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Back in 2016 I met my good friend the Reverend Harold Middlebrook for lunch at a new soul food restaurant called Jackie’s Dream, which is about a half mile from my house in East Knoxville. Thus started my patronage of this very good restaurant which specializes in “hot chicken” and other soul foods, including collard greens, fried okra, and my favorite- fried green tomatoes.
Knoxville Homes with Cameron Brooks Supports Belly Rubs Basset Rescue
Don’t fall victim to these ploys and swindles!
Please trust that I am not writing this to be unnecessarily provocative or to scare folks. My intent is to shine some light on three widely executed scams in real estate occurring today in our area, with the goal of helping you avoid falling victim to them. Read on to learn more below. Continue reading…
The social pressures that exist in our society around body image seem to be more aimed at women. For instance, through advertising, magazines, tv, etc., the ideal female body image marketed to the masses has undoubtedly put destructive, negative social pressures on women to look or strive to look a certain way.
Wanted to share a letter I wrote to the community about GoNorth Animal Rescue group from October of 2016:
OVER 8000 EAST TN SHELTER DOGS HAVE BEEN SAVED BY LOCAL RESCUE GROUP- AND HOW YOU CAN HELP….
My passion for dogs and animal rescue can be rooted in the friendship I had with my first dog named Berkeley.
The year was 2004, I was 26 years old and newly employed in a job that paid well enough that allowed me to save money to buy my first home. It had been a long term goal/ dream of mine to purchase a home, and at the ripe age of 26 I set out to do just that.
Thank you for visiting my site. My goal is to provide informative and thought provoking articles and content written by me with my take on all things related to life, Knoxville, dogs, and real estate.
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Arsenal boss Unai Emery admits he “does not know” if former captain Granit Xhaka will play for the club again.
Xhaka, 27, was stripped of the club captaincy earlier this week after being involved in an angry confrontation with home fans during the Gunners’ 2-2 draw with Crystal Palace on 27 October.
The Swiss midfielder has not played since and will not play in Saturday’s Premier League game at Leicester City.
“He said to me that he’s not feeling good enough to play,” said Emery.
“I spoke with him on Tuesday about how he’s feeling and how he is in his mind. He’s working well, he’s training well.
“I need to be focused with the players we have, and then after the international break I am going to speak again with him.”
The Switzerland captain was booed as he walked off the pitch after being substituted against Palace, prompting him to cup his ear, take his shirt off and head straight down the tunnel to the dressing room.
Emery later said Xhaka should apologise to the club’s supporters, saying the midfielder “knows he was wrong”.
However, Xhaka did not go that far, although he did say he got “carried away” and reacted “disrespectfully” to fans following repeated threats to his wife and daughter.
Pushed on whether Xhaka may never play for Arsenal again, Emery added: “As a coach I have a responsibility for the team. We need a player like Granit Xhaka.
“But also, I don’t know if he’s going to play again. I don’t know if he is available in his mind to continue helping us and continuing defending the Arsenal shirt.
“Then, if I decide he is in the group with us, if he is ready and 100% in his mind with the decision to help us and to play with his quality helping us. We need that quality and that player.
“We’re now a little weaker without him in that position because we have one less player.”
Asked if a move for Xhaka in January had been mentioned, Emery said he had “asked that question” but also added: “I’m not thinking about that because we’re in November and we’re going to play a lot of matches in November and December.
“We cannot change him in that two months. The club is speaking with him and we’re going to decide how he is and how I’m thinking we use him.”
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We went on a camping trip to Yosemite in June. I don’t know what I was envisioning when I thought of Yosemite, but it was better than I ever imagined. We didn’t stay in the park, but some day we’d love to stay in the park and next time we’ll try to take our bikes.
We visited the little historic area first. The kids loved watching the horse drawn wagon go through the covered bridge. And we liked looking in all the windows of the old cabins to see how they lived way back when.
Then we ate lunch at the hotel. It reminded me of the one in Dirty Dancing a little bit. I would have been neat to see at actual room. The food was decent and the huge porch was so neat. I’d love to have a porch like that some day.
Lastly we drove up to Glacier Point. I don’t know what I was expecting but it was beautiful and breath-taking. We took TONS of pictures. This is just a few of them.
I have to say, as beautiful as it was, it is terrifying taking young kids to these places sometimes. Mark and I are constantly making sure we have all 3 of them with us and no one is near a ledge. And then they want to look over ledges and we have death grips on them. I know the odds of them falling are slim, but accidents happen and it gives me nightmares, that’s for sure. I don’t know what we’ll do when we have 4. I guess we’ll both wear the younger two and each take charge of one of the older two. And if Mark isn’t around we will stay home.
We ended the day getting ice cream at the top and J loved doing “so big” on the way back from our walk.
The second day we decided to go down to the valley and it was equally as breath-taking as it was up on the cliffs. There were rather tame deer around and we hiked through a few meadows and then to the Lower Falls after lunch.
Next we decided to do a hike to Mirror Lake. I had to pee so bad but the map showed that there were bathrooms along the trail so we headed out. Turns out the trail forked and what we thought was a large loop wasn’t. There was the “trail” side of the river and the “road” side of the river and both lead to Mirror Lake but they didn’t connect unless you swam across the river. I was very tempted since the bathrooms ended up being on the OTHER side of the river. Grrr.. I was not a happy camper.
Jamison cashed it in on a short part of the hike. Overall, he really is a great little traveler. I wish they made Ergo’s for adults.
We saw a bobcat on the trail, along with a couple deer. The stupid guy was basically chasing the thing and I couldn’t get a picture without him being in the shot. Idiot.
Yosemite was beautiful and I feel like we didn’t see all of it. We’d love to go back someday and take advantage of the many bike trails they have in the Valley. The Valley was about an hour and a half from our camp ground so that made it a bit interesting with the commutes, but it was a great trip and we hope to be back someday!
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Cheap OKC to Ruby flights
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Easy Freezy is a meal prep service that is taking the front-end work out of meal planning! We plan, shop, prep your meals and ship them to you.
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As many as half the acting nominees could be people of color.
"Am I just praying to silence?"
Awards season is a long march, not a sprint -- and certainly not a "long halftime walk."
Don't count out "Birth of a Nation" just yet, folks!
A tale of two millennial coworkers.
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Toward Autonomous Verification Systems
Design verification has been a challenging problem due to the increasing complexity of modern system-on-chip (SoC) designs and it is considered one of the costliest processes in hardware design flow. This dissertation investigates a major labor-intensive task, generating tests to hit a given coverage point, in simulation-based verification, and proposes an autonomous software system capable of completing the task. A key feature of the proposed system is its learning capability -- it can learn from examples provided by human engineers to improve itself. There are three major components in the proposed system: test generation, a knowledge database, and rule learning algorithms. The proposed system is able to retrieve information from the database, use the information to analyze simulation results, and generate new tests based on the analysis. Several machine learning techniques are used in the proposed system. For test generation, a novel method, constrained process discovery, is used to learn a test case generation model from manually developed tests. The test case generation model can create new tests and increase its test generation capability by learning from tests developed by humans. For creating a knowledge database, text mining methods are used to extract important design features from design documents. Experiments showed that the extracted signals can be utilized as observation points to infer important hardware events. Last, a novel rule learning method, VeSC-CoL, is proposed to analyze simulation results. VeSC-CoL can handle extremely imbalanced data, which is common in verification, while traditional rule learning methods cannot.
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Ecological deficit / reserve (or biocapacity reserve / deficit): The difference between the biocapacity and Ecological Footprint of a region or country. An ecological deficit occurs when the Footprint of a population exceeds the biocapacity of the area available to that population. Conversely, an ecological reserve exists when the biocapacity of a region exceeds its population’s Footprint. If there is a regional or national ecological deficit, it means that the region is importing biocapacity through trade or liquidating regional ecological assets, or emitting wastes into a global commons such as the atmosphere. In contrast to the national scale, the global ecological deficit cannot be compensated for through trade, and is therefore equal to overshoot by definition.
Ecological Footprint: A measure of how much area of biologically productive land and water an individual, population or activity requires to produce all the resources it consumes and to absorb the waste it generates, using prevailing technology and resource management practices. The Ecological Footprint is usually measured in global hectares. Because trade is global, an individual or country’s Footprint includes land or sea from all over the world. Without further specification, Ecological Footprint generally refers to the Ecological Footprint of consumption. Ecological Footprint is often referred to in short form as Footprint. “Ecological Footprint” and “Footprint” are proper nouns and thus should always be capitalized.
Ecological Footprint of consumption (EFC): The most commonly reported type of Ecological Footprint, it is defined as the area used to support a defined population’s consumption. The consumption Footprint (in gha) includes the area needed to produce the materials consumed and the area needed to absorb the carbon dioxide emissions. The consumption Footprint of a nation is calculated in the National Footprint Accounts as a nation’s primary production Footprint plus the Footprint of imports minus the Footprint of exports, and is thus, strictly speaking, a Footprint of apparent consumption. The national average or per capita Consumption Footprint is equal to a country’s Consumption Footprint divided by its population.
Ecological Footprint of production (EFP): In contrast to the consumption Footprint, a nation’s production Footprint is the sum of the Footprints for all of the resources harvested and all of the waste generated within the defined geographical region. This includes all the area within a country necessary for supporting the actual harvest of primary products (cropland, pasture land, forestland and fishing grounds), the country’s built-up area (roads, factories, cities), and the area needed to absorb all fossil fuel carbon emissions generated within the country. In other words, the forest Footprint represents the area necessary to regenerate all the timber harvested (hence, depending on harvest rates, this area can be bigger or smaller than the forest area that exists within the country). Or, for example, if a country grows cotton for export, the ecological resources required are not included in that country’s consumption Footprint; rather, they are included in the consumption Footprint of the country that imports the t-shirts. However, these ecological resources are included in the exporting country’s primary production Footprint.
Ecological Footprint of imports (EFI): The Footprint embodied in domestically consumed products which are imported from other countries.
Ecological Footprint of exports (EFE): The Footprint embodied in domestically produced products which are exported and consumed in another country.
Ecological Footprint Standards: Specified criteria governing methods, data sources and reporting to be used in Footprint studies. Standards are established by the Global Footprint Network Standards Committee, composed of scientists and Footprint practitioners from around the world. Standards serve to produce transparent, reliable and mutually comparable results in studies done throughout the Footprint Community. Where Standards are not appropriate, Footprint Guidelines should be consulted. For more information, consult www.footprintstandards.org.
Equivalence factor: A productivity- based scaling factor that converts a specific land type (such as cropland or forest) into a universal unit of biologically productive area, a global hectare. For land types (e.g., cropland) with productivity higher than the average productivity of all biologically productive land and water area on Earth, the equivalence factor is greater than 1. Thus, to convert an average hectare of cropland to global hectares, it is multiplied by the cropland equivalence factor of 2.51. Grazing lands, which have lower productivity than cropland, have an equivalence factor of 0.46 (see also yield factor). In a given year, equivalence factors are the same for all countries.
Global hectare (gha): Global hectares are the accounting unit for Ecological Footprint and biocapacity accounts. These productivity weighted biologically productive hectares allow researchers to report both the biocapacity of the earth or a region, and the demand on biocapacity (the Ecological Footprint). A global hectare is a biologically productive hectare with world average biological productivity for a given year. Global hectares are needed because different land types have different productivity. A global hectare of, for example, cropland, would occupy a smaller physical area than the much less biologically productive pasture land, as more pasture would be needed to provide the same biocapacity as one hectare of cropland. Because world bioproductivity varies slightly from year to year, the value of a gha may change slightly from year to year.
IO (Input-Output) analysis: Input-Output (IO, also I-O) analysis is a mathematical tool widely used in economics to analyze the flows of goods and services between sectors in an economy, using data from IO tables. IO analysis assumes that everything produced by one industry is consumed either by other industries or by final consumers, and that these consumption flows can be tracked. If the relevant data are available, IO analyses can be used to track both physical and financial flows. Combined economic-environment models use IO analysis to trace the direct and indirect environmental impacts of industrial activities along production chains, or to assign these impacts to final demand categories. In Footprint studies, IO analysis can be used to apportion Footprints among production activities, or among categories of final demand, as well as in developing Consumption Land Use Matrices.
Land or area type: The Earth’s approximately 12 billion hectares of biologically productive land and water areas are categorized into five types: cropland, grazing land, forest land, fishing ground, and built-up land. Forest land serves two distinct, competing uses: Forest products and CO2 sequestration.
National Footprint Accounts (NFAs): The central data set that calculates the Footprint and biocapacity of the world and more than 200 nations from 1961 to the present (generally with a three year lag due to data availability). The ongoing development, maintenance and upgrades of the National Footprint Accounts are coordinated by Global Footprint Network and its partners.
Yield factor: A factor that accounts for differences between countries in productivity of a given land type. Each country and each year has yield factors for cropland, grazing land, forest, and fisheries. For example, in 2008, German cropland was 2.21 times more productive than world average cropland. (The German cropland yield factor of 2.21, multiplied by the cropland equivalence factor of 2.51 converts German cropland hectares into global hectares: one hectare of cropland is equal to 5.6 gha.
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by Bill Pellerin, GuideStar editorObject: Caph-Beta Cas
Class: Delta Scuti variable star
R.A.: 00 h, 9 m, 11 s
Dec: 59 degrees, 08 minutes, 59 seconds
Distance: 55 ly
Optics needed: Unaided Eye
Why this object is interesting:
Beta Cas is an old star and like many old stars it is starting to show its age by becoming variable. In the categories of variable stars this one is called a Delta Scuti variable star and it has some common characteristics with Cepheid variable stars. Cepheids are famous because their intrinsic luminosity (power output) is related to their period of variability. Thus, they and the Delta Scuti variable stars allow astronomers to measure the distance to stars and star systems.
If you know the intrinsic brightness of a star it’s easy to determine the distance using the inverse square law. That is, the brightness we see is inversely proportional to the square of the distance.
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Exuding an endearing sweet, fruity, minty, and citrusy scent hinted with nuances of dark, dusky wood notes, the scent of a Damask Rose sparks feelings of romance and evokes feminine beauty.
Selected from of the thousands of varieties of Roses today, Rosa damascena, grown on the dew-rich fertile slopes and valleys in Bulgaria is greatly desired and an enduring symbol of love, joy and abundant health. Such was its revered status that even the ancient Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra was a fan of this beauty elixir and regularly used pure rose water in her baths and facial beauty regime.
Indulge and relish in the fragrance and beautifying prowess of the delicate petals of the Bulgarian Roses, keeping your skin and romance overflowing with joy. Savour the experience of the Gya Labs™ Rose Hydrosol today.
For beautiful supple skin and healthy glowing hair, the Bulgarian Rose is a potent beautifying and anti-ageing agent. It stimulates production of collagen and helps retain skin and hair moisture.
Set fire to your passion and set the mood for romance and seduction with one of nature’s most subtle and uplifting aphrodisiac fragrances.
Cleanse and purify while filling your space with a sweet, gentle joyful ambience. Alongside this therapeutic experience is its potent antibacterial and antiviral properties that soothes the soul and promotes smooth breathing.
Unlock the secrets to beautiful, nourished looking skin. Mist it gently onto your face and skin or dab the solution softly onto your skin or as your daily skin toner. Let acne and tired looking skin fade away.
For smooth and delicate sweet-smelling hair and body, mix a little with your shampoo or blend while or after showering for a lingering sweet scent.
Enhance your mood for romance, love and joy in your life by spritzing it around to permeate your senses and heal your soul.
Heat up your romantic life in the room and mist it over your pillow, bed linens and sleeping areas or use it as a body deodorant to subtly attract sexual attention. Perfect for a moment of cuddles and intimacy.
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WICHITA, Kan. -- After this weekend’s winter blast, Kansans say they’re anxious for spring.
“Yeah. If I never see another cold day it'll be too soon,” said Jack Edwards of Wichita. “This is Kansas. You've got to expect the best and the worst.”
About three inches of snow fell in the Wichita area, causing concerns for drivers.
“Definitely worried,” said Lindsay Keimig of Garden Plain. Keimig is a college student who had to drive into town early Monday.
“Kellogg was clear. It took more time to clear my car off than to drive here, which is good,” she said.
Keimig was especially worried about the road conditions after weekend accidents.
On Saturday, road conditions started to worsen. The Kansas Highway Patrol reported to more than 200 calls, with at least 8 people dying from accidents – some weather-related.
Monday morning, Sedgwick Co. dispatchers said they didn’t see many serious crashes, but they did have a few reports of slide-offs and minor wrecks.
Residents like Kevin ManGayi credit the city crews for doing a better job of tackling the slick – a huge contrast, he said, to the winter blast in early February.
“Kind of put a damper on things that we need to do,” said Wichita resident Kevin ManGayi, speaking about the snow. “Slide a little. It's not too bad. They've cleared the roads, some of them.”
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Successfully followed up Konami's Hu card shmup releases with a mega conversion of the arcade monolith with CD Rom owners being treated to a bonus level. Everything glides along smoothly, not that you are given to much time to appreciate the programmer's prowess. Genki still gets cold sweats thinking about that strange crystal creature with the tentacles...
Second hand. Edge Rating: 8/10 - Excellent.Publisher: Konami
Game Type: Shoot Em Up
Console: PC Engine Super CD ROM
Japanese release - may only work with Japanese hardware.
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Lane Council of Governments is a one-stop destination for services to local governments and agencies in the Lane County region and beyond. Talented LCOG staff serve a variety of roles to help members complete a broad range of projects.
Though there is often overlap, LCOG’s services are categorized into 5 service areas:
Services for senior and disabled clients
Each area provides a pool of expertise that provides excellent and efficient results.
Our Administrative Services area provides support and organization for the agency and its partners.
The Enterprise Funds program acts as a gateway for local businesses to government loan programs.
Planning Services aids the region by efficiently solving community development issues and ensuring compliance with state and federal requirements.
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The Mount Coffee Hydropower Rehabilitation Project was identified by the Government of Liberia as the cornerstone of its objective to expand access to sustainable, affordable, and reliable electricity for its citizens.
The original dam started generating electricity in 1966, but in 1990 rebel forces seized the dam and shut off power and water. The project’s intake dam was destroyed on one end, the rest received other damage and parts of the facilities were looted and destroyed in later years of the conflict.
In 2005, proposals were made to repair the facility and restore power but it was not until 2012 that the Mount Coffee Hydropower Rehabilitation Project was initiated.
Clarkbond engineers provide a range of services to support the rehabilitation project including:
The power plant successfully met its first power milestone in 2016 and was completed in 2018.
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The €30 million ($31.8 million) will be used to increase the deployment of energy efficiency initiatives under the Regional Energy Efficiency Programme (REEP) in Eastern and South-eastern European countries.
According to The Financial, the funding will improve the reliability of grid networks of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia through increased adoption of clean energy resources.
In addition to the €30 million, the REEP programme will receive €4.5 million ($4.7 million) from the Austrian government and the private sector to finance the drafting and implementation of policies to improve investments in clean energy and energy efficiency projects.
The REEP will use the capital to develop a new regional platform to provide funding toward energy efficiency programmes for residential consumers.
Anca Ioana Ionescu, head of the EBRD in Macedonia, said: “Energy efficiency projects typically entail significant up-front spending, subsequently recovered through energy savings achieved over a long period, particularly in the construction sector.
“Availability of long-term financing to financial intermediaries who appreciate the economics of energy efficiency investments is therefore necessary to support the sector.” [UK energy efficiency spending increases – report].
Residential energy efficiency initiatives
Meanwhile, in the US, utility Burlington Electric Department expanded its energy efficiency programme with energy management solutions firm Vermont Gas Systems.
The utility’s energy efficiency initiative, energyChamp, is now available to residential customers in Burlington city in Vermont State.
The decision by the Burlington Electric Department to expand its energy efficiency programme to residential consumers, follows the utility’s success in helping owners of multi-unit residential apartments to significantly reduce their energy usage and costs in the first phase.
The utility started implementing energy efficiency initiatives for its business customers in June 2015.
Since the launch of energyChamp, 163 residential apartments were registered to participate in the energy efficiency programme and 63 secured energy efficiency upgrades to save a total of $647,000 in customers’ utility bills. Read more…
Image credit: www.europeanwesternbalkans.com.
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I love pancakes and waffles. I know you’re supposed to have a favorite between the two, but I love them equally, and for different reasons. Pancakes are fluffy, soft, nostalgic and have that beautiful layer of browned goodness on the outside. While waffles have nooks and crannies to hold syrup and that trademark crunch on the edges.
I don’t think we have to choose – we should be enjoying both! And I have plenty of pancake and waffle recipes out there to choose from. Let’s celebrate all of the pancakes and waffles we’ve made:
Best Pancake Recipes
- Obviously the Banana Walnut Pancakes I’m posting here. They’re fluffy, hearty and wholesome and packed with banana and cinnamon. Yum!
- Greek Yogurt Berry Pancakes Made with Greek yogurt, these pancakes are tender and full of protein. Top them with berries for a healthy vegetarian breakfast!
- Sweet Corn Pancakes A unique pancake made with sweet corn and corn, corn meal and buttermilk. A twist on a Southern classic!
- Maple Gingerbread Pancakes While they may seem like a winter holiday-only recipe, I see no reason why we can’t enjoy these year-round!
Best Waffle Recipes
- Almond Waffles with Berry Compote These waffles are made with almond flour and are topped with a berry compote instead of syrup. You can use any berry and you can make it out of fresh or frozen!
- Sweet Potato Waffles Use sweet potato (or pumpkin) puree to make these deliciously fluffy waffles.
Tips for making delicious pancakes and waffles
- You can make the pancake mix in advance and store it in your pantry. Simply mix together the dry ingredients and store in an airtight container. Add the wet ingredients when you’re ready to cook them. I like to do this when I go camping so I can make pancake batter in record time!
- Mix up the batter and let it sit 10-15 minutes before cooking. This will allow the leavening agent (baking powder/soda) to activate and makes for fluffier pancakes.
- To make pancakes into a high protein meal, try my Greek yogurt pancakes or serve them with chicken, turkey or veggie sausage.
- Always serve pancakes with fruit to get in some additional vitamins, minerals and antioxidants!
Simple whole grain pancakes made with mashed bananas and cinnamon. Top with walnuts and maple syrup and serve!
- 2 medium ripe bananas, peeled
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup milk
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups whole wheat flour
- 1 tablespoon granulated or brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon kosher or sea salt
- ¼ cup chopped walnuts
- Maple syrup, for serving
- Place the bananas in a large bowl and mash with the back of a fork. Whisk in the egg, milk, oil and vanilla extract until thoroughly combined.
- Whisk in the flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon and salt until combined. Let sit 10-15 minutes.
- Heat a large skillet to medium. Working in batches, coat the skillet with cooking spray and add ¼ cup dollops of pancake batter. Cook 2-3 minutes or until the batter is bubbly on top. Flip and cook another minute or until set.
- Top pancakes with chopped walnuts and maple syrup. Serve immediately.
Cooking Tip: Allowing the batter to rest 10-15 minutes before cooking will result in fluffier pancakes.
Substitution Tip: To make these pancakes vegan, try making a flax egg instead of the large egg and use your choice of plant-based milk.
- Serving Size: 1 pancake
- Calories: 119
- Sugar: 5g
- Sodium: 160mg
- Fat: 3g
- Saturated Fat: 0g
- Unsaturated Fat: 3g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 18g
- Fiber: 3g
- Protein: 4g
- Cholesterol: 16mg
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In new research, Christian Peukert and Margaritha Windisch review how copyright laws and practices have evolved to adapt to new technologies and discuss the various issues scholars and policymakers must address as copyright law is once again forced to adapt to the emergence of artificial intelligence.
Intellectual property rights underpin how economies promote and organize innovation and steer the diffusion of knowledge. Copyright law, in particular, must constantly evolve to keep up with emerging technologies, how these technologies alter the various interests of creators, consumers, and intermediaries, and how these interests interact in different creative industries. Although earlier inventions, such as the printing press and the camera, enabled cheaper and faster creation and copying of works, copyright law was able to cope with the changes: for most of copyright history, the technology, storage, and distribution were still analog, which made the speed of production and reproduction manageable for copyright enforcement. The emerging transition to digital technologies, beginning with the introduction of the microchip in 1959 and personal computer in 1981, and then considerably accelerated by the internet, has challenged stakeholders in the copyright system on how to respond to the accelerated capabilities to create, distribute, and copy creative works.
Similar to patent law, copyright law tries to solve a public goods problem (why someone should provide a good that the public will be able to freely access) by granting an exclusive bundle of rights to creators to control the reproduction and distribution. For example, the author of a book can decide who can publish it, make copies, or create derivative works, such as a movie. By having these rights, the author can recoup investments made. In most countries, the period of exclusive rights lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years. The rationale is clear: without such protection, creative works would be underproduced because anyone could use it without the creator receiving compensation. Which is not to say money is the sole driving force behind creativity, as ample empirical and anecdotal evidence suggests. The personality rights of authors—so-called moral rights, such as the right to attribution—play a significant role, too.
Copyright in the age of the internet
Since creative activities often build (partly) upon existing works, licensing agreements play an essential role in the copyright system—think of music recordings that are often reused and recombined for sampling and remixing. From the late 1990s onward, emerging technologies enabled the digitization of works such as music, movies, and books and, with it, the ability to copy existing works without any additional cost and without lowering the quality. The digitization of works facilitated reuse, but existing copyrights and a lack of available licensing models often become an obstacle for creators and end-users. For example, a study shows that copyright restrictions drastically reduce citations to copyrighted works on Wikipedia, which results in lower-quality articles (as measured by page visits). Empirical evidence shows that the monopoly power created by copyrights results in higher prices and lower availability for copyrighted works compared to those in the public domain. Once the copyright expires, the lower costs of accessing the work encourage follow-on innovation.
The high costs to licensing copyrighted works encourages copyright infringement, and the rise of the internet made this easier. Consequently, the lower effort and costs of unlawful accessing, downloading, and distributing of copyrighted works have led to massive-scale copyright infringement on the demand side, affecting the revenues of various creative industries. The cases of Napster and other peer-to-peer file-sharing networks enabling unlicensed music distribution in the early 2000s illustrate the difficulty of identifying, prosecuting, and obtaining damages from massive-scale online copyright infringement. Some evidence suggests that the impact to creators of losing sales to pirated distribution of their works is negligible or even positive because of word-of-mouth effects. In contrast, other studies suggest a loss of music, film, and software sales up to two-thirds. In response to decreasing revenues, creators and firms have sought income in alternative business models, such as live concerts, freemium subscription services for software, music, and video, and by changing their IP strategies.
Social media and copyright
The more recent rise of social media has posed a particular quandary for copyright, with most digital content, including copyrighted music and film, made available today via intermediary online platforms, such as YouTube and TikTok. Safe harbor provisions in both the United States and the European Union provide a legal framework to exempt platforms from liability under certain conditions, and (automated) Notice and Takedown (N&TD) regimes implemented by the platforms provide copyright holders with an easier way to resolve online copyright infringement than filing lawsuits. However, the determination of copyright infringement has long been marked by confusion, especially in cases of reuse and the assessment of substantial similarity between two works. While exceptions to copyright—such as the fair use doctrine in the U.S. and exhaustive catalogs in European countries—aim to promote the progress of the arts and sciences, automated N&TD effectively allows online platforms to replace the legal use of copyrighted material with their own rules, which can lead to incorrect labeling of fair-use content and the removal of content that does not involve copyright at all. The problem is that automated systems still lack an understanding of context, and the non-transparent nature of automatic filter mechanisms creates uncertainty, which can hinder follow-on innovation by affecting creative decisions and distribution strategies. As a result, creators may innovate around existing ideas rather than seeking a license or decide not to innovate at all.
To overcome problems of copyright, online platforms implementing automated N&TD systems have, over the last decade, switched the focus from pure enforcement to fostering a digital licensing market. For example, around the time YouTube launched the affiliate program in 2009, in which the platform agreed to share advertising revenue with contributors, YouTube introduced its “Content ID” system, where rightsholders are notified of allegedly infringing content and can choose to block the video or monetize the content by sharing advertising revenue. YouTube reports that over 90% of rightsholders choose monetizing, which has accumulated to $7.5bn in advertising revenue paid to rightsholders from claims through the system since 2016, suggesting that it has become feasible to license millions of derivative works with negligible cost.
The introduction of on-demand streaming services has further reshaped revenue models for rightsholders. Platforms like Spotify, YouTube, and Netflix offer extensive content catalogs through subscription or ad-supported models. This raises the question under which circumstances rightsholders would be willing to join such distribution platforms in the first place. Whether rightsholders are better off inside or outside the bundle varies substantially across different revenue-sharing agreements. Evidence shows that—at least on average—on-demand streaming benefits rightsholders compared to the alternatives of transaction-based business models or online piracy.
Aggregate data indicates that unlicensed music consumption has continuously decreased since 2010, while consumption of unlicensed movie and TV show content has stagnated and has been slower to decrease. The underlying reason may lie in differences in the release strategies across industries, where music is made available immediately on all distribution channels, and movies are first released in physical channels and only later through online media.
Copyright in the age of AI
The most striking innovation developments in recent years regarding content creation have occurred with generative artificial intelligence (AI). As AI-generated output is reaching a point where it is difficult to distinguish it from works created by humans, the importance of human influence on creative works is put to the test, raising questions about originality and ownership. Currently, most jurisdictions do not protect AI-generated works because of the missing element of “human authorship,” which is seen as the guiding principle in copyright law, per the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. Since these models are often trained on vast amounts of data available on the internet, often copyrighted, accessed through web scraping and Text and Data Mining (TDM) but without license agreements, questions arise whether this practice falls under copyright infringement or an exception of copyright still needs to be answered. The same goes for potential remuneration systems for rightsholders whose works are part of the training data.
Even in a de facto weakened copyright system, we have seen an increase in creative output as technological advancements and online platforms have simultaneously reduced entry barriers. Although academic research has made significant progress in advancing the understanding of the fundamental trade-offs of copyright law, its scope, and length, the setting for most empirical work on copyright focuses on the industries of books, music, and film. Only a few empirical studies examine software, databases, performance art, and photography. Since these areas are treated differently in copyright law, e.g., concerning a shorter protection period, the external validity of the existing evidence base might be diminished.
The socio-demographic diversity of creators and copyright holders, such as in terms of age and gender, is another vital yet understudied topic in the copyright literature. An empirical study shows that women published a third as many books as men in 1970. By 2020, women produced the majority of books, creating welfare gains for a wide range of consumers. Nevertheless, a report by the U.S. Copyright Office on copyright registrations from 1978 to 2020 reveals that in other areas of copyright, such as music and film, women continued to lag behind men in copyright registrations. It is important to understand these differences in order to develop and apply copyright law in ways that advance equality and inclusivity and promote participation in creative practices.
More research is necessary to better understand the role of the relationship between creators and intermediaries since there is variation across content types and platforms. With market-enabling solutions, such as technology that enables automated enforcement and algorithmic licensing, the question is whether the traditional institutions in the copyright system will or should become obsolete. Studying the relative benefits and costs of the copyright system and technology-based mechanisms is crucial, particularly regarding the welfare effects of derivative works under traditional and algorithmic licensing. Without an updated copyright system to reflect how new technologies, particularly AI, alter creators’ and users’ interests, the welfare of both creators and consumers may suffer.
Articles represent the opinions of their writers, not necessarily those of ProMarket, the University of Chicago, the Booth School of Business, or its faculty.
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ELDIN BURTON SONATINA PDF
Sonatina For Flute And Piano sheet music – flute and piano accompaniment sheet music by Eldin Burton: Carl Fischer. Shop the World’s Largest Sheet Music . Eldin Burton’s Sonatina for Flute and Piano was the prize-winning composition of the New York Flute Club contest and is published here as part of the. Eldin Burton, Jesse Tryon, John Wummer – Eldin Burton: Sonatina for Flute and Piano, Sonatina for Violin and Piano, Fiddlestick!, Quintet for Piano and String.
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The National, Mar 15 2012
NEW DELHI // Once a year, the “world’s longest hunger striker” gets a day or two of freedom from the hospital room that has been her prison for more than a decade.
Across India’s remote north-eastern state of Manipur yesterday, supporters of Irom Sharmila Chanu, known as the “Iron Lady” for her long-running protest against military violence towards civilians, lit candles to mark her 40th birthday.
But Ms Sharmila was not there to see them. She was already back in custody, 24 hours after being released.
Her crime of “attempting to commit suicide” only allows police to hold her for a year at a time – so an annual ritual has taken place for the past 11 years in which she is released and then quickly re-arrested.
The rules also mean she has to appear before a court every two weeks to renew her judicial custody, a process she has been through more than 500 times since she began her hunger strike in November 2000.
After each hearing, she returns to the 3 metre-by-3.5 metre room in the Jawaharlal Nehru hospital in the state capital, Imphal.
There she spends her time with one guard always by her side and two more in the room next door, a feeding tube lodged permanently in her nose to keep her forcibly fed.
Her room is adorned with a few books, toys and paintings donated by well-wishers from around the world, but access to Ms Sharmila is closely guarded by the state government with very few visitors – even family or her lawyer – allowed.
“A couple of years back, an activist friend came and gave her a candle through the hospital gates on the 10th anniversary of her hunger strike,” said Babloo Loitongbam, a rights activist from Manipur and close confidante of Sharmila.
“A photographer took a picture of this happening and it ended up in the newspaper. Within two days, the guard who had let this happen was transferred out of the hospital.”
At any moment, Ms Sharmila could end her hunger strike and walk free. Her determined refusal to do so has earned her numerous human rights awards and shone a light on one of India’s darkest corners.
Manipuri groups have been demanding independence for as long as India has existed. Neglected by a distant Delhi government, dozens of militant organisations sprouted in the region in a bid to win recognition for their community, and in later years, money and power.
Ms Sharmila’s protest is directed against the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), which has allowed the army to operate among the civilian population in Manipur for more than 53 years.
Activists say the act has created a culture of impunity with the army. Ms Sharmila began her hunger strike in response to the alleged killing of 10 civilians by an Indian paramilitary force – one of many such incidents over the years.
India is preparing for a UN review of its human rights situation in May, and the law, which also applies in parts of Kashmir, is expected to top the list of criticisms.
With a powerful new mandate won in state elections last week, the chief minister, Okram Ibobi, is under little pressure to give ground.
But Ms Sharmila remains defiant.
“There is no place for AFSPA in a civilised society,” she told reporters during her brief release. “I will continue to agitate unless the draconian act is scrapped.”
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Also called energy diagram, it is a tool used to explain the Electron configuration of an element, making a graph that describes the distribution of electrons and representing them with small arrows; the orbitals are represented by horizontal lines.
Molecular orbital diagrams
Also known as MO diagram, it is a tool that explains the chemical bonding in molecules and the linear combination of atomic orbitals.
It is descriptive in nature in view of a covalent bond, where according to this approach, valence electrons influence the stability of the molecule.
The basic principle of this theory is that a number of atomic orbitals join to form the same number of molecular orbitals.
This diagram was introduced in 1928 by Robert S. Milliken; They can explain the existence of certain molecules and the non-existence of others. This scheme is easily adaptable for simple diatomic molecules, such as dioxin and carbon monoxide; Its use becomes complex when it comes to polyatomic molecules which, sometimes, can be relatively simple, as is the case of methane.
On the orbital diagram, what does each square represent?
According to the quantum model, 1 orbital will be the equivalent of a horizontal hairline and each arrow will represent an electron. There can be a maximum of two electrons in each orbital, as their spins are one positive and one negative, the arrows will be placed one up and one down.
If we move on to electromagnetic theory, we will see that when an electron generates an electromagnetic field by spinning a charge, this motion (spin) is what makes the electron behave like a magnet.
The only two possible spins of the electron are one clockwise and one counterclockwise; therefore, it is necessary to add a quantum number when considering its spin, i.e. the spin of the electron will take values of +1/2 or -1/2, in a simple way to put it.
For the representation of the distribution of electrons in the orbitals of the different levels, the most useful way and until now used is the one represented symbolically by the notation nlx , where:
- N: represents the main level (in numeric form).
- I: represents the sub-level (symbolized by the letters: S, P, D, F).
- X: total number of electrons presented in this sub-level.
What are the rules for filling orbitals?
There are 3 basic rules:
- Pauli’s Exclusion Principle: states that in no orbital system (atom) two electrons cannot have the same four quantum numbers.
- Aufbau’s principle: states that the orbitals fill progressively, that is to say according to their relative energies, starting with those of lower energy.
- Hund’s rule or maximum multiplicity: says that the spins of the electrons remain unpaired, filling the orbitals with equivalent energy, i.e. if the orbitals are filled so that they are equal, the resulting spin will be the maximum.
Types of orbitals
There are 4 types of orbitals:
Remember that orbitals are called energy sublevels and can contain different numbers of electrons:
- S=2 electrons.
- P = 6 electrons.
- D = 10 electrons.
- F = 14 electrons.
How to make an orbital diagram?
Once the definition, organization and rules are known, it’s time to practice making an orbital diagram for Oxygen (O), it’s quite easy, so here are the steps:
- Once the element has been selected, in this case oxygen, the first thing you need to find is its atomic number (it will tell us how many electrons it has and later we will write it in the orbital diagram). We look in our periodic table and find that its atomic number is equal to 8 (Z=8), this will be the number of electrons in our diagram.
- We make our Electron configuration, according to the principle of construction, starting from the sub-shells of lower energy, we draw the diagonals; remember that in cases where the atomic number is low, it is not necessary to place all the levels.
In this step, you will need to remember how much space each sublevel takes up; the exponents of the orbitals represent the number of electrons, we proceed:
1s2 2s2 2p4
After making our configuration, we proceed to draw our diagram, for this we will draw small boxes; each orbital will be represented by boxes, for example:
Remember that by Pauli’s exclusion principle, electrons cannot be accommodated with the same spin, so a small arrow is placed up and another in the opposite direction. Having come this far, I must tell you that you have completed your orbital diagram.
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In a Bibliocommons newsletter story today the Toronto-based company announced they will soon encrypt the entire search process. Kudos Biblicommons!
Here’s the full text of what was announced today:
Coming soon to BiblioCore is SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) across all pages of the service. Previously SSL was employed on pages containing sensitive information, such as the log in and account settings pages. After this change all pages will be secured by SSL, which provides an additional level of privacy and security for your patrons.
SSL is the standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. This link ensures that all data passed between the web server and browsers remain private and unmodified. SSL is an industry standard and is used by millions of websites in the protection of their online transactions with their customers.
We’ve also asked Bibliocommons about if they plan to make any changes about sending data to third-parties. After checking several Bibliocommons installations data is being sent to Google Analytics and another analytics provided named Crazy Egg. Moreover, the script that shares the data with Crazy Egg is sent via an unencrypted (http) url/connection.
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Since upgrading I no longer see movie artwork for videos downloaded from the iTunes store. It's odd because I can still add custom artwork to movies I import from elsewhere, but iTunes purchases don't come with cover art and it cannot be added manually. If I add it in the 'Artwork' pane it still never shows up. Anyone else experiencing this? Any ideas for a fix? I've sent Apple feedback but I'm wondering if this is a widespread problem.
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You’ve probably heard the phrase, “All you need to know you learned in Kindergarten.” There’s a reason for that – many fundamental things, such as manners, reading, and writing, are taught to students at a young age and stick with them throughout their lives. But what did you learn in Kindergarten that can apply to your job search?
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1. Say “Please” And “Thank You”
Manners are important. When you’re vying for an open position at one of your ideal companies, which candidate do you think the employer will choose: one who was polite and kind throughout the process, or one who rubbed them the wrong way? Just like you learned during your first days of school, you need to be nice to others in order to be treated the same way in return.
2. Don’t Give Up
At age five, if you were to throw down your crayon and quit coloring, your teacher would likely provide some words of encouragement to help you feel less frustrated and continue on. In your job search, you certainly won’t have someone standing next to you holding your hand, but you do have an extensive network of support to lean on when things get tough.
3. Be Respectful
In Kindergarten, respect meant listening to your teacher, putting away the toys you played with, and sharing with other students. In your job search, this can mean a variety of different things – from treating the secretary at the company with respect; to understanding that employers need to make tough decisions when things don’t go your way.
4. Take A Nap (Or A Break)
Naptime was vital as a Kindergartner. It not only helped calm everyone down from the chaos of the day, but it also provided a much-needed break to relax. Who says you’re not allowed to nap during your job search? Everyone needs a break at some point, and whether you choose to re-charge with some shuteye or by doing something else, it can help you clear your mind and re-focus your efforts.
5. Balance Your Day
In Kindergarten, you spent a short amount of time doing a variety of different activities. From painting, to reading, to playing, to eating – you did it all. As a job seeker, it can be easy to spend your entire day doing one thing, such as applying for jobs online. However, it’s more beneficial to spend it doing several, such as networking, participating in online groups and chats, writing content related to your field, tailoring your job search documents, and more.
What other lessons from Kindergarten apply to your job search?
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The industry surrounding sneakers is booming right now. The business is incredibly lucrative, with the market worth about $100 billion as of 2019. It is estimated that the resale market alone could reach $30 billion by 2030. King Kicks is the best place to shop online for both new and used sneakers, and their selection is only growing.
King Kicks was founded in 2016, just when the sneaker market was starting to take off. They sell a wide variety of designer kicks from brands like Adidas, Air Jordan, Nike, and Yeezy. Their unique selection of hundreds of shoes is enough to make any sneakerhead salivate. Their inventory is guaranteed authentic, which is a crucial thing in the industry. One of the coolest things about the brand is its app. King Kicks has a stylish interface that allows you to have a seamless and unique shopping experience all from your smartphone. This makes it even easier to access the shoes you want, no matter where you are. Their notification center will keep you up to date about the newest available shoes and the deals, so you have the opportunity to find unique sneakers right away. If you’re not sure whether you’ll like a pair of shoes or not, you can use their 360-degree view to get a fantastic idea of what they’ll look like in real life. If you have any questions about your purchase, you can chat with a representative on the app to learn more about your potential purchase. King Kicks ships quickly globally so anyone can get the kicks they’ve wished for. The app is available on both iOS and Android to sneaker enthusiasts around the world.
What makes King Kicks unique is their reselling platform, allowing people to sell their used sneakers on the site. To sell your shoe, you fill out a simple online form with its details. From there, you can send the shoes in, where they’ll be evaluated for authenticity and eventually sold. This is a great way to update your collection because you can use your old sneakers' money to buy new ones straight from their store.
Whether you’re looking for a specific pair of new sneakers or simply want to browse and keep up with the latest deals, King Kicks is the place to visit.
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Getting to Know Negril, Jamaica
Negril, Jamaica, is famous for its outstanding beaches, delicious cuisine and impressive scenery. Additionally, its beautiful coastline boasts five miles of 40-foot cliffs from which miraculous stunts are performed by experienced divers. Because of its unique attractions and engaging landscapes, the area is considered an ideal tropical getaway destination. It is perfect for couples, singles, and families with children. It is also regarded as a top destination for honeymooners. Below are some details about the island and all it has to offer our visitors from around the world:
Our Piece of Paradise
Initially named for its towering black cliffs, Negril was once merely a tiny, slow-paced fishing village. However, throughout the 1960s and 1970s, vacationers found the town’s reggae music, lovely beaches and laid-back lifestyle appealing. The town has been a highly popular vacation spot ever since among those searching for a friendly environment in which to relax and unwind.
The area’s famous 40-foot cliffs are located on the west end of the town, and their dramatic and unique appearance has made them one of the world’s most well-known tropical geological formations. When used as the backdrop for a popular James Bond movie, “Thunderball,” the cliffs earned an additional moment of fame and are as unforgettable in real life as they were in Ian Fleming’s film.
Seven Mile Beach is Jamaica’s most famous beach and it is located in the heart of the town. Starting out as a beach that appealed primarily to members of the 60s hippie revolution, Seven Mile Beach is now a full-scale resort destination, complete with bars, restaurants, clubs, all-inclusive resorts, and stores of essentially every variety. The crystal blue waters, pristine white sand, perfect weather and tropical foliage make this beach a favorite of individuals of all ages and from all walks of life.
Bloody Bay Beach
Bloody Bay Beach is another option for those visiting Jamaica. Despite its name, which dates back to the English Civil War when Cromwell drove Spaniards from the island, the beach is beautiful, romantic and well suited for picnics, moonlit walks, or quiet days in the sun. Nude sunbathing is permitted at both Seven Mile Beach and Bloody Bay Beach.
Island Fare and Nightlife
Negril also boasts a thriving nightlife and terrific dining options. Visitors can indulge in the island’s authentic Caribbean dishes, such as fresh fish prepared with island spices, famous jerk chicken, and delicious beef kabobs. The island is also renowned for its unique cocktails, which often contain fresh juice from locally produced fruits, as well as plain, white or spicy rum. Visitors can enjoy cocktails at one of the numerous mini bars that pepper Negril’s beaches.
Those interested in water sports are always pleased with what they find in this area of Jamaica. Options include parasailing, glass bottom boat rides, scuba diving, surfing, snorkeling and kayaking. Beach adventures such as these add to the excitement and fun of a tropical vacation, especially for those who have never before tried any of these activities.
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VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / October 25, 2019 / YDX Innovation Corp. (TSX-V:YDX) (OTC PINK:YDRMF) (FSE:A2PB03) (“YDX” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the installation of two Arkave VR arenas at the 2019 edition of EGLX – ENTHUSIAST GAMING LIVE EXPO (EGLX), that happened on October 18 to 20th , in Toronto. The two Arkave VR arenas were sponsored by CasinoParty.Fun, one of the sponsors of the event.
Thousands of players present at the event were able to experience the exclusive game “The Last Squad”. They were also able to share an automatically generated video of their game session on social media, a new feature added recently to the Arkave VR platform.
“There is a natural fit between Arkave VR and esports events. The product was created with gamers in mind and they love the experience of being inside the game. We are very happy with the partnership to bring Arkave to EGLX, the main gaming event of Canada. We look forward to continue to work with them in future events” – stated Daniel Japiassu, CEO of YDX Innovation.
About YDX Innovation
YDX Innovation Corp. (TSXV- YDX :: www.ydxinnovation.com) is a technology company that develops products and services and is an expert in immersive technologies like Augmented and Virtual Reality, eSports events and Interactive Exhibitions.
Currently three divisions are part of the YDX Family:
Arkave VR Arena – https://sales.arkavevr.com/ – a gaming platform that brings the most immersive Virtual Reality experience to Location Based venues with a highly scalable business model.
Arkave VR has five Arenas in the United States, a flagship store being built in Canada and is being sold through a network of distributors that will focus on the thousands of Family Entertainment Centers throughout North America, in constant search for innovative attractions.
YDreams Global – www.ydreamsglobal.com – have developed over 1,300 interactive experiences for clients all over the world such as Disney, NBA, Adidas, Cisco, Nokia, Nike, Mercedes-Benz, Coca-Cola, Santander, AmBev, Qualcomm, Unilever, City of Rio and Fiat.
Game On Festival – www.gameonfestival.com – is a new event under development by the Company that combines eSports Tournaments with a large Interactive Exhibition about the videogame industry and its history.
Although the project represents a growing trend and focus on creative VR projects for the Company, revenues and other financial metrics at this moment from the project are not material to the Company and are generally consistent with other recent completed projects and those in the Company’s current pipeline.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
This communication contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities regulations. All statements other than statements of historical fact herein, including, without limitation, statements regarding our current and future plans and objectives, are forward-looking statements that involve various risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate and future events and actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations as well as a list of risk factors that we deem relevant are disclosed in the documents we file from time to time via SEDAR with the Canadian regulatory agencies to whose policies we are bound. Forward-looking statements are based on our current assumptions, estimates and opinions and are inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are difficult to predict and generally beyond our control. We do not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements should our assumptions, estimates or opinions change, other than as required by law and readers are advised not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.
Statements included in this announcement, including statements concerning our plans, intentions and expectations, which are not historical in nature are intended to be, and are hereby identified as, “forward‐looking statements”. Forward‐looking statements may be identified by words including “anticipates”, “believes”, “intends”, “estimates”, “expects” and similar expressions. The Company cautions readers that forward‐looking statements, including without limitation those relating to the Company’s future operations and business prospects, are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward‐looking statements.
SOURCE: YDX Innovation Corp.
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DDoS Attackers Exploiting '80s-Era Routing ProtocolLatest wave of DDoS attacks abuses small office-home routers via the 27-year-old, outdated Routing Information Protocol Version 1 (RIPv1).
An outdated and long-forgotten routing protocol is the latest weapon in a wave of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks executed via home and small business routers in the past two months.
Akamai Technologies' Prolexic Security Engineering & Research Team (PLXsert) today issued a threat advisory warning of a surge in DDoS attacks using the Routing Information Protocol version one (RIPv1) to wage DDoS reflection and amplification attacks. The 27-year-old routing protocol, which allows routers in a small network to share route information, has since been updated with a newer more secure version, but the older version 1 remains in use in many small office/home office router models.
While some 2,000 SOHO routers so far have been used in this new attack campaign, Akamai also found around 53,000 routers with RIPv1 enabled and vulnerable to the very same attack, mostly Motorola Netopia 2000 and 3000 series devices in the US. The main ISP running those RIPv1-enabled routers was AT&T.
The biggest attack spotted so far: around 12 gigabits-per-second. "That was just using a limited number of resources [routers]," says Jose Arteaga, senior security researcher with Akamai PLXsert. "We found a good number of devices available with this protocol open. Our concern there is if malicious actors continue to scan or incorporate more devices in this attack, attacks can grow to be quite large. They could reach 100-gig or more."
Artiago says there's been no specific industry targeted in the attacks at this time, and the attacks are originating mostly out of Europe and most likely a DDoS-for-hire operation, he says. The main sources include the Russian Federation (39%), China (19%), and 15% in Germany and Italy.
[New data from an Internet-scanning project shows vulnerable consumer and enterprise systems remain a big problem on the public Net. Read No End In Sight For Exposed Internet Of Things, Other Devices.]
Unlike its successor RIPv2, RIPv1 doesn't have an authentication feature, so routers communicating via RIPv1 aren't vetted and authenticated, leaving them open to abuse. This isn't the first time RIPv1 has been abused for a DDoS attack. The PLXsert team spotted similar attacks nearly two years ago but those attacks basically exploited it for a query flood, not a reflection attack, where traffic is redirected from an "innocent" device to a target on the network, Arteaga says.
RIPv1 Not Resting In Peace
The good news is that RIPv1 is not enabled by default on enterprise-grade routers. So why is it left open on some SOHO routers? "Could be an ISP enabling it for some reason or another, but it shouldn't be" available, he says. It also may be useful in a very small business network, he says, but that comes with this risk of abuse by malicious actors.
The common denominator in most of today's DDoS attacks is the use of the UDP protocol. More than 56% of all DDoS attacks abuse UDP, according to DDoS security vendor Incapsula. Of those, 8% use a protocol popular among Internet of Things devices, SSDP (Simple Service Discovery Protocol) used in gaming consoles and printers, for example.
"A common theme with these attacks is they are obviously taking advantage of UDP … there is no way [for a victim router] to refuse that request" because it's a connectionless protocol, Akamai's Arteaga says.
It's up to the ISPs offering these devices to block port 520 used by UDP, which then would prevent any reflection attacks, he says. And small businesses should use the more secure RIPv2 instead of version 1.
Bottom line: DDoS isn't going away, and attackers are constantly looking for new ways to abuse equipment on the Internet as weapons to attack their targets. "It has constantly increased in activity," says David Fernandez, manager of the PLXsert team. "DDoS has not gone away."
Kelly Jackson Higgins is Executive Editor at DarkReading.com. She is an award-winning veteran technology and business journalist with more than two decades of experience in reporting and editing for various publications, including Network Computing, Secure Enterprise ... View Full Bio
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srand() is used together with rand() to generate pseudo-random numbers. srand() is to seed the random number generator (RNG). Using the same seed will give the same sequence of random numbers from rand() so in most cases you want to use a different seed each time. The time() function is often used as seed because it returns different values each second. srand(time(0));
Only call srand once in your program before the first call to rand(). At the beginning of main is a good place. It is a common mistake to call srand each time rand() is called but that will just give numbers that are less "random".
rand() returns an int between 0 and RAND_MAX, where RAND_MAX is a big constant that depends on the compiler. To limit the range of the random number % operator is often used. If you have not seen it before, search modulo operator or remainder operator to understand how it works. rand() % 91 will return values between 0 and 90. by adding 10, rand() % 91 + 10 you get a number in between 10-100.
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Edmonton, AB (Sports Network) - Inbee Park fired a 5-under-par 65 on Friday and grabbed a share of the lead through two rounds of the Canadian Women's Open.
The world No. 1 Park, who has won three majors this season, sits at 8-under- par 132 through 36 holes at Royal Mayfair Golf Club.
Cristie Kerr shot 66 to join Park atop the leaderboard, while overnight co- leader Angela Stanford carded a 68 and dropped into a tie for third place with Karine Icher (66) at 7-under.
Defending champion Lydia Ko, who shared the first-round lead with Stanford and Cristel Boeljon, is tied for fifth place courtesy of her second-round 69. The 16-year-old amateur phenom sits at 6-under, alongside Paula Creamer (68) and Laura Davies (66).
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Reviewing Legendary Indian Director Satyajit Ray’s Masterpiece From ‘Pather Panchali’
For twenty whole years of my life I lived in ignorance without having seen the sun or the moon, but today I have finally seen the Ray and I feel holy and blessed now. Akira Kurusawa, the man behind Japanese classics like Rashomon and Ran, rightly said years ago that living in a world without having seen a Satyajit Ray movie is similar to living without having seen the sun or the moon; Almost every movie I’ve seen feels down after living in Ray’s world. It is a momentous experience to see the debut work of the late Bengali director Pather Panchali, one that impacts deeply to the core of your soul in a way that makes you feel afterwards as if you have lived two lives: one before you saw Pather Panchali and another. later. He accomplishes the remarkable feat of invoking his senses to a higher state of consciousness; The experience of watching Pather Panchali is similar to reading Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace or James Joyce’s Portrait of a Young Artist or some of the best achievements of William Blake or Emily Dickinson, or watching Meryl Streep’s iconic twist as Sophie Zawistowski in Sophie’s Choice. The feeling is so powerful that it took me more than an hour to return to my original state; the hardest part for me was returning the DVD to the movie rental store because I knew the true value of what I was holding. May God bless the guy who recognized the value of Pather Panchali years ago and preserved the original prints so that today’s world can have a chance to be transported to the precious little magical world of Apu, the protagonist of the film.
This little world is black and white to the outer eye, but the film is so richly shot and composed that it colors our mind with the most exquisite palette. The opening credits, which no one who can’t read Bengali would understand, still captures the spirit of Pather Panchali through Ravi Shankar’s playful, whimsical and yearning tabla rhythms and sitar strums; only Michael Danna could mesmerize us in 2012’s Life of Pi with an equally evocative score. Ray’s world opens up not with Apu or his sister Durga, but with the film’s most antagonistic character, the spiteful neighbor of the Apu family who adores the early morning tulsi plant. Satyajit follows her when she realizes that Durga, Apu’s unborn sister, is stealing fruits from her yard. Durga runs through the woods to her shanty house and hands the fruits to her senescent great-aunt, Indir Thakrun, after saving milk for her three kittens. Ray then cuts to the neighbor who scolds Durga and curses her family for raising a thief; In an excellently composed sequence, Ray is able to capture her seamlessly, the lady listening on the balcony of the adjoining house listening to her and Durga’s pregnant mother, Sarbajaya, and her empathic friend collecting water from the well behind the house of the neighbor, within earshot of the woman bitter spiel. Sarbajaya confronts her daughter for stealing fruits and then reprimands Indir Thakrun for encouraging Durga’s bad behavior. Indir Thakrun leaves the house temporarily, frustrated by Sarbajaya’s complaints, but returns soon when Sarbajaya gives birth to Apu.
A couple of dissolutions take us a few years ahead and now we see Apu as an innocent boy who goes to school and has more affection for his sister Durga. His family can barely meet his basic needs, with Apu’s mild-mannered father, Harihar Roy, too lax to ask his employer for his fair share; Nor is he capable of doing much as a playwright. This situation makes it especially difficult for Sarbajaya to handle household needs, as she herself does not like begging others for money or any other help; therefore, it is even harsher on Indir Thakrun, who sometimes, like Durga, takes food from Sarbajaya’s kitchen without permission. There are two sequences at different points in the movie that include Harihar and Sarbajaya; They both hold the same stance in the sequences, but while in the first sequence Harihar gives Sarbajaya a more optimistic image to appease her, in the second he sounds less enthusiastic while Sarbajaya seems more concerned about her future. Apu is still too young to be affected by family problems and we only see him enjoying his childhood days with Durga and her friends. Durga is a great support to everyone, including her mother, who reacts violently towards Durga when the same neighbor at first accuses Durga of stealing her daughter’s bead necklace. Family problems persist after Harihar travels to a nearby city to find work and tragedies follow one after another; The only hope of the family, as Harihar said in his letters to Sarbajaya after leaving, is to leave everything to the grace of God, keeping in mind that everything is going to be better.
For Satyajit Ray, every image and every sound, both on and off the screen, is important. It is his prowess as a film visionary that conveys the film so well that it baffles you to know that it is his first film. I read one of his books, a compilation of his essays and theories on the film, and he mentions how his inexperienced crew hadn’t even operated a camera before filming Pather Panchali, so the first half was a bit choppy in editing. I have no idea what you are talking about here because in my eyes, each image was seamlessly stitched together. For me, I was not capturing images but creating images on film; It’s hard to express how beautifully it captures Sarbajaya’s gradual collapse on film without using superlatives. And his cool image is complemented by the background score by Ravi Shankar, which includes the sound of bells ringing during a joyous sequence with a candy man and also during some of the haunting moments; It reminded me of Edgar Allan Poe’s brilliant poem The Bells. Pather Panchali shines and Satyajit is the Ray of Light.
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The security landscape is undergoing a major transformation as organizations shift spending toward detection and response. According to Gartner, detection and response is a top security priority for organizations in 2017, and spending on enhancing detection and response capabilities will be a key priority for security buyers through 2020. This shift is a move away from wide but shallow services provided by Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) and toward a more intimate, focused—and ultimately more effective—class of service such as Managed Detection and Response (MDR).
A number of factors are driving this trend. The threat and control landscapes continue to evolve. Threat actors continue to shift away from delivery of traditional early-stage malware and now favor complex multi-stage attacks that rely less on malware and more on exploiting native system utilities and services. On Windows, PowerShell and WMI attack tooling have evolved to combine robust frameworks for access and command and control (C2) frameworks with persistent, intelligent privilege identification and escalation. Many of these frameworks are now being ported to other languages to target Mac environments as well.
Controls have evolved in kind. Application whitelisting continues to gain adoption despite the relatively high cost of implementation and operation. Whitelisting is not for those seeking instant gratification—but for those who are willing to work and wait, it delivers what may be an unparalleled reduction in attack surface. And despite what some vocal pundits would have us believe, malicious software and activity detection is improving as well. Some thoughtful approaches to behavioral detection and exploit mitigation have dramatically increased attacker costs.
As defenders, disciplines such as Network Security Monitoring (NSM) and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) afford us a level of visibility into network and endpoint activity that provides what we need to detect most attacks most of the time. On the heels of that visibility we are seeing increased sharing of higher-value threat intelligence, leading to development of increasingly affordable and high-quality collection tools and criteria.
There’s always a “but” . . .
This paints a rosy picture, but we also know that despite these improvements we continue to see a large number of successful attacks. Some of these are very clever. Most are not. Phishing and social engineering continue to dominate on the delivery front, and there are enough unprotected endpoints that traditional malware is still a money-maker.
How does a CISO both keep atop of commodity attacks and identify and disrupt attacks that are more subtle and advanced? Invest in the best prevention and visibility tools that the budget can bear. Build a team capable of synthesizing alerts and observations. Then afford that team the time to ask questions, setting off to hunt the wily attacker.
Of course, it is when the CISO sets out to do this that the enduring challenge emerges: The problem is never finding enough tools to purchase. And it’s not that they can’t find the right tools. CISOs can’t find the right people, and without the right people you can’t build effective security operations. This is why Gartner noted organizations are commonly investing in services.
Planning a Solid Security Program in a Shifting Landscape
When faced with this type of challenge, it’s important to focus on the constants. There are some constants that map to the “why.” Why invest in a security program at all? The constant we seek here involves threat models, risk, even regulation. Assume that the organization understands these constants, because the security program exists!
There are two constants that remain and map to how we address our problems: technology and operations. Technology is easy to understand and easy to find (though we don’t always find the right technology). Operations, loosely defined as qualified people and sound process, will always be the harder of the two to solve.
We’re faced with a classic build vs buy decision. We often think of this applying to technology, but it also applies to teams and operations. What are the various skillsets needed to build the team—what technical, analytical, and management skills are required? Are resources available to recruit, train, and retain the team? When the team is capable of addressing today’s problems, are they the right team to anticipate emerging threats and implement solutions? These questions aren’t easy to answer, and often the answer is that you need to build and buy.
Read more: Build vs Buy: Not Mutually Exclusive
Managed Detection and Response
This brings us to Managed Detection and Response (MDR). What organizations need more than anything is the ability to collect, curate, and ultimately operationalize their next generation (not next-gen!) of security technology. MDR is not about a product. It’s about delivering ongoing, data-driven security operations. It’s about focus, depth, and just the right amount of specialization.
As a case study: Years ago, before we knew how (or if) what is now the MDR market would develop, we built Red Canary with the singular goal of improving our customers’ security. We were very fortunate to blaze this trail alongside our good friends at Carbon Black, and atop our purpose-built platform consisting of a variety of security and information technologies. However, we always knew that while technology would be critical to our success, we would never be successful because of technology. We will always innovate and implement the best technology so we can detect the threats that matter, but we exist to solve the problem that permeates all others: delivery of effective security operations.
Gartner’s research underscores the importance of the operations problem. For the first time, not only do “security people” recognize the changing landscape, but the entire market is responding by seeking out services that meet their business and operational needs—not just their compliance and monitoring needs of years past.
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About 30 per cent of Ontario’s corn has been planted, according to OMAFRA
OMAFRA warns to scout for black cutworm as plants emerge
About 30 per cent of Ontario’s total corn crop has been planted, according to OMAFRA’s May 18 Field Crop Report.
Corn planted in early April is at the two-leaf stage, but most of the early-planted corn is struggling to emerge, OMAFRA says.
But the corn that has emerged is susceptible to damage from black cutworm.
“Larvae will cut off the plant just below ground level and patches of affected plants will appear wilted from hollowed out stems,” says OMAFRA’s Field Crop Team. “Cutworm larvae can be found near affected plants below the soil surface.”
And recent weather means producers are planting corn into less than ideal conditions.
“The calendar is pushing some planting to occur in soils that are wetter than ideal,” writes OMAFRA’s Field Crop Team.
Soybean planting is progressing across the province, with crops planted three weeks ago knuckling but not quite emerging.
Planting will increase with warmer weather, OMAFRA suggests.
Producers should monitor slow-emerging fields for seedcorn maggot damage, especially where manure or cover crops have been placed.
Recent cool and wet weather has slowed the rate of wheat development to five to seven days ahead of normal.
Most crops are at the flag leaf sgatge, but development ranges from 1st node to heads emerging, OMAFRA says.
If fields are showing sulphur deficiency, consider applying nitrogen.
Stripe rust has been spotted in Oxford, Chatham-Kent, Elgin and Bruce Counties.
Canola is about 20 per cent planted across the province, OMAFRA says.
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A new study has shown that some well-known drugs in new dosages can limit the spread of cancer metastases. The results are published in the journal ACS Chemical Biology.
Drugs used to treat depression, heart disease, and parasitic diseases can reverse key changes in cancer cells related to their ability to spread—metastasize. It is difficult to treat and is the main cause of death from cancer.
When examined under a microscope, cancer cells look abnormal. For more than 150 years, scientists have been using changes in the size of cell nuclei to diagnose cancer and its severity. Often, they are associated with an increased spread of abnormal cells, reducing the patient’s chances of survival. However, few treatments specifically target metastasis.
To solve this problem, researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh, Montreal and Eastern Finland tested drugs in the lab that reversed changes in nuclear size in three types of cancer – prostate, colon and lung.
During screening, biologists have identified many drugs that have not previously been used to treat cancer, but could help. Among the drugs are those used to treat depression, heart disease, and kill parasitic worms. There are more than 13 drugs in total.
Because drugs can target certain types of cancer cells and are generally nontoxic, they can be added to existing treatments to reduce metastasis without further amplifying the side effects of chemotherapy that already exist.
The researchers also found that for each type of cancer, a different set of drugs at different dosages can change the size of the nucleus in the opposite direction, since the changes are associated with an increase in metastasis. This reduced the ability of the cell to move around the body and invade tissues. Scientists will continue to study drugs that may help in the treatment of cancer.
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A thread needle size chart is a visual aid that helps you choose the right needle size for your project. It typically shows the sizes of needles available, as well as the corresponding thread diameters.
When choosing a needle size, it’s important to consider the weight of the thread. Heavier threads require thicker needles, while lighter threads can be stitched with thinner needles. The size of the needle also affects the appearance of the stitch. A larger needle makes a bigger stitch, while a smaller needle makes a smaller stitch.
The most common needle sizes are sizes 8, 9, 10, and 11. The corresponding thread diameters are 0.0135 inch, 0.0160 inch, 0.0185 inch, and 0.0205 inch.
What size thread goes with what size needle?
What size thread goes with what size needle? This is a question that a lot of people have, and it can be a little confusing.
Thread size is usually measured in inches, and needle size is usually measured in millimeters. However, there is some overlap, and some sizes are not exactly measured in inches or millimeters.
Here is a chart to help you figure out what size thread goes with what size needle:
As you can see, there is some overlap. For example, a size 1 needle can use a size 36 or 40 thread. A size 5 needle can use a size 26 or 30 thread.
Generally, the smaller the needle size, the smaller the thread size that should be used. However, there are some exceptions to this rule. For example, a size 11 needle can use a size 14 or 12 thread.
Thread size is not as important as needle size. If you are using the wrong size thread for your needle, your stitches may not be very even. However, if you are using the wrong size needle for your thread, your stitches may not be very strong.
So, what size needle should you use for your thread? It depends on the type of thread you are using. There are a few different types of thread, and each type has a recommended needle size.
Embroidery thread is a type of thread that is usually used for hand embroidery. It is a thicker thread, and a size 10 or 12 needle is usually recommended.
Cotton thread is a type of thread that is usually used for sewing. It is a thinner thread, and a size 12 to 14 needle is usually recommended.
Polyester thread is a type of thread that is usually used for sewing. It is a thicker thread, and a size 14 to 16 needle is usually recommended.
Metallic thread is a type of thread that is usually used for sewing. It is a thicker thread, and a size 16 to 18 needle is usually recommended.
So, what size needle should you use for your embroidery thread? A size 10 or 12 needle is usually recommended.
So, what size needle should you use for your cotton thread? A size 12 to 14 needle is usually recommended.
So, what size needle should you use for your polyester thread? A size 14 to 16 needle is usually recommended.
So, what size needle should you use for your metallic thread? A size 16 to 18 needle is usually recommended.
How do I know what needle size I need?
How do I know what needle size I need?
The first step is to measure the thickness of the fabric you will be using the needle on. There is a standard numbering system for needle sizes, with larger numbers indicating a thicker needle. A needle that is too small for the fabric will cause the fabric to pucker, while a needle that is too large will cause the fabric to tear.
To determine the needle size you need, find the fabric thickness on the chart below and match it up with the corresponding number. If your fabric is not on the chart, you can use a needle size that is one size larger than the closest size listed.
Which needle to use for which fabric?
There are a variety of needles on the market for different fabrics, and it can be difficult to know which one to use. In this article, we will explore the different types of needles and which fabrics they are best suited for.
There are three main types of needles: universal, ballpoint, and sharp. Universal needles are best for general use, as they can be used for both knit and woven fabrics. Ballpoint needles are specifically designed for knit fabrics, as they have a rounded point that prevents the fabric from snagging. Sharp needles are best for woven fabrics, as they have a point that is specifically designed to pierce the fabric.
If you are unsure of which needle to use, it is best to start with a universal needle. If the fabric is snaggy or the stitches are pulling, then try using a ballpoint needle. If the fabric is stiff or difficult to pierce, try using a sharp needle.
How do I know what size thread to use?
There are a few ways to determine the size of thread to use for a project:
– Follow the instructions on the package or project schematic
– Use a size chart
– Use a thread gauge
Following the instructions on the package or project schematic is the most foolproof way to determine the size of thread to use. The package or schematic will list the recommended thread size and type.
If a size chart is available, it can be used to determine the size of thread to use. The chart will list the size and type of thread and a corresponding project. For example, if a project calls for size 10 thread, use size 10 thread on the chart.
If a thread gauge is available, it can be used to determine the size of thread to use. The gauge will list the size and type of thread. For example, if the gauge reads size 10, use size 10 thread.
What size needle do I use for cotton fabric?
When it comes to sewing, needles come in all shapes and sizes. The size of the needle you choose to use depends on the fabric you are using. For example, a fine needle is ideal for sewing silk, while a thicker needle is better suited for cotton.
In general, there are three different types of needles you can choose from: fine, medium, and heavy. Fine needles are best for delicate fabrics like silk, while heavy needles are better for thicker fabrics like denim. If you are unsure of what size needle to use, it is best to opt for a medium needle. This will work for most fabrics, including cotton.
When it comes to sewing cotton fabric, it is important to use a needle that is the correct size and type for the fabric. A fine needle can easily pierce the fabric and cause damage, while a heavy needle can cause the fabric to pucker. A medium needle is the perfect size for sewing cotton fabric, as it is not too heavy or too light.
When choosing a needle, it is also important to consider the thickness of the thread you are using. A fine needle is best suited for using with a thin thread, while a heavy needle is better for using with a thick thread. If you are using a medium needle, it is best to use a medium-weight thread.
If you are new to sewing, it can be tricky to know which needle to use for which fabric. However, with a little practice, you will be able to choose the right needle for the job.
What are 80 12 needles used for?
What are 80 12 needles used for?
80 12 needles are used to make acupuncture needles. Acupuncture is a form of traditional Chinese medicine that uses thin needles to stimulate specific points on the body. Acupuncture is used to treat a variety of conditions, including pain, anxiety, and infertility.
What do needle size numbers mean?
The numbers on the side of a knitting needle aren’t just for show – they actually mean something! Here’s a guide to understanding the sizing system.
The smallest needle size is size 0000 (or sometimes called 12), and the largest is size 19. Most needles in between these sizes are available as well. Each number corresponds to a certain size of knitting needle.
The higher the number, the larger the needle. So a size 10 needle is larger than a size 8 needle.
The size of the needle determines the size of the knitting stitches. The larger the needle, the bigger the stitches. This is why a size 10 needle is used to create bigger knitting stitches than a size 8 needle.
It’s important to use the right size needle for the yarn you’re using. If you’re using a thick yarn, you’ll need a large needle size to create big knitting stitches. If you’re using a thin yarn, you’ll need a small needle size to create small knitting stitches.
So now that you know what the numbers mean, you can choose the right size knitting needle for your project!
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- The Redmi Note 10 failed a durability test
- The phone cracked in half on the first bend
- The ROG Phone 5 met a similar fate in JerryRigEverything’s bend test
The Redmi Note 10 durability test by the YouTube channel Gupta Information System has revealed that it failed to survive bending under pressure. The smartphone cracked almost immediately near the power button when bent, which appears to be the weak spot in the chassis.
Interestingly, the ASUS ROG Phone 5 too snapped in a similar manner in the recent durability test video posted by the popular YouTuber, JerryRigEverything. While the Redmi Note 10 is a budget smartphone priced at Rs 11,999 onwards, the ROG Phone 5 is a flagship starting at Rs 49,999.
Redmi Note 10 fails durability test
The Gupta Information System YouTube channel posted a 13 minute long Redmi Note 10 durability test recently. The durability test starts with the host Saurabh Gupta revealing that the Redmi Note 10 has a rubber gasket inside the SIM tray and goes on to submerge the phone in water for five minutes, resulting in a significant amount of water seeping inside the phone. Given that the Redmi Note 10 is IP53 rated and is not waterproof, this test seemed excessive.
Gupta than takes a razor to the body of the handset, which scratches easily considering the back panel and sides are plastic. The volume button also pops out with slight force. The video then shows the side-mounted fingerprint scanner working fine despite being scratched heavily.
Coming to the display, the Gorilla Glass protected Super AMOLED display develops scratches at level 6 and deeper grooves at level 7 on Moh’s scale, which is par for course for Gorilla Glass. However, the touch response was shown to be wonky due to the water seepage.
Gupta goes on to drop the smartphone a total of 10 times from various heights and angles before the display stops working. Interestingly, the touch response improved after the sixth drop. The Gorilla Glass protected front and frosted matte back panel remained intact during the drop test.
Redmi Note 10 and ROG Phone 5 both crack easily in bend tests
Now, this is where things get interesting, as we move to the bend test. In the very first bend where the pressure was applied on the display, the glass back panel tore like fabric with the crack originating near the power button/ fingerprint scanner. Notably, the ASUS ROG Phone 5’s glass back panel shattered in the very first bend as well in JerryRigEverything’s video, with the weak point being the antenna line.
At this point in the video, Gupta points out how the POCO X2 also cracked from the same spot and this might be a recurring issue with Xiaomi smartphones. The video then goes on to show a second bend test with pressure being applied on the back panel and this time the Redmi Note 10 gets ripped with front and back panels pulled apart. The video reveals a substantial amount of water inside when the phone is torn open.
While the durability tests show that both the Redmi Note 10 and ROG Phone 3 have weak points in the chassis, we would recommend not taking these videos too seriously, given that most users don’t tend to put their phones through this kind of torture.
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NUS Student Survey on staff sexual misconduct in UK higher education
On 17th November 2017 the National Union of Students and The 1752 Group launched the first ever national survey in the UK looking at staff sexual misconduct in higher education. This survey closed on 15th January 2018.
Recent high profile media reports of higher education staff abusing their positions of power, and universities failing to protect their students, have led to calls for the sector to improve their practice in this area. However, change is inhibited by a lack of research and data, as the most recent research in the UK is from the 1990s. While the Association of American Universities and Universities Australia have both included staff sexual misconduct in their recent reports, no equivalent study has been carried out in the UK.
The new survey, for all current students, as well as ex-students who have experienced sexual misconduct, asked whether they have ever experienced or witnessed sexual misconduct from higher education staff and their experience of reporting such behaviours to their institution. The survey, along with student focus groups, also explored professional boundaries, by examining the types of behaviour students are comfortable with from higher education staff. This work is particularly urgent in light of The Guardian’s recent finding that one-third of UK universities do not have a policy on staff-student relationships.
This survey is the result of a collaboration between NUS Women’s Campaign and The 1752 Group, a non-profit research and lobby organisation, who specialise in addressing sexual misconduct and harassment by higher education staff.
The findings were released on April 4th 2018 and will inform the drafting of a new code of conduct for academic staff and best practice policy guidelines for disciplinary processes.
Download the full public report here:
— Survey Launch Press Release Comments —
Hareem Ghani, NUS Women’s Officer said:
“As it currently stands, many institutions are ill-equipped to deal with instances of student-staff harassment (or indeed, harassment in general). A lack of research in the area, combined with a lack of understanding has meant that many universities do not have basic guidelines on this issue. There is a still a long way for us to go, but I am proud that the Women’s Campaign and The 1752 Group are taking a lead on this pertinent issue. For too long, these problems have been at best sidelined and at worst silenced by institutions. We need to talk about the open secrets that plague academia, to challenge cultures of entitlement and stop abuses of power wherever they happen.”
Dr Anna Bull, co-founder of The 1752 Group and lecturer in sociology at The University of Portsmouth, said:
“The 1752 Group are delighted that the National Union of Students Women’s campaign are working with us on the challenge of providing much-needed data about staff-student sexual misconduct. Evidence from the US shows that one in six female postgraduate students experience sexual harassment or abuse from university staff, and we have worked on numerous cases in institutions across the UK that show students being failed by their institutions when they try to report sexual misconduct. Universities do not currently have adequate procedures in place to protect students and deal with perpetrators, and students find themselves powerless to do anything about staff who abuse their position.
At a time when the world is waking up to the ways in which sexual harassment and abuse are endemic across many institutions, it is time for the higher education sector to take this issue seriously. We hope that this research will lead the way towards these much-needed changes”.
The NUS are asking all current UK students, or any former students who have experienced sexual misconduct from UK university staff, to fill out the survey here. It will be open until December 15th, 2017.
The National Union of Students is a voluntary membership organisation which makes a real difference to the lives of students and its member students’ unions.
We are a confederation of 600 students’ unions, amounting to more than 95 per cent of all higher and further education unions in the UK. Through our member students’ unions, we represent the interests of more than seven million students. We promote, defend and extend the rights of students and develop and champion strong students’ unions.
The 1752 Group is a research and lobby organisation that tackles staff-student sexual misconduct in higher education on a national level. We believe that staff-student sexual misconduct is a systemic problem in academia and for sustainable reform, cultural change and policy overhaul is needed, requiring engagement right from the students to the provosts in universities. We are research-led, currently running a HEFCE-funded project to audit current harassment policies in UK universities and carrying out interviews with students who have experienced staff sexual misconduct. We are working with the UK’s premier law firm in this area, McAllister Olivarius, to draft robust codes of conduct and fair and streamlined grievance procedures, for national dissemination in partnership with Universities UK.
Australian Human Rights Commission, 2017. Change The Course: National Report on Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment at Australian Universities. Australian Human Rights Commission, Sydney.
Batty, D., Weale, S., 2016. Sexual harassment at university: “I felt terrified to say anything.” The Guardian.
Batty, D., Bengtsson, H., Holder, J., Batty, D., Bengtsson, H., Holder, J., n.d. Sexual harassment allegations: find figures for UK universities. The Guardian.
Cantor, D., Fisher, B., Chibnall, S., Townsend, R., Lee, H., Bruce, C., Thomas, G., 2015. Report on the AAU campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct. Association of American Universities.
Pells, R., 2016. Sussex University stuck by senior lecturer who beat up student girlfriend. The Independent.
Weale, S., Bannock, C., 2016. “I was so traumatised”: accounts of sexual harassment in UK universities. The Guardian.
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Where indeed is our country heading??? Capital Punishment has finally been introduced but to no avail!!! Murderers are NOT ENTITLED TO CAPITAL PUNISHMENT; taking the life of another does not warrant Capital Punishment in this country, only drug dealing does!!! While we applaud this long overdue Act being implemented, we cannot help but ask why Murderers are not included??? In the past, we had Capital Punishment here but it was abolished on the grounds that this was a Buddhist country and therefore it must be abolished!!!
WITH ABSOLUTELY NO INSULT TO BUDDHISM, some of the wastrels think nothing of taking a human life, they deal in all kinds of treachery, rape, murder, drug trafficking, and other horrendous activities but when that happens, Buddhism and its precepts are completely forgotten or overlooked!!! We even had a HANGMAN in the days gone by, but that guy was also rendered jobless!!! Now we are calling for NOT ONE BUT TWO HANGMEN!!! WE WONDER WHY???
One of America’s former First Ladies Nancy Reagan had said: “I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.” That is TRUTH INDEED!!!
Who is helping?
Criminals must indeed be wondering why they stayed away from our PRISONS FOR SO LONG, IT IS SUCH A GREAT PLACE TO BE IN!!! WITH INCOMING CALLS, OVERSEAS FACILITIES AVAILABLE AND ONE SMART GUY NETTING IN RS. 20,000/- A MONTH WITH ONE MOBILE PHONE; IT REALLY MUST BE THE PLACE TO STAY!!! When so much Drug Activity is going on inside the Prison, how is it that none of the authorities has ever bothered to find out WHO INSIDE THE PRISON IS HELPING THE DRUG TRAFFICKING??? THERE IS NO WAY THEY CAN CARRY THIS OUT SO SUCCESSFULLY WITHOUT INSIDE HELP!!! Don’t the authorities realize that without inside help this operation cannot be the success it is??? As the ‘DAILY NEWS’ rightly says, just sending offenders to prison is totally counterproductive, they need to be rehabilitated and we say this needs to be done either by the Police or the Forces or someone who will brook no nonsense from them and, more importantly, someone who CANNOT BE BRIBED!!!
Touching on another subject that this column has constantly dealt with is EDUCATION!!! Now the Prime Minister says the “New Education
Standard Act To Be Introduced Shortly” please note again it is ‘Shortly’ nothing, absolutely nothing is NOW!!! First, how about paying attention to whether our children can get into a school or not!!! Whether the COLOSSAL DONATIONS THAT ARE DEMANDED CAN BE PAID OR NOT!!! THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT MUST LAY DOWN A LAW SPECIFYING THE DONATIONS REQUIRED ACCORDING TO THE TYPE OF SCHOOL AND THE GRADE THEY ARE SEEKING ENTRANCE TO!!!IF THE SCHOOLS FAIL TO ADHERE TO THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT RULES, THIS OFFENCE SHOULD BE PUNISHABLE BY LAW!!! This is something that should have been looked into a long time ago, particularly as it would have given the really poor children a chance to go to school!!! The village schools should be graded and donations fixed at a reasonable level so the poor parents don’t have to pawn everything they own to educate their children!!! How can we talk of ‘FREE EDUCATION’ in a country such as this???
The Big Mess
We seem to be going from one mess to another!!! Colombo and its environs are FILTHY DIRTY!!! Garbage dumping continues with absolutely no concern for the environment or the cleanliness of the city and its surroundings!!! People dump garbage without any concern about the unhygienic mess they are creating, they just can’t be bothered!!! It is always someone else’s problem to keep the city clean; most of them have no personal sense of pride in the way they dress, the way they walk, the way they talk, it is a typical ‘I DON’T CARE ATTITUDE’!!! THE WORST ARE THE BETEL CHEWERS AND EVEN MORE SO ARE THOSE WHO CONTINUALLY KEEP SPITTING REGARDLESS OF HOW UNHYGIENIC IT IS!!! We wonder if it has ever occurred to the Government to use the Forces to man the areas or even the entire city to curtail garbage dumping and also spitting!!! To do this effectively the Forces should be in civvies and be given the authority to impose on-the-spot fines or take the offenders to the nearest Police Station!!! Whether the Forces are occupied or not, they are being paid by the government, isn’t it; so why not put them to some good use??? LET THEM TEACH THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS TO BE PROUD OF THEIR COUNTRY!!!
Where are they?
How is it that ALL the unsolved mysteries have conveniently been pushed to the background??? WHERE HAVE ALL THE CULPRITS GONE TO??? WHAT HAPPENED TO UDAYANGA, MAHENDRAN, JALIYA, THE ONES BEFORE THAT, SHALILA MOONESINGHE, MALAKA DE SILVA, DUMINDA SILVA, I HAVEN’T GOT THEM ALL BUT THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY KNOW THEM ALL AND LIKE ME, WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED??? Poor Thajudeen’s and Lasantha’s Murderers; what happened to them; are we even being told who they are??? Now they say that two CDs on Thajudeen’s murder are to be released!!! Can we ask where they were all this time and when, in the name of JUSTICE, are they going to be released??? Duminda is languishing in prison sitting out his life sentence; perhaps in 5 Star Comfort!!! Most of the political renegades are on PERMANENT BAIL!!! YES, THAT’S A NEW ONE, PERMANENT BAIL!!! If the President can roam the world while the country is in disarray, what are the people of this country expected to do??? Do we have a choice??? NO CHOICE AT ALL – MURDERERS OR CLOWNS!!! SO WE ARE TOLD!!! THEY ARE SKILLED AT COVERING UP THEIR MISTAKES, LACK OF GOVERNANCE !!!
The big little scam
There is a big little scam being carried out by the lower ranks and apparently, it has been going on for some time now. The bus conductors, the fishmongers, the vegetable vendors, and other small-scale operators are carrying out a right royal swindle!!! Apparently, if your bus fare is 40/- and you give a 50/- rupee note, you can kiss the balance 10/- goodbye!!! If there is a balance due to you on the fish or vegetables you buy, you can rest assured that you are not going to get that balance back; whether it is 5/- 2/- 1/- or even -/50 cents!!! The balance money is very adroitly tucked away and if you protest you are even told to leave your purchases and go!!! The attitude is WHY NOT IF THE BIG GUYS CAN DO IT, WHY NOT WE??? WHAT WORKS FOR THEM, WORKS FOR US TOO!!!
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Chicago, IL - Sept. 27, 1997
Riviera Theatre (capacity: 2200)
"Chicago Shows - Paint A Vulgar
Picture" - by Monte Householter
"Chicago - 'Deeply Disturbed" - by Justin North
"Chicago - parts 1 and 2" - concert summaries by Garrison Poppe
"Chicago - A Unique Souvenir" - story by Alison Olcott
|Summary by Rick
NOTE: I'm not complaining here, simply stating facts...
Tonight was the second Chicago show. Morrissey opened the show saying something like: "Chicago, a wonderful town...sometimes." As noted last night during the Aragon show, Morrissey had been suffering from the "Chicago Flu"... well, it was still with him tonight. At one point (I believe it was still the second song or so) he crossed himself, clasped his hands together, looked upward, and grabbed his throat - as if praying to God that his voice would endure the remainder of the show...
I was standing near the sound booth, so I was able to see the entire set list and could easily follow the difficulties of tonight's performance: The first "skip" occured before he played "Billy Budd." The set list showed "Nobody Loves Us" and Morrissey seemed to make the change on the spot, causing Alain to race for his capo. The next major change (or should I say blunder) occured during "Satan..." A verse was skipped/missed and the song rambled along feebly until Morrissey finally called it off. Then they skipped another song: "Roy's Keen." Also skipped, after "Maladjusted" was "Ambitious Outsiders."
Regarding the two Smiths songs they've been playing: "Paint a Vulgar Picture" was NOT on the set list, however "Shoplifters" was noted as the only encore song. You can probably guess this by now... there was no encore.
Yes, it was disappointing. Fortunately I was able to see the first Chicago show last night, and yes...
I KNOW I WAS LUCKY TO HAVE SEEN HIM AT ALL.
All rights reserved. Copyright © 1997 by David Tseng
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Ferris offers Intramural Sports and Club Sports, as well as college level hockey, football, women's softball, men's and women's golf, track and field, women's volleyball, men's and women's basketball, women's soccer, and women's tennis.
For more information visit the below web sites.
Did You Know...
Ferris was not always known as the Ferris Bulldogs. Ferris was first known as the "Spartans". You can read more about the history of the Bulldog by visiting "The History of Ferris State University" web site.
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BAND INSTRUMENT RENTAL PURCHASE AGREEMENT
This is part of the contract for your musical instrument lease. The rest is listed below. Read it completely before completing the online rental form. In the contract, "us" and "we" means Spotts Music Center and "you" means the person agreeing to the Band Instrument Rental/Purchase Agreement. By completing the band instrument rental form (located here: https://spottsmusicforms.com/forms/band-instrument-rental-application/) you agree to the terms listed below.
CREDIT AUTHORIZATION AGREEMENT
You authorize Spotts Music Center to make whatever credit inquiries it deems necessary in connection with this credit application or in the course of review or collection of any credit extended in reliance on this application. All information set forth in this application is declared to be a true representation of the facts for the purpose of obtaining the credit requested and any willful misrepresentation on this application could result in criminal action. If requested, we will inform you of the name and address of the consumer reporting agency used to furnish the report. All information provided is held in strict confidence and will not be shared with any other party outside of the application process here in described.
NOTICE: You are renting this property. You will not own it until you make all of the regularly scheduled payments or you use the early purchase option. You do not have the right to keep the property if you do not make required payments or do not use the early purchase option. The Lessor may repossess the property if you fail to make rental payments as scheduled.
MONTHLY AUTO PAYMENT: You agree to provide a valid debit or credit card account for the monthly payment to be made each month on the due date. 100% of the equity portion of the monthly payment will apply to the rental/purchase price.
SECURITY INTEREST: We will retain title to the instrument until you have paid all rent payments and late charges due under this Contract. You grant us a security interest in the instrument and accessories as security for the payment of those amounts.
EARLY PURCHASE OPTION: You may purchase the instrument at any time by paying 70% of the unpaid Rental/Purchase Price Balance.
RIGHT TO RETURN: You may return the instrument to us at any time and have no further obligations under this Contract except to pay all rent due through the return date. We will not refund any monies paid prior to the instrument being returned.
RETURN PROCEDURE: To ensure timely credit for your return, you must notify us your intent to return by mail, email, telephone or through our website form. You must then return the instrument to the music instructor, if the instrument was delivered to your school, or to us at one of our business locations. Failure to notify us of your intent to return may delay receiving credit for the return.
MAINTENANCE & REPAIR COVERAGE: In consideration for monthly payment of the M&R fee, we will make any adjustments or repairs necessary to keep this instrument in proper playing condition during the term of this Contract. Replacement of supplies such as reeds, lubricants, strings, etc. are not included. All repairs must be made by our authorized technicians. This service does not include damage due, in our judgement, to careless negligence or intentional damage of the instrument. In such instances, repair costs are NOT covered and will be your responsibility. We will replace the instrument with one of comparable quality only if it is stolen or destroyed due to non-negligent, accidental misfortune. If stolen, the incident must be reported to civil authorities. To obtain the instrument replacement a written explanation must be presented along with a replacement fee of $500.00 for the Saxophone, French horn and Baritone. The replacement fee for all other instruments will be $300.00. Monthly M&R fees are non-refundable and do not apply to the purchase price of the instrument. This coverage ends when you are no longer making monthly payments.
WARRANTIES: If new, or like new, the instrument is covered by the respective Manufacturer’s Warranty.
INSURANCE: The Lessee is not required to purchase insurance or liability damage waiver against loss or damage to rental property. You may do so for your protection.
MONTHLY BILLING FEE: By NOT meeting the Auto Payment requirement of your monthly payment obligation, a $5.00 monthly billing fee, plus PA Sales tax, will be charged in addition to the total monthly payment due each month.
LATE PAYMENTS AND DEFAULT: If a monthly payment is more than 5 days late, you will be charged a $5.00 late fee. We retain the right to terminate this Contract if you fail to make any scheduled payment within the 5-day grace period. We can also terminate this Contract if you do NOT inform us of and provide a new address when you move or your child changes schools. If we notify you of termination, you must immediately return the instrument to the music teacher or to one of our business locations. If you fail to do so, we can take possession of it wherever we find it, including school premises, if we do so lawfully and peacefully. You are responsible for all costs of collection and repossession.
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(2009-04-22)Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (HSV-1) is a member of the Herpesviridae family. All herpesviruses cause life-long infections that shift between latent and lyticand have many treatments but no cures. HSV-1 has a double-stranded, ...
(Drake University, 1995-08)A plaque purified isolate, Anatid herpesvirus (AHV-ppc3) of the Holland strain of AHV (American Type Culture Collection No. VR684) was propagated in chicken embryo fibroblasts and purified by differential and buoyant density ...
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A quick tip I use to continually come up with slam poems
Something that I've often been asked is "how do you come up with new material for poems?" Its a great question, and there's really not just one simple answer - holistically I let everything that touches my life get vetted out through a process that ends in "can I write about this?"
So what I wanted to do was give some quick tips and pointers to you poets and spoken word artists out there that will help you build out your portfolio and possibly expand to new horizons in your writing.
First, its imperative that no matter where you are and where you go, you have access to a repository for your information. It should be a secret, locked down and secure - something that only you can locate and access; something you feel safe enough to keep your world in (a journal or a diary of sorts if you will)...
Generally a notebook works well. But we also live in an era of technology, so I'd say that a smartphone or tablet work even better for a couple reasons: they are almost always on your person, and you can keep them locked down with your own privacy protection. Plus the information can be stored in the cloud and accessed through other devices and platforms.
Once you've designated where you will keep your information, its time to start filling it up. This is an ongoing process. Here's what I keep in my 'storehouse':
1. Words. I always write down words that I love. I hear new words almost every day. My favorite resource for new words is TV, movies and blogs - books are of course great as well, but I honestly don't read them much. Write down new words and their definitions. If you want to take this one step further, you can also use them in sentences and write down some thoughts and rhymes around them. Good to build up your arsenal.
2. Rhymes. Remember, slam poetry does not have to rhyme. But when it does, I caution you to err on the side of intricacy. Here are a couple good tips for your rhymes:
- We all know that silk rhymes with milk. That's a juvenile rhyme. Its not bad to rhyme easy words, but you should also look for more complexity and attempt to rhyme a few syllables at once. For instance, this is a section from my poem INTRO:
"I was the writer, director and star of a nightmare,
The fighter, protector and scar of a blank stare"
- Intonation goes a long way. Look at Eminem for some examples - words don't have to be exact rhymes in order to sound like rhymes, a lot of it comes out in your pronunciation. They say there's no rhyme for the word orange. I disagree. What if you say "hard binge" - its not a precise letter-to-letter rhyme, but in context hard binge would rhyme with orange.
- Outside/in rhymes work wonders. i.e. the end of one line rhyming with the first part of another line. Here's an example from my poem SICK (using compass and done this):
"So sick of wandering deserts with a broken compass
I've done this far too long..."
- I mentioned that your poems don't have to rhyme.That can be used to your advantage. If you're writing a poem that does not rhyme, you can use a rhyme to exaggerate a strong point. Similarly, if your poem does use rhyme, you can add a line that doesn't rhyme to drive interest to a particular statement portion of it
3. Lines. Sometimes I'm in the shower or in the car, and I just think of a good line. Make sure you write that down. It doesn't have to go with anything or be part of anything, but occasionally those lines will prompt a new topic for your slam poem or a whole new poem altogether. What I'm really saying is write down everything!
4. Ideas for your poems. Have you ever sat down to start writing and said "Fuck, I know I thought of something before, but just can't remember what it was"? Well stop kicking yourself. Write everything down as soon as the thought enters your head. You'll be surprised how much you can forget in the course of just an hour, let alone a day. This journal you are starting can quickly be filled with your thoughts and ideas by writing in it every day and you will then never be asking the question "What topic should I write my slam poem about?"
5. Questions. Slam poetry is known for tackling big issues, social issues and daily pressures of life. It can also be used to take some of life's questions head on. If you think of one of those philosophical type of questions, write it down. Some examples are "Why do we fear the unknown?", "What would make a miserable person smile?", "How come my boss likes that person so much better?", "Why does the law state that...?" - do you get my drift? These everyday questions are the fuse for tons of new material.
I'll stop here for the moment. I've given you the foundation to become a more mature and expansive poet and writer. In essence, I just gave you some homework. So get to it!
**Late Addition - I've added more tips and tricks for writing slam poetry:
6 Tips on Spoken Word Poetry
5 Slam Poetry Tips to Help You Command an Audience
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When it comes to organic bio products one can never be too careful. Today’s market is mainly based on capitalism and the sole purpose of exceeding monthly charts by selling more and more products to the hungry buyers we have become. In such a situation the best scenario is to take matters into our own hands and return to the sole provider of all the safe fresh ingredients we require on a daily basis which is nature. And with the autumn season in full display these days there is nothing better than an all pumpkin spice soap recipe to fill your home with the rich scents of fall. A natural based organic soap can also become a perfect holiday gift especially because it expresses so much more being handmade and personalized according to your taste.
Required Ingredients and Utensils
soap base- 235g for 6 small soaps
one tsp pumpkin spice mix
one pestle and mortar for grinding and crushing
6 soap molds
PUMPKIN SPICE MIX
cinnamon 1/4 cup
ginger 1 tsp
nutmeg 1 tsp
You want to start by heating up a pan and letting your cloves relive their essential oil before grinding them in the pestle and mortar. Add 1/4 cup of ground cinnamon, 1 tsp of ginger and 1tsp of nutmeg. Mix them all together in the mortar and you’ve got yourself the pumpkin spice mix perfect for autumn. Stare the mixture in an hermetic sealed glass container for future projects.
1. Choose your essential oils properly- cinnamon ginger nutmeg cloves in a wonderland combination
We have chosen to add essential oils and ground spices to the soap base in order to obtain a powerful rich mixture perfect for autumn. To the base of 1 tsp of pumpkin spice mix add 3 drops of cinnamon essential oil, 3 drops of ginger essential oil, 2 drops of cardamom essential oil and 2 drops of cloves essential oil.
2. Grind the cloves after heating them up in order to release their oil using a mortar and pestile
3. cinnamon ginger nutmeg all put and mixed together into a wonderful combination
4. prepare your soap base and oils
We chose an organic soap based on coconut oil to preserve things natural. You can even create your base yourself through some simple techniques and ingredients we’ll present you in a future article.
5. cut the soap base into little cubes to help speed the melting process
6. let the soap base melt until it reaches 50 degrees
Keep stirring the mixture until every little piece is melted. Just be careful not to burn the base.
7. the next step is to add the spice mixture and essential oils to the melted soap base
8. mix all the ingredients properly in order to obtain an evenly spiced soap base
9. it’s time to pour the soap base into your silicone molds- we have used molds with a message on the bottom
10. let the molds cool down for at least two hours before taking the soaps out
11. the end product is 100% handmade organic pumpkin spice soap
12. We have documented the process for a perfect retry in the near future and we recommend you to do the same in order to obtain the right mixture for your taste and needs
We hope you have found this simple recipe useful and that we have inspired you to try and make your own natural soap with the perfect scents of fall. Feel free to share your own recipes and ideas in the comment section below.
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Oli The Zip Pack Backpack
The Mens Millican Oli the Zip Pack 15L Backpack in Red. The Oli the Zip Pack 15L Backpack from Millican is made for life’s simple pleasures, a very un-complicated daypack for collecting inspiration throughout the day. The minimal Millican design features a zip-top opening, internal pockets and space for a laptop. An essential Millican rucksack for the morning commute, creative wanders, and occasional wrong turn.
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Nigeria is a country with highest population in Africa with more than 140 million people which have an average density of more than 130 persons per square kilometer especially in urban centers of the country. Kano state is among the highest and most populous states in Nigeria. Since human activities show a negative effect to Nigerian environment as other countries in the world and Nigeria is suffering some environmental problems, environmental education is important in Nigeria. However, there is a need for describing the current level of students’ knowledge and perceptions. Therefore, Nigerian students’ knowledge and perceptions about environmental problems and management were investigated in this study and 470 students were polled from secondary schools, universities and colleges. The results revealed that Nigerian students’ average knowledge of environmental issues was not satisfactory. However, their average perception towards environment was quite good. They were conscious of environmental problems around them even in secondary schools.
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|Author||Rosenberg, Isaac (1890-1918)|
|Notes||Contains ink and pencil corrections. There is a double typed line at the bottom of page 1 suggesting that Isaac Rosenberg originally intended that the poem end there; in the play 'Moses' it ends after line 15. The pencil annotations at bottom right corner are in Gordon Bottomley's hand.|
On page two the line at bottom of page one suggests that Rosenberg originally intended to end the poem after line 18; in the play 'Moses' the poem ends after line 15. Although generally consistent with page 1 with regard to ink and paper, page 2 is torn and stained.
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Sony is reportedly close to finalizing a deal to acquire anime streaming service KissAnime.
The streaming site closed its doors in August of this year, despite having a large active user base, after encountering numerous licensing issues. Recent indications show that Sony could end up offering upwards of 65,000 Bitcoin in order to gain full ownership of the site and bring it back online.
KissAnime made a name for itself through its unique market strategy of not paying copyright holders and raising funds solely through deceptive browser advertisements rather than user subscriptions. The site was additionally able to reduce operating costs below that of its competitors by hosting videos on outside servers and forgoing any translation staff by outsourcing subtitling to the HorribleSubs group. KissAnime quickly become known for its large selection of anime titles, hosting nearly every series in existence.
“We are excited to soon have KissAnime join our already extensive array of anime properties,” said Shu Hishimoto, president of Sony’s Aniplex of America. “With this acquisition, we can finally say that we have reached the point of owning all the anime.”
“I don’t know what took them so long,” commented Twitter user and supposed expert on the complex legalities of international licensing, OtakuDeluxe69. “They should have just copied KissAnime from the very beginning.”
Sony has not yet announced how the acquisition would affect its current ownership of Funimation, which it acquired in 2017. Although with most Funimation users only subscribed due to not knowing about KissAnime, it is likely that the Funimaiton service will either be discontinued or rolled into the KissAnime brand.
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Source:Xinhua Published: 2012-11-7 9:53:07
Violence triggered by political and sectarian confrontation claimed 19 lives in Pakistan's southern provinces of Sindh and Balochistan on Tuesday, local media reported.
In Karachi, the provincial capital of Sindh, at least 12 people were killed and 14 others injured.
Syed Shabeer Zaidi, General Secretary of Jafferia Alliance, a prominent group of Shiah Muslim, announced a three-day mourning over the target killing of a leader of the group and his aide.
An activist of MQM, the political party of Urdu speaking people, and an activist of ANP, the political party of Pashto speaking people, were gunned down in separate politically motivated attack.
In Hyderabad, a neighboring city of Karachi, four people were killed and five injured in separate politically and religiously motivated attacks.
In Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, three people were killed and two others injured when some unidentified militants opened fire at a car in Spini road area of the city.
Police said that the deceased belonged to Hazara community of Shiah Muslim and the killing was a sectarian attack.
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Decision Maker: Leader of Lewes District Council
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: Yes
To consider the proposed Household Support Fund Scheme.
(1) To approve the Local Authority’s Household Support Fund Scheme.
(2) To grant the Director of Service Delivery delegated authority, to implement, and if necessary, amend the Policy (in consultation with the Leader). Such delegated authority will include any measures necessary for or incidental to its management and administration.
This is a new scheme which needs to be implemented as a matter of urgency and so executive approval for the scheme is being sought from the Leader. The Leader is being asked to authorise the Director of Service Delivery to implement and administer the scheme as there is no existing officer delegation in place.
The Council could choose not take part in the scheme, but this could lead to Lewes district residents not being able to benefit.
Publication date: 23/11/2021
Date of decision: 22/11/2021
Effective from: 26/11/2021
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So great was the age difference between Grover and Frances Cleveland that many initially assumed that the President’s 1885 marriage proposal was intended for her mother Emma. Cleveland had, after all, partially raised Frances and was the executor of her late father’s estate. The public was soon grateful that their assumptions were wrong. As soon as the 21-year-old Frances married the 49-year-old President in what is still the only Presidential White House wedding, the American public beheld its next First Lady fascination.
Their June 2, 1886, wedding was a grand affair that captivated the nation. Frances wore an ivory satin gown so stiff that it could stand up on its own. At the time, the Washington Post reported, “The bride wore an enchanting white dress of ivory satin, simply garnished on the high corsage with India muslin crossed in Grecian folds and carried in exquisite falls of simplicity over the petticoat. The orange blossom garniture, commencing upon the veil in a superb coronet, is continued throughout the costume with artistic skill. She carried no flowers and wore no jewelry except an engagement ring, containing a sapphire and two diamonds.” The newly-minted First Lady, who is also the youngest ever, was soon nicknamed “Frank” or “Frankie” by the press, names she disliked. Newspapers continued to exploit her, the most famous example of which being this:
There is also a great story of how Frances Cleveland unwittingly expedited the demise of the bustle dress in either the late 1880’s or mid-1890’s (she was First Lady from June 1886 to March 1889 – she married the incumbent President in the White House and he was defeated for re-election – and then returned from March 1893 to March 1897 when he came back to defeat Harrison in their second face-off election and served a second full, though non-consecutive term.) In any event, as the young bride of a President and then as a young mother of three young daughters (one of whom was the only child of a President actually born in the White House) she was enormously popular and her clothing style was copied by many other women. Two reporters in Washington during the summer apparently were hard-pressed for a breaking-news story and completely made up the claim that Mrs. Cleveland didn’t like the bustle and would no longer wear it when the forthcoming social season began that fall. The story moved fast – and women by the thousands apparently abandoned the bustle too. (National First Ladies’ Library)
Though that story was fabricated, she did stir up her own fashion brouhahas. Frances favored gowns that showed off her bare neck, shoulders and arms, which alarmed the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. They rallied their ranks and issued a petition asking her to stop wearing these dresses because it corrupted the morals of young women who copied her. She ignored the petition. Others who were less scandalized by her copied her every move, which included shaving the napes of their necks in order to perfectly replicate her hairstyle. Photos and drawings of her likeness were used without her permission to sell products like perfume, playing cards, liver pills, and underwear. Her and her husband’s residence in an upper Georgetown area even inspired the neighborhood’s name–Cleveland Park.
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NEW CONSTRUCTION: Bonita National is one of the best selling communities in Southwest Florida! Amenities include Clubhouse with Formal/Casual Dining, Beach Entry Resort Pool, Fitness & Aerobics Centers, Poolside Café’ Bar & Grill, 8 tennis courts, 18 hole Championship course, Full Service Spa, social clubs & fitness classes.. Enjoy golf ownership and Social membership with the purchase of this adorable condo. This 2-bedroom, Den, 2 full bath and 1 car detached garage Bromelia floor plan offers water & golf views. Interior upgrades include 20” tile flooring set diagonally, granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, blinds, crown molding, washer/dryer and hurricane impact windows & doors. Full builder warranty ready to close. Original full price of home is $277,198. Special discount incentives in listing price for quick close and preferred title and lending as applicable. Virtual tour is of like model & is used for display purposes only.
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Marty Cox walked into the same coffeehouse he’d been going to for years, ordered his usual coffee, and reached into his pocket for his wallet. Oops, no wallet. No problem, said the owner, who recognized Cox as a regular customer. Pay for it tomorrow. The next morning Cox walked into the coffeehouse, money in hand to pay for yesterday’s coffee. The place was packed with customers. Suddenly the owner hollered out to Cox, wanting to know whether he ever paid for that coffee.Cox was embarrassed ...
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Quarter of the world could become a ‘desert’ if global warming reaches 2C
Scientists say such a rise would increase the drought and wildfire risk
By Sun Reporter
1st January 2018, 8:41 pm
Updated: 1st January 2018, 10:52 pm
MORE than a quarter of the world’s land could become drier if global warming reaches 2C, new research warns.
Scientists say such a rise would increase the drought and wildfire risk.
But they claim limiting global warming to under 1.5C would cut the area threatened by two-thirds.
The international study focused on aridity — dryness measured by combining precipitation and evaporation.
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Dr Manoj Joshi, of the University of East Anglia, said: “Aridification would emerge over about 20 to 30 per cent of the world's land surface at 2C.”
Professor Tim Osborn from UEA added: "The areas of the world which would most benefit from keeping warming below 1.5C are parts of South East Asia, Southern Europe, Southern Africa, Central America and Southern Australia - where more than 20 per cent of the world's population live today."
The findings were published in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Strange sponge-like globs are accumulating on French beaches
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Comparison of Push notifications vs SMS vs Email marketing
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Comparison of Push notifications vs SMS vs Email marketing
Email, SMS and Push notifications are three modern-day marketing channels with their own set of pros and shortcomings, making them appropriate in certain situations and less effective in circumstances otherwise. It is hard to decide which of these would be perfect for your kind of business. Irrespective of the business domain, you have oodles of challenges, and it is vital to influencing your target audience. So when should you practice SMS, Push notification and Email for marketing?
Here, in this article, we are going to evaluate these three marketing channels in detail. We would be comparing their pros and cons so that you can decide the perfect channel for your campaigns through an informed choice. Hence, here is push notifications vs email marketing vs SMS marketing.
You must have discovered dozens of articles about the downsides of email as a marketing channel. Undoubtedly, there are a few, but that does make them unproductive in all the contexts. Take eCommerce for instance, it is rigid to visualize not just marketing but also the utility communications without emails. Though push notification open rate vs email is completely in favor of the former, emails offer far exceptional ROI in numerous other illustrations.
Cons of Email marketing
- Spam: Promotional email or merely call them ‘spams’ aggravate users. This is presumably the most prominent reason why email has lost its charm. Inadequate planning in terms of audience targeting forces the recipients to either block the Emails with spam filters or delete them without even reading.
- Violation of privacy: Emails can easily violet the privacy and data protection rules when imperfectly targeted at people who do not want to receive them.
- Poor click though: The ‘click-through rate’ for poorly targeted email campaigns is relatively much lower as compared with the other two channels.
- Undelivered emails: You will have tons of undelivered emails as they fall prey to the spam filters and never make it to the regular inbox of the prospects. Spam filters can identify and block certain spam keywords in the subject and mail content.
- Email content and template design problems: People check their emails on mobiles as well as desktops. It is a challenging task to design email templates fitting across multiple devices. Moreover, certain email providers have their own set of rules and preferences to let emails land in the regular inboxes. You would need to consider the design principles of all the email services to land in the maximum inboxes. For example, some people set their inboxes to receive text-only emails.
- You need skills: To make your email campaign a successful story, you would need to possess the skills for content writing, image editing, keyword targeting, web designing, and lead generation.
Pros of Email marketing
- Rich design: Emails offer numerous ways to design attractive templates for your campaigns. You can make a full use of plain text, Images, HTML and CSS to make your emails more efficient for marketing communications.
- Attach files: Emails are only contenders in this list capable of attaching files with the regular mail content. It makes them competent to communicate some real lengthy communiqués to the prospects.
- Scalable targeting: With your email marketing campaigns, you can reach any number of recipients. You can shoot from a few to thousands of emails at a time.
- Audience segmentation: With correct email-marketing tool, you can subdivide your target audience into numerous segments and make sure a particular template is shot to an appropriate segment out of all prospects in the list. Based on segments like Gender, Age group and Location, you can send messages relevant only to the concerned groups.
- Shareable: People can easily share a received email by just forwarding it to the interested people. This makes your communications reach even those people who were not in your email list but are interested in your business.
- More than just marketing– In addition to promotional causes, emails are reliable for sending sensitive and official communications. For example, an email would be more effective for sending Transaction Receipts, Invoices, coupon codes and OTPs, as compared to SMS or push notification.
SMS is yet another marketing channel and one of the oldest indeed. Brand utilize SMS channel for sending marketing as well as utility information to their customers. The promotional usage is, however, exercising a downward growth, because of an alternate solution- push marketing. We will see it in the later sections when comparing push notification vs SMS marketing.
Cons of SMS marketing
- Only Short messages: SMS is limited to 160 characters only. Crossing the limits will simply break the SMS into parts, leaving them incomplete in individual context. That means, to deliver a longer message, you would be bombarding them with three or four incomplete messages. Users do not like such bombardments.
- It is monotonous: In addition to the tiny character limit, you also cannot include anything other than text inputs in the SMS content. You lack the interactive images, links, colors and call to actions that are easily available in Email and Push notification marketing.
- Spam filters and DND: Users utilize several applications to filter or block the spam emails. Many of them also rely on activating the Do Not Disturb services, stopping all marketing SMS at once. Most of the marketing SMSs are stuck in the filters. Hence, you cannot expect a hundred percent delivery of the messages in SMS marketing.
- No way to ensure the delivery: Though SMSs can trigger read reports once delivered, there is no way to know if users have read your messages. Undoubtedly, SMS receive a massive delivery rate of 90%, but you cannot be certain if users actually read them after receiving.
- Bound with regulations: You need adhering to numerous rules and regulations set for SMS marketing. Failing to adhere with them can make things hefty for your brand.
- Not suitable for relation building: Except for some transactional updates, all marketing texts are promotional in natures. There are limitations on total numbers of texts you can send in a day. They are not fit for interactive purposes, as you have to be short and limited with the conversations. Hence, there is no space to form relationship of any sort.
Pros of SMS marketing
- Undeviating and Instant delivery: SMS reach to the recipient in a very short time, less than 7 seconds to be precise. You can send and receive SMS without an internet connection. Comparatively, you can send Emails and Push notifications through internet only.
- Best supplement channel: SMS helps in enforcing your brand among the prospects. By leveraging SMS marketing as supplement to Email and push campaigns, you can reach maximum audience with a combinational utilization. You can also exploit them for staying on top of your customers’ mind.
- Can be Event-triggered: You can set up your eCommerce website to trigger relevant SMS based on customer’s intent and actions on the site. These specialized Event-triggered SMS can assist you in engaging with even the inactive customers using an accurate value proposition.
- Cheapest options: With diminishing rates of mobile recharges and rentals, you can now utilize SMS for marketing with the cheapest cost. This probably is the most affordable channel among all the threes in our list.
- Encouraging Open Rate: Studies have revealed that open rate of text messages is more than 95%, while email holds only 27%. These massive stats make SMSs more suitable for sending time-sensitive alerts to the prospects.
- Simple setup: Starting with an SMS campaign is much simpler as compared to other twos in the list. You can subscribe to any SMS marketing service and put their API in your website code for triggering event-driven alerts. These tools come built-in with analytics to scrutinize your campaign performance in real-time.
Email and SMS have been in the market for a long time. However, at present, the newest marketing channel-push notification is gaining immense popularity among the marketers. By disentangling many drawbacks in the other two channels, the trend is gradually shifting towards Push Notifications and Push Marketing. However, push notifications do own few other drawbacks, which press them more as a supplement instead of a complete replacement to the traditional marketing channels.
Cons of Push marketing
- Behave like pop-up Ads: People have never liked pop-up ads. The push notifications generally pop out as Ads, which act as an intrusion to the regular activity. Many marketers fail to explain the purpose of opt-in; hence, users do not comprehend what they are signing up for. As a result, notifications may come as surprise to the user.
- Drawbacks in long-term utilization: If every website and mobile app just starts sending marketing notifications, people would get irritated and block all the notification in one go. Simply, push notifications are fancy and they are worthy until few players are on the field.
- Work only when loyalty is already there: New users need to opt-in manually to the notifications. That means users who choose to revive them are already loyal to your brand. New users who are just exposed to your brand will hardly opt-in to the notification in the first interaction alone.
- Exposed to spamming: Just like any other communication channel, rouge marketers can misuse push notifications for spamming. They can utilize the real-time nature of mobile and web push notifications for bombarding a series of irrelevant messages to the subscribers.
- Cannot replace traditional modes: You cannot merely rely on push notifications to send sensitive information. For example, invoices and payments are highly sensitive communications. Sending them on push alerts will not let the users save them for future reference. Such information is served better with emails only.
- You need additional setup: You cannot use push marketing without a push notification service or tool. However, the push notification services are generally expensive. A full-fledged service will cost you around $150/1000 notifications.
Pros of Push Notifications
- Measurable analytics: It is easy to track and evaluate push campaigns. Many push notifications services offer built-in analytics to evaluate metrics like open rate, read time, segmentation, delivery rate and conversion rate etc. Moreover, some of them also offer easy integration with third-party tools like Google Analytics.
- Cost-effective option is available: Push notification services are expensive. However, with a little research, you can find a self-hosted push notification Such tools are either open-source or come with a fixed one-time cost. Instead of subscribing to a push service, you can own the tools for yourself and need not paying charges per notification.
- Timesaving: Push campaigns can save a great deal of time by fully automating the behavior-based, location-based and preference-based triggering. I.e. you can set a few templates to be triggered after fulfilling the behavior constraint of each template. For example, you can trigger a cart abandonment notification to a user who exits your site without completing the checkout process.
- Real-time marketing: Using push marketing, you can interact with customers in real-time. The automated triggers can help you reach the accurate audience at the right time, in the right place and with the precise offer.
- You need limited personal details: With push notifications, your subscribers can typically opt-in to your alerts without disclosing their personal details. Unlike, Email and SMS, you do not need their email addresses or contact numbers to send push alerts.
- Increased Customer Engagement: With push, there is an unbelievably improved rate of opt-in, click through and conversion. Subscribers need putting the least efforts in subscribing and reading the push alert and it takes not more than a few seconds for engaging with them. Many experts say that prospects are ten times more responsive to push marketing than other channels.
Push notifications are gradually becoming prominent among marketers across the globe. By boosting the app engagements by 88 percent, push notifications are effectively improving app retention and user engagement. However, we must also not overlook the fact that push notifications are still not a full-fledged marketing tool. They are still a supplement to the email and SMS marketing channels. I hope technology will soon come up with sophisticated potentials to eliminate all the drawbacks and make this tool a complete marketing channel.
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Last spring, AVI CHAI released 20 case studies exploring how Jewish day schools enact their Jewish missions. We have been further delving into the issues which the studies bring to life through a series of webinars, hosted by Dr. Jack Wertheimer, Director of AVI CHAI’s Center for Research and Policy and Professor of American Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary, who oversaw the case study project. Previously, we explored, “What story does your school tell about its Jewish purpose?” and “What key values and commitments motivate your school’s leadership team?” (recordings available here).
Yesterday, Dr. Wertheimer led a webinar exploring the rich topic of tefillah in a day school context. Featured speakers were two representatives from schools highlighted in case studies in the project. Ray Levi is the former Head of School at the Heilicher Minneapolis Jewish Day School (a Community school), documented in “Pushing Against the Tefillah Ceiling” written by Alex Pomson. Ray is the current Director of the Day School Leadership Training Institute (DSLTI) at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Shawn SimonHazani is the former head of Judaics at the Perelman Day School Robert Saligman Middle School in Philadelphia (a member of the Solomon Schechter day school network), the subject of “Religious Purposefulness in Leadership, Curriculum, and Practice,” written by Dr. Wertheimer and Pearl Mattenson. He is the current Director at Hannaton Educational Center, a year-long study program for high school students based at Kibbutz Hannaton, Israel.
Tefillah is an issue around which many school leaders find themselves doing some soul-searching to determine the best path for their students. As one quoted in the “Pushing Against the Tefillah Ceiling” case expressed:
“‘What I mean is that we’ve experienced improvement, but it seems that we’ve hit up against some invisible, unspoken cultural assumptions in our students’ lives. It stops them from going higher when they’re with us. You know, some of us have seen these kids fly when they daven at camp, at Herzl or Ramah, but it seems that when they’re in school, the shutters come down.’ Sheepishly smiling, he finished: ‘You know me, I’m the last person to make a drama, but I wonder if we’ve gone as far as we can.’”
Expressing their deep interest in the topic, the online audience watching the webinar wrote in with questions and comment which the presenters sought to address. These included:
“How can a school start to change the culture of tefillah where students may have a siddur in their hand but don’t feel the need to even open up the siddur? It is difficult because no one can force anyone to actually daven, but the atmosphere might make it uncomfortable for those students to actually daven due to peer pressure and actually praying is against the norm. This applies to boys and girls but particularly to the girls, since it is an Orthodox minyan and they do not lead services.”
“How can schools use family tefillah experiences to help parents be dugmaot [role models] for their children? And how can they use them to be learning experiences for parents as well?”
“What’s the role of teaching for pluralism in tefillah? How can we teach for variations in religious practice, or at least the awareness of and appreciation of variations in religious practice (and belief)? This is both for Community day schools as well as movement-based schools where there are variations in individual family practice and belief.”
It is clear that while tefillah may at times be a formidable topic, it is also one that can galvanize and excite school leaders. There are not only many challenges, but also tremendous opportunities to uphold the school’s Jewish mission by inspiring students in their connection to Judaism, religious practice, and God. Perhaps that is why school leaders feel it is so crucial – and why they were so eager to learn about other leaders’ thinking and practices on this webinar.
You can watch the recording here:
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Hurricanes to Unveil New Uniforms on June 4
Media are invited to attend launch event and news conference at PNC Arena
While the team’s primary logo and colors will remain intact, the Hurricanes’ new uniforms will alter the look of the team’s home and road jerseys, pants and socks, for the first time in the team’s 15-year North Carolina history. Beginning tomorrow, May 24, “teaser” swatch images of the new jerseys will be posted each day to the team’s social media outlets, including Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Various contests allowing select winners to attend the June 4 launch event will run congruently to the posting of teaser images on social media.
For more information, visit www.CarolinaHurricanes.com/newstorm.
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The Best Care:
The Physical Therapy staff at Palm Beach Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Center is focused on providing you with the most recent evidence-based treatment interventions and personalized care you need to maximize your recovery. For the physical therapy department you will be evaluated by a Board Certified Doctor of Physical Therapy to determine the best approach for your care. Whether returning to a sport or just getting back to your everyday activities we are here to get you better. We will also get you on your own home exercise program upon discharge.
Orthopaedic Physical Therapy (561) 841-0666
Eric Wanner, PT, DPT, OCS Director
Eric Wanner, DPT received his Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, and his Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from The University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio. He currently has fifteen publications. Dr. Wanner has presented at Florida Atlantic University College of Education and at the 2013 & 2014 Learn Green Conference & Expo at Dreyfoos School of Arts about “Take Initiative and Manage Stress.”
He is a Board Certified Clinical Specialist in Orthopaedic Physical Therapy through the American Board of Physical Therapy. He is also a Certified Clinical Instructor through the APTA, and wrote for the NPTE PTA exam. Dr. Wanner also wrestled at The Ohio State University before having to stop after his fourth knee surgery leading him to turn to Physical Therapy for his profession. He is currently the Director of the Physical Therapy Department at Palm Beach Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Center.
David Fielding, PTA
David Fielding PTA, received his AS Physical Therapist Assistant Degree from Indian River State College. David is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association and Florida Physical Therapy Association. He has participated in various local charity events in support of Autism, Cystic Fibrosis, Breast Cancer, and the Wounded Warrior Foundation. A Florida local born and raised in Vero Beach, David enjoys an active and healthy lifestyle. His hobbies include working out, surfing, free-diving, and spearfishing.
Dak Adamson, DPT
Dak Adamson DPT, received his Bachelor of Arts in Evolutionary Anthropology from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and his Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Duke University School of Medicine. He is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
Dr. Adamson was a wrestler at Duke University but had to retire after his fourth shoulder surgery. Having gone through the surgeries and physical therapy after lead him to pursue a career as a Doctor of Physical Therapy.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What should I wear to my Physical Therapy treatments?
When coming to Palm Beach Sports Medicine for physical therapy, please wear comfortable, loose-fitting clothing like jogging pants with an elastic waist and an over-sized t-shirt or sweatshirt. You therapist needs to be able to easy access your area of injury, and you want to be comfortable during any therapy that involves range of motion. This goes for your footwear, too, especially if you have a lower limb or foot injury.
How many physical therapy treatments should I expect to receive?
The type and number of physical therapy treatments you receive will depend upon your unique circumstances. This will greatly depend on your condition and/or type of surgery. The physical therapist that evaluates you will help determine this for you..
How long do the physical therapy treatments last each day?
Physical therapy sessions last approximately 30 minutes to one hour each depending upon the condition.
What should I expect when I come in for my treatment?
That depends on your rehabilitation and recovery goals. Every treatment plan is customized for each patient. Even patients who have similar goals may find their individual treatment plans varying based on each patient’s medical history, the extent of injury, and the current and anticipated levels of function. At Palm Beach Sports Medicine we will use various techniques to help each of our patients reach the greatest extent of recovery possible.
What should I do if I need to cancel my appointment for the day?
If you are unable to keep your scheduled physical therapy appointment at Palm Beach Sports Medicine, please give us a call at (561) 841-0666, even if it’s a last-minute cancellation. We will be happy to reschedule for another day or time.
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Have you ever walked into store and thought that the owner/buyer/curator must be reading your mind? That’s how it felt walking into The Cocktail Lab last week. After hearing about this well-stocked shop of cocktail accoutrements I texted my friends Eden and Stephanie, knowing that they would appreciate such a gem of a store as much as I would, and we agreed that we must see this place at once. It. is. amazing. I wanted to stay and play mixologist all day. They have bitters that you have never imagined (Gumbo! Tex-Mex! Lavender!), incredible small batch mixes, and simple syrups for days. It’s truly worth the outing!
This is Eric. He’s incredibly well-versed in all things mixology and one of the three partners in the shop.
Did I mention they stock some of the prettiest vintage bar wear? We tried to drag Eric’s sources out of him, but apparently he’s on some top secret estate sale list and he’s not sharing the details. Lucky for us we know where to come peruse his incredible finds now.
Photography by Stephanie Godfrey
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Medicine has seen a tremendous development last few decades. We have conquered many deadly diseases and increased the survival rate with ones we have yet to conquer. However, it is also has become easier to be unhealthy. The changes in our lifestyles is dramatic and we have all sorts of possibilities to eat unhealthy food, have very little exercise and many distractions to ignore our health problems. Poor lifestyle choices can be considered as the biggest disease of the 21st century. That’s why it is important to be educated about them and know how to stay healthy in the contemporary world.
Ireland is a great example of how much western diet has changed last two centuries. In the 19th century Ireland experienced infamous potato famine that killed about a million people and forced almost two million people to leave the country. It was caused by the destruction of the main source of food – a potato. Other countries were in the same situation and the main food sources were things that could be found in the local area. Now where are we? As long as you have money you can taste almost any wonders of the world – thousands of processed foods, fruits from another continent and even exotic meats. The food has never been cheaper and more available. When you have so much food around, it is super easy to overeat and take chemicals that our bodies do not need. In fact, we take so much things that directly harm our bodies.
Eating unhealthy food is directly linked to multiple illnesses, including heart diseases, diabetes and even cancer. There are tons of evidence that processed food is bad for us and how sugar causes diabetes. Yet we continue making unhealthy food choices. The good news is that it is as easy to eat healthy foods as unhealthy ones. There is a myth about how expensive it is to eat healthy food. People often use it to justify their choies instead of taking responsibility for them. It is cheaper to eat brown rise instead of French fries or to cook a chicken at home instead of eating burgers outside.
Another huge change in our lifestyle includes the lack of the physical exercise. For thousands of years human species hunted, walked miles to gather a food and worked all day to build something or to plant crops. That required a huge amount of physical effort and our bodies stayed healthier because of it. Now everyone drives a car or hops into the bus that stops right next to their houses. We take elevators instead of stairs and rarely increase our heartbeats because of a physical activity. This, of course, weakens our bodies. Exercising is amazing for a cardiovascular health, brain functioning, muscle endurance and many other things. If you want to stay healthy, you need to integrate working out in your weekly schedule. Do it at least three times a week for 30-60 minutes.
The third and the last thing that causes unhealthy body is stress. We work hard to maintain our current lifestyle. Who is going to buy that much food, cars and nice vacations if we do not work? Because of this mindset we stress ourselves and work endlessly. Stress can destroy our bodies and make us both mentally and physically weak.
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Tuesday, 25 January 2011: 1:30 PM
4C-2 (Washington State Convention Center)
Objective: Health providers/researchers need environmental data to study and understand the geographic, environmental, and meteorological differences in disease. Satellite remote sensing of the environment can fill the gaps of environmental, spatial, and temporal data for tracking disease. This presentation demonstrates the need for collaborations between multi-disciplinary research groups to develop the full potential. NASA will discuss some of their on-going Public Health Projects and also discuss how the program is moving forward with some new innovative research. Relevance/Significance The session is directly related to GIS Mapping and Global Health Surveillance and will present research results of the remote sensing environmental observations of earth and health applications which can contribute to the public health research. Satellite earth observations present a vantage point of the earth's environment from space which offers a wealth of health applications for weather and public health researchers Approach/Methodology NASA has used satellite remote sensing of the environment to provide a method for bridging gaps of environmental, spatial, and temporal data for tracking disease. This session will provide an overview of projects dealing with pandemic influenza, malaria, famine and how geographic and racial difference affect stoke patients.
Conclusions and Recommendations This session provides a venue where the results of both research and practice using remote sensing to study weather and how it can be applied to public health. This session will continue to show the progress that has been made studying the effects of weather and the environment has on public health applications. This session will emphasize the growth of the NASA Public Health Program and the importance of studying weather and the environment in providing answers for many of today's public health issues.
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Rolling Mills – Types, Function, Material, Applications, Advantages & Disadvantages
What is a Rolling Mill?
Rolling Mills – Types, Function, Material, Applications, Advantages & Disadvantages: – Rolling is a metal forming process in which metal stock is passed through one or more pairs of rolls to reduce uniform thickness. The idea is similar to rolling out dough. The temperature of the metal rolled determines the classification of rolling. Hot rolling occurs when the temperature of the metal exceeds its recrystallization temperature. Cold rolling occurs when the temperature of the metal is lower than its recrystallization temperature.
Hot rolling processes have the most cargo of any manufacturing process, and cold rolling processes have the most cargo of any cold working process. Roll stands, which hold pairs of rolls, are grouped to form rolling mills, which can quickly process metal, typically steel, into products like structural steel (I-beams, angle stock, channel stock, and so on), bar stock, and rails. The rolling mill divisions of most steel mills convert semi-finished casting products into finished products.
Ring rolling, roll bending, roll forming, profile rolling, and controlled rolling are all examples of rolling processes.
Interestingly, Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings may be attributed to the invention of the rolling mill in Europe. As early as 600 BCE, crude rolling mills with the same basic principles were discovered in the Middle East and South Asia. The first rolling mills were slitting mills, which were introduced to England from what is now Belgium in 1590. Flat bars were passed between rolls to form an iron plate, then passed between grooved rolls (slitters) to produce iron rods.
Perhaps your company is expanding, and a rolling mill of this type is the ideal solution for you. Whether it is steel guard rails or automobile parts, new or aftermarket, incorporating a rolling mill into your operation will set you apart from other supply houses. Managing the entire process from start to finish will position you as a leader in your field.
How do Rolling Mills Function?
Rolling mills always use a minimum of two rollers, regardless of the number of rollers used. A set of rotating rollers grips the material and propels it forward as it moves through the process. After that, the material is forced to pass through an opening thinner than its initial thickness. Because the rolls themselves cause the material to become thinner, the result is a finished thickness that is lower than the thickness at the beginning of the process. The rolls perform a function comparable to that of a draw die or a swager die in that they reduce the area of the material without causing any loss of either the material itself or scrap.
On the other hand, the roll gap can be adjusted, enabling the operator to carry out a variety of thickness reductions using a unique collection of tooling. As a consequence of this, a rolling mill is the piece of machinery that is utilized most frequently to regulate the thickness of a variety of strips. Thanks to an integrated HMI station, the operator can control the process and make adjustments at any point during production.
As previously stated, there are numerous types of rolling mills. On the other hand, rolling mills process various metals through one or more sets of rolls to reduce thickness, create uniform thickness, imprint a design, or compact loose material. FENN Rolling mills can be custom designed and built to assist metal manufacturers in conducting test runs to improve productivity and efficiency.
FENN Rolling Mills
FENN Rolling mills come in various configurations and sizes to suit engineering, manufacturing, and research and development (R&D) applications. With customization options, FENN Rolling Mills provides companies and universities with flexibility and numerous benefits when using this equipment for metallurgical applications. Material handling, processing, gauging, and labour-saving accessories are available for our rolling mill machinery.
Types of Rolling Mills
We briefly discussed rolling mills in the previous two articles and three different types. This article concludes the series by explaining the differences between a four-high rolling mill, a cluster rolling mill, a continuous mill, and a planetary rolling mill.
1. Four-high Rolling Mill: ( Types of Rolling Mills )
Utilizing a four-level rolling mill reduces the material too weak layers. By using backup rolls, problems related to roll deflection may be avoided, which in turn enables the use of smaller work rolls. Due to the decrease in the diameter of the work roll, the total separation force necessary for reductions and the overall energy required for material reduction has been reduced, leading to a more uniform output thickness.
2. Rolling Cluster Mill: ( Types of Rolling Mills )
A rolling mill with four levels is known as a cluster rolling mill. Each of the two working rolls within this rolling mill is backed by two or bigger backup rollers that can roll rigid materials. Rolls with a minor diameter but a very long length may be required to get the effect sought. These mills have the capability of rolling rigid materials such as nickel alloys, titanium, and stainless steel.
3. Continuous Mill: ( Types of Rolling Mills )
Using a series of rolling mills, the same material must pass through each stand in a given amount of time with a continuous rolling mill. The speed must be increased proportionately if the cross-section is reduced. Each set of rolls’ speeds is synchronized so that each stand’s input speed equals the preceding stand’s output speed. The uni-coiler and wind-up reel feed the stock into the rolls and provide back tension to the strip from the front tension.
4. Planetary Rolling Mill: ( Types of Rolling Mills )
This mill comprises two heavy backing rolls surrounded by a slew of small planetary rolls. This mill’s main feature is that it hot-reduces a slab to a coiled strip in a single pass. Feed rolls are used to introduce the slab into the mill, and planishing rolls are used at the exit to improve the surface finish.
American Steel is a global buyer and seller of rolling mills, coil processing, tube, pipe, and metal forming equipment. We have experience and knowledge that gives us a competitive advantage over others in our field to ensure that a customer has the suitable machine for the job. Our team is ready to assist you in finding the best solution for your company.
You can rely on American Steel Products for your next project because we have over 60 years of experience and a strong focus on customer satisfaction.
We offer professional renovation and installation services with a genuine commitment to customer satisfaction. We have a track record of success in cost control, planning, scheduling, and project safety.
What is Material Using to Make Steel Rolls?
Roll forming is a process that involves passing a sheet of metal, typically steel, through regular rolls until the desired cross-section profile is achieved. This can take anywhere from a few minutes to several hours. In an atmosphere with room temperature, the sheet is plastically deformed along a linear axis as it moves through the environment. The process results in parts that are longer and contributes to the production of a large number of a particular shape.
Each step of the process serves a distinct objective in the overall development of the piece. At each successive stage, the structure of the metal undergoes a minuscule amount of alteration. The type of metal, its thickness, and how easily it can be formed all influence the size of the roll. As a consequence of this, the following types of material are utilized in a roll forming process:
A) Ferrous Metals
It includes any metal with a bivalent iron compound. Steel, stainless steel, and galvannealed steel are examples of ferrous metals. Several steel roll manufacturers in India use these to make steel rolls.
Steel is made of iron and is malleable below its melting point over a single temperature range without heat treatment. It contains no slag and between 0.05 and 2% carbon by weight. It may contain trace amounts of silicon, manganese, and sulphur, as well as phosphorous.
It is a steel sheet that has been zinc-coated on both sides and then heated to give the metal’s surface a zinc-iron alloy coating. Many mill roll manufacturers use galvannealed steel rolls to produce high-quality steel rolls.
3. Silver Stainless Steel
It has a high chromium content, making it staining and corrosion-resistant. Stainless steel resists weak mineral acids, oxidation, organic acids, and other caustic substances.
B) Non-ferrous Metals
Metal That Isn’t Ferrous Non-ferrous metals lack iron in their chemical makeup; some of the most common non-ferrous metals used in roll-forming are as follows:
Brass is a copper and zinc alloy with a gold-like colour and high corrosion resistance. Bronze, a copper-tin alloy, is one of the various types of brass. Brass is a highly malleable metal that is used in a variety of applications. Several rolling mill roll manufacturers use brass to produce corrosion-resistant rolls.
Copper is a ductile metal best known for its ability to conduct electricity. It is used in construction materials and is a critical component in many non-ferrous alloys.
It is a soft, malleable, lightweight metal with high corrosion resistance. When aluminium is exposed to air, it forms a thin layer of aluminium oxide that protects it from wear.
It is primarily used in various building materials such as roofing metal, gutters, gutter joints, and others.
These are two or more materials that differ in physical and chemical properties.
Applications of Rolling process
- Rolling is a method of producing rods.
- Rolling produces large-length cross-sections.
- Rolling produces steel sheets and plates.
- Cement kilns are made solely from rolling.
- It is used in the automotive industry to make various parts.
Advantages of the Rolling Process
- Rolling produces components with uniform dimensions.
- It employs the same tool because the same rollers are in charge of producing various components.
- The components in the rolling can be close tolerance, and high-speed production occurs in the rolling.
Disadvantages of the Rolling Process
- The cost of equipment is prohibitively expensive.
- It is only suitable for large-scale production.
- Poor surface finish necessitates secondary operations such as finishing, etc.
FENN Provides a Wide Range of Rolling Mill Machines, including the following:
- Two-High: A 2-HI mill is typically used for hot or cold breakdown and finishing bar, sheet, or strip. Several sizes are available, separating force capacities ranging from 10,000 lbs. (4.53 MT) to over 3,000,000 lbs. (1360 MT).
- Three-High: A 3-HI mill is a cost-effective milling solution for rod and ingot breakdown.
- Four-High: A four-high mill can be used to finish roll thin gauge stock. For narrow-width ribbon and foil products, 6-HI roll inserts are also available.
- Combination rolling mill: A combination rolling mill is a versatile “two-in-one” type of metal rolling mill that can perform 2-HI and 4-HI rolling operations.
- Tandem: These rolling mills combine two or more mill stands and are used for multiple pass rolling. Tandem mills are used with Turks heads, edger’s, dancers, inter-strand tensiometers, and payoff and take-up equipment.
- Horizontal: This rolling mill is intended for use in powered metallurgy, plastics, and battery manufacturing.
- Laboratory: FENN creates custom, specialized mills to meet the critical needs of metallurgists and scientists in research and university settings and pilot line development. Learn more about FENN’s Laboratory Rolling Mills.
- Mill with Winders: A mill with winders on either side allows for continuous coil rolling for sheet or thin foil.
FENN Rolling mills come in various configurations and sizes to suit engineering, manufacturing, and research and development (R&D) applications. With customization options, FENN Steel Rolling Mills provides companies and universities with flexibility and numerous benefits when using this equipment for metallurgical applications. Material handling, processing, gauging, and labour-saving accessories are available for our Rolling Mill machinery.
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Gammon, Ham and Kassler production
The production processes and tastes of ham, gammon and Kassler are very similar. What exactly distinguishes a ham from a gammon and what makes Kassler unique?
Many meat manufacturers and deli-butcheries make their own gammon, kassler and ham products, including the German variety black forest, while Italian hams are imported.
Like gammon, ham comes from the hind leg of the hog, can be smoked or unsmoked, and is available in bone in or out form. Gammon, however, is uncooked, and ham can also be made from dry-cured silverside and rump of pork, such as is the case with black forest ham.
Gammon is in fact the hind leg cut from a side of bacon after mild curing, but people are getting into the habit of calling any bacon joint suitable for boiling and baking a piece of gammon.
Kassler or Kasseler is a cured (salted), slightly smoked cut of pork from the neck, loin and ribs, although shoulders and bellies can also be used. Kassler come in ribs, steaks and rolls.
The types of hams incorporate fully cooked hams (Gypsy, sandwich, glazed), which can be smoked or unsmoked; cured hams, which are uncooked and can also be smoked or unsmoked (country, hickory and Continental hams such as black forest, coppa and prosciutto); York Ham – a pickled and smoked leg of pork; and tinned or canned ham.
In the case of tinned ham, the ham itself is usually formed from smaller cuts of meat cooked in the can, and is often covered in an aspic jelly during the canning process.
Cooked hams are made by employing the wet curing processes, i.e., brine injection or immersion in a curing solution, followed by tumbling, whereas dry curing involves rubbing the fresh meat with a mixture of salt and other ingredients.
Dry cured hams are aged from a few weeks to a few years. Six months is the usual length of time for a dry curing process but can be shortened depending on the temperature. Dry cured hams are safe to be stored in even at room temperature because they contain very little water and bacteria can’t multiply in them.
Hickory ham must have been smoked using only hickory. The ham is smoked by hanging over burning wood chips in a smokehouse or receiving a spray of liquid smoke. Injecting “smoke flavour” is not legal grounds for claiming the ham was “smoked”.
Gypsy ham, a beautifully smoked leg ham which is dark in colour and has a tender texture and delicate smoke flavour, comes from the original Gypsy camps, where it was traditionally smoked over fire.
Black forest ham, Schwarzwälder Schinken in German, is a variety of smoked ham produced in the Black Forest region of Germany. The production of this ham can take up to three months.
Black Forest ham is made by salting and seasoning raw ham with garlic, coriander, pepper, juniper berries and other spices. After curing for two weeks, the salt is removed and the ham cures for another two weeks. The ham is then cold smoked at a temperature of 25°C for several weeks, during which time the ham acquires its deep red colour. The smoke is created by burning fir brush and sawdust, which gives the ham much of its rich flavour.
Italian hams are famed throughout the world for their quality. They are made from different cuts of pork and then cured for a lengthy period of time. Italian hams are used in many dishes, including the classic antipasti, and also form the base for many risottos and pasta dishes such as spaghetti carbonara.
Prosciutto, from Latin meaning “deprived of liquid”, come in m any varieties, with the best known being prosciutto di Parma. The difference in taste is related mainly to the diet on which the pigs are fed. Prosciutto cotto is cooked prosciutto, while prosciutto crudo refers to the sweet and fragrantraw salt-cured, air dried variety.
To prepare prosciutto, producers first hang pork thighs for at least a day. Then, once the fat has been trimmed, salt is massaged onto the meat on a daily basis for a month. The ham is then dried and greased with a combination of salt, lard, pepper, and flour. It is subsequently aged for up to a year.
Coppa (also known as coppocolo or capicola) is a salted, cured, raw ham. It is similar to prosciutto, but is cut from the shoulder of a pig as opposed to the leg. Coppa tends to be more expensive than other Italian hams and is a component of gourmet antipasti dishes.
With Christmas not too far off in the future, it is time for butchers and deli owners to prepare for the pork feast rush.
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Plastic fence feet - 25 kg - recycled PVC (Art: 11-6125-001)Email us about this product
Plastic fence feet - 25 kg
Recycled PVC - stackable
- Made from 100% PVC (25 kg)
- Ideal to use for temporary fences
- Resists all weatherconditions
- Smooth and without sharp edges
- Openings: 4 x Ø 42 mm + 1 x 60x60 mm
- Easily stackable
- 50 pieces on pallet
- Dimensions 680 x 246 x 140 mm
These plastic fence feet made of recycled PVC give stability to construction fences and barriers. They are the ideal base for short or long-term placement of wind-permeable construction fences or barriers at construction sites, car parks or events. However, this type of base is not suitable for use with high, completely closed temporary fences without additional ballast or stabilising supports.
You can also use this fence base as ballast, for example to weigh down sheeting, as footplate for poles/tubes or many other innovative uses.
The well thought-out placement of the openings in the fence feet allows you to position two fences either in the middle of the feet for optimal stability, or at the end so that there is less danger of tripping for passing pedestrians. The additional square openings makes it possible to place signage.
Because of their weight, these plastic fence feet are better suited for sites that will take longer to complete or in exposed and windy areas..
However, its weight of 25 kg and extremely practical handles also mean that these plastic fence feet are easily handled by one person and meet the applicable regulations for manipulating loads at work.
The plastic fence feet are not only a better ecological solution than their concrete alternatives, they are also more resistant to breakage. Keep in mind, however, that in lower temperatures all plastic should be handled with a little more care because of increased brittleness. Apart from this, these bases are resistant to all weather conditions.
This temporary fence base is perfectly stackable. Nevertheless, you should ensure secure strapping and possible wrapping when transporting them. A full pallet of fence bases easily weighs 1.250 kg, but you can always put fewer pieces on a pallet of course.
The plastic fence feet has 4 round openings of Ø42 mm and 1 square openings of 60x60 mm. We can also provide your fence feet with a word logo or your company name, subject to a MOQ of 1500 pieces. This can always be useful for extra name recognition at events or building sitess and also reduces the risk of theft. For these volumes it is also possible to configure different size openings to suit your needs. Contact us to discuss these possibilities.
Our plastic fence feet ensure that every building or temporary fence can be placed easily and stably.
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The secrets of classical pastel portraiture shared by Gwenneth Barth, a European master. Gwenneth Barth, a master portraitist whose many important commissions include royalty and government ministers, regularly conducts classes and workshops in Europe and North America. In this instructive and helpful DVD, Gwenneth demonstrates her mastery of the classical pastel portrait from life and, sharing many useful tips and insights along the way, leads you through eight absorbing chapters to the finished portrait. Recommended by the French Pastellists' Society and the Portrait Society of Canada, this step-by-step 'how-to' DVD is must for both novices and experienced artists.
B. Watkin is a highly successful artist and teacher who has exhibited with the Royal Society of British Artists, The National Society, The Royal Society of Oil Painters, and the Pastel Society. He has four art instructional DVDs: Pastel Landscapes, Progressing with Pastel, Pastel Techniques and Mood and Atmosphere in Pastel. Barry both uses and recommends his Unison pastel starter sets, and he has carefully selected a range of colours suitable for landscape painting, or general painting for beginners. They are not suitable for flower painting which require special colours.
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Rich is one of the primaries (Rich: THE primary?) behind Oracle's new Mix site, the first highly-visible public site based on JRuby on Rails. And after the experience he's convinced that JRuby is "the best way" to deploy Rails.
Read the whole article, but I think Rich's final paragraph sums it up pretty well:
This was an amazing project to be a part of. And one thing I’ll say is that for anyone working in a Java EE environment where you have to use the stack that’s there, the future is bright and it’s all because of jRuby, Rails, and the speed and agility at which you can build applications on that framework. I’m convinced that jRuby is [the] best way to deploy a Rails app if you need performance and flexibility. My prediction: next year will be the year for jRuby’s rise into the mainstream.
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Faces of Water
13 years old • Njoguini Primary School in Nanyuki, Kenya
Rose and her siblings used to walk 4 kilometers to fetch water daily. The water was not clean and her family often got sick from it, but they didn’t have another water source. Sometimes, they even had to move settlements based on access to water.
At school, Rose likes studying English because she enjoys being able to connect and communicate with visitors. Her greatest challenge, she says, is poverty. She hopes she can get support in completing secondary education.
Now, with the water system implemented at her school in June 2019, Rose has no longer has to walk for water. She can stay in class and focus on her studies.
“Reliable access to clean water will change our lives. We will be healthier because it will reduce waterborne disease, help cleanliness, and also support irrigation.”
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‘That Metal Show’ Season 12 Finale – Catch a Sneak Preview Here [VIDEO]
Fans of ‘That Metal Show’ on VH1 better set their DVRs or clear their schedule because tonight, July 20th is the season finale. Get ready headbangers and metalheads as the widely-popular ‘That Metal Show’ wraps up its the 12th season. Tonight’s season finale will have special guests, former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Jake E. Lee will be on the show as well as members of Blue Oyster Cult and Kix. They’ll all be sitting down with hosts Eddie Trunk, and co-hosts Don Jamieson and Jim Florentine.
You can catch a sneak preview of tonight’s season 12 finale of ‘That Metal Show’ below.
Season 12 has been the show’s biggest yet. The season had some incredible guests including the season premier which had former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted and season 12 also boasted the show’s milestone 100th episode. Tonight’s season 12 finale will air on Vh1 at 11pm EST.
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- Poor Law Amendment Act 1834
- Constitutional Crisis People’s Budget 1909
- William Booth and the Inspiration behind the Salvation Army 1865
- Statute of Labourers 1351
- Vagabonds and Beggars Act 1494
- Britain After Waterloo the British Disillusion Post 1815
- Corn Laws Economic History and Big Data
- Sir Robert Peel Prime Minister capitalised on his father’s success but what happened next?
- Great Reform Act 1832 and the riots that preceeded.
- Workhouse Test Act 1723
- Magna Carta Translation 1225
- The Framework Knitters Declaration 1812
- The Luddites
- Hyde Park Riot 1866
- Stale Bread Act 1801
The issuing of this declaration by the framework knitters was in response to the machines that as the workers saw it was bringing down wages and producing inferior quality goods. The framework knitters (also called stockingers), launched the Luddite protests in Nottingham in 1811, justifying their actions by referring to the 1663 Charter of the Company of Framework Knitters.
Through the Charter, the Company was established to protect the English stocking industry against the trade being moved to other countries for example, William Lee, the inventor of the knitting loom, had removed his own frames and artisans to France, although most returned to England after his death.
The charter served as a moderating hand amongst the Midland frameworkers, they, through the charter had a sense of right accorded to them by that document. So although the Midland frameworkers were at the heart of the Luddites, they were less revolutionary than their Yorkshire counterparts. The framework knitters, had a document which provided regulation for their trade and the addressing of grievances. It was this document that seemed to moderate their behaviour.
The codes and values embodied in the Charter were written in London which was the center of stocking manufacture in the C17th and early C18th. When the trade moved into the Midlands the charter went with them. The masters and assistants in the stocking trade were aware of the issues facing the entire community, national and local. Migration from one community to another was one way of sharing in the new industrial economy and the charter helped bind them all together.
The charter provided the ‘framework’ for the frameworkers. There were legal mechanisms to ensure quality of work. There were also mechanisms for prosecuting those selling substandard goods or undercutting prices and for licensing apprentices. Most importantly the charter was used to justify the violent breaking of the stocking frames which were having the effect of driving down wages and producing inferior goods.
The purpose of the declaration.
Although little or no frame breaking seems to have taken place in Nottinghamshire in 1811, the Luddites who wrote the declaration seem to believe the power of the charter to be so great that it could nullify even an Act of Parliament, that is the act that made frame breaking a felony.
Whereas by the charter granted by our late Sovereign Lord Charles the Second by the Grace of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland, the Framework knitters are empowered to break and destroy all Frames and Engines that fabricate Articles in a fraudulent and deceitful manner and to destroy all Framework knitters Goods whatsoever that are so made And Whereas a number of deceitful unprincipled and intriguing persons did attain an Act to be passed in the Twenty Eighth Year of our present Sovereign Lord George the Third whereby it was enacted that persons entering by force into any House Shop or Place to break or destroy Frames should be adjudged guilty of Felony And as we are fully convinced that such Act was obtained in the most fraudulent interested and Electioneering manner And that the Honorable the Parliament of Great Britain was deceived the motives and intentions of the persons who obtained such Act We therefore the Framework knitters do hereby declare the aforesaid Act to be Null and Void to all intents and purposes whatsoever As by the passing of this Act villainous and imposing persons are enabled to make fraudulent and deceitful manufactures to the discredit and utter ruin of our Trade. And Whereas we declare that the aforementioned charter is as much in force as though no such Act had been passed. And We do hereby declare to all Hosiers Lace Manufacturers and proprietors of Frames that We will break and destroy all manner of Frames whatsoever that make the following spurious Articles and all Frames whatsoever that do not pay the regular prices heretofore agreed to the Masters and Workmen – All point Net Frames making single press, and Frames not working by the rack and rent and not paying the price regulated in 1810 – Warp Frames working single Yarn or two coarse hole – not working by the rack, not paying the rent and prices regulated in 1809. Whereas all plain Silk Frames not making Work according to the Gage – Frames not marking the Work according to quality Whereas all Frames of whatsoever description the Workmen of whom are not paid in the Corrent Coin of the Realm will invariably be destroyed. Whereas it hath been represented to the Framework knitters that Gangs of banditti have infested various parts of the Country under the pretence of being employed in breaking of Frames and hath committed divers Robberies upon our Friends and Neighbours I do hereby offer a reward of one thousand pounds to any person that will give any Information at my Office. I have two thousand Pounds as secret money any person that will give any Information of those villainous and false rumours of the Frame Breakers (any one that will come forward may depend upon the greatest Secresy and the same reward.
Given under my hand this 1st day of January 1812.
God protect the Trade. Ned Lud’s Office
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Purpose: Build communication skills
Overview: Without talking, assemble in chronological birthday order.
Time: 15-30 minutes.
Group Size: at least 6
1. Facilitator instructs team to stand on balance beam (piece of wood or long sheet of paper can
2. Facilitator then indicates that from this point on there should be no talking. If there is talking
the group must go back to original positions. If a person falls off balance beam or steps off
wood/paper group must go back to original order.
3. Facilitator instructs group to order themselves in birthday order.
4. Group must use different strategies to reorder themselves. When the group feels that they are
in the correct order, they vocally tell facilitator their birthdays to see if they are right.
Materials: Blind fold for each participant
A group of 7-12 people who are blindfolded must get in sequential order without talking after
each person is given a specific number that they are to represent
1. You may not talk.
2. You need to move slowly.
3. As facilitator, I am sharing responsibility for your safety and will redirect you to your group and
to a safe area if you are moving away from the group.
4. As facilitator, I will check in with you after your group has formed a line. I will ask you "without
talking, check with the person on either side of you to verify that you are in the right order". I will
then ask you to raise your hand if you know that your are in the right order. If you are all in
agreement, then we will count off. If you are not sure, then we will continue.
1. Pay close attention to how people are physically interacting with each other to in sure that
appropriate touch and regard are being shown. If someone is not being appropriate, immediately
pull him/her aside discretely and encourage a different approach.
2. Provide encouragement every few minutes by describing what you see.
"You now have two groups of three people who have found each other arid are in order and you
have 5 people who are on their own moving around and one person who is standing still." This
gives them information to keep them going without directing their experience.
If you see significant frustration taking place, encourage them to use persistence and stay the
course. "You all are so close. You have one line that's in a circular formation and two people who
are moving across the line right now."
3. If time permits, let the group know that if they are not in the right order when they take off
the blindfolds, that "we will try it again." This helps the group to stay the course and focus their
4. Be sure to have them keep on their blindfolds as they start the count in the end. This adds to
the anticipation and discovery.
PROCESSING OF EXPERIENCE:
With this activity more than others, people burst into natural conversation about the experience
right after they take off their blindfolds. They tend to seek out people who they weren't sure off
when blindfolded. They recount events of the activity and laugh about what they have shared.
Enjoy listening to their comments and after three or four minutes take one of their comments as
a bridge for moving into the debriefing experience.
What did you do initially to solve this challenge? Did your approach change Over time? If so how
and why? How would you describe what happened over time within yourself and the group? What
was it like to be on your own? What was it like to find the right person? Where there any leaders
during this process? How did they lead? How did you communicate and what did you notice about
the communication of others? Did anyone change his or her communication approach? Why? How
did this change impact on the group? Did anyone want to give up? Tell us about it... What helped
you to keep going?
What did it take to be successful as individuals and as a group in this activity? How connections
might we make between Blind Count and our situations at home? What principles might we take
back to our situation that could help us in our work?
Cows, Ducks and Chickens
Find other people who are the same animal as you.
1. Have participants form a circle.
2. Give each person a slip with an animal's name or whisper the name of an animal to each
3. Depending on the age of the participants, you can blindfold each person or simply let them use
their eyes and ears.
4. Participants are instructed that they are to find the other members of their family using only
the sounds that they make as animals. Give examples If you are a cow, what sound do you
make? If you are a duck, what sound do you make? Give out different animals, so that individuals
are challenged. Adults: 3-9 people per animal. Primary Students: 3 people per animal --use eyes
and ears. Intermediate Students: 5 people-blind folded. Make sure that the animals you select
have familiar sounds.
PROCESSING OF EXPERIENCE:
What was it like when you were by your self? How did you feel once you found another animal
like you? This was a game but have you ever felt this way at school? What animals or groups do
you see at school? . or in our class? What can we do as a class to help everyone feel like they
belong and have someone like them in our class?
Do You Trust Me?
Purpose: Create an environment of trust and comfort.
Overview: one person in a pair has his/her eyes close and is led around by his/her partner’s
Time: About 20 minutes.
Group Size: at least 2
1. Students are asked to pair up and create two even lines with partners facing each other. If you
want to have students take a risk, after they have partnered up move students around so that
they are partnered with someone they did not originally pick.
2. One line of students is asked to close their eyes and stick out their right pointer finger. The
other line of students is asked to keep their eyes open and press the tip of their right pointer
finger to the tip of their partner’s pointer finger.
3. Without talking, the students with their eyes open must lead the students with their eyes
closed around the room by their pointer finger. Facilitator can give directions on how and where
partners should go such as “go forward” “Go backward” “try turning your partner in a circle”.
Once 3 minutes of leading has expired. The partners switch roles.
4. Safety is key! Do not lead your partner into chairs, tables, walls, or other partners.
5. After both partners have assumed leading and following positions. The facilitator asks partners
to find a comfortable place to sit down. Each partner then has 3 minutes to share a story about
trust. The story can be as profound or silly as they trust their partner to hear. Partners do not
respond to each other’s stories, only listen.
6. Once both partners have shared their stories, the group comes back together for a sharing out.
Each person is to fill in the blank about their partner based upon what they heard in the story.
Now I know that Annie is _____________. (Fill in the blank with strong, funny, courageous, etc).
The mine walk consists of a winding pathway or two ropes/tape. There are objects (representing
obstacles to Powerful Learning) that are placed along the pathway. The challenge is for the group
is to stay connected at all times and to make it from the desert to the Center for Powerful
Learning without touching the ropes/tape, any of the obstacles, or stepping outside the boundary.
1. Ask the group to identify obstacles to powerful learning. (Write these on a flip chart)
2. Ask the group to select the 6 most challenging obstacles.
3. After the group selects the most challenging obstacles, ask them to look at the available
objects and select objects that best symbolize the obstacles they have identified
4. Place these objects (or some of the objects while the facilitator places the others) in the
path through the minefield or let members of the group do so. (How often do we place
our own obstacles?)
5. Invite the group to join you in the desert at one end of the minefield. Explain that all in
front of them is a minefield. The only way to pass is through is by way of the path
determined by the rope/tape.
6. Point out the Center of Powerful Learning and ask the group if they would like to go there.
7. Explain the following rules:
a. All members of the group must stay connected while moving through the minefield
path until they reach the Center of Powerful Learning.
b. If any group member touches any obstacle, steps on the boundary, or steps off the
path, the entire group must return to the desert.
c. Just as in any other group, there are individuals with additional challenges.
i. 2 members of the group cannot speak
ii. 6 members of the group cannot see
iii. 2 members of the group cannot walk
8. Ask one or two members of the group to be observer/recorders. Their job is to watch the
group interact and record their observations.
9. The facilitator (or group member) should monitor the group for “infractions”. (stepping out
of bounds, touching objects, disconnecting, etc.)
Process of Experience:
What new challenges did you face in the mine walk?
What did you notice about the work of your group in the beginning, middle, and end?
What happened when you were not successful initially?
How would you describe your communication throughout the experience?
Who served as leaders and how did they lead?
Did you reach a point of discouragement? Did that change? What contributed to the
How does the min walk experience relate to our work back home as we think about
moving to powerful learning experiences in our classrooms and schools?
What might we intentionally do to support each other and our colleagues given our
experiences with the mine walk?
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The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy. Ed. Roger N. Lancaster and Micaela di Leonardo. New York: Routledge, 1997. x + 574 pages. $27.95 paper.
Robert Lancaster and Micaela di Leonardo's compilation of essays for The Gender/Sexuality reader is nothing short of an accomplishment. They have gathered thirty-seven essays from various disciplines related to gender, sexuality, race, and culture and have organized them into groups that highlight both their differences and similarities. The commonalities among the essays include their high quality, their concern with the "complicated intersections of race, gender, power, and nation," and the fact that these essays reveal "the current intellectual endpoints of these late twentieth-century transformative movements." This anthology, a locus for the diverse considerations of identity politics, draws from and informs anthropology, history, politics, literature, and science. Its contributors represent the best in their fields currently engaging in the dialogue of considerations of the body, and the result is a book that is essential for anyone's library.
The editors explain in the introduction their careful method of grouping the essays. They have arranged the works into nine thematic sections under three larger headings, which they call frames. Although a bit tedious, a brief description of the organizational pattern, the names of the essays's authors, and a suggestion of the essays's concerns may assist readers in making personal decisions about the book's worth.
The first larger frame is "Embodiments of History: Local Meanings, Global Economies," and it deals generally with the "placement of culture in time." Part One within the first frame is "Moving Borders: Genders, Sexualities, Histories," and it contains three essays: one by Ann Laura Stoler on gender and race in colonial Asia, one by Siobhan Somerville that traces the "invention" of the homosexual body, and a particularly engaging piece by co-editor Micaela di Leonardo. Part Two in the first frame is called "Modes of Reproduction: Kinship, Parenthood, States." The six essays in this section all deal with families or the body politic in some way: Jane Collier, Michelle Z. Rosaldo, and Sylvia Yanagisako question the idea of the family, Nancy Scheper-Hughes presents a situation of child death in Brazil, and Amartya Sen examines the problem of population increases. Geraldine Heng and Janadas Deven explore Singapore's national sexual identity as "fatherland," and two essays deal with abortion: Susan Gal looks at abortion in Hungary, and Rosalind Pollack Petchesky talks about the use of the visual in the abortion debate (especially the movie documentary "Silent Scream"). The final part of the first grouping is called "The Social Construction of Identities: Comparative Sexualities." Its four essays discuss sexual identities in various contexts: Ellen Ross and Rayna Rapp look at sex, society, and how "understanding sexuality requires critical attention to the idea that sex is a lived and changing relationship"; John D'Emilio's essays "Capitalism and Gay Identity" argues that gay men and lesbians "are a product of history"; David F. Greenberg reminds us in his essay that "categorical schemes differ not only between cultures; but that they also vary within the cultures of complex societies, and can be the site of political contest" in his essay "Transformations of Homosexuality-Based Classifications," and Matthew C. Gutmann offers an interesting look at "Seed of the Nation: Men's Sex and Potency in Mexico."
The second large frame around which this book is organized is called "Making Marks and Drawing Boundaries: Corporeal Practices." Part Four (the first section of this frame.) "Bodies of Knowledge and the Politics of Representation," presents seven essays that discuss everything from photography to orgasm to rhetoric as a way to help readers see the importance that representation makes on our identities. …
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Nara is a landlocked prefecture in the Kansai/Kinki region of Japan on Honshu Island. It’s well known for the Nara Shika (deer) Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site Todaiji Temple (Eastern Great temple), the Nara Daibutsu (Nara’s giant Buddha statue), and maybe (in)famously for Sento-kun, Nara’s super creepy mascot, as well.
To me, Nara is a place that is dear to my heart. When I was five, my family moved from Osaka to a rural town in Nara prefecture, and I lived there until my second year of university. Nara is such a beautiful place filled with lots of memories from childhood to the springtime of my life. My parents still live there and so do many of my friends. To say the least, it is a very special place to me.
On August 8, 2013 on the LINE social network, I received a few messages from my younger brother and sister talking about an earthquake in Nara. Yet, I didn’t really care or get worried when I got them because the messages didn’t seem all that serious. Look at their conversations below:
Was there an earthquake in Nara?
It seems that it was even less than M1
However, when I went online afterward to learn more about the quake, I found that it was originally reported that a 7.8 earthquake hit in Nara, but turned out to be a false alarm. Thank God, it could have been a scary big earthquake and I wouldn’t have wanted that (of course!). I’m very glad that it was just a big mistake.
Despite being a false alarm, everyone’s mobile phones went off with emergency alerts, some trains and school elevators were stopped and even Yahoo Japan temporarily went off. My Facebook wall was filled with comments about the incident as well. Some people were thankful that it was just a mistake and that it reminded themselves to be ready for a real earthquake in the future. Others just complained about the false alert.
One of the latter was my friend from high school who was hungover when it happened. He was woken up by the alert and tried to save some water in the bathtub before an actual earthquake happened (remember, he was half asleep and hungover). Of course, he turned the tap in the wrong direction and just got drenched in cold shower water. At that point, he was finally awake enough for the earthquake, but it never happened and that made him particularly upset.
The Power Of The Nara Daibutsu
Meanwhile, one absurd conspiracy began rapidly spreading across the Internet: the Nara Daibutsu (the giant Buddha statue in Nara) was responsible for stopping the earthquake! I’m not sure who started saying this but I do have to say it does sound pretty silly. Before looking at some Nara-Daibutsu-believers’ words, let me tell you about the Nara Daibutsu first.
The Nara Daibutsu is one of three major Buddha statues in Japan and is located in Todai-ji Temple in Nara. It’s officially called Rushana Buddha, and was constructed in 752. Todai-ji temple has been designated a World Heritage Site as well as a national treasure.
I keep saying that it’s a “giant” Buddha statue, but do you want to know how giant it really is?
- Height: 49.1 ft
- Face: 17.5 ft
- Eyes: 3.3 ft each
- Ears: 8.3 ft
- Weight: 500 tonnes
To put things in perspective, that’s twice the height of the giant in Jack The Giant Killer. Also, if you’re keeping track that’s 6.5 Yao Mings and ~8 Nic Cages. You certainly have to look up to see it.
The Nara Daibutsu is also known for its big lucky nostril. They say that if you go through the Nara Daibutsu’s nostril it will bring you good luck. There is actually an old support pillar with a hole cut exactly the same size as Buddha’s nostril inside Todaiji next to the giant Buddha statue. If you can get through this then you can get through Buddha’s nostril, at least in theory.
The Words Of The Believers
Regardless of whether or not the Nara Daibutsu actually stopped the earthquake, the believers’ words sound so serious that it becomes a bit silly/funny to me, so I have to share them with you all. Here’s some quotes from Twitter:
Earth quake? Yeah, I suppressed it down.
An earthquake early warning went out
M7.8 earthquake happened in Nara
Giant Buddha noticed the earthquake
It secretly shot a shock wave to kill the earthquake
Nara people ‘There wasn’t any shake’
Other prefectures people ‘Was it misinformation?’
The proof: the clouds were strange shaped like Buddha
Nara Daibutsu: “The earthquake happened, but I punched on the ground to offset it
An earthquake in Wakayama and noise in the ocean near Mie prefecture → Nara Daibutsu noticed this → Nara Buddha saved…right?
Giant Buddha: ‘I stopped it after 9 seconds’
Nara Giant Buddha SUGEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!(GREAAAAAAAT)!!!!!
Giant Buddha Platinum the world
Giant Buddha: “An earthquake is coming, right? It’s kind of a wave, right? So if you make a wave towards the opposite direction…like this ‘Ha!’…wait…something was wrong…like this ‘Haaa!!”, yeah, it seems right. Then…yeah…you got it, right?”
Nara people: “That’s amazing and we didn’t know you speak that casually.”
Giant Buddha: ‘I stopped the earthquake’
People: ‘Wow, are you God?’
Giant Buddha: ‘No way. I’m just Buddha.’
There are more and more quotes, but unfortunately I can’t introduce everything. According to many of them, it seems that the Nara Daibutsu stopped the earthquake by punching into the Earth to make a wave towards the very opposite direction of the earthquake and canceled it out. I’m personally happy to see that so many people are commenting on the power of Nara Daibutsu, which is the symbol of Nara where I grew up! And guess what? I succeeded in interviewing an actual monk in Nara about this Giant Daibutsu rumor!
An Interview With A Nara Monk
This is Yugaku Ikawa (井川裕覚) of Daihisen Tatsunoji Temple (悲山 立野寺) in Yagyu, Nara. He belongs to a Japanese group of Shingon Buddhism called Koyasan 高野山 Shingon-shu 真言宗. He started off by explaining what Buddhism is like, what kind of religion Shingon-shu is, and then talked about the Nara Daibutsu hypothesis. I translated the interview into English for you to understand.
About Buddhism And Shingon Buddhism
Buddhism is a religion to make yourself Buddha itself by coming in touch with Buddha. Buddha is not in sutra, statues or temples but inside of ourselves.
Shingon Buddhism (Shingon-shu 真言宗) is one of the few surviving Esoteric Buddhism lineages, which is called Mikkyō 密教 in Japanese. Mikkyō literally means “secret ways” and was originally started in India, spread to China and then was brought to Japan by a Buddhist monk named Kōbō-Daishi 弘法大師 around 1200 years ago. By the time it came all the way to Japan, it adopted various Buddhist and other religions gods’ thoughts and became a more complex and multifaceted system. Mikkyō Monks regard gaining “this-worldly benefits” (Genseriyaku 現世利益) as the most important thing. There are so many practices to do this, including ajikan 阿字観, which is a core meditative practice. Mikkyō Monks try to experience Buddha in themselves throughout those practices and by sympathizing various Buddhas.
About The Nara Daibutsu Hypothesis And Earthquake
This time, the epicenter was reported in Nara which is not typically associated with heavy seismic activity or big disasters, so that added to the puzzlement and also caused the great [Nara Daibutsu] sensation. The Nara Daibutsu (Rushana Buddha) is not only a universe by itself but also of earthly environment, nature and all of our origins. In that kind of meaning, it could be said all the earthly activities including earthquakes are the Daibutsu’s activities as well. I would say that it’s a wonderful result of human beings’ wisdom to prove and elucidate many things scientifically. However, I would also say that it’s very important not to be into only one extreme speculation that “science is the truth” but to realize that we are allowed to live within an earth and universe such as Daibutsu and be thankful for it.
Although I say such serious things, I just find something congenial in Buddha while imagining that it is actually fighting against a plate or an earthquake like an anime character (laughs).
Finally, Japan is said to be an earthquake country, and big ones such as the Great Hanshin earthquake and the Great East Japan earthquake have occurred since I was born. I extend my sincere condolences to all the victims and wish everyone who is still suffering from the earthquake places to relax and settle down. I believe that not only recovering lifelines such as facilities and buildings but also recovering peoples hearts is very important. I wish peaceful minds for as many people as possible. I believe that the true relationships among people makes their zest for living.
Since there are not any scientific evidences that the Nara Daibutsu defeated the earthquake, the reliability of the hypothesis is questioned. However, why don’t we put scientific and critical opinion aside like the monk said and close our eyes to meditate? Then, repeat the famous false Buddha quote in your mind:
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Anything could be the truth depending on your own mind, it doesn’t matter whether it’s proven or not!
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Last month twenty-six scouts from Troop 58 in Ashburn, VA, went on an outdoor adventure – a canoeing campout! The troop went camping at the Low-Water Bridge Campground in Front Royal for two nights. On Saturday, the troop departed on a 12-mile canoe trip on the Shenandoah River outfitted by the Front Royal Canoe Company.
The troop recently welcomed twenty-one new Scouts who crossed over from the Webelos program. For this outing, more experienced Scouts were paired in canoes with younger Scouts to leverage their knowledge and let them spend time getting to know each other better. Along the way the troop stopped for brown bag lunches on the bank of the river, had water fights, and capsized two of the canoes!
The canoeing campout also helped Scouts meet requirements for the Canoeing Merit Badge and one of the requirements for the Camping Merit Badge by taking a non-motorized trip on the water of at least 5 miles. Troop 58 is also preparing for a Northern Tier High Adventure in July 2020. During the high adventure trip next summer, Troop 58 Scouts will use the canoeing skills they have developed to explore millions of acres of lakes, rivers, forests, and wetlands in Northern Minnesota, Northwest Ontario and Northeast Monitoba.
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Inflammatory foods cause inflammation throughout the body. By removing inflammatory food items from your diet, you can help ease joint pain and reduce arthritic episodes.
Did you know that certain foods could exacerbate your arthritis? These foods are known as inflammatory foods. By removing inflammatory food items from your diet, you can help ease joint pain and reduce arthritic episodes. The following article will teach you which foods you should avoid if you suffer with arthritis.
Foods that are processed, such as frozen dinner, sandwich, meats and snacks, can cause a marked increase of inflammation within the body. This inflammation can result in a flare-up of arthritis. So, skip those convenience foods and turn to whole foods to help the fight against arthritis.
Foods containing simple carbohydrates can increase inflammation within the joints. Stop consuming candies, white flour, bakery items and sodas to help ease arthritis pain. Instead, turn to naturally sweet fruits when a sugar craving occurs.
Even though your mother always told you to drink your milk for strong bones, dairy products can actually increase pain in those suffering from arthritis. The proteins found in dairy products can irritate the joints. Instead of consuming dairy products, try some of the vegan products, such as soy milk or almond milk.
Everyone knows that too much salt intake can cause edema, or water retention. However, did you know that too much salt could also cause inflammation inside the joints? The Institute of Medicine recommends adults consume between 1500 mg and 2300 mg of sodium each day. Those suffering with arthritis may benefit from reducing sodium consumption down to 1500 mg. You can keep your sodium consumption in check by avoiding prepared meals, sandwich meats and other sodium rich foods. Read labels carefully when purchasing groceries. Many people are surprised to find added salt in items, such as tomato juice and canned vegetables.
Those suffering with arthritis have an increased risk of developing gluten sensitivities. When a gluten sensitivity occurs, inflammation can be found throughout the body. This inflammation is a direct result of the body's response to gluten. The body then begins to attack itself, thus destroying the villi in the small intestine. Gluten comes from numerous grain sources and can be found in baked goods as well as products you would never think of, such as soups, puddings and gravies. Read labels carefully when shopping and avoid products containing gluten to help minimize arthritic episodes.
Many cooking oils are high in omega-6 fatty acids, including vegetable oil, corn oil and soybean oil. Omega-6 fatty acids can increase inflammation in the body. Instead of using this type of oil, switch to those offering omega-3 fatty acids, such as olive oil, flaxseed oil and walnut oil. Omega-3 fatty acids have been shown to relieve joint pain. By switching from oils high in omega-6 fatty acids to omega-3 fatty acids, you can help ease joint pain.
Inflammatory foods cause inflammation throughout the body. Knowing which foods can increase arthritis symptoms is the first step to finding relief. Use the guidelines listed above to help turn your diet around and begin finding relief today.
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“My experience started in 1998 when I began a part-time job with Carmike Cinemas. I worked my way up in Operations: I spent 10 years threading projectors, popping popcorn, working in the box office, just like everyone else.
Then I received the opportunity to work in Carmike’s Film Department, where I spent four years acquiring films from the major studios: Disney, Universal, Sony, and 20th Century Fox within the industry. To me, film buying was the most challenging strongest experience I have that extends to what I’m doing now on the distribution side: understanding consumer behavior in the marketplace, and what genres play well in what parts of the country. I think it’s very, very important for a buyer or seller to have that understanding.
During my time as a buyer, I spent over four years making decisions on what films came into my territory. I was responsible for over 460 screens across the country. How many Star Wars do I open? And for how long on how many screens? What do I take off to open a film? How long will the film play? What gross do we anticipate opening weekend?
In addition, I also worked with independent filmmakers to place film in art house like the one we have here in Columbus at the previously named Ritz 13.
After Carmike, I was given an opportunity to work with a film producer who had the idea for a story about a dog that befriended a World War I soldier. I consulted on the project for six months when it was in concept phase. Then I was brought on as the company’s COO. I oversaw daily operations; I developed their global marketing and sales strategy and, at the time of launch, effectively opened the the film on nearly 1,700 screens across North America .The combined experience between theatrical exhibition, production, and distribution has really helped me understand the life cycle of film and to get out ahead of the curve, nationally and internationally.”
What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learned thus far in your career?
“Oh, I don’t know that there’s just one—I think there are several. This industry is vast; there are so many facets within the industry.
One advantage from my previous experience, I have a better understanding of what a film looks like from just an idea all the way to market. Giving input, as I worked alongside the producer and the creatives, to make sure they were keeping the consumer in mind while they’re creating the film and have the understanding that certain parts of the film may not survive market was crucial in the film’s production. You have to keep an open dialogue.
While working closely with our animation teams in Montreal, I was able to fully see the animation process. This helped me have a fuller understanding in animation development. In preparing film for the Domestic market, I also began working with international buyers, traveling to film festivals as well as traditional film markets like AFM in Los Angeles and EFM in Berlin.
Today, I can honestly say it is essential for the business side of the filming to work very closely with the creative side to ensure you reach the right consumer and creative ensures quality is never cheated.”
I hear you have a very exciting next step …
“Working with several partners, I’ve been able to organize the start of a production and distribution company that will officially launch next year. The company is Fall Line Entertainment—our little nod to Columbus.
We’re going to distribute live-action productions and animation. Two of the partners are animation teams out of L.A.—Burbank—that have worked directly with the major studios: Disney, Universals, Pixlar, etc. It’s a pretty big team that’s being formed and we’re looking to bring three different productions to town over the next few years.
We also look to work with smaller independent film companies here in Columbus—help them prepare their film for market working alongside production, give them a sense of the market expectations, with the idea that we might also to later distribute their film.”
What excites you about the opportunities for Fall Line?
“For me, setting up a potential animation studio has been a passion for a long time. When I look into a building full of 250 bright, beautiful aspiring filmmakers—artists who also know code—I can’t help but look back at Columbus and think, ‘We have both fine arts and technology, the animation talent here in spades. Why don’t we merge them and really bring up the city’s workforce through attracting and hiring young animators to our great city?
We have yet to really launched any animation employment initiatives here, but we are seen in the industry as a great place for animation in Georgia. In my previous role as COO of a distribution company, I had animators calling or emailing our office daily, asking about possible work in Columbus. So that let me know that there was a need and interest in working here.
What CSU has done in film, what W.C. Bradley has done in film—it’s incredible. There are several other organizations—the Chamber, the CVB, the Springer Film Institute—that are all coming together to attract and support an indigenous workforce here that’s sustainable.”
What is your assessment of the state of film in Columbus right now?
“There’s been an awakening. Columbus has really opened its eyes to the possibilities. You can now say the word ‘film’ and ‘Columbus’ in the same breath in our community now.
This is extremely encouraging. Because for a long time, people never understood what I did for a living. The film industry’s been in Georgia for quite some time now, but it was not until the Way Down Film Festival—when people were experiencing the excitement surrounding film for the first time. They realized this is a tangible opportunity for the city and it sparked open dialogue and collaboration all across the area.
The future’s promising. We have strong leadership here that’s going to see it through to make sure we’re a major player in the Georgia film industry.”
What needs to happen for big-time film-business ventures like yours to thrive here?
“I think what we need is already happening here. I think things will amp up a little bit—there’s financial incentives coming together here as well as resource development, so that’s extremely helpful in bringing new productions to this area.
There are so many resources each production needs to get going and each producer you talk to is in a different phase. Some need funding. Some need a workforce. Some just need that perfect Columbus setting.
As long as our leadership stays invested, and as long as we continue to keep those lines of communication open, I think we’ll thrive. I think we’ll succeed.”
Crystal joins in the WDFF fun as one of the judges for this year’s films.
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AP October 12, 2018, 3:01 AM Mall collapse leaves at least 7 dead, 9 missing
MONTERREY, Mexico — A shopping mall under construction in the Mexican city of Monterrey collapsed Thursday, killing at least seven people and leaving another nine missing, officials said.
Local council secretary Genaro Garcia told a news conference 15 people were injured, in addition to the dead, and all the victims are believed to be construction workers.
Work on the three-story structure in this northern industrial hub in Nuevo Leon state was being carried out without the necessary license, authorities said.
The concrete slabs of the structure appear to have pancaked, falling one atop another. Images taken by civil defense officials showed emergency personnel hauling the injured men out of the rubble. About 150 emergency personnel were looking for more people who may be trapped.
Late Thursday night, the civil defense office released a brief statement saying nine people were still missing.
In July, a newly opened shopping mall on the south side of Mexico City partially collapsed. A support beam at the Artz Pedregal mall failed, enabling operators to evacuate the mall so no one was injured when the top floors collapsed about five minutes later. Parts of the mall were under construction even though it opened in March.
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Labrecycling has for sale an Thermo Scientific GC Focus with Triplus Headspace autosampler
Thermo Focus GC with Triplus Headspace Autosampler
The TriPlus Autosampler is available in three different configurations
- TriPlus AS for automated liquid sampling
- TriPlus HS for static headspace automation
- TriPlus Duo incorporates both techniques listed above
- Additional upgrade kits are available to transform existing versions into multi- technique platforms.
Thermo Focus GC
Manufacterer: Thermo Scientific
This used Gas chromatograph from Labrecycling is in great shape. It has been tested on working according factory settings of the manufacturer by certified service engineers. The instrument is cleaned (inside and outside) and decontaminated. Broken and spare parts are replaced by original parts of the manufacturer. Revised systems comes with warranty. A longer guarantee period is available.
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Part of speech:
Of questionable character:
Refusing or reluctant to believe
The definition of suspicious is someone or something questionable or likely to be suspect.
Causing or giving rise to distrust.
Not believing; doubting; skeptical; incredulous
1984, Supreme Court of Illinois, opinion in People v Terrell, 459 N.E.2d 1337, quoted in David C. Brody, James R. Acker, and Wayne A. Logan, Criminal Law, Jones & Bartlett Publishers (2001), ISBN 0-8342-1083-5, page 564,
The definition of leery is someone or something expressing caution and suspicion.
(Obs.) Apprehension or fear
A doubtful thing
Skepticism is a general attitude of distrusting or doubting.
The definition of credulous is someone who is too eager to believe things, often without thinking them through.
The definition of devoted is someone who is very loyal and steadfast in giving love or attention.
Not having come to a decision; irresolute
Precarious; unstable; unreliable.
Named but not known or previously mentioned:
Find another word for skeptical. In this page you can discover 40 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for skeptical, like: dubious, doubtful, aporetic, belief, suspicious, cynical, distrustful, unbelieving, disbelieving, dissident and doubting.
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Using electronic health record data to simulate drug trials for pregnant patients could one day offer a solution to the current practice of delivering babies, even if they are pre-term, if the mother contracts COVID-19, according to a position paper published in Nature Medicine.
Pregnant patients have typically been excluded from drug trials out of concern for fetal safety. And when human health is on the line, drug studies assessing fetal safety in animal models may be viewed as far from definitive. Due to sheer lack of data concerning implications for fetal and maternal safety, clinicians are often unsure about prescribing drugs to pregnant patients.
A position paper led by first author Anup Challa and senior author David Aronoff, MD, director, Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, outlines how these deficits can lead to undertreatment of chronic and acute illness in pregnant patients, while also posing additional risk of adverse drug reactions.
"Pregnant patients are an especially vulnerable population, since exposure to many common drugs could harm their unborn children,” said Challa, principal investigator for MADRE and student worker, Vanderbilt Drug Repurposing System. “Further complicating this problem is the fact that pregnant patients are not allowed to enroll in clinical trials, given the ethical issues that a harmful drug reaction in their fetus could pose.
“These factors have significantly reduced quality of care for pregnant patients with COVID-19, as the current guidance to OB/Gyns is to deliver pregnant patients if they contract COVID-19 - even if the patients are significantly pre-term. This could significantly harm their fetuses, and recent case reports have shown that COVID-19 transmission occurs in utero if not treated in the mother,” he added.
Challa and Aronoff propose that using electronic health record data to emulate randomized controlled trials could offer an alternative to delivering all pregnant patients with COVID-19.
Used to compare treatments, these trials involve enrollment of subjects who undergo interventions carried out in real time. In contrast, target trials are a type of observational study that simulates the trial through retrospective analysis of existing clinical data.
“We could identify therapeutics that are safe for use in these patients by using high-powered algorithms like machine learning to learn from cases in which pregnant patients have been exposed to current therapeutic candidates and understand how much risk they pose to a fetus,” Aronoff said.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center has electronic health records for more than 2 million patients, which allows investigators to design and conduct “trials” that simulate not only a real trial’s treatment strategies (drug versus no drug) and outcomes, but also eligibility criteria and random assignment to treatment at baseline.
Such trials are arguably “the only ethical way to gather human drug exposure data for pregnant people on a significant scale and across all classes of drugs,” the authors said.
“If expanded, the Vanderbilt platform of target trials may offer an alternative to delivering all pregnant patients with COVID-19 by identifying therapeutics that are safe,” Challa said. “Without a good understanding of safety for these drugs, we might be missing opportunities to treat COVID-19 in pregnant patients."
In addition to Challa and Aronoff, co-authors include Robert Lavieri, Ph.D., Ethan Lippmann, Ph.D., Lisa Bastarache, MS, Jill Pulley, MBA, and Jeffery Goldstein, MD, Ph.D.
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Another year is behind us as the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) uprisings continue their relentless surge in different parts of the region.
While Egypt and Syria have grabbed global attention in the past few weeks, it is quite clear that much is also happening elsewhere. From Tunisia and Libya to Morocco and Yemen, from Jordan and Lebanon all the way to Bahrain and Kuwait, the tensions are manifesting themselves in different ways - some more subtle than others, some bloodier than others.
One needs only to review material across different social media platforms to sense the brittle moods of the different parties as they snipe at each other and lash out at anything that does not sit comfortably with their own reading of political history today.
* Egypt is a telling microcosm of a region today where there are dangerous levels of animosity creeping amongst the different ‘political’ camps. The Islamist parties - whether the Freedom & Justice Party (FJP) of the Muslim Brotherhood or the more overtly Salafist groupings such as Al-Nour or the recent Al-Watan - are intent on enforcing austere albeit dissimilar forms of religious diktats upon Egyptian society that reflect their particularly conservative and exclusivist forms of religiosity. For them, there is hardly any real distinction between personal or public space in religious practice. Conversely, the National Salvation Front that features Al-Baradei, Sabbahi and Amr Moussa as three of its high-profile politicians, is trying to decouple Islam from politics by striving to apply a more secular - read anthropogenic - rule of law that is inclusive and non-discriminatory against women or Copts but - far more crucially - that also perceives the constitution not as another mere document micromanaging a country but rather one that legally underlines the key principles of governance, from a separation of powers to the fundamental freedoms that value each human being through a lens that is not necessarily religious, theocratic and as such parvanimous in its nature. In fact, the presidency and governmental institutions in Egypt (and elsewhere) today are featuring the rise of a political Islam that is shaped by its history as much as by its struggle. And whilst such ascendancy started off with democratic high hopes and authentic-sounding proclamations, it has ended up lacking adequate representation and consultation, let alone consensus, amongst many Egyptians or even an understanding that an Executive which is inclusive of all citizens, as much as a robust and judicious opposition to government, are vital tools of healthy societies. In effect, while the old ideologies that had sustained Egypt and much of the MENA region are now slowly being eroded (through varying degrees of violence), they are also being substituted by different autocratic tendencies where compulsion and lack of overall representation of Egyptians is becoming the norm.
* In Syria, one need only read Rania Abouzeid’s In Syria, What's Left Behind? on war, people, ideas or innocence to note that there is a morbid stalemate where the military behemoth of the regular army is fighting the rebels in all corners of the country. But the sacrifices are almost invariably being made by the Syrian people and their country in terms of over 45,000 deaths to date as well as the wanton destruction of a history-rich country. As the ICG reported recently, fighting has reached new levels of intensity in Damascus, including the southern suburbs where regime airstrikes and clashes between regime and opposition forces in Palestinian-dominated Yarmouk left scores dead as well as refugees. Violence also increased in Hama province, in the Deir Baalbeh district of the city of Homs and elsewhere amidst allegations of massacres. The UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria ominously warned that the conflict was escalating and becoming increasingly sectarian. But the political shenanigans of the regional as well as global powers - whether those residing in Russia, Tehran, Riyadh, Paris, Ankara or Washington DC - mean that the Syrians themselves are almost being compelled to resolve the standoff with one side either destroying the other militarily or else all parties somehow agreeing to implement the Geneva Plan cobbled together with Kofi Anan in June 2012. As Lakhdar Brahimi stated recently, “There is a proposal for a political solution based on the Geneva declaration foreseeing a ceasefire, forming a government with complete prerogatives and a plan for parliamentary and presidential elections.” However, in my opinion, even this latest trial balloon remains abstruse for Syria: beyond the diplomatic hall of mirrors lies the problem that the US Administration, with its desired endgame, remains eye-wateringly obscure. The only discernible constant has been its resolute rejection of any form of intervention in Syria and an assumption - not entirely accurate - that Russia is wholly responsible for the inertia. However, such are the levels of polarisation between the two sides that it is virtually impossible to hope that the twain shall meet at this stage. After all, when the forces of the regime kill people by using warplanes, white phosphorus, vacuum and cluster bombs, artillery, mortar fire and missiles, it would seem that the military solution would continue somehow until one side blinks first.
* Neighbouring countries are also watching with concern the outcome of the tugs-of-war in both Egypt and Syria since they too feel quite vulnerable to the spread of discontent in their own backyards. Iraq is in a parlous state of institutional paralysis, with mounting tensions over both the disputed areas and oil contracts or revenues let alone between the Shi’i, Sunni and Kurdish main communities. The gulf between the central government in Baghdad and the Kurds in Irbil is widening and the country might well get sucked into another spiral of violence at a time when President Jalal Talabani is absent from the political scene due to illness. In fact, such tensions - and at times violations or discriminatory practices - are less plainly visible in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan let alone Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, Yemen and Saudi Arabia too where those in authority simply refuse to relinquish power and instead hold onto its reins as if it were a divine gift. Moreover, there has been a sense of increasing activism in some Gulf States that have been attempting to neutralise any dramatic violence on their own turf by appearing to support different strands within those synergistic revolutions or by inoculating themselves against internal destabilisation or threats through their financial blandishments.
* Such ructions bring us back to the key question: what next, and will the MENA region acquire any democracy as we would understand it in the West today? In fact, should the outcome necessarily be anything like a Western democracy in the first place? There is simply no answer to those questions as the uprisings could start up and subside anywhere without prior warning. Besides, we are nowhere near enough - after two painfully short years - to pass any judgment on whether we will end up with better systems of governance or whether we will simply drift from one dictatorship labelled ‘autocracy’ to another tagged ‘theocracy’ with their attendant oppressive and long-term failures. Or else we might well end up with a better result once the dust of those uprisings settles down and the institutions manage to become functional in those countries. However, given the mediocre and rather vulnerable state of affairs at the moment, when coupled with a lack of proper leadership in many MENA countries, this is a goalpost that will occur later rather than sooner.
* In today’s socio-political situation, as one author surmised, we might perhaps remember that a distinctive feature of all waves of democratisation in the last century was that they were followed by an undertow, accompanied by widespread questioning of the viability or even desirability of democratic governance. As soon as political progress stalls, a conservative reaction sets in with the critics lamenting publicly the turbulence of the new era and looking back almost wistfully to the supposed stability and security of authoritarian predecessors. This is already happening in parts of the MENA region today as in Iraq and Egypt.
* Another key feature of the uprisings has been the worrisome rise of Sunni-Shia sectarian antagonism in the whole region. Egypt, Qatar and Turkey have emerged as the foci of an emerging and powerful Sunni axis of influence that is in opposition - not to add at loggerheads - to an increasingly isolated Iran, whose own attempts to build its influence in the region, not least through its alliances with Hezbollah and Assad's battered Syria, now appear at risk. Such axes could undermine the region, let alone internally, within countries such as Iraq and Lebanon where the fault-lines between Shi’i and Sunni communities overlap not only exogenously but also endogenously. No wonder that the Iraqi prime minister, his undemocratic leanings notwithstanding, feels caught up in a pincer movement between the Mahdi Army on the one hand and Al-Iraqiyya on the other. No wonder also that the Turkish policy of ‘zero problems’ as propagated by First Minsiter Ahmet Davutoglu is facing severe challenges when Turkish regional relations with Iran, Syria and Iraq have taken serious tumbles.
* Another issue, perhaps the least discernible to date, is how the changes might have an impact on an Israel which appears in full reverse on the peace process and increasingly nervous about its neighbours. Israel might well feel more vulnerable because of the growing insecurity in the Sinai Peninsula, alongside the fallout of the Syrian debacle upon Lebanon and even the political unrest in Jordan. However, its instinctive reaction to draw back from any irenic efforts with regard to Palestinians, and the deliberate policies of the Netanyahu government to disable any just and long-overdue resolution to the conflict, means that the concomitant deadlock would lead to yet more retrenchment and ever more distant prospects for a two-state solution. With the policy of vilification pursued by some members of the Netanyahu outgoing cabinet against Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad, the unrelenting increase in settlement-building on occupied Palestinian territories and the punitive measures undertaken against Palestinians with American political bonhomie, means that the current Israeli political thinking not only wishes to establish new facts on the ground but also render those facts the new sinister realities of this conflict. Hardly anyone is still envisaging a viable and contiguous two-state solution these days, and Israel should realise that its short-term tactical gains from obstructionist policies would inevitably lead it toward long-term strategic - in the sense of territorial and demographic - losses.
* But what of the realities in the smaller MENA communities as they oscillate between fear, hope and uncertainty? It is true that many of those smaller communities in various countries are fearful that their rights will be squelched further under the emerging ‘Islamist’ regimes. In fact, they might well be right in the sense that some of those more conservative brands of Islam are so ferociously exclusive of the ‘other’ that they simply cannot be expected to govern equally let alone equably. Yet, there are those who believe that all the smaller communities should support the uprisings since they carry with them the fresh winds of democracy, dignity and fundamental freedoms. But such a reading of the uprisings is not entirely true either: some of what is being practised against those communities - namely in Iraq, but also in Syria, Egypt or elsewhere - leads one to be prudent if not downright anxious. However, I believe those communities - including Christians - should accept that the MENA region is in the throes of change and they too should adapt to those changes. Irrespective of whether they face persecution, harassment or inaction, they should forgo their proclivity toward dhimmitude (a neologism first found in French denoting initially an attitude of concession, surrender and appeasement towards Islamic demands) and struggle to be full citizens in their own countries. I know this is quite hard to attain in the MENA region, and some might even consider my suggestions as pie in the sky, but I do feel concerned when members of minority communities that suffered the demerits of dhimmitude under Ottoman rule and then again in different forms under totalitarian and autocratic regimes would continue to do so today - whether by trying to ingratiate themselves with the old-new rulers in those MENA countries or else by asking for succour, protection and refuge from the West. Have they not learnt by now after many calamitous experiences that the West as a political entity is not truly interested in their fate and alas, considers them no better than cannon fodder at times?
So how could one possibly conclude with the so-called Arab Spring at this early stage? After all, some pessoptimists (to use a term based on a novel by Emile Habiby) are already referring to the fact that the Arab ‘spring’ has yielded to the exordium of an Arab ‘winter’ - an expression perhaps as redundant as the original spring label itself. However, I would argue that such scepticism might be somewhat anachronistic. Pundits, politicians or journalists cannot at this stage claim what the future holds for the region, just as they cannot say whether Syria after Assad, with its own social and sectarian tensions, will resemble Libya post-Gaddafi or Iraq post-Saddam. All conflicts and all post-conflict situations are unhappy, or unstable, in their own particular ways.
The eminent Tunisian constitutional expert Iyadh Ben Achour recently reflected the sentiments of several hundred million Arabs of this huge and turbulent region when he suggested that, “Our revolution was civil, liberal, and pluralistic, and so should be the constitution.” This is also my hope, but I am also aware of the counterintuitive and well-nigh counter-cultural tendencies of many rulers who would spurn ‘democracy’ for the sake of maintaining their hold on power. After all, was it not Edmund Burke, an 18th century Irish statesman, political theorist and philosopher, who said that no elite willingly submits to democracy, the “most shameless thing in the world”?
In view of these sparse reflections on the uprisings over the past two years, and the mammoth efforts of a disenfranchised citizenry at pursuing their sense of due dignity and free destiny, I cannot predict where we may end up tomorrow as we embark upon a fresh year. But I can suggest where we are now: in the midst of a grand reshaping of all the regional assumptions that have stood for almost a generation.
For no matter where we go with those uprisings, we can no longer claim that the region will revert to where it was on 16 December 2010 when an anonymous Tunisian man upset the regional applecart and provoked the biggest change in the MENA region ever since the 1950’s.
Democracy might not succeed as an exercise, as an ideal or even as a concept and one colour of dictators could well be replaced by another. But something has made the pulse of this region race faster, and that cannot be undone. Now, we are seeking the calm in eye of the storm, and we will possibly do so for some time to come.
© Harry Hagopian is an international lawyer, ecumenist and EU political consultant. He also acts as a Middle East and inter-faith advisor to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England & Wales and as Middle East consultant to ACEP (Christians in Politics) in Paris. He is an Ekklesia associate and regular contributor (http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/HarryHagopian). Formerly an Executive Secretary of the Jerusalem Inter-Church Committee and Executive Director of the Middle East Council of Churches, he is now an international fellow, Sorbonne III University, Paris, consultant to the Campaign for Recognition of the Armenian Genocide (UK), Ecumenical consultant to the Primate of Armenian Church in UK & Ireland, and author of The Armenian Church in the Holy Land. Dr Hagopian’s own website is www.epektasis.net Follow him on Twitter here: @harryhagopian
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The 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games could achieve carbon neutrality through a comprehensive greenhouse gas management plan that includes the use of carbon offsets, notes the David Suzuki Foundation in a report released on January 24. The report, Meeting the Challenge: A Carbon Neutral 2010 Winter Games Discussion Paper, was commissioned by the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC), the organization responsible for organizing the Vancouver Olympics, as part of its pledge to be a carbon neutral in 2010.
'Vancouver 2010 committed during the bid to try to reduce the impact of climate change,' said Linda Coady, Vice President, Sustainability, for VANOC. 'VANOC invested in research with the David Suzuki Foundation for advice from a recognized independent environmental expert. We're pleased with the body of knowledge on climate change included in the report and look forward to working with the Suzuki Foundation and others on a climate change program for the Games.'
VANOC has taken previous steps to reduce the environmental impacts of the games. So far the committee has built its Olympic facilities to achieve a minimum of LEED silver standards, utilized renewable energy and focused on the use of public transit for the duration of the games.
However according to the foundation there are several emissions associated with the games that are unavoidable, such as emissions from local transportation, energy consumption at the events and air travel of visitors and athletes.
According to the report to successfully undertake a carbon neutral program VANOC will require a comprehensive greenhouse gas management plan. Key elements of this plan would include:
- Determining emissions scope;
- Develop an implementation plan with targets and timelines;
- Conducting a greenhouse gas emissions inventory;
- Engaging partners and sponsors;
- A policy for procuring carbon neutral or low carbon products and services;
- Reduction strategies;
- Procurement of renewable energy certificates and carbon offsets;
- Reporting requirements to ensure transparency;
- Account for travel and vehicle emissions
- A communications strategy with a strong public engagement component.
The report suggests that the procurement of carbon offsets would be the best way to achieve the committee's pledge of carbon neutrality. Carbon offsets allow greenhouse gas emitters to 'pay for their pollution' by funding green projects - such as renewable energy - that reduce or prevent GHG emissions.
'VANOC is already making efforts to first reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its activities,' said Paul Lingl, report co-author and a climate change specialist with the Suzuki Foundation. 'To compensate for the emissions that remain, VANOC can use high-quality offsets.'
Beginning with the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Winter Games, and supported by developing Olympic policy and practice, greenhouse gas management for Olympic Games has come to be understood in the context of a 'carbon neutral' strategy. In practice this means measuring and reducing the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the Games, and then balancing remaining emissions with reductions elsewhere with offsets. The result is zero net greenhouse gas emissions.
The Foundation would like to see VANOC purchase offsets that meet internationally recognized standards, such as the Gold Standard, the most widely endorsed offset quality standard. According to the report, a combination of high-quality carbon offsets sourced both locally and globally would send a powerful message that global warming requires a local, regional and global approach.
The Suzuki Foundation is calling on VANOC to build on the success of Salt Lake and Torino.
The outcome of the carbon neutral plan is expected to have lasting, positive implications in Vancouver. Public transportation improvements and the LEED certified Olympic village will remain in use after the games are completed.
The games will also serve as a model for sustainable development on a world stage. 'We're excited that VANOC is willing to accept the challenge of taking responsibility for the Games' impact on climate change,' said Mr. Lingl. 'Imagine three billion people from around the world tuning in to see innovative and concrete solutions to global warming at work.'
Carbon offsets will be featured in a session at GLOBE 2008, the 10th Biennial Conference and Trade Fair on Business and the Environment, held at the Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre from March 12 to 14, 2008. More information about the event can be found at the Globe2008 website.
A comprehensive look at carbon offsets is available in a previous GLOBE-Net article which can be found here.
The full David Suzuki Foundation report can be found here.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that when acquiring the assets of a business in its entirety, the purchaser also is presumed to have acquired the entire ownership interest in the business' trademark, even when the asset purchase agreement is silent on trademark rights. Yellowbook Inc. v. Brandeberry, Case No. 11-4267 (6th Cir., Feb. 27, 2013) (Boggs, J.) In this case, a trademark infringement action was brought by a national yellow-pages publisher, Yellowbook, and the Sixth Circuit concluded that Yellowbook acquired the entire ownership interest in the AMTEL trademark when Yellowbook purchased a local Ohio phonebook business operating under that name.
The dispute over AMTEL's chain of title began when defendant Steven Brandeberry purchased an Ohio phonebook business operating under the AMTEL mark. Brandeberry signed this first asset purchase agreement in his individual and corporate capacity as president of his business, American Telephone Directories. Brandeberry subsequently sold American Telephone Directories to another individual. In the second asset purchase agreement, all assets of American Telephone Directories were transferred to the purchaser in their entirety. Yellowbook subsequently purchased the business in its entirety. After Yellowbook began using the AMTEL mark, Brandeberry published a competing phonebook in Ohio under the same name.
Yellowbook filed suit, asserting claims of trademark infringement, tortious interference and abandonment. On summary judgment, the district court found in favor of Brandeberry on these claims. Because Brandeberry signed the first asset purchase agreement in his individual and corporate capacity, the district court held that Brandeberry and his business held joint ownership rights in the AMTEL mark. Thus, when Brandeberry subsequently sold his business, he still retained his personal interest in the AMTEL mark and retained his right to continue using the mark. The district court also rejected Yellowbook's abandonment claim, concluding that abandonment was only a defense to trademark infringement and could not be used offensively. Yellowbook appealed.
On appeal, the Sixth Circuit reversed and remanded, concluding that "[j]oint ownership is disfavored in the trademark context." Because a trademark reflects the accumulated goodwill of a business, "when a business sells the entirety of its assets, the trade name is presumably one of these assets." Further, the asset purchase agreements at issue were not structured as a sale of only certain assets and did not include licensing provisions. Thus the Court explained that it "will not presume the creation of jointly owned or non-exclusively licensed trademark rights, especially where dissipation of goodwill, and increased customer confusion, is inevitable."
The Sixth Circuit also explained that abandonment could be asserted offensively in a trademark infringement action. To limit abandonment to a defense "would permit trademark users who abandoned their rights impunity from charges of infringement, regardless of the official registration and legitimate use in commerce of later users." The Court concluded that even if Brandeberry retained any individual rights in the AMTEL mark, Brandeberry's six years of non-use of the AMTEL mark was well beyond the three-year statutory presumption for abandonment.
Practice Note: The nature and overall structure of the asset purchase agreement and the absence of licensing provisions are important factors to consider when evaluating whether trademark rights have been transferred exclusively or non-exclusively.
The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought about your specific circumstances.
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Last month’s giant recall of Natura dry pet foods over salmonella fears has been expanded, with more brands, products, and sizes joining the others on the list.
On March 18, Natura recalled many different varieties of food in four extremely popular brands: California Natural, Evo, Healthwise, and Innova. This week’s recalls packs more products from the brands — and incudes one more: Karma.
It also expands the production window it’s pulling from, even including products made in the surrounding timeframe. It’s recalling all dry dog and cat food products made on the affected manufacturing line from January through March 2013.
In the previous recall, the company made much to-do about it being its first recall in more than 21 years. This makes it the company’s second recall in two weeks.
The company maintains that the recall affects dry dog, cat, and ferret food only; Natura canned and wet products are not involved.
The list of affected products by these brands is long; check here for specific titles and descriptions, sizes, lot numbers, and UPC codes.
No illnesses have been reported. The affected products were sold in bags through veterinary clinics, select pet specialty retailers, and online in the United States, Canada, Korea, Malaysia, Japan, Hong Kong, and Costa Rica.
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, “pets with salmonella infections may be lethargic and have diarrhea or bloody diarrhea, fever, and vomiting. Some pets will have only decreased appetite, fever, and abdominal pain. Infected but otherwise healthy pets can be carriers and infect other animals or humans. If your pet has consumed the recalled product and has these symptoms, please contact your veterinarian.”
Again, be sure to check the full list here if you use any of these brands.
For more information, call Natura Pet Products Inc. at (800) 224-6123 or visit the Natura Pet website.
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surfboard definition by Webster's New World
a long, narrow board used in the sport of surfing
to engage in this sport
surfboard definition by American Heritage Dictionary
A long, narrow, somewhat rounded board, usually having one or two fins, used for surfing.intransitive verb surf·boards, surf·board·ing, surf·board·ed
To engage in the sport of surfing.
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Dewalt Dt2077qz Jigsaw Blades (5)
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In a recent article , Mansuripur has claimed that inside the matter, conventional Lorentz Force law should be abandoned in favor of a more general expression of the electromagnetic force density such as the one discovered by A. Einstein and J.Laub in 1908. The main focus of the claim of Mansuripur is based on special theory of relativity. According to , Lorentz force law is incompatible with special theory of relativity. In this article, we have focused in favor of Einstein-Laub equations (Force law; associated stress tensor, momentum density, Poynting vector etc) from quite different point of views. Especially we have tried to include previously and recently reported experimental observations, Abraham, Minkowski and Nelson controversy, Quantum Electrodynamics and most importantly the significance of associated stress tensors to judge the problem from a broader and engineering point of view. At the end of the day, considering all the issues, we have found that only Einstein-Laub equations can predict the actual total force inside the matter and probably consistent with all other laws of Electrodynamics.
- Pub Date:
- November 2012
- Physics - General Physics;
- Physics - Classical Physics
- Please visit this link: http://web.mit.edu/redingtn/www/netadv/srLzMa.html We are supporting 'Einstein -Laub equations' inside the matter from quite different point of view
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If you live nearly anywhere on Earth -- those of you north of 73° you're out of luck, but I'm guessing there aren't many of you! -- and look to the southeast shortly after sunset, you'll see the figure of Orion. Follow the three belt stars to the east, and you'll see a bright star: Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky. If it's near the horizon, you may see it twinkling madly: flickering, dancing, perhaps even changing color.
This gave astronomer David Lynch an idea: take a time exposure of Sirius with a camera and telephoto, and purposely wiggle the mount. He tried it on January 4, 2012, and the result he got is actually quite lovely:
Isn't that cool? As the vibrating camera caused the star to trail around, the changing colors got recorded along the track. The changing brightness of Sirius can be seen as well, as parts of the loop-de-loop fade and intensify.
The reason stars twinkle is because of our atmosphere: little blobs of air are constantly in motion. These air parcels act like lenses, and as light passes through them, the path of the ray gets bent a little bit. That's what causes the dancing motion, the actual twinkling. Different colors get bent by different amounts (which is why prisms break up white light into separate colors).
While it's beautiful to our eyes, twinkling is a major pain to astronomers. It blurs our images! That's why we launch telescopes into space, or design fancy optics for ground-based telescopes to remove it. Twinkling is free, but correcting it sure ain't.
Image credit: David Lynch (used by permssion). Tip o' the Snell's Law to Earth Science Picture of the Day.
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We are officially launching our website www.tangy.allineed.in today April 12, 2011 for Bangalore city. This is a basic version of the website, which is capable of automatically detecting your Current location and searching restaurants around you.
How to use the website:
This website is very easy to use. You just need to mention the distance within which you want to get the list of restaurants, then press FIND. Bang!!! It will give you the restaurant names and other details like Address, phone no, landmark and locate them on the map provided.
There are some browser (e.g. Internet Explorer) doesn’t allow location detection, in such cases you can set your exact location by searching the same on a utility provided at the link Reset Location.
Inception of Idea:
On a fine day, after hectic shopping at a popular local market in Bangalore, I wanted to eat something nice and tasty. Apart from the market, this area was totally alien for me. I didn’t know any nearby restaurant which can serve mouth watering food. I tried asking people around, which resulted and got unsatisfactory responses…. Then, myself as software professional, tried querying our IT God, The GOOGLE.
It gave me few websites which can help searching restaurants in a locality. After trying them, I realized, I should better find some other way else would lose my interest of eating itself. Finally, I found a restaurant and its address. Thanks to the autowala who helped me reaching to the address.
I relaxed myself in the pleasant ambiance of the restaurant and asked waiter for menu. After browsing through it, I ordered south Indian special foods. While enjoying nice meal at the restaurant I thought, If there were a website which can find places around me(not in some unknown locality) and help me reaching there, I would not have struggled this much. I started thinking what all this portal could have, how this can be done etc., And the idea for creating this website came into existence.
We have collected around 1400+ food places in Bangalore and able to locate them on the map. We are in the process to collect the all restaurants to cover entire Bangalore. We want tangy.allineed.in to make such a website that, it can serve you fast with highest accuracy.
The released basic version covers following features:
- Automatic detection of your location
- Search restaurants within 50 km radius of your location.
- All the restaurants can be located on the map.
- Address, phone no, and landmark for each found location.
- Correction tool to reset your location (for the browser which does not support location detection)
Soon we will be coming up with mobile and advanced web version with lots of features to make your restaurant search easiest ever.
We are providing this as a Free Service. To make this website better we need your valuable feedback and suggestions. Kindly let us know your views to make this an awesome website. CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR FEEDBACK
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It’s easy to get confused when checking the plug fuse during PAT Testing.
One important thing to remember is that the job of the person doing the PAT Testing is expected to look at the plug fuse and make a decision on whether or not it is suitable. Many people simply check the fuse and write down the value, without actually considering whether it is appropriate or not!
A very simple way of checking the fuse is to look at the Power Rating on the rating plate of the appliance. You should always be able to see how much power (in Watts) the appliance will consume when in use. A mark of 150W means that the appliance is ‘rated’ at 150 Watts – or to express it scientifically, it will use 150 Joules of energy every second.
If the appliance is rated at less that 700W then the best fuse to use is a 3A.
If the appliance is rated at more than 700W then it can be fitted with a 13A fuse.
This method is very simple, and quite basic, but works well enough.
The main purpose of the plug fuse is to protect the cable, and you may find appliances with 6A cable fitted with 5A plug fuses. This is quite acceptable. Many power tools (such as electric drills and jigsaws) are like this, as well as many mains leads supplied with computers.
It is not usually necessary to replace a small fuse with a bigger one, – for example if a TV is fitted with a 3A fuse, and is working correctly, it would not be a good idea to fit a larger fuse – even if it is fitted with heavier cable. New appliances (provided they are purchased from a reputable supplier) are required by law to have a suitable plug (with an appropriate fuse inside) fitted when sold. However, very old appliances were probably not supplied with a plug, and the person fitting the plug all those years ago has probably fitted a 13A fuse when a smaller one would have been better. Hence, the older the appliance is, the more likely it is that the fuse will be too big.
Be prepared to replace lots of 13A fuses with smaller ones if you routinely deal with older appliances!
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Rehabilitating the fishing sector in former conflict zone
Refrigerated storage facilities and trucks help returning Jaffna fishers recover their livelihoods
29 October 2004, Jaffna, Sri Lanka - After two decades of civil conflict, Sri Lankan fishers in the northern peninsula of Jaffna are slowly returning to their homes and livelihoods. An FAO emergency rehabilitation project, funded by the Government of Germany, is helping accelerate economic recovery in the region, creating opportunities for a more profitable fish trade.
In July, construction work finished on three fish collection centres with cold storage facilities, part of a pilot project in a longer-term programme for sustainable rehabilitation and development of the fishing sector in northeastern Sri Lanka. The FAO project, in collaboration with the Ministry of Fisheries and Ocean Resources, provides immediate assistance to some 3 000 fisher families in the worst-affected villages in Jaffna, an area particularly hard hit by the conflict.
More than 15 000 people were displaced from Jaffna's coastal areas and over 12 000 houses belonging to fishing families in the district were destroyed. To date, some 7 000 of the fishing population have returned, many of them living in temporary housing. Fish are the most important natural resource in the area, and fishing is the main livelihood of the local population.
Direct access to market boosts income
The fish collection centres, built with support from the FAO project, allow storage of excess fish and fish caught during off hours, while it awaits transportation to the market in the capital, Colombo. A German Technical Cooperation project will provide the fishers with six refrigerated trucks.
The storage facilities and trucks give the fishers direct access to the market in Colombo and ultimately to the export market, increasing the value of their catch.
"Cold storage facilities and adequate transportation mean the small-scale fishers in Jaffna get control of a larger part of the value-chain," says Jean Michel Arnoult, FAO emergency coordinator in Sri Lanka. "Up until now traders have come from Colombo to the Jaffna fishing villages to buy fish at a price set by the traders. By taking the fresh fish to Colombo, profit from the much higher price paid in Colombo goes directly to the fisher families."
And the fishermen see a chain of advantages:
"When we get more money for our fish, we will be able to buy better boats and modern fishing gear that will increase our catch," says Kandavanni Sooriyakumaran, Secretary of the fishermen's cooperative in the village of Inparuddy. "With a better income we will also be able to buy other food, like fruits and vegetables, for our families."
Power in numbers
Traditionally the fishers in Jaffna are organized in cooperatives, by village, which are members of a union of about 10 cooperatives.
"The well-working structure of village cooperatives and unions has helped in the implementation of the project," says Arnoult. "Day-to-day activities of fish receiving, packaging and storage remain the responsibility of the respective cooperative society, while the operations of the new fish collection centres, transportation and marketing will be the responsibility of the unions. The union guarantees that the extra profit from the market in Colombo is distributed to the fishers."
The collection centres will be equipped with weighing machines, plastic boxes for transporting the fish, gloves and rubber boots. In addition, the initial beneficiary group of three unions will receive management training in accounting and marketing and technical training in improved fish handling practices.
The fishers will be trained in fish handling, cleaning, icing and boxing; the operation and maintenance of the cold storage room; salting, drying and the operation of solar dryers.
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Academic studies in the social sciences often find very different results even in disciplines like medicine, where one might imagine there to be a direct, physical relationship between the. How to be a responsible consumer 5 steps to shopping responsibly and most large brands are getting smart about this and for those that haven’t - it goes back to consumer power demand that corporations understand where their goods are being manufactured. A smart consumer looks for a good, reliable product that’s reasonably-priced the cheapest product may not be the best deal in the long-run if it doesn’t perform, or needs costly repairs 2. Just a few tips on how to be a smart consumer a little long but i think it should be worth it liked this video then hit the thumbs up, comment letting me know, and subscribe.
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The smart consumer group (scg) is an educational organization which provides ideas to help you save more and spend less through this web site and our series of free workshops, scg introduces the keys to being a smart consumer. The top 10 nuts and bolts of being a smart healthcare consumer: compile a personal health file and update after each visit, including list of all health care providers. Be a smart consumer myth #1: you need to pay someone to help you complete your financial aid applications fact #1: financial aid consultants are not the same as financial aid administrators financial aid consultants usually charge a fee for a variety of services. Consumer reports explains s may be a smart move in some cases, combining your retirement accounts can help you to manage them more efficiently and save money by carla fried.
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Daniel Taken to Babylon
1During the third year that Jehoiakim was king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and surrounded it with his army. 2The Lord allowed Nebuchadnezzar to capture Jehoiakim king of Judah. Nebuchadnezzar also took some of the things from the Temple of God, which he carried to Babylonia and put in the temple of his gods.
3Then King Nebuchadnezzar ordered Ashpenaz, his chief officer, to bring some of the men of Judah into his palace. He wanted them to be from important families, including the family of the king of Judah. 4King Nebuchadnezzar wanted only young Israelite men who had nothing wrong with them. They were to be handsome and well educated, capable of learning and understanding, and able to serve in his palace. Ashpenaz was to teach them the language and writings of the Babylonians. 5The king gave the young men a certain amount of food and wine every day, just like the food he ate. The young men were to be trained for three years, and then they would become servants of the king of Babylon. 6Among those young men were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah from the people of Judah.
7Ashpenaz, the chief officer, gave them Babylonian names. Daniel’s new name was Belteshazzar, Hananiah’s was Shadrach, Mishael’s was Meshach, and Azariah’s was Abednego.
8Daniel decided not to eat the king’s food or drink his wine because that would make him unclean. So he asked Ashpenaz for permission not to make himself unclean in this way.
9God made Ashpenaz, the chief officer, want to be kind and merciful to Daniel, 10but Ashpenaz said to Daniel, “I am afraid of my master, the king. He ordered me to give you this food and drink. If you begin to look worse than other young men your age, the king will see this. Then he will cut off my head because of you.”
11Ashpenaz had ordered a guard to watch Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. 12Daniel said to the guard, “Please give us this test for ten days: Don’t give us anything but vegetables to eat and water to drink. 13After ten days compare how we look with how the other young men look who eat the king’s food. See for yourself and then decide how you want to treat us, your servants.”
14So the guard agreed to test them for ten days. 15After ten days they looked healthier and better fed than all the young men who ate the king’s food. 16So the guard took away the king’s special food and wine, feeding them vegetables instead.
17God gave these four young men wisdom and the ability to learn many things that people had written and studied. Daniel could also understand visions and dreams.
18At the end of the time set for them by the king, Ashpenaz brought all the young men to King Nebuchadnezzar. 19The king talked to them and found that none of the young men were as good as Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. So those four young men became the king’s servants. 20Every time the king asked them about something important, they showed much wisdom and understanding. They were ten times better than all the fortune-tellers and magicians in his kingdom! 21So Daniel continued to be the king’s servant until the first year Cyrus was king.
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