foundation to provide activities and outings for Garrett and other persons with disabilities. Her kitchen was filled with the scent of the apple pies, sweet potato casseroles and jam Garrett and his friends learned to make.
Then two cruel blows struck the family in short order: the grim prognosis from Garrett’s cardiologist, and massive layoffs at Aaron’s company that forced the executive to accept a new position in Pennsylvania or face unemployment.
“We pondered and pondered,” said Judy. “It was quite awful.”
They began preparing for Garrett’s death, and reluctantly concluded that perhaps his pending passing was a sign they were to go on to Pennsylvania.
But once there, they realized that sign was far more than it seemed.
Divine providence, literally
Garrett remained stable during the move to Pennsylvania, and as the family settled in, Judy began reassembling a support network for her son.
“I was just searching for everything,” she said. “I spent many days calling around.”
Although Judy and Aaron couldn’t help but question why God had directed them to Pennsylvania, they prayed for guidance and insight, which came with stunning clarity – especially when Garrett’s new cardiologist asked them why they thought their son was dying.
“That diagnosis had been from a cardiologist we’d had for 16 years,” Judy said. “We’d sat at a conference room table and filled out end-of-life forms.”
With Garrett holding his own, Judy continued her search for resources, eventually connecting with the Communities of Don Guanella and Divine Providence (DGDP) in Springfield.
Administered by archdiocesan Catholic Social Services (CSS), DGDP is licensed by Pennsylvania’s Department of Human Services as an intermediate care facility (ICF) for individuals with intellectual disabilities. The communities provide a continuum of support through community and campus-based living arrangements, life sharing through family living, in-home assistance, respite care and day programs.
As soon as she and Aaron toured DGDP, they realized “the staff was so different than those in group homes back in North Carolina,” said Judy.
“For them, it didn’t feel like a job, but a calling,” she said. “There’s a level of compassion and a call for treating others the way they should be treated.”
Garrett thrived in his new residential environment, and during his visits with his family, he began to show “how happy he was,” Judy said.
In fact, he was quite eager to get back to his own place, she said.
“One time, after he’d spent the night with us, I said, ‘Garrett, I’ll take you back to your house now,’” Judy recalled. “He marched right to the door.”
A home of his own
That sense of independence and belonging reassured the family when Aaron was recruited by a new firm back in North Carolina. Once again, the Goetzes faced a choice that “terrified” them, said Judy.
After “much thought and prayer,” she said, they came to realize that Garrett begun to build his own life at DGDP, where he lived in a group home with full-time caretakers and a handful of other young men with disabilities.
“The sense of pride that he has living ‘on his own’ would be taken away if we did not allow him to stay,” Judy said. “He has found his second family among the staff and his roommates.”
Judy and Aaron packed up their household, but their return trip to North Carolina, though bittersweet, was marked by a profound peace.
“I don’t worry about Garrett at all,” she said. “It feels like a level of extended family, and I know they care.”
She views their Pennsylvania sojourn and the events that spurred it as “divine intervention,” she said, since the family “never would have moved” otherwise.
Today, Garrett enjoys a full schedule at his suburban Delaware County group home, a new, spacious structure with inviting rooms and an expansive yard. He regularly speaks with his family through FaceTime between in-person visits.
In particular, the 24-year-old is an avid reader, said house manager David Saah.
“Other housemates will fall asleep while we’re reading, but Garrett will listen to a book all the way through,” said Saah.
When he’s not absorbed in a story or a group activity, Garrett listens to music and exercises regularly, said Saah.
“G-Man,” as he’s fondly known, is “very accepting” of others, said Saah.
On meeting someone, Garrett will “come very close in your face, trying to recognize the person,” said Saah. “Then he’ll look at you, come closer and kiss your jaw.”
At the same time, Garrett is “very independent,” Saah added.
When he’s ready to take on a new task, said Saah, Garrett leaps to the occasion.
“He’ll jump up and stand,” Saah said. “That’s how he tells me, ‘I’m ready.’”
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Moreno saw groups as consisting of people playing collections of roles and counter-roles in a fascinating interplay. He also believed in the wisdom that emerged from fantasy, dream and imagining. The group metaphor is an action technique that may reveal much of the group’s view of itself and uncover its stuck points and its potential for spontaneity.
Used at the beginning of a group, the metaphor will reveal patterns of being in a group that the participants bring from their life experience. Used in the middle of a group’s life, it may reveal the dynamics in the group, and may give indications of new roles desired by individuals, and some which could profitably be let go of. At the end of a group, it can serve to integrate the experience.
In a staff development situation, the group metaphor provides the consultant and the staff with a great deal of information about the staff dynamics. If it is followed by focusing on desired new roles in the staff team, it can be fun to invite the group to play the most outrageous form of the new role they want to try on. The spontaneity is a delight, and dissipates some of the fears of changing the sociometry of the staff.
The leader may refer to the metaphor in later sessions: “John, that’s great. You’re giving up that administrative function and risking leading an adolescent group! Perhaps this is what you had in mind when you were tired of being ringmaster and wanted to fly on the trapeze!” At other times, the metaphor may work its magic without analysis or reference.
This exercise is a good demonstration technique, as people can take part without too much exposure and can make of it whatever they wish.
The Technique
Group Members Place Themselves
The metaphor is most often constructed by the whole group, using one person’s idea or image. Each person chooses her or his place in the picture. This version may be done as a somewhat quick sketch, perhaps returned to later. It may also lead into a rich discussion about roles in families of origin and roles in this group. The director asks the group members to close their eyes and to complete the following sentence with a metaphor. “This group is like a . . . “-a three-ring circus, a family, a garden, a white water rafting trip. After a few moments, have each person share his/her image.
In choice in action, have all group members move, to stand by the person whose image most aptly describes the group at this moment in time. This may involve some shuffling, as people chosen may move toward others, trailing those who chose them. Eliminate the less chosen and have people choose again until there is a clear energy for one. Resist the temptation to combine two-a family on a white water trip!
Have everyone sit down. Explain that the person whose metaphor was chosen will begin the action and broadly set the scene. He will then take his place in it. After that, the metaphor belongs to the whole group, and each person will find his/her own role in it. One by one, group members take their positions as they identify their roles. They are free to stretch the scene. A metaphor can take the form of a person, an object or a part of nature-whatever the group member wishes. The first person may set a circus scene and take his place as the lion tamer. Others may be trapeze artists, refreshment vendors and audience members. One may be a raven on a tree surveying the circus. The director interviews each one as they come forward, deepening their identification of the role:
- What is really important about what you contribute to this circus? How long have you been here? How do you feel in this circus? What are you wearing? Where exactly are you in relation to the others?
After each person has taken their position, the director says, “OK, roll it!” and the action starts, with the group members interacting in role, playing out their parts. Let the action continue for a few moments, encouraging people to interact in some way with most of the others. Then say, “Freeze!” and ask each person to say in one or two words how they feel in the role. After all have checked in, ask if there is anyone who would like to try out another role. If someone thought that the role of lion tamer was gone, reassure him or her that there is always room for two lion tamers; or the first lion tamer may choose another role. He may also play the role completely differently from the way she did. What would be the hardest role to play?
Have the players change roles. The director once again says, “OK, roll it!” and the action begins again. Repeat the request for a brief sharing of feelings.
Return to the group. If it is a large group, ask people to gather with two or three people close to them. Ask the group to reflect upon roles they chose for themselves. Questions may be handed out on a sheet for people to fill in and then a discussion might follow. Some suggestions for the questions follow.
- Were you surprised as you placed yourself?
- What are some of the characteristics of the role you took? Do they seem to fit you in this group? Is this role a new one? Is it a good one for you or is it an overdeveloped one?
- Do you think others see you this way?
- What do you observe about where you placed yourself in relation to others?
- Are you satisfied with this position?
- Are there ways in which you might change? How could you help yourself? How could others help you?
- What do you observe about how others have taken their places? What does that indicate to you about the group?
One Group Member Places All
When a group has been together for a time and is ready for some self-awareness and feedback, the group metaphor may be directed with one person placing everyone. The group members should know at the beginning that the person whose metaphor they choose will be placing them where he or she sees them in the picture. Instruct them to choose someone whose observation they trust.
Introduce the group metaphor as above, but explain that one person will put their perception into action. As the creator, Harry, puts each person in place, he gives them several sentences about themselves in role, or takes the role to demonstrate it. “I see you on the canoe trip, Andrew, as the stoic who always carries a big pack and never complains.”
Set the metaphor into action for a short time.
Give group members the opportunity to comment on the position in which the creator placed them. Let each person speak fully without interruption.
Discussion Questions (in addition to those above):
- Are you surprised where Harry placed you?
- In what ways does it fit or not fit your perception of yourself?
- Who is close by and who more distant? Does this seem to you to be accurate?
- What feelings were evoked when Harry began to place people? To place you? Now?
- Is there anything you would like to ask or say to Harry now?
- Is there anything you would like the group to know about you? | http://lizwhiteinaction.com/books-actionManual-chapter.html |
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How to discover if your child is a medium
If you too have a child or a daughter, you can understand me: every time that for some reason a child said “you talk in a odd way” to our son, my blood froze.
Our son seemed “odd” since he was a child, since he started to avoid the noisy company of his little nursery school classmates, spending sometimes hours together with some imaginary friends or remaining to fix the void, as if he saw or heard things that we could not hear.
Then, one day, we have discovered: our child had medium ability. With the time he is learning to sharpen them and to hide to the others, since to be too much “different” doesn’t help.
But how can you realize if also your child has cognitive abilities above average? To be true, the experts say, it probably concerns a hereditary line, if not really genetic, therefore you could have other examples in your family.
Since not all when child show in a so evident way this “gift”, as some define it, here are some signal that we have learned to be symptom of these abilities.
IMAGINARY FRIENDS
Children rarely distinguish among what it is real and what is paranormal, if the ghost of another child drew near to your child as to begin to play with him, he could think that is real, while you would think that he deals with an imaginary friend.
Ask him some details as the clothing or the age of these friends.
INTENSE DREAMS
According to some people those who have particularly vivid dreams comes into contact with other dimensions, that can leave a trace in the human subconscious.
If the dreams of your child are always very rich of details and imagination, they could be a revealing signal of his/her superior cognitive abilities.
GREAT INTUITION
Your child could notice details that initially seem few important for then to often reveal fundamental.
Children with a great intuition have a cognitive abilities above the average and they can come into contact with emotions and feelings that others don’t even perceive.
EMPHATY
A empathic child, i.e. with the ability to share other people’s emotions feeling them as proper, is very sensitive to the needs of elderly, alone or sick people, animals and, of course, possible ghosts.
Empathinc children can warn as proper also the pain or the state of sickness of whom is nearby them and to do it proper, have the tendency to turn them on themselves and not to do too much group with others, tightening close relationships with a small number of friends and relatives.
DISCOVER UNKNOWN THINGS
If your son succeeds in always knowing where apparently found lost or forgotten objects are, if he warns the presence of people around himself, for instance forewarning the arrival of a visit, this could be sign of a good medium ability.
NAUSEA AND WHISTLES TO THE EAR
Also physical feelings like sense of nausea or whistles to the ear are signals of possible mediumistic abilities, being a form of reaction to the presence of spirits or other paranormali demonstrations.
THE SECRET GIFT
As has been stated, our child growing tries to hold secret his “gift” more and more.
Is a common reaction, especially during the adolescence, when to be approved from the group is important and to appear too much “different” it is something that the greatest part of boys and girls try to avoid to any cost.
FAMILY MEDIUM
Try to discover if others in your family have ever had the “gift”: a grandmother that knew in advance when she was about to receive a visit, a grandfather that dreamt relatives and friends on the verge of death a few days before having news of it, are signs that compete to confirm that your child or your daughter can be the next medium of your family. | http://www.fanwave.it/en/mysteries/461-how-to-discover-if-your-child-is-a-medium.html |
How to Keep Collaboration From Becoming Consensus
How can you help your team reach a place of collaboration and commitment without consensus? Meddlers believes there are three ways: encourage diversity of thought, promote clear decision-making and commitment, and emphasize alignment and ownership.
Written by:Tara A. Collison, Ph.D.
Think back on some of the team projects you’ve been a part of throughout your career. I’m sure you can remember a time when the group started out strong but devolved into trying to satisfy the lowest common denominator. Most people recognize the value of collaboration; that’s not the issue. It’s when this strategy swings too far in the direction of consensus that you start to lose value. Typically, your goal in any collaborative situation is to produce the best solution to a problem or come up with the most effective idea, then be able to move confidently in the direction of solving said problem. Does that mean every single person in the room needs to agree on what the “best” idea is? We think not.
Admittedly, it can be tricky to foster the kind of environment where collaboration calls for vigorous debate (about ideas, not people) coupled with a willingness to commit even if you don’t agree. But a lack of consensus doesn’t automatically equal a lack of commitment or harmony. So, how do you help your team reach a place of collaboration and commitment but not consensus? Keeping these three things in mind will help you find the right balance:
- Encourage diversity of thought
- Promote clear decision-making and commitment
- Emphasize alignment and ownership
Encourage (and Applaud) Diversity of Thought
Diversity is a facet of collaboration—people with different backgrounds and experience getting together to debate the best possible solution to a problem. Ideally, each member of your team should feel comfortable sharing and “fighting for” the ideas wrought from their diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Encourage this! You can do so by actively building diverse teams, but also by creating the shared understanding and expectation that everyone is free to have a different opinion and can feel comfortable bringing those ideas to the forefront. To do this, you may need to discuss the value of diverse perspectives and approaches on a regular basis. Consider bringing it up during the hiring process, at team meetings, and at employee reviews.
Culture can play an important role here too. Leveraging the power that diversity brings to your team requires you to celebrate and regularly practice active listening. It’s the foundation for true understanding and creates a safe space for everyone to speak up. You can take this even further by intentionally inviting disparate perspectives as a part of the regular course of business. One client I worked with did this with their team by asking every presentation to start with “Why should we NOT do this?” It challenged the team to think from a new perspective.
Clear Decision-Making & Commitment
A collection of diverse minds are able to come up with unique solutions; however, a decision must be made at some point. That’s when collaboration starts to get sticky—when you hinge everything on an ultimate consensus. A good upfront understanding of the process can help. If the team is making the decision, we suggest making it clear who will select an idea and call for commitment—not consensus—because being wrong and course-correcting may be less costly than being slow to choose. Determining who is responsible for making the final call if the team can’t align also supports the process.
Setting the expectation that everyone will get on board even if they don’t agree is a crucial part of the long term success of the idea (and this approach!). Jeff Bezos of Amazon calls this “high-velocity decision-making.” He says, “If you have conviction on a particular direction even though there’s no consensus, it’s helpful to say, ‘Look, I know we disagree on this but will you gamble with me on it? Disagree and commit?’”
It’s good to get this kind of commitment to an idea instead of bulldozing through a collaborative meeting and picking a solution to a problem without conversation. Robust conversation and debate can create a dialogue that encourages someone to get on board with an idea, even if it’s not the idea they initially supported. That’s the real key to commitment. If you’re going to skip the conversation, don’t pretend to call what you’re doing a collaboration.
Align & Take Ownership
After a path forward is established, it’s time to align and act. This means moving forward as if the idea selected was your first choice, regardless of what your perspective was during the debate. It also means ensuring that everyone takes personal accountability and ownership for the end result, not just the outcomes they or their teams produce. In this way, you are both advancing the work, and also developing a ‘sensing’ function where issues may arise that require the team to revisit and realign. (Yep, the cycle starts again.)
Remember, collaboration and commitment are invaluable aspects of teamwork and problem-solving. Consensus, on the other hand, may slow you down or result in the wrong decision. If you want to help your team reach a place of productive collaboration, encourage diversity of thought, promote clear decision-making and commitment, and emphasize personal alignment and ownership. | https://www.meddlers.com/resources/how-to-keep-collaboration-from-becoming-consensus.html |
As an essential component of the academic and creative life of Dalton State College, the Derrell C. Roberts Library provides a stimulating environment that will empower our community of learners to discover and engage with the world’s collected knowledge. The expert staff facilitates access to information resources that will be the catalyst for students, faculty, and staff to grow intellectually and to work effectively within and beyond the Dalton State community. We encourage critical and imaginative thinking, promote lifelong learning, and create collaborative partnerships that enrich the campus and the community.
Library Vision Statement
We will be a library with a global reach, providing a welcoming, vibrant, and inclusive environment for learning, collaboration, knowledge seeking and creation. Through teaching and partnerships in research and education, delivery and preservation of library collections, as well as innovative services and programming, we will ensure the Derrell C. Roberts Library will be a first choice campus destination for information and inspiration.
Library Values
* Service – We serve our campus and community with expert, responsive and courteous staff as well as dynamic physical spaces.
* Collaboration – We seek partnerships to advance scholarship and foster opportunities for lifelong learning.
* Diversity - We choose to be a place where the diversity of ideas, values, and perspectives is welcome and respected.
* Knowledge - We develop exceptional collections, programs and innovative technologies that support teaching, learning and research. | http://libguides.daltonstate.edu/policies |
Why are cross functional teams good?
Cross functional teams help organizations put their customers first, by encouraging effective communication across teams. Bringing people together with different perspectives can improve problem solving and lead to smarter, more sustainable decision making.
How would you best describe a cross-functional team?
A cross-functional team is a team in which the members have different skill sets, but are all working towards a common goal. It often includes people from different departments and from all levels of the organization, though it can also include participants from outside the organization.
What are the characteristics of a functional team?
Characteristics of Well Functioning Teams.
Which characteristics are common among teams with efficient cross functional collaboration?
Key Characteristics of Great Cross-Functional Teams
- They are made up of the right members.
- They put collaboration above competition.
- They have a team leader with excellent communication skills.
- They have the authority and resources to make decisions.
- They have their own communication channels and processes.
What are the disadvantages of cross functional teams?
Even so, the very nature of cross-functional teams can be disadvantageous and cause a team to fail.
- Poor Customer Service.
- Coordination and Skills Issues.
- Temporary Nature.
- High Expectations.
- Lack of Communication.
Why do cross functional teams fail?
Cross-functional teams often fail because the organization lacks a systemic approach. Teams are hurt by unclear governance, by a lack of accountability, by goals that lack specificity, and by organizations’ failure to prioritize the success of cross-functional projects.
What is a cross-functional process?
Many business processes are cross-functional, transcending the boundaries between sales, marketing, manufacturing, and research and development. These cross-functional processes cut across the traditional organizational structure, grouping employees from different functional specialties to complete a piece of work.
What are 5 characteristics of a functional team?
Teamwork is important on any job site. To maximize your team’s ability to work together, strive for these characteristics of well-functioning teams.
- Purpose.
- Roles.
- Priorities.
- Standards.
- Decision-making.
- Clear communication and feedback.
- Effectiveness.
- Personalities.
What is the key characteristics of a cross functional teams in Scrum?
According to the Scrum Guide, a cross-functional team is a team that is organized around a product, a defined portion of a product, a service, or a customer value stream, and must include all competencies needed to accomplish their work without depending on others that are not part of the team.
How do you motivate cross functional teams?
Here are the top 5 ways to build a highly successful cross-functional team
- Build strong 1-to-1 interpersonal relationships.
- Increase diversity understanding.
- Increase trust and respect between colleagues.
- Encourage face-to-face meeting where possible.
- Give employees the space to keep growing and learning.
Why is leading cross functional teams so difficult?
Cross functional collaboration challenges intensify when there are more people to manage and communicate with. More people means that there may be more dominant personalities that are more difficult to manage, especially if a specific leadership role isn’t identified. | https://riunitedformarriage.org/why-are-cross-functional-teams-good/ |
Inclusion is about integrating diversity effortlessly into everyday working, encouraging all to participate and to be their authentic selves. An inclusive workplace respects uniqueness among individuals and nurtures an overall sense of belonging. We celebrate and learn from diverse ideas, backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. This provides us with an opportunity to realize our true potential at work and beyond. The essence of co-creating, guided by our values, defines inclusion and diversity at Wipro.
The entire organization, beginning with our leadership, is aligned with our I&D vision. As the CEO, I serve as the executive sponsor of the I&D Council. Further, I&D is a key agenda item for our Board reviews.
We encourage participation from cross-functional teams. Senior leaders anchor individual inclusion pillars and in turn collaborate across business units/geographies.
We consciously want to increase our diverse talent pool across levels; hence one of our key talent criteria is on diversity hiring, subject to the principles of meritocracy.
Our I&D principles are embedded in our organization’s way of day-to-day working. For instance, digital accessibility has become a key point in our project discussions right from the planning stage. We have an online self-identification form through which persons with disabilities can choose to request any requirements that they may have to enable them to work most effectively.
We are encouraging employees to understand and align with the evolving world of today by believing in boundaryless thinking. We have initiated conversations through leaders on our internal social media platform, and affinity forums globally, which encourage a deeper understanding and awareness of inclusive behaviors. | https://www.businessroundtable.org/policy-perspectives/diversity/wipro-limited |
* The culture at Zappos made it possible for the management to delegate and share responsibilities among the peers. This was evident in the vision created by the CEO of a boundary-less organization. * Their egalitarian culture and empowerment aided them in being innovative and helped the management in tapping and maximizing the creative potential of their employees. This was evident in their strong emphasis on cross-training of employees as part of the new hire process and at making it available for various career enhancing training avenues. * Zappos has been highly successful in keeping the professional confines of the employees as an extension of their family.
I consider that creating and maintaining a diverse workforce and supplier base is one of the Alliant Energy’s missions. They believe different culture, gender, race, age, physical and mental abilities, lifestyles, education and background allow the group as a whole to see and create more angles, perspectives, individual’s talents and ideas. However, because of their big diversity in the company, training is a plus. It will help employees to better understand the range of perspectives offered by a diverse workforce and their benefits. Also, it will eliminate any mistrust, communication problem, misunderstanding, conflict resolution, and lower group cohesiveness.
Or do they just naturally follow the systematic approach to following diversity? I have many more questions that I will address in this proposal and will eventually answer through careful research in my final audit. 3 Diversity In Johnson & Johnson Co. Johnson & Johnson is a company that takes pride in its diversity. Not only do they recognize the necessity for diversity, they take steps to assure that diversity is prominent in the business. Johnson & Johnson’s mission statement is “To embed diversity and inclusion into our business to drive innovation and growth ensuring we better serve patients, customers, employees, and our communities” .
Amongst the company's policies and procedures, you will find such guidelines, as 'equality and diversity'., and 'dealing with harassment and bullying at work' These policies exists to enable all employees to work cohesively. Please make sure that you familiarise yourself with all of the company policies that will assist you within your job role. It is not only important for the company to have full and up to date details of agreed ways of working, it is also a legal requirement. It is vital that this company can show up to date documents, in the forms of policies and procedures, so that employees can gain a better insight into how the company works with others to promote best practice. Little or no documentation relating to agreed ways of working, would breach national regulations, and the standards of this company.
The great thing about benefits it can provide meaning and value to employees that can increase the worker enthusiasm and moral in the work environment. With this, employees will then become more motivated to increase performance and feel secure within the organization which can lead to low turnover rates and highly satisfied employees. 3. Do you believe the incentive benefits such as those offered at Genentech and Zappos can be used in other organizations? Why or why
The cross training shows they are always aware and interested in the advancement of their employees. The cross-functional teams shows that the company values the ideas and interpersonal relationships of their employees. 3. How do cross-functional teams benefit Tootsie Roll Industries? Cross-functional teams are a major benefit, not just in Tootsie Roll.
I thrive on the challenge of demanding positions that permit me to continue to learn and grow within a business. Part of the culture of the company would provide a safe place and structured so that the employees are comfortable within the environment. It would be essential for the company culture to provide valuable resources to perform my duties at the highest standards possible. To complete tasks whether individual or as a team, it is important for employees to have the correct tools to be successful within the proper amount of time. Teamwork centered is an outstanding way to build a network with other people to share information with other employees, customers, or suppliers.
Examples of differences includes nationality, beliefs, disabilities, physical appearance, race, gender, age, educational background, sexual orientation, work experience and social and status. Diversity not only involves how people perceive themselves, but how they perceive others. These perceptions affect interactions. “For a wide assortment of employees to function effectively as an organization, human resource professionals need to deal effectively with issues such as communication, adaptability and change.” www.multiculturaladvantages.com/recruit/diversity. Companies that encourage diversity in the workplace inspire all of their employees to perform to their highest ability.
As part of the orientation Wyndham implements various incentives like benefits for employees and loyal customers, community programs and environmentally friendly practices that put them in a good light with the surrounding community. There is the need to review the stakeholder orientation to ensure that it is helping the firm more than it costs. Wyndham analyses feedback from stakeholders to see how well the new strategy is working. Wyndham works “to maintain social responsibility, as a way of living, working and playing that fully encompasses the vison that Wyndham Worldwide has incorporated.” An organizational culture of good ethics and positive social responsibility creates a huge measure of trust between all the stakeholders. Five core values that Wyndham adopted to maintain this were integrity, respect, individual
This leads to a better working environment. Example of personal skills; | Communication skills are skills that allows individuals to send or receive information which is well understood without any misinterpretations. Communication skills is important in every in Tesco. Tesco makes sure they build their communication skills on good grounds and employees use formal communication when working. good communication skills has improved their business in different ways and has made Tesco one of the successful companies | Suitable qualifications; this is the educational qualities that a person posses that makes him/her suitable for the job role available. | https://www.antiessays.com/free-essays/Benefits-Of-An-Inclusive-Workplace-PJ7CKGQANR.html |
There are so many benefits to using cross-functional teams in agile software development, so we’ve highlighted what we feel are the most important.
1. Faster development times
By having all the necessary skills and expertise on the team, cross-functional teams can work more efficiently and make decisions faster. This can help to speed up the overall development process and reduce the time it takes to bring a product to market.
2. Improved communication and collaboration
Cross-functional teams bring together people with different skills and perspectives, which can lead to more effective communication and collaboration. Team members are able to share their expertise and knowledge with one another, leading to better ideas and solutions.
3. Increased ownership and accountability
When team members have a wide range of skills and expertise, they tend to feel more invested in the project and take more ownership of their work. This can lead to increased accountability and a stronger sense of responsibility for the success of the project.
4. Greater flexibility
Cross-functional teams are more adaptable and better able to respond to changes in the project or market. With a diverse set of skills and expertise, the team can pivot and adjust more easily when needed.
5. Increased innovation
With different perspectives and diverse backgrounds, cross-functional teams can provide more innovative solutions for the problem.
6. Reduced dependencies
Cross-functional teams are less dependent on other teams. This reduces the waiting time for other teams' work, which increases the team's productivity.
7. Better decision making
The cross-functional team can make better decisions since it has a diverse range of skills and expertise, making them more effective and efficient in solving complex problems.
8. The key to making it work?
Cross-functional teams need good leadership and communication in order to function effectively. Clear roles, responsibilities, and good governance are the key to making it work. The approach of agile methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, Lean, etc which are centred around the principles of self-organisation and collaboration, enable cross-functional teams to work more efficiently. | https://www.exponentlabs.io/articles/benefits-of-cross-functional-teams-in-agile-software-development |
Moz is seeking an Engineering Manager for the STAT Web Application team, responsible for a range of tools in STAT Search Analytics, including applications for tracking and analyzing websites’ key search performance data over time. Moz empowers customers to keep pace with the restless world of Search by constantly expanding and improving our suite of data collection, processing, and aggregation services, and by building a suite of analytics and reporting applications on the web.
The team is part of the larger product engineering group at Moz which owns the development of Moz’s core SaaS products, and the future direction of our customer facing solutions. Product engineering collaborates across roles and disciplines to deliver tools for digital marketers in all industries and aspects of Search.
What’s Important to Us
- Servant-Leadership. Our teams thrive through coaching and enabling rather than getting directions. We strive to be supportive, patient, and people-focused.
- Technical savvy. Being technically knowledgeable is good, but having an informed point-of-view for how to make good decisions about and deliver quality technical work is key for sustaining quality products.
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A commitment to shipping. It’s important to deliver, and we value getting new products and features to customers regularly.
- Curiosity and motivation to learn. We’re always looking for opportunities for development and growth.
- Product and customer focus. Our team is invested in the experience of the products we build beyond the code.
- Collaboration. Team-focused communication, knowledge-sharing, and problems solving make us more effective.
- Diversity & Inclusivity. Moz is committed to building diverse teams where people of all identities and backgrounds are welcome, included, and respected. We work to help close the gender gap in tech, and to actively recruit people from other underrepresented groups. We strongly encourage women, gender diverse people, and minority candidates to apply for this role.
What You'll Do
- Lead a team of full-stack developers and help them grow their performance, technical skill, and professional capabilities.
- Coach the team in delivering applications that aggregate and display industry-leading keyword and search engine results data, and help the team move their applications into the next phase of technical evaluation.
- Represent the value of technical investments and retiring debt to the product development process.
- Contribute to product strategy and promote ways of working that create a reliable flow of new products and features to customers.
- Be part of building a culture of collaborative product- and customer-focused development across engineering teams.
- Help build technology and practices that will support growth and sustain operation of Moz products over the next several years.
Experience We Want to See
- 2+ years of experience leading engineers as manager, lead, or equivalent.
- 5+ years experience delivering products or services using web technologies.
- Significant experience over time on a team whose work directly affected customer or end-user experience on a live product.
- Understanding and support for pragmatic, agile software development practices
- Experience building SaaS products, especially mature products that have sustained growth over time.
- Significant experience as a software engineer or SDET.
- Experience using metrics and data to drive software engineering and product-development.
Who You’ll Work With
- A creative, committed, collaborative, and diverse development team who work with lots of interesting technologies.
- A cross-functional product group balancing new feature development with sustaining and expanding the current high-growth product.
- Other engineering leaders who are working to continually improve and evolve the culture and practice of software development at the company, bringing new ways of working and diverse perspectives to our organization.
About STAT (recently acquired by Moz)
We’re a Vancouver-based software company that’s been growing steadily over the last five years, with no signs of slowing down. Our product is a complex, distributed system that gathers, analyzes, and delivers high-volume SEO analytics data for our enterprise clients, fresh every day.
In October of 2018 STAT was acquired by Moz, a long-time friend of ours in Seattle. We’re thrilled to come together as one company! We are both passionate about our shared values and commitment to developing the best organic search solutions for our customers. We’re building a great company and culture together -- come join us!
Sneak Peak at the Goodies:
- Competitive salary, RRSP contributions, stock options
- Generous time off plus $3,000 per year towards your vacation!!
- A sizable wellness and Health spending account
- Medical package including dental, optometry, prescriptions, massage, and physio
- A relaxed and welcoming work environment
- Opportunities for travel, further education, and career growth
- Flexible hours
- And more - ask us about the rest
Some reasons why you’d want to work with us:
- You want to play a big part in growing a young, profitable company
- You do your best in a setting where excellent work is what’s valued—not face time (a good work-life balance is just how we do things)
- You value authenticity and a work environment that values who you are and what you can do
- You’re looking for a big challenge that involves lots of variety, collaboration, inventiveness, and on your toes thinking
- You want to work alongside people who are passionate, friendly, and helpful
We value diversity, equity and inclusion. | https://boards.greenhouse.io/moz/jobs/1511758?gh_jid=1511758 |
The West Suburban Chamber of Commerce believes that a wide array of perspectives allows us, as the collective voice of the region, and all organizations throughout the region to be more effective. We are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion throughout our communities. We are also dedicated to greater diversity and inclusion within our own organization and provide equal opportunity to people of all protected class including, but not limited to: race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identification, ability, income, marital status, age, geographic location, philosophy and veteran status in all levels of staff and governance.
We encourage our leaders and members to embrace the following principles intended to promote diversity as a matter of fairness and effectiveness throughout our region.
Mutual Respect
Within the parameters of our mission and vision, we are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion; and we fundamentally value and respect experiences that are different from our own.
Knowledge and Creativity
By increasing diversity, equity and inclusion, we believe we will access more expansive and varied ideas, information and perspectives, making us more creative, informed investors.
Freedom and Flexibility
We promote a broad approach to diversity while respecting each individual member’s commitment to addressing those aspects most germane to their strategic goals and organizational mission.
Strategic Approach
We believe it is necessary to be strategic and intentional in pursuing meaningful diversity goals as central aspects of our governance and programming. | https://www.wscci.org/pages/CommunityResources-copy |
‘Disentangle: Science in a Gendered World’, the latest exhibition at the University’s LifeSpace Gallery, will explore how ideas of gender impact on research through an array of contemporary art, historical objects and scientific case studies.
The exhibition, which includes artworks by Kira O’Reilly, Jennifer Willet, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Clara Ursitti and Ker Wallwork, will go on display from Friday 1 February until Monday 1 April 2019, with a preview evening taking place on Thursday 31 January between 5-7pm.
Curator Cicely Farrer, said, “Our latest exhibition Disentangle uses the lens of gender to question how we think about our behaviour and interactions with the world around. It includes artworks especially made for the exhibition, as well as rare items from the University’s museum collections. Together these pieces provide a set of perspectives on how we might disentangle the ways we are frequently accustomed to think of gender.”
Professor Inke Näthke, Associate Dean for Professional Culture in the University’s School of Life Sciences, said, “This exhibition is the culmination of a long-standing collaboration between LifeSpace Gallery and the School of Life Sciences’ Athena SWAN team, who were awarded a Silver Award in recognition of sustained work towards gender diversity by this national charter that was created in 2005 to encourage and recognise commitment to promote gender equality in higher education. | https://www.dundee.ac.uk/stories/science-gendered-world-goes-display |
Cross-Functional Teams are groups of people from different departments, backgrounds, and disciplines that come together to solve a problem or achieve an objective. These teams typically involve members with varied skillsets, experiences, and perspectives which allows them to approach the task from multiple angles and develop creative solutions.
Cross-Functional Teams are especially beneficial in organizations where siloed departments can create obstacles to efficient workflow. By breaking down these barriers and combining knowledge from different areas of expertise, these teams can generate innovative ideas that would not be achievable when working alone.
Not only does Cross-Functional Team collaboration help with problem solving but it also encourages better communication within the organization. As members learn more about each other's roles and functions, they become better equipped to identify issues quickly and make decisions more efficiently. This type of teamwork builds trust between departments while also allowing for faster execution of ideas due to everyone being on the same page.
Teams from different departments that come together to work on a specific problem. Using cross-functional teams is considered a best practice in innovation, because it allows the problems to be analyzed from as many angles as possible. There can be communication issues between teams, however, because they do not have expertise in the same areas. | https://www.reallygoodinnovation.com/glossaries/cross-functional-teams |
Founded upon the strong Midwestern values and work ethic of our communities, MPE embraces the varied characteristics, life experiences and perspectives of its people. Diversity is part of our culture and one of the keys to our success.
We strive to create a work environment that provides all of our team members’ equal access to information, development and opportunity. We believe in nurturing talent and engaging all team members in an effort to make a difference for our clients and communities.
Each of us has unique experiences, perspectives and viewpoints. By embracing different cultures, ethnicities, ages, genders, and sexual orientation, we can create a work environment that fosters growth and advancement. MPE recognizes the unique value and skills every individual brings to the workplace. We believe that innovation comes from seeking out and inspiring diversity in all its dimensions.
MPE’s team based environment encourages the sharing of ideas and assures the inclusion of different perspectives. Whether it is being part of one of our manufacturing cells, quality circles or cross-functional, continuous improvement teams, all of our people are empowered and encouraged to challenge the status quo and voice their opinion.
We recognize that in order to serve our diverse global customers, nurturing a diverse workforce and their talents is essential to our success. Our workforce reflects the society in which we live and work, and provides insights and ideas that will strengthen our position as a market leader. Consciously building diverse teams and encouraging diversity of ideas helps us make the greatest impact for our clients, our associates and our communities. | http://mpe-inc.com/our-culture/ |
Objective: Provide students with the education they need to fulfill their aspirations and make a better world.
- Contribute to advancing MIT undergrad education by enhancing the first-year student academic experience.
- Develop an improved undergraduate orientation that aligns with goals for the first year experience.
- Improve our understanding of who chooses MIT and why and improve our ability to communicate MIT’s strengths to continue to attract the world’s most talented students.
- Improve how we communicate undergraduate tuition and financial aid.
- Invent a way to reduce the time between end of finals and graduation by a factor of two.
- Collaborate with PKG to implement an undergraduate service opportunities program.
- Provide a more coordinated interface for students seeking extra- and co-curricular opportunities.
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Serve our graduate students
Objective: Provide students with the education they need to fulfill their aspirations and make a better world and create an environment in which students may produce their best work to support the teaching & research mission of MIT.
- Create new initiatives for graduate students and strengthen existing efforts in partnership with the GSC and DSL, to enhance the graduate student experience with regard to: professional, research and personal advising; professional development; diversity; inclusion; and well-being.
- Work with GSC & DSL to redesign the graduate student orientation experience for onboarding all graduate students at MIT.
- Expand OGE capabilities by leveraging resources from other OVC offices.
- Contribute to developing a rigorous understanding of graduate student housing needs.
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Promote diversity, inclusion & well-being
Objective: To deliver on the OVC mission, we must commit to being diverse and inclusive. Different perspectives create the best solutions and outcomes.
- Inventory and evaluate programs in order to build a more diverse and supportive environment that meets the needs of all students, especially those from underrepresented groups.
- Expand the number of students we reach through OME by creating an online version of Interphase EDGE through a collaboration of ODL, OME & TLL. Evaluate the use of these tools for improving the learning outcomes of on-campus Interphase EDGE students.
- Leverage research and new technologies to support MIT’s enrollment of an undergraduate and graduate student body that is talented and diverse.
- Build stronger diversity programs through collaboration across OVC and MIT. Cross-fertilize best practices across programs.
- Partner with MindHandHeart (MHH) to create a more welcoming environment in OVC offices and catalyze change in MIT departments. This means being intentional about promoting and supporting the overall health and wellbeing of all students, staff, and faculty.
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Broaden advising, career services & professional development
Objective: Equip students with the professional skills they need to thrive in a variety of workplace settings over the course of their careers as national and global leaders.
- Increase opportunities for students to explore a diverse range of academic and career opportunities.
- Enhance academic advising in the first year and beyond for both undergraduate and graduate students in partnership with MHH, faculty, and academic departments.
- Provide undergraduate and graduate students more effective professional development opportunities.
- Build on current programmatic efforts to deliver a robust financial literacy program.
- Provide more effective navigation for students to MIT resources, including both digital and in person components.
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Strengthen academic infrastructure
Objectives: Provide students, faculty and staff with the best tools and classrooms to deliver the optimal student academic experience.
- Identify and implement an electronic learning management system that better serves the needs of students and faculty.
- Define a plan to optimize resources and implement solutions that best support the needs of students, faculty, and staff through a 3-year Education Systems Roadmap
- Improve the subject and teaching evaluation process.
- Create an integrated student dashboard.
- Evolve classroom spaces to improve the teaching and learning environment and support pedagogical innovation.
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Live Our Mission and Values
Objective: Serve as a model organization at MIT for a principle-driven approach towards optimizing the best outcomes.
- Promote staff engagement and professional development through assignments on cross-functional teams that reflect diverse opinions/ideas/experiences/backgrounds.
- Develop and implement a coordinated OVC communications strategy.
- Streamline business practices to optimize efficiency and effectiveness.
- Promote Institute-wide impact by using the TLL’s teaching and learning and assessment and evaluation experts to guide our work both within and outside OVC.
- Strengthen our capabilities in collection, interpretation, and use of qualitative and quantitative information to improve the rigor of decision-making.
- Find additional ways to recognize, reward, and celebrate people within our organization who help fulfill our mission, values, and goals.
- Prioritize and balance on-going activities and new initiatives in a manner consistent with our resources, staffing, and space. | https://ovc.mit.edu/strategic-priorities/goals/ |
Soil biogeography research is the study of the distribution, diversity, and functions of soil biota across different regions and ecosystems. This field of research investigates how soil biotic communities vary across different biomes, their role in ecosystem functions and services, and how they respond to global changes such as climate change, land-use change and pollution.
Equity, diversity, and inclusion research is a multidisciplinary field that studies issues related to fairness, justice and access to opportunities for underrepresented groups. This research examines the ways in which discrimination, bias, and structural inequalities affect individuals and groups, and aims to identify and develop strategies to promote equity and inclusion in various settings, such as workplaces, education, healthcare, and criminal justice.
Scientific collaboration refers to the process of working together with other researchers to conduct scientific research, share knowledge, and advance the field of science. This can include co-authoring scientific papers, working together on research projects, and sharing data and resources. Collaboration allows scientists to share their expertise, ideas, and perspectives, leading to more efficient and effective research. | https://www.plantholobiont.com/team-1 |
Cross functional teams are one of the key ingredients that help make scrum teams successful and productive. Cross functional teams have more flexibility, can react faster to changing needs, and can better handle ongoing support and maintenance.
Why is a cross functional team so important?
Clear and concise communication encourages sharing of ideas between cross-functional teams. Having a cross-functional team means bringing in a diverse group of people who can develop their struggles and strengths of communicating by discussing constructive feedback and understanding diversity issues.
What is the key characteristics of a cross functional teams in Scrum?
According to the Scrum Guide, a cross-functional team is a team that is organized around a product, a defined portion of a product, a service, or a customer value stream, and must include all competencies needed to accomplish their work without depending on others that are not part of the team.
What is a cross functional agile team?
Cross-functional teams are an essential component of agile development. They include people with a variety of complementary skillsets working together to complete projects in sprints or iterations. These are brief periods (usually one month or less) during which small batches of work are built, tested, and delivered.
What are the characteristics of a good scrum team?
Scrum offers a framework that catalyzes the teams learning through discovery, collaboration and experimentation. A great Scrum Team consists of a Product Owner who maximizes value, a Scrum Master who enables continuous improvement and a Development Team who focuses on delivering high quality product increments.
What is the role of cross functional teams?
Cross functional teams help organizations put their customers first, by encouraging effective communication across teams. Bringing people together with different perspectives can improve problem solving and lead to smarter, more sustainable decision making.
Why do cross functional teams fail?
Cross-functional teams often fail because the organization lacks a systemic approach. Teams are hurt by unclear governance, by a lack of accountability, by goals that lack specificity, and by organizations’ failure to prioritize the success of cross-functional projects.
What are the two ways to describe a cross functional agile team?
Two ways to describe cross-functional agile team:
- There is no conflicting priorities.
- They have improved communication and quality.
- They have consistent focus.
- They iterate quickly.
- They lead to greater innovation.
- They use all resources and have alignment in using it.
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What does cross functional working mean?
A cross-functional team is a group of people with different functional expertise working toward a common goal. … Cross-functional teams often function as self-directed teams assigned to a specific task which calls for the input and expertise of numerous departments.
Can scrum teams include cross functional teams?
Teams can be defined as groups of individuals combined together to achieve a common goal and according to Scrum, every approach benefits from using cross-functional teams. … Cross functional teams include all competencies and domain knowledge without depending on others outside the team.
What are the 12 Principles of Agile?
The 12 Agile Principles: What Are They and Do They Still Matter?
- Early and Continuous Delivery of Valuable Software. …
- Embrace Change. …
- Frequent Delivery. …
- Business and Developers Together. …
- Motivated Individuals. …
- Face-to-Face Conversation. …
- Working Software. …
- Technical Excellence.
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Is cross functional team mandatory for agile?
Perhaps the most prevalent and persistent myth in agile is that a cross-functional team is one on which each person possesses every skill necessary to complete the work. This is simply not true. A cross-functional team has members with a variety of skills, but that does not mean each member has all of the skills.
What are characteristics of agile teams?
The main traits everyone on the team should possess are a desire for collaboration and continuous improvement. An Agile team is all about communication (usually daily), teamwork, problem-solving, technical development skills, and striving to improve the team’s velocity with each iteration.
What are the 5 Scrum values?
The five Scrum values are commitment, focus, openness, respect, and courage. According to the Scrum guide, “Successful use of Scrum depends on people becoming more proficient in living these five values.”
What are the 6 Scrum principles?
What are the key scrum principles?
- Control over the empirical process. Transparency, evaluation, and adaptation underlie Scrum methodology.
- Self-organization. …
- Collaboration. …
- Value-based prioritization. …
- Timeboxing. …
- Iterative development.
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What are the three pillars of Scrum?
Three Pillars of Scrum
- Three Pillars of Scrum. The three pillars of Scrum that uphold every implementation of empirical process control are: Transparency. Inspection. Adaptation. …
- Transparency. Inspection. Adaption. Transparency. | https://mytabsapp.com/methodology/why-cross-functional-is-an-important-characteristic-of-scrum-teams.html |
The following lists the sub outcomes, examples of evidence when children can achieve each sub outcome and how educators can promote and help children to achieve EYLF Learning Outcome 2: Children Are Connected With And Contribute To Their World.
When children move into early childhood settings they broaden their experiences as participants in different relationships and communities. When educators create environments in which children experience mutually enjoyable, caring and respectful relationships with people and the environment, children respond accordingly. When children participate collaboratively in everyday routines, events and experiences and have opportunities to contribute to decisions, they learn to live interdependently.
Learning Outcome 2: Children Are Connected With And Contribute To Their World
2.1 Children develop a sense of belonging to groups and communities and an understanding of the reciprocal rights and responsibilities necessary for active community participation.
This is evident when children
- begin to recognize that they have a right to belong to many communities.
- cooperate with others and negotiate roles and relationships in play episodes and group experiences.
- take action to assist other children to participate in social groups.
- broaden their understanding of the world in which they live.
- express an opinion in matters that affect them.
- build on their own social experiences to explore other ways of being.
- participate in reciprocal relationships.
- gradually learn to ‘read’ the behaviours of others and respond appropriately.
- understand different ways of contributing through play and projects.
- demonstrate a sense of belonging and comfort in their environments.
- are playful and respond positively to others, reaching out for company and friendship.
- contribute to fair decision-making about matters that affect them.
Educators promote this learning by:
- promote a sense of community within the early childhood setting.
- build connections between the early childhood setting and the local community.
- provide opportunities for children to investigate ideas, complex concepts and ethical issues that are relevant to their lives and their local communities.
- model language that children can use to express ideas, negotiate roles and collaborate to achieve goals.
- ensure that children have the skills to participate and contribute to group play and projects.
- plan opportunities for children to participate in meaning
2.2 Children respond to diversity with respect.
This is evident when children:
- begin to show concern for others.
- explore the diversity of culture, heritage, background and tradition and that diversity presents opportunities for choices and new understandings.
- become aware of connections, similarities and differences between people.
- listen to others’ ideas and respect different ways of being and doing.
- practice inclusive ways of achieving coexistence.
- notice and react in positive ways to similarities and differences among people.
Educators promote this learning by:
- reflect on their own responses to diversity.
- plan experiences and provide resources that broaden children’s perspectives and encourage appreciation of diversity.
- expose children to different languages and dialects and encourage appreciation of linguistic diversity.
- encourage children to listen to others and to respect diverse perspectives.
- demonstrate positive responses to diversity in their own behaviour and in conversations with children.
- engage in interactions with children that promote respect for diversity and value distinctiveness.
- explore the culture, heritage, backgrounds and traditions of each child within the context of their community.
- explore with children their ideas about diversity.
2.3 Children become aware of fairness.
This is evident when children:
- discover and explore some connections amongst people.
- become aware of ways in which people are included or excluded from physical and social environments.
- develop the ability to recognize unfairness and bias and the capacity to act with compassion and kindness.
- are empowered to make choices and problem-solve to meet their needs in particular contexts.
begin to think critically about fair and unfair behaviour.
- begin to understand and evaluate ways in which texts construct identities and create stereotypes.
Educators promote this learning by:
- notice and listen carefully to children’s concerns and discuss diverse perspectives on issues of inclusion and exclusion and fair and unfair behaviour.
- engage children in discussions about respectful and equal relations such as when a child dominates in the use of resources.
- analyze and discuss with children ways in which texts construct a limited range of identities and reinforce stereotypes.
- draw children’s attention to issues of fairness relevant to them in the early childhood setting and community
2.4 Children become socially responsible and show respect for the environment.
This is evident when children:
- use play to investigate, project and explore new ideas.
- participate with others to solve problems and contribute to group outcomes.
- demonstrate an increasing knowledge of and respect for natural and constructed environments.
- explore, infer, predict and hypothesize in order to develop an increased understanding of the interdependence between land, people, plants and animals.
- show growing appreciation and care for natural and constructed environments.
- explore relationships with other living and non-living things and observe notice and respond to change.
- develop an awareness of the impact of human activity on environments and the interdependence of living things.
Educators promote this learning by:
- provide children with access to a range of natural materials in their environment.
- model respect, care and appreciation for the natural environment.
- find ways of enabling children to care for and learn from the land.
- consider the nature of children’s connectedness to the land and demonstrate respect for community protocols.
- share information and provide children with access to resources about the environment and the impact of human activities on environments.
- embed sustainability in daily routines and practices.
- look for examples of interdependence in the environment and discuss the ways the life and health of living things are interconnected.
References: | https://aussiechildcarenetwork.com.au/articles/childcare-programming/eylf-learning-outcome-2-children-are-connected-with-and-contribute-to-their-world |
As an Information Technology Support Specialist at Stripe, you’ll work with and support Stripes at every level of the company. You will play a critical role in growing the Stripe IT team. You will be the point of contact for IT related issues, will independently help other stripes with their technology needs, and ensure IT issues never hinder the productivity and creativity of fellow Stripes.
We look at Stripe as a constant work in progress and the same is true of our people; for all of us, we believe the best is yet to come. We’re here to support each other in our curiosity and creativity – which we pursue through thoughtful discussion and knowledge-sharing among a diverse set of peers and colleagues.
We want to work in a company of warm, inclusive people who treat their colleagues exceptionally well. The kind of people who are committed to going out of their way to help other Stripes in the short-term and pushing them to improve over the long-term (by helping them to get better at what they do).
We’re a highly cross-functional organization and view that as part of the fun: we design our space to encourage as much collaboration as possible. We have long tables in the kitchen for a reason (to enable everyone to meet new people and learn from them). We also have a culture of transparency that we carry through to email communication, ensuring that Stripes all around the world have the information they need to make good local decisions.
In both our products and our people, we aim to reflect, represent and advocate for all of our users, globally. Our users transcend geography, culture, and language; what we share, collectively, is a drive to create a fairer, more economically interconnected world.
Stripe is the best way to accept payments online and in mobile apps. We handle billions of dollars every year for forward-thinking businesses around the world. | https://fintechfans.com/job/406/it-operations-technician/ |
The Global Career and Technical Education (CTE) toolkit provides resources to help CTE instructors incorporate awareness of global issues and teach global skills.
Skills addressed: Communication, Integration of Multiple Perspectives, Innovation, Empathy, Critical Thinking, Cultural Awareness/Diversity, Problem Solving, Collaboration
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Asia Society is an educational organization dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among peoples, leaders, and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context. Founded in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller, 3rd, Asia Society is a nonpartisan, nonprofit institution with offices across the globe. The Society seeks to provide insight, generate ideas, and promote collaboration to address present challenges and create a shared global future, in the fields of arts, business, culture, education, and policy. | https://skills.worlded.org/resource/global-cte-toolkit/ |
The Mission of Ellipse Theatre Community seeks to build a supportive and artistically aware community through the performing arts and education.
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Theatre requires collaboration. To achieve the best collaborative efforts, we encourage all who partake to embrace a fearless spirit of curiosity, practice active listening and sharing, foster a safe and supportive environment and, above all, treat the work and the people who create and witness it with trust and respect.
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We believe embracing diversity in all its forms is essential to keeping our theatrical work relevant and vital. We seek to continually expand and improve our Inclusion, Diversity, Equality, and Accessibility initiatives so that our plays, events, education, board, staff, volunteers, artists and audience are reflective of our greater community.
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As a theatre, we seek to promote theatre and arts education for the culture of today and tomorrow. As an organization, we will uphold our standing as a not-for-profit organization by being reliable stewards of the public trust and the resources provided to us by our community. We will seek to continually strengthen our artistic leadership through our local community and greater region to foster a vital, nurturing, and financially secure organization that will thrive for generations to come.
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We seek to bring the best possible version of ourselves to our work onstage, behind the scenes, in the classroom, operations, and to our community by holding ourselves to high artistic, professional and personal standards.
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Ellipse Theatre Community is committed to building a creative and dynamic organization that celebrates individual differences and treats everyone with fairness and respect. Inclusion, Diversity, Equality, and Accessibility are important to Ellipse Theatre Community as we believe that the unique perspectives and experiences from throughout our diverse community are invaluable to achieving our Mission and Vision of bringing inspiring live theatre and enriching education opportunities to all members of our community. Ellipse Theatre Community does not discriminate in practices or employment opportunities on the basis of an individual’s race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local regulations. | https://www.etcbend.org/mission |
Prior to coming to Ivey, I worked for a Vancouver-based technology company that develops and manufactures advanced materials for energy-recovery applications. My career progression as an operations manager and member of the executive team in a high-growth business provided me with the opportunity to gain leadership and cross-functional experience at an accelerated pace. While I enjoyed working in this dynamic environment, I chose to pursue an MBA to further expand my business acumen and network of like-minded individuals. Ivey was my obvious choice for three reasons.
First: Ivey Case-Method Learning. Ivey’s unique case-based curriculum offers practical learning and encourages collaboration and boardroom-like discussions. Having had industry experience, it is important for me to be able to apply theory to resolve relevant problems that have an impact in business today. Ivey’s cases cover multi-functional problems in a variety of industries, pushing candidates to develop into well-rounded managers. Furthermore, Ivey’s program is designed to encourage collaboration and discussion. I have found group discussions, both in learning teams and in class, to be very insightful, as peers tend to share their unique work experiences, perspectives, and expertise to provide further context in interpreting and developing solutions to case issues.
Second: the people. I believe that working with the best and brightest has been a key factor in my professional growth and in my early career success. Therefore, the quality of the class, alumni, and faculty was an important consideration to me when selecting an MBA program. Since PKP, I have been impressed with my fellow candidates’ educational, professional, and cultural diversity — all of which contribute to making Ivey a challenging, yet fun, learning environment. The quality of the class also extends outside the classroom — attending Ivey’s Get Connected event in Toronto was a highlight, as it provided our class with the opportunity to meet an exciting and collaborative alumni network that is making strides in today’s professional world. Along with the top-notch faculty and career management team, the people at Ivey provide a solid foundation for candidates to reach their full potential.
Third: the condensed curriculum. Pursuing an MBA requires significant time and financial investment. Ivey’s one-year program is attractive in that it minimizes opportunity costs while maintaining high standards in education; furthermore, the fast-paced learning environment prepares students for an easier transition back to the professional world.
The best way to describe my experience at Ivey is ‘transformational,’ despite only having completed a third of the program thus far. I am excited for the rest of the year ahead, and I would highly encourage prospective candidates to consider Ivey when selecting their MBA program of choice. | https://www.ivey.uwo.ca/mba/students/previous-graduates/kevin-marban/ |
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These business practices foster a respectful culture of diverse perspectives, mutual collaboration and healthy growth.
CommScope is committed to uphold the human rights of its employees. To ensure that our employees are treated with dignity and respect, we follow a well-established labor policy that aligns with recognized standards and guidelines from the International Labor Organization, the United Nations Global Compact, the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, SA8000 and applicable laws.
In accordance with the international standards supporting our management systems, we regularly assess risks and opportunities related to labor practices in our operations and supply chain . Our global labor policy addresses important issues like health and safety, child labor, wages and benefits, working hours, freely chosen employment, discrimination and diversity, humane treatment and freedom of association. We provide a safe working environment and protect the well-being of our employees, customers, suppliers and communities.
By engaging and training our employees, monitoring our progress, conducting periodic audits and sharing best practices, we’re working hard to manage risks related to labor practices and improve the experience of working for us.
Our vision for diversity is to create an inclusive environment that draws upon the strength of the diversity within our workforce to meet and exceed the expectations of our customers, employees and owners. Respectful collaboration and inclusive openness is the key to making it possible. CommScope’s workforce is comprised of individuals of many races, cultures and geographies. That’s something we take pride in, and work constantly to support.
Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), currently a part of our U.S. operations, are a vital part of our commitment to foster an inclusive work environment by cultivating a sense of community. An ERG is a cross-functional team founded by employees focused on a shared purpose, interest, activity or background. Like CommScope, more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies actively support ERGs as a function of promoting volunteerism, community outreach, professional development, mentorship, minority representation and brand advocacy. As CommScope grows globally, sense of global community will drive our success. Grassroots ERGs help shape our company-wide culture, offer a platform to share ideas and creative solutions, and help guide the company’s future.
CommScope facilities sponsor local philanthropic projects throughout the year. For some volunteers , this act of giving back means lending a helping hand in a time of crisis. For others, it takes the form of participation in a charitable activity. For many, it means doing little things that make a genuine difference in people’s lives. In addition to local efforts, CommScope also organizes companywide, global giving events including food and blood drives that benefit thousands of recipients. As part of the company 40th anniversary, employees around the world donated more than five tons of food for charity. That’s estimated to be enough to supply more than 8,400 meals. Employees also donated enough blood to save more than 1,000 lives. | https://www.commscope.com/About-Us/Corporate-Responsibility-and-Sustainability/People/ |
2. Why is empowerment important?
Remember a time when you worked at your best? It is likely to have been a time when you were given freedom and trusted to do it your way. When you give people freedom and trust and start to build an empowerment culture, you create a different attitude among your team.
People are enthusiastic, positive, creative and willing to help others.
Empowered employees understand and believe in the company vision and generate ideas directly aimed at improving products and services.
Empowered employees have increased self-confidence, are keen to develop their own skills and also to find ways to make use of those skills to the company’s benefit.
First and foremost, you need to remember that you are asking people to change their behaviour.
Step 1: Gather information about current behaviour – observe people in meetings, interview them individually and together and note how they behave. Look at employee satisfaction surveys and review the systems and procedures that lay down the style of the organisation.
Step 2: Assess current position – use the information to determine patterns of behaviour. Do people take the initiative? Is there a blame culture? Are people flexible? What sorts of beliefs do people hold about the company, its style and its management?
Step 3: Establish where you want to go – create a clear vision of what you want to achieve, in a way that everyone in your team can relate to. They need to understand the big picture, but they also need to understand specifically how their job contributes to this big picture.
Having done your research into the current situation and the attitudes of your staff and colleagues and then created your vision, you need to plan how to achieve it.
Gain commitment for your vision from all involved – your boss, your colleagues and your staff.
Agree a set of shared values that represent the empowerment culture that you want.
Make changes to the supporting environment (office space, systems, processes and procedures) so that they encourage, rather than hinder, empowered behaviour.
Become a role model by living those values from day one – walk the talk.
Everyone will have a very clear idea of what the organisation does, who its customers are and what its products and services are; they will understand what the company mission is and know how their job contributes to that mission.
Staff will feel that their job matters and will get a real sense of personal satisfaction when the company achieves its targets.
Typical shared values will include mutual support, collaboration, diversity of views and ideas, continuous improvement, self-development, knowledge-sharing, no blame, risk-taking, open and honest feedback, creativity and innovation.
Managers will be role models of company values and will create opportunities for people to grow; they will give praise and make sure people have what they need to be successful.
Knowledge-sharing and joint problem-solving will be standard practice.
People will be willing to take risks and will not fear retribution if mistakes are made.
Staff will be flexible in implementing new ideas or solving problems.
How your people behave will depend on how you behave as their manager. To maintain their trust and commitment, you must ensure that management behaviour is genuinely empowering and that it starts from the top.
Consistency essential: all managers must share the same vision and be committed to it. It is very easy to lose people’s trust if enlightened management behaviour only lasts while things are going well and old patterns emerge when things get tough.
Rather than trying to protect your own position, encourage your people to take responsibility and authority.
Look for people’s good points – praise may achieve far more than criticism.
Other helpful initiatives may include action learning sets, 360 degree assessments and team building efforts.
Treat your people as adults.
The systems and processes of your organisation must support the principles of empowerment.
Your systems and procedures should encourage your team members, rather than inhibiting or obstructing empowered behaviour.
What needs to change to encourage the behaviour you want?
Which of the existing processes are necessary and which can be changed?
The first step towards an empowerment culture is for the manager to give power to employees, so it is not surprising that the most common reasons for empowerment initiatives to fail are all management-based.
Some managers are not up to it.
Some managers do not want empowerment to succeed.
Managers don’t really understand what empowerment means.
Managers don’t appreciate the scale of the task.
Managers have agreed responsibilities and authority with staff, but continue to micro-manage the work.
Managers fail to create an environment that encourages empowered behaviour.
Managers blame staff when things go wrong.
Systems and procedures work against empowered behaviour.
Once an empowerment culture is firmly established, there is the possibility of further development – of handing over the responsibility for managing to the teams themselves.
Firstly, self-managed teams of employees work together and are given goals and objectives by senior management, but are responsible for deciding how they go about achieving those goals.
Secondly, self-directed teams additionally take on responsibility for setting their own goals.
11. How empowered is your team? | https://www.peoplealchemy.co.uk/what-we-do/performance-assistant/topic-list/empowerment/ |
With the vision, invitation and facilitation of the Brisben Center Executive Director, David Cooper, the Understanding Cooking and Nutrition Club (UCAN Club) was formed in August 2018. In November 2018, the Club’s planning committee, made up of Christian Zammas, Dr. Yum Project board member Laura Visioni and Virginia Cooperative Extension agent April Payne—presented their idea for a series of evening workshops for families residing at the center.
The goal is to teach the families cooking and meal-planning skills they can take with them when they leave the shelter.
Based on the assumption that families might not have access to a full kitchen once they leave, the classes will demonstrate how healthy meals can be made on a hot plate, in a crock pot or other implements that simply plug into a wall.
“We want them to leave with skills they can use anywhere they go,” Zammas said.
The classes—which would be taught by volunteers “with a combination of emotion and heart and skill,” Visioni said—will focus on basic formulas for healthy meals, rather than specific recipes.
Some of the class ideas the committee proposed include blender cooking (smoothies and purees), crock pot cooking, “no cook” cooking (salads and healthy no-bake treats) and microwave cooking.
Each topic would be taught along with a course on nutrition basics and food safety.
To begin, the classes will be limited to families instead of single residents of the shelter.
“We want to get to and include the children, so there’s that buy-in and they get excited about cooking food at home,” Zammas said.
The committee members surveyed residents of the shelter at dinner one night to assess their level of interest in different cooking and nutrition-related topics. They found that people most wanted to know how to use the fresh and sometimes unfamiliar ingredients they might get for free from local farms, how to store and use leftovers, how to prepare healthy meals with the tools and equipment they have and where their food comes from.
Organized and formed by the Brisben Center, other partners in the UCAN Club include The Table at St. George’s Episcopal Church, the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, and registered dietitian Leah Courtnage. The coalition hopes to start offering the nutrition classes at the Brisben Center in March 2019.
The UCAN Club volunteers help low-income families learn how to select, prepare, consume, and store healthy food on a tight budget. Children and adult participants will learn to cook with crock pots, microwaves, blenders and other appliances. We need volunteers to help homeless families learn these skills, fundraise/market, and serve on a UCANN Club committee. Time commitments vary. Click here to learn more about the UCAN Club.
Our doors are open to anyone of any age, gender identity, race, creed, religious tradition or national origin. | https://www.brisbencenter.org/the-ucan-club |
All scheduled dates:
- March 5, 2021 - 4:00pm-5:30pm
- March 19, 2021 - 4:00pm-5:30pm
- April 2, 2021 - 4:00pm-5:30pm
- April 16, 2021 - 4:00pm-5:30pm
- April 30, 2021 - 4:00pm-5:30pm
- May 14, 2021 - 4:00pm-5:30pm
The Berkeley Public Library and 18 Reasons present "Cooking Matters at Home," a live and interactive cooking/nutrition class open to all skill levels. The classes will be offered on the following Fridays from 4:00-5:30pm: March 5, March 19, April 2, April 16, April 30 & May 14. Due to space limitaions, patrons may register for 2 individual classes only, please specify which two dates are best for you. Only one reservation per household is required no matter how many people in your household participate. Small groups and individual participation are encouraged. This is a fantastic inter-generational activity, and/or fun to do with a friend. It is also a great way to socialize with new people, all from the safety of your own home! Due to the interactive nature of the classes, attendance is limited and individuals may register for up to two of the classes. Please specify which dates you prefer.
Cooking Matters is helping end hunger by inspiring people to make healthy, affordable food choices. They teach people with limited food budgets to shop for and cook healthy meals. Participants will: 1) Practice using recipe frameworks; 2) Cook healthy and affordable meals for their family from the comfort of their own kitchens; and 3) Discuss ingredient substitutions.
Check out these two archived demonstrations to see examples of what we will be doing: Video one, and Video two.
Ingredients will be provided, so please plan on making an appointment to visit the library to collect these if you wish. The classes and the ingredients are free, but space is limited. Sign-up now. | https://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/events/cooking-matters-home-0 |
We’re almost at the end of 2020 and what a year it has been. I try to tell my kids that this has not been normal, and the only time your school is supposed to be closed is for a snow day. I still get weirded out when I go into a store and see everyone wearing masks, because it feels like a real-life rendition of the movie Contagion (scary movie about a pandemic).
One of the biggest changes to lifestyle has probably been how much everyone is eating at home. Especially in the first few weeks of quarantine, when everything seemed uncertain, restaurants were closed and everyone was eating at home all day long.
Old pots, blenders, food processors, KitchenAids came out of the woodwork as families embarked on making their meals, sometimes from scratch. For a few weeks yeast was even in short supply in the area because families were baking and making their own bread!
I don’t have alot of time, but I even started making my own yogurt with the Instant Pot and a food thermometer (super easy, by the way). I get to flavor it however I please, and I know there is nothing added that I don’t want. It’s also a bit cheaper than buying yogurt.
Let’s be honest though, I’m not skilled at cooking, and I’ll still burn easy stuff (like oatmeal!) because I’m not paying attention. It’s usually because one of the kids has asked for something, but I still feel a bit silly for screwing up easy food.
Sometimes I just need someone to tell me what to do in the kitchen, when I’m too tired or busy. I started asking myself – what’s the solution to this? (Hint, it’s not my husband)
What is Localbites?
Localbites is an online community for virtual home cooking classes. Hosts who are skilled chefs or everyday chefs (unsung heroes of the home I’m looking at you!) create cooking experiences to share with home cooks. Anyone can sign up to be a host, so it can be a great gig for those stuck at home, trying to make a little extra money.
The peer to peer platform is growing, currently with about 100 virtual cooking classes to choose from. Chefs share their talent and passion for cooking, and home cooks pick up culinary skills from quality chefs without even leaving the house.
One of my favorite parts of the platform is that it promotes cross-cultural exchange of cuisine.
You can even learn from a local chef in Italy to experience authentic Italian cooking. Finding out the secrets behind making really good pasta or pizza would make me really popular in my household.
The classes also can cater to any special dietary needs or preferences. Whether you’re vegan, gluten-free, have food allergies, or on a paleo diet, there’s a class for you.
The company’s mission is to build a borderless community of people from different backgrounds and dietary preferences sharing knowledge and love for cooking.
Home cooking for everyone, everywhere
Tired and bored of food deliveries? Each class will take you on a culinary adventure around the world. Try bread baking basics, signature Indian curry, authentic Japanese Yakisoba, and traditional Lebanese hummus to name a few.
There’s a melting pot of talented chefs ranging from certified nutritionists and dieticians to chefs who’ve worked in Three Michelin Star restaurants. All of them share easy to cook meals with recipe ingredients you can readily find at home or in your nearby supermarkets. Eventually, the site plans to allow everyone to post recipes.
Online home cooking classes are great for parents, single individuals, teens, or even as a family bonding activity. Together, you can finally create your own stash of no-bake protein bites.
Have a bored teenager with nothing to do? Get them started in the kitchen. Maybe your kid’s pizza and stromboli will be a hit so the little chef can take over cooking one night a week. The selection of recipes covers any snacks, meal times, or dessert. There are plenty of choices for that sweet tooth with classes for crepes and Italian gelato.
How Localbites Works
Now, you might be curious how Localbites works. It’s free to browse and sign-up for an account. Class fees range from $10 to $100. You can choose to make meals for as few or many people as you want! Preparation and cooking time varies from 20 minutes up to 2.5 hours. Platform service fees apply.
Joining a class is easy. There are categorized choices when you enter the site, grouped by type of cuisine, length of cooking time, price range, diet specifications. There are also categories specifically for couples, busy moms, foodies, or college students.
Once signed up, you can choose a class and send a request to the host along with an introduction, requested date, and the number of participants. You won’t be charged until the host approves the class.
The ingredients list is often included in the description, but you can discuss any desired changes to the menu with the host. Some classes are available daily. Live classes are done through Google Meet or Zoom.
Hosts can post up to 8 classes for now. There’s tremendous flexibility for both hosts and home chefs to book classes according to their own schedule.
My Experience
Even though I grew up eating Asian food, I've had a hard time cooking it somehow. I chose an Asian cooking class so that I could cook a relatively quick and tasty meal for my family.
My host Wing was great and clearly has the cooking chops. (pun intended) She showed me the knife skills I've always wanted to have!
One thing I would have done differently would probably be to wear earbuds while cooking. It worked just to have the laptop on my counter while cooking, but there were times when the exhaust fan was on and I wanted to hear better.
We made fusion noodles and they were a hit!
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Cook Better, Eat Better!
I know I’ve thought to myself before – one day I will learn how to cook better. With a chef in my kitchen (virtually), I can be more confident. The platform is a fun way to get inspired by a passionate community of food lovers. | https://fulltimebaby.com/eat/localbites-review-virtual-chef/ |
Get Kids Cooking to Promote Healthy Eating.
According to a new report, getting kids involved in cooking may make them more likely to choose healthier foods. The study found that cooking programs and classes for children seem to positively influence children’s food preferences and behaviors. Cooking education programs teach children about healthy foods and how to prepare them. These programs also stress the importance of eating five servings of fruits and vegetables every day. If parents are unable to enroll their kids in a cooking class, then they can achieve similar benefits by simply having their children help them while they prepare meals at home in their own kitchen. | http://dryoudeemblog.com/get-kids-cooking-to-promote-healthy-eating/ |
Providing Individuals with Lifelong Nutrition Skills
Adopt-a-Dinner is an exciting way to give directly to the moms and kids who live at our Homeless Shelter, Jane Addams Place.
Through your support, Jane Addams residents will receive healthier, fresher meals and classes on how to prepare them. Food is often one of the most demoralizing aspects of shelter life, but by covering the costs of meals and cooking classes, you help make food a positive part of our residents’ stay. Help us teach healthy eating habits and cooking skills so that they can look forward to a lifetime of good health. | https://www.lutheransettlement.org/adopt-a-dinner/ |
I have loved to cook as long as I can remember! As a child in France, I watched my mother produce wholesome, simple fare. I learned from my native country that food is a pleasure, that cooking is an art and that moderation and variety are the keywords to staying fit and healthy.
Although my past formal training has been in journalism and foreign languages, I have always had a passion for food. In 2002, after being in the publishing field for more than 20 years, I decided to follow my true love, cooking for others, and started Thyme & Again. Seven years later as it was time to adjust the name of my business to the cuisine I am offering to my clients, I decided to rename Thyme & Again and “Everyday Bistro” was born.
For many years I have been the extended family chef, entertaining family members and friends. In recent years, I have further honed my skills through self-instruction—extensive study of cookbooks—as well as attending formal cooking classes. I get my inspiration from my childhood, from family recipes, from memories of food from weekly markets filled with flavor and the fresh meats there from carefully raised livestock, from watching artisans all over Europe, North Africa and the Middle East preparing healthy, time-honored meals with dedication.
I believe that the key to great cuisine starts with great ingredients. I love organic and natural foods with no preservatives and no chemicals. My food rules follow the rules of Slow Food movement activist Michael Pollan: Don’t eat anything your grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food; avoid foods containing ingredients you can’t pronounce; don’t eat anything that wouldn’t eventually rot… Fresh seasonal produce is the best and by the end of June, it is such a joy to have the farmers’ markets again (even if the season is so short here in New England).
I’ve always been fascinated by food and health. Unfortunately, a lot of people have lost touch with knowing what is good for them and how really good food should taste. Confused by bouts of information published in the media, nobody knows really what to eat. Are eggs good proteins or a bad source of cholesterol? Are root vegetables healthy or not? What about white potatoes? Are those devils in disguise or full of nutrients? Are carbohydrates bad for you? And what kind of carbohydrates should we eat and how much? How much protein? What is the difference between organic, non-organic vs. local foods and how these things can affect your health? There are more than 100 dietary theories and each new diet on the market claims to be the best. What we forget is that one person can thrive on a diet where another will feel terrible. Only a true holistic, integrative approach can help people regain their health and balance. No one diet works for everyone. A personalized approach which considers age, health, activity level, food personal tastes and preferences is the right answer. No real food is bad. It just may be not the right one for you. However, you should keep in mind only this one rule: eat and enjoy high-quality homemade food!
Confused and eager to learn more, I decided to become a student of holistic nutrition. I am now a graduate from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York City. I received certification as a Health Counselor through a program accredited by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners (AADP) and the State University of New York (SUNY) Purchase College. With this new knowledge, I strive to help my clients make better choices by cooking or helping them to cook homemade delicious, healthy meals. I just want to follow what Julia Child used to say: “You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces, just good food from fresh ingredients”.
I am a certified food handler, registered with the City of Arlington and I am fully insured.
I am a member of the American Personal and Private Chef Association.
I am a member of the Slow Food movement.
I have worked as a personal chef for the last 15 years. Do you know which ingredients are used in your take-outs? Have you read all the nutrition labels of the processed foods supposed to save you so much time? Food is medicine and cooking your own meals is the best way to maintain or regain your health. Cooking is providing for yourself. I see my cooking classes as the “first step” in the movement of restoring the respectability of cooking. I love to teach the basics, how to shop, how to plan menus, how to organize a kitchen. Cooking is not a burden. It is a life skill that every man, woman and child should master. | https://awakenhealthcenters.org/health-care-our-chef |
All scheduled dates:
- November 20, 2020 - 4:30pm-6:00pm (ended)
- December 4, 2020 - 4:30pm-6:00pm
- December 18, 2020 - 4:30pm-6:00pm
Berkeley Public Library and 18 Reasons presents "Cooking Matters at Home," a live and interactive cooking/nutrition class open to all skill levels on Fridays November 20th, December 4th, and December 18th 2020 from 4:30pm-6:00pm. Please be aware that due to the interactive nature, attendance is limited and advanced sign-ups are required. Only one reservation per household is required no matter how many people in your household participate. This is a great inter-generational activity, and/or a fun activity to do with a friend. All from the safety of your own home!
Cooking Matters is helping end hunger by inspiring people to make healthy, affordable food choices. They teach people with limited food budgets to shop for and cook healthy meals. Participants will: 1) Practice using recipe frameworks; 2) Cook healthy and affordable meals for their family from the comfort of their own kitchens; and 3) Discuss ingredient substitutions.
Check out these two archived demonstations to see a examples of what we will be doing: Video one, and Video two.
Interested participants may sign-up for 1, 2 or all 3 interactive Zoom classes.
Ingredients will be provided, so please plan on making an appointment to visit the library to collect these. The classes and the ingredients are free, but space is limited. Sign-up now. | https://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/events/cooking-matters-home-cooking-classes |
Eating healthily isn't about restriction. We don't have focus on what to subtract, deny, or replace in our diets. I always aim to teach how you can add elements to the way you cook to create meals that are fun and satisfying. By making little "healthy" changes, the benefits start to resonate, and your regular diet naturally becomes more nourishing and healthful.
I build each class I give with by starting with the intention "Fun, delicious, and accepting." My aim is to teach, in an accepting, fun, and inclusive atmosphere, how to prepare well-balanced dishes using whole foods and vegetables at their seasonal peak.
Classes are usually limited to groups of 4 to 6 participants at a time, making the classes fun and conversational. Students will learn how to integrate seasonal ingredients into their own cooking repertoires, with a focus on discovering the positive effect they have on the individual mind and body.
Themes generally change from month to month and I consistently focus on techniques that are accessible to cooks of all levels. No experience is necessary and beginners are always welcome.
In my classes students can let themselves go and just have fun cooking. The atmosphere is accepting, comfortable, and free of judgment. The food we prepare and enjoy creates balance in our hearts and minds.
Food prepared simply and with organic seasonal ingredients is the most delicious, most nourishing to the mind and body. Let's cook together, eat well, smile, and enjoy the balance that comes from treating your body and mind with love and respect.
I hope to see you soon. | http://natsukoyamawaki.com/classinfo.html |
• Toss cauliflower florets with olive oil, lemon juice and salt.
• Roast on a sheet pan for 4 minutes-until slightly colored. Remove from oven and sprinkle zest over cauliflower and add a little more lemon juice and olive oil. Set aside.
• Make the dressing. Add remainder of the lemon juice, vinegar, mashed garlic, olive oil and thyme and whisk.
Dr. Geeta Maker-Clark, an integrative family physician and a pioneer in Chicago-area integrative medicine, has teamed up with Chef Ellen King, owner of Evanston’s popular Hewn Bakery, to present a Food as Medicine workshop series. Held at Hewn Bakery, the workshops offer cooking classes with a twist. Ms. King demonstrates how to cook anti-inflammatory, plant-based dishes, while Dr. Maker-Clark highlights the process with an informative lesson on nutrition, pointing out health benefits and healing properties of the specific ingredients used.
“I grew up in a household where spices and herbs were used for medicinal purposes and eating certain foods at certain times of the day was just a way of life,” said Dr. Maker-Clark.
Dr. Maker-Clark received no nutrition education during medical school and was exposed to very little during her residency. She said she knew inherently that food was a critical component to one’s overall health, and as a doctor and a healer she needed to learn more about it. She spent two years training at the University of Arizona Fellowship in Integrative Medicine under the supervision and mentorship of Dr. Andrew Weil, a world-renowned pioneer in the field of nutrition and well being.
Ms. King, who opened Hewn Bakery at 810 Dempster St. in June 2013, is a classically trained chef, passionate about promoting local and sustainable ingredients. She attended a sustainable farm school in Eastern Washington where she learned to farm organically, cook seasonally and bake bread in a wood-fired oven. Ms. King’s culinary work led her to food activism, and she is an advocate for educating the general public about healthy, local eating.
When Dr. Maker-Clark began taking private cooking lessons from Ms. King several years ago in her Evanston home, the duo sensed they were onto something.
“Ellen was teaching me some basic cooking skills out of her kitchen, and while she was teaching me, we realized I was also teaching her about the health benefits of the ingredients she was using,” said Dr. Maker-Clark.
The two shared so much information with each other during those cooking lessons they decided that together they had a lot to bring to the table. They began offering a few classes here and there to the community. The classes were so well received, requests for more increased and the Food as Medicine workshop series was created.
group eats Ms. King’s prepared meal together.
The meals are all plant-based, although fish and eggs do show up in some of the recipes. Dr. Maker-Clark believes a plant-based diet is the best option for treating disease and living a healthy life. However, she notes that every individual needs to be treated differently based on one’s constitution and health concerns.
Dr. Maker-Clark said she has seen firsthand many of her own patients improve their health by switching to an anti-inflammatory, plant-based diet.
“Someone with a highly inflammable illness such as rheumatoid arthritis or diabetes would see drastic improvement making dietary changes, but we’ve also seen improvement in everything from headaches to depression to abdominal pain,” she added.
Dr. Maker-Clark said she is seeing a shift in the way Americans look at food and their health.
“A lot of collaboration is happening between farmers and chefs and policymakers, and the medical and healthcare industry is getting more involved in that conversation, too,” she said.
Dr. Maker-Clark is involved in a program at the University of Chicago that is creating a culinary medicine curriculum for the purpose of training future doctors to be able to talk with patients about food and nutrition.
In the meantime, individuals are learning to take charge of their own health by educating themselves and perhaps enrolling in a Food as Medicine workshop.
More information on upcoming workshops is available at drgeetamakerclark.com. | https://evanstonroundtable.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=10213&TM=3189.193 |
The Oldways A Taste of African Heritage is designed to help people eat and live more healthfully through a traditional diet—specifically, to incorporate more fruits, vegetables, and other plant-based traditional foods, and to prepare more home-cooked healthy meals per week.
With lesson plans that simultaneously teach history, nutrition, and cooking techniques, this six-week program introduces participants to the rich cultural history of African heritage foods while providing them the tools they need to adopt this traditional way of eating for better health in modern day life.
Adult learners of all interests and backgrounds are welcome!
PLEASE NOTE: This is a 6-week program. Classes are every Tuesday from 2 PM to 4 PM.
Class Dates:
- October 9
- October 16
- October 23
- October 30
- November 6
- November 13
Contact Madea Allen, Community Education Program Manager at [email protected] or 240-268-2548 for more information or with questions. | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-taste-of-african-heritage-tickets-50406771009 |
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