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doc-0 | Home » Primetals and Tata Steel to partner on green steel transition
Author: Lucas Möllers
The signing ceremony took place at Tata Steel’s headquarters in India. (source: Tata Steel)
Primetals Technologies and Indian steel producer Tata Steel signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to intensify their collaboration on projects and technology related to green steel and decarbonization. The signing ceremony took place at Tata Steel’s headquarters in Mumbai, India.
Tata Steel is prioritizing decarbonization and is looking for solutions to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045. Tata Steel has partnered with Primetals Technologies as one of several steps being taken. The market leader in environmental innovations for the metals industry, Primetals Technologies has an organization in place that is dedicated to green steel technology and the transformation of the steel industry. This organization extends to all of the company’s departments. Primetals Technologies will
provide Tata Steel with engineering expertise as well as support in implementing green steel technology.
“We are extremely excited to support Tata Steel in decarbonizing its production lines. Primetals Technologies is the global frontrunner and we have a broad portfolio in the field of green steel production solutions, including hydrogen-based ironmaking, electric steelmaking, and endless casting and rolling technologies. As a part of the larger Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group, we also have innovations for carbon capture utilization and storage at our disposal,” says Norbert Petermaier, Executive Vice President, Sales at Primetals Technologies.
Tata Steel, together with its subsidiaries, associates, and joint ventures, is one of the world’s largest steel producers. It is also among the most geographically diversified, with operations and commercial presence across the world. Primetals Technologies possesses both high engineering competence and proven solutions in, for example, the fields of decarbonization, reduction in emissions, greater energy efficiency, and improved circularity and yield. The green steel portfolio covers the entire iron and steel production chain: upstream, downstream, metallurgical services, and electrics and automation. |
doc-1 | Posted 5 December 2017 at 9:46 am
Believe me, the “pillars” of the republican establishment in the Town of Murray breathed a deep sigh of relief after their 70 carefully solicited absentee ballots were counted following election day in November. Joe Sidonio and his upstart candidacy came up 6 votes short in what may well have been the most admirable political campaign in Town of Murray history.
The “pillars” may want to maintain a posture of vigilance, as my suspicion is that Joe Sidonio is not going away.
Unfortunately for those who may be even more convinced than ever that they invented “clever”, Sidonio’s message and base of support is rock solid. His campaign wasn’t based on “fake news”. Rather, his courage inspired a town to dream of returning government to its people.
Due entirely to the fact that Murray has no functioning Democratic committee, Sidonio was unable to receive a Democratic cross endorsement (which I favored). Keep in mind that a literal handful of additional votes from those who mistakenly view all politicians as the same (they aren’t) might very well have secured Sidonio an election victory for the history books.
Having a “C” and an “I” beside his name on the ballot were not enough for Joe to overcome the absence of the coveted “R”. That “R” has made it possible for a handful of Orleans County “leaders” to do all manner of things that Orleans County residents may eventually come to regret.
But, how can the establishment claim victory in Murray? Fortunately for him, victorious County Judge candidate Sandy Church didn’t need to carry Murray. From what I hear, though he won fairly convincingly Countywide with an “R” beside his name, Church and his opponent, Democrat and Conservative Party endorsed Tonia Ettinger, finished in a tie in the Republican County Chairman’s hometown! You may need to re-read that one.
One thing is clear to me. Joe Sidonio is serious about serving the interests of the people in Murray. He didn’t need the money. He didn’t need to bring the grief upon his family.
Be thankful for those who try.
Gary Kent |
doc-2 | January 7, 2010 by Matt
Social sim. engine, pt. 2
So what’s first? I’ve got the requirements down, so now I need to start translating that in to code.
The most basic thing I’ll need to build is a player. I like to use a simple MVC pattern for this. It’ll need to be a very scaled down version of my Ramen player so that should be easy enough.
The player/controller will have the model load an XML file that contains the information for the characters, the structure of the sim and some settings (ui, speed, don’t know at this point). Model will do a little parsing and then the view will take over and draw the UI. After we’re all set up, the player will show the first page.
Each page will be a movie clip in the library of the player. In ramen, each page is an external SWF, but I’d like to keep this player simple. Having everything in one place will make it easier to keep a consistent UI and make it easier to edit. The content for each page will be stored in an XML file. I’ll need a class for the page that handles loading the XML and then kicking off any interaction specific interaction code. So a base template class and a few subclasses for each specific type.
Also need to come up with a schema for the XML and keep it as human readable as possible. Keeping the structure separate from the content of the questions should help a little. But as the complexity of the simulation goes up so will the mark up. I’m not quite sure how the variables and evaluations of the dynamic state will even be defined yet.
All of that will probably take me a week or so to get though. I’ll have screen shots up as I make progress.
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doc-3 | Angelina Jolie is an Oscar winner American actress, filmmaker and humanitarian. She gives a great contribution to the world as a flourishing brand ambassador and by conducting many human welfare programs. She is the most successful leading actress in Hollywood, who raised her standards up in the most stunning actresses of the world.
Angelina Jolie was born in Los Angeles, California on June 4,1975. Her father Jon Voight is a famous Oscar winner and her mother Marcheline Bertrand is also a very famous actress. Jolie is of German and Slovak descent from her father’s side and on her mother’s side, she is of primarily French-Canadian, Dutch, and German ancestry. She faced many problems in her childhood time. After their parents divorce, Angelina and her brothers lived with their mother. Because of the separation of their parents, Angelina faced many financial problems and lived a very simple life. They only have the option to survived on her mother’s modest income.
Angelina Jolie firstly, joined Beverly Hills High School for her early studies. But she did not enjoy her years in this school because of getting teased by other students, who targeted her for wearing glasses and teeth braces. Then she moved to Moreno High School, which is an alternative school where she become a Punk Outsider. At the age of eleven, Angelina’s family moved back to Los Angeles and she began studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. After completing her study in Lee Strasberg, She undertook some film studies at New York University and later joined the renowned Met Theatre Group in Los Angeles.
At Age 16, she starts her profession in modeling and become a famous face, which appeared in some music videos. She has made her first on -stage role as a German S&M dominatrix. After some time she began to learn the acting skills from her father Jon Voight and she become a successful model and appearing with Meat Loaf’ in the video ‘Rock’n’Roll Dreams Come Through’. Angelina expand her first taste of screen acting by starring in no less than five of her brother James’s student films. After that she gives many movies where she raises herself and her skill one by one in the way of success. She gave wonderful successful movies like Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Girl interrupted, Gia, Salt, A Mighty Heart, Changeling, Maleficent and many others.
She is the Oscar winner personality and won many wonderful awards. She got her first Oscar because of playing a fabulous role in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in 1975. Jolie won the triple crown “Girl” impel her to win the Golden Globe Award, the SAG Award and the Academy Award for best leading actress in a supporting role. She earns many other popular awards, which helps in making her career successful and famous in all over the world.
Angelina, a famous actress is a also a very good human being. She works to obtain aid for refugees in Cambodia, Darfur and Jordan, to name just a few and received the Global Humanitarian Action Award from the United Nations Association of the USA in the year 2005. Because of her excellent contribution she gains more attention from the press. She also shows a huge interest in pets and collected the snakes and lizards. The name of her favorite Snake was Harry Dean Stanton and her favorite lizard was called Vladimir.
Angelina Jolie is also famous because of the newspaper headlines which related to her personal affairs. She got married three times. Firstly, she married in 1995 with Hackers Co-star Jonny Lee Miller and they got separated in 1999 by getting divorced. After some year, Jolie married Academy award winner Actor Billy Bob Thornton and divorced in 2003. In the year 2002, Jolie adopted a son from Cambodia and named him Maddox and a daughter, Zahara three years later from Maddox adoption. She met with Actor Brad Pitt, who adopt her both kids with proper paperwork and in year 2006, the biological daughter, Shiloh of Jolie and Pitt was born in Namibia. After that, she adopts some more child and also gave birth to twin babies. In the year 2012, Jolie and Pitt become engaged and married after some times.
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doc-4 | The adductor mandibulae complex has been a subject of discussion and uncertainties due to a wide range of differentiations and fusions that have occurred during teleost evolution. The adductor mandibulae of numerous catfishes was studied in detail and compared with that of several other teleosts described in the literature. Our observations and comparisons demonstrate that: 1) the adductors mandibulae Aomega, A2, and A3 of acanthopterygians correspond, respectively, to the Aomega, A2, and A3 of ostariophysines; 2) the antero-dorso-lateral (A1) and the antero-ventro-lateral (A1-OST) sections of the adductor mandibulae present, respectively, in acanthopterygians and in basal ostariophysines are the result of two different patterns of differentiation of this muscle; 3) some derived ostariophysines present a lateral section of the adductor mandibulae attached to the upper jaw (A0) that is not homologous with any other section of this muscle present in any other ostariophysine or acanthopterygian fish; 4) the configuration of the adductor mandibulae present in Diplomystes seems to be the plesiomorphic condition for catfishes; and 5) the muscle retractor tentaculi, present in a large number of catfishes, is derived from the inner section of the adductor mandibulae (A3) and, thus, is not homologous with the lateral bundle of this muscle (A0) that inserts on the upper jaw in some derived ostariophysine fishes. |
doc-5 | A day after celebrating her fifth wedding anniversary, Lola Okoye has declared that she is lost for words over her husband, Peter Okoye, and his twin brother, Paul.
The brothers, formerly known together as P-Square, are engaged in a bitter sibling rivalry.
They finally broke up as a music duo last year after several attempts at going their separate ways in the past.
The brothers have since launched solo careers which with little or no success.
Bothered about their ego-driven war, Lola posted a picture of the two brothers together with two of their kids on their birthday.
She prayed for them while insisting they are one.
“Happy Birthday guys,” she wrote.
“I am lost for words when it comes to your matter. I pray the Almighty God continues to guide and protect you. I pray that our father in heaven speaks to you individually and softens your hearts.”
Peter had promised in a wedding anniversary message on Saturday to protect his wife from all those who want to throw insults at her.
His brother, Paul and Jude, had been accused in the past of hating the woman and blaming her for coming between them.
Her husband, however, insists that he made the right decision by marrying her, describing the statement that “blood is thicker than water” as nonsense. |
doc-6 | What makes a good guitar solo? This is a question that has been debated for centuries. Some say it is the technical ability of the player, while others believe it is the emotion and feeling conveyed through the music. There are many factors that contribute to a great guitar solo, but in the end, it is up to the listener to determine what they enjoy most.
There are many different types of guitar solos, from the fast and furious shredding of metal bands to the more mellow and bluesy licks of classic rockers. No matter what genre you prefer, there are certain qualities that all great guitar solos share.
One of the most important aspects of a great guitar solo is the melody. A solo should have a catchy hook that will stay in the listener’s head long after the song is over. The best solos are those that are able to stand on their own as great pieces of music, even if they are being played over a simple chord progression.
Another important quality of a great guitar solo is emotion. A solo should be able to convey the feeling of the song, whether it be happiness, sadness, anger, or any other emotion. The best way to do this is to really feel the music yourself as you are playing. Let the emotions flow through you and into your fingers.
Finally, a great guitar solo must be memorable. It should be something that the listener will want to hear again and again. It should be unique and distinguishable from other solos in the same genre. A great guitar solo will leave the listener wanting more, and eager to hear what else the artist has to offer.
So next time you’re listening to your favorite band, take a minute to appreciate the guitar solo – chances are, it’s pretty great. |
doc-7 | Learn more about Hazeltine National
U.S. Junior Amateur website
Qualifying Sneak Peak
U.S. Junior Amateur Fast Facts
Hazeltine National is Proud to Host the 2020 U.S. Junior Amateur Championship
NOTICE: On April 24, 2020, the USGA has elected to cancel the upcoming 2020 U.S. Junior Amateur Championship due to COVID-19 pandemic. Please read the press release available, HERE.
See below for more information on volunteer opportunities!
Hazeltine National and the state of Minnesota are excited to host the U.S. Amateur Championship July 18-25 of 2020. This marks Hazeltine's 9th USGA Championship.
For most contestants, this championship will be their pinnacle achievement in golf — we are calling on everyone to help in hosting what will surely be a very memorable championship experience.
Volunteer opportunities include but are not limited to:
Forecaddies
Standard Bearers
Status Boards
Evacuation Drivers
Volunteer Hospitality
On behalf of the Hazeltine National Golf Club and the U.S. Junior Amateur Executive Committee, thank you in advance for helping make the 2020 U.S. Junior Amateur Championship a wonderful and exciting experience for the contestants. |
doc-8 | Missouri S&T choir students Zachary Palmer, Nicholas Bourisaw, Danielle Baker and Victoria Kramer at the 2019 Missouri Music Educators Association Conference in Osage Beach, Missouri. Photo by Lorie Francis.
Four Missouri S&T students performed in the Missouri All-Collegiate Honor Choir at the 81st Missouri Music Educators Association (MMEA) Conference on Jan. 25 at Tan-Tar-A Resort in Osage Beach, Missouri.
The All-Collegiate Honor Choir, formed every four years, is a selected group of college-level choir members throughout the state. S&T’s participating students are Soprano Victoria Kramer, soprano; Danielle Baker, alto; Nicholas Bourisaw, tenor; and Zachary Palmer, bass.
“It was an interesting experience for me since I was one of only a few non-music majors participating,” says Zachary Palmer, a senior in ceramic engineering from Omaha, Nebraska. “It gave me a chance to make new friends from around the state and to sing among some very talented musicians.”
“Singing with the collegiate choir was a fantastic and once-in-a lifetime experience,” says Victoria Kramer, a chemical engineering student with minors in biology and music, from St. Louis. “Practicing and performing the music for the concert among such talented and dedicated musicians was such a blessing. I am so thankful that I had the opportunity to participate in the choir.”
Eliza Rubenstein, a Missouri native and director of choral and vocal activities at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California, led the students as guest conductor. She also serves as artistic director of the Orange County Women’s Chorus and the Long Beach Chorale and Chamber Orchestra, as well as music director at Mesa Verde United Methodist Church.
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doc-9 | A billionaire’s vision for California university’s ‘destructive’ ‘mega-dorm’ ignites firestorm
Joshua Bote, SFGATE
An aerial view of the University of California, Santa Barbara campus.
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A proposed development on one University of California campus has ignited intense controversy and a social media backlash following a fiery condemnation by a campus-affiliated architect.
As reported by the Santa Barbara Independent Thursday, Southern California architect Dennis McFadden sent in his resignation and an excoriation of a building development proposed by Berkshire Hathaway investor (and close friend of Warren Buffett) Charles Munger for the University of California, Santa Barbara campus.
The building, known as Munger Hall, would be 11 stories and house 4,500 students. Munger would donate $200 million to the project, the Independent reported, under the condition that it upholds the blueprint he designed to the letter, without any revisions.
McFadden, who served on a design committee for the campus, was sharply critical of the structure, citing its “unprecedented size” and its failures to consider the overlying Isla Vista area or include “natural light, air and views” for students. (He no longer shows up as the “design consultant” on the UCSB website, as the position is currently listed as vacant.)
“ … In the nearly fifteen years I served as a consulting architect to the [committee], no project was brought before the committee that is larger, more transformational and potentially more destructive to the campus as a place than Munger Hall,” McFadden wrote in his resignation, obtained by the Daily Nexus, the campus’ student-run newspaper.
“The basic concept of Munger Hall as a place for students to live,” he later writes, “is unsupportable from my perspective as an architect, a parent and a human being.”
Some eyebrow-raising details emerge in his screed. Munger Hall, in what the Independent reported as a desire to “coax residents out of their rooms and into larger common areas, where they could interact and collaborate,” fails to feature outward-facing windows in the vast majority of the individual dorm rooms.
Instead, the building would use “artificial light and mechanical ventilation,” McFadden writes.
The building would also have a population density of 221,000 students per square mile, he notes, “which would qualify it as the eighth densest neighborhood in the world,” behind a neighborhood in Bangladesh.
He also writes that the building does not take into consideration the remainder of the campus or the Isla Vista community, instead being “an alien world parked at the corner of the campus.”
Despite his stunning repudiation — and increasing aggravation on social media, including remarks likening the dorms to European prisons and "Squid Game" holding cells — over the proposal, the university seems to have no plans to change its mind, or push back against the benefactor who moonlighted as an amateur architect for the dormitory.
“The Munger Hall project and design is continuing to move forward as planned,” campus spokesperson Andrea Estrada told the Daily Nexus. “We are delighted to be moving forward with this transformational project.”
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Joshua Bote is the tech editor at SFGATE. He grew up in the Los Angeles area, went to UC Berkeley and has previously worked as a news reporter at USA Today and SFGATE and a music writer at NPR. Email: joshua.bote@sfgate.com |
doc-10 | Susan Sarandon (Image: Getty)
Did Susan Sarandon Split From Boyfriend Jonathan Bricklin Over Reality TV Series?
by Chelsea ReganApril 30, 2015, 4:00 pmApril 30, 2015, 4:00 pmApril 30, 2015, 4:00 pmNews >
Susan Sarandon has reportedly broken things off with her boyfriend of five years, Jonathan Bricklin, because of issues that arose while filming reality TV series, Connected.
Susan Sarandon, Jonathan Bricklin Split?
Bricklin, 37, was given the opportunity to star in AOL’s digital series Connected, which will feature six New Yorkers documenting their own lives with handheld cameras. Since Bricklin’s girlfriend is movie star Sarandon, 68, it meant that she too would be appearing on the series. According to insiders, their breakup occurred during filming.
“The whole [split] was documented on the show,” a source told E! News. “The split was recent… At first, Susan was onboard with the show. For the last five years, the relationship has been mostly about her. He was given the opportunity to do Connected and really wanted it. He needed something that was going to be about him. She agreed.”
“As filming went on, she started to get uncomfortable. Even though the filming was supposed to focus on him, producers kept making it about her,” the source added. “They wanted the movie star. They put pressure on him to deliver more with her and she finally put her foot down.”
As the reports of a split spread, Bricklin spoke out about the rumors, stating that while the show did bring up issues, it did not end their relationship.
“Susan and I have a lot of respect and great admiration for each other. It’s impossible to concisely characterize our relationship, other than to say that it continues to evolve in new and unexpected ways,” Bricklin said in a statement. “She supported my decision to be a part of AOL’s Connected, and making this series about my life has brought up real and somewhat unexplored issues, but it didn’t break us up.”
Sarandon, who was previously married to Chris Sarandon and had a longterm relationship with actor Tim Robbins, only opened up about her relationship with Bricklin last October.
“It’s the soul of a person that interests me,” she told Hello! magazine. “When you are in love, the question of age, sex, color no longer hold any importance.”
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doc-11 | Home Your Move Mean People… And What to Do About Them • Part 1
Hi everybody welcome to your move where we help you make better decisions and live with fewer regrets. I’M andy stanley and i’ll be your guide, and today we’re talking about those people. We try to avoid them.
We don’t always know what to do with them and we try real hard not to become like them. That’S right today we are talking about mean people and what to do about them. So do you know what you mean? People stick around [ Music ].
So today is um part, one of a two-part series entitled mean people and what to do about them mean people and what to do about them. I i thought about entitling this series, bad people and what to do about them, but you know we hesitate to call anybody bad.
We say things like this, like you know, he’s he’s really not he’s really not a bad person and that’s what we say he’s really not a bad person. He just he just does bad things like a lot, which i think that’s what it means to be a bad person, but so we’re not going to do a bad person.
We’Re going to do mean person we’re going to stick with mean people mean people and specifically, what should we do about the mean people in our lives, and by mean i mean mean these: are the unpleasant people uh? These are the deceptive people.
These are the people that control us with time or money or with our children. These are the users they’re just they’re, just unkind. It may be that person that when you see them coming, you just don’t want to interact with them, because well they’re, just there’s just no other way to say it.
They’Re just mean and to be clear. This isn’t to say that we’re not often mean i mean all of us have been mean at some point. In fact, there’s somebody maybe who’s going to see or hear this message and unfortunately we’re going to come to mind.
But generally, what we talk about when we’re together is how to live a life in such a way and to live our lives in such a way. That we’re not the mean people so we’re not discounting the fact that from time to time we can be mean and certainly have the potential um to be perhaps as mean as the meanest person we’ve ever met.
But this these two messages are going to focus on how to respond to and how to react to the mean people in our lives now. The reason this is so important um is this is, if, if you don’t have a plan, and if i don’t have a plan um if we’re not prepared and honestly as we’re going to see if we’re not somewhat proactive, here’s what happens – and we we’ve all experienced This the mean people the mean people in our lives.
Ultimately, they gain a measure of control over our lives and before we know it we’re actually acting like they do, and it feels in the moment as if we have no choice. In fact, if somebody were to hear your story or when you tell your story and you talk about how you’ve reacted to or responded to, the person that you know is mean to you um the person that hears your story is like well, who could blame you? It’S almost like, it’s like you, have no choice and the reason it feels like we have no choice is this: that mean people, and we don’t think in these terms when we’re in the relationship but mean people without even meaning to they just keep us off balance.
We’Re just always off balance; we don’t know where what we’re walking into we don’t know how to respond. They kind of lean left and we kind of lean right, because, when we’re off balance, what happens we’re forced to compensate? This is why, in these relationships, you feel like you’re, not even yourself.
In fact somebody may have said to you. You know when you’re around him when you’re around her when you’re together, i feel like, i feel like you’re, not even yourself. Why? Because well, when we’re around these kinds of people, we are forced to compensate if somebody walks up and pushes you off balance.
Everything in you would you compensate to regain your balance, but the problem with a mean person is: it is impossible. It is virtually impossible to maintain and keep your balance i’ll. Give you a quick illustration that actually is a long illustration.
I’M going to try to keep short when my mom who died when she was 82. When my mom was in her late 30s, she met a young woman in her late 20s that she helped out and they became lifelong friends. Her name was alice and alice actually used to stay with me with my sister and me when my parents would go out of town, so i’ve known alice, basically my whole life.
So then, when my mom was in her 70s and basically she couldn’t drive anymore and she really had needed some. Some help at home alice would actually drive 45 minutes from her home. Now alice is in her late 60s.
She would drive from her home 45 minutes to my mom’s home every single week to go through my mom’s mail pay, my mom’s bills balance my mom’s checkbook and just answer any questions and just spend time with my mom, which i was so grateful for.
So my mom invested in her now she’s investing in my mom and again it took so much pressure off of me so extraordinarily grateful. So, as my mom neared, the end of her life and as she was, you know, less and less able to take care of herself um alice began to lose her sight and before long she couldn’t drive any longer and she was basically a shut-in in her own Home and then sandra, my wife began doing for alice what alice had done for my mom so as time goes by, it becomes clear to us that alice can’t stay in her house any longer, because technically she was living alone.
We’Ll come back to that in just a minute and so sandra convinced alice that she needed to move to assisted living now. If anyone here has ever moved a parent, um or a spouse’s parent to assisted living, it is so complicated, but it’s even more complicated.
We’Re trying to move somebody who is not a family member, so sandra got an attorney. She became alice’s official legal power of attorney, and then she got another friend of alice’s to become alice’s. Um uh physical, our medical power of attorney, said there’s kind of team atlas.
So the goal was get her assisted living. In fact, sandra found a place two miles from our house, because we’re committed to alice for the rest of her life well, anyway, about eight or nine months before that process began.
An old friend of aldus’s showed up at her front door, a gentleman in his late 60s, keeping all this straight and he said alice, i’m destitute. I don’t have a place to live. I’Ve been living in my car, um, it’s getting cold.
Would it be okay? If i moved in with you for just a few months now, alice had been warned and later we were warned that this guy’s name is roger, that if you let roger move in you’re going to have a difficult time getting roger to move out.
But she allowed him to move into one of her spirit, bedrooms and actually, honestly, he was pretty helpful because he could drive and he could take her to her doctor’s visits. Um. He would bring us the mail.
Sometimes he seemed like the nicest guy – and i couldn’t imagine this was going to be a problem. Besides, he knew we’re going to sell her house, and so, if we sell her house, you’ll probably have to move out by that point right.
So i felt like there was kind of a built-in deadline. This wouldn’t be a problem, and so we finally have get to we get alice, moved to this assisted living place close to us. That was, you know, an event.
We get the house cleaned out. We do this big garage, sale, sander, put signs out that the house is going to go for sale and you know the real estate market right now is so high. So she starts getting calls and now she’s got to show the house.
But now the house is completely empty, i mean she sold everything and then threw everything else away and just a mammoth. You know task if you’ve ever done, that for someone and so sandra’s, you know riding point on this whole process and then we got to show the house, but the problem is there’s you know come see this house, it’s completely empty except, oh yeah.
Don’T go in that bedroom. There’S a air mattress with some clothes in the closet and a computer on the floor. You know don’t mind the guy camping out in the house, so you know it’s going to be kind of hard to show this house right.
Well, so she started showing the house and so we’re like roger okay. Thank you. You got to go, and he just ignores this. So um sandra gives him a deadline. He gives him three weeks by this day. He agreed that hey on that monday, i’ll be gone.
Monday comes monday, goes he’s still there and it becomes apparent he’s not moving out. So we’re sitting on the couch late one afternoon, um sandra calls roger, i said, put it on. You know on speakerphone and of course, i’m trying not to get involved because sandra throughout the process and said andy.
You cannot get involved because i wanted to get involved and i only had one tool you know i want to use my tool and she’s like you can’t use your tool. So so they have this um conversation speakerphone and he is so rude to saying.
I’Ve never heard anyone speak to my wife. This way i was so angry and she’s kind of leaning this way and i’m reaching for the phone. I just want to take the phone and say and she’s like no, no, no and he’s he’s he’s saying i’m going to sue you.
You can’t kick me out. The law doesn’t allow you to kick out a renter, i’m like renter. That assumes rent. I mean there’s not this guy’s paid nothing he’s taken advantage of an 80 year old woman, we’re trying to close her house and we put money in the bank because there’s a monthly gap between her pension, social security to stay in this assisted living place, and he Is so rude to sandra okay? What how do you? How do you think we responded to all this? I mean: what’s our response? Well, you can imagine, because you can imagine yourself, do you know what we did and this is kind of embarrassing and i’m not even going to give you the details.
It’S so embarrassing. We sat around day after day night after night, coming up with the most devious, manipulative ways you can imagine to get roger out of the house. I’M telling you there were times.
We just listened to each other and think who are we who have we become, but we realize what was happening, we’re we’re starting to become like roger we’re becoming like him. We don’t even like him, it was all we talked about to the point.
Honestly. It was as if roger had moved in with us, because it so focused our attention every single day. How do we get roger out of the house before this closing? We couldn’t even believe somebody would give us a contract and give if that was a contract on the house, because they’d never seen the house empty, because there’s a guy camping out in one of the bedrooms now in part, two i’m going to come back and tell You how that story resolved so yeah.
I know okay, okay, sorry to do that. But but the point point is simply this, and you know this: it is so difficult. It is so difficult to be good to people who just aren’t good right. It’S no matter what kind of faith you have in the moment.
It is so difficult to be kind to people who, just it seems like in their heart, they’re, just unkind or sensitive to people who are insensitive. The golden rule, it just doesn’t seem to apply. You know the golden rule do unto others as you would have others.
What is it do yeah do unto you, and this is great until somebody mistreats you and it’s great until somebody mistreats me or mistreats, somebody that i love and for me in this particular story. It’S a it’s a you know, double-edged sword because i loved alice and i wanted us to help alice.
But i was watching my wife be mistreated at the same time and i’m supposed to do under roger, as i would have roger do unto me and suddenly the golden rule is out the window. Now it’s the iron rule. I just just made this up, but you understand the iron rule, it’s doing to others as they have done unto you right, and this doesn’t only feel natural.
It doesn’t only just feel natural to treat people the way they’ve treated us in the moment. It just seems right, it just seems fair and in fact, if i were to go into detail about some of these crazy ideas, we had to get roger out of the house after hearing just the part of the story, i’ve told you you’d be like well yeah.
I mean why why wouldn’t you do all that? It just seems right, it seems fair, it seems just it seems. Scenes seems even and then there’s this, and maybe this is a little close to home, because maybe this is maybe part of your story or maybe part of your story growing up or maybe it’s part of the story of your first marriage when, when we’re mistreated in A relationship and we feel powerless to do anything about it again, we’re off balance we compensate, but sometimes we compensate not in the relationship with the person that threw us off balanced you’ve.
Seen this happen, we compensate in another relationship we compensate somewhere or with somebody else, i’ll i’ll. Take it out on you, because i can’t take it out on him. I can’t take it out on her. I can’t get back at them.
I can’t go back into the office and take it out on the people that mistreated me at work, but i’ve got all this energy, i’m off balance and then it’s due unto others it’s doing to others and someone else is done, unto you so round and round And round it goes, and you know what we’ve all been there at some level, maybe not a big level, but at some level we’ve all you know been a part of this dynamic.
So here’s the question: here’s what we’re talking about! What do we do? I mean what do you do about the mean people? Maybe it was your ex? Maybe it’s a neighbor, maybe it’s a boss, a sister, a sister-in-law and you you’re, just there’s just no way to extricate yourself from the relationship, because the nature of the relationship but they’re just mean – and it’s fun i’ll admit it.
It’S fun to daydream about getting even, but the problem of course is – and you know this – is that getting even makes us even make getting even makes us even with someone that we don’t even like it makes us like someone that we dislike.
So what do we do? You can’t ignore them right, that’s impossible, and if you ignore them, you know what they do right. They just keep chipping away chipping away chipping away and eventually we break and we react and then it’s like we’ve, given them even more power.
Over us, so ignoring them isn’t the way forward and getting even isn’t the way forward, but fortunately there’s a third option: it’s the third option that it’s not intuitive, it’s a third option that actually decreases their power over us and, honestly, it’s the third option that allows Us to guard and protect our hearts and it positions us when this is said and done to tell a much better story.
Of course, the way forward is taught and modeled by jesus, but it’s also modeled in the old testament by a relatively unknown individual, whose life intersects with the life of david. Now many of us, if you grew up around church or in church, are familiar with who king david was, but this event doesn’t take place when he’s king david or even shepherd boy david.
This event takes place when he is fugitive, david um after david as a young as a teenager, killed goliath. You remember that story um he becomes a hero, a national hero in israel, ancient israel and so king saul.
The king at the time draws him in close because david’s a leader he’s a national hero. You want to keep your friends close. You want to keep your potential rivals even closer, and then king saul gets word that some rogue prophet has gone to david’s home as a little boy and anointed david to be the next king of israel.
Now this is a real problem if, if you’re already the king – because not only do you want to finish out your years as king, you want your son in his case jonathan, to become the next king, so this is now now.
This is messing with this dynasty. So king saul tries to kill david david escapes, he becomes a fugitive he’s living out in the wilderness. He’S had to leave his family over time because he’s a leader he attracts other men like him.
Other angry mistreated, outlaws they’re outcasts from society. They have no place to call home and they’re all angry, because each of them have their own story of being mistreated and the injustice that had happened under king saul so and david’s got all this anger.
And all this frustration and, of course, like any of us, he’s looking for a place to sort of take it out somebody to take it out on, because king saul is untouchable, and in this story he finally finds a victim and that’s where the story picks up.
So i’ll read part of the story and then we’re going to stop in the middle pick it up next time. Here’S what happens a certain man. This is the first samuel, 25 and samuel is essentially the david’s biographer.
In a sense, a certain man in moan who had property there in carmel was very wealthy. He had a thousand goats, you know, and you read this in ancient times just like for us, it’s like what would you do with the thousand goes anyway.
So yeah a thousand goes. He had car. You know garage is full of cars. Think of it that way, he had three thousand sheep um, which he was shearing in carmel and his name. His name was nabal. Now sheep shearing season in ancient times.
This is when wealthy people found out how much wealthier they had just become. This was like it’s like a financial report, an annual financial report he’s about to find out where he is financially um, whether or not he turned a profit and, if so, um how much his name’s nabal tex goes on and says this.
His name was nabal and his wife’s name was abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman and her, but her husband was harsh and mean in his dealings. In fact his his name. His name actually means heavy, and this hebrew word here actually means heavy.
He was basically a pain to deal with. He was a burden to deal with. He was in fact the text tells us he was just a mean person. Uh text continues, while, while david and his men were in the wilderness, he heard that nabal was shearing sheep.
So he’s like hey this rich guy is about to get richer, so he sent 10 of his young men and he said to them. I want you to give nabal a message: go up to nabal at carmel and greet him in my name. So when you show up, let everybody know you’re coming in the na in david’s name and say to him greet him.
This way say long life to uniball, good health to you and your household and good health to all that is yours. This was a formal ancient. Greeting that basically said, i come in peace and then make sure you give him the message and here’s the message when your shepherds, when your shepherds were with us, we did not mistreat them the whole time they were at carmel.
Nothing of theirs went missing. In other words, while your shepherds were out watching over their flocks by night night after night after night during that season, our men were all around them all the time and we never stole anything so there’s a sense in which your profit, your profit, is due.
In part to our protection, not only do we not allow our men to steal anything from you, we didn’t allow the other rogues in the area to steal anything from you as well, and he said, and if you don’t take my word for it, the message continues.
This way ask your own servants and they’ll. Tell you therefore be favorable toward my men since we come at a festive time and please, if you would, please give your servants and your son david, whatever you can find for them.
In other words, you’re going to have extra, we kind of helped you create that extra. If you wouldn’t mind sharing with us, that would be. That would be great. So when david’s men arrived, they went to carmel when they arrived.
They gave nabal this message in david’s name and then they waited and they waited and they waited so anyway. He keeps them waiting, but eventually the nabal sends his answer, or perhaps he comes out and gives the answer himself.
It’S not clear. The ball answered. Here’S what he said, the ball answered david’s servants, who is this david? You come in david’s name, who is david? Who is this son of jesse, so he knew who david was but he’s like.
You know what yeah we’ve heard of david and you think he’s such a big deal he’s not such a big deal. Who is this? Guy? Hey come on he’s just one of many many servants are breaking away from their masters these days, your master is a nobody.
Your master is an outlaw. I didn’t ask for his help. I didn’t need his help. I don’t owe him anything. So, no, i’m not going to share with david and his band of merry men. You are dismissed why he says why.
Why should i take my bread and water and the meat i have slaughtered from my shearers and give it to men coming from you know: where did you come from again so no you’re dismissed so david’s men turned around and they went back and when they arrived, They repeated every word and then david said to his men: oh well, it was worth a try.
No david actually said to his men. Each of you strap on your sword, so they did and then an interesting detail in the text and david strapped his on as well. In other words, you mess with me and you will see you mess with me and you will pay now.
There’S a reason. I think why the author highlights david arming himself with his sword, because david’s sword was like no other sword. David’S sword was actually a reminder that he did not need to return.
Evil for evil david’s sword was actually a reminder that he did not need to take matters into his own hands. In fact, i’m just curious. Do you know where david got his sword? Anybody goliath, that’s right.
He got a sword from goliath. So goliath. Sword is a visual aid of god’s promise of protection and provision to david god had chosen him. God had raised him up as a teenager. God had anointed him as king.
He did not need to take matters into his own hands of anybody on the planet. At that time, david was the one person who could turn to god for help, and god would in fact intervene on his behalf. But david is hurt, david’s angry and he can’t see any of that and to him it’s just an oversized sword.
The story that goes with the story he’s forgotten. The story, he’s forgotten god’s provision because he’s so angry and he’s so hurt and he redirects his frustration with king saul who’s untouchable toward nabal, so about 400 men.
This is amazing. About 400 men went up with david 400 men. Okay, this was an overreaction of epic proportion. This was going to be a massacre. You’Ve heard, we’ve all heard that hurt people hurt people.
This is a case of hunted people hunt people, so he sets out – and it’s so interesting, because the biographer once again lets us get inside david’s head. He begins internally to build up a head of steam to build his case.
He’S he’s going to build a case to justify what he’s not 100 sure he should be doing you ever ever. Do that hey, you know andy. I got an idea. I think this was sanders. Idea: hey: let’s go into the house when roger’s, not there and slice his air mattress fold, it up, put it on the street with his clothes in his computer and change the locks.
That might have been my idea anyway. You just you just visualize. You know what can we do to get back at this person that has done so much to us. In fact, here’s what the biographer says that david had just said to his guys.
It’S been useless all my watching over this fella’s property kind of building up his case in the wilderness, so that nothing of his was missing all this i’ve done for him. Think of all the things i’ve done for him.
Think of all the nights. We stayed up. Think of all the things we could have stolen. Think of how wealthy we could already be. But what has he done? He has paid me back evil for good. Then he he, you know he invites god into the equation.
May god deal with me, be it ever so severely if by morning i leave one male of all who belong to him alive. In other words, i’m gonna murder, him i’m gonna kill his male servant and i’m gonna kill his sons.
That’Ll teach him to treat me this way, so we’re gonna pause, the story there, here’s what we have so far. We got two characters: uh, we have two responses and we have no hero right i mean we have nabal.
We have david evil for good david. Did good, he responded with evil david who’s about to do evil for evil. Nabal is somewhat maniacal and david is about to be predictable, but i mean who could blame him for what he’s about to do, and sometimes again it just seems like evil for evil.
Is the only option turns out, as i said earlier, it’s not there’s a third option, we’re going to talk about that in part two, but here’s what i want you to do between now and part two. I want to give you four questions to think about the question number one is this: do you want to be even with someone you don’t even like? No, i already know the answer to this question.
No, we don’t, but our natural response to mean people oftentimes is an attempt to get even with people. We don’t even like to be like someone that we would readily admit that we that we dislike the question number two.
Wouldn’T you rather be ahead? I mean. Do you want to get even with someone you don’t even like or wouldn’t you rather be ahead? Wouldn’T you prefer to be un, unlike the person or the people that you dislike, and this is, as i said earlier, this is so not intuitive, but here’s the thing and when i say it you know it’s true.
Unlike any other arena of life, you actually relationally pull ahead by refusing to get even you actually pull ahead by refusing to get even – and that leads to a third question – that we ask a lot around here within several different contexts.
And the third question is this: when this is nothing more than a story, you tell what story do you want to tell when your response to this current relationship there’s nothing more than a story, you tell what story do you want to tell do you want to Tell the story that i ended up just like the person that i disliked, because i allowed them to infuriate me into acting just like them.
It’S not a good story. It’S not the story that any of us want to tell and then the fourth question. The fourth question is the on-ramp to the solution. The fourth question is the on-ramp to pulling ahead, and the fourth question sets us up and puts us in this uncomfortable space that we know we probably should step into and if you’re a jesus follower, if you’re christian, you know with certainty, you’ve been called to step Into but it’s so uncomfortable, the fourth question is this: what would it look like, and you don’t have to commit to this – you just have to have an internal conversation.
What would it look like to return good for evil, not just refuse to react or to react in like kind, but to be kind, not just refuse to be bad, but to take seriously the words of jesus, because he was so direct about this.
I mean this. You know a lot of things. Jesus said we have a hard time figuring out this. This is too clear. He said i want you to do good to those who mistreat you don’t just put up with them. Don’T just forgive them, don’t just ignore them.
Don’T just try not to be like them. Jesus says. No, that’s that’s not enough. I want you to think through how to do good to those who mistreat you, because jesus knew that doing good to people who have not been good to us is ultimately what frees us but protects our heart.
Getting even is natural. It’S predictable. Jesus has invited us to be unpredictable. Jesus has invited us to do something extraordinary. It’S as if he’s saying, don’t be predictable, don’t write a predictable story, write a remarkable story, write that story that’s worth telling and what will determine whether or not that story is worth telling is not what the other person does, because you have no control over that It is 100 right here in our decision, whether or not to respond either in like kind or to be kind to do good for those who have mistreated us remarkable begins with an honest answer to this question.
What would it look like? What would it look like to return good people? What would it look like to do good to the person who has mistreated you because you don’t pull ahead by attempting to get even, and we will pick it up right there next time in part, two of me: hey thanks so much for watching.
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doc-12 | Salma Hayek Criticizes Hollywood for Giving Up on Women
"They don't see us as a powerful economic source, which is an incredible ignorance."
By Alanna Nunez
At a press event for Cannes this weekend, Salma Hayek criticized Hollywood for giving up on women — both in front of and behind the camera.
In addition to opening up about how she's lost out on jobs where "A-list actors" have had pull over approval over her casting (a privilege reportedly not afforded to top female stars), Hayek said she thinks the industry has amnesia when it comes to female-driven movies, saying that for a long time, Hollywood thought women wouldn't go to the movies to see anything but rom-coms. "They don't see us as a powerful economic force, which is an incredible ignorance," she said.
However, there is one way women can (hopefully) help change Hollywood's perception of women: by voting with their dollars. Hayek noted that women make up 50 percent of ticket sales (and if there's one thing Hollywood cares about, it's money), and that actually makes us a powerful force.
"Look, we cannot stand as victims and say they are not looking at us," she said. "What gives me hope is that we are in a position of power."
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Back in 2015, the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) was part of a group working on a design guidance system for AM that received funding from America Makes as part of its third project call for additive manufacturing applied research and development projects. Now, an engineer and assistant professor in the university’s Department of Bioengineering has been awarded a grant for a very different kind of 3D printing project. Dr. Yi Hong received an R21 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in the amount of $211,000, to develop materials to make 3D printed blood vessels for children suffering from vascular defects.
Dr. Hong, who has been the primary investigator on research grants totaling over $850,000 since he began his career, will develop materials that are elastic and can be formed into patient-specific, feasible blood vessels, and also can be used in a 3D printer. Then, Dr. Guohao Dai, his partner at Northeastern University, will 3D print the blood vessels using Dr. Hong’s materials. In order to avoid surgical manipulation, these materials will be mixed with cells to 3D print a conduit, which can be attached to natural blood vessels.
Yi Hong, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering [Image: UTA]
Dr. Hong said, “Our research is mainly focused on the primary techniques. It is unique and could be far-reaching because we are developing elastic materials for 3-D printing. There are great possibilities from this research, which is a broad look at the possibility of tissue-engineering a blood vessel. Other groups are investigating 3D printed tissue-engineered blood vessels for use in bypasses or in the abdominal wall, but they do not have the proper bioinks. These are the major parts that will be needed for success in those areas.”
This is not the first time we’ve seen 3D printing play a part in the production of blood vessels. Researchers at Shanghai University 3D printed synthetic blood vessels a couple years ago, and even before that, a research team at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) used 3D bioprinting to make an agarose fiber template, which could be used as a mold for real blood vessels. Biotechnology company Sichuan Revotek recently successfully implanted live 3D printed blood vessels into Rhesus monkeys, and a little over a month ago, UC San Diego nanoengineers created a whole 3D printed blood vessel network that is functioning, and surviving, in mice.
The chair of the College of Engineering’s Bioengineering Department, Dr. Michael Cho, explained that the NIH grant that Hong received “underscores the University’s emphasis on health and the human condition contained within the Strategic Plan 2020: Bold Solutions | Global Impact.”
“The development of new blood vessels, has been a daunting challenge in tissue engineering. Dr. Hong’s approach to applying bioinks in printing engineered blood vessels is not only innovative, but offers a feasible alternative to overcome the challenges involved. With respect to clinical application, I have no doubt Dr. Hong will contribute significantly to regenerative medicine where progress has been hampered by an inability to introduce blood vessels into engineered tissues,” explained Cho.
The university, one of the largest institutions in Texas, is a Carnegie Research-1 “highest research activity” institution. UTA is guided by the Strategic Plan 2020 mentioned previously, which fosters interdisciplinary education and research within the themes of data-driven discovery, global environmental impact, health and the human condition, and sustainable urban communities.
The “Health and the Human Condition” theme is described on the Strategic Plan’s website: “UTA will focus on health and the human condition from distinct yet broadly encompassing vantage points. We will explore health management within physical, mental, emotional, and social contexts. Health innovations will be distinguished by diagnostic, prognostic, and technological advancements that help people live longer, healthier, and happier lives.”
Vascular defects in children could potentially lead to heart defects, and common treatments for these defects in adults don’t always work for children; grafts, for example, don’t grow at the same rate as a child’s body does, and in order to match the growth rate, the child has to undergo multiple surgeries. In addition, there is a high risk of thrombosis (basically a blood clot inside a blood vessel) when using a graft to treat a child’s vascular defect, and the anti-coagulant drugs used to treat this don’t work well with most children’s relatively active lifestyles. And while there are existing tissue-engineered blood vessels available, they usually are too fragile to hold up well under implantation surgery and blood pressure. So the possible surgical advantages for children with vascular defects, if Dr. Hong and Dr. Dai’s research is successful, are plenty. Discuss in the 3D Printed Blood Vessels forum at 3DPB.com.
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Mobile Power Plant Market worth 1.73 Billion USD by 2022
The report "Mobile Power Plant Market by Fuel Type (Natural Gas/LPG, Diesel), Power Rating (1-10 MW, 11-20 MW, 21-50 MW), Application (Oil & Gas, Emergency Power, Remote Area Electrification), and Region - Global Forecast to 2022 ", The mobile power plant market is expected to grow from an estimated USD 1.39 Billion in 2017 to USD 1.73 Billion by 2022, at a CAGR of 4.56% during the forecast period. This growth can be attributed to factors such as lack of power infrastructure in the world, increasing demand for electricity in remote areas, and frequent natural disasters.
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The natural gas/LPG segment is estimated to hold the largest share of mobile power plant market, by fuel type, during the forecast period
Natural gas/LPG segment held the largest share of the mobile power plant market in 2016 and is expected to grow at a decent pace during the forecast period. The large market share of this segment can be attributed to the rising investments in remote area electrification in the Sub-Saharan Africa region.
The 21-50 MW segment is estimated to be the largest segment of the mobile power plant market, by power rating, in 2017
21-50 MW is estimated to be the largest segment of the mobile power plant market, by power rating, in 2017. 21-50 MW mobile power plants are mainly used for large projects such as electrification of village or coastal areas and emergency power requirement. Countries such as Indonesia, Angola, Nigeria, and India are showing rapid growth in the 21-50 MW mobile power plant segment due to the recent increase in demand for electricity in remote areas.
Middle East & Africa: The leading regional market in mobile power plant
In this report, the mobile power plant market has been analyzed with respect to five regions, namely, North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, South America, and the Middle East and Africa. The Middle East & Africa is estimated to be the largest market for mobile power plant. The increasing investments in remote area electrification in the Sub-Saharan African region and a strong presence of onshore oil & gas rigs, especially in the Middle East, drive the market growth in the region.
The report provides an in-depth understanding of the competitive landscape and includes profiles of some of the leading players in the mobile power plant market. The key players include GE (US), Siemens (Germany), APR Energy (US), Kawasaki Heavy Industries (Japan), PW Power Systems (US), Metka (Greece), Solar Turbines (US), Turbine Technology Services (US), Vericor (US), Mapna (Iran), Meidensha (Japan), and Ethos Energy (UK). These players adopted various strategies such as new product launches, contracts & agreements, and investments and expansions to increase their global presence and market share.
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doc-19 | Synopsys, Inc. Apr 05, 2011
High-Quality, Broad Portfolio and Worldwide Technical Support Helps Freescale Speed SoC Development Time and Lower Risk
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Freescale Semiconductor, a global leader in the design and manufacture of semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial and networking markets, has licensed Synopsys' DesignWare® IP for Freescale's system-on-chip (SoC) designs. The multi-year agreement gives Freescale access to Synopsys' broad portfolio of DesignWare interface and analog IP such as USB, HDMI, PCI Express®, SATA, and MIPI interfaces, as well as data converters, audio codecs and video front -ends. Synopsys' established leadership in delivering high-quality IP that supports the most widely used interfaces and advanced processes combined with an expert worldwide technical support team enables Freescale to reduce risk and speed time-to-market for their semiconductor designs.
"Access to Synopsys' very broad IP portfolio helps us keep pace with the complexities of new standard interfaces and migration to ultra-deep sub-micron processes," said Ken Hansen senior fellow, vice president and chief technology officer at Freescale Semiconductor. "Freescale has chosen Synopsys because of its robust architectures, protocol certification record, extensive silicon validation process and worldwide support teams that are located near our key design centers. This will enable our designers to focus their efforts on delivering differentiated products to the market."
"Synopsys' collaboration with Freescale has resulted in the successful development of SoCs for a range of applications, and we look forward to continuing this close relationship," said John Koeter, vice president of marketing for the Solutions Group at Synopsys. "As the industry's trusted IP partner, Synopsys provides a broad portfolio of silicon-proven, IP solutions that help customers such as Freescale integrate critical functionality into their SoCs with less risk and improved time-to-market."
Synopsys is a leading provider of high-quality, silicon-proven IP solutions for SoC designs. The broad DesignWare® IP portfolio includes complete interface IP solutions consisting of controllers, PHY and Verification IP for widely used protocols, analog IP, embedded memories, logic libraries and configurable processor cores. In addition, Synopsys offers SystemC transaction-level models to build virtual prototypes for rapid, pre-silicon development of software. With a robust IP development methodology, reuse tools, extensive investment in quality and comprehensive technical support, Synopsys enables designers to accelerate time-to-market and reduce integration risk. For more information on DesignWare IP, visit: www.synopsys.com/designware. Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/designware_ip.
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) is a world leader in electronic design automation (EDA), supplying the global electronics market with the software, intellectual property (IP) and services used in semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing. Synopsys' comprehensive, integrated portfolio of implementation, verification, IP, manufacturing and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) solutions helps address the key challenges designers and manufacturers face today, such as power and yield management, system-to-silicon verification and time-to-results. These technology-leading solutions help give Synopsys customers a competitive edge in bringing the best products to market quickly while reducing costs and schedule risk. Synopsys is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and has approximately 70 offices located throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Asia and India. Visit Synopsys online at www.synopsys.com/.
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doc-20 | It's never too early to get your kids familiar with the stories of the Bible. Freepik image.
By Jennifer Elsensohn | Special Contributor
Give the gift of reading the Bible as a family
We all know the saying, “The family that prays together, stays together.” Reading the Bible as a family is a wonderful option for prayer for families in every phase. As my children are grown, my most valued prayer time is when my husband and I pray with the Scriptures. And if you are a family with children, it’s never too early to get your kids familiar with the stories of the Bible! Helping them establish a love and appreciation for Scripture is one of the best gifts you can offer them.
I remember my father reading Bible stories to my siblings and me when we were young. I have a particular memory, from when I was around five years old, of discovering that lepers are not, in fact, large cats. Dad took the time to read the stories, and to teach us how to break them open and make them relevant in our lives. I am certain that this, and my having been given a massive Children’s Bible with fascinating illustrations, was the beginning of my love of Scripture. Here are a few ideas for introducing Scripture to your children:
A Little Lectio
Lectio Divina is a wonderful prayer option for adults and kids. If you have a children’s Bible, set aside some time every week to share a story with them. Before you read the story, invite the kids to think about the sights, sounds, smells, and when applicable, the tastes of the scene presented to them. When the story is over, ask what their senses perceived. Ask them what they got out of the story, and how they identified with the characters. What was happening in that story? Were there any words that they didn’t know the meaning of? Were there any words or phrases that stuck out for them? Why? What do they think God wants us to understand through this story? What do they think God was saying to them in that story? Then, offer the Church’s teaching on it in age-appropriate language.
Pick a Book to Read Together
Don’t try to read the Bible cover to cover. A good place to start would be one of the Gospels, one of the Christian letters, or the Psalms. The Psalms are great because they are self-contained and give an amazing peek into what you would read in the Prophets and Jesus’ teachings in the Gospels. Except for Psalm 119, which has 176 verses, they can be read relatively quickly and are a good frame to start your day.
They will certainly spark some conversation, as well. Read one together before you head off to your various separate activities and see if a phrase or word is something you want to take with you throughout the day. When you reconnect after the day is over, talk about what that word or phrase meant to you as you went through your day.
Some of my favorite Bible story shows/movies are from Veggie Tales, in which fruit and vegetable characters retell Christian stories through a variety of media. I even use them for adult education sometimes, but this suggestion is more aimed at families with children. After you’ve read a particular story, if there’s a corresponding Veggie Tales, watch it together. Ask some of the same questions from your first discussion, to give them an opportunity to process the story further.
Get a Bible
We use the New American Bible for the lectionary, and there are some nice study editions out there for adult use. There are also lots of great children’s Bibles, and some very good youth Bibles, too. St. Mary’s Press has a nice set that has quotes, questions (that you can borrow for the discussions) and pictures in them.
Car Chat - On the way home from Church, talk about what you all heard in the readings and what you understood from them. Talk about the homily. Try to relate the themes to things going on in your own lives.
Handy Quotes - Many Bibles have a reference section of topics and themes that will offer quotes on the issues. When someone in the household is dealing with making a decision, having a hard time with something, or needs advice, check out what the Bible says about it. Write down the quote and give it to them to keep with them.
There are so many ways to experience the Word of God together as a family. Investing time instilling a love for it now will give your kids a deep well to draw on for the rest of their lives.
Jennifer Schlameuss Elsensohn serves as pastoral associate in St. Robert Bellarmine Co-Cathedral, Freehold. |
doc-21 | Jaden, son you’ll be seven tomorrow. I know you’re excited about your party and your friends coming over, and so you probably won’t have the time or the inclination to listen to what I have to say. So I’m writing this to you. Take your time, read it when you can, and when you understand.
Son, when our father in heaven decided to have Amma as your mom and me as your dad, what he did was bless us with the greatest privilege ever. You’ve no idea what an absolute privilege it has been for me to be your dad. Even though your mom probably was the beginning to my journey of self-sacrifice, you have enabled me to take leaps in that journey. I know now what it is like to step outside of myself and let me be. Sure, I know this is still the beginning, ‘cos our heavenly father wants us to make sacrifices for those that don’t deserve it, like he did for us on the cross of Calvary. Yet you’ve made that understanding real to me. It is no longer a theorized fantasy in my head. You’ve helped me know it can be a practice.
Son, you mean so much I don’t know how to write it down. Now I am not saying you can never be exasperating. At times you are, especially when you repeat what you want a million times and break me down to a level where I have to hiss a ‘yes’ as an escape. Sure, there are times when you whine, and I just wish you grow up and learn what it is to live with disappointments. Yet amidst all that, I know there will come a time when I will miss everything you do now. Yeah, that includes your persistent asking, even your whining. When that happens I’ve no idea how I’ll cope. I know the Lord will still be around as a comfort, but maybe you won’t, and that I know will hurt.
Son, I am not saying I will ever be the perfect Appa. I can’t and I probably won’t. If you’re seeking after perfection you’ll have to hold on to your heavenly father. But I promise I will do my best to keep my prejudices away from you. I will strive like I’ve never done until now so you don’t share in my cynical ways. Sure, I’ll try and point out to you the devious designs of the world, but in that too I will do it in a way so you know our heavenly father is always in charge, which means you won’t have to worry.
I surely have expectations of you, that I believe are legitimate. That you will respect women and treat them with dignity, that you will stand up for what is right even if it means losing the battle, that you will work hard, that you will keep your word, and so on. But note, there’s nothing more important to me than you being upright in everything you do, and that you walk in the ways of those who have walked before, blameless in the sight of our heavenly father. That is all that I expect of you.
Son, as you get to your seventh birthday know that you are loved, and loved much.
Happy Birthday (on the 14th).
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Daniel Lee said…
The movie was very, very, well written and as a christian, I thought that the words of encouragement that the character gave to his son was true and right.... as we in the Christian World like to says...FEAR is False Evidence Appearing Real..... This critic needs to 1. watch the movie and 2. stop seeing dead people.... To see more info please visit http://essayswriters.org/dissertation/.
Biswajeet Balabantray said…
Definitely a worth read....this one!! For all sons.......for understanding the man in a father and vice-versa. |
doc-22 | All aboard the Virginia & Truckee Railroad
Ride Steam Locomotives on the Historic V&T Route
Take a living history ride on the restored Virginia & Truckee Railroad - "Queen of the Short Lines." Excursion trains closely follow the originial V & T route between Carson City and Virginia City during the heyday of the Comstock mining era, giving today's passengers many of the same views seen by the silver barons when Virginia City was the richest place in America (if not the world).
Virginia and Truckee Train Schedule
The V & T season runs from Memorial Day weekend in May until about mid-October. Trains pulled by a steam locomotive run the route on most Saturdays and Sundays during the season. Trains run on select Fridays during June, July and August. The steam engines are the McCloud No. 18 and Virginia & Truckee No. 29, both restored Baldwin locomotives that saw service on the original V&T Railroad. Passengers get a fully narrated ride as they pass historic sites along the route. If you are lucky, you might even see some of the wild mustangs that roam the area. These rides are a great family activity, but leave pets at home - only certified service animals are allowed.
Round Trips - All round trips leave from Carson City (Eastgate Depot) at 10 a.m. and depart Virginia City for the return at 3 p.m. These are popular rides - buying tickets in advance through the website is strongly recommended. For more information, call (877) 724-5007 or (775) 291-0208.
One-Way Trips - Tickets for one-way trips can also be purchased in advance through the website.
V & T Railroad Depots
Carson City - The Eastgate Depot is 4.9 miles east (toward Dayton) of downtown Carson City on U.S. 50. Turn right on Flint Drive (there is a small sign), then left after .3 mile to 4650 Eastgate Siding Road. There is free parking.
Virginia City - The Virginia & Truckee 1870 Depot at 166 F Street, corner Washington Street. It's downhill from Virginia City's main street.
Ride the V & T Railroad between Carson City and Virginia City, Nevada. Photos © Stan White
Special Rides on the V & T Railroad
Several special holiday and theme trains run during the season. These tend to sell out, so get your tickets early if you want to ride. This is particularly true for THE POLAR EXPRESS™.
Mother's Day Weekend
Toast of the Canyon Wine Tasting Train
Evening Melodrama & BBQ Dinner Special Steam Train
THE POLAR EXPRESS™
Virginia City to Gold Hill Route
This excursion train is a separate ride from the Carson City - Virginia City route. It departs from and returns to the Virginia City depot on a four mile round trip to Gold Hill. It operates several departures daily from Memorial Day weekend to the end of October. This tour is narrated and lasts about 35 minutes. It's a great way to learn more about Comstock mining and Virginia City history. Buy tickets at the depot - reservations are not required. For more information, call (775) 847-0380.
V & T Railroad excursion train runs between Virginia City and Gold Hill. Photo © Stan White
For more train history and fun in northern Nevada, visit the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City. Exhibits cover the history of railroad building and operation in northern Nevada. There are two main stories - the Virginia & Truckee Railroad built during the Comstock mining boom in Virginia City and the construction of the transcontinental railroad that passes through Reno and crosses the entire Silver State. Train rides are available during summer weekends. Be sure to check the schedule to find out when steam trains are running and when you can ride on the only McKeen Motor Car still in operation. |
doc-23 | Home Advocate The defenders of the world need to be defended NOW. Here’s what it means and how you can help.
The defenders of the world need to be defended NOW. Here’s what it means and how you can help.
Have you ever sat down at the family dinner table and tried to impress on your carnivorous relative the merits of removing meat from your diet? Have you tried to get your school to start composting? Have you tweeted a world leader with Global Citizen? Or even shared one of our publications in your Instagram stories?
All of these things have one thing in common: they are examples of speaking up for something you believe in. (i.e. your uncle who thinks veganism is for rabbits) to share your position or point of view.
“In a perfect world,” says Liz Agbor-Tabi, vice president of global policy at Global Citizen, “we would have equitable social and economic systems that bring justice to all. But because this is not the perfect world we live in, we need people who can use their voice to demand a different world, a better world. For me, advocacy is the work to make this world a reality. In many ways, this is the world imagined by the UN Global Goals.
Advocacy is at the heart of Global Citizen’s mission. We harness the voices of ordinary people, activists and artists to encourage governments, businesses and philanthropists to commit to supporting the Global Goals. We then follow up to make sure any promises they make are kept.
In 2022, we launched End Extreme Poverty NOW — Our Future Can’t Wait, a campaign that brings together millions of people around the world to demand immediate action from the world’s top political and business leaders in three critical areas on which the world can no longer afford to wait: empowering girls around the world; break down the systemic barriers that keep people trapped in poverty; and take climate action.
The thread that connects these issues is civic space and advocacy. The kind of massive social change we demand can only be brought about through open civic spaces – that is, when citizens and civil society organizations can organize, protest, oppose and raise their voices. their voice without fear of reprisal or intimidation.
This is why championing advocacy is the foundation for creating change. Without the space to demand change, there can be no change.
Around the world, people are advocating for a better world, whether it’s speaking out against gender inequality, standing up for climate justice or giving a megaphone to those whose voices are silenced.
But while it may be safe and legal to do so in some countries, authoritarianism, repressive laws and legal procedures (like SLAPPs) make it dangerous in others.
Every day people are harassed, imprisoned and even killed for speaking out against injustice. But for many of them, advocacy and activism is not a choice; its a question of life or death. Here’s everything you need to know about advocacy, why it should be advocated; and how you can join Global Citizen in taking action to stand up for global advocates.
Advocacy vs Activism: what’s the difference?
At first glance, they may look the same, but there are some subtle differences – and both are necessary.
Advocacy involves influencing decision-makers, demanding better policies and using your voice.
Activism is sometimes seen as a more “direct” action, such as organizing a protest, boycotting a company, investigating an issue and sharing the results, or even getting locked in an oil refinery pipeline.
Does advocacy work?
“Does that even make a difference?” It’s a question we’ve all asked ourselves when signing a petition or tweeting to hold a world leader to account. The answer is yes, but usually not in the way and in the time frame that many people think.
From the American civil rights movements and Stonewall to the Arab Spring; from Black Lives Matter to #MeToo; from the right to vote to the right to work; from the end of apartheid to the Fridays for Future mobilizations; protests against Shell and corporate boycotts – throughout history, social change has been brought about by individuals speaking out and people coming together to assert their rights. It’s the power of advocacy and activism working together.
Ultimately, activism and advocacy is about changing people’s minds, a process that is sometimes slow but profoundly powerful and important – and which is at the heart of our mission to end extreme poverty in the world and to eliminate its underlying causes.
Why should advocacy be defended?
Defenders and the right to defend themselves are under attack, in both developed and developing countries.
Zhang Zhan, for example — a citizen journalist who risked everything to report on COVID-19 when she first appeared in Wuhan — is in jail in China for her work reporting on the outbreak. Honduran indigenous activist Berta Cáceres was murdered for her environmental activism. Imoleayo Michael faces jail for participating in the 2020 #EndSARs protests in Nigeria.
Meanwhile, many governments have cracked down on free speech (including Russia and China more recently) and used new technologies as an excuse to pass repressive laws that restrict people’s ability to plead.
3 things Global Citizen is doing to champion advocacy
1. Raise the voice of advocates at our events and festivals
We amplify the voices of defenders, especially from countries in the South and youth movements. Our annual awards ceremony, the Global Citizen Prize, spotlighted activists, including young activists, who work to end extreme poverty in their own communities and drive social change around the world. To learn more about the remarkable winners of the 2022 Global Citizen Award, click here.
Defending civic space will also be a key topic at the Global Citizen Festival in September 2022, where we will feature stories from civil society leaders around the world.
2. Advocacy for advocacy
Through Twitter spaces, our social media, and articles like the one you are reading now, we are working to raise awareness about civic spaces, what they are and why they are so important, and where they are at risk. To learn more about the campaign and how you can take action to support it, click here.
3. Get world leaders to commit to protecting civic spaces
We work to secure specific commitments from Heads of State and Government as well as businesses, to uphold or adhere to commitments to respect and promote civil liberties.
4 advocacy actions you can take now
Global citizens are action takers and impact makers. Our voices inspire action to defend the planet, end poverty and demand equity. We post, tweet, message, vote, sign and call to influence leaders and citizens to take action. Join us and take action today.
1. Download the Global Citizen app — Our app makes it easy to take action to demand equity, end poverty, defend the planet, and more. Download them here.
2. Take a quiz — Find out if civic space is open in your country by taking our quiz here.
3. Sign a petition — Sign this petition demanding that the Bahraini authorities release human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja here.
4. Email the government — Email German ministers and urge them to step up humanitarian aid and support NGOs working on the ground in Afghanistan here.
Head over to our Defend Activists NOW campaign page for more actions you can take to help defend and protect defenders, activists and civic spaces around the world – and check back regularly to see the latest actions you can do business with us.
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doc-24 | Extended Thoughts on ‘D2: The Mighty Ducks’
Posted on Published: March 3, 2012 - Last updated: February 18, 2013
Directed by Sam Weisman
Written by Steven Brill
Starring Emilio Estevez and Kathryn Erbe
Making a good sports movie can be a difficult prospect, no matter what sport’s in the spotlight. Not everyone seeing your movie is an aficionado of the game. For every great baseball movie, someone may be in the audience and completely lost by whatever minutia is being presented to them. The same goes for basketball, football, and hockey movies. What’s more, if a filmmaker targets their sports movie specifically to die-hard fans of the game, they may find themselves at a bit of a loss when the movie sails over most people’s heads. I don’t deny that it’s potentially more difficult to target a movie about something so narrowly focused to a wide audience. But it’s something filmmakers should try.
This goes double for family movies. Maybe I’m too idealistic about this, but a great family movie isn’t just for kids. It’s for everyone. One of the many reasons why I do the Mousterpiece Cinema podcast on a weekly basis is because I love Disney movies now as much as I did when I was a kid. Part of that is because it’s nice to be reminded of the great parts of one’s childhood, but part of it is that some Disney movies hold up as much now—if not work better now—as they did when I was a kid. So many family films, whether they’re from Walt Disney Pictures or any other movie studio, however, aim squarely at the kiddie audience, as opposed to the parents who are dragged along. A few others—more now than back in the 1990s or earlier—aim more toward those parents and ignore the kids. Finding the balance is harder than we might think.
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Let’s also be clear: I’m not shocked that the majority of Disney movies are targeted first (or only) at kids. That doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be let down when the people behind those movies don’t try harder to entertain everyone in the theater or at home, as opposed to the youngest members of the audience. I suppose it should come as no surprise that the first of two sequels to The Mighty Ducks, called D2: The Mighty Ducks (and would someone please tell me why they didn’t just call it The Mighty Ducks 2?), appeals mostly to children. I say “mostly,” because if you’ve listened to the podcast, you know that my co-host, Michael Ryan, found plenty to enjoy with D2. As, however, I argue on the podcast, the biggest reason why Michael loves the movie so much (or why I think he loves it, mind you) is all the details about hockey. I’m a casual fan of the sport, so while I recognized Wayne Gretzky in his quick and inexplicable cameo, I don’t know about the origins of knucklepuck, brought to life here by one of the team’s new players.
Credit where it’s due, of course: for getting (seemingly; again, I’m not the expert on the sport) these minor details correct, from referencing knucklepuck to older Olympic games, I commend this movie. But the best Disney movies–nay, the best movies, family or otherwise–are universal. You and I may struggle to compare ourselves initially to the lead characters of, say, The Dark Knight or The Shawshank Redemption or There Will Be Blood, because we haven’t been oil barons, gone to prison, or been rich superheroes, but we can find similar enough traits in those heroes and the supporting characters in their respective stories to latch onto. That’s really not the case in D2, despite a few half-hearted attempts by screenwriter Steven Brill and director Sam Weisman to project some kind of challenge for lead character Gordon Bombay to overcome. The idea that Bombay, returning to coach the Ducks plus a few new players at a Junior Goodwill Games after a career-ending injury in the minor leagues, would be lured to the dark side of fame isn’t a bad idea, but the movie never fully commits to it. When Gordon has a Come to Jesus moment midway through the film, staring out into the abyss on the top of a patio at a swanky LA party, it has no dramatic power because Gordon’s barely been convinced to ditch the team he’s coaching.
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The other glaring problem with the movie is that it, more so than its predecessor, is quite dated. Movies from the mid-1990s don’t have this problem automatically, to be fair. Some movies hold up as well today as they did when they were released, whether they’re for kids, adults, or everyone. But partly because it’s keyed into the mentality of the mid-1990s, a mentality that wouldn’t definitively occur now, D2 sticks out like a sore thumb more often than not. Most of the scenes set in Los Angeles, outside of the training and hockey games themselves, are nearly parodies of what the 1990s were like. And the gags that are meant to make us laugh…well, I was laughing, but not for the right reasons. I think it’s safe to say that I enjoyed most of the humor in this movie ironically, but even if I got a kick out of watching boys drool over models without a larger punchline (and in a kids’ movie), that doesn’t mean the humor succeeded.
Unlike the original film, D2 goes all in with the goofy humor. There are cartoonish, exaggerated special effects; there are pranks; and there’s wacky music. Weisman–who would go on to make a far wackier and far funnier Disney live-action movie a few years later in the form of George of the Jungle–doesn’t back away from silliness. The problem is that the silliness doesn’t serve any purpose aside from placating bored children before they yank on their parents’ shirt sleeves and ask, “When is the hockey going to come back?” I know that plenty of people–my wife and Michael included–still find a lot to love in this series, and this film specifically. I’m not sure what it is, unless you’re either a hockey buff (Michael clearly is) or you just watched the movie at the right point in your life for it to stick in your mental nostalgia bank forever (that would be where my wife falls). Though I saw the film as a child, I remembered nothing of it and found that my memory didn’t play a trick on me by hiding a hidden gem.
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D2: The Mighty Ducks does not rank with some of the more unwatchable films I’ve written or talked about on the podcast, though at points, it comes close. In terms of having some legitimately silly and unnecessarily outrageous scenes, it’s up there with Pete’s Dragon and Herbie Rides Again. Perhaps the biggest issue of all, one I didn’t really go into on the podcast but that should be brought up here, is that there’s very little dynamism among the cast. Yes, each of the kids has a wacky character trait (and it’s just the one, and barely that many), but that doesn’t make any of them breakout characters. While Estevez seems to enjoy himself, he never feels completely comfortable as Bombay here. It’s almost as if–and considering this film had a very quick turnaround after the original made a lot of money at the box office–he was unhappy to return to the role but had to do it simply to meet the terms of his contract. (I know little of the third film, having never seen it, but I notice that he’s in the movie in a supporting role. Very interesting.)
In some ways, that’s the trouble with D2: The Mighty Ducks. It doesn’t feel necessary. Sure, it’s not as shoehorned in as Herbie Rides Again, a movie that clearly only existed to make money. But there’s barely any concept here. “We need to capitalize on this franchise RIGHT NOW.” I can hear Michael Eisner saying this, echoing through the halls of Walt Disney Pictures. Capitalizing on a past success makes sense in business. But there’s little qualitative value to this movie, as much as I wish I could say otherwise. Maybe if I loved hockey as much as Michael does, I’d see more to this sequel.
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doc-25 | The University of Wolverhampton and legal firm, Talbots Law are backing the new two-week annual Business Festival, driven by the Black Country Chamber of Commerce.
The Business Festival will see over one hundred different business events of all shapes and sizes taking place across the Black Country showcasing the region’s strength in innovation, commerce and culture. These events are all developed by local organisations to ultimately pull the area’s diverse mix of businesses together with a united front to drive inward investment, share knowledge and place the Black Country on a global scale.
‘#ThisIsTheBlackCountry’ has been designated the Festival’s twitter hashtag, symbolising the intention and value of the Festival to proudly unite the region’s business community and its outward promotion under one united and consistently messaged banner – The Black Country Business Festival.
Any business of any size can apply to run an event and these can take any form, from seminars, workshops or debates through to exhibitions, trade shows or major conferences. It is anticipated that around 100 events will take place and over 7,500 people will attend over the fortnight, with around 18% of those coming from outside of the area.
Corin Crane, chief executive of the Black Country Chamber of Commerce said, “We are delighted that The University of Wolverhampton and vastly expanding Talbots Law are part of the growing support received for the Festival. This is excellent news for the Business Festival and really shows that the Black Country is ready for something new and innovative through which we can all show the rest of the country what a great place this is to live, work and do business in.
“Everyone needs to get involved for the collective benefit of the Black Country; whether this is by sponsoring, promoting, organising events or even offering venue space to businesses to hold their events. The Business Festival website is live and contains lots of really useful information, so everyone should take a look and see what they can do to play their part in making this the biggest and most exciting business event in this region a resounding success.”
Adrian Wright, president of the Black Country Chamber of Commerce said, “The Business Festival will provide a fantastic stage to showcase the diverse range of industries that proudly make up the Black Country.
“Our region is witnessing massive investment and growth, our existing businesses are thriving and new businesses are established themselves here. The Business Festival is our opportunity to place the area on a global stage to and show the world what our economy has to offer. Like the University of Wolverhampton and Talbots Law, I urge the region to unite and support this brilliant new initiative.”
Any Black Country organisation can apply to host an event and applications are still being taken through the website www.blackcountrybusinessfestival.com. Where possible, events should be free of charge to attend and they must be held within the Black Country region.
There are a number of partners that are kindly offering venue space on a complimentary basis or at a heavily discounted rate for Business Festival events, including both The University and Talbots Law. These are listed on the official website.
For more information including hosting an event, sponsoring or offering venue space, visit the Black Country Business Festival website at www.blackcountrybusinessfestival.com.
Alternatively, email hello@blackcountrybusinessfestival.com or call 01902 912304. |
doc-26 | Published: 23 October 1998 Category: Books (General) Purchase from:
Tags: Jesus of Nazareth, Reading the Bible today, Spirituality
John: The People’s Bible Commentary was first published by the Bible Reading Fellowship in 1998. The People’s Bible Commentary series was an innovative approach combining biblical commentary with daily devotional reading, which produced commentaries on all the books of the Bible between 1996 and 2006. It aimed ‘to instruct the head and warm the heart’ with authors ‘from around the world and across the Christian traditions’. Richard Burridge was one general editor, along with Canon David Winter, former Head of BBC Religious Broadcasting, and Dom Henry Wansbrough, the distinguished Roman Catholic biblical scholar.
John was highly influential both in the preparation for (and during) the 2008 Lambeth Conference, which was attended by over 800 bishops from across the Anglican Communion. A new edition of the commentary was issued specifically for the conference and John was one of the texts recommended for pre-conference reading.
Read the Introduction to the commentary by Archbishop Rowan Williams.
Richard Burridge gave one of the Lambeth Conference preparatory lectures on Anglican Approaches to Scripture and during the conference led seminars on the Bible and human sexuality.
An updated edition of this commentary was published by the Bible Reading Fellowship in 2013, and then in 2022, the Bible Reading Fellowship published the four gospel commentaries plus the Book of Acts as a box set to celebrate their centenary. |
doc-27 | Maria Carmen Punzi
M.C. (Maria Carmen) Punzi
M.C. (Maria Carmen) Punzi MSc
Department of Business-Society Management
Field: Organisation
E: punzi@rsm.nl
Maria Carmen is a Ph.D. Candidate in Business-Society Management. After working in several international non-profit organizations focused on gender equity and reproductive health, she joined ERIM in September 2019. In her research she takes an organizational lens to uncover the ways in which inequalities are reinforced and perpetuated through organizational discourses and practices, policies and regulations. Specifically, her research starts from the recognition that while menstrual health has been proven to affect women’s opportunities, health and inclusive participation in society, it is widely missing from existing work for gender equity. Bringing together literatures on social entrepreneurship, social movements and institutional change, she studies how different stakeholders organize around menstrual health, competing, collaborating and constructing new meanings around it.
On the side of her research, Maria Carmen is the Innovation Advisor at the Menstrual Health Hub and is regularly consulted across the Menstrual Health and Hygiene (MHH) space for her expertise in MHH related business innovation.
Maria Carmen obtained her Master of Science (MSc) degree in Global Business and Sustainability from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (2017) and her Bachelor degree (BSc) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (cum laude) from LUISS University, Rome (2016).
PhD Track Inclusivity Through Menstrual Health: Social Enterprises and the Challenge of Collaborative Governance for Societal Change
About 52% out of the female global population – that is 26% out of the total population - is of reproductive age which means that every day, more than 800 million women and girls are menstruating worldwide. Even though menstruation is deeply connected to challenges such as environmental sustainability, unmet need for contraception, gender-based violence and inequality, political institutions have been surprisingly silent on the topic: suffice here to look at milestone documents like the European Commission 2016-2020 Strategic Engagement for Gender Equality and the Sustainable Development Goals (2015) where not even a hint is given to such a crucial matter.
Menstruation is not simply a social and political matter. The menstrual products market is expected to raise to $42.7 billion by 2022 . The experience of menstruation is mediated by products, the marketing and advertisements of which influence the way women relate to their bodies and identities. Research is increasingly showing that girls not only in developing countries, but in wealthy areas like the United Kingdom struggle to afford their monthly supply of pads and tampons and sometimes have to choose between them and food. This shows that a research on the topic necessitates an economic reflection.
This project sets to understand the topic of menstrual health as a hub of strategic importance thanks to its timely and interdisciplinary nature, and an excellent case to study how, in a complex society like ours, the path towards collaborative governance unfolds. Menstrual health sets the scene to understand and study inclusivity on two levels. First, it helps us truly imagine how an equitable society would look like, one where menstruation does not represent an obstacle to opportunities and everyday actions for women. Second, it guides our analysis of how collaborative decision-making can unfold, and which challenges and opportunities can arise, given the lively and progressive momentum that is being built around menstruation in different fields.
The menstrual health context will be analyzed as a case where different stakeholders – social entrepreneurs, incumbent firms, non-profit organizations, regulators and donors – dynamically interact and work towards collaborative governance. This will mean studying the motivations and capabilities of non-state actors, who are increasingly harnessed in assuming regulatory responsibilities and contributing to public goals. In this way, the research aims at casting light on the processes and dynamics through which relevant public policies come to be - both at national and European level –, new standards are sought, and management strategic decisions are taken by entrepreneurs combining socially responsible behaviour with the need to make profits.
This project is appointed under the Erasmus Initiative 'Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity'.
Punzi, M. C., & Werner, M. (2020). Challenging the Menstruation Taboo One Sale at a Time: The Role of Social Entrepreneurs in the Period Revolution. In C. Bobel, I. T. Winkler, B. Fahs, K. A. Hasson, E. A. Kissling, & T. A. Roberts (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies (pp. 833-851). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0614-7_60
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doc-29 | Drug Rehab Facilities in Oak Park, MI
Jewish Family Service
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Jewish Family Service also offers various programs that are customized to meet the needs of specific clients such as: Aftercare and Relapse Prevention, Drug Abuse Evaluation, Mental Health Disorder Treatment. Finally, Jewish Family Service accepts different payment types, such as Cash or Self-Payment, Medicare, Private Health Insurance.
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The primary treatment approaches at this program include Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy, Relapse Prevention, 12-Step Recovery Groups. The facility also provides their services in different settings, including Outpatient Drug Rehab, Outpatient Drug Detoxification.
Metropolitan Rehabilitation Clinics also offers various programs that are customized to meet the needs of specific clients such as: Substance Abuse Testing. Finally, Metropolitan Rehabilitation Clinics accepts different payment types, such as Cash or Self-Payment, Medicare, Private Health Insurance. |
doc-30 | Posted: July 12th, 2009 | Author: Scott | Filed under: Didache | Tags: bishops, Christian, christianity, deacons, Didache, love, money, person, presbyter, presbyters, priests, prophet, prophets, romans | 3 Comments »
Appoint, therefore, for yourselves, bishops and deacons worthy of the Lord, men meek, and not lovers of money, and truthful and proved; for they also render to you the service of prophets and teachers. Therefore do not despise them, for they are your honored ones, together with the prophets and teachers.
This bit reflects the very early nature of the tradition in the Didache. The bishop was the center around which the church formed and the deacons served those in it. Later in the first century and well-established by the second century when there came to be too many believers in a city for the bishop of that city to personally care for, the bishop anointed presbyters (priests) to act in his stead in many circumstances. (There were still a few things only the bishop of a place could do.)
Christianity was always traditionally centered around physical place. You had the bishop of this city or angel of that city (revelation) or church of this other city. There was no concept of multiple separate churches in a given place even, as we see clearly in Romans, the church was too large and scattered to meet in a single location. We see Paul paying particular attention to the need to draw the Roman church together as one in that letter.
By the second century, we see a developed picture of the fullness or wholeness of the church pictured by the bishop of a place surrounded by his presbyters and deacons and people. It’s only in recent centuries that we’ve devolved into the sort of christian pluralism that permits many different “churches” competing with each other as different franchises within a particular place.
And that’s really sad.
3 Comments on “The Didache 32 – Appoint Bishops and Deacons”
1 mike said at 9:30 pm on July 12th, 2009:
…this post is deeply thought provoking…….through these teachings i am slowly becomming aware of just how little i know of the historical church…the very foundations of my beliefs are being tested….Bishops,priests,Didache,one church…..i was brought up protestant evangelical ….i learned from Christian preachers that the Roman Catholic Church is the antichrist …..i’ve never allowed myself to seriously question being Protestant before finding this blog….i appreciate these teachings and the challenges they pose for me…..
2 Scott said at 11:40 pm on July 12th, 2009:
Well, to the extent that I’m anything I’m a Protestant evangelical, SBC to be precise. I’ve sometimes referred to myself as the reluctant Christian and the accidental Baptist. I didn’t exactly grow up non-Christian and I didn’t exactly grow up Christian. I grew up exposed to a lot of different Christian traditions. I even went to an Episcopal school and a Roman Catholic school at certain points in my life. I was also exposed to a lot of non-Christian spirituality. The seventies, the decade in which I was a child, were an era of exploration for many people. I suppose my parents were among them. I have family members who are Baptist, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Jewish (by marriage), non-Christian of various sorts, and probably a few other things I’ve overlooked. The best I can describe my childhood formation is pluralistic.
I carried that into adulthood. While Christianity seriously intersected my life a number of times growing up in very real ways (both good and bad), I wouldn’t say that my journey had reached a point where my identity was beginning to be reshaped as a Christian until about fifteen years ago. My conversion was a lengthy process with no specific moment when it finally “happened”. There many “moments” along the way, and lots of things I to which I could point, but no one that did it. Oh, I could shovel my story into one of a number of frameworks if I wanted to. But I prefer to let it sit as it actually is without deforming it one way or another.
I’m not particularly trying to cause any sort of crisis for anyone reading. That’s not really my thing. But as you can tell, I’m the strange sort who has always loved history. So if you read things I write about faith, spirituality, and Christianity, you’re going to end up with a lot of history — typically in small doses. 😉
There are issues with the Roman Catholic Church as well as much that is good. I doubt I’ll have much to say about their issues since I’m not Roman Catholic and don’t really have any plans or see much likelihood that I will be. They aren’t my “family” in the same way Protestants are. I will write about and appreciate their good points from time to time.
I would say I’m influenced by the Orthodox, but I’m not sure that’s exactly true. I had read the ancient Christian writings for years and they had shaped the way I understood Christianity deeply while I thought the Orthodox were simply an Eastern sort of Catholic. By the time I figured out they weren’t a few years ago, it was more like I kept finding things I already believed rather than having my beliefs changed. In a lot of cases, it was a huge relief. I thought I believed something strange and completely different from standard Christians, so would rarely talk about it. When I discovered, for instance, that what I believed about original sin wasn’t strange at all, but was right down the center of Orthodox belief, it felt like a tremendous weight was lifted from my shoulders. The Orthodox have certainly had problems and issues over the centuries and still do today. However, so far I haven’t found anything that is a historical problem with the ancient beliefs and practices of the church. The problems have tended to be other sorts of problems.
Anyway, I am glad that you find some of what I write interesting. Although truthfully, I think you’ve been more struck by the Didache itself than by anything I’ve said.
3 mike said at 6:34 am on July 13th, 2009:
…..thanks for your reply…… |
doc-31 | Home→Research & Conservation→Scientific projects→Albatrosses
Tracking of albatross fledglings at South Georgia
The widespread population declines in many albatross species have been attributed primarily to incidental mortality in marine fisheries. Although there is no doubt that many albatrosses are killed behind fishing vessels, there is often a lack of information on which fleets are responsible; how fast birds are being killed; where, when and exactly how the mortality is occurring, and; which age class or status of bird is most vulnerable to capture. For example, breeding pair numbers of wandering albatrosses at South Georgia have declined by an average of 1.8% per year in the previous two decades. The same applies to the other breeding sites. Detailed demographic monitoring at Bird Island indicates that survival of adults decreased by 1-2%, and of juveniles has approximately halved since the mid to late 1990s. Tracking data indicate that adults from South Georgia have a wide non-breeding distribution and range far into the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Much less is known about the distribution of juveniles. Thus, and in cooperation with Dr. Richard Phillips from the British Antarctic Survey, satellite-transmitters were attached during the 2009/10 breeding season to 12 Wandering Albatross and 12 Black-browed Albatross fledglings at Bird Island, South Georgia, to monitor the migration of these un-experienced birds.
Pütz, K. & S. Poncet (2009) Interactions between seabirds and longline fisheries. In: Hempel, G. & I. Hempel (eds) Biological studies in Polar Oceans – exploration of life in icy waters. Wirtschaftsverlag N.W. GmbH, Bremerhaven, pp 181-184, ISBN 978-3-86509-865-8 |
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In my opinion, I believe that our generation should start saving up because there could be a chance where we won’t be able to receive benefits. The key long run problem between social security and Medicare is it will soon be depleted. Less people will receive benefits and will decline from 97 percent in 2025 and slowly decrease. I would favor in increasing taxes. If they started producing benefits then more people would likely be in several needs of help. They won’t be able to receive Medicare benefits, money, and etc. Increasing taxes will benefit us when we
Laffer Curve Business Analysis
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The Pros And Cons Of Expansionary Monetary Policy
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Advantages Of Utilitarianism Vs Neoliberalism
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Ricardian Equivalence Increase In Government Spending
Even if consumers care about the tax burden for next generation occurred from the current budget deficit, they can argue that the increase in population will redistribute taxes and their children will not be in difficulties with paying back. Liquidity constraints are needed to be eliminated in order for Ricardian Equivalence to hold. To explain this, consider this example. If consumer A wishes to spend more today knowing that his future income can pay for his current transactions, then consumer A only need to borrow money from the a bank or funds. As such, a tax cut would not change his spending decisions because he can borrow to enjoy his purchase as a result he would save the tax rebate and Ricardian Equivalence will…
The Importance Of Exchange Rate Risk Management
The pound fell to a 31-year low against the dollar, which is an alarming sign. Investors have the right to worry because the exit can hurt the investment in the country and the financial sector. Though the pound is dropping against the dollar, investors are leaning towards companies that export goods on the stock market. Since the pound is weaker, companies can increase profits from exporting. However, analysts believe if investment continues to fall within the country the gains on the stock market will be minimal.…
The Pros And Cons Of The Fair Tax Act
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Immigrant Work Force
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Social Security Privatization Research Paper
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Economic Effects Of Deflation
Thus people choose either invest in something that will returns more to balance inflation, or they purchase some fixed assets to store their wealth. However, when people know that money will worth more in the future, the risk-averse people will consider to save the money rather than invest or consume something. Therefore, the national output will fall due to the investment and consumption falls (Y = C + I + G + NX). Another way to explain the nation output falls can be illustrated by AD-AS mode. The deflation leads a negative shock in aggregate demand, therefore the AD curve shifts to the left, both of the price level and real national output falls.…
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doc-33 | The 15th International and 51st Annual Conference of ELTAI (English Language Teachers’ Association of India) will be conducted as a wholly virtual conference from 18 to 20 November 2021 at GLA University |
doc-34 | On August 21, Odessa National Medical University celebrated the last day of Onam festival.
Onam Festival is an official ten-day harvest festival celebrated in the Indian state of Kerala. According to a legend, the spirit of the king of ancient Kerala Mahabali visits these lands every year in late August. And on these days, all residents of the state celebrate the Golden Age of those times. Malayala make every effort to celebrate the holiday, which symbolizes new life, on a grand scale: be sure to wear new clothes, lay out in front of the houses patterned flower carpets (athapukkalam), make delicious food (sadhya), sing folk songs, participate in traditional games, boat races and ethnic dances. he first day-atami- is the most important out of the ten as well as the tenth – tiruvonam, which this year fell on August 21.
On this day, Indian students of the International Faculty laid out an amazing concentric pattern in honor of their current home – Odessa National Medical University near the main building, held fun games and competitions, impressed the audience with beautiful folk costumes, songs, dances and sweet treats.
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doc-37 | Lisa Teachman Biography
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She attended Witchita State University and Mississippi State University where she did her undergraduate studies. After she was done, she went to serve weather teams in Huntington, WV; Baltimore, MD; and Kansas City, MO. Most notably, she earned the American Meteorological Society’s “Seal of Approval” in 2018.
In addition, she was recognized by the Kansas Association of Broadcasters for having the best weathercast in Wichita. She brings nearly 20 years of professional experience to her role at KSN News 3. Following some of her achievements, In 2011, she reported live from Joplin in the hours following the catastrophic EF5 tornado that struck the city.
She is one of the people who realized their passion as a youth. She discovered her passion for meteorology in her youth years. Her dad is a Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service volunteer. He assists in emergency communications for Sedgwick County. When off her duties, she loves taking her 3 dogs on walks with her husband or spending time indoors listening to country music and eating.
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Current State Analysis: Data Quality
Summary: In this article, the second in a series that takes a deep dive on how to do a Current State Analysis on your data, Vanessa Lam focuses on Data Quality: what it is, why it is important, and what questions to ask to determine its current state.
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This is the second in a series of articles taking a deep dive on how to do a Current State Analysis on your data. This article will focus on Data Quality: what it is, why it is important, and what questions to ask to determine its current state.
The questions are organized by stakeholder group to facilitate usability; hopefully you can use this as a template to start your Current State Analysis journey. A few definitions before we begin — note that these groups are not mutually exclusive:
People Who Input Data: These are people who collect and/or input data into the system. For example, salespeople inputting their sales numbers, or survey creators.
People Who Manipulate and Analyze Data: These are people who organize the data and create analyses. This includes Data Engineers, Business Intelligence Professionals, and Data Analysts.
People Who Make Decisions Based on Data: These are the people who use the data to make decisions. This may be a sales manager deciding where to invest resources, a product manager understanding product use demographics, or an executive trying to cut costs.
What Is Data Quality?
Data quality is a measure of the condition of your data, including accuracy, consistency, and completeness. Data quality can be affected in any part of the process, from collection to ETL to analysis. Accuracy refers to how well your data reflects the truth while consistency refers to how well individual data elements match each other. An example of accuracy and consistency in data collection is when a Sales Representative fills out their sales region (e.g., Pacific Northwest). If the input is a manual text field, it is possible for them to spell the region incorrectly (Pafic Northwest) or even capitalize the region incorrectly (pacific northwest). This is a failure of data consistency. A possible correction here would be to supply a dropdown list of the possible regions (e.g., Pacific Northwest, Midwest, South, East). However, this scenario still provides opportunities for inaccuracy in choosing the incorrect region. An example of incomplete data here would be the Sales Representative leaving this field blank or not filling out the sales record entirely.
Potential solutions to these issues could be making the Region field mandatory or even pre-filling the field if Sales Representatives are assigned to specific regions. However, be aware that putting these rules on data collection may slow down data collection or even disincentivize people from completing forms if they think that it is too difficult or restrictive. When assessing data quality rules, it is important to evaluate whether guardrails and processes can be added to make positive change, or if the restrictions will cause unintentional side-effects.
Good data quality is essential in order to know that insights drawn from the data can be trusted. Most analysts have the experience of their manager questioning the numbers from the data, especially if they have some anecdotal knowledge that implies that the data is completely incorrect. Better data quality will reduce the number of times that this happens as the data will be more accurate and complete, meaning that it is a better reflection of the truth. In the cases where there are still disagreements, they may be more substantive and provide opportunities to talk about where anecdotal evidence and collected data may differ.
Questions to Determine Current State of Data Quality
To Those Who Input Data
These questions are designed to better understand the guardrails around data collection. It is important for data to have strong validations, such as choosing from a dropdown list instead of allowing free text; however, be aware that this could backfire if the validations prevent accurate data entry (for example, missing categories in a dropdown) or make it too difficult to fill out (long forms with many mandatory fields can make a form unappealing to fill out). Often, data quality issues are rooted in poor data collection.
What is your process for inputting data?
Are there specific fields for inputting commonly-collected information, or is it largely free-text?
Are there selection options for appropriate fields? (e.g., a dropdown with "True" or "False" selections, or a free text field where you can type "True" or "False")
Are there automatic or pre-loaded values in the fields? Are you typically using the pre-loaded value, or do you frequently need to change it?
What is your biggest frustration when inputting data?
To Those Who Manipulate and Analyze Data
These questions are designed to understand how the data looks to someone who is in charge of cleaning, understanding, and verifying the numbers to be presented to business stakeholders. They are often the ones who feel most impacted by poor data quality and therefore likely have a good idea of where the data is weak.
When doing analyses, how confident do you feel about the outcome based on the data?
Do you feel like you need to put caveats on your data based on low confidence intervals?
Are there data fields that are being used for multiple purposes? Are there data fields that still exist in the data but everyone says to avoid?
To Those Who Make Decisions Based on Data
These questions are designed for people who are using data to make decisions. Often they are not the ones who have done the analysis themselves, so they may not know the intricacies of the data as well. However, they are usually keenly aware of the business implications of their decisions and have a good sense of what aggregate numbers make sense. For example, a sales executive will likely have a good idea if the number presented is approximately correct based on their experience with the industry, company, and knowledge of their sales representatives. It is important to hear their opinion because ultimately these are the customers of the data. If they aren't happy with the quality, then some changes may need to take place.
Do you find yourself seeing the data and overriding data-backed decisions because you don't think that what you're reading is a reflection of reality?
What parts of the data are you confident in? What parts are you concerned by?
Data quality is a bedrock of your data systems. Without good quality data, analyses cannot be trusted, decisions cannot be made with data, and eventually people will stop relying on data altogether. Before attempting to implement a strong data ecosystem, it is important to have a plan to improve data quality throughout the organization, from data collection and data processes to analyses.
This article is the second in a series discussing the important considerations when assessing your Current State of Data. Follow along for the next article about Data Freshness — measuring whether the data is up to date and reliable!
Vanessa Lam, "Current State Analysis: Data Quality" Business Rules Journal, Vol. 22, No. 8, (Aug. 2021)
Vanessa Lam Director, BRSdata
As Director of BRSdata, Vanessa Lam created a division within Business Rule Solutions (BRS) to focus on data culture, data accountability, and business intelligence.
Vanessa specializes in building data-driven organizations where operations and leadership understand and trust the data, treat data as a resource, and use data to make day-to-day and strategic decisions.
Previously, she worked at Mastercard as a Manager of Business Insight and Productivity and Optoro as a Manager of Business Intelligence. In these roles, she created educational tools for the organization, fostered data communities, and ensured people used data responsibly.
Ms. Lam's popular articles on data quality and data culture are published regularly in the Business Rules Journal and TDAN (The Data Administration Newsletter). She is a frequent speaker at Enterprise Data World, Building Business Capability Conference, Tableau User Group, and Predictive Analytics World.
She has a Masters of Computer and Information Technology from the University of Pennsylvania and a BSc in Economics from the Wharton School. She was recently named a top influencer to watch in 2021 by IIBA. You can follow her at @Big_On_Data on Twitter.
Read All Articles by Vanessa Lam
Current State Analysis: Data Outcomes By Vanessa Lam Oct. 2022 | Vol. 23, Iss. 10
Announcing the BRSdata Capability Map™ By Vanessa Lam Jun. 2022 | Vol. 23, Iss. 6
Current State Analysis: Data Culture By Vanessa Lam Apr. 2022 | Vol. 23, Iss. 4
Current State Analysis: Data Freshness By Vanessa Lam Dec. 2021 | Vol. 22, Iss. 12
Current State Analysis: Data Quality By Vanessa Lam Aug. 2021 | Vol. 22, Iss. 8 |
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Bette Davis and Joan Crawford’s vicious feud timeline
October 6, 2022 mediabest Celebrities
Bette Davis 'heartbroken' over comments made on her looks
Bette Davis, who died on October 6, 1989, had the last word in her vicious feud with Joan Crawford as she outlived her rival by 12 years. However, some are debating whether the rivalry was purely to market What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, a 1962 psychological horror focused on a sibling rivalry portrayed by the two actresses.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? was a groundbreaking film but it also marked the end of what relationship was left between lauded actresses Davis and Crawford.
Both actresses had risen to fame in the thirties, when artists would sign contracts to studios rather than for individual productions, although Crawford arrived in Tinsletown five years earlier than Davis as the latter was occupied on Broadway.
The first taste of bad blood trickled in when Davis received her first starring role in 1933’s Ex-Lady at the same time that Crawford announced her divorce.
Ultimately Davis’ film become somewhat irrelevant and left the cinema early due to poor sales.
This first clash sparked media interest in the two leading ladies who seemingly couldn’t avoid outshining each other, which was furthered when Crawford transferred to Warner Brothers, the same studio as Davis, a move which put them in direct competition for roles.
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However, What Went Wrong podcast co-host Lizzie Bassett believes the women kept their relationship professional and on good terms, saying on the show: “There’s no real indication that Crawford and Davis truly hated each other prior to the actual filming of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane.”
In 1962, Crawford approached Davis after one of her Broadway performances and asked her to star in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane alongside her, which Bassett believes is a clear indication that until this point the rivalry had been “drummed up” by the media.
Davis accepted but reportedly had two conditions for the film: firstly she had to play the lead role and secondly, the director promised he wouldn’t sleep with Crawford so that her colleague wouldn’t be favoured for close-up shots.
Davis was actually forced to do her own makeup for the film as “no makeup artist would agree to do what she was asking” Bassett claimed, and her final look may be evidence enough as to why.
The actress claimed that she wanted her character, a washed-up actress, to look as though she never washed her face but rather just put another layer of makeup on.
Starring opposite her, Crawford was in an unexpected spot as the award-winning actress was now playing second fiddle with a victim character that is paralysed from the waist down.
The actress reportedly noted that filming was enjoyable for her as “I usually play the bitches, now I can sit back and watch Bette do it”.
The film set is where the feud reportedly started, with Bette allegedly calling Crawford “a phony c**t” and put a Coke-a-Cola vending machine in her dressing room, the direct competitor of Pepsi.
Prior to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, Crawford married Pepsi CEO Alfred Steele in 1955 and when he died in 1959 she took his spot on the board of directors.
During one intense fight scene, Crawford allegedly claimed that Davis had purposefully actually hit her in the head, and in revenge, she had worn weights during a different scene where Davis had to drag her around the set.
Podcast co-host Chris Winterbauer added that the feud seemingly becomes more realistic on set, adding: “Joan Crawford seems like a humourless person and Bette Davis is clearly someone that thinks life is a cosmic joke and that is a deadly combination!”
When the film was being marketed, much of the advertising material seemingly pitted the two actresses against each other, with Bassett claiming the campaign largely focused on “Are they really going to kill each other? Go see the movie to find out!”.
Whether this was the actual strategy or not, the film became a commercial success and was critically praised, even earning Davis a Best Actress Academy Award nomination, but this is where the podcast hosts believe the feud may have gone from publicity to reality.
Crawford did not receive any nominations for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane and reportedly began contacting the other Best Actress nominees offering to accept the award on their behalf if they could not attend the ceremony.
The podcast claimed Davis believed the awards had been rigged by Crawford too as she lost her Oscar to Ann Bancroft, and Crawford went up to accept the award for the absent actress.
Bassett also noted that if Crawford had rigged the awards it was evidently a bitter move not just for personal motives.
If Davis had won the award the film likely would have been re-released, earning more money, and because of the actresses’ income shares, they in turn would have earned more money too.
The film’s success did spur a sequel, although Crawford would be noticeably absent due to the “toxic work environment” that had formed between her and Davis, indicating that regardless of how it started, their feud was undeniably real by the end of 1962.
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doc-41 | Alaska Lyme Data
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area Lyme Data
Reports of Lyme Disease in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska
Total cases of lyme disease confirmed in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area (2000 to 2018)
Due to the fact that the CDC's data only represents confirmed cases, the actual quantity of Lyme disease cases may be far greater. We estimate a total of 10 true cases of Lyme disease in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area.
Yearly Breakdown of Lyme Cases in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area
Lyme Stats For Other Alaska Counties
Aleutians East Borough Aleutians West Census Area Anchorage Municipality
Bethel Census Area Bristol Bay Borough Denali Borough
Dillingham Census Area Fairbanks North Star Borough Haines Borough
Hoonah-Angoon Census Area Juneau City and Borough Kenai Peninsula Borough
Ketchikan Gateway Borough Kodiak Island Borough Lake and Peninsula Borough
Matanuska-Susitna Borough Nome Census Area North Slope Borough
Northwest Arctic Borough Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area Sitka City and Borough
Skagway Municipality Southeast Fairbanks Census Area Valdez-Cordova Census Area
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International Human Rights Commission Condemns The Forceful Vaccination of Ghanaians
The Ghana chapter of the International Human Rights Commission has written extensively to condemn the decision of the government of Ghana through the Ministry of Health to forcefully vaccinate Ghanaians with the Covid-19 jabs due to low patronage.
Ghana is just one of the many countries that have been hit hard by the devastating effect of the covid-19 pandemic.
Just as many western developed countries are taking steps to curb the spread of the disease on a large scale, Ghana did the same. Then country started managing the virus spread by closing its borders and starting mass country-wide vaccinations.
Though the borders are open to air traffic and international travel is back to normal, land borders of the country remain closed and access to the airlines must follow strict protocols put in place by the health officials.
In a new development, the Minister of Health, Ghana Kwaku Agyemang-Manu announced the decision of the government to forcefully vaccinate all the citizens. But the International Human Rights Commission thinks the decision is against the rights of the people and must be withdrawn noting that it stands against articles 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the United Nations Human Rights Declaration.
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doc-43 | by JDC | Jul 1, 2022 | Bookkeeping | 0 comments
Differential Cost Analysis
Standard Costing as a Business Strategy
AccountingTools
Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio
Incremental revenue
What is incremental cost?
For example, a business may choose to increase or decrease prices depending on the incremental costs. Understanding a product’s marginal cost helps a company assess its profitability and make informed decisions related to the product, including pricing. Also, once the incremental costs are determined by the company, the retail price of the product can also be easily calculated. Incremental cost is choice-based; hence, it only includes forward-looking costs. The cost of building a factory and set-up costs for the plant are regarded as sunk costs and are not included in the incremental cost calculation. Another scenario is when incremental revenue equals incremental costs. Understanding incremental costs will greatly help in improving the production efficiency and production of a business.
While in reality, the fixed cost occupies the major portion of the total cost of production. The incremental cost is the amount of money or cost a company will incur when an additional unit of product is produced. Incremental revenue is compared to baseline revenue to determine a company’s return on investment. The two calculations for incremental revenue https://business-accounting.net/ and incremental cost are thus essential to determine the company’s profitability when production output is expanded. If incremental cost is higher than incremental revenue, selling an additional unit will cause the company to incur a loss. If incremental cost is lower than incremental revenue, selling an additional unit will earn the company a profit.
The total costs to produce part #56 are $30,000, a savings of $7,500 over the purchase option, and the choice would be for Toyland Treasures to continue to make the part. From the above data, we derive that the incremental cost to produce additional 4,000 units amount to $64,000 ($264,000 -$200,000). Incremental revenue refers to the additional revenue a business will earn if it sells an additional unit of a product. The concern that ICER may lead to rationing has affected policy makers in the United States. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 provided for the creation of the independent Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute . The basic method of allocation of incremental cost is to assign a primary user and the additional or incremental user of the total cost. When you compare the two, it is clear that the incremental revenue is higher than the incremental cost.
Incremental costs shall not include any part, portion, or pro- ration of costs, of any kind whatsoever, including without limitation overhead or labor costs, which would have otherwise been incurred.
Assuming a manufacturing company, ABC Ltd. has a production unit where the cost incurred in making 100 units of a product X is ₹ 2,000.
The $50,000 is already spent and will become idle capacity if the product is bought from the market.
Below are the current production levels as well as the added costs of the additional units.
If it wants to increase the production level, it either has to rent another plant or build a new one.
To understand how incremental cost works, assume your business spends $200,000 on producing 5,000 glass bottles.
The incremental cost of production only takes into account the variable costs incurred for the production of additional units produced by the company thus ignoring the fixed costs of production already incurred by it. Differential Cost Analysis is conducted to take important decisions such as ‘make or buy,’ change in activity level, adding/sinking a product, change in product mix, export orders, goods marketed in a new market, etc. In differential / incremental cost analysis, only the relevant costs are taken into consideration. Fixed costs or costs already been incurred in the past are not relevant. Future costs that are mainly variable costs are taken into consideration. The use of differential cost analysis only takes management decisions and has no relevance to accounting or book-keeping.
The use of ICERs therefore provides an opportunity to help contain health care costs while minimizing adverse health consequences. Treatments for patients who are near death offer few QALYs simply because the typical patient has only months left to benefit from treatment.
The two calculations for incremental revenue and incremental cost are thus essential to determine the company’s profitability when production output is expanded.
Companies can use incremental cost analysis to help determine the profitability of their business segments.
The incremental cost of conducting business transactions on the internet is as much as fifteen times less expensive than paper transactions.
As such, incremental cost influences the decision the company makes regarding expanding or increasing production.
For example, a business may choose to increase or decrease prices depending on the incremental costs.
However, when we talk about incremental costs, we disregard any costs that don’t change when the level of activity (e.g. production) changes.
The long-run incremental cost for lithium, nickel, cobalt, and graphite as critical raw materials for making electric vehicles are a good example. If the long-run predicted cost of the raw materials is expected to rise, then electric vehicle prices will likely be higher in the future. The attempt to calculate and accurately predict such costs assist a company in making future investment decisions that can increase revenue and reduce costs. Incremental cost is important because it affects product pricing decisions. If incremental cost leads to an increase in product cost per unit, a company may choose to raise product price to maintain its return on investment and to increase profit. Conversely, if incremental cost leads to a decrease in product cost per unit, a company can choose to reduce product price and increase profit by selling more units.
The Party Connection has received a special order request for 15,000 packets at a price of $20 per packet to be shipped overseas. If 84,000 packets is 75% of capacity, what does incremental cost mean 112,000 packets would be 100% of capacity. The Party Connection has the capacity to prepare the 15,000 packets requested without changing its existing operations.
What does incremental mean in accounting?
Definition of Incremental Cost
An incremental cost is the difference in total costs as the result of a change in some activity. Incremental costs are also referred to as the differential costs and they may be the relevant costs for certain short run decisions involving two alternatives.
Besides, in the long where firm expands its production hires more manpower, material, machine and equipment, the expenditure incurred on these factors are the incremental cost and not the marginal cost. The company management can consider the cost of producing one additional unit to make their pricing decisions to make a profit. But if the per-unit cost or average cost is decreasing by incurring the incremental cost, the company might be able to reduce the price of the product and enjoy selling more units. Such companies are said to have economies of scale, whereby there is some scope available to optimize the utility of production. For instance, a company merger might reduce overall costs of because only one group of management is required to run the company. Producing the products, however, might bring incremental costs because of the downsizing. The management must look at the additional cost of producing the products under one roof.
The concept of incremental cost is quite similar to the concept of marginal cost, but with a relatively wider connotation. The marginal cost refers to the addition in the total cost due to the production of one more unit of a product, generally the next unit. Keep a spreadsheet with incremental costs noted against different levels of production. You can use this as a tool to manage cash flow while ensuring you are prepared for cost increases. Scaling production is a great goal but you must be sure the market is prepared to purchase and absorb your productions at the increased level. As your production rises, the cost per unit is lowered and your overall profitability increases. You can setup a spreadsheet with the formula to automatically calculate incremental costs at any level of production.
Incremental cost is usually computed by manufacturing entities as a process in short-term decision-making. It is calculated to assist in sales promotion and product pricing decisions and deciding on alternative production methods. |
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For the first time in his storied career, Chanchal Chowdhury is going to star in a regular television serial on BTV. The serial, titled Kaaler Jatra, is being shot at the channel’s headquarters at Rampura. It is adapted from the book by the same name, written by theatre personality Mamunur Rashid. The story involves a struggling theatre troupe in a small town, where Chanchal’s character is the leader of the troupe. “It feels really good to finally work in a regular series in BTV, and I am sure that the audience will really like the TV serial,” says Chanchal. Kaaler Jatra is scheduled to air soon. |
doc-45 | What are Direct Messages?
How to Contact Another Community Member
This article is for informational purposes only. It is not a substitute for legal advice from a qualified attorney. You should consult an attorney if you have questions or need legal guidance.
RealSelf is a community where consumers can share opinions and experiences. It’s important to understand your rights and responsibilities as a consumer when talking about an experience or sharing an opinion online.
You have the right to say what you think about something. Even if someone does not agree with your opinion, you are allowed to share it.
Libel (or defamation) is an untrue public statement that is damaging to a person’s or business’s reputation. The important word here is "untrue" -- If you lie about something that happened, and it causes harm to someone else, you may be liable.
You can… tell the truth and share your opinion.
You can't… tell lies or break the law.
Strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPP) occur when someone files a lawsuit for the sole purpose of intimidating or causing a financial burden. The goal of a SLAPP lawsuit is not to win in court, but to achieve something simply by filing the lawsuit.
Each state offers different protections against SLAPPs. Some states offer no protection at all. The United States has no federal anti-SLAPP law.
Consumers can protect themselves from SLAPP by telling the truth; if you have done nothing wrong, there is no justification for a lawsuit. You should also research anti-SLAPP statutes in your state, as they vary widely.
Illegal Acts
It’s illegal to threaten, harass or intimidate someone online. It’s also a violation of RealSelf's Code of Conduct and Terms of Service.
Blackmail & Extortion
It’s illegal to demand that someone pay you in return for you doing, or not doing, something.
This list is not exhaustive. Anything that is illegal in "real life" is likely also illegal on the Internet. Use common sense and don’t hurt other people. If someone is threatening or hurting you, please report it to us.
https://www.aclu.org/free-speech/internet-censorship
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New Zealand is just better than Australia, and it’s not just because of that scenery. (Photo / 123RF)
Alana Schetzer – Daily Telegraph
New Zealand may be the land of the sheep, but it’s Australians who are the followers.
Ever since our neighbours across the Tasman became the first country in the world to allow women the right to vote, we’ve been struggling to keep up.
New Zealand has soundly beaten Australia by appointing its first woman Governor-General in 2001 – years before Quentin Bryce made history here; their first woman prime minister, Jenny Shipley, took office in 1997, while we had to wait a further 14 years.
And Dame Sian Elias was appointed Chief Supreme Court Justice of New Zealand in 1999, whilst our first chief, Susan Kiefel, was only appointed in January this year.
New Zealand has also shown superb leadership in issues concerning native rights, campaigning against nuclear testing in the South Pacific, and have some of the strongest environmental laws in the world.
They have embraced renewable energy, with targets already in place for 90 per cent of its power through alternative sources by 2025.
Back in Australia, our renewable energy debate has the same sophistication of toddlers throwing a tantrum in the middle of a Target store.
Last year, the Social Progress Index named New Zealand as the most progressive country, beating 131 other countries.
They came out on top thanks to their laws and social attitudes to health, sanitation, shelter, personal safety, access to information, sustainability, tolerance and inclusion and access to education.
As Australian squabbles over whether to legalise same-sex marriage through a highly contentious and expensive postal survey, New Zealand parliament quietly changed it laws to allow same-sex marriage in 2013 through a simple vote, after which all members sang a Maori love song.
It was a profoundly beautiful and dignified moment, two adjectives that cannot be associated with Australia’s bizarre and prejudice-baiting approach to settling an issue that most other western countries have done via parliament or the courts.
What is it about New Zealand that places them so far in front of us when it comes to equality and compassion?
On paper, we share many similarities – we share the same history of colonisation and Indigenous persecution, plus our flags are freakishly similar – but we continually lack the initiative and imagination to embrace the reforms necessary to progress human rights, gender equality, environmental protections and embrace Indigenous culture and rights.
Australia collectively likes to think of itself as the sheriff in the South Pacific, but when it comes to equality and passion, New Zealand has us pegged.
We’re not the leaders we think we are. Instead of stealing New Zealand’s Russell Crowe or Split Enz for ourselves, perhaps we could borrow their progressive attitude to fix some of our problems.
[Read the Daily Telegraph article]. |
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Death of Spouse
Losing a Spouse is for Life
I was married to David Beasley for seven years when he was killed in a car wreck. When the seventh anniversary of his death arrived, it overwhelmed me to consider he had been gone as many years as we were married.
I shared the irony with our 7-year-old daughter, Katherine, who was only 3 months old when he died. Wide-eyed, she looked at me and asked, “What did David sound like?”
It dawned on me that since I married my new husband, Robbie, four years earlier, I was so focused on blending our family, my kids had never seen a video of their biological father.
On the anniversary of David’s death, Robbie planned to be out of town. So, I invited my mom, dad, David’s sister and her family, and the kids to remember David by watching home videos.
At the last minute, however, Robbie’s trip got canceled. He would have to sit through home movies and mourn a man he didn’t know. But because Robbie has experienced losing a spouse (to cancer), he graciously understood and joined us.
Everyone gathered in anticipation as I prepared. I couldn’t wait to see the look of curiosity and wonder on my children’s faces, who were 7 and 9. This was their daddy. They would finally get to hear David’s voice, see his goofy expressions, and hear his deep belly laughs. They could see the way he doted on them as babies and cared deeply for their mom.
Moment of Revelation
Everyone went quiet as the old video buzzed on the screen. Suddenly, there he was—the face I loved so much, the father of my children, my long-lost friend. I cherished the glimpses through windows to the past and soaked up his countenance, reliving each memory in my mind. After a few minutes, I looked over to see the response of my children, but they were already gone, playing with their cousins.
I called them, not sure if they understood who was on the screen. “Kids, that’s David. Didn’t you say you wanted to hear how he sounded?”
Katherine came around the corner. “Yes, but I heard him,” she said.
I was confused by their lack of interest. Was it healthy? Should I force them to watch? What did it mean?
And then Katherine cried out with delight, “Daddy! Daddy!” But she wasn’t talking about David. She was calling Robbie.
The man on the screen was just an ancestor to her, like a great, great grandfather—interesting, but not life-changing. She got all she needed from a five-minute glance. The man on the couch was her Daddy.
She crawled up into Robbie’s lap. He cradled her in his big, strong arms as only a daddy can for his little girl. And they cuddled while they watched old videos of another man on the screen, one who gave her life, who cuddled and bathed her newborn body in his big, strong arms as only a daddy can do for his little girl.
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Conflicting emotions after losing a spouse
I was happy and sad at the same time. I felt overjoyed that Katherine had Robbie, a father like David wanted her to have. And I felt disheartened that it wasn’t him. David wanted more than anything to be the best dad in the world, having been raised by a widowed mother who never remarried. But God had a different sovereign plan.
Right after David died, I remember people trying to console me saying, “You’re so young. You’ll get married again.” But that didn’t comfort me. It wasn’t marriage I missed. It was David. Marrying someone else wouldn’t bring him back, and it didn’t.
This year, it will be 10 years since David’s death. I’ve been married to Robbie almost seven. We’re happy, well-adjusted, and my kids are, too. I wouldn’t trade my blended family for the world. But that doesn’t mean I don’t still miss David.
A Lesson of Grief
There are many lessons I’ve gathered on the journey of grief, and one of them is this: The heartache of losing a spouse lasts a lifetime.
My kids may not grieve their loss, but I do. And I grieve for David. My heart breaks that he will never walk our daughter down the aisle. He’ll never teach our son to play basketball or cheer for their favorite team together.
But in my moments of melancholy, I remember I serve a God who restores. Death is a vicious enemy, and it has temporarily stolen the precious moments that belong to a father and his children. But God promised to “restore to [us] the years that the swarming locust has eaten …” (Joel 2:25). Because our Savior lives, David lives. And my children and I will one day join him in heaven.
Until then, my heart will toggle between the glory of God’s provision and the agony of loss. Solomon said it best, “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven … a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn , and a time to dance…” (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 4). When I’m sad, I let myself be sad. And when I’m happy, I let myself be happy. Sometimes that happens at the same time. And God is with me in these moments, whispering His promises that the best is yet to come.
I look forward to the day when I can be with all my loved ones, including David and Robbie. In that place, there will be no more tears or sorrow, and I can stand before God and thank Him for all He has given me, even in the midst (and because of) losing a spouse.
Copyright © 2020 by Sabrina Beasley McDonald. All rights reserved.
Sabrina Beasley McDonald has been writing about God’s plan for marriage and family for over 19 years. Sabrina has a Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family counseling from Liberty University. She is the author of several devotional books, including Write God In Deeper: Journal Your Way to a Richer Faith. |
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doc-49 | March 16, 2020 /in Fun Company Events, General /by Infinity Team
Ashli Clubine Joins Infinity, Inc.
Today we welcome a new team member to improve how we serve our clients. Please meet Ashli Clubine, Service Delivery Administrator.
Ashli comes to us with experience in operations, project management, and customer service. She earned her Bachelor’s degree from the University of West Georgia and a Leadership Certification from Savannah Technical College. Her responsibilities here include supporting the Service Delivery Manager with quality control, administrative support, and team management.
Outside of work, Ashli is an active member of the community, currently serving as secretary for the Board of Directors on the Nine Line Foundation. In that role she is responsible for assisting with donation management and event coordination for the Foundation. She also currently serves as a committee member for the YMCA of Coastal Georgia’s A Place to Dream.
Ashli and her husband, Matt, live in Savannah with their daughter and beloved pets. And in her free time, she enjoys gardening, scrapbooking, hiking, and fishing.
Asked about this new role, Ashli says, “I connected with Infinity while working with a previous employer and loved the atmosphere and mission of the company. As a member of this team, I hope to develop professionally in addition to providing my leadership and client management experience to help Infinity prosper and grow.”
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Al-Khwarizmi - Al-Kindi - Cryptology - Ibn Al-Haytham - Light - Mathematics - Optics - Salim Al-Hassani -
Taken from the Bletchley Park's Digital Light: Code Makers brochure, a summary of Prof Salim Al-Hassani's speech about Muslim Civilisation's contribution in optics and cryptology.
www.bletchleypark.org.uk/whats-on/digital-light-code-makers-at-bletchley-park
(Left-front row): Professor Salim Al-Hassani President FSTC UK, Countess Elizabeth Howe Patron MKIAC, Milton Keynes Mayor Cllr Sam Cook, Mr Anouar Kassim Founder and Director of MKIAC, Dr Rebecca Foy Director of Engagement Bletchley Park, Cllr Ansar Hussein. (Left back row): Vice Lord Lieutenant Alexander Boswell, Professor Kamal Bechkoum, Lord Lieutenant Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher and Dr Iain Standen CEO Bletchley Park.
Digital Light: Ibn al-Haytham (965-1040), the Father of Optics
Figure 1. This drawing is an artist’s idea of what Ibn al-Haytham might have looked like. In some places, Ibn al-Haytham is also known as Alhazen, which is the Latin form of his first name, al-Hasan.
The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2015 as the International Year of Light (IYL2015), recognising the importance of light-based technologies in meeting the needs of humankind. A number of worldwide celebrations were organised to commemorate important milestones in the history of the science of light. The year 2015 was recognised to represent a millennium since the publication of the great Book of Optics by the Basra born scholar Ibn al-Haytham. He lived at a time of incredible blossoming of creativity and innovation, called the Islamic Golden Age. Ibn al-Haytham was sometimes referred to as the “father of optics” and “father of the scientific (experimental) method”.
For mathematics, that remarkable period in the history began with Muhammad ibn Musaal-Khwarizmi (ca 780–850), a member of the Baghdad House of Wisdom (Bait al-Hikma) whose book Kitab al-Jabr wa‘l-Muqabala (Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing) gave a new momentum to algebra. The word “algebra” is derived from the title of the book and the word “algorithm” is a corruption of his name. This new algebra was essentially performing arithmetic calculations carrying the unknown, which is given a name, shay, meaning a “thing.” In English, we use “x” to represent shay. This opened the door to a broad development that allowed mathematics to be applied in ways that were not possible earlier.
Figure 2. From 1001 Inventions book
Al-Khwarizmi was followed by numerous mathematicians making huge advances that preceded European mathematicians such as Ruffini-Horner, René Descartes (1596–1650), Pierre Fermat (1601–1665), Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), John Wilson (1741–1793) and Joseph Lagrange (1736–1813). The numbers from 1 to 9 are now known as Arabic numerals used with slight modification in Europe and North Africa today, as distinct from the Indian numerals that are still found in some eastern parts of the Muslim world. The arrival of these numerals resolved the problems caused by Roman numerals and the abacus, which had been in use until then. Zero, as a concept, was known by ancient Mesopotamian and Indian civilisations. As a number or a space holder, it was used by the Indians, then it reached Baghdad where it became part of the Arabic numeral system. It was al-Khwarizmi who suggested that a little circle be used in calculations if no number appeared in the tens place. The Arabs called this circle “sifr”, or “empty.” The word zero came from French zéro or Italian zero, via Old Spanish from Arabic sifr ‘cipher’.
Figure 3. © FSTC Ltd.
Breaking Code
Figure 4. A chart shows the frequency of letters in a passage of text
“One way to solve an encrypted message, if we know its language, is to find a different plain text of the same language long enough to fill one sheet or so, and then we count the occurrences of each letter. We call the most frequently occurring letter the ‘first,’ the next most occurring letter the ‘second,’ the following most occurring the ‘third,’ and so on until we account for all the different letters in the plain text sample… Then we look at the cypher text we want to solve and we also classify its symbols. We find the most occurring symbol and change it to the form of the ‘first’ letter of the plaintext sample, the next most common symbol is changed to the form of the ‘second’ letter, and so on, until we account for all symbols of the cryptogram we want to solve.” Al-Kindi in his ninth-century A Manuscript on Deciphering Cryptographic Messages
Codebreakers: Al-Kindi (d. 874), the father of Cryptanalysis
Figure 5. Al-Kindi as depicted in a Syrian post stamp.
To avoid vital secrets falling into the wrong hands, messages are scrambled (encrypted) so that only someone with the right code can unscramble them. Bletchley Park is famed as the place where encryption and decryption were carried out during World War Two. Al-Kindi was a scientist known as ‘the philosopher of the Arabs’. He authored 290 books on medicine, astronomy, mathematics, linguistics and music. Al-Kindi’s frequency analysis was followed by cryptographers from the Muslim world for centuries until it reached Europe long before the codebreakers of Bletchley Park. Al-Kindi rightfully deserves the title of the “Father of Cryptanalysis”.
“Cryptology was born among the Arabs. They were the first to discover and write down the methods of cryptanalysis.” David Kahn, The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing
“The birth of cryptanalysis required a society which has reached a high standard of development in three disciplines, namely linguistics, statistics and mathematics. These conditions became available at the time of al-Kindi who had command of these three disciplines and more… Al-Kindi’s technique, known as frequency analysis, shows that it is unnecessary to check each of the billions of potential keys. Instead, it is possible to revealthe contents of a scrambled message simply by analysing the frequency of the characters in the ciphertext ” Simon Singh, The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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doc-51 | Thread: South China Sea and China (2011-2017)
Filipino Senator: China bully Southeast Asian countries
VietNamNet Bridge – China will always try to bully the Philippines and other countries in the Southeast Asian region in a bid to control massive oil resources in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago said on the Philstar recently.
While the Philippines obviously does not have enough defense capability against a power such as China, Santiago advised the government to be circumspect and be extra wise in dealing with its big neighbor.
Santiago also warned the Philippines might end up as a “satellite country” of China.
Despite this, Santiago said the US as well as the rich countries in western Europe would not allow China to have leverage in terms of oil and natural gas development in the Spratlys.
“America and the countries in western Europe will not allow it because there will be imbalance in the distribution of power in the world once China is able to take over oil and mineral resources underneath the South China Sea,” she said.
On May 24 2011, the Philstar cited News5 as saying that China has set up military garrisons and outposts on six reefs that are part of the Kalayaan Island Group, part of the Truong Sa (Spratly) Islands.
According to the Philstar, apart from the military garrisons and outposts, China is aggressively pursuing large-scale maritime projects aimed at cementing its claim on the Spratlys. These projects include construction of port facilities, airports, navigation buoys, lighthouses, ocean observatories and maritime meteorology networks.
At the recent meeting with Chinese Defence Minister Liang Guanglie (during Liang’s visit to the Philippines), Filipino President Benigno Aquino III warned Liang that alleged intrusions and encounters in disputed islands in the South China Sea area could lead to a dangerous arms race in the region.
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/en/poli...countries.html
Asia’s quiet anger with ‘big, bad’ China
By David Pilling
Published: June 1 2011 22:36 | Last updated: June 1 2011 22:36
Last month, a man rode up to China’s well-protected embassy in Hanoi, unfurled a bed-sheet-sized banner reading “China has no right to ban fishing or take Vietnam’s Paracel islands” and promptly set fire to his motorbike....
But this month, in the rhetorical equivalent of motorbike immolation, the Vietnamese government was itself protesting against China. At a hastily convened weekend press conference, the foreign ministry accused Beijing of committing a “serious violation” in the South China Sea, which Hanoi predictably calls something else – the East Sea. Beijing was said to have used “legally groundless” claims to assert its ownership of the whole sea and turn it into its “home pond”.....
China claims almost the entire South China Sea, which also borders on the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and Vietnam. These countries, sticking to the principle of “where there is land, there are sea rights”, have overlapping claims to waters off their coast. Hanoi ridicules the dotted line that China draws on maps to indicate its ownership of the entire sea as like a lolling “bull tongue”. There are also competing claims to the Paracel and Spratly islands.....
In the short term, China’s assertiveness appear to have backfired. Smaller nations are huddling together under the auspices of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. They are also moving closer to the US, which has restated its commitment to having a strong presence in the Pacific and annoyed China by calling the South China Sea an area of strategic interest.
Thanks to Vietnam’s protest, the South China Sea will dominate this weekend’s Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual regional defence forum held in Singapore. This year, both Liang Guanglie and Robert Gates, the defence chiefs of China and the US, will be attending. There could be some fireworks. But there will also be plenty of talk about the need for greater transparency between the two powers to ensure that maritime frictions don’t get out of hand.
Everyone knows, though, that China’s naval might is waxing. As it does, US regional influence will surely wane. When I asked Mr Aquino about turning to the US for protection, he didn’t miss a beat. “If they are around,” he replied. Countries like Vietnam and the Philippines are happy for American support. But sooner or later, they know they are going to have to reach accommodation with China.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/da3396b6-8...#axzz1O7ktWchp
China steps up drilling, intimidation
By MICHAEL RICHARDSON
SINGAPORE — China recently launched an oil and natural gas drilling platform that may be as significant as military modernization in buttressing Beijing's claims to control most of the islands, water and seabed in the maritime heart of Southeast Asia.
Designed to withstand typhoons, the giant rig.......It has not said where, but China's Global Times said that the deepwater rig, which is taken to its destination by powerful tugs, would "help China establish a more important presence in the largely untapped southern part of the South China Sea."
It is in this zone, which includes the widely-scattered Spratly Islands, that China's sweeping South China Sea claim overlaps with those of Taiwan and four Southeast Asian states — the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei.
According to Hanoi, the clash occurred just 215 km from Vietnam's shore, deep inside its Exclusive Economic Zone. China responded by saying that the measures taken by Chinese authorities are "normal marine law enforcement and surveillance activities undertaken in territorial waters under China's jurisdiction."
China claims control over approximately 80 percent of the South China Sea, as far south as waters off Indonesia's Natuna Island and the Malaysian state of Sarawak. But so far, China has limited its unilateral oil and gas search to the northern sector, which is contested only by Taiwan.......
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-b...0110601mr.html
As one of the reports states, "It is a marine version of a Battleship Galactica. Although unarmed, any attempt by Southeast Asian military forces to restrict the rig's movement in the South China Sea would risk retaliation from Beijing", this region, of late, has become very volatile because of China's proactive 'aggressive' actions that till now was under relative 'peace'.
One wonders how the scenario will pan out.
The last opportunity to jerk China's chain came and went in the early 1950s. It will continue to be all downhill from here on. In the meantime the responsible grandparent/parent will ensure their children/grandchildren learn to speak Chinese.
The Other ASCOPE
Asean Council On Petroleum
http://ascope.org/
Last edited by slapout9; 06-02-2011 at 06:56 PM. Reason: add stuff
Latitude 17° 5' 11N, Longitude 120° 54' 24E, altitude 1499m. Right where I want to be.
It's fascinating that the idea of "massive oil resources" in the Spratly Islands has been elevated to the level of accepted truth. On the basis of actual evidence it's extremely hypothetical. No test wells have been driulled, and though the Chinese claim there is oil, other authorities (notably USGS, which is generally fairly optimistic in its estimates) point out that there's no real evidence of substantial deposits.
I'm not sure this is really about oil in the Spratley Islands anyway. Sure, the pretext is there, but this may be more about China extending its maritime defensive perimeter -- the so-called string of pearls. China's maritime claims go hand-in-hand with their activity in 2001 (EP-3 take down) and in 2009 (USNS Impeccable incident). In both cases, just like with their maritime claims, the design seems to be to have more stand-off against the US Navy.
With some exceptions, China has settled its land disputes and now turns to the sea. By effectively claiming the south China sea, China can also move a step closer to securing maritime energy transport (their real goal I think). They are building a naval base in Gwadar, Pakistan that will provide security near the Persian Gulf for their shipments. Securing the South China Sea bookends the transport route. Next comes the straight of Malacca which becomes easier to secure if you have naval might on both sides of it.
I'm not saying China can challenge US naval supremacy now, but they are taking action that could be bothersome. In a time of financial incertitude in the US, this may be the perfect time for China to act.
-john bellflower
Rule of Law in Afghanistan
"You must, therefore know that there are two means of fighting: one according to the laws, the other with force; the first way is proper to man, the second to beasts; but because the first, in many cases, is not sufficient, it becomes necessary to have recourse to the second." -- Niccolo Machiavelli (from The Prince)
Its the old Chinese torture method called "death by a thousand cuts".
...in reality we see the boiling frog story unfolding where the US is the frog:
The premise is that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death. The story is often used as a metaphor for the inability of people to react to significant changes that occur gradually.
...and the amazing thing is that the American people don't realise whats happening!
Philippines preparing issues for UN about China ‘intrusions’'
THE PHILIPPINES is preparing to file another complaint with the United Nations on new Chinese "intrusions" into Philippine territory, President Benigno S. C. Aquino III said yesterday, as he committed to raising the issue with Beijing in a state visit by the third quarter.
"We are completing the data on about six to seven instances since February. We will present it to [China] and then bring these to the appropriate body, which normally is the United Nations," Mr. Aquino told reporters during his two-day official state visit to Brunei Darrusalam that ended yesterday.
While Mr. Aquino reiterated the call for "peaceful resolution" rather than provocation in the disputed territories in the South China Sea, he noted that some actions of China were not justified.
The latest of the series of Chinese intrusions, Mr. Aquino noted, occurred on the same day that he had a bilateral meeting with Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie in Manila on May 23.
In this instance, Chinese vessels were reportedly unloading building materials and also placed a buoy in waters inside the West Philippine Sea.
http://www.bworldonline.com/content....80%99&id=32475
Not clear-cut
Ray and others,
The competition over the islands, reefs and the like in the South China Sea IIRC is well documented in journals, although you need a good map to follow the claims.
The situation between PR China and others is not straight forward IMHO, partly as economic growth has distracted states from such competition and potential for conflict.
Nor is the situation between the PRC and the USA clear-cut. How many know non-military PRC agencies are aboard US Coast Guard vessels in the North Pacific? For 'fishery protection' IIRC.
Have a peek at 'Survival', the journal of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS); in The February-March 2011 edition, in an article 'Policing the Waves:Maritime Paramilitaries in the Asia-Pacific' by Christian Le Miere (who is the IISS's resident export on matters naval), pgs. 133-145. Fascinating, especially the use of non-naval agencies by most nations.
It may be a "boiling frog" issue and it is certainly complex, as indicated by David. However, this does provide an opening for the US. Our pursuit of the "war on terror" has led us to take our eye of certain aspects of the Pacific.
The main US interest here is maintaining freedom of navigation in the commons. This interest conflicts with China's traditional view on sovereignty, which takes on a nationalistic tone given their history, specifically what they call "the century of shame and humiliation," which refers to their exploitation by western powers. If I was in their shoes, I'd probably take the same position. The problem here is that their position is contrary to international law.
I'm no expert on law of the sea, but since they are signatories to the law of the sea convention they are bound by its provisions and it repudiates their claims. Believe it or not, international law can be just as much of an achilles heel to them as it can sometimes be to us. This is where we can press them and use the issue to bring other countries in the region closer to us. This should be framed as an economic, trade issue rather than a security issue though. The last time a rising Asian power headed south for economic reasons, Pearl Harbor was attacked. It is a security issue for us, but I think we get more play using law and economics as weapons of choice.
By the way, this whole maritime issue also plays into China's actions in space. The goal is access denial by continually pushing the boundaries of sovereignty. Whereas Europeans and some others are chipping away at sovereignty, China embraces it and seeks to expand it in novel ways. The lawyer in me likes the strategy even if I do not agree with the tactics.
Just came across this news article. Check the last paragraph for the benefits of China's aggressive stance in the South China Sea.
Denver on occasion
Ultimately, the law of the sea is whatever the strongest navy says it is. I think the PRC may be influenced a little by various legal provisions if they are strongly pestered, but once their navy gets big enough, they'll do as they please as you would expect of a pugnacious police state.
"We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again." Gen. Nathanael Greene
Lets look at the last paragraph then:
"One of the most striking -- and surprising -- changes I've observed during my travels to Asia is the widespread desire across the region for stronger military-to-military relationships with the United States -- much more so than during my last time in government 20 years ago," Gates said.
If that is a surprise to him then he has not been kept up to date with developments by the Intel crowd and not able to see the obvious. Will his replacement be any better?
Yes, they have a plan and we don't.
Originally Posted by slapout9
You are correct, but any plan, at this point, would require a greater embrace of international institutions and international law than most Americans are willing to have. While I certainly embrace traditional notions of territorial sovereignty, I am against expanding it to areas typically viewed as global commons. Freedom of navigation within the commons is crucial to American security interests and the crux of the international economy. Thorough a closer embrace of international institutions and law we can "prep the battlefield" and perhaps increase those connections Gates spoke of.
Have we focused too much on the "war of terror" and thus dropped the ball in the Pacific? Is this issue evidence of our need to pursue a different strategy with respect to terrorism, so we can remember the big picture?
Thougfht I'd share this map asa reference. Map originates from an old web article here
Conflict in the South China Sea: China’s Relations with Vietnam and the Philippines
p.s. Not as big as I would have liekd. Sort of makes a mockery of posting it as a reference aid.
schinasea.jpg (19.5 KB, 1072 views)
I would say yes. I think China jumps up and down whenever we spend massive resources on wars of choice instead of building a country for the 21st Century.
The China Question
All, if you get a chance watch this tonight. Check your local listings.
http://thechinaquestion.com/
General Liang Guanglie, China’s defence minister, has rejected criticism that his country was acting belligerently in the South China Sea, saying China was pursuing a “peaceful rise”.
“You say our actions do not match our words. I certainly do not agree,” Gen Liang replied to critics at the Shangri-La Dialogue, a high-profile Asia defence forum in Singapore.
Speaking days after Vietnam and the Philippines accused China of aggressive behaviour in the South China Sea, Gen Liang denied that China was threatening security in the strategically important and energy-rich disputed waters, saying “freedom of navigation has never been impeded”.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/21c9e72a-8...#ixzz1OSKXqKLX
China is the dominant producer of rare earth metals, which are increasingly fuelling the global high-tech and green economy. From 2009 to 2010, Chinese mines accounted for 259,000 tonnes out of a total global production of 263,000 tonnes of rare earth oxide. But with this massive production has come ever more restrictive measures to control the export of these commodities.
China claims it’s doing so to protect the environment and argues that tighter measures are necessary to ensure rare earth mining industry remains sustainable. However, major consumers of rare earths including Japan, the United States, and EU states counter that recent Chinese actions to reduce exports contravene World Trade Organisation rules on free trade.
http://the-diplomat.com/new-leaders-...earth-motives/
Last edited by AdamG; 06-06-2011 at 02:17 AM.
Originally Posted by The Cuyahoga Kid
Ok, but do they have a good plan?
It doesn't matter whether their plan is good or bad. What matters is they almost certainly will act, and act aggressively, and we might act, or we might not, depending on what a focus group says. The one thing they can be certain of is that we can't make up our minds and that will feed their determination to act. They will be so far inside our OODA loop that any plan at all will do. It doesn't matter a whit what they will be and what we are if we won't do anything.
It appears the Chinese objective is to establish effective control, or sovereignty or whatever over the whole of the South China Sea. Law of the Sea arguments and expressions of concern won't stop them. When they do that they will have demonstrated to the world that they can do as they like and nobody will stop them. That will increase their confidence in their ability to pull this kind of thing off which will make it more likely they will continue. And all those other countries in the area will see what they can do and will incorporate that knowledge into their accounting. Things are likely to get very complicated.
The belligerent actions mentioned in Adam G's post are shots fired near Filipino and Vietnamese fishing boats to drive them out of disputed areas. Information Dissemination blog covers this today. The Filipinos can't do anything much about it and the Vietnamese don't have much power but the Viets are very truculent so who knows what they may eventually do.
Just for fun - scratch out 2010 and insert 2012.
Eastern Sea (AKA South China Sea) December 2010: World War III starts over a desolate and worthless looking area in the western Pacific Ocean known as the Spratly Islands.
Strategically located between and claimed by Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Brunei, the Spratly Islands are also claimed by distant neighbors China and Taiwan. Located in the middle of major shipping lanes with over-abundant commercial fishing possibilities, the Spratly Islands cause turmoil for an even greater reason: untapped oil and gas reserves.
http://thelastcolumnist.com/world/the-spratly-islands/
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doc-56 | GPS Tracking For Trucks and How It Reduces Insurance Premiums
For several decades, the trucking industry has faced two major concerns, that also happen to be related: accidents and insurance premiums. According to data from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), there were a total of 4,102 casualties in multiple-vehicle crashes involving a truck in 2017. In 2019, the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) reported that, for the first time, expenses related to insurance premiums ranked among the trucking industry’s Top 10 biggest overall costs. Here is how GPS tracking for trucks can help.
Accidents involving trucks have two main causes: one, the weight of the vehicle and the load they are carrying, and second, lack of required maintenance and repairs. In August 2019, a jury in Georgia awarded $280 million to the family of five people who died in a fatal crash involving a Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc. truck. Instances like these and the rising number of accidents involving trucks have also caused insurance providers to increase premiums.
Avoiding Accidents and Higher Insurance Premiums
With GPS Tracking Devices
Given the above statistics, FMCSA and the Department of Transportation have been working together to reduce the number of accidents involving commercial motor vehicle, and have also made GPS-enabled electronic logging devices (ELDs) mandatory. Implementing GPS enabled fleet solutions has several benefits that also enhance overall operational workflow of a trucking business, no matter what size. One of the most important benefits is added safety and security of the driver, the truck and the assets it is carrying, and the insight the technology provides into driver behavior. Through GPS, the real time location of the vehicle can be tracked, thereby allowing immediate action in case of any kind of emergency, be it theft or accident.
Use of a GPS enabled fleet management solution and ELDs also shows your commitment towards safeguarding your employees and assets, and reduce the risks to your business, which motivates insurance providers to offer you insurance for your vehicles, assets and drivers at a discounted rate.
GPS Enabled Solutions And Insurance
When insurance providers offer you their services, they always make an assessment of risks that can affect your business. For the trucking industry, the biggest risks are theft of vehicles and accidents involving their vehicles and drivers. GPS tracking for trucks considerably decreases these risks.
Real time location: Through real-time location tracking of your vehicle, you are always aware of the position of your asset which helps you to take effective and fast actions in case of an emergency. Many fleet management service providers also offer aggressive theft tracking and immediate road side assistance, which significantly decrease potential losses and alleviate risks.
Driver behavior: Top notch GPS-enabled fleet management systems (FMS) can track driving behavior and send alerts to the fleet manager in case of rash driving, unnecessary speeding, hard braking and more, which helps the manager as well as the driver to encourage better driving, thereby decreasing the chances of a mishap.
Vehicle diagnostics: FMS can also help in evaluating the condition of engine and create a schedule for regular maintenance of the vehicle, which keeps the trucks in top condition and avoids mechanical failure while driving.
Dash-cam: In recent times, having a dash-cam has immensely helped the trucking industry in establishing responsibility in case of an accident. Prior to use of dash-cams, the blame for any accident involving a commercial vehicle was solely placed on the driver of the bigger and heavier vehicle. However, with FMS and dashboard cameras, which are considered admissible evidence in court of law, proper responsibility of an accident can be determined.
These tools and features of a fleet management system, supported by GPS, have proved to be extremely reliable and offer the trucking industry the safety and security it needs. Because of these features, insurance providers often offer a discount of up to 15% on total insurance costs.
GPS Tracking Solutions and the Moving Industry
Moving companies are often involved in transporting their clients’ assets locally, domestically, or internationally. In any case, the moving company has to get its vehicles, drivers, employees and even its client’s assets insured, which is an added cost to their services. However, this major expense can be cut down through application of an all-inclusive FMS that focuses on safety and security.
In a competitive moving industry, there are several businesses that offer their services. But with the help of GPS tracking for trucks, a moving company can reduce its operational cost, and offer its services at a reduced, affordable and competitive price.
A comprehensive FMS allows moving companies to manage their moving trucks and other commercial vehicles with the ultimate objective of improving the productivity of each move, reducing costs, providing real-time tracking, ensuring safety and security, and adhering to local, state, and national transportation guidelines.
GPS fleet tracking is a one stop solution for all fleet management needs. It helps in improving the overall productivity of business functions, increases security and safety of assets and employees, supports most efficient use of all available resources, and also reduces the costs of fuel, maintenance and insurance.
We hope you found this blog post on GPS Tracking For Trucks and How It Reduces Insurance Premiums useful. Be sure to check out our post on Car Accidents vs. Truck Accidents for more great tips!
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doc-58 | 2016 RASV Australian International Coffee Awards
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The Australian International Coffee Awards (AICA) is the Asia Pacific’s premier coffee roasting competition. The AICA celebrates and promotes coffee roasting excellence in Australia, New Zealand, the Asia Pacific region and around the world and is an event partner of the 2016 Melbourne International Coffee Expo (MICE).
The 2016 AICA attracted 658 entries from 143 local and international coffee roasters, with coffees from New Zealand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, Singapore, Canada, USA and Great Britain. A diverse judging panel of 30 local and international coffee experts assessed each of the entries for criteria including aroma, flavour, aftertaste and conformity to type, to award gold, silver and bronze medals.
We’re very pleased to announce that we won a Bronze Medal in the “Milk Based Coffee” category. This was awarded to our Forte blend that recently won a Silver Medal in the Compak Golden Bean Awards.
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doc-59 | August 8, 2017 August 8, 2017 Jenn Fabian1 Comment
Our third day in South Dakota might just have been my favorite. But I also really loved the fourth day, so maybe don’t ask me which day was my favorite—I loved all of them!
After settling into our morning routine (waking up, mom making coffee in her french press that she finally figured out how to use, and the daily battle of me & my eyeballs vs. my contacts) we headed off to Wind Cave National Park, less than a half an hour from Big Pine. The cave system is one of the largest in the world, and they estimate that they’ve only discovered and mapped a small percentage of the entire system. Because of this, you have to see the cave on a ranger-led tour. We’d heard that you should get there early in the morning to purchase your tour tickets, because during the peak summer season tours can sell out midway through the day. The visitor’s center opens at 8am, and the first tours head out around 8:40. There’s a few different tours to choose from, and we went with the Fairgrounds tour, which is listed as “strenuous.” Neither my mom nor I had any difficulty—it’s listed this way because of the amount of stairs, but to be honest, I was so distracted by the beauty of the cave structures around me that I completely forgot about how many stairs there were!
Wind Cave
Later in the day, we headed over to Jewel Cave National Monument. Like Wind Cave, it’s a pretty popular destination and because we got there so late in the afternoon, there were only two tours with one time each left available: the Discovery Talk, where you see one room of the cave, or Historic Lantern Tour, which is advertised as an adventurous and strenuous tour with 600 “ladder-like stairs.” Well, we wanted to see more than one room of the cave, so the ladder-like stairs it was. We decided that at the end of the tour we would either say “That was awesome” or “We did it once, we can say we did it, never again.”
Post-tour? Definitely the first. Such an amazing experience!!! Unlike Wind Cave, which was illuminated by electric lights all along the walls, the only lights in Jewel Cave were the historic oil lanterns that we all carried. It’s so incredible to realize that when you see the cave by lantern light, you’re seeing it the same way that the first explorers saw it.
The other great thing about cave tours is that no matter the season or weather above ground, caves are always crisp and cool. Wind Cave hovers around 55°F, while Jewel Cave is a slightly frostier 49°F year round. We visited South Dakota during the peak of the summer, which meant it was hot, hot, hot. Cave tours are a great thing to do during these summer months as a way to see some amazing sights, get in a workout (quads, meet 1,000+ steps in one day), and not sweat out half your body weight!
If you’re ever in South Dakota, be sure not to miss these amazing sights! I feel like Wind Cave National Park often gets forgotten for its more famous counterpart in the state, Badlands National Park (which is a hint about the next blog post about our last day in South Dakota!!) but really, it’s absolutely stunning. While the cave is what the national park is most known for, the land above is incredible as well. We saw so many bison and prairie dogs and even enjoyed a little drive through the prairie! The drive may or may not have been an accident because we took a wrong turn on our way out of the park. But it was awesome anyway. Oops.
Bison at Wind Cave National Park
Prairie dog at Wind Cave National Park
Bison taking a dust bath at Wind Cave National Park
Only one more South Dakota day left to talk about! Be sure to look for my blog post in a few days! And if you’ve missed the other posts, check them out here: Day #1 | Day #2
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doc-60 | Shawn Swaney explains why this current season of Survivor South Africa is must see!
By Shawn Swaney
The Survivor “off-season” is fickle, especially for a die-hard fan. Do you spend your time binge-watching your favorite past seasons? Do you take a break from a show that spans about eight months of the year? Do you waste your time on Reddit, trying to think of your craziest conspiracy theory or spiciest meme? Do you, as I did, try (and fail) at a homemade version of Survivor?
Your opinions on the quality of the past few US seasons aside, we’re in a golden era of Survivor, but it’s one that most are unaware of – International Survivor. While I can’t speak to any version that isn’t predominantly done in English, the Survivor-verse currently has three fantastic international versions: Australian Survivor, Survivor: New Zealand, and Survivor: South Africa.
Well, brush up on your Afrikaans (only joking, it’s in English), because my return article will get you up to speed on the South African version right before the merge episode presumably drops later this week (episodes are usually posted on Thursdays). I’ll break down the article into a few sections, but know that I’ll keep the content spoiler-free. Then, if you’re interested in watching, I’ll write up a sectional recap with spoilers, so you can join in at the merge – if you’d like to skip to the present.
As a general disclaimer, it must be said, this is not a season of US Survivor, so there are specific nuances between the two. However, Survivor: South Africa (which I’ll refer to as S:SA moving forward) stays incredibly faithful to the show you are used to seeing. Additionally, there have been previous seasons of S:SA, but the one I’ll be talking about is the one currently airing, Season 6, called Survivor: South Africa – Philippines.
Location: Palawan Province, Philippines
Prize: $1 Million South African Rand (approximately $75,000 USD)
Duration: 39 days (you’d think that would be obvious, but Australian Survivor plays for 55 days)
Breakdown: 18 contestants and 2 tribes, named Mindanao (Blue) and Luzon (Red). Wait, did I just say Luzon? Yes, your favorite dumpster fire of a tribe (and the largest island in the Philippines) is the namesake for the Red tribe.
THE SEASON SO FAR
The best way that I can describe S:SA, without spoiling too much, is that it’s so captivating thanks to a humanizing portrayal of the cast and their tendency to play the game in a way that breeds pure chaos.
“[Survivor] is a lot like losing your virginity. Hella nervous but mostly excited and the only thing on your mind is that you last longer than the other.”
Okay, so maybe this line, uttered by Seamus in Episode 1, was what won me over on watching the first episode, but I think it perfectly encapsulates why I like S:SA so much. For a few years now, I feel like US Survivor has been relatively predictable in its delivery, packaging plot and characters in a specific way to fit the determined narrative. S:SA, however, presents the castaways and events in a way that seems very organic, hearkening back to the glory days of Survivor. For almost every contestant, you not only see the parts of their game that could make them a fantastic player, but also those that show the cracks and downsides. In many ways, the players play like they’ve got the “big movez” mantra being shouted at them each day, but it never comes off as cheesy or gimmicky.
In the short of the pre-merge, I feel like we’ve gotten to truly know each and every person as a player, shy for maybe one or two people. That said, I couldn’t tell you much about anyone’s personal life. Where the US version hones in on a person’s life narrative to paint how they play, S:SA focuses on the person as a castaway and doesn’t spend much time on the personal side of things. Sure, you’ll learn a handful of people’s occupations and a few tidbits about their lives here and there, but rarely will you get the narrative that X is aligning with Y because they grew up without a father and that person is a father figure to them… and then they are targeting Z because they don’t trust that person based on their occupation or life story.
Speaking of characters, one of the main potential drop-offs in an international season is not having Jeff Probst. Whether you like him or not, Jeff, and his passion for the game, is arguably what makes US Survivor so special. The host of S:SA, Nico Panagio, is not your strapping doctor like Australian Survivor’s Jonathan LaPaglia, but he is a very, very serviceable host. Businessman and former soap star, Nico maintains a good level of enthusiasm, all while avoiding the sugar coat. I really enjoy watching him at tribal council, as his questions skip through the “surface” thoughts and prod the players to constantly evaluate their long-term trajectory. To top it off, he’s not afraid to crack a joke or call someone out.
And if you’re thinking that people don’t play as hard because it’s not the US version, you’re sorely mistaken. This dynamite cast, plus quality challenges and the constant threat of idols, has forced each contestant to stay on their toes. Erratic gameplay has produced unexpected votes, alliances, and some results that just leave you confused. One thing that I’ve learned to appreciate about S:SA is that these players are not afraid to draw battle lines. In the US version, you see so many votes where everyone votes with the majority to avoid creating waves. In S:SA, it’s very clear who is aligned together, who is feuding, and they vote along those lines – no #-1 vote just to appease the majority.
I promise I’m trying to sell the season without any spoilers (and probably losing the luster a bit), but I can promise you that this season is worth watching. You’ll quickly get drawn into the tribal dynamics. And if all else fails, you’ll quickly love the quirks of each person… or the outlandish moments, like where someone says it would be fine if another cast member died because no one at home loves them, or where someone literally eats a clue to the hidden immunity idol to make sure no one else can find and read it.
Also, this is one of the opening shots:
You can’t tell me that this doesn’t intrigue you. In other news, he is a genius level IQ psychopath, so any scene featuring him is pure gold.
HOW CAN YOU WATCH?
Watching international versions, S:SA included, is only possible thanks to uploaders. Luckily for us, a very generous person on Reddit uploads the episodes for fan consumption. If you are interested in watching, check out the /r/SurvivorSA subreddit and the top-pinned post or contact me, as the watch method is not for public posting.
SPOILER DISCLAIMER
Okay, I really mean it. I’m going to start spoiling some minor things, so if you don’t like that kind of thing, stop scrolling/reading. I won’t reveal boots or specific alliances, but don’t blame me for ruining stuff if you keep reading.
Right, now I can finally talk about the good stuff! This season has been downright brilliant, thanks to the chaotic nature of many of the castaways, and LOTS of erratic gameplay. Idols have been incredibly present, but haven’t actively affected the way the game has played out.
S:SA does have a tendency to take you on a rollercoaster, however. For some of the season’s highlights (idols at challenges, rock draw(!!), major fights, psychopaths), there have been some real downers (quitters). There has also been enough tribal shakeups to keep things interesting, and they have prevented a majority from completely taking over. The game has been broken into three main phases based on tribe shakedowns, each building on the other. The harsh battle lines being in place for a tribe swap was really fun to see play out as the two tribes broke down into three.
So far there have been eight eliminations, and each one feels like it actively shapes the metagame, which is really refreshing to see. Sure, there are those players that are playing “harder” than others (at least as the edit shows), but no one feels like they’re a total non-entity. At this stage, I could see basically all of the remaining players have a strong enough resume to win. With this season slipping under the radar for many, it’s been fun to watch such a quality game play out.
I genuinely hope you take the time to check it out so we can keep following this season together!
Survivor South Africa - Philippines
Shawn Swaney
Marine biologist by trade who stumbled into the world of tech start-ups. Nerd who was born into an athlete’s body. Los Angeles resident. Once dreamed of being the first Inside Survivor contributor to actually play Survivor... hopefully settling for second. Follow @ShawnSwaney for hot takes and a tendency to overthink every tweet.
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doc-61 | Tag Archives: ken kesey
Vol. 7 “Ken Kesey”
This week I share gift giver Ken Kesey, a gift giver I never met in person. The gifts we give radiate out and go far beyond the people we give them to.
Ken’s classic book “One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest” and the character of Randle P MacMurphy, an unlikely gift giver, pushes us to push further regardless of what others plans might be.
Also Ken’s life, full of adventure, full of many contributions to popular culture, and his cultural revolution, is an example that pushes us to push beyond others lack of understanding.
Next week…”Music”
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doc-62 | Alphabet CEO and Google CEO Sundar Pichai
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(Reuters) — The EU’s proposal for a temporary ban on facial recognition technology won backing from Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai on Monday but got a cool response from Microsoft president Brad Smith. While Pichai cited the possibility that the technology could be used for nefarious purposes as a reason for a moratorium, Smith said a ban was akin to using a meat cleaver rather than a scalpel to solve potential problems.
“I think it is important that governments and regulations tackle it sooner rather than later and give a framework for it,” Pichai told a conference in Brussels organized by think tank Bruegel. “It can be immediate, but maybe there’s a waiting period before we really think about how it’s being used,” he said. “It’s up to governments to chart the course [for the use of such technology].”
Smith, who is also Microsoft’s chief legal officer, cited the benefits of facial recognition technology in some instances, such as NGOs using it to find missing children.
“I’m really reluctant to say ‘Let’s stop people from using technology in a way that will reunite families when it can help them do it,'” Smith said. “The second thing I would say is you don’t ban it if you actually believe there is a reasonable alternative that will enable us to, say, address this problem with a scalpel instead of a meat cleaver,” he said.
Smith said it was important to first identify problems and then craft rules to ensure that the technology would not be used for mass surveillance. “There is only one way at the end of the day to make technology better, and that is to use it,” he said.
The European Commission is taking a tougher line on artificial intelligence (AI) than the United States, one that would strengthen existing regulations on privacy and data rights, according to a proposal paper seen by Reuters. Part of this includes a moratorium of up to five years on using facial recognition technology in public areas to give the EU time to work out how to prevent abuses, the paper said. Pichai urged regulators to take a “proportionate approach” when drafting rules, days before the Commission is due to publish proposals on the issue.
Regulators are grappling with ways to govern AI, encouraging innovation while trying to curb potential misuse, as companies and law enforcement agencies increasingly adopt the technology. There was no question AI needs to be regulated, Pichai said, but rulemakers should tread carefully.
“Sensible regulation must also take a proportionate approach, balancing potential harms with social opportunities. This is especially true in areas that are high risk and high value,” he said.
Regulators should tailor rules according to different sectors, Pichai said, citing medical devices and self-driving cars as examples that require different rules. He said governments should align their rules and agree on core values. Earlier this month, the U.S. government published regulatory guidelines on AI aimed at limiting authorities’ overreach and urged Europe to avoid an aggressive approach. Pichai said it was important to be clear-eyed about what could go wrong with AI, and while the technology promised huge benefits there were real concerns about potential negative consequences.
One area of concern is “deepfakes” — video or audio clips that have been manipulated using AI. Pichai said Google had released open datasets to help the research community build better tools to detect such fakes. The world’s most popular internet search engine said last month that Google Cloud was not offering general-purpose facial recognition application programming interfaces (APIs) while it establishes policy and technical safeguards. |
doc-63 | The birth of Donald Scagliola
Donald Marcello Scagliola was born on May 11, 1928 in San Francisco County, California.
His father's last name is Scagliola, and his mother's maiden name is Guastavino. If Donald is still alive, he's now years old.
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doc-64 | Nowadays, people are living longer than ever before thanks to the wonders of modern medicine. Nevertheless, there are still some health red flags that women should be watching out for to make sure they avoid serious illnesses as far as possible.
There are a range of different signs and symptoms that women should be looking out for. Given our biological make up, the illnesses that women need to look out for are sometimes different than those of men. Anything related to a woman’s reproductive system is a uniquely female issue, for example.
So here are some of the main things that women need to look out for to ensure early diagnosis of anything that could potentially be harmful to their health or fatal.
Breast cancer is the most prominent cancer and health issues found in women and is one of the most common causes of death for women. This being the case, it is absolutely vital that women know what to look for so they can be diagnosed and treated as early as possible. Women should keep an eye out for any unusual bumps or lumps in their breasts or a change in shape or size of their breast. Women who have a family history of breast cancer should be especially vigilant.
Although heart disease affects both men and women, more women are left under-diagnosed. This means that by the time the symptoms are prominent enough to be recognised it is too late to do anything about it. Symptoms don’t seem like unusual features for most women – chest pain, nausea and shoulder ache are all symptoms. Yet, these symptoms don’t seem out of place in most women’s daily life. Maintaining a healthy diet and exercising regularly will help keep the risk of heart disease at bay.
When you see little old ladies with painfully hunched backs, you should know that what they are suffering from is called osteoporosis. Fortunately, this condition is quite preventable. The best way to keep the disease from touching you is by adhering to some sound lifestyle principles. Make sure your diet is high in vitamin D and calcium as these will strengthen your bones and prevent frailty. You should also avoid excessive smoking or alcohol consumption.
Of course, being pregnant is not a disease. In fact, those who discover they are with child often welcome it. However, there are times when a pregnancy is unwanted and in these cases it is important to find out as soon as possible so steps can be taken to remedy the situation. Early signs include swollen or tender breasts, a missed period, tiredness and backache. If you have any other these signs or are nervous that you might be pregnant, take a test or visit a GP. Even if the result is negative, at least it will put your mind at ease.
Believe it or not, women are more susceptible to strokes than men. And, although this is the case, women don’t usually worry about the possibility of having a stroke. Obviously you shouldn’t be spending all of your time in a state of paranoia. You could have a stroke at any time but it is important to be aware that it could happen. There are no symptoms that occur before the actual stroke begins. But once it has begun there will be some obvious signs that something is wrong. These signs include one side of their face drooping, their speech becoming slurred and them being unable to lift both of their arms. If any of these things occur in someone you know, called an ambulance immediately. |
doc-65 | Posted on July 28, 2022 Media 6 min read Share: Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn
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The murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia sent shockwaves across Europe and was a grim reminder of the risk reporters face while uncovering abuses of power. It was the first assassination of a journalist worldwide to be investigated through an independent Public Inquiry. To mark one year since the damning findings were unveiled, ARTICLE 19 Europe and The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation today publish a report that explores the efficacy of the Maltese Public Inquiry model, assessing whether it stands up as good practice.
The Public Inquiry into the circumstances of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination was the first Public Inquiry to have taken place in Malta in nearly 20 years. It followed a strong public demand for a strengthened capacity to tackle corruption and wider rule-of-law reforms. Our research, ‘Tackling Impunity: Lessons from the Public Inquiry into the Assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia’, assesses the significance of the Maltese Public Inquiry in the fight for truth, accountability and justice for Daphne’s assassination and the vital role civil society and international organisations play in ensuring an independent investigation is carried out. In addition, the report identifies lessons that can be learned from the Public Inquiry process so far, summarises its key achievements, and makes recommendations to the Government of Malta, to European Union institutions, and to international civil society.
The independent Public Inquiry into the circumstances of the brutal murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia was established after a two-year campaign for justice led by her family and with the strong involvement of civil society groups, non-governmental organisations, and European institutions. While the criminal proceedings initiated by the Maltese authorities solely focused on identifying those criminally responsible, the Public Inquiry took a broader approach and considered the circumstances of Daphne’s assassination, including the threats and vilification that she endured for speaking truth to power. The Public Inquiry’s final report painted a bleak picture of entrenched impunity for both the journalist’s murder and for the crimes she exposed. It clearly stated that the Maltese Government had created a culture of impunity that led to Daphne’s murder and thus must bear responsibility.
No impunity for crimes against journalists
Mechanisms such as a Public Inquiry can reach their full potential only when their recommendations are effectively implemented. Yet, a year since the publication of the Public Inquiry’s landmark findings, there has been hardly any concrete action or any meaningful legislation to provide an enabling environment for public interest journalism and to protect journalists.
In our report, we renew our call to the Maltese Government to comply with its international human rights obligations and implement the recommendations without further delay. We also detail necessary legal reforms, in particular with regard to tackling corruption, enhancing safety of journalists, and amendments to media legislation, which should include robust anti-SLAPPs measures. The recent study by the Coalition Against SLAPPs in Europe (CASE) demonstrates that Daphne Caruana Galizia was the most targeted journalist in Europe when it came to vexatious libel lawsuits, with 48 cases still pending after her assassination, 47 of which were inherited by her family.
A mechanism to investigate the failures of state entities and state impunity that may have contributed towards the assassination of a journalist may help to fill the gaps the criminal justice system leaves open, as the parallel mechanism provides for public scrutiny of the state administration and executive. In Daphne’s case, an independent inquiry was deemed necessary given the reasonable concerns about the weaknesses of the rule of law in Malta, which were previously flagged up by European bodies, specifically with regard to the potential bias of state officials whose wrongdoing Daphne had repeatedly highlighted.
While European countries routinely declare their commitment to uphold and protect press freedom, attempts to curtail independent media as well as various threats and attacks against journalists – in particular those reporting on issues of public interest – are on the rise, with the most tragic cases being assassinations. Across Europe, there are still at least 26 cases of impunity for the murder of journalists. The high level of impunity for crimes against journalists, including deadly attacks, is indicative of a failing criminal justice system, and often of rule of law failure. There is a clear need for states to develop an investigative model to address the failures in their respective jurisdiction systems. ‘Tackling Impunity: Lessons from the Public Inquiry into the Assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia’ could be a first step in this process.
Malta ranked 39 out of 161 countries in the 2022 Global Expression Report, ARTICLE 19’s annual review of the state of freedom of expression and the right to information around the world.
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doc-66 | Waklert is a well-known cognitive booster, frequently used by college students and students at school to boost their scores on tests.
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Waklert is a well-known cognitive booster, frequently used by college students and students at school to boost their scores on tests. It helps students stay awake for longer periods of time studying and increases their ability to learn. The drug works as an agonist of the central nervous system and stops excessive drowsiness throughout working for long hours. It also enhances their cognitive capacity and allows students to perform better in examinations.
Waklert reduces your sleepiness, improves the concentration of people, as well as allows people to make better choices. Waklert increases the wakefulness of people and boosts the performance of individuals. The people are active and alert for longer when they take it.
Waklert is very popular with people from all kinds of lives.
How do I make use of Waklert 200 mg without risk?
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The most common reason people turn to Waklert for their studies is the fact that it can help them stay awake and focused during the day. Unlike other sleep aids, this drug is safe for students,
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doc-67 | If you have a lawn, watering it is an absolute must. However, standing with a hose in your hand several times a week can be quite tiring.
Fortunately, you have the option to get a sprinkler.
Sprinklers provide an easier way to keep grass and other plants in your turf hydrated. However, not all sprinklers are created equal.
Different types of sprinklers have their own advantages when used for specific situations. The key is to know what suits your needs best.
This article describes the five best lawn sprinklers available in the market and what you should consider when going through the selection process.
5 Types of Sprinklers
Sprinklers can make or break lawn care in Conway, AR. If you don’t pick the right one, you’ll end up spending more money on water bills and fail to get the most out of what you paid for.
To make sure you do it right, you must first learn about the different characteristics of the five types of sprinklers available in the market, as explained below:
1. Oscillating Sprinklers
Remember those sprinklers you usually find in suburban lawns? There’s a good chance that they are oscillating sprinklers.
This type of sprinkler has a long barrel or tube adorned with several nozzles along its entire length. These nozzles shoot out thin streams of water. As the barrel or tube sways, the water jets move from side to side, spreading the water in several directions.
Aside from watering your lawn, this type of sprinkler is also good for one more thing: entertaining children. But it does have a couple of drawbacks.
For instance, when the water pressure is low, the sprinklers may not spray water far enough to reach as far as it normally would. Alternatively, too much water pressure can cause it to spray too far, thereby missing the area that requires watering.
This means that when using oscillating sprinklers, you need to get its placement and the water supply pressure calculated precisely.
Despite that, this type of sprinkler still is the most popular choice for suburban lawns since it can cover a bigger rectangular area.
2. Impact Sprinklers
Impact sprinklers are those that spray water in a circular or semi-circular pattern using strong water pressure.
They make a distinctive clicking sound when they are activated and are fairly wind-resistant due to the force of the water. They also cover a considerably wider area and spray water at a low angle, which makes it a great choice for yards with low-hanging trees.
However, this type of sprinkler is not the best choice for landscapes with delicate plants and flower beds. Unless you have a diffuser pin attached to it, switching to impact sprinklers under these circumstances may destroy your garden.
3. Rotary Sprinklers
Also called rotating sprinklers, rotary sprinklers are comprised of multiple arms and sprinkler tips attached to a spinning head. When activated, the head of rotary sprinklers spins, causing the water to spray from the sprinkler arm in a circular pattern.
This type of sprinkler is an excellent choice for smaller lawns, but not for long and narrow lawns – unless you move it from one place to another, that is.
4. Stationary Sprinklers (a.k.a. Fixed Sprinklers)
Stationary or fixed sprinklers are probably the simplest, most affordable and easiest-to-use type of sprinklers out there. They work well with low water pressure, making them a good option for homeowners with smaller yards.
These sprinklers come in multiple shapes, sizes, and designs to suit the specific spray pattern for your lawn. There are variants that spray in a single pattern (e.g., fountain or square) as well as multiple patterns that can be switched using a selector located at the top of the sprinkler.
One drawback of this type of sprinkler is that it cannot spray water far enough to cover large lawns. Its biggest disadvantage is that it is not designed to be moved once placed.
5. Sprinkler Hoses
Sprinkler hoses function exactly as their name implies. Essentially, these are garden hoses with tiny holes across their entire length. This is where water squirts from.
Although they aren’t technically considered sprinklers, sprinkler hoses have the same function: to irrigate the lawn. Plus, they can be used much like sprinklers in two different ways:
When the striped side is placed upward, sprinkler hoses can serve as a low-angle sprinkler.
When the striped side is pointed downward, they can act as a soaker hose.
Sprinkler hoses are most ideal for narrow lawn areas with irregular shapes. They are also great for surrounding newly planted trees.
4 Factors to Consider When Choosing Sprinklers
Now that you have a general idea of what the different types of sprinklers can offer, it is time to take your pick.
To make the decision-making process easier, experts in lawn care in Maumelle, AR list down four factors you must consider to avoid choosing sprinklers that won’t work well with your lawn:
Check what the sprinkler is made of. If it is manufactured using metal, there’s a higher chance that it will last longer. However, metal sprinklers would be more challenging to move (although most sprinklers aren’t designed to be relocated frequently in the first place).
Whether a sprinkler has a good filter is an important thing to consider, especially if you have mineral deposits in your pipes or have hard water. This will help prevent dirt and particulate matter from accumulating inside the sprinkler and cause it to break down prematurely.
3. Coverage (Shape and Area)
Determine the shape and area that can be covered by each sprinkler you consider for your lawn. This will help you decide whether you need to move it throughout your lawn to keep the plants and grass watered or you should get several sprinklers instead.
While sprinklers can be automated, it is still important that you can adjust their settings to suit your lawn’s dimensions and needs. Check whether the controls are intuitive or if they can make a noticeable difference when adjusted.
Choosing the Right Sprinkler
Sprinklers are meant to make keeping your lawn and garden watered easier and less time-consuming. However, this can only be achieved if you pick the one that is best suited for your lawn and your own preferences.
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The Legacy of al-Andalus: Craftsmanship and architectural fragments from Islamic Spain Dr Anna McSweeney, University of Sussex
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Date and time: Thursday 30 January 2020, 6.30pm to 7.30pm
Location: Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
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York Islamic Art Circle
Ceilings can tell an extraordinary story. Crowning intimate and important spaces, in palaces made for rulers, these architectural wonders were made with exquisite craftsmanship by Muslim craftsmen for the palaces of al-Andalus, Castile and Aragon. But what happens to them once those rulers have disappeared? This lecture will consider the legacy of these architectural fragments with a focus on ceilings made under Islamic and post-Islamic Spain which were dismantled and dispersed among museums across the world. What kind of stories can they tell, and why is it important to tell them today?
Dr Anna McSweeney
Dr Anna McSweeney is a Lecturer in Art History at the University of Sussex. A specialist in the art and architecture of the western Mediterranean Islamic world, her publications include The Alhambra Cupola from Granada to Berlin (Verlag Kettler, 2019 –in press) and Spain and Orientalism, an edited volume of Art in Translation (2017). From 2015-2018 she was a research fellow at the Warburg Institute in London with the Bilderfahrzeuge Project, where her work included co-curating an exhibition at the Lethaby Gallery, London on Metadata: How we Relate to Images (2018), supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education. From 2013-14 she worked at the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin (M.I.K.) as an 'Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices' fellow of the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin. A graduate in the History of Art and Architecture with English Literature from Trinity College Dublin (BA) and in the History of Islamic Art and Architecture from SOAS, University of London (MA), she received her PhD from SOAS in 2012.
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doc-69 | 3rd May 2022 3rd May 2022 Peter MorganUncategorised
The Neath housing market over the last five years has behaved oddly.
Neath house prices are 36.1% higher than in 2017, even though during those five years, the British economy had the uncertainty of Brexit and the massive fall in GDP during the pandemic.
Yet, a less observed trend is that the net number of homeowners in Neath has risen by 1,154 households, a jump of 3.7%.
Why has growth in homeownership happened, and what does it mean for Neath’s existing homeowners (and landlords)?
With the newspapers full of news about the death of homeownership and the growth in Generation Rent, it must surprise many (as it did with me) that the number of homeowners in Neath has grown.
To give some context …
the number of homeowners in Neath dropped between 2011 and 2017 by 117 households, yet between 2017 and 2021, that grew by 1,154 households.
So, what is behind this growth in homeownership and is it a good thing?
Politicians love it when homeownership rises, as they believe owning a house turns individuals into model upright citizens. It was one of the critical reasons for the council house sell-off in the 1980s.
Yet the hard data to back this up is unexpectedly slim, whilst other studies hint that homeownership has some harmful costs to the economy, such as reduced entrepreneurial spirit and the disinclination to move home to find work.
However, increasing homeownership may be a good foundation for Britain’s economic recovery after the last few years. Homeowners have a greater propensity to live in single-family unit homes like townhouses and semi-detached houses.
A greater demand for more single-use homes supports the construction of such dwellings (instead of other types such as small apartment blocks or Homes of Multiple Occupation). This is important because single-family unit homes tend to be better build quality, have more extensive gardens, and have more local amenities.
So, what are the sort of numbers I am talking about in Neath?
In 2017, there were 15,027 Neath owner-occupied homes. By 2021, this had grown to 16,180 Neath homes. This means homeownership in Neath has risen from 66.24% of the households in Neath in 2017 to 68.67% in 2021, a proportional increase of 3.7%.
So, what is behind this growth in homeownership?
95% mortgages have been readily available at low-interest rates now for over a decade. In 2017, first-time buyers also got an exemption from stamp duty. This created a perfect storm of demand, which caused the number of Neath first-time buyers to rise.
Whilst the rise in homeownership in Neath precedes the pandemic by a couple of years, another factor to the growth relates to the last property market recession of 2008/9 (the Credit Crunch). Between 2009 and 2012, many Neath homeowners found themselves unemployed and still had to pay mortgages at 6% to 8%. Some homes were repossessed or some had to sell their home at a low price to unshackle themselves from their high mortgage costs. This development, nevertheless, took many agonising years to play out, reducing the homeownership until the middle of the last decade.
People’s views on the way they live have altered during the lockdowns. In a sphere of stay-at-home instructions and social distancing, the peace of mind of homeownership gives Neath homeowners the security of tenure.
Finally, there has been a long-term change in the demographics of the UK. Millennials (currently aged between 26 and 41) are less likely to be homeowners than their Baby Boomer parents were at the same age. Yet, the British millennial generation is now entering its prime home-buying period as they have saved their deposit and are more likely to inherit money from their grandparents. (The average age of a first-time home-buyer in the UK is 33 compared to 26 in the mid-1990s).
So, the final question has to be …
how much further could homeownership go in Neath?
The biggest hurdle could prove to be the supply of available homes.
Many ‘accidental landlords’ have been selling their properties recently, which first-time buyers have bought. Accidental landlords put their own homes up for rent in the early to mid-2010’s because they could not sell. Now they have been motivated to cash in on the higher Neath house prices in the last couple of years, which increased the supply of properties to buy for owner-occupation.
Also, the number of houses on the market in Neath available to buy from existing owner-occupiers is starting to grow (up from 355,700 in December 2021 to 431,000 in March 2022). This is giving greater confidence to other Neath homeowners too scared to put their homes up for sale because they are concerned they would not be able to find anything. Things are starting to change in that regard.
Also, there are signs of a recovery in British new home building as the number of new housing starts in 2021 hit the highest level since the financial crisis of 2007. Yet with a steady increase in Neath landlords returning to the market in the last few months, this tide will turn.
Neath’s homeownership could continue to swell for a while yet!
P.S. What does this mean to the private rented sector in Neath? Come back next week as I give some fantastic insights every Neath landlord will want to read to ensure they remain profitable in the Neath buy-to-let market.
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doc-70 | ‘The green fairy’ proves popular at liquor stores
People have been driving to Rotterdam Wine & Liquor from Massachusetts and Connecticut, and they’ve
By Sara Foss | January 6, 2008
PHOTOGRAPHER: Meredith Kaiser
Tom Vincent, owner of The Vineyard Wines and Spirits on Hamburg Street in Schenectady holds up a new product he is carrying in his store Thursday. The product name is Lucid, which is a liquor known as absinthe, that has not been legal to sell in the Unite
People have been driving to Rotterdam Wine & Liquor from Massachusetts and Connecticut, and they’ve been calling from as far away as Florida and the West Coast.
They’re looking for absinthe, the liquor that was popular with artists and writers such as Vincent Van Gogh, Ernest Hemingway and Edgar Allen Poe but banned in the U.S. in 1912, a casualty of the temperance movement. While beer, wine and other spirits became legal again when Prohibition ended, absinthe’s reputation — undeserved, experts say — for causing hallucinations kept it off the shelves.
Last spring, the ban on absinthe was lifted and the liquor entered the U.S. market for the first time since Prohibition. Two area stores, Rotterdam Wine & Liquor and The Vineyard Wine & Spirits in Schenectady, are now selling Lucid, the first absinthe cleared for sale in America. Created by New Orleans native Ted Breaux and distilled in France, it is distributed by New York City-based Viridian Spirits.
So far, Lucid has been such a hot seller that Ken Greene, the owner of Rotterdam Wine & Liquor, hasn’t even had a chance to try it. He said he expected Lucid to sell well when he began stocking it during the summer.
“It was a banned item, and once a banned item gets released, people are interested in it,” he said.
‘La Fée Verte’
Known as “La Fée Verte,” or “the green fairy,” because of its unusual color, absinthe’s ingredients include anise, fennel and, most controversial of all, wormwood, an herb that contains thujone, the chemical to which the liquor’s supposed hallucinogenic effects were long attributed.
Adding to absinthe’s mystique is the multistep ritual for imbibing it. Typically, drinkers pour 1.25 to 1.5 ounces of the liquor into a glass, then place a sugar cube on top of a flat slotted spoon that rests on the rim of the glass. They then slowly drip four to five ounces of cold water onto the sugar cube, which dissolves into the absinthe. The cold water, which releases the oils in the mixture and brings out the flavors, causes a milky cloud, called the louche, to form.
“I wanted to be sure the first produced in America would be one of quality and one that was truly representative of absinthe from the 1800s,” said Breaux, from outside Birmingham, Ala., where he settled after his house in New Orleans was flooded in Hurricane Katrina and he fled with his collection of vintage absinthe bottles. “I wanted the American public to get an accurate perception of what absinthe was.”
The Vineyard Wine & Spirits began stocking Lucid about a month ago; a small sign informs customers that the liquor is available.
“I read about it in The New York Times in April, and I’ve been trying to track it down for the longest time,” said Tom Vincent, the owner of The Vineyard Wine & Spirits. His first attempts were futile: Lucid had quickly sold out. “It was like a six-month pursuit to get it in here.”
Lucid is selling well at The Vineyard, Vincent said. Some customers are familiar with absinthe. Some aren’t.
“Some people are like, ‘What’s that bottle with the cat’s eyes on it?’ Others know about it because they’ve read about it,” he said. “I’ve been taken by surprise by how much I’ve sold and how fast it’s sold. I’ve had trouble filling demand.”
Vincent, who has a degree in fine arts, was familiar with absinthe’s popularity among artists of the 19th century. He had friends who had tried it while traveling overseas, but he’d never had the opportunity to drink it.
“I was just as curious as everybody else,” he said.
One of his employees bought a bottle of Lucid and let him try it. They didn’t use a slotted spoon or sugar cubes; instead, they mixed the absinthe with warm water and sugar to create a syrup, then added cold water.
“It was pretty tasty,” Vincent said. “The most prominent flavor I got out of it was anise. The whole room smelled like anise.
“I didn’t see any green fairies,” Vincent added.
Unfair reputation
Despite the ban, Americans have been able to buy absinthe online from European dealers. But that can be expensive, with prices running close to $200 a bottle. Robert Hess, a Seattle resident who runs a Web site devoted to cocktails, Drinkboy.com, and is a member of The Wormwood Society, a group of absinthe aficionados, first tried absinthe after picking up a bottle at a duty-free store at Heathrow Airport in London; on other international trips, he made similar purchases. At that time, bringing absinthe into America was not allowed, but the bottles were never confiscated when Hess passed through customs.
There were a number of reasons for absinthe’s notoriety, Hess said, including a high alcohol content, about 62 percent.
In the late 1800s, when an infestation of Phylloxera, a tiny insect that feeds on the roots of grapevines, destroyed most of the vineyards for wine grapes in Europe, people began drinking absinthe in great quantities. As the liquor became increasingly popular, stories about unusual behavior while under the influence of absinthe began to circulate. Though some of these stories were embellished, some were true. For instance, in 1905, a Swiss man drunk on absinthe murdered his whole family. All of this caught the attention of the temperance movement, which mounted a campaign to outlaw the drink. In 1906, European countries began to ban absinthe.
That negative reputation didn’t change for a long time.
In the summer of 2000, Breaux, who is a chemist, began analyzing vintage bottles of absinthe and absinthe he had distilled himself to determine the thujone content. Through the years, the perception that absinthe contained dangerously high levels of thujone had persisted; one researcher estimated that it contained about 260 parts per million of thujone.
But Breaux discovered that the thujone content was tiny — less than 10 parts per million. Because the U.S. had never banned absinthe outright — the law simply prohibited food and beverages containing more than 10 parts per million of thujone — Breaux decided to distill a new brand of absinthe and bring it to market in the U.S. “I showed the government that much of what we believed about absinthe is false,” he said. “We explained everything. We made a case, and they couldn’t find anything wrong with it. We said we would market it based on scientific facts and that we didn’t want to mislead the public.”
There are still unscrupulous absinthe dealers, many based in the Czech Republic, that claim that absinthe causes hallucinations, but that just isn’t true, Breaux said.
Absinthe was legalized in European countries in 1988, when the European Union decided to allow certain levels of thujone in food and beverages.
In December, the first American distiller to produce and sell absinthe since Prohibition, St. George Spirits in Alameda, Calif., released 3,600 bottles of St. George Absinthe Verte. About half of the absinthe was available in the distillery’s tasting room; it sold out in about six and a half hours. The rest of that first batch went to the distillery’s distributor in northern California; by the time it arrived, there was a waiting list. About 2,300 bottles had already been sold.
A second batch will be released in February, and production will ramp up next summer, when the crop of wormwood matures. St. George Absinthe Verte will be distributed in New York, on a limited basis, in March and will also be available from online retailers who ship to New York.
Lance Winters, a partner at St. George Spirits, made his first batch of absinthe about 11 years ago.
“I had read stories about absinthe, all these things about how people had gravitated toward it,” he said. “But I knew nothing about it. I figured the best way to learn about it would be to make a small batch.”
He used old recipes, including one from the Pernod Fils Company in France. His first batch, he said, was undrinkable, “insanely bitter.”
But he tweaked the recipes and kept working at it. Now, he’s created what is considered one of the best absinthes available. And he’s also developed a taste for it himself.
“It’s poetry in a glass,” Winters said. “It’s a really beautiful thing.”
Though absinthe doesn’t cause hallucinations, Hess said its effects are unique. “Imagine taking a shot of wheat grass juice and a shot of vodka,” he said. “It has an energizing effect. You feel slightly more alert than otherwise.”
Absinthe isn’t cheap.
At The Vineyard, a bottle of Lucid costs $57.99; at Rotterdam Wine & Liquor, it costs about $70.
Curiosity factor
The big question, Hess said, is whether absinthe will remain a strong seller in the United States. Americans, he noted, have not really developed a huge appetite for anise.
“In Europe, they’re used to that flavor,” he said. “We were never an absinthe-drinking public.
“People see it as hallucinogenic, as clandestine,” Hess continued. “Once that boils off and all we’re left with is the product, what is going to attract people to it?”
Greene predicted a drop-off.
“I’m kind of glad I was the first one to have it because the novelty is going to wear off,” he said.
But some of customers are returning for more.
“There’s one guy that I’ve seen three times now,” he said. “It’s not just one-time buyers. People are coming back. They like it.”
“It’s tough to predict public taste,” Vincent said. “Now, there’s a big bump in sales because people are curious. There’s 95 years of pent-up demand. Once that’s satisfied, it will be like a good scotch. It will be some people’s drink of choice.”
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Manish Kumar Prasad
André Castro
Is GDP an adequate measure of development?
An increasing GDP is often seen as a measure of welfare and economic success. However, it fails to account for the multi-dimensional nature of development or the inherent short-comings of capitalism, which tends to concentrate income and, thus, power. In this blog post, André Castro and Manish Prasad, make a case for using alternate measures of development such as the Social Progress Index.
“Development can be seen as a process of expanding the real freedoms that people enjoy.” Amartya Sen
Economic growth assesses the expansion of a country’s economy. Today, it is most popularly measured by policymaker and academics alike by increasing gross domestic product, or GDP. This indicator estimates the value added in a country which is the total value of all goods and services produced in a country minus the value of the goods and services needed to produce them. It is common to divide this indicator by a country’s population to better gauge how productive and developed an economy is – the GDP per capita.
A brief history of growth and GDP
The idea of economic growth stems from classical economics where growth in national income represents the growth in the wealth of a nation – the classical hallmark of success. The concept of economic growth gained popularity during the industrial revolution, when market economies flourished. In the 1930s, Nobel laureate, Simon Kuznets wrote extensively about national statistics and propagated the use of GDP as the measure of the national income of the US. However, Kuznets took this measure with a pinch of salt and wrote, “The national income total is thus an amalgam of relatively accurate and only approximate estimates rather than a unique, highly precise measurement” (Kuznets, 1934).
Against the backdrop of a bloody world war, governments were on the look for analytical tools to raise taxes to finance the newly minted war machine. It was at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference that GDP became the standard tool for measuring a country’s economy. Right from the classicals to the neo-classicals, the idea of development was intertwined with economic growth, i.e. accumulation of wealth and production of goods and services.
Finally, it was at the end of World War II in 1945 that the notion of developing nations came to the fore of public policy. US President Harry Truman, at his inaugural address in 1949, defined a larger part of the world as “underdeveloped areas” and stated that development should be based on “democratic fair-dealing” (Truman announces Point Four program).
Today, the predominance of GDP as a measure of economic growth is partly because it is easier to quantify the production of goods and services than a multi-dimensional index can measure other welfare achievements. Precisely because of this, GDP is not, on its own, an adequate gauge of a country’s development. Development is a multi-dimensional concept, which includes not only an economic dimension, but also involves social, environmental, and emotional dimensions.
Towards inclusive and sustainable growth
One of the limitations of GDP is that it only addresses average income, failing to reflect how most people actually live or who benefits from economic growth. Thomas Piketty (2014) presents a two-fold theory on how the wealth of a society becomes more concentrated and why this is counterproductive to development:
The first law posits that inequality rises when the rate of return of capital (profits, dividends, interests and rents) is larger than the rate of economic growth.
The second law posits that sustained increases in the capital-to-output ratio concentrates income in the hands of the owners of capital to the detriment of workers (return of capital surpasses the return of labour, i.e. wages).
Piketty analyses an extensive trove of data sets, although limited to developed countries only. He claims that these laws explain the market failures inherent to capitalism. These failures should be corrected through government intervention in the form of:
increasing the public provision of goods and services,
a robust social safety net, and
progressive taxation of income and wealth.
If left unchecked, growing inequalities can not only slow down growth, but also generate instability and disorder in society, posing a threat to the very foundation of liberal democracy. The consequence of the rich accumulating ever more capital and wealth, is that economic and, consequently, political power become increasingly concentrated in the hands of a wealthy few. This skews policy making processes towards overly representing the interests of these wealthy elites.
Therefore, a growing GDP cannot be assumed to necessarily lead to sustainable development. On the other hand, there is good criticism of Piketty’s so called ‘fundamental laws of capitalism’ on the grounds of savings and depreciation rates miscalculations (Mankiw, 2015; Milanovic, 2016).
Alternate measures
The Human Development Index
One expanded indicator, which attempts to measure the multi-dimensional aspect of development, is the Human Development Index (HDI), conceived by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Mahbud ul Haq and Amartya Sen developed the index, which is better suited to track the progress, not only of rich, but also of poor nations.
The first report on HDI was conducted in 1990. It incorporates the traditional approach to measuring economic growth, as well as education and health, which are crucial variables in determining how developed a society is. This is calculated through a geometric mean of GDP per capita, life expectancy at birth, and the average between mean years of schooling and expected years of schooling.
The Human Capital Index
On 11th October 2018, The World Bank launched the Human Capital Index (HCI). This newly created index ranks 157 countries’ performances on a set of four health and education indicators according to an estimate of the economic productivity lost due to poor social outcomes. The main benefit is that it focuses on outcomes, rather on inputs, analogously to the Social Progress Index (SPI) and unlike GDP. For example, educational quality as measured by actual adjusted learning is weighted more appropriately against years of schooling. The main criticism to the HCI is that it might end up overvaluing the material benefits of education and health, thus commoditising people, instead of their societal contributions and their inherent aspect of being basic human rights. Notwithstanding, it is expected that mainly developing countries will make use of the HCI in order to quantify the results of social sector investments, thus increasing spending on human development (health, education, social security, etc.), which the World Bank argues have been forgotten at the expense of infrastructure and institutional development.
The Social Progress Index
There is arguably a better way of measuring societal development: the SPI. The SPI was developed by the non-profit, Social Progress Imperative. It is one of the outcomes of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress – or simply, Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi, after its leaders. The main objective of the Commission was to investigate how the wealth and social development of countries could be measured beyond the uni-dimensional GDP measure. It is still a relatively new indicator, with data only for four years, however it covers a wide span of more than 130 countries.
The SPI is a refinement of the HDI because it expands the number of composite indicators from only four to fifty-four in a wide array of areas, including basic human needs, foundations of well-being, and opportunities to progress. Therefore, this index is capable of synthesising the most relevant aspects that determine development. For example, access to water and sanitation, educational and health outcomes, public criminality, housing, access to information, and communication. Naturally, the main drawback of the SPI is its comparatively large complexity and lack of practicality when used to inform policy making.
Facets of the SPI
1. Economic growth as freedom
The view underlying the SPI pays tribute to Sen’s (2000) conceptualisation of economic growth as not an end in itself, but rather, an effective means of expanding personal and societal freedoms – the impact it has on people’s lives. For example:
political liberties in the form of freedom of expression and free elections,
government transparency and accountability,
personal security/safety, and
access to economic opportunities such as participation in trade and production.
Therefore, development consists of the elimination of deprivations of liberty that limit the choices and opportunities of persons to exercise their agency in their own lives.
2. A multi-dimensional development perspective
The great added value of the SPI is that it combines various indicators of subjective components that are often eschewed from the economic debate. These include: political rights, freedom of expression, assembly and religion, the level of corruption, tolerance for, and discrimination and violence against, minorities and immigrants.
No single aspect of the index demotes a country. Instead, a combination of variables provides expanded insight into the level of development of a country. It is not surprising that developed countries top the table, however, some of the richest countries in terms of GDP are still lagging behind in certain developmental variables. Some disappointing scores come from the US, France, Italy, Russia, Brazil and China.
3. Economic growth versus development
There are three main explanations why countries underperform in relation to the size of their economies:
They have a sizeable contingent of poor people,
Wealth and income inequality is high and/or growing, and
Environmental degradation has not been properly addressed.
Although the third is captured by the SPI, the two former explanations are not. Poverty and inequality are increasingly being debated in academic literature, not only due to their negative impacts on human development, but because they drag GDP growth.
Policy choices, like tax reforms that mostly benefit the rich and non-wage earners (Sammartino, 2017; Burman et al., 2006), are aggravated by recent stylised facts such as a growing gap between real wage growth and labour productivity growth (Mishel, 2012) and stock market bull runs whose proceeds are largely accrued by the rich (Matthew, 2008).
Economic growth: for whom?
Is the average worker’s life getting any better? Economic growth, measured popularly via GDP, is a complementary indicator to development, but not an adequate indicator when considered on its own. The challenge of modern capitalism is to balance its role as an efficient and effective mode of production with its tendency to concentrate income, wealth and, thus, power. In fact, social progress will lead to economic progress and that is where the SPI is a welcome improvement to development metrics.
The measurement of GDP could also be made more robust if it captured, not only physical capital, but also natural and human capital. When dissociated from social progress, economic growth in its pure accounting format (GDP expansion) will inevitably result in less inclusivity and a generalised sense of social discontent, pernicious in democratic societies.
Therefore, the current measure of economic growth as GDP has many limitations when used to assess development. Given the multi-dimensional nature of development, the SPI can be seen as a more adequate indicator.
In what regards the IGC’s work, in the end of the day, the creation of new indexes and methodologies to measure human and economic development are very welcome, since it will provide us with a wider toolkit to analyse our main subject: economic growth.
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doc-72 | Home › FAQ › I was born in Trinidad and Tobago but have been residing abroad for a number of years and I am still a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago. I wish to apply for my ID card however, I only have a foreign passport. What documents do I need to produce when I visit the EBC’s Registration Office?
I was born in Trinidad and Tobago but have been residing abroad for a number of years and I am still a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago. I wish to apply for my ID card however, I only have a foreign passport. What documents do I need to produce when I visit the EBC’s Registration Office?
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You are required to produce you computerized birth certificate, marriage certificate (if applicable) and passport. Before applying to the EBC though, you must first visit the Immigration Office (Landing Status Section) with you naturalization certificate to either apply for a Trinidad and Tobago Passport or to have the Immigration Officer stamp your passport with the required validation stamp – [Section 4(1)] attesting to you being a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago.
Section 4(1) of the Immigration Act, Chapter 18:01 states, “A citizen of Trinidad and Tobago has the right to be admitted in Trinidad and Tobago”.
‹ I am the owner of a home for elderly citizens and there are a couple of persons who reside there that are in need of an ID card or to have a renewal, but they are unable to do so because of their physical challenges. Can the EBC assist these persons in anyway?
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doc-74 | The Black Plague may have originated nine years earlier than previously believed, according to a new study. Photo: Stock Image / Pixabay
Scientists pinpoint source and year of origin of the Black Plague
A new study revealed the origin of the Black Plague, as well as the year, being nine years earlier than previously believed.
by Reeshni Chaslyn Chetty
A new study published in the science journal Nature has discovered the origins of the Black Death Plaque. Following years of debates among historians, the newly published study points to northern Kyrgyzstan in central Asia as the plague’s point of origin within the late 1330s.
DNA from teeth of skeletons in Kyrgyzstan was analysed
The study involved a team of researchers from the Scotland’s University of Stirling, Germany’s Max Planck Institute, and the University of Tubingen. The team studied and analysed the ancient DNA from the teeth of seven skeletons found in cemeteries close to Lake Issyk Kul. Lake Issyk Kul Is located in Kyrgyzstan.
Through DNA sequencing it was discovered that three skeletons carried Yersinia pestis. A bacterium, Yersinia pestis is linked to the outbreak of the Black Plague.
The plague may have originated nine years earlier than originally thought
The discovery of Yersinia pestis in the three exhumed bodies from this cemetery indicates an earlier origin date than what was previously believed. It was previously believed that the plague originated in the Black Sea region in 1346.
According to the study, the cemeteries located near Lake Issyk Kul became a point of interest after an unusually high spike in the number of burials was discovered between 1337 and 1339.
Along with the unusual spike in burials were the words written on the headstones of those buried within the cemetery. Written in the Syriac language, the cause of death was indicated as ‘pestilence’, a word used when referring to a fatal epidemic disease, reports Business Insider.
“Our study puts to rest one of the biggest and most fascinating questions in history and determines when and where the single most notorious and infamous killer of humans began,”
said Philip Slavin, a University of Stirling historian.
Monkeypox outbreak: ‘Very ignorant rumours’ fact-checked
In other health-related news, it was previously reported that the recent emergence of hundreds of cases of monkeypox worldwide has already triggered a flood of misinformation online, much of it modelled on conspiracy theories that have been circulating since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
AFP Fact Check examined three claims that have arisen in the month since monkeypox cases began being recorded outside of areas in western and central Africa where it is endemic.
Social media posts shared across the world have incorrectly claimed that the recent monkeypox disease cases are a “side effect” of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. Read the full story here.
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Rent a Prestige Car in Magdeburg
What comes to your mind when you hear of the words 'prestige' and 'car' in the same sentence? Most people will definitely think about their dream cars or those posh automobiles they see other people driving on the roads. These cars are the epitome of automobile craftsmanship. These vehicles are considered the best of the best. They are mostly associated with the rich and affluent in society due to the high costs involved in owning and maintaining these awesome machines.
Not being able to own this type of cars is unfortunate but this does not mean that you cannot get the opportunity to drive one of these luxury vehicles. Luxury cars are meant for anyone who enjoys a good driving experience on any day of the week. If you are a fan of various aspects of automobile craftsmanship then you are bound to enjoy everything that luxury cars have to offer. So how do you get the chance to get behind the wheel of a prestige car? The answer is to rent a prestige car in Magdeburg.
Renting a vehicle is so much cheaper than buying a brand new one. For starters, you do not have to invest a whole lot of cash in order to get behind the wheel of your dream car. Secondly, you do not have to incur any form of maintenance or service charges because Apex Luxury Car Hire takes care of that for you. This means that you get the chance to drive a really nice and sleek vehicle without enduring the hassles of owning the subject vehicle yourself. Mind you this is made possible at a really affordable price that will not damage your pockets or bank accounts.
So why do you need a luxury car while staying in the city? Having a reliable car in any urban setting is an important asset. A luxury vehicle is reliable and efficient. This means that you will be able to travel to any destination without worrying about getting their safely and on time. If you are visiting Magdeburg for the holidays, it is very crucial that you make arrangements for how you will be traveling within the subject metropolitan.
People visiting this German city always like to visit the famous historical landmarks within the city. The city is known across Europe and the world for its amazing representation of ancient medieval times because of the numerous structures and landmarks that have been in existence for so many years. The city therefore has a lot to offer in terms of interesting sites and landmarks. Moreover, you can use your vacation in Magdeburg to enjoy some quality time with friends and family as you all enjoy the various tourists attractions around this metropolitan. Prestige car rental in Magdeburg will help you to secure a luxury vehicle that will come in handy when traveling to various locations within the city and also when you need to attend important appointments and events. Hire a prestige car in Magdeburg to show up to an important gathering in the city in style. |
doc-76 | Want to Save for Education? Make 2016 ESA Contributions by December 31
There are many ways to save for your child’s or grandchild’s education. But one has annual contribution limits, and if you don’t make a 2016 contribution by December 31, the opportunity will be lost forever. We’re talking about Coverdell Education Savings Accounts (ESAs).
How ESAs work
With an ESA, you contribute money now that the beneficiary can use later to pay qualified education expenses:
Although contributions aren’t deductible, plan assets can grow tax-deferred, and distributions used for qualified education expenses are tax-free.
You can contribute until the child reaches age 18 (except beneficiaries with special needs).
You remain in control of the account — even after the child is of legal age.
You can make rollovers to another qualifying family member.
Not just for college
One major advantage of ESAs over another popular education saving tool, the Section 529 plan, is that tax-free ESA distributions aren’t limited to college expenses; they also can fund elementary and secondary school costs. That means you can use ESA funds to pay for such qualified expenses as tutoring and private school tuition.
Another advantage is that you have more investment options. So ESAs are beneficial if you’d like to have direct control over how and where your contributions are invested.
Annual contribution limits
The annual contribution limit is $2,000 per beneficiary. However, the ability to contribute is phased out based on income.
The limit begins to phase out at a modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) of $190,000 for married filing jointly and $95,000 for other filers. No contribution can be made when MAGI hits $220,000 and $110,000, respectively.
Maximizing ESA savings
Because the annual contribution limit is low, if you want to maximize your ESA savings, it’s important to contribute every year in which you’re eligible. The contribution limit doesn’t carry over from year to year. In other words, if you don’t make a $2,000 contribution in 2016, you can’t add that $2,000 to the 2017 limit and make a $4,000 contribution next year.
However, because the contribution limit applies on a per beneficiary basis, before contributing make sure no one else has contributed to an ESA on behalf of the same beneficiary. If someone else has, you’ll need to reduce your contribution accordingly.
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THE JUST-IN-TIME 'DISPOSABLE WORKFORCE': CORPORATIONS HIRE LESS, RELY ON TEMPS AND PART-TIMERS AND OUTSOURCE JOBS
Today, American companies are perfectly content to operate with less people, relying on temporary workers and part-timers in unprecedented numbers, and for longer periods of time, while continuing to outsource jobs overseas in order to reduce costs and remain competitive so they can pad the bottom line and keep their shareholders happy.
Here's what's happened over the past 10 years:
The U.S. economy's output of goods and services has expanded 19%.
Nonfinancial corporate profits have risen 85%.
The labor force has grown by 10.1 million.
But the number of private-sector jobs has fallen by nearly two million.
And the percentage of American adults at work has dropped to 58.2%, a low not seen since 1983.
What's wrong with the American job engine? As United Technologies Corp. Chief Financial Officer Greg Hayes put it recently: "Sales have come back, but people have not.''
WSJ's Willa Plank reports the nation's CEOs do not see an economic recovery underway and do not plan to hire workers anytime soon. Also, over the past ten years, the American adult work force has dropped to 1983 levels. Photo: REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
That's largely because the economy is growing much too slowly to absorb the available work force, and industries that usually hire early in a recovery—construction and small businesses—were crippled by the credit bust.
Then there's the confidence factor. If employers were sure they could sell more, they would hire more. If they were less uncertain about everything from the durability of the recovery to the details of regulation, they would be more inclined to step up their hiring.
Something else is going on, too, a phenomenon that predates the recession and has persisted through it: Changes in the way the job market works and how employers view labor.
Executives call it "structural cost reduction" or "flexibility." Northwestern University economist Robert Gordon calls it the rise of "the disposable worker," shorthand for a push by businesses to cut labor costs wherever they can, to an almost unprecedented degree.
Looking back at the percentage of Americans with jobs in the 1990s (rising) and the 2000s (falling), Princeton University economist Alan Krueger estimates that 70% of today's job shortage is simply cyclical, the result of a disappointing recovery from a deep recession. But he attributes 30% to changes in the job market that began a decade or more ago.
Consider these new trends:
When business slumped, employers cut work forces and accepted less work per employee. During the deep recession of the early 1970s, the output of goods and services in the U.S. fell by 5% and employment by 2.5%. Economists puzzled over "labor hoarding," or the tendency of companies to hold on to unneeded workers.
In the most recent recession and the previous two—in 1990-91 and 2001—employers were quicker to lay off workers and cut their hours than in previous downturns. Many also were slower to rehire. As a result, the "jobless recovery" has become the norm.
No one talks about labor hoarding any longer. Between the end of 2007 (when American employment peaked) and the end of 2009 (when it touched bottom), the U.S. economy's output of goods and services fell by 4.5%, but the number of workers fell by a much sharper 8.3%. Today's puzzle: How and why employers managed to boost productivity, or output per hour of work, like never before during the worst recession in decades?
In an earlier era, when more Americans worked on assembly lines, many layoffs were temporary. When business bounced back, workers were recalled, often because of union-contract guarantees.
At the worst of the 1980-82 recession, 1 in 5 of the unemployed were "temporary layoffs." In the recent recession, the proportion of temporary layoffs never exceeded 1 in 10. In part that's because fewer Americans work in factories, where production can be stopped and restarted; if a restaurant doesn't have enough customers, it goes out of business.
Economists Erica Groshen and Simon Potter of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said.
"When layoffs are temporary, subsequent recalls can take place quickly."
When layoffs are permanent, job recovery is slower, they say. If the employer wants to hire, there's the time-consuming chore of sifting through applications.
The New Corporate Hiring Mentality
Stock Prices and Profitability - Corporate employers are more concerned over their bottom line and maintaiing their stock price to satisfy shareholders
Less Workers Is Better - The recession showed corporations they could do more with fewer workers than many of them previously realized.
Full-Time Workers No Longer Needed - In a survey of 2,000 companies in 2011, McKinsey Global Institute, the think tank arm of McKinsey & Company, found 58% of employers expect to have more part-time, temporary or contract workers over the next five years and 21.5% more "outsourced or offshored" workers.
"Just In Time" Worker Technology - According to McKinsey, "Technology makes it possible for companies to manage labor as a variable input. Using new resource-scheduling systems, they can staff workers only when needed—for a full day or a few hours."
Importance of Temporary Help Agencies - Temporary-help agencies are playing an ever-larger role—from providing clerical and factory workers to nurses and engineers.
Black & Veatch, a Kansas City, Mo., engineering firm, which shrank from 9,600 employees before the recession to about 8,700 today, is hiring about 100 workers a month. About 10% of its workers are temps, says Jim Lewis, the firm's human-resources chief. Mr. Lewis says.
"That's a quick way to bring people in, and gives you a little time to see if growth is going to hold or not."
It also makes it easier to cut back in tough times. Workers, in short, now can be hired "just in time." And many employers apparently don't think it's time yet. Because they can hire temps almost instantly, there's little need to hire in anticipation of a pickup in business.
When they do hire, big U.S.-based multinational companies are more able and more willing to hire overseas, both because wages are often cheaper there and because that's where the customers are.
In the 1990s, those multinationals added nearly two jobs in the U.S. for every new job overseas; in the 2000s, they cut their U.S. work forces by 2.9 million and increased them abroad by 2.4 million, according to the Commerce Department.
Hal Sirkin of Boston Consulting Group says rising wages in China are dulling its edge as a low-wage nirvana. In 2000, wages of Chinese production workers averaged 3% of what their American counterparts made. Today, they are at 9%. BCG expects the figure to reach 17% by 2015. Mr. Sirkin predicts that will prompt some manufacturers to move jobs back to the U.S.
How many? He is still working on an estimate. But one thing is clear, though, "These are $15-an-hour jobs," he says, "not $30-an-hour jobs."
Even though the government counts 4.68 unemployed workers for every job opening, some employers insist they can't find workers with the skills they need at wages they can afford.
Federal Reserve surveys of local economies find employers from Boston to Kansas City to San Francisco reporting difficulty in hiring workers "with specialized technical skills, particularly in the health-care and technology sectors."
But workers without college degrees find well-paying jobs scarce in the modern U.S. economy. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says there are 25.3 million Americans over age 25 without high-school diplomas: Only 9.8 million, or less than 40% of them, were working in June. About 1.6 million said they were looking for work; the rest weren't even looking.
COMMENTARY: In a blog post dated July 10, 2011, I wrote about the root causes behind America's high unemployment rate and why I thought this situation was no going to be changing anytime soon. I do not use the term, "disposable worker", in my blog post, but draw the same conclusions mentioned in the above article and dwelve deeply into the forces behind the current jobless recovery. Here's that post:
The Root Causes Behind Todays High Unemployment Situation, And Why This May Not Change Anytime Soon
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In a blog article dated July 22, 2011, I wrote about what Apple could do with its huge $76 billion cash hoard. I also pointed out that hoarding cash is not an Apple phenomena, but is common practice in both financial and non-financial industries. Here are a few highlights of that post:
In October 31, 2010, US non-financial corporations had accumulated nearly a trillion in cash since cash bottomed at $400 billion during the financial meltdown of September 2008.
In March 31, 2011 the 376 nonfinancial S&P 500 companies, or about 91% of the nonfinancial companies in the S&P 500, aggregate cash and short-term investment balances total $1.023 trillion.
Three sectors--information technology, health care, and industrials--account for 67.3% of nonfinancial S&P 500 cash totals, compared with 67.2% in the final quarter of 2010.
According to government data, American multinational corporations have kept abroad more than $1 trillion worth of foreign earnings accumulated over the last five years. Microsoft, Google and Apple have offshore $29 billion, $17 billion and $12 billion respectively.
According to Federal Reserve data, companies in the United States have $2 trillion stashed in bank accounts, Treasury securities and other investment-ready assets. And this excludes cash held abroad by their foreign subsidiaries to avoid taxes.
According to the Federal Reserve, at the end of April 2011, U.S. financial institutions held over $1.6 trillion in cash in excess of their reserve requirements.
The hoarding of cash doesn't stop with corporations. Many wealthy American's are also hoarding cash, not in US banks, but foreign banks. In a blog article dated July 20, 2011, I wrote about the practice of American citizens maintaining illegal bank accounts in several major Swiss banks in order to avoid paying income taxes on the earnings from their foreign investments. According to the IRS, the practice of maintaining illegal offshore bank accounts by hundreds of thousands of Americans has cost the U.S. government an estimated $300 billion in lost tax revenues.
Courtesy of an article dated July 27, 2011 appearing in The Wall Street Journal
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doc-78 | Consuming walnuts and select other whole foods as part of a healthy diet may be associated with a reduced risk of physical function impairments throughout the aging process in women.
A new study published in the Journal of Nutrition suggests that consuming 1-2 servings of walnuts per week (1/4 cup per serving) was associated with reduced risk of developing impairments in physical function, which helps enable older women to maintain independence throughout the aging process.
This paper emphasized that overall diet quality, rather than individual foods, may have a greater impact on reducing risk of physical function impairments. Specifically, diet quality traits most associated with reduced rates of incident physical impairment were higher intake of fruits and vegetables; lower intake of sugar-sweetened beverages, trans fat, and sodium; and moderate alcohol intake. Among food components, the strongest relations were found for increased intakes of oranges, orange juice, apples, pears, romaine or leaf lettuce, and walnuts.
“There’s a lot of research that looks at specific health conditions in aging, such as diabetes and heart disease, but less attention to research on quality of life and ability to maintain independence with aging,” said Dr. Francine Grodstein, ScD, professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. “The simple message from this study is that eating an overall healthy diet, including certain foods, such as walnuts and other whole foods, may help women with the ability to do key everyday tasks as they age, like carrying groceries or dressing themselves.”
The researchers looked at data from 54,762 women in the Nurses’ Health Study, which tracked women for over 30 years. Between 1992 and 2008, the women were asked questions about their physical function, including their ability to perform basic activities of daily living. This new paper prospectively examined the association between the dietary habits of the participants and subsequent impairment in physical function. Diet was assessed using the Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI-2010), a measure of diet quality that incorporates foods and nutrients predictive of chronic disease risk based on scientific evidence.
“These results add to the large body of evidence that outline the many benefits of a healthy diet for women. Additional research is needed to better understand how diet and lifestyle choices can help maintain our health and well-being as we age,” said Dr. Grodstein.
There are numerous possible active properties in walnuts that may be contributing factors in providing health benefits. Walnuts are unique among nuts in that they are primarily composed of polyunsaturated fat (13 grams per ounce), which includes alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), the plant-based omega-3 fatty acid. They are the only nut to contain a significant amount of ALA with 2.5 grams per one ounce serving.
Some study limitations should be considered. The sample only included women, so these results may not be generalizable to men. Additionally, participants were not assigned to eat walnuts or other foods, and were just asked about their dietary choices. It is also possible that subjects may have misreported their dietary intake since this information was collected by questionnaires. In addition, because this is an observational study, residual confounding cannot be ruled out (i.e. that other lifestyle habits which are more common in adults who eat walnuts could contribute to the study findings); and, thus, the results should be interpreted with caution.
This research was supported in part by the California Walnut Commission (CWC). The CWC has supported health-related research on walnuts for more than 25 years. While the CWC does provide funds and/or walnuts for various projects, the actual studies are conducted independently by researchers who design the experiments, interpret the results and write the manuscripts.
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How to Write a Great Academic Paper
An article is essentially, normally, just one piece of work that offers the author’s perspective on a given topic – but the word is vague, often overlapping with that of a book, a short story, an article, a pamphlet and other related papers. Essays typically are categorized as formal or informal. Generally, formal essays need careful consideration to detail, whereas most informal ones often rely on a casual style.
Since there aren’t any set rules for writing an academic article, it’s ideal to follow specific guidelines to be able to make certain that your essay will be accepted and regarded as one that’s worth reading. The following Are a Few Tips on the Best Way to write an academic article:
An significant part a essay is the introduction. Even though you can write the debut in the future, it should be put before the body of this essay, in order to serve as the beginning of the essay. The introduction includes your name and affiliation in addition to the primary thesis of this piece. In addition to that, the launch should also be written to clearly show your purpose for writing the essay. Your purpose for writing the essay also needs to be clearly stated in the introduction.
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Last, the body of the essay is your conclusion, or the middle of this article. This component provides a list of each the ideas which were introduced within the body of the article and includes a completion of sorts.
All these are only the 3 parts of the written essay. The rest of the elements like layout, format, formatting and the use of formatting must proceed together with the composition of your essay. A well-constructed, properly formatted essay will be a good evidence to the reader which you really put in sufficient effort and care. To create a superb piece.
Essays aren’t easy to write. And because your essay has to be accepted by other individuals who are searching for academic posts, they are even more difficult to write. It is ideal to stick to some simple ideas which could make your essay come out flawless in its final form.
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ANANDA Scientific, a biotech pharma company, today announced that its clinical research team will initiate trials to assess the company´s proprietary Liquid Structure™ Cannabidiol (CBD) formulation as a treatment for mitigating the impact of COVID-19 infections, specifically, the “cytokine storms” that result from an excessive production of immune system proteins and are a major cause of severe respiratory distress, other serious complications and deaths.
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Christopher was a Visiting Fellow for Domestic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
Critical race theory is an ideology which maintains that the United States is a fundamentally racist country and that American institutions such as the Constitution, property rights, color blindness, and equal protection under the law are vestiges of white supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalist oppression—all of which must be overthrown in the name of “antiracism.” Ultimately, critical race theory and “antiracism” policies would deepen racial divisions and undermine the very institutions that are essential to addressing poverty and inequality across all racial groups. Policymakers concerned about these issues should reject critical race theory and orient public policy toward rebuilding the institutions of family, work, and education, which have been proven to lift Americans of all racial backgrounds out of poverty.
Critical race theorists falsely accuse the United States of being a fundamentally racist nation and condemns capitalism, individual rights, and the Constitution.
Critical race theory ignores evidence that shows that family structure, educational attainment, and workforce participation are the primary drivers of inequality.
Critical race theory seeks to undermine the foundations of American society and replace the constitutional system with a near-totalitarian “antiracist” bureaucracy.
Critical race theory has emerged as one of the most influential—and controversial—academic theories in contemporary political discourse. The discipline’s key terms, such as “systemic racism,” “white privilege,” “white fragility,” and “racial equity,” have become part of the common vocabulary and the basis for much of progressive policymaking. In 2020, the President of the United States addressed the debate over critical race theory’s role in policymaking with a speech denouncing it at the National Archives and an executive order banning critical race theory–inspired training programs from the federal government.REF
The rise of critical race theory in recent years has been astonishing. For decades, the theory, which posits that America’s institutions are “camouflages” for racial oppression,REF had been relegated to the academic world, circulating in journals, law review articles, and conference presentations. Over the past decade, however, critical race theory has moved from obscurity to near ubiquity in America’s academic, corporate, and governmental institutions. In recent years, a large number of schools, universities, and local governments have adopted “antiracism” or “diversity and inclusion” policies based on critical race theory. In addition, federal agencies have implemented human resources programs based on critical race theory,REF philanthropies have pledged billions toward “racial equity” initiatives,REF and hundreds of corporations have signaled their support for the new ideology of “antiracism.”REF
Unfortunately, despite the superficial appeal of slogans like “fighting racism,” these policies will do little to alleviate poverty and inequality in the real world. As scholars such as Ron Haskins, Robert Rector, Isabel Sawhill, and others have demonstrated, the real drivers of American poverty—for all racial groups—are the so-called background variables of family structure, educational attainment, and workforce participation.
In spite of the empirical evidence demonstrating the importance of these variables, however, the critical race theorists have sought to undermine them at every turn. They have argued that the nuclear family is a vestige of white supremacy,REF work requirements and entry-level employment are an extension of capitalist oppression,REF and achievement-based education is a historical artifact of racism and eugenics.REF “Poverty,” in the words of race theorist Kay Ann Taylor, “is a structural, embedded, institutionalized, and systemic requirement to maintain capitalism's efficacy; it is an ongoing outcome of hegemony, patriarchy, and a capitalistic economic structure.”REF
Contrary to the doctrine of critical race theory, the solution to poverty—for members of all racial groups—is to provide a pathway for stable two-parent households, achievement-based academic success, and full-time work for householders. If policymakers can close the gap for these critical background variables, the gap between various racial groups will follow in kind.
In order to address inequality, policymakers must begin with a rigorous understanding of what drives it and how the institutions of family, education, and work can help to reduce it. Although there is no quick or easy solution for this problem, the alternative proposed by critical race theory—in essence, the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism, tradition, and constitutionalism—would be even worse.
Background of Critical Race Theory
Critical race theory is an academic discipline, derived from critical theory and critical legal theory,REF that holds that the United States is a nation founded on white supremacy, patriarchy, and oppression and that these forces are still at the root of our society. According to UCLA Law School professor Cheryl Harris, “historical forms of domination [such as slavery and segregation] have evolved to reproduce subordination in the present.”">REF For Harris and other theorists, racism is a constant: It simply becomes more subtle, sophisticated, and insidious. Consequently, Harris argues, “the existing state of inequitable distribution is the product of institutionalized white supremacy and economic exploitation.”REF
In simple terms, critical race theory reformulates the old Marxist dichotomy of oppressor and oppressed, replacing the class categories of bourgeoisie and proletariat with the identity categories of white and black. However, the political foundations of critical race theory maintain a clear Marxist economic orientation. Ibram X. Kendi, a leading figure in the critical race theory movement, argues:
I classify racism and capitalism as these conjoined twins.... [I]n order to truly be anti-racist, you also have to truly be anti-capitalist…. And in order to truly be anti-capitalist, you have to be antiracist, because they’re interrelated.REF
For critical race theory scholars, the entire foundation of American society is fundamentally illegitimate; consequently, they reject the traditions of constitutionalism and individual rights. As Jeffrey Pyle observed more than two decades ago, “[c]ritical race theorists attack the very foundations of the liberal legal order, including equality theory, legal reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism and neutral principles of constitutional law.”REF This is a deeply pessimistic worldview. In the language of Richard Delgado, a founder of the movement, critical race theory is “marked by a deep discontent with liberalism, a system of civil rights litigation and activism characterized by incrementalism, faith in the legal system, and hope for progress.”REF
With regard to public policy, critical race theory’s key analytical and rhetorical framework is to portray every instance of racial disparity as evidence of racial discrimination. In the metaphor of one recent paper, “white supremacy” is the “spider in our web of causation” that leads to “immense disparity in wealth, access to resources, segregation, and thus, family well-being.”REF To adopt the vocabulary of the race theorists, the forces of “hegemonic whiteness” have created society’s current inequalities, which we can overcome only by “dismantling,” “decolonizing,” and “deconstructing” that whiteness.REF In their theoretical formulations, the critical race theorists reduce the social order to an equation of power, which they propose to overturn through a countervailing application of force.
Practically, by defining every disparity between racial groups as an expression of “systemic racism,” the critical race theorists lay the foundation for a political program of revolution. If, in the widely traveled phrase of author bell hooks, American society is an “imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy,”REF radical changes are needed. Although critical race theory has sought in some cases to distinguish itself from Marxism, the leading policy proposals from critical race theorists are focused on the race-based redistribution of wealth and power—a kind of identity-based rather than class-based Marxism.
In one of the founding texts of critical race theory, Cheryl Harris argues that property rights, enshrined in the Constitution, are in actuality a form of white racial domination. She claims that “whiteness, initially constructed as a form of racial identity, evolved into a form of property, historically and presently acknowledged and protected in American law,” and that “the existing state of inequitable distribution is the product of institutionalized white supremacy and economic exploitation, [which] is seen by whites as part of the natural order of things that cannot legitimately be disturbed.”REF
Harris, on the other hand, believes that this system must be disturbed, even subverted. She argues that the basic conceptual vocabulary of the constructional system—“‘rights,’ ‘equality,’ ‘property,’ ‘neutrality,’ and ‘power’”—are mere illusions used to maintain a white-dominated racial hierarchy. In reality, Harris believes, “rights mean shields from interference; equality means formal equality; property means the settled expectations that are to be protected; neutrality means the existing distribution, which is natural; and, power is the mechanism for guarding all of this.”REF
The solution for Harris is to replace the system of property rights and equal protection—which she calls “mere nondiscrimination”—with a system of positive discrimination tasked with “redistributing power and resources in order to rectify inequities and to achieve real equality.”REF To achieve this goal, she advocates a large-scale wealth and property redistribution based on the African decolonial model.REF Harris envisions a suspension of existing property rights followed by a governmental campaign to “address directly the distribution of property and power” through wealth confiscation and race-based redistribution. “Property rights will then be respected, but they will not be absolute and will be considered against a societal requirement of affirmative action.”REF In Harris’s formulation, if rights are a mechanism of white supremacy, they must be curtailed; the imperative of addressing race-based disparities must be given priority over the constitutional guarantees of equality, property, and neutrality.
In more recent years, the critical race theorists have added additional policy proposals. Ibram Kendi, who directs Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research and has received the National Book Award, has promoted the concept that individuals and societies cannot be neutral in America’s eternal racial conflict; they must be “antiracist.” That is, they must either adopt the political program of the critical race theorists or be considered “racist.”REF Building on this framework, Kendi advocates an “anti-racist amendment” to the Constitution:
The amendment…would establish and permanently fund the Department of Anti-racism (DOA) comprised of formally trained experts on racism and no political appointees. The DOA would be responsible for preclearing all local, state and federal public policies to ensure they won’t yield racial inequity, monitor those policies, investigate private racist policies when racial inequity surfaces, and monitor public officials for expressions of racist ideas. The DOA would be empowered with disciplinary tools to wield over and against policymakers and public officials who do not voluntarily change their racist policy and ideas.REF
The scope and power of this new “Department of Anti-racism” would be nearly unlimited. In effect, it would become a fourth branch of government, unaccountable to voters, that would have the authority to veto, nullify, or suspend any law in any jurisdiction in the United States. It would mean an end both to federalism and to the lawmaking authority of Congress. Furthermore, under the power to “investigate private racist policies” and wield authority over “racist ideas,” the new agency would have unprecedented control over the work of lawmakers as well as the auxiliary policymaking institutions of think tanks, research centers, universities, and political parties.
Inez Stepman of the Independent Women’s Forum has called Kendi’s political program “woke Stalinism,” and journalist Robby Soave has argued that “there’s no way such a department could avoid becoming an Orwellian nightmare—indeed, the very program would necessitate the formation of a kind of speech police.”REF In fact, it would entail an astonishing level of censorship. Under Kendi’s political system, the paper you are reading right now might be banned, and The Heritage Foundation, which published it, might be outlawed.
Together, the proposals from Harris, Kendi, and other race theorists would lead to a change of regime. In the name of racial justice, they would limit, curtail, or abolish the rights to property, equal protection, due process, federalism, speech, and the separation of powers. They would also replace the system of checks and balances with an “antiracist” bureaucracy with nearly unlimited state power. Although Kendi’s proposal is framed as an amendment to the American constitutional order, it is better described as an end to the constitutional order.
Under Kendi’s political system, the paper you are reading right now might be banned, and The Heritage Foundation, which published it, might be outlawed.
An Alternative Theory of Racial Inequality
Critical race theory purports to reveal a deeper understanding of racism in the United States and point the way toward decreased racial inequality. However, by reducing the complex phenomenon of inequality to a single causal variable—racism—critical race theory is dangerously incomplete and threatens to obscure important empirical realities.
As scholars such as June O’Neill, Robert Rector, and Thomas Sowell have demonstrated, the story about racial disparities is more complicated than the simple narrative of the critical race theorists. For example, if one were to believe a viral New York Times story, black men earn 51 cents for every dollar earned by white men: In other words, the black–white wage gap is enormous and has remained largely unchanged since 1950.REF
However, as former Congressional Budget Office Director June O’Neill and Dave M. O’Neill have shown, this supposed “pay gap” disappears when one factors in the background variables of age, education, math and verbal skills, and work history.REF In fact, when controlling for these variables, black men earn 99.9 percent of the wages of white men, and when the same calculation is applied to women, black women actually earn 7 percent more per hour than white women with the same education and math and verbal skills.REF In short order, the pay gap disappears.
By the same logic, although there is a significant poverty gap between white and black children in the United States, this disparity vanishes when one controls for the key background variables of family structure, educational attainment, and workforce participation.REF As Heritage Foundation scholar Robert Rector has demonstrated, when these background factors are held constant, “race alone does not directly increase or decrease the probability that a child will be poor.”REF Contrary to the logic of the critical race theorists, the key determinant of child poverty is not race, but a cluster of human and social variables that affect Americans of all racial demographics with remarkably equal force.
Unfortunately, critical race theory does not offer a policy platform for strengthening these key background variables; in fact, it is in many cases directly hostile to them. With respect to family, a wide range of scholars have established that family structure is the single greatest predictor of poverty,REF both at the individual and community levels.REF According to Robert Rector’s analysis, living in a two-parent household reduces the probability that a child will live in poverty by 82 percent—and 75 percent when controlling for level of education.REF
Yet despite this clear evidence, critical race theorists have lambasted the nuclear family as a vestige of patriarchy and white supremacy: They consider the family a structure that oppresses rather than secures and uplifts.REF In a recent symposium, instead of attempting to understand how single motherhood often traps women in poverty, critical race theorists sought to normalize, reinforce, and “reclaim the welfare queen.”REF These scholars believe that the non-working single mother is a manifestation of a new feminism “that centers the right to procreation as a central issue”REF and that the state, rather than discouraging single motherhood, should recognize that “having a child [is] an important part of self-realization that the state must respect and support.”REF
The critical race theorists’ perception of work follows a similar logic. It is a truism that work—earned income—is the only viable mechanism for individuals to escape poverty in a self-sustaining manner. Nearly three-quarters of all poor families with children do not include an adult working full-time throughout the year.REF There undoubtedly are many obstacles to employment for these families—most significantly, the preponderance of single-mother households—but this simply strengthens the conclusion that if all currently poor families with children had one adult working full-time, “the child poverty rate in the United States would be cut by 72 percent.”REF
For critical race theorists, however, entry-level and low-wage work are not considered a path out of poverty: They are a form of capitalist exploitation. In a discussion of the bipartisan welfare reform legislation of 1996, which sought to increase financial independence among poor families, critical theorists Wendy Limbert and Heather Bullock explicitly reject the idea of “[promoting] personal responsibility through work,” dismissing it as a ploy to allow white male elites to “avoid responsibility for eliminating structural impediments to economic equality.”">REF They argue that “critical theorists [should] situate welfare policy within a larger set of racist, sexist, and classist practices carried out by elite power holders to maintain the status quo,”REF which ultimately reinforce the myths of meritocracy and personal responsibility, “establishing an idealized standard of ‘independent’ workers and families that is unattainable for those exploited by the interlocking systems of racism, sexism, and classism.”REF
Finally, with respect to educational attainment, critical race theorists have increasingly begun to reject achievement-based admissions,REF achievement-based testing,REF and even achievement-based grading,">REF arguing that they serve to reinforce white supremacy. In a recent paper in The International Education Journal, University of Washington Bothell Professor Wayne Au makes the case that standardized tests such as the SAT are an oppressive practice that is rooted in “racism, nativism, and eugenics” and serve to maintain “racialised inequality.”REF
The fact, however, is that educational achievement has a profound influence on families and inequality. One of the strongest predictors of family poverty is the mother’s math and verbal skill levels; only welfare participation and family structure were stronger correlations.REF Furthermore, educational attainment in itself is a key driver of intergenerational mobility.REF Children born into the lowest economic quintile who earn a college degree have an 84 percent chance of moving up the income ladder; by contrast, children born into the lowest economic quintile who do not earn a college degree have a 45 percent chance of remaining in the lowest quintile as adults. The campaign to eliminate achievement-based academic systems, which charter school leader Ian Rowe describes as the “modern day version of the soft bigotry of low expectations,”REF will do little to help the poorest students advance.
Rather than seeking ways to find common ground on these concerns, critical race theorists insist that the world must be divided into competing racial identity groups. Even worse, the race theorists dismiss the two-parent household, entry-level work, and merit-based education as manifestations of an entire class of harmful “isms” that must be subverted and ultimately dismantled. The evidence, however, suggests that what would happen after the collapse of those institutions is not human liberation, but human devastation. The real tragedy of critical race theory is that, in pursuit of racial equity, it undermines the very foundations of racial progress.
A Better Way to Address Racial Inequality
The ultimate irony of critical race theory is that, despite all of the recent attention paid to racial issues, race itself is becoming less determinative of social outcomes. In fact, according to a growing body of evidence, social class is gradually supplanting race as the most salient variable for producing inequality.
With regard to family, as Harvard scholar Robert Putnam has observed, “[t]he class gap over the last 20 years in unmarried births, controlling for race, has doubled, and the racial gap, controlling for class, has been cut in half.”REF
With regard to workforce participation, Census data show that black and white Americans with the same educational attainment have roughly equivalent levels of workforce participation: Education as a proxy for class has a much greater impact than race.REF
With regard to education, Stanford professor Sean Reardon shows that the class gap in academic achievement is “now nearly twice as large as the black–white achievement gap,” in contrast to a half century ago when “the black–white gap was one and a half to two times as large as the [class] gap.”REF
This presents a challenge, but it also presents an opportunity. Taken together, the norms of family, work, and education provide one of the most robust antidotes to poverty. As Ron Haskins has made clear, Americans who follow the so-called success sequence—graduating from high school, getting married before having children, and working full-time at any occupation—have a 98 percent chance of living above the poverty line as adults.REF
New research from Brad Wilcox and Wendy Wang confirms this hypothesis with millennials.REF Wilcox and Wang find that millennials who have completed all three steps of the sequence have a 97 percent probability of avoiding poverty and that this general pattern holds across racial groups and childhood family income. Critical race theorists have denounced each step in the success sequence as inherently oppressive, but the evidence is clear: The success sequence works better than any real-world alternative, including for poor and minority families.
For Americans who care about poverty alleviation and constitutional government, critical race theory represents a critical threat. Although critical race theory as a discipline does not articulate a singular proposal for public policy, its leading intellectuals have proposed a regime of race-based apportionment of rights, property, and income, overseen in some proposals by a centralized, unelected authority with nearly unlimited state power. If implemented, critical race theory’s social policies would continue to erode the key preconditions for advancement—family, education, and work—and leave ostensibly “favored” groups more dependent on public subsidy and redistribution than ever.
Critical race theorists have denounced each step in the success sequence as inherently oppressive, but the evidence is clear: The success sequence works better than any real-world alternative, including for poor and minority families.
Policymakers should reject the tenets of critical race theory and orient public policy toward rebuilding the institutions of family, education, and work for Americans of all racial backgrounds. True equality will be achieved by maximizing the ability of Americans to become self-sufficient, not by dividing Americans on the basis of race and apportioning resources based on skin color.
Citizens who believe in a system of individual rights, private property, achievement-based advancement, and equal protection under the law should steel themselves against the seductive but ultimately destructive philosophy of critical race theory. In reality, the program of “antiracism” would deepen racial divisions, not transcend them; even worse, it would undermine the very institutions that are essential to addressing poverty and inequality in America. The better approach is to strengthen the foundations of the “success sequence,” which is a proven solution to poverty for Americans of all racial groups.
Christopher F. Rufo is a Visiting Fellow in Domestic Policy Studies, ofthe Institute for Family, Community, and Opportunity, at The Heritage Foundation and Director of the Center on Wealth and Poverty at the Discovery Institute.
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Cemre Gumeli, religion, life, series, information about her, and biography
Cemre Gumeli, her religion, her birth date, age, artistic beginning, her astrological sign, nationality, place of birth, height, weight, most important roles, series, and all her information, we present to you in a full report about her that tells her biography. During Simai's role in the Tatlı İntikam series, this series was the main reason behind her fame in the Arab world after the series was shown. She performed several dramatic works that made her one of the most important stars of the golden screen in Turkey, and through this report we will get to know Cemre Gumeli closely in addition to Learn about the story of the Tatlı İntikam series, while learning about its most important dramas.
Who is Cemre Gumeli?
Age in 2020: 29 years
Astrological Sign: Libra
Academic qualification: Department of Art and Culture - Istanbul University
Academic qualification: Faculty of Languages, History and Translation - University of Ankara
Hobbies: acting - reading books - playing the piano - ballet - dancing - singing
Artistic Activity: 2016 - Now.
Her biography
The young star Cemre Gumeli is one of the most beautiful girls on the Turkish screen, she is a spoiled girl since her childhood, she loved to practice sports, dance and singing, Jimri excelled in more than one sports game such as basket and plane, in addition to playing yoga, she was born in Istanbul to a Turkish family, and she has a sister Lonely, she lived her childhood playing sports and fun in addition to her participation in all school activities, then she decided to participate in school theater and from here her association with acting began.
Jimery joined high school, and her attachment to acting began to grow day by day, and she decided at this stage that her future depends on art and acting, then she joined the Faculty of History, Languages and Translation at Ankara University, and from the first day she joined the university theater, and she spoke two languages beside her primary language Turkish, German and English, and after her graduation from the university she worked for a period in the field of tourism because she was able to speak several languages, in addition to her studies related to tourism along with history, but during this period she realized that her biggest passion is acting and began to search for her dream to achieve it.
Cemre Gumeli's acting start
After completing her university, Jimmy decided to travel for a while to New York, and she traveled for 5 months and then returned by chance to participate in her first television work, the series “Tatlı İntikam”, and this series was the great artistic beginning of the star Cemre Gumeli by presenting the role of Simai In the series, which won the admiration of the Arab and Turkish audiences, the series revolves around a handsome university man who falls in love with a girl and tries to open up to her more than once, but she refused him many times, then the girl gets a suitable groom and her family decides to make a huge wedding, then the girl is surprised by the escape Her husband on the wedding day without giving any reasons for the girl to be stunned.
The bride tries to find out the secret behind what happened to her, then a fortune teller comes to her, and tells her that the reason for what happened to her is that before that she caused a great number of people to hurt feelings, and she must atone for this sin by asking for forgiveness from the people who angered them. Juveniles and “Beilin” Sinan meets the person whom she rejected before and begins to fall in love with him, so how will Sinan take revenge on her after she rejected him several times ?, Jimery played the role of a married girl who lives in love and understanding with her husband, and she is considered the most beautiful girl among her friends, and even better than He deals with issues with her partner, Simai is light-hearted, plus lots of fans have a lot of admiration for the duo that Jamery poses with Emre Taskeren.
The role of Cemre Gumeli in Tatlı İntikam
After her wonderful role in the series Tatlı İntikam, and after obtaining a large space that made her attract attention since her first appearance on Turkish screens, Jimery got in 2018 one of her most beautiful roles during her artistic career, which is the series “Don't Leave My Hand”. The largest advertising campaign, and it got an infinite number of views, because of the ideal daylight saving time in which the series was shown. The series adapted from the famous Korean series "The Wonderful Inheritance" revolves around a girl who studied cooking in America and when she returns to find that her father has declared bankruptcy, And that his wife expelled him and her young brother who was diagnosed with autism, in addition to the hero who also returned from America and fate wanted to meet the girl, and then brought them together several situations that made them fall into a great love story.
Cemre Gumeli in the series Cesur ve Güzel
The young star Cemre Gumeli participated in the world-successful series Cesur ve Güzel with the international star Tuba Buyukston and the international star Kivanc Tatlitug, and the series revolves around a beautiful girl who lives in a small village, and a handsome young man named Jusoor decided to move to the village where his parents lived when He was young, and on the day he moved to the village, he found Jusoor, a beautiful girl wandering around with her white horse, and he fell in love with her at first sight, then the girl lost control of the horse, so he was about to fall with her, but Jusoor came and rescued her. Jusoor that Jamila is the same girl whose father caused the death of my father, Jusoor, who had been seeking revenge all his life on them, so will Jusoor give up love for the sake of revenge?
Personal life of actress Cemre Gumeli
Cemre Gumeli is distinguished by a thoughtful and cheerful personality, she is a girl who loves dancing, singing and acting, in addition to her love of reading and writing stories and articles. Despite the small number of works that Jamery participated in, all the works that she participated in succeeded greatly on the world level and not only at the local level, as for the emotional life, Jimrey finds that the step of love and attachment is not an easy step, but rather you must think carefully about it so that you can From announcing her association with a specific person, and she finds pleasure in her profession that she does not think she will find in any other profession, Jimry is a girl who loves change and hates office work, and she finds that although the profession of acting is a tiring profession, she finds it the most enjoyable times and does not feel bored .
Cemre Gumeli series
Tatlı İntikam series, 2016
Cesur ve Güzel, 2016
The series Don't leave my hand in 2018 |
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Source: CBC News
Canada’s biggest construction union, the Laborer’s International Union of North America (LiUNA) recently held their Canadian Conference in St. John’s, Newfoundland. There, the union decided to endorse Liberal candidate Seamus O’Regan in the next federal election. O’Regan presented on his party’s labour policies and their intention to campaign against the Harper government’s anti-union bills, in particular bill’s C-377 and C-525.
After the presentation O’Regan’s evident lack of knowledge about labour matters was quite apparent. It was also captured on tape during an interview with NTV. When confronted by reporters he was unable to answer any questions about the federal government’s long list of anti-union legislation. O’Regan is running in a riding (St. John’s South) currently held by NDP MP Ryan Cleary, who is very informed about working people’s issues. Cleary is a far stronger candidate when it comes to helping constituents oppose Harper’s anti-labour agenda. So why has LiUNA not supported the traditional party of labour?
Provincially the Liberals in BC and Ontario have been as anti-union as the federal Conservatives, with back to work legislation being used by these governments to bring an end to strikes by teachers and other workers. Sure, the Liberals have traditionally advanced progressive social policies like public health care, the Canada Pension Plan, Canada Student Loans and the Canada Assistance Plan. Of course, the CCF, and then the NDP, under the leadership of Tommy Douglas, worked to advance many of these policies, pressuring the Liberals to jump on board. Even Pierre Trudeau was responsible for a number of important, progressive developments. But will we see his son, Justin, walking the picket lines like his father in Asbestos, Quebec? Today’s Trudeau has a Cadillac view on policy and absolutely no clear direction when it comes to labour issues. This was magnified by O’Regan’s interview and lack of knowledge about certain pieces of federal legislation.
What might help explain LiUNA’s endorsement of a Liberal candidate is that party’s stance on pipelines, which could benefit the construction union’s membership across Canada if these projects go ahead. Meanwhile the NDP appears to offer less support. LiUNA’s decision follows the lead of other union flip-flopers, like Buzz Hargrove’s switch from NDP to Liberal supporter. Hargrove, of course, endorsed strategic voting, which involves voting for a candidate who has the best chance of beating the candidate you don’t want. Remember that this strategy helped get Mike Harris’s Conservative Government a second majority government in Ontario, and I don’t believe there was a net benefit to working class families there at the time. Our former premier, Danny Williams also said ABC, anything but conservative, which prevented the Conservatives from gaining any seats on the island. But I still believe it is better to vote for something instead of against someone.
I will vote for the party that has an agenda to implement social justice for working class people. I know it isn’t Stephen Harper with his anti-worker legislation. Is Justin ready? Ask Seamus.
Chris Gosse is an HD technician and member of ILA Local 1953M in St. John’s, NFLD.
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Inside Election 2015: The War Not Mentioned
by Barry Weisleder
We are on the threshold of momentous change. Around the world working people are deeply dissatisfied with the status quo. We face endless economic crisis, endless wars abroad, and ever-rising surveillance and repression at home. We see fabulous wealth accumulation for the super-rich, and bitter austerity for the rest of us. We witness merciless plunder of our fragile environment by a profit system that threatens the very survival of civilization. The signs of discontent are everywhere.
The latest is Jeremy Corbyn’s decisive win to become Leader of the British Labour Party. This is a blow against capitalist austerity and a big boost for the working class movement. His left-Keynesian policies open a wider space for advocates of socialist transformation of society. It is also a warning to pro-capitalist leaders of labour-based parties around the world, like Tom Mulcair in Canada’s New Democratic Party, that the rank and file have an appetite for radical change.
Corbyn’s frankly leftist views — he favors a British exit from NATO, re-nationalization of the post office, railway and energy industries, and a possible war-crimes trial for Tony Blair — have long placed him outside Labour’s establishment.
Yet his victory on September 12 was just the latest marker of an extraordinary transformation of the political left, one that is fueled by disenchantment with the traditional parties and their leaders after the failures of the Iraq war and the Great Recession.
In Greece, the Syriza party became the first supposedly-leftist party to govern in the European Union by sweeping to victory in January. Syriza subsequently betrayed the Greek working class, but in the election on September 20 the combined vote of working class parties increased, including that of the Stalinist KKE, and of Antarsya, a revolutionary coalition that has led anti-fascist and anti-austerity movements in the streets.
In Spain and Ireland, left-wing parties are vying for a kingmaker role in upcoming elections. In Scotland, nationalists dethroned the Labour Party, which had been dominant there for decades, by exposing Labour as too timid to challenge the ideology of austerity.
In Canada, the labour-based New Democratic Party is poised to form the federal government, for the first time ever, after the October 19 election. Even if it does not, the old Conservative-Liberal two-party system that dominated Parliament for the past 150 years is now a thing of the past.
In the United States, Bernie Sanders tops Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire polls, and is drawing equal to her in Iowa. Sanders’ bid for the U.S. Democratic Party presidential nomination is a distorted example because the Democratic Party is a ruling class institution. It is the chief instrument of capitalist rule and of imperial wars abroad for over a century. But Sanders’ popularity shows an appetite among millions for radical change.
The BlackLivesMatter and the $15 Now movements are better examples of independent working class political action. With radical organization and leadership, the drive for fundamental change will not be denied. However, without revolutionary organization, humanity is doomed to a very ugly demise. The millions of desperate refugees from the Middle East and Africa currently on the move give us a glimpse of what’s in store without a social revolution.
Looking at the situation in Canada, what do we see? We see a war not mentioned in the commercial media — a war on wages. Between 1981 and 2011 the real median hourly wage of full-time workers rose by only $2, according to Statistics Canada. Males between 25 and 34 years of age saw almost no real wage gain during those 30 years. Why?
The Bank of Canada, encouraged by Liberal and Conservative governments, worsened recessions in the 1980s and 1990s to reduce inflation by boosting unemployment and squeezing wages.
In the mid-90s, another Liberal government gutted Canada’s social safety net. It cut employment insurance and welfare benefits, so the jobless would be desperate to work for any wage.
The weakening of unions is another reason wages have stagnated. Unionized workers make $5.67/hour more than non-union workers. That’s something the bosses can’t stand.
The export of factory jobs has hit unions hard. Today only 30% of the Canadian work force is unionized, down from 38% in 1981. In the private sector, only 17% are union members. Harper’s Conservatives are doing their best to weaken unions more. Law C-377 forces unions to disclose all expenditures, while business and professional organizations are not required to do so. Another law ended the rule that government contractors must pay fair wages. Tories break strikes with legislation, as they did to Air Canada, Canada Post and railway workers. Liberals did it to transit workers and teachers in Ontario. The Tories further reduced access to Employment Insurance. They expanded programmes that allow business to import cheap, temporary foreign workers. The number doubled in just a few years.
It is an outrage that none of the major parties is talking about the war on wages. None is proposing to make it easier to unionize low-wage workers. None is pointing to the danger to good-paying jobs posed by globalization and so-called ‘free trade’ deals. None says it will scrap the temporary foreign worker progammes. The NDP promises to raise the federal minimum wage to $15/hour. But that would affect only 100,000 workers.
What do we really need? We need a major public works programme to fix the country’s crumbling infrastructure. We need to expand industry under public ownership, coupled with pro-union, work place democracy legislation.
This writer attended a rally for Tom Mulcair in Toronto on September 8 with about 1,000 people. In his speech, Mulcair said he will go as Prime Minister to the COP21 Climate Summit in Paris, November 30 – December 12, to fight for climate justice. But how can he do that if he is open to the construction of the Energy East pipeline, and the continuation of the Tar Sands development?
He said he wants tax fairness. But how can he deliver that by keeping the Tories’ Universal Child Care Benefit and the GST? He said he stands for economic justice, yet he does not oppose the Canada- Europe Trade Agreement. And how can Mulcair commit to a balanced budget, come hell or high water, without taxing corporations and the super-rich a hell of a lot more, or without breaking his promise to establish a national childcare service?
Socialists may succeed in pushing Mulcair to the left. Anything is possible. In 2006 the NDP Socialist Caucus forced Jack Layton to demand ‘Canada Out of Afghanistan’. Last year it won the policy ‘For free post-secondary education’ in the Ontario NDP. And who thought, even a year ago, that the NDP would form the government in Alberta?
The main point is this: to raise class consciousness and advance struggles for fundamental change, socialists need to be organized as such. We need to fight for socialist policies in the unions, in the NDP and other working class organizations.
We urge you to join us in this effort. But let’s be clear:
There is no electoral solution. There is no market solution to the crisis of capitalism. The capitalist market created the problem. Only a social revolution can solve it. Only by taking control of the major means of production, like the Cubans did 54 years ago, only by instituting democratic planning, in harmony with nature, does humanity have any hope of survival. |
doc-86 | The latest Bond film Quantum of Solace has made box office history on its opening day in the UK, taking amassive £4.94m and making it the biggest Friday opening of all time.
This shatters the previous record held by Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which took £4.025m back in 2005.
The latest installment from the longest running franchise in film history, has also beaten the opening day figure for the last Bond movie, Casino Royale, which took £2.9m on its opening day.
The new film opened in 542 cinemas in the UK and Ireland on yesterday (Friday 31st October) and will open in the US on November 14th.
UPDATE: 03/11/08: The film has now earned a massive £15.4million over it’s first three days, making it the biggest weekend opening of all time at the UK box office.
This beats the previous weekend record held by Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which took £14.93million.
According to Variety the new Bond film captured a ‘jaw-dropping 70% of the market’.
> Quantum of Solace at the IMDb
> Box Office Mojo compares the grosses of different Bond films
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From OrilliaMatters, September 14, 2022
Editor’s Note: One of the dates for one of the events has been changed since this article was published.
Due to a council meeting conflict, the Ramona Hall all-candidates meeting has been moved to Thursday, Oct. 6 from 7 to 9:30 p.m.
The Ramara Chamber of Commerce is hosting five all-candidates meetings in various parts of the township.
Candidates for mayor, deputy mayor, and school board trustees will speak at each meeting, while councillor candidates will only speak at the meetings focused on their wards.
The first meeting (Ward 1) will take place Sept. 26 at the Ramona Hall from 7 to 9:30 p.m.
Ward 2 candidates will be featured at the second meeting, taking place Sept. 27 at the Udney Hall from 7 to 9:30 p.m.
On Sept. 28, a meeting for Ward 4 candidates will happen at the Brechin legion from 7 to 9:30 p.m.
Ward 3 candidates will take part in a meeting Oct. 2 at the Ramara Centre from 2 to 4:30 p.m.
The final meeting, for Ward 5 candidates, will take place Oct. 4 at the Lagoon City Community Centre from 7 to 9:30 p.m.
Meetings will begin with introductions from candidates, followed by written questions from the panel or moderator, provided either in advance or from the audience.
The meetings will end with closing comments from candidates. |
doc-88 | Author: Sebastian Munster
Medium: Woodblock engraving
Inches: 10" x 13 1/2" image size
Centimeters: 25.5 x 34
Munster's map of The New World (Die New Welt) was first published in his 1528 edition of Solinus; it subsequently appeared in the four editions of Ptolemy and virtually of the editions of Cosmographia. It was an excellent example of the woodcut process, employing the common technique of supplying the place names by means of metal types inserted into the woodblock. These names could easily be interchanged as needed for editions in different languages, and states of the map appeared in Latin, German, French, and others.
Munster presented a remarkably advanced outline of the American continents, especially considering that less than fifty years had elapsed since the first voyage of Columbus. He depicted the New World as one landmass and confirmed Waldseemuller's christening of the continents after Vespucci by appending the name "American" in South America. He clearly had firsthand reports of recent explorations at his disposal, and his delineation of North America followed closely the exemplar of Giovanni da Verrazzano after his voyage of 1524. The Italian navigator, when sailing off the coast of what is now the Outer Banks of North Carolina, mistook Pamlico Sound for the Pacific ocean, a tantalizingly short distance across a narrow neck of land. This so-called Sea of Verrazzno was shown by Munster nearly cutting North America in two, and in turn opened into a mythical strait connecting the Atlantic with the Pacific. This depiction, along with the place names "Francisca" and "Terra Florida," apportioning the continent between the French and the Spanish, appeared here on a printed map for perhaps the first time and must have contributed substantially to the wide currency of Verrazzano's ideas. Munster also knew definitely of Magellan's discoveries since he appended that explorer's name to the straits south of the mainland. Although Munster presented a good delineation of the Gulf of Mexico, he mistakenly showed Tucatan as island, and his rendering of Temistitan (Tenoxtitlan, or Mexico City) gave it an erroneous connection with the Gulf. Interior details to the north were nonexistent.
Munster interestingly combined the factual material he had at hand with the folklore and myth he must have derived in part from Solinus. The "Regio gigantum" (region of the giants) in South America, the archipelago of 7,448 islands near Japan, and the depiction of the cannibal's hut complete with dismembered leg are all examples of this influence.
Munster's map of The New World was probably the single most widely distributed map of America at the time. His rendering of a single landmass, the confirmation of the name America, and the dissemination of the misinformation of the Verrazzano combine to make it an important step in the cartographic history of the region.
References: Wheat 20; Lowery 46; Kohl 58; Phillips, Atlases 365, 367. 368. 370; World Encompassed 272' Wagner. Northwest Coast 31; Klemp 9. |
doc-89 | It's happening across the country. The numbers can be shocking. The stress, unbelievable. Unemployment. It's easy to get sucked into a cycle of rumors, anxiety and avoidance. So let's face the facts together, shall we?
Unemployment hit historic highs in the spring of 2020. It's WAY worse than 2019 (32x worse, in fact), and it's even worse than the Great Recession. For the week ending March 28, 2020, the number of people filing for unemployment for the first time surged to almost 6.8 million people, compared with 211,000 in 2019. And unemployment numbers in April 2020 doubled what they were at the highest levels during the Great Recession that followed the 2008 financial crisis.
To help with all of this scariness, the government doubled down on paying unemployment benefits. Nearly $32.5 billion were paid in unemployment benefits in April 2020, which is almost 15 times the $2.2 billion paid during the same timeframe in 2019. And 52% of those benefits were paid out on Mondays or Tuesdays. Plus, with the $600 per week supplemental payment, many people receive 2.5x more in 2020 than they did in 2019—and that doesn’t even include the stimulus check!
Even though economic difficulties are widespread in 2020, some states are faring worse than others. By May 2, 2020, the number of unemployed people reached into the millions in eight states. But the labor forces in Kentucky, Georgia, and Hawaii were the hardest hit. During the week ending March 14, 2020, 0.2% or less of their labor forces had filed initial UI claims. But that percentage increased dramatically to almost 5% each week for the next seven weeks, reaching over a third of their labor forces by May 2.
If you’re a visual person, check out the infographic below to understand unemployment in the U.S. in 2020.
1 Employment and Training Staff. (n.d.). Office of Unemployment Insurance UI Weekly Claims. Retrieved from Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor: https://oui.doleta.gov/unemploy/claims_arch.asp
2 Lambert, L. (2020, April 23). Real unemployment rate soars past 20%--and the U.S. has now lost 26.5 million jobs. Retrieved from Fortune: https://fortune.com/2020/04/23/us-unemployment-rate-numbers-claims-this-week-total-job-losses-april-23-2020-benefits-claims/
3 Bureau of the Fiscal Service Staff. (n.d.). Daily Treasury Statement. Retrieved from Bureau of the Fiscal Service, U.S. Department of the Treasury: https://fsapps.fiscal.treasury.gov/dts/issues
4 Iacurci, G. (2020, April 10). How much unemployment will I get? That depends on your state. Retrieved from CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/09/how-much-unemployment-will-i-get-that-depends-on-your-state.html
5 Kandra, J. and Wolfe, J. (2020, May 8). Updated state unemployment numbers. Retrieved from Economic Policy Institute: https://www.epi.org/blog/updated-state-unemployment-numbers-large-shares-of-the-labor-force-have-filed-for-unemployment-in-every-state/
6 Fitch Ratings Staff. (2020, May 7). Coronavirus Causing Dramatic Differences in State Unemployment. Retrieved from Fitch Ratings: https://www.fitchratings.com/research/us-public-finance/coronavirus-causing-dramatic-differences-in-state-unemployment-07-05-2020 |
doc-90 | Asked by: Valentina Bogan | Last update: February 19, 2022
Text. The amendment, as proposed by Congress in 1789 and later ratified as the Ninth Amendment, reads as follows: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
When was the 9th amendment proposed and ratified?
The 9th Amendment was ratified on December 15th, 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights which consisted of the first 10 amendments to the US constitution.
Why was the 9th amendment proposed?
The Ninth Amendment was James Madison's attempt to ensure that the Bill of Rights was not seen as granting to the people of the United States only the specific rights it addressed.
What is the history of the 9th Amendment?
The Ninth Amendment was part of the Bill of Rights that was added to the Constitution on December 15, 1791. It says that all the rights not listed in the Constitution belong to the people, not the government. In other words, the rights of the people are not limited to just the rights listed in the Constitution.
When was the amendment proposed?
In 1789, Madison proposed twelve amendments to the federal Constitution, the first ten of which were ratified in 1791 and became the federal Bill of Rights.
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How many times has an amendment been proposed?
From 1789 through January 3, 2019, approximately 11,770 measures have been proposed to amend the United States Constitution.
How many times has Congress proposed an amendment?
There have been close to 10,000 amendments proposed in Congress since 1789, and only a fraction of a percentage of those receive enough support to actually go through the constitutional ratification process.
What is a real life example of the 9th Amendment?
What are some examples of the 9th Amendment? One example of the 9th Amendment is the Roe vs. Wade court case legalizing abortion. Two other examples of the 9th Amendment are the right to vote and the right to privacy.
What does the 9th Amendment say?
Why is the Ninth Amendment considered to be controversial?
Controversies. Controversies over the Ninth Amendment stem mainly from whether the Amendment has the power to grant previously unmentioned rights as the Court discovers them. ... Historically, the courts have mostly ignored the Ninth Amendment, only citing it as a way to read the Constitution rather than an explicit right.
How has the 9th Amendment been used?
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. ... Since that time, however, the Ninth Amendment has been used as a secondary source of liberties and has emerged as important in the extension of the rights of privacy.
Which right does the Ninth Amendment protect?
The Constitution's first ten amendments, often known as the Bill of Rights, outline some of the freedoms that have become synonymous with American society. Freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and the right to bear arms, to name a few.
What does the Ninth Amendment state in one or two sentences explain the Amendment in your own words?
What does the Ninth Amendment state? In one or two sentences, explain the amendment in your own words. The ninth amendment states that we have rights that are not written in Constitution enumerated rights, that may not be mentioned. Even though it is not listed they can't be denied and can't be violated.
How has the Ninth Amendment been violated?
Mitchell (1947) The Mitchell case involved a group of federal employees accused of violating the then-recently passed Hatch Act, which prohibits most employees of the executive branch of the federal government from engaging certain political activities. ... The Hatch Act violated the Ninth and 10th amendments, he said.
How does the Ninth Amendment affect us today?
The complete text of the Ninth Amendment states: ... Today, the Amendment is often cited in legal attempts to prevent the federal government from expanding the powers of Congress specifically granted to it under Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution.
How does the 9th amendment protect privacy?
The Ninth Amendment says that the "enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage other rights retained by the people." This has been interpreted as justification for broadly reading the Bill of Rights to protect privacy in ways not specifically provided in the first eight ...
How many amendments are in the Constitution 2021?
The US Constitution has 27 amendments that protect the rights of Americans. Do you know them all? The US Constitution was written in 1787 and ratified in 1788.
How many amendments have been passed since 1999?
Since 1999, in fact, 134 separate balanced-budget amendments have been formally introduced in either the House or Senate, making it the single most popular subject of amendment proposals over that timespan, according to our analysis of legislative data from the Library of Congress.
What were the 2 amendments not ratified in the Bill of Rights?
In 1789, at the time of the submission of the Bill of Rights, twelve pro-were ratified and became the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Proposed Articles I and II were not ratified with these ten, but, in 1992, Article II was proclaimed as ratified, 203 years later.
When was the last time the U.S. Constitution was amended?
With no time limit on ratification, the Twenty-seventh Amendment was ratified in May 7, 1992, when Michigan approved it.
What happened to the proposed Equal Rights Amendment proposed in 1972?
On March 22, 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Senate and sent to the states for ratification. More than four decades later, the revival of feminism in the late 1960s spurred its introduction into Congress. ...
When was the child labor amendment first introduced?
A document from the CQ Researcher archives:
The amendment would give power to Congress to “limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age.” It was approved by the House of Representatives April 26,1924, and by the Senate June 2, 1924.
What fear does Madison express in this passage?
What fear does Madison express in this passage? Any rights that are not listed will not be protected.
Is smoking protected by the 9th Amendment?
The right to smoke would certainly be covered under the 9th Amendment. ... From there, you can extend to include smoking. The Congress has broad powers to regulate most things under the Interstate Commerce clause.
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doc-91 | The VoIP monitor is a very important piece of software that enables the enterprise to accurately measure and track the VoIP (voice over internet protocol) network performance in real time. The VoIP monitor software will monitor the various aspects of your VOIP infrastructure and provide the information you need to make informed choices on the future of your business. It can be very useful when there are some discrepancies between what you see in the system and the actual data provided by your service provider.
WG-6006-7×8. Continuously monitor and measure appropriate performance levels for VOIP (Voice over internet protocol) call quality. Measure Network performance for VOIP using the VoIP monitor.
You can view your network performance at any time through the VoIP monitor. You will also receive alerts as the performance level changes. This is a very convenient tool that enables you to view and manage all the data that you need to analyze. You can also use the interface to add new devices to your network, monitor their performance, and compare them with the data you already have in your network.
When there is any problem with your network, you will be able to trace the root cause. You can also run diagnostics tests. The software will generate alerts if there is a problem with your network.
Using the VoIP monitor you will be able to monitor your VOIP network performance in real time. You will also be able to generate reports based on your results. This will enable you to evaluate the progress of your network at an appropriate rate and create a plan based on the information you receive.
Using the VoIP monitor you will be able to easily define the network bandwidth requirements required for the network services and choose the appropriate service. You will also be able to automatically set a limit for the download/upload speed of your network traffic. The monitoring will provide you with an analysis of how fast your server is responding.
You will also be able to configure a firewall for the network to protect your network from intrusion. In addition to that, you can also use the system to automate some network management tasks such as system maintenance and network configuration. This will allow you to do less work when you no longer need to do those tasks manually. This will also help you to reduce the costs involved in managing the network on a daily basis.
There are several software packages that provide this feature. You can check with your network provider to determine what package is appropriate for your organization.
Network performance monitoring helps to keep track of the status of your network. The process includes configuring the settings that are important in your system such as the default IP addresses and DNS servers, the default FTP server and the default FTP port and other service ports that are used by the servers. The software will then generate reports that include the IP address of each of the servers, the DNS server or the FTP server, and the FTP port used.
It will also generate alerts whenever the system performance level goes down or changes significantly. The alerts can include any abnormal traffic received and send alerts to your email.
When you install the monitoring software on the network, you can set up it on a continuous basis. As the system increases in size, you can configure additional features such as the network capacity or the software will automatically update itself about the network traffic.
Once it is configured, you can install the software and configure configuration data on the network to store information and monitor performance. There are some simple steps you can follow for setting up the monitoring system.
The first thing to do is to install the network software on a PC and connect it to the network using a USB port. Then configure it and enter the settings as needed.
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doc-93 | Posted September 22, 2019 by Jen in Sunday Snippet Tags: Forgotten Empires series, Jeffe Kennedy
The Orchid Throne
Author: Jeffe Kennedy
Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperbacks
Series: Forgotten Empires #1
He was indeed the one from my nightmares, the wolf in a man’s skin. The one forever haunting me, holding out that hand, demanding and beseeching while the manacled wolf howled with a broken boy’s voice. I’d known it, so I shouldn’t be at all surprised. The orchid ring billowed on my finger, breathing of fate and disaster. And the presence of magic foreign to Calanthe—coming from the younger man with the Slave King. Slight, giving the appearance of youth, he leaned on a staff that oozed power. He stared at the ring, his gaze fascinated and green as Calanthe’s deepest forests. A wizard? Perhaps I’d been sent a gift along with this disaster.
Interestingly enough, the Slave King’s other companion was a woman, a warrior in armor. Somehow the rumors had left out that the rebels included fighting women, much less this one who must be his lieutenant. Unless she was his lover. Possibly both.
She might’ve been a great beauty once—with periwinkle blue eyes and hair the color of morning light, straight and fine as silk, that many court ladies would envy—but her complexion, like his, bore pits and scars. They both looked as if they’d been roasted over a slow flame. She returned my study, noting my makeup and clothing with something like contempt.
None of them had replied to my pronouncement, though I thought the Slave King, at least, understood my words. No matter. They couldn’t argue with me, regardless. The plan had worked perfectly, to my great relief, with no blood shed. Not yet.
I waved to the guards. “Relieve them of their weapons and take them to their cells.”
“Why?” The Slave King demanded, his voice startling in his hoarseness, all the more so in his anger, now that he’d given up all pretense of being polite. Though I hadn’t missed that he’d addressed me as one monarch to another, with no honorific.
I raised my brows in inquiry, not playing into his hostile demand for answers.
“We came here peace,” he said. “Is this the hospitality you offer all those who seek to meet with you?”
Tertulyn laughed, bitterness beneath it, and the sound echoed through court, though with more gaiety. Everyone had turned out to see this spectacle, eager to lay eyes on the Slave King and his retinue for themselves. This gossip would feed the parties for days, if not years.
The Slave King twitched, the wolf raising its hackles. I almost imagined a shaggy coat and fangs. I would not laugh at him, as I knew well what kind of beast I’d caged. A man who employed a wizard in his cause was no blundering feral.
Welcome to the world of Forgotten Empires from award winning author Jeffe Kennedy that begins with The Orchid Throne.
A PRISONER OF FATE
As Queen of the island kingdom of Calanthe, Euthalia will do anything to keep her people free—and her secrets safe—from the mad tyrant who rules the mainland. Guided by a magic ring of her father’s, Lia plays the political game with the cronies the emperor sends to her island. In her heart, she knows that it’s up to her to save herself from her fate as the emperor’s bride. But in her dreams, she sees a man, one with the power to build a better world—a man whose spirit is as strong, and whose passion is as fierce as her own…
A PRINCE AMONG MEN
Conrí, former Crown Prince of Oriel, has built an army to overthrow the emperor. But he needs the fabled Abiding Ring to succeed. The ring that Euthalia holds so dear to her heart. When the two banished rulers meet face to face, neither can deny the flames of rebellion that flicker in their eyes—nor the fires of desire that draw them together. But in this broken world of shattered kingdoms, can they ever really trust each other? Can their fiery alliance defeat the shadows of evil that threaten to engulf their hearts and souls?
Jeffe Kennedy is an award-winning author whose works include novels, non-fiction, poetry, and short fiction. She has been a Ucross Foundation Fellow, received the Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship for Poetry, and was awarded a Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Award.
Her award-winning fantasy romance trilogy The Twelve Kingdoms hit the shelves starting in May 2014. Book 1, The Mark of the Tala, received a starred Library Journal review and was nominated for the RT Book of the Year while the sequel, The Tears of the Rose received a Top Pick Gold and was nominated for the RT Reviewers’ Choice Best Fantasy Romance of 2014. The third book, The Talon of the Hawk, won the RT Reviewers’ Choice Best Fantasy Romance of 2015. Two more books followed in this world, beginning the spin-off series The Uncharted Realms. Book one in that series, The Pages of the Mind, has also been nominated for the RT Reviewer’s Choice Best Fantasy Romance of 2016 and won RWA’s 2017 RITA® Award. The second book, The Edge of the Blade, released December 27, 2016, and is a PRISM finalist, along with The Pages of the Mind. The next in the series, The Shift of the Tide, will be out in August, 2017. A high fantasy trilogy taking place in The Twelve Kingdoms world is forthcoming from Rebel Base books in 2018.
She also introduced a new fantasy romance series, Sorcerous Moons, which includes Lonen’s War, Oria’s Gambit, The Tides of Bàra, and The Forests of Dru. She’s begun releasing a new contemporary erotic romance series, Missed Connections, which started with Last Dance and continues in With a Prince.
In 2019, St. Martins Press will release the first book, The Orchid Throne, in a new fantasy romance series, The Forgotten Empires.
Her other works include a number of fiction series: the fantasy romance novels of A Covenant of Thorns; the contemporary BDSM novellas of the Facets of Passion; an erotic contemporary serial novel, Master of the Opera; and the erotic romance trilogy, Falling Under, which includes Going Under, Under His Touch and Under Contract.
She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with two Maine coon cats, plentiful free-range lizards and a very handsome Doctor of Oriental Medicine.
Jeffe can be found online at her website: JeffeKennedy.com, every Sunday at the popular SFF Seven blog, on Facebook, on Goodreads and pretty much constantly on Twitter @jeffekennedy. She is represented by Sarah Younger of Nancy Yost Literary Agency.
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doc-94 | PODCAST: Marriage — It Take Two to Tango
September 3, 2020 /in Commentary, Culture War, Healthcare, Policy, Religion/by Tim Bryce
I first wrote this piece ten years ago. As a Notary Public in Florida, I have had the pleasure of marrying a few couples along the way. Before marrying them, I admonish them of the old expression, “It takes two to Tango,” which I will explain herein. As my daughter approaches her wedding day, I thought it would be a good idea to remind both her and her fiance of what this means. I hope you enjoy it.
After seeing so many marriages end in divorce, you cannot help but wonder why couples get married in the first place. Maybe they see it as some kind of legal permission slip to do nothing more than to have sex. If so, that seems to be rather shallow thinking to me. I tend to believe most people get married to quell the biological clock in their heads to reproduce. Under this scenario, husband and wife are doomed to failure after their mission has been fulfilled. There are probably dozens of reasons for getting divorced, but regardless, I think most people go into marriage with impractical expectations and hidden incompatibilities that are slow to surface.
Perhaps the biggest misconception about marriage is that it is easy; that by simply getting married all of your difficulties you experienced as a single person will somehow disappear. Hardly. If anything, your problems are only beginning as you have to learn to live with a new person unfamiliar with your customs, mannerisms, and lifestyle. I have yet to meet the couple who was perfectly compatible at the time of taking their marriage vows. Regardless of how long you may have lived with someone prior to marriage, you really don’t know the person until it becomes “legal.”
A lot of people fail to grasp that marriage is a partnership. This disturbs me greatly. With me, I have always compared it to the Tango. It involves forming a team which works together towards common goals and objectives, until we learn to dance as one. True, each person has their own unique duties and responsibilities, but to make such a partnership work, it is necessary for some give and take which some people can accept and adapt to, while others cannot. This means you cannot always do the things you did unilaterally when you were single. Now you must consider and consult your partner. Like any business venture, you must do what is best for both parties, not just one. This is the part of marriage most people do not understand. Any time one party ignores or excludes consideration for the other, the marriage is doomed.
If you have any doubt whatsoever about getting married, don’t do it. You must go into it with both eyes wide open and possess a genuine willingness to try to work together. Anything less will inevitably result in either an unhappy marriage or a nasty divorce.
So, my only advice to young people considering marriage, always be cognizant of the expression, “It takes two to Tango.” If you do it right, it can be a thing of beauty.
P.S. – Also, I have a NEW book, “Before You Vote: Know How Your Government Works”, What American youth should know about government, available in Printed, PDF and eBook form. This is the perfect gift for youth!
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doc-95 | Homeorganic farming
How to raise animals antibiotic-free?
Antibiotic free animal farming
Is it possible to raise animals completely antibiotic-free?
Yes, it is possible to raise animals completely antibiotic-free in the poultry industry. However, when an animal is sick and requires an antibiotic, we must do what is necessary to keep animals, humans and our food system safe.
According to Dr. Richard Murphy, while the use of antibiotics in agriculture cannot and should not completely stop due to significant animal welfare implications, this needs to be done judiciously. He says that the industry should look at completely removing antibiotic growth promoters (AGP), and many countries have already introduced policies regarding AGP due to antimicrobial resistance concerns.
Dr. Kayla Price, also agrees that the judicious use and reduction of antibiotics in poultry production is here to stay.
“I think it is really important when we are starting to look at general bird health that we make sure we are taking on a holistic approach,” she explained. “Specifically, we really have to think of the intestinal system from hatch to finish.”
Price highlights that there is no one silver bullet solution for removing antibiotics; nutrition and biosecurity are both crucial to ensure success.
Dr. Dulmelis Sandu, states that as stewards to the animals that we grow for food production, it is necessary to ensure that there are options available to support what is best for the animals at each stage of production — some of which may require antibiotic support or intervention.
“It is our responsibility as an industry to provide the right management and best rearing practices to avoid, or at least reduce, the amounts of antibiotics used in animals,” said Sandu. “This is mainly due to the potential implications related to animal welfare, the economic impact related to the expense of antibiotic usage and the overall enhancement of animal health .”
There are many approaches to reduce or eliminate the use of antibiotics from poultry production. A preventative approach, such as using a feed additive program, can help reduce the challenges faced when antibiotics are not used and aid long-term flock health and wellness.
2. Does animal consumption of antibiotics affect human resistance?
According to the National Academy of Medicine, “antibiotic usage in livestock results in the direct spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria to humans.” Specifically, antibiotic resistance can transfer between bacteria, and these bacteria can move between people, animals and the environment. Even though removing antibiotics from animal production will not stop resistance when considering human misuse of antibiotics, our responsibility is to reduce this risk as much as possible. Regardless of the extent to which animal consumption is connected, we need to focus on strategies that minimize the overall risk of resistance.
Antibiotic resistance has the potential to become one of the greatest challenges of our generation due to the ever-increasing rise in bacterial strains that are progressively less sensitive to existing treatments. A drawback to the use of antibiotics is their non-specific effects on the gut microbiome. In fact, their use can lead to an overall gut microfloral diversity reduction, allowing for the continued proliferation of resistant species. This can have negative impacts on both flock health and performance. One strategy includes using nutritional supplements such as mannan-rich fractions (MRF) to rehabilitate microfloral diversity. This approach will have significant practical value in commercial production and also beneficially impact consumer health and well-being.
3. Could an animal be treated with antibiotics for illness and still go to market?
Yes, even on farms and ranches where they focus on raising animals without antibiotics, if an animal is sick and needs antibiotic treatment, it is separated from the herd and can continue to go through traditional markets. However, a withdrawal period would be required to ensure that no traces of the antibiotic remain in the poultry meat/egg products. In meat production, an animal that has been treated with antibiotics is not put back with the same herd or labeled as raised without antibiotics.
In conclusion, antibiotics can assist in maintaining overall animal production, performance and productivity. In countries that banned antibiotics as a growth promoter in production systems, other alternatives must be explored to meet the population’s growing demand for food. Increased biosecurity and enhanced nutrition are two areas that require attention. Nutrition is critical to ensure the animal’s health and productivity. To protect our animals and our food supply, every producer’s operation will need to place a strong emphasis on providing nutrition that strengthens gut health and immunity.
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doc-96 | THE LAGOS INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR IN BRIEF
The Lagos International Trade Fair is the largest International Trade Fair in Nigeria. The spectacular 10-day event, usually begins on the first Friday in November of every year, since 1981. The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which is the foremost highly influential in Nigeria, took over the organisation of the fair in 1986 and has been staging the fair annually to date. Within this period, the Lagos International Trade Fair has grown tremendously in popularity to become the leading forum for Trade and Business promotion in Nigeria, and indeed Africa. The Chamber is uniquely aware of the high standards expected of an International Trade Fair, and it is, therefore, constantly striving to live up to this expectation. Moreover, the Chamber comprises the ‘crème de la crème’ of Nigeria’s top business organisations and personalities, who are able and ready to enter business interactions with their counterparts all over the world.
In recognition of its importance and usefulness, increasing numbers of exhibitors and visitors from all over Nigeria and the world at large are showing keen interest in, and patronising, the Lagos International Trade Fair.
The Fair holds in Lagos, the Commercial and Industrial heartland of Nigeria, which is easily accessible by air, sea and land.
The Fair has attracted both local and foreign exhibitors over the years. Since 1986 when the organisation of the Fair was taken over by LCCI, the participation of local and foreign exhibitors has been growing steadily.
The Trade Fair in most recent years, had been held either at Tafawa Balewa Square in the heart of Lagos or the Lagos International Trade Fair Complex along Lagos-Badagry Expressway.
This year, at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos. More importantly, competent and experienced members of the Trade Promotion Board, staff and contractors of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry are ever willing and ready to assist participants at the Fair by providing up-to-date business information and attend promptly to enquiries from exhibitors and visitors to the Fair.
The Lagos International Trade Fair enjoys wide publicity in the electronic and print media before and throughout its ten (10) day duration and even after; thereby presenting a unique opportunity for Exhibitors to advertise their products, services, inventions and innovations to both Nigerian and Foreign participants. The Fair is usually supported by the Federal and Lagos State Governments as well as Organised Private Sector and is always well attended by numerous Government agencies seeking new ideas, inventions and innovations necessary for the attainment of the objectives for which they are set up.
The Fair provides opportunities for various sector groups and professionals to present new products and new ideas. Also, our foreign visitors have the privilege of visiting places of interest in the country through our hospitality and tourism programme.
Moreover, eminent dignitaries and policy makers from all over Nigeria visit the Fair on a daily basis throughout its duration.
The Fair brings into focus the full potentials and business opportunities existing in Nigeria.
THE LAGOS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY
Founded in 1888, the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry is the Premier Chamber of Commerce in Nigeria. It was incorporated in 1950 as a non-profit making organization, Limited by Guarantee under the Companies Act of 1948.
It is the foremost private sector group in Nigeria with over 2, 000 corporate members. It also accounts for an estimated 60% of industrial output, 65% of general commerce and 75% financial services in the country.
The primary objective of the Chamber is to promote, support or oppose legislative or other measures affecting trade, industry, commerce and agriculture. The Chamber represents the opinion of the business community on the above matters in particular and economy as a whole. Over the past thirteen decades, LCCI has remained the leading voice of the private sector through its sustained public policy advocacy, stakeholders’ engagement and trade promotion activities. |
doc-97 | Top 8 T20I Indian Cricketers With Highest Strike Rate
Indian cricketer with the highest strike rate (Batters)- The shortest format of the game cricket; T20 is getting more popular day by day. People love to see the carnage in this format and the fours and sixes hit by the batters. We can clearly say this format is a batters-dominated format.
The batter, on a given day, can take the game away from the opposition with one good inning. Whether it is a long inning or a short cameo.
The most important thing in T20 cricket for batters is their strike rate. Because there is less time to react in this format. And the batters need to play aggressively according to the situation, their strike rate has to be higher.
Today, we are talking about the 8 Indian cricketers who have the highest strike rate in T20 cricket.
NOTE: We have set a benchmark for this record for the players. The player has to play at least 15 innings to be able to feature in this list. Here are the 8 Indian cricketers who have the highest strike rate in T20 cricket.
Indian cricketer with the highest strike rate in T20s
1. Surya Kumar Yadav
Ever since he came into the international circuit, he becomes one of the best batters in T20 cricket. The way he plays his shots and the way he plays his inning is very mesmerizing to see.
SK Yadav becomes the number one T20 batter in the world by beating B Azam in the ICC T20 rankings of batters.
His strike rate in T20Is is 176.81 and he scored 1045 runs in the 32 innings he played till now. SK Yadav’s average is 38 with the highest score of 117 against England.
2. H Pandya
The second Indian cricketer in this list is H Pandya. He has been a revelation ever since he made a comeback to the team after the injury. His utility in the team is immense.
We all know what he can do with the bat and bowl. He has won games for Team India in the past as well. But now he is doing it on a consistent basis.
H Pandya scored 989 runs in T20Is with a strike rate of 148.49 and an average of 25.35.
3. D Karthik
After an IPL 2022, h has made a strong comeback in the Indian T20 team. He is playing a difficult role of a finisher in the team and has been doing well.
D Karthik’s career is a roller coaster ride as he made his T20I debut in 2006. Since then, he has been in and out of the team. But he never left his expectation of playing for India again. And now here he is.
The third Indian cricketer in the list, D Karthik’s strike rate is 148 and he has scored 672 runs in 44 innings he played.
4. V Sehwag
The fourth Indian cricketer in the list is the aggressive V Sehwag. He is known for his aggressive play despite any format. V Sehwag’s only way of tackling is to play hard.
He has played 18 innings in T20Is and scored 394 runs with a strike rate of 145.38.
5. R Sharma
The fifth Indian cricketer in this list is current Indian captain R Sharma. R Sharma is a match winner for Team India in T20Is and he paces his inning very well.
He played 134 innings in T20Is till now and scored 3737 runs with an average of 32 and a strike rate of 140.59.
The prolific batter and technically sound batsman KL Rahul is the sixth Indian cricketer in this list. His cricketing shots even in this format make him very pleasing to see. He is one of the Indian cricketers who has more than one century in this format.
KL Rahul has played 62 innings and scored 2137 runs with an average of almost 40. His strike rate is 140.40.
The most consistent performer for Team India in this format over the years. V Kohli is the 7th Indian cricketer in this list. His way of playing T20 cricket is even more pleasing because he never plays unorthodox shots. He only plays proper cricketing shots and still manages to score big runs consistently in this format.
His chasing is always a cricketing world is a fan of. V Kohli has played 101 innings in 109 matches he played till now. He has scored 3712 runs with an average of 50.84. He is one of those few batters who have a 50+ average in T20s. His strike rate is 138.09 in this format. Maintaining this average with this strike rate is very hard. That is why he is one of the best batsmen in the world right now.
V Kohli coming back in form is a very good sign for Team India.
8. Yuvraj Singh
The last Indian cricketer in this list is Y Singh. His impact in Indian cricket is very huge. Especially in limited overs cricket.
Y Singh’s contribution to winning India two ICC World Cups is also very huge. At one stage, he was the backbone of India’s middle order.
Unfortunately, due to cancer, he missed his cricket at his peak. Y Singh has played 51 innings and scored 1177 runs in this format with an average of 28.02. His strike rate is 136.06 and the highest score of 77 not out.
So these are the top 8 Indian cricketers who have the highest strike rate in T20Is. I hope you like this article. Comment your favorite player below.
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doc-98 | Astronomy Professor Jason Wright (Pa.) Has released material whose main purpose is to find out if we have tried enough to search for extinct alien life - especially intelligent forms. He asks if we continue to look for those forms (technosignals) that are no longer there, but could leave behind evidence of existence in the past.
Wright does not assure that the alien life existed 100%, but he is convinced that in a deep search you need to include life forms that were near, but disappeared in a certain time period. He notes that most of today's missions related to the search for life outside the Earth, focused on the detection of biosignals - evidence for living organisms, and not possible dead remains. He noted that it is difficult to find such evidence on Earth due to the presence of weather and tectonic activity. But in the solar system there are objects that not only remain unchanged, but are also protected from radiation effects and asteroid attacks. Among them may be not only the planets, but also asteroids and satellites.
The author believes that it is necessary to take seriously the search for technosignals, both on Earth (in the rocks with a million or billions in age), and other celestial bodies of the solar system.
Alien life is not obliged to copy earth conditions
Will we meet life in the universe?
NASA’s new project will start looking for alien life
Why has SETI not yet discovered extraterrestrial life?
The hunt for the alien mind becomes infrared
If sensible aliens exist, why don't we see them?
A new solar system can be a source of life |
doc-99 | PUBLISHED: October 6, 2005 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 30, 2017 at 2:41 a.m.
Vinny Testaverde is nearly 42 years old. He has not thrown a pass in a regular- season game since January. On top of all that, he has had about a week to learn the Jets offense.
This is the player that coach Herman Edwards has entrusted to help save the season.
Edwards named Testaverde his starting quarterback Wednesday, a move the desperate Jets hope can spark their floundering offense. Though Testaverde was on the verge of retirement just a few weeks ago, he is now put in the tough spot of trying to do whatever he can to get the Jets some victories.
His first start comes Sunday against Tampa Bay, the team that drafted him No. 1 overall in 1987. When he takes the field, he will be the fourth-oldest quarterback to start a game in the Super Bowl era, behind Steve DeBerg, Warren Moon and Doug Flutie.
“There’s certain things that can happen, hopefully will happen, with getting the ball down the field, getting the ball out quick, trying not to take sacks, hoping everybody gets their confidence up,’ Testaverde said. “Our lack of success has hurt our confidence a little bit offensively. We just have to get it up a little bit.’
Testaverde, signed a week ago when Chad Pennington went out for the season with another torn rotator cuff, watched from the sideline as third-stringer Brooks Bollinger started in a 13-3 loss to Baltimore on Sunday.
The Jets did little to help the unproven youngster, failing to protect him or open up holes for Curtis Martin. But Edwards pointed to one statistic that helped him make his decision: Bollinger was 4-of-16 trying to get the ball to the receivers.
Detroit wide receiver Charles Rogers was suspended Wednesday for four games for violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy, the latest setback in his injury-plagued career. The announcement came in a two-sentence statement from the league.
“I will make no excuses for what I did, and I accept full responsibility for my actions,’ Rogers said in a statement released by the Lions. “I let down a lot of people, mainly myself.’
The suspension is the latest in a series of problems for the second overall choice in the 2003 draft, who missed much of his first two seasons after breaking his right collarbone twice.
St. Louis Rams coach Mike Martz has an infection of the heart that will require treatment with antibiotics and keep him out of practice for a couple of days.
The 54-year-old Martz said doctors believe he has endocarditis, a bacterial infection of the heart’s inner lining or the heart valve. Martz will undergo a series of blood cultures over the next week to confirm the diagnosis.
Arizona Cardinals coach Dennis Green says it’s fine with him if there’s a quarterback controversy once Kurt Warner is healthy enough to play again.
Another strong performance by Josh McCown should create just that scenario.
“You know what? I don’t mind that,’ Green said after practice Wednesday. “That would mean we’re doing well and that’s just part of it.’
Peyton Manning is pleased to hear Alex Smith will start for the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, and not because his Indianapolis Colts will be going against a rookie quarterback making his first NFL start.
Manning was the No. 1 pick in 1998, seven years before Smith got the same honor. The two became acquainted in the offseason, and the league MVP believes the only way for Smith to learn this complicated job is to “play, play, play, play, play.’
Starting wide receivers Bobby Engram and Darrell Jackson were both listed as doubtful for Seattle’s game Sunday at St. Louis.
Engram cracked two ribs on the first play in last Sunday’s 20-17 loss to Washington. Jackson has a bone bruise in his right knee that flared up late last week. |