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The Anthropology of Security
Perspectives from the Frontline of Policing, Counter-terrorism and Border Control
The book shows how contemporary Europe is now home to a vast security industry which uses biometric identification systems, CCTV and quasi-military techniques to police migrants and disadvantaged neighbourhoods. This is the first collection of anthropological studies of security with a particular but not exclusive emphasis on Europe.
The Anthropology of Security draws together studies on the lived experiences of security and policing from the perspective of those most affected in their everyday lives. The anthropological perspectives in this volume stretch from the frontlines of policing and counter-terrorism to border control.
Mark Maguire is Head of Anthropology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. He is co-author of The Anthropology of Security: Perspectives from the Frontline of Policing, Counter-terrorism and Border Control (Pluto, 2014).
Catarina Frois is Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Lisbon University. She is co-author of The Anthropology of Security: Perspectives from the Frontline of Policing, Counter-terrorism and Border Control (Pluto, 2014).
Nils Zurawski is Visiting Professor in Security, Social Conflicts and Regulation at the University of Hamburg. He is co-author of The Anthropology of Security: Perspectives from the Frontline of Policing, Counter-terrorism and Border Control (Pluto, 2014).
Introduction: The Anthropology of Security: Prospects, Retrospects and Aims
1. Sarkozy and Roma: Performing Securitisation - Marion Demossier
2. Video-Surveillance and the Political Use of Discretionary Power in the Name of Security and Defence - Catarina Frois
3. Location, Isolation and Disempowerment: The Swift Proliferation of Security Discourse among Policy Professionals - Greg Feldman
4. Compensating (In)Security: Anthropological Perspectives on Internal Security - Alexandra Schwell
5. Petty States of Exception: The Contemporary Policing of the Urban Poor - Didier Fassin
6. Counter-Terrorism in European Airports - Mark Maguire
7. Whose Security? The Deportation of Foreign-National Offenders from the U.K. - Ines Hasselberg
8. Grey Zones of Illegality: Inhuman Conditions in Receiving Irregular Migrants in Greece - Jutta Lauth Bacas
Afterword: Security: Encounters, Misunderstanding and Possible Collaborations - Didier Bigo
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We work with a lot of businesses using QuickBooks to maintain their accounting records. QuickBooks is fabulous and affordable software, but there a few things to keep in mind to make sure QuickBooks continues to serve you and your business well.
Always say “yes” to the updates. This is for your operating system, as well as your QuickBooks software. You should have your computer and software set to “Update Automatically.” When you log-on to your computer or log-in to QuickBooks occasionally you will a message asking you to load updates. Although “later” is a choice, always take the time to load them immediately and restart if required. A few seconds now, will save you hours later.
Always keep you software within the three year support window. The payroll feature requires you renew yearly, but your regular software is good for three years. As you near the end of the three years, go ahead and upgrade to the current year’s version in order to ensure that your software is supported by Intuit in case you have an issue. (example: if you are using the 2017 version, you will want to upgrade to 2020 when it is released in November 2019).
Enter/download your transactions often (we recommend at least weekly). The more up-to-date you keep your data, the more accurate it will be. You are much more likely to remember what items were and where they need posted if you enter your data often.
Reconcile your bank account(s) and credit card(s) each month using the reconciliation feature in QuickBooks. This feature can be reached in the desktop version by going to “Banking” and choosing “Reconcile”. It can be accessed in QuickBooks Online by going to the Gear icon and choosing “Reconcile.” By doing this each month, even if you use bank feeds to download your transactions, you can be certain you have properly captured all of you transactions and have an accurate cash balance each month.
Never change a transaction from a prior tax year. Although QuickBooks will allow you to change anything anytime, this does not always mean that it’s a good idea. Changing items in a prior tax year can cause a myriad of problems that will make your tax preparer frown!
Use “Ask my Accountant”. This account comes preloaded in all versions of QuickBooks and it is a great place to put anything you are unsure of how to classify. Periodically pull up that account and give your Accountant a call so you can get some assistance with your questions. If you post a transaction to a random account and plan to ask about it later, you will forget, or you will not be able to find the transaction later. The “Ask my Accountant” feature prevents you from taking a guess and being wrong.
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Never close your software using the “x”, always go to “file and close company” before you exit. This ensures that everything is posted and your software updates install properly.
Keep your password current and complex
Don’t be afraid to ask for help! QuickBooks is easy to learn, but you can only learn how to do something correctly if you ask, so ASK!!!
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Securing a student loan is often an essential step for many individuals pursuing higher education.
In Nigeria, students also have the opportunity to avail themselves of student loans to finance their academic endeavors.
This blog post will shed light on the Nigeria Student Loan system, the Nigeria Student Loan Bill, and the Nigeria Student Loan Portal, providing valuable insights for aspiring students.
Understanding Nigeria Student Loan
The Nigeria Student Loan is a financial aid program designed to assist eligible students in covering the costs associated with tertiary education. It offers a lifeline to students who may lack the necessary funds to pursue their academic ambitions.
By providing access to affordable loans, the Nigerian government aims to promote educational opportunities for all, regardless of their financial background.
Nigeria Student Loan Bill
On Monday 12th June, 2023, President Bola Tinubu signed into law a bill for the establishment of Students Loan Fund (SLF).
To enhance the effectiveness and reach of the student loan program, the Nigerian government passed the Nigeria Student Loan Bill. This legislation aims to strengthen the existing framework and make education financing more accessible and sustainable.
The bill includes provisions for improving loan disbursement processes, increasing loan amounts, extending repayment periods, and establishing mechanisms to protect borrowers’ rights.
Key Features of the Nigeria Student Loan Bill:
1. Enhanced Loan Disbursement: The bill introduces streamlined processes to expedite loan disbursement, reducing bureaucratic hurdles and ensuring quicker access to funds.
2. Increased Loan Amounts: To address the rising cost of education, the bill proposes higher loan limits to cover tuition fees, accommodation, textbooks, and other educational expenses.
3. Extended Repayment Period: The bill recognizes the financial challenges faced by graduates and extends the loan repayment period, allowing borrowers more time to find stable employment before commencing repayments.
4. Transparent Loan Terms: The bill emphasizes transparency by clearly outlining the terms and conditions of the loan, including interest rates, repayment schedules, and penalties for defaulting.
Nigeria Student Loan Portal
The Nigeria Student Loan Portal serves as the central hub for student loan applications, processing, and management. It provides a convenient online platform where eligible students can apply for loans, access loan-related information, and track their loan status.
Key Features of the Nigeria Student Loan Portal:
1. Online Application: The portal allows students to submit their loan applications electronically, eliminating the need for physical paperwork and simplifying the application process.
2. Loan Management: Borrowers can access their loan details, including disbursement status, repayment schedules, and outstanding balances, through the portal. This facilitates efficient loan management and tracking.
3. Support and Resources: The portal offers comprehensive guidance and resources, including FAQs, loan calculators, and contact information for student loan support services. This ensures that students have access to the necessary information and assistance throughout their loan journey.
4. Communication Channel: The portal serves as a communication channel between borrowers and loan administrators, enabling timely updates, clarifications, and notifications related to loan status, repayment reminders, and other important information.
The Nigeria Student Loan program, backed by the Nigeria Student Loan Bill and facilitated by the Nigeria Student Loan Portal, provides students with a vital avenue to fund their higher education.
Aspiring students in Nigeria can leverage this financial aid program to realize their academic aspirations and contribute to the country’s socio-economic growth. By continuously improving the loan system and streamlining processes, the Nigerian government aims to make higher education accessible to all, fostering a brighter future for the nation.
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Are you facing the problem of oculus rift s black screen and don’t know why? No problem, dig down this article till the end to find a way to fix it.
Oculus Rift S Black Screen
Are you an Oculus rift user? Do you like to get connected with the virtual environment while playing games? But you are facing problems like Oculus Rift s black screen?
Oculus Rift S is one of the new and up-to-date Oculus headsets that offer optimum performance and justice to the VR scene. Sometimes, while using the Oculus Rift S, the user might get issues like a black screen at a certain point. There is no need to worry about it as you are not alone in who is facing this issue as many gamers also face the same problem, but the bonus is that you can fix this issue just by following some steps precisely.
Don’t panic; we have an authentic solution for your problem, so delve into this article to know why you are facing this issue and how you can fix it.
What’s the reason for the Oculus Rift S black screen?
Below, we will mention all the significant reasons for Oculus Rift S turning black.
- There might be a problem with the Windows insider build, or may the software of Oculus Rift S must be remodeled.
- Moreover, sometimes the Oculus Rift S black screen issue may occur due to graphic card driver problems, or also it can be because of the USB driver.
- The Oculus Rift S back screen might be due to delayed windows updating, which means your Windows operating system needs to update. That’s why, when the user attempts to connect the Oculus Rift S, they will face the black screen issue.
How can we fix the Oculus Rift S black screen?
Want to resolve the issue of the Oculus Rift S black screen? You got it; we have compiled a list of the authentic solutions to fix the black screen issue of Oculus Rift S.
Restart the Oculus Rift S software
If you are facing the issue of the Oculus Rift S black screen, you need to restart the Oculus Rift software, so for the restart, you have to do the below steps.
- First of all, launch the oculus rift software setting and then click on the Beta here. You will see the option ‘Restart Oculus.’
- One thing to remember is that you have to take out all the USB and display ports to be reloaded effectively.
- After reloading, reattach the USB and Display port, and the problem of the black screen will be fixed.
Uninstall Graphics Driver
For resolving the issue of the Oculus Rift S black screen, you have to follow the below steps;
- Remove all the Oculus software and all the folders related to it.
- Now, start the safe mode in Windows 10, and remove the Display driver uninstaller that will remove all the graphics drivers. Then, you have to restart the Windows in normal mode.
- After this, reseat the AMD display drivers, download the Oculus Rift S software, and install the drivers again.
Disconnect the headset and then connect
The Oculus Rift S headsets are masterfully created with several technologies that allow users to get a wonderful experience. But, if you are having a black screen problem, then better to take off all the cords and then connect them; it will resolve the black screen issue.
Reinstall Oculus app
You can also get rid of this issue just by removing and then reinstalling the Oculus app, so you have to follow the below steps precisely;
- Turn your system into the safe mode and then go to Local Disk (C).
- Go to the Oculus folder from the program files and then choose the Oculus setup.
- From here, you have to uninstall the Oculus app and then reinstall it.
- After downloading the Oculus, open the File Explorer and choose the Local Disk (C).
- Then delete the Oculus folder and from the ‘file explorer’ go to the ‘Users.’
- Here you will see an option ’App data’ and three folders named Local, Local, Roaming is present, better to delta all of them and then delete Oculus and all the related files.
Reset runtime service of Oculus
If nothing works, it is better to find a way to fix the black screen issue by using Oculus Runtime services. All you have to do is to follow the below steps.
- From the search bar, search ‘Services.’
- Now, you will have the option ‘Oculus Runtime Services,’ select it and choose the ‘restart’ option.
By doing this, you will quickly fix the Oculus Rift S black screen issue.
You don’t have to throw your Oculus Rift S after facing an issue like the black screen, as it doesn’t mean that the headset is not in use anymore. We have a long list of fixation solutions so that you can follow them and get rid of the Oculus Rift S black screen issue. We hope you find this article, Oculus Rift S, helpful and informative.
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We, the members of the Count Me In! Consortium (CMI![i]), applaud the European Commission’s investment of EUR 500 Million to the United Nations for women’s rights and ending violence against women. At a time when closing civic spaces increasingly constrict and threaten women’s rights, these funds are highly promising.
The members of CMI! encourage the Commission's Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development and the United Nations to build on best practices for propelling women’s rights globally.
We recommend the following:
1. Ensure strong representation and participation from women’s and feminist movements.
Women’s movements around the world have been at the forefront of ending violence against women, advancing women’s participation on local, national and global levels and securing relevant legislation and policy for gender equality. Women’s movements should play a central role in helping define, implement and track the programme(s) established through these funds.
- Establish and widely publicise a transparent process for civil society consultation, especially the participation of women’s and feminist organisations, including in the immediate development phase and for ongoing and regular contributions;
- Commit to at least 20% representation from among women’s movements on any formal governing body (e.g. steering committee).
2. Allocate a significant portion of funding for women’s organisations.
The impact of directly funding these organisations is well documented. Within a diverse civil society landscape, any programmatic approach should prioritise resources for feminist and women-led organising to advance context-specific strategies toward ending violence against women and girls.
- Undertake an open, competitive and transparent grant process to deliver funds, following best practices in women’s rights philanthropy and development funding, including ensuring accessibility to smaller women’s organisations;
- Ensure that any technical review committee includes women’s movement representation from relevant countries and regions;
- Lead efforts to mobilise resources from actors not currently investing in the field and avoid competing for resources that already reach feminist and women's rights groups on the ground.
3. Do not create a new funding mechanism,
when effective mechanisms, such as the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women, already exist. Instead, strengthen existing infrastructure and leverage lessons learned from current UN funds such as the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women and the Fund for Gender Equality, as well as from bilateral funds such as the Dutch MDG3 and FLOW Funds.
4. Strengthen existing gender entities at the UN.
Funding of this magnitude should contribute to entities with core missions related to women’s rights and empowerment, especially UN Women. We see this as an opportunity to strengthen these entities’ impact and accountability to women’s movements.
5. Draw on existing analysis and evidence.
Ample research examines the opportunities for and challenges of funding practices to advance gender equality, including strategies to end violence against women. For instance, AWID’s research analyses trends in bilateral and multilateral funding of women’s rights. We strongly recommend that the EC and UN conduct a scoping of such research to avoid past mistakes and set the stage for this programme to have greatest impact.
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How to Create an App and Website Like Pinterest?
At times, each of us craves a fresh dose of inspiration. Surely, there're many ways to get it, and one of them is to browse through bright pictures... after all, we, the people, are visuals and perceive the world with our eyes!
A good way to find cool inspirational images is to use websites and apps like Pinterest. You just have to clarify the theme you prefer (say, Art, Architecture, etc.), and the resource will offer you a lot of great options.
That's why Pinterest is growing in popularity day by day along with the number of images in its database. Judge for yourself: in 2020, the resource could be proud of more than 300 million monthly active users around the world (which is hardly the limit). Isn't it impressive?
Moreover, the Pinterest platform is being successfully monetized: in 2019, the site's revenue had exceeded $ 1 billion. The fact is, some of the aforementioned users are businessmen who resort to Pinterest to promote their own company, and they’re ready to fork out to achieve this goal.
We guess it makes total sense to create a Pinterest clone application or website and start earning money too, what do you think? If you don't mind taking the risk, you'll have a real chance to get your slice of cake as well.
The task isn’t an easy one, though. So let's talk it through and discuss how to become a worthy competitor to Pinterest.
What is Pinterest?
Pinterest is one of the most popular social media platforms. It's somewhat similar to Instagram and also focuses on image content. However, on Pinterest, images go from one account to another for months and constantly gain new likes and views (in comparison with Instagram, where the lion's share of views falls on the first 12 hours).
Another cool nuance: Pinterest came up with its own names for everything. Images are called pins, and the collections in which they are gathered are boards. Figuratively speaking, the images seem to be attached to virtual boards with pins (hence the Pin name) and put on public display. By the way, the main page on Pinterest is known as Pin Feed.
So, we've briefly discussed the interface of Pinterest, now it's time to move on to other topics.
Who can use Pinterest-like apps and websites?
Pinterest users are divided into 2 main groups. We offer to discuss each at length.
Ways most people use Pinterest:
A source of interesting ideas and inspiration. And we’re talking not only about creative people such as web designers and illustrators. Everyone needs new ideas now and then! Here are a couple of examples:
visiting a hairdresser or stylist. Clients compose a moodboard using the Pinterest content so that the expert would understand their wishes and expectations;
inspiration with ideas for the upcoming holiday;
Finding friends with the same tastes;
Making a shopping list;
Just entertainment, as scrolling through the Pin Feed is so fun!
By developing a Pinterest alternative app, you clearly have a goal of making money in mind. Therefore, you need to attract the attention of businessmen (on the model of the same Pinterest).
Yes, Pinterest is a handy business marketing tool. The resource allows effectively advertising and even selling a product, finding partners or suppliers. These additional services are paid, but worth it. To be precise, the owners of Pinterest get their profits, and the entrepreneurs promote their company:
Architectural site ArchDaily managed to increase its traffic by 6% with the help of Pinterest;
Caribou Coffee, which owns a chain of coffee shops in the United States, decided to resort to paid business features of Pinterest either. As a result, the company had received over 10 million views of its content, and the traffic in social networks had increased significantly;
Also, Pinterest is being actively used by such well-known brands as Sony, Elle magazine, Nordstrom clothing store, and Sephora cosmetics company.
The Minds Journal is using Pinterest to post striking photographs, motivational quotes, and tons of helpful tips.
If we've convinced you that creating an app similar to Pinterest could be a profitable idea, let's take a look at how your potential competitor approaches the way its web and mobile service works.
How Pinterest works
As we’ve already explained to you, Pinterest resembles an endless board with many beautiful images pinned to it. Each user is free to create as many boards as he wants and fill each with thematic pictures.
In addition to creating different albums of images, users can repost (or rather, repin) pictures they like and publish them on their pages.
To create a Pinterest clone application or website, you need to sort out the first user's steps. Let's say a user wants to download an app like Pinterest... what happens next?
How to get started with Pinterest?
Of course, you should start by registering on Pinterest. The easiest way to sign up is through other social media platforms such as FB;
At the second stage, Pinterest asks the user various questions and finds out his preferences in order to form a feed of recommendations (his own Pin Feed);
Also, a user may install a browser extension and get a special Pinterest button. It allows saving interesting pictures and videos to his board from any other resource;
That's it, Pinterest is ready to be used! You're welcome to start gathering your picture collections and enjoy your personal pin feed, tailored exactly to your tastes.
What if you’re a businessman?
Of course, a Pinterest-like website and app should offer a few more steps for people who want to register a business account, such as:
The company must design its account accordingly: add an avatar, choose a name and indicate a link to the site;
The business owner should describe his brand in order to get the opportunity to attract users to his page;
Also, Pinterest will offer to mark whether the paid promotion is planned;
Now it's time to start creating boards and filling them with pins.
Pinterest website and application history
Pinterest was founded in 2010 by three young IT experts. More correctly, the development itself began in 2009, and in 2010 the first beta version was released.
Alas, the guys were unable to stir up users' interest, people weren't too willing to take advantage of the unknown resource. But it was too early to despair.
Especially since everything had changed after one of the founders of Pinterest attended the women's conference of bloggers: these female influencers were delighted with the new exciting service. They decided it could be the perfect place to exchange recipes, fashion items, interior design ideas, etc.
“This is who should become the core of our target audience!” - the founders of the company understood, and thus laid the foundation for the resource, which inspired so many Pinterest alternatives in the future.
Initially, the pin feed featured the most popular posts based on user subscriptions. Such an approach helped attract like-minded people but was insufficient to ensure real Pinterest’s success. So the service owners changed their strategy and introduced algorithms for analyzing user behavior in order to offer each subscriber something personal able to captivate him.
Here are a couple more facts to help you understand what kind of competitor you'll have to face after developing an application like Pinterest:
Pinterest ranked in the Top 50 Sites of 2011 (according to Time magazine);
In early 2012, Pinterest surpassed YouTube and LinkedIn in traffic;
In the spring of 2019, Pinterest went public and its stock jumped almost 30% right away.
The growth and evolvement of the resource continue to this day. Among others, in the first half of 2018, Pinterest introduced several new features, including archiving boards and sorting them according to different parameters.
Pinterest mobile app
Apps like Pinterest are essential because not everyone has the opportunity to use a fully-featured website. Realizing this, the owners of Pinterest had created an intuitive and user-friendly mobile platform. Its interface is simple and clear and has nothing extra. What's more, users have access to all the features of the web version of the resource.
The Pinterest application was launched a year after the website release and initially focused on iPhone users. Other mobile versions appeared later.
And what can Pinterest be proud of today? Pay attention to the statistics below and find out everything first-hand. Such data will guide you in developing a Pinterest alternative app.
Pinterest is growing 130% annually, and that's just outside the US;
Almost 95% of Pinterest users plan various kinds of purchases with the resource's content;
80+ % of posts on Pinterest are repins;
More than half of Pinterest's users live outside the United States, which means the service is going global;
And finally, the main audience of Pinterest is women, and half of them are mothers.
Now let’s discuss what makes Pinterest different from its competition.
Why is Pinterest so popular?
As you know, Pinterest owes its popularity to young women, especially housewives who do handicrafts and don't mind popularizing their creations. And Pinterest-like apps and websites are perfect for these purposes as they offer:
maximum ease of use;
focus on eye-catching visual content;
varied social features.
Imagine seeing a picture, which interests and inspires you. With the help of Pinterest, you can save it in just a few clicks. Moreover, you'll have the option to add the image to one of your collections, which will look like a moodboard or cookbook page (depending on your needs and goals). Not bad, right? That's why we all love Pinterest so much.
Basic features of Pinterest
As you already understood, Pinterest allows you to upload images and add them to your boards, as well as repin pictures from third-party sites or accounts of Pinterest users.
Also, features include the ability to like and comment on images and perform other similar actions.
Yes, everything is extremely simple, but modern users are tired of the complexity and fond of Pinterest’s simplicity.
Additional business-focused functionality
To build an app like Pinterest, you have to think about additional paid features, which would allow you to monetize the service. As to the users, they'll get more opportunities for business promotion (if they're willing to pay, of course).
Take an example from Pinterest and the extra features it provides.
First of all, users with a business account can place a Pin It button on their site images, be it an eCommerce platform or an online magazine.
If a visitor to your site likes a certain image of yours, he may click the Pin It button and add the picture to one of his Pinterest albums. For businessmen, such an opportunity is extremely beneficial, because a link to his website will be attached to the added picture too.
To prove these business features of Pinterest really work, let's take a real-life example. The owners of the Allrecipes.com platform recoursed to a Pin It button, and soon users added 50+ K recipes from the resource to their boards. The Allrecipes.com traffic had also increased significantly.
Rich Pins links Pinterest to a third-party website (chosen by you as the business account owner) and gives you the opportunity to add more information to your pictures.
When Rich Pins is activated, the resource itself recognizes the type of your pin and suggests its correct use.
App Pins contain a special button needed to install the mobile program directly from Pinterest.
Product Pins simplify the shopping process and provide key information about the item.
Articles Pins are a great way to save photos of publications with a short article announcement.
Recipe Pins delight any cooking fan as they allow creating a collection of your favorite recipes.
Shopping with Pinterest
In truth, you can make an app like Pinterest successful even without such an option: after all, your key competitor has this feature mostly available to US residents.
Pinterest Selling Pins are enhanced with a virtual price tag and a Buy button. The user just clicks on it and proceeds to pay online.
Analytics & Statistics
To create a Pinterest clone application, you also need to offer business users access to analytics and statistics.
For instance, Pinterest Analytics provides a business owner with information about the actions of visitors to his web pages, such as:
the most popular boards of his profile among users;
pictures of his site, which users save in their Pinterest albums;
general characteristics of his target audience (gender, location, online behavior, preferences);
changes in traffic to his site;
the most commonly used devices by people adding his Pins.
How to Develop an App and Website like Pinterest?
It makes no sense to describe in detail everything required to build an app like Pinterest. In any case, you'll need expert advice on your project (which we're happy to provide).
So for now, we’ll just limit ourselves to a few key tips:
Market and consumer analysis. Any project should only be started if you have data on the expectations of consumers and your potential competitors. So first, conduct detailed market research, including an analysis of its major players;
Drawing up an initial strategy. You need to consider what niche your Pinterest-like website and app will occupy and what audience it's going to target. Only having this information on hand, you'll be able to come up with what to offer users so that they're fully satisfied;
Unique UI/UX. Take a look at Pinterest’s design. Users do love it, which is hardly surprising, given its intuitiveness, modernity, and simplicity. You, too, need to pay attention to the interface, it's more important than it seems at first glance. Among other things, make certain your website design is responsive;
Web development. You should hire IT experts with a thorough understanding of website building. They'll advise you on all issues and suggest the correct development strategy;
Mobile development. Plus, it won't hurt to build a mobile app in addition to the website either. So it's advisable to make sure your team understands how to develop an application like Pinterest;
Ability to handle the load. Since the resource will contain a huge number of images and short videos, it’s necessary that your server be able to cope with the additional load;
Testing. And of course, you need to constantly test your project so that your platform works properly and without unpleasant surprises.
Now it's time to take up another crucial issue, which is Pinterest-like website and app budget planning.
The Cost to Develop an App Like Pinterest
The above infographic gives you an overview of the estimated development costs. We'd like to supplement this information with a few tips on how to reduce your budget:
don't go after the company name alone. The more famous the company, the higher its rates;
the location of the company isn't the most important thing. Our infographic clearly demonstrates the dynamics of prices depending on the country where the development team is located;
start with an MVP model if you have to save. You can expand the functionality of your resource later.
Successful Pinterest alternative apps and websites
When launching an app like Pinterest, keep in mind that you'll have to deal with a great many competitors. And we're going to describe several of them.
Juxtapost is one of Pinterest's biggest competitors. And they have a lot in common.
Basically, with Juxtapost, you can do everything that is possible on Pinterest. Another cool thing about the resource is that you're allowed to save your chosen content in the form of tables. What if it comes in handy one day?
Designspiration is chosen by those who are passionate about design of any type. So people in creative professions use it to seek interesting ideas and discover new artists.
The site has a dynamic search, which always brings cool results. However, in general, the resource is similar in its nature to Pinterest.
And of course, when developing an application like Pinterest, Dribbble shouldn't be overlooked. You've probably heard about this excellent resource, which provides people in creative professions, whether they're web designers or illustrators, with a convenient platform to showcase their pieces.
Dribbble is more specialized than Pinterest, but also quite popular with users. So if you think your creativity deserves respect and attention, show your items here and get feedback from knowledgeable people.
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National School of Government Vacancies 2024– Everyone’s Always in the Search for a Good Job- High Pay, Job Security, Space to Grow. It’s What We Prepare Our Whole Lives For. However, it’s Gotten More and More Difficult in Recent Years, With Population Growth and Companies Preferring Cheap Labour.
The National School of Government is Currently Hiring for a Few Posts in South Africa Government Jobs.
Below, We have Provided More Details on the Kinds of Positions Available, the Pay, How to Apply, and More.
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Right now, National School of Government has a Few Job Openings they are Hiring For. Jobs Near Me at National School of Government in Pretoria, Gauteng. These Posts Will be Opening in South Africa, so For Those Who are Available to Work there or Wish to Work on an International Level, this Will be a Good Job Opportunity. No Deadline has Yet been Announced, but the Sooner You Apply, the Better Chances You Have.
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Job Summary For National School of Government Vacancies 2024
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Full Job Description of National School of Government Vacancies 2024
As There are Several Job Positions That have Opened up, Each one Has its Own Job Description as Well, as Well as Slightly Different Requirements and Qualifications.
Whenever a Job Vacancy is Issued, there are Some Criteria Stated in the Eligibility Section That the Applied/ Interested Candidate has to Meet. Otherwise, they Won’t be Able to Get Selected for the Concerned Post.
Therefore, the Sections That a Candidate has to Match for this Vacancy are as Follows-
|Full Details For Director Jobs
DUTIES: The incumbent will be responsible for the strategic leadership of the Directorate.
Key Results Areas: Oversee, lead and manage the design and development of new curriculum. Work in a collaborative way with all other units responsible for curriculum development. Establish norms and standards through the development and maintenance of a Curriculum Framework and Standard Operating Procedures. Design institutional interventions in collaboration with their units in the NSG.Manage the Directorate team as well as material, financial andknowledgeresources to optimise performance and meet Chief Directorate’skey result areas. Manage and report on the performance of the Directorate
Knowledge: Knowledge of and experience in Curriculum Instructional Design for online, virtual and face to face modes of delivery. Knowledge of decolonizing, transformational and participatory pedagogies. Knowledge and understanding of Constitution, Public Service Legislation including Skills Development Act, PFMA, Treasury regulations etc. Knowledge of SAQA and accreditation processes. A good theoretical and practical knowledge of best practice and cutting-edge curriculum and materials design. Knowledge and experience of integrating inclusivity issues in management and functions. Knowledge of emotional intelligence theory and application thereof in curriculum and pedagogy. Knowledge of a range of methodologies for teaching and learning. Good understanding of Project management cycle, methodologies, and tools. In-depth understanding of developmental assessment and moderation processes.
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Personal Attributes: Lead, inspire, coach and mentor staff at a strategic level. Select, develop, and performance-manage staff to deliver rapid, responsive, and reliable service from their components; Interface vigorously at executive / strategic levels within and outside the organisation; Negotiate and manage effective service levels in respect of the function with stakeholders (internal and external) and service providers to ensure sustained quality service delivery. Resolve conflicts decisively. Work under pressure to meet deadlines. Apply honesty and Integrity in the area of work. Travel and work extended hours.
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REQUIREMENTS: Minimum relevant undergraduate qualification (NQF level 7) as recognized by SAQA. A post graduate qualification in Curriculum Design and Quality Assurance/Accreditation will be an added advantage. Successful completion of the Senior Management Pre-Entry Programme (Nyukela). Relevant registration at a professional body will be advantageous.
Experience: 5 years’ proven experience at a middle/senior managerial level.
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Police said the task of recovering the stuck body was underway. Other five deceased are yet to be identified.
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Chris Helwig | July 9, 2021
This document is intended for institutional investors and is not subject to all of the independence and disclosure standards applicable to debt research reports prepared for retail investors.
Spreads in GSE CRT have tightened meaningfully over the past quarter, driven by a few factors. A slowdown in prepayment speeds has raised IO valuations on premium dollar priced bonds. And continued deleveraging and improving fundamentals have driven loss coverage multiples higher, triggering ratings upgrades and tightening spreads across most sectors of CRT. A recap of performance across CRT.
Since the beginning of April, both nominal and option-adjusted spreads across GSE CRT bonds have, on average, tightened by roughly 12%. Spread tightening across various sectors of the market has not been uniform. Spread tightening in mezzanine bonds has substantially outpaced those of subordinated bonds on a percentage basis. Nominal spreads across mezzanine cash flows have tightened by an average of roughly 50 bp, representing a 20% tightening over the past quarter, exhibiting comparable tightening of OAS. Mezzanine bonds backed by low LTV collateral have outperformed high LTV collateral in both nominal and option-adjusted terms. Average OAS on last cash flow bonds backed by low LTV collateral have tightened by more than 20% while spreads on high LTV bonds are in roughly 15%. Greater incremental tightening in last cash flows backed by low LTV collateral is likely partially driven by more meaningful increases in loss coverage, or the amount of credit enhancement bands have relative to the amount of loss the collateral pool is expected to take. Loss coverage multiples on low LTV mezzanine bonds increased from roughly 12 times expected losses in the beginning of April to more than 16 times expected losses currently, representing a 40% increase in loss coverage. Loss coverage multiples on high LTV collateral increased substantially as well, growing from 16 times expected losses to just over 19 times expected losses quarter-over-quarter.
Average nominal and option-adjusted spreads across subordinate bonds have tightened by 25 bp over the quarter, representing a 6% tightening since the beginning of April. Contrary to performance in mezzanine bonds, subordinates backed by high LTV loans slightly outperformed those backed by low LTV loans. Average nominal and option adjusted spreads on high LTV subs tightened by 30 bp on average, representing a 7% tightening over the quarter while spreads on subordinates backed by low LTV loans tightened 20 bp or 6% since the beginning of April. Net of bonds issued as first loss securities, where a loss coverage multiple would not apply, multiples on subordinate bonds broadly increased by 28% with multiples on low LTV loans expanding more meaningfully than those backed by high LTV loans at 37% and 21% respectively.
Screening for relative value
Given the recent tightening across all CRT cohorts, relative value looks likely to show up in different cohorts of CRT that have lagged the broader cohort level tightening and offer attractive OAS and loss coverage multiples. Looking first at mezzanine bonds backed by low LTV loans, certain seasoned 2016 vintage low LTV mezzanine bonds like STACR 2016-DNA1 M3 and CAS 2016-C03 1M2 may still offer attractive relative value. While the broader low LTV mezzanine cohort has seen OAS tighten by 21% and loss coverage multiples expand by 40%, the STACR bond has only experienced and 11% spread tightening while its loss coverage has increased by 69%. Using the same framework for mezzanine bonds backed by high LTV loans suggests that earlier vintage bonds may be similarly undervalued. One example of this is STACR 2015-HQA2 M3. While the cohort on average has seen a 15% tightening in OAS and a 28% increase in loss coverage, the bond has only seen a 7% tightening in its OAS while its loss coverage has increased by 50% over the quarter.
Turning to subordinate cash flows backed by low LTV loans where at the cohort level, spreads have tightened by 6% on average and loss coverage has improved by 37%, bonds in the 2016 vintage stand out again. For example, CAS 2016-C03 1B has experienced a 3% widening in its OAS despite a better than cohort improvement in loss coverage as its loss coverage multiple has improved by 67% over the quarter. In subordinates backed by high LTV loans, 2019 vintage STACR HQA series B2s may offer the most attractive relative value. STACR 2019-HQA1 B2 has experienced only a 1% change in its OAS despite a better than cohort level improvement in loss coverage. Admittedly, 2019 vintage high LTV deals by and large still maintain outsized populations of delinquent loans and lagging performance may be primarily driven by greater risk of default or modification related losses in these pools.
Checking in on the CRT mock draft
In April, Amherst Pierpont published the inaugural CRT Mock Draft providing six rounds of picks that based on a bond’s mix of tangible and intangible metrics appeared poised to outperform the broader cohort. Similar to any immediate analysis of a team’s draft it’s likely too soon to call the prospects outright winners or losers but to date most of the prospects have outperformed their respective cohorts. The timing of the mock draft roughly aligns with the beginning of the quarter but not perfectly so some of the performance of each individual bond may have occurred prior to the draft. With that said it appears that over the course of three months, the bonds selected have outperformed their respective cohorts, in some cases materially so.
- Round 1: STACR 2020-DNA5 B2 – The rationale behind the first-round pick was that higher premium, post COVID B2s could offer significant upside given expected strong credit performance and a slowdown in speeds as a result of a steep forward curve coupled with low WAC collateral. Last month the deal paid at roughly 26 CPR, a slowdown of roughly 20 CPR versus its March speed. Using a low LTV subordinate cohort as our benchmark, the bond has significantly outperformed the benchmark as both nominal and option-adjusted spreads on the bond have tightened by 20% over the quarter while benchmark spreads only tightening by 6%.
- Round 2: CAS 2019 -R04 2B1 – This bond garnered a second-round selection based on the belief that higher WAC, deep in-the-money should continue to prepay fast, allowing the bond to de-lever and roll down the credit curve. Since the beginning of the quarter, the bond has tightened by 50 OAS representing a 10% tightening in spread versus a high LTV subordinate benchmark of 6% and continues to exhibit elevated prepayment rates, prepaying at over 50 CPR last month.
- Round 3: CAS 2016-C01 2M2 – The third-round choice was a mezzanine bond that fit well into portfolios that require an investment grate rating or high NAIC designation. Over the quarter it outperformed its high LTV mezzanine benchmark as its nominal and option adjusted spread tightened by 22% versus 15% for the cohort while experiencing nearly a 20% greater increase in its loss coverage than the broader cohort.
- Round 4: STACR 2018-HQA2 B2 – The fourth-round choice has modestly underperformed its cohort as it is a high stated margin bond that is still experiencing elevated prepayment rates, limiting price upside and OAS tightening. As a result the bonds OAS has tightened by 4% versus cohort level tightening of 7% and given the recent flattening of the curve may still be subject to fast prepayments going forward.
- Round 5: STACR 2020-HQA5 B1 – The fifth-round choice also bested its cohort level benchmark as nominal and option adjusted spreads have tightened on the bond by 11% versus a cohort level benchmark of 7% as post-COVID subordinates have experienced broad based spread tightening over the past quarter.
Round 6: STACR 2015-DN1 B – The final round selection was a fixed-severity first loss bond with potential upside to curing of the delinquency pipeline. In April the reference pool had 3.96% of loans that were more than 60 days past due and an additional 1.10% of loans that were more than 30 days delinquent. As of the June remittance, the delinquency pipeline has not cured materially as the population of current loans still sits at roughly 95.5% of the reference balance. | <urn:uuid:76f9f04f-03ae-4072-9cf8-92d0c86c1386> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://portfolio-strategy.apsec.com/2021/07/09/recent-performance-and-relative-value-in-crt/ | 2024-02-22T13:43:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473819.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222125841-20240222155841-00594.warc.gz | en | 0.955501 | 1,776 | [
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Written Reply to Parliamentary Question on operation of hawker centres by social enterprises by Ms Grace Fu, Minister for Sustainability and the Environment
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1 As of 31 Dec 2023, there are 12 hawker centres that are operated by Socially-conscious Enterprise Hawker Centre (SEHC) operators.
2 To ensure that stall rental at SEHCs is kept reasonable and affordable, when the National Environment Agency (NEA) assesses bids, it takes into consideration the proposed rental, operating costs, and ancillary costs to be paid by stallholders such as table cleaning fees and central dishwashing charges. The operator is not allowed to charge stallholders rent that differs from that stated in the tender bid or subject the stall rentals to bidding.
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FACT CHECK: Trump Delivers State Of The Union To Tense, Partisan Congress
President Trump delivered his third State of the Union address Tuesday night, the day before his Senate impeachment trial is scheduled to wrap.
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Jake Polledri earned the highest player rating of the season so far from the fans after his standout performance against Bristol on Friday night.
His average score of 9.1 against his former club put him well ahead of his team-mates and was higher than the 8.8 Danny Cipriani received for his performance against Bath, which was the previous highest mark.
Three of the top four player ratings were members of Gloucester’s back row.
You can rate the players out of 10 after every game this season on Gloucestershire Live.
Here are the results from the 35-13 win over Bristol :
Jake Polledri 9.1
A first start of the season for the Italy flanker and he made the most of it. More carries (20) and defenders beaten (10) than any other Premiership player in round three, also running 87 metres – the highest of any forward in the league and any other player in the match
Lewis Ludlow 8.2
Another member of the young back row who made some strong runs, totalling 70 metres, and did some great work at the breakdown with two turnovers.
Charlie Sharples 8.1
Gloucester’s two-try hero. He came infield on a good line to take Danny Cipriani’s for the first and notched his 50 Premiership try six minutes later out wide.
Ruan Ackermann 8
Playing at number eight, the South African also carried superbly – making 15 in total and racking up 63 metres. He was also Gloucester’s top tackler with 18.
Ed Slater 7.9
Led by example with a powerful display and was rewarded with a try. Won seven lineouts.
Billy Twelvetrees 7.9
The centre has started the season in fine form and again combined well with Danny Cipriani to create openings.
Danny Cipriani 7.8
Didn’t quite reach the heights of the first two games but still made a telling contribution, producing the perfectly-timed pop pass for Sharples’ try.
Fraser Balmain 7.4
Another good night for the scrum with Balmain doing his best to nail down the number three jersey ahead of Ruan Dreyer’s return from injury.
Gerbrandt Grobler 7.3
A sweet start to life in the Premiership for the debutant lock who started Gloucester’s comeback with a try from close range at the start of the second half.
Matt Banahan 7.2
An outstanding finish for the try that rounded off the win late on, keeping his balance to get the ball down under pressure in the corner.
Franco Marais 7
An impressive first start for the South African hooker who was solid in the set piece, carried well and made some big tackles.
Henry Trinder 7
Showed glimpses of his class with a couple of breaks.
Ben Morgan 6.9
Had to settle for a bench spot but added his considerable bulk to a dominant forwards effort late on.
Josh Hohneck 6.9
A first start of the season for the Kiwi prop, who did okay but conceded two penalties.
Jason Woodward 6.8
Caught in two minds for Bristol’s try and made some good runs without being at his scintillating best.
Ciaran Knight 6.8
The young tight-head looks increasingly comfortable at this level, making some good tackles.
Callum Braley 6.8
Set up Sharples’ landmark 50 Premiership try.
James Hanson 6.7
Solid performance from the bench
Mark Atkinson 6.7
Contributed defensively after coming on but didn't see an awful lot of the ball.
Freddie Clarke 6.7
Went into the second row after replacing Gerbrandt Grobler and made some good carries.
Alex Seville 6.6
The prop fared well ofter coming on for his Premiership debut at just 20-years-old
Ben Vellacott 6.5
Set up the final try of the night for Banahan
Tom Hudson 6.1
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Travelling long distances and making lengthy journeys proves to be a serious test of your car’s current condition and maintenance level. Minor glitches in a car’s condition may turn your enjoyable trip into a really problematic tour so it is better for drivers to make necessary adjustments and repairs before you plan your journey. The following paragraphs will illustrate some basic procedures to help you deal with some minor faults but it is recommended that you take your to a workshop or mechanic for a thorough check-up. The below-mentioned actions must be made a few days before your trip, do not procrastinate and wait for the last day.
Get information from your Car’s Manual
The owner’s manual contains all needed information about your vehicle. Things like the location of jack, changing a tire. Changing a headlight bulb and a lot more is discussed there. Reading it will definitely help you and give you an idea about what you are going to do.
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Automatic Transmission Fluid
You need to take care of your transmission fluid as well. If you have not replaced it in a long time then do it before your trip. Long journeys are a real test of your car’s overall ability.
Examining the transmission fluid takes some simple steps, Warm the car while parking it on an even surface. Put the car in the parking position and leave the engine idle. Pull out the dipstick and wipe it. Reinsert it completely and pull it out, now check the fluid level and condition. Transmission fluid has a red or pinkish-red colour when new but becomes brownish with time. If the oil seems too dark, change it.
Engine Antifreeze or Coolant
Check the engine coolant level in the tank. The level should be between ‘Min’ and ‘Max’ marks. Check for leaks, lack of coolant can cause the car to overheat and seriously damage the engine. If there are no leaks you are good to go. Simply top the coolant up if it is a little below the optimum. Remember never open your radiator if the engine is hot.
There is no real method to predict or assume when the battery will die. It can happen suddenly without any prior symptoms. Battery life is usually somewhere in between 2 to 5 years if your battery is 4 to 5 years old, it is recommended that you change it before the trip. Take a look at the battery for acid leaks, cracks or other damages like corroded terminals. Fix them if possible or simply replace it.
Some more items to check
Check the brake fluid, power steering fluid and washer fluid. Also look for any irregularities like a leak, loose clamps and hoses.
Get the tire pressure balanced. Usually, the recommended pressure is indicated on the manufacturer’s label. Inspect the tread wear as well, if it is too worn out change the tires as they are not safe to drive as is. Wearing of tires can also mean wheel alignment problems.
Steering and Suspension
Suspensions and steering can be inspected properly in a repair shop. If you feel strange noise, vibrations or knocking then there is a problem that needs your attention. If the shock absorbers appear dry or any one of them appears dry then it needs change. If your car meanders from the side at high speed or the steering wheel is out of centre then you need to check the wheel alignment.
Constant Velocity (CV) Joint boots
These joint transfer torque to the front wheels. They are greased from the inner side and enclosed by a rubber boot that can break sometimes. If this rubber breaks, then all the lubricant will leak out causing the CV joint to become inoperative. You can do this by turning your wheels outside, if you see splashes of grease it means the rubber has broken. If not then there is no need for change.
Electrical equipment and lights
The lights, wipers and horns need to be checked. Spare bulbs for headlight and back can be helpful. Wiper blades need to be changed if they are not properly wiping the windshield. Ensure that AC and heater are working.
Jack, Wheel Wrench and spare tire
The pressure of the spare tire should also be balanced as in the other tires. See if the jack is working and wrench too. If your spare tire is placed underneath then make sure it is easily removable. If you have wheel locks installed then make sure you have the keys and wrench to remove them.
Car emergency kit
It should include; jumper wires, tire gauge, tire sealer-inflater can flashlight and a simple tool kit which contains screwdrivers, pliers and other common tools.
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New ERN Report Reimagines Transition to Higher Ed,
Details How States Can Build a Fast Track to College
Pathways Would Increase Higher Ed Graduation Rates & Affordability, Benefit Low-Income Students
New York, N.Y. (Feb. 20, 2019) –– A new report, released today, finds that the 12 in K-12 education may be unnecessary for nearly a quarter of high school students.
The report, by Education Reform Now and the Alliance for Excellent Education, introduces two accelerated pathways for college-ready juniors that would provide meaningful access to full-time, college-level coursework, while generating savings for students, families and the state. Nearly 850,000 high school juniors currently qualify for one of these “Fast Track” pathways, 30 percent of whom come from low-income families.
Rather than a one-size-fits-all approach, fast track pathways empower students and families to make a choice that best meets students’ academic, financial and personal needs.
“If we can expand early access to college-level work and improve credit transfer, we can save students—particularly those from low-income backgrounds—time, money, and frustration,” said report co-author Michael Dannenberg. “The three key words on which the college affordability debate should be focused are ‘time to degree’.”
The primary suggested new pathway would allow students to either enroll in a full-time sequence of college-level coursework in high school, enabling them to graduate with at least a year’s worth of college credit that would be recognized at all in-state institutions; the second would offer students the option to graduate high school early—before 12th grade—with the reward of a scholarship that reduces their full-time college costs at in-state public colleges.
Speeding up postsecondary education time to degree could save students, institutions and taxpayers substantial sums—savings that could be reinvested to improve high school curricula for advanced students and help other students working to get on-track to graduate college and career ready.
The report finds that states could capture as much as $7.2 billion in gross savings from their higher education budgets for students who do not need to enroll in a fifth or sixth year of college because of fast track pathways.
“Finding the right fit for students based on preparation and aspiration increases student success and saves time and money,” said Indiana Commissioner for Higher Education Teresa Lubbers, who has implemented versions of these pathways in her state. “When students display college readiness while in high school, it makes sense to accelerate their college timeline. That’s what the Mitch Daniels Early Graduation Scholarship does, as well as other early college models that incent thoughtful fast-track models.”
Read the full report here.
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Both locals and tourists turn to Cincinnati’s limo rental and limousine services, whether they want to make a spectacular debut or guarantee a luxurious and pleasant ride. These services provide a singular experience that elevates every occasion by fusing elegance, practicality, and flair. In this post, we’ll dig into the realm of Cincinnati Limo rentals service and examine its salient qualities, advantages, and ideal situations.
Limousine Services in Cincinnati: A Luxurious Trip
- Cruising in Comfort and Style
The luxurious fleet of vehicles offered by Cincinnati’s limo rental services is created to satisfy their customers’ various needs and preferences. You can pick the ideal car, from svelte and traditional limousines to roomy and stylish party buses, to match your occasion. These limos have luxurious seating, top-notch amenities, and experienced drivers, guaranteeing a smooth and fashionable ride.
- Customized for Your Needs
Cincinnati’s limo rental businesses may customize their offers to match your unique needs, whether you need transportation for a wedding, prom, corporate event, or a night out. They aim to give each customer a customized experience that creates a lasting impression since they recognize how distinctive each occasion is.
- Licensed chauffeurs
One of their distinguishing qualities is the group of knowledgeable and skilled chauffeurs who work for Cincinnati’s limo rental businesses. In addition to being expert drivers, these chauffeurs have received training in first-rate client care. They are courteous, on time, and committed to giving you a safe and comfortable ride.
Cincinnati’s Best Luxury Limo Service
- Arrive in Style
Cincinnati limousine services raise the bar for luxurious travel. A limousine ride sets the mood for an unforgettable experience, whether you’re attending a high-profile event, commemorating a particular occasion, or impressing a client. With their elegance and grace, these cars turn heads everywhere they go.
- Comfort and discretion
Limousines provide a cozy and private setting for business meetings, romantic dates, or to enjoy a ride with friends. Thanks to the interiors’ comfy amenities, including minibars, entertainment systems, and plush couches, you’ll have everything you need.
Selecting the Best Product for Special Occasions
Cincinnati Limousine service are often associated with parties. When you arrive and depart in a plush limousine, weddings, anniversaries, and proms, take on an even more spectacular quality. The voyage also counts toward the experience, as it helps construct cherished memories.
Enhance Your Cincinnati Experience, in Summary
In Cincinnati, limousine services and rentals are more than simply ways to get around; they’re also memorable experiences that provide elegance, style, and class to any gathering. You are certain of a great trip whether you select a limousine for its unrivaled elegance or a limo rental for its adaptability.
These services capture the essence of Cincinnati, where tradition and modernity coexist, and people gather to commemorate special occasions in life. Therefore, for a unique experience the next time you’re in Cincinnati and want to make a statement or enjoy a comfortable trip, think about Cincinnati’s limo rental and limousine services. You’ll experience the best hospitality in Cincinnati as you travel around the Queen City on a tour that will live long in your memory.
Finally, limo services and rentals in Cincinnati are your entryway to a world of luxury, comfort, and fashion. These services can help you whether you’re traveling to mark a special occasion or want to add a touch of luxury. Cincinnati’s limo rentals and limousine services are the top choice for individuals looking for the best in transportation because of their varied fleet of vehicles, qualified chauffeurs, and dedication to excellence. Take advantage of the chance to enhance your experience with these first-rate services the next time you’re in the Queen City. | <urn:uuid:eee2cd23-ca9f-4f38-820b-5316a7447576> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://travelpalaces.com/examining-cincinnatis-top-limo-service-and-rental-options/ | 2024-02-29T12:47:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474808.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229103115-20240229133115-00594.warc.gz | en | 0.920556 | 839 | [
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Households up and down the country are understandably worried about the prospect of big increases in their energy bills from April.
Customers could very well see Ofgem agree a £700 a year increase in the Energy Price Cap, possibly followed by another £200 in October.
Energy suppliers have to pass on higher wholesale costs to survive. But at British Gas we are working hard with Government to find a way to protect families from the full force of the price hikes.
This doesn’t mean that we are looking for a Government bailout. There are reports that some energy companies want a £20 billion hand out to keep household bills down. Not British Gas. We haven’t asked for a bailout, we don’t want a bailout and we oppose any bail outs.
Our advice to Government is to try to help those customers who are already struggling to make ends meet, not to worry about helping energy companies’ balance sheets.
"The rising costs of living, coupled with the increasing cost of energy, are putting more people under financial pressure. Our customers need our support now more than ever. This fund adds to the financial support and advice we already offer our customers either directly or indirectly through organisations such as the British Gas Energy Trust. We’re doing everything we can to help, and this additional grant will make a big difference to our most financially vulnerable customers."
Chris O'Shea, Chief Executive, Centrica
We also worked with the British Gas Energy Trust, an independent charity funded solely by British Gas, to run a nation-wide marketing campaign that encourages anyone in need of assistance with their energy bills to get in touch.
During 2021, the energy market faced unprecedented challenges as global supplies of gas constricted and demand surged. This resulted in higher gas prices and led to over a third of all the UK’s energy suppliers going out of business over a short period of time. Because we manage the risks facing our energy retail business robustly, we were adequately hedged and had sufficient capital to face the challenge.
These efforts led to a significant number of people coming forward and receiving the support they needed. We continue to work with Ofgem and the UK Government to identify ways of improving the robustness of the regulatory framework to ensure the sector is more resilient to similar crises in the future.
Towards this, we gave evidence at the House of Lords and discussed the need to introduce more robust controls with Ofgem – from making sure every supplier hedges properly, to ensuring they’ve the right risk management policy and amount of capital to deliver on their commitments to customers, which includes ensuring customer credit balances are protected. We’ve also encouraged Ofgem to spread recovery costs over a longer period to reduce the burden on hard-pressed households. Consequently, Ofgem has published an action plan, by which it intends to improve the financial resilience of energy suppliers.
British Gas continues to support customers in a number of ways including:
- Continuing to help customers manage their debt and giving them more time to pay, through payment plans and encouraging early meter readings. Last year 300,000 customers were supported in this way.
- British Gas has contributed £120 million to assist customers on low income through the Warm Home Discount in 2021.
- Providing energy efficiency improvements to thousands UK households.
- Supporting nearly 3 million customers on British Gas’ Priority Services Register, which receives around 5,000 calls to the dedicated phone line each week.
- Additionally, the British Gas Energy Trust funds 49 frontline advice services across England, Scotland, and Wales. All energy customers, not just those with British Gas, have access this help.
Chris O'Shea - Changes are needed to make the energy sector simpler and more transparent
Chris O'Shea: we will give 10% of British Gas Energy profits away to help our customers
How the energy crisis could help businesses prepare for the future
Chris O'Shea: helping our customers with increasing energy costs
British Gas calls on Government to prioritise helping customers with rising energy costs
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Big Bang Events DJ’ed my wedding. He had an extensive list of songs to choose from, played the music we wanted to hear, and as a result, our reception was a blast! I recommended them to 3 other couples who used them for their weddings, and he DJ’ed my brother’s wedding.
– Amanda G.
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– Amanda M.
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For that matter, who am I?
No, I don’t have amnesia, but you may – and you wouldn’t even realize it.
So my question was a serious one… Who are you? Because many people have forgotten who they are.
On two separate occasions I was working on making processes much more efficient. To do this, I had to gather information about how they worked now.
As I was probing, one person said, “Oh, you aren’t going to take that part away from me, are you? That accounts for half of my work.” Although I didn’t say it out loud, the response in my head was, “Why, yes, and it will save millions of dollars and allow you to do more important work.”
Another person said, “You can’t change this. This is who I am. This is what I do.” She defined her work self by the activities she did. It is as if she walked in the doors and had work amnesia of who she really was.
These two people had a job, not a career. Do you see how dangerous that is?
Rather than being focused on the longer term, they were focused on their task so that when an improvement came along they were not able to adapt.
If you understand what you are trying to accomplish, when change comes you can still head in the same direction. Change won’t derail you, it will only make you stronger.
So my question to you is, “Who are you?” Do you focus on your job or on your career? Do you have work amnesia? Hopefully you will be able to say NO because you know why you do what you do and your job does not define you.
This is one reason why I don’t let my children talk about “dad’s job.” Rather I make them refer to it as “dad’s work.” What you do should be bigger than your job, it should be your work. Your job may change, but what you work toward will be your driving force for what you do. | <urn:uuid:5befae93-0ee6-491e-ac3a-77757bb2bc69> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://vinjones.com/tag/adapt/ | 2024-03-01T20:04:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475701.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20240301193300-20240301223300-00594.warc.gz | en | 0.98792 | 456 | [
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Finally after more than a year of waiting and nagging, the second 2GX conference was held in New Orleans last week. It was almost as good as the first one. Well, in some ways it was better but in other ways... well, we'll get to that in a bit. But first, I wanted to say how great it was to see so many people from the Groovy community. It is so cool to be able to put real faces to so many on-line friends. I know conference people always say that "the attendees are what really makes the conference great", but as a speaker and part-time staff member at this conference, I can say that it's really true. The questions during the sessions and the discussions between sessions and at meals were the best part of the whole thing. Even better than the Rod Johnson bobble-head dolls. :-)
Speaking of staff, I also want to tip my hat (if I had one) to the guys that pulled it all off. Jay Zimmerman did as good of a job with the 500+ person event as he does with the NoFluffJustStuff conferences and his two volunteers (and one sales guy :), and my co-workers, Erik Weibust, Todd Crone, and Paul Luttrell were tireless in their efforts to keep things running smoothly. It was great working with you guys!
One thing I want to highlight here was how excited I was to see some relative new comers speaking at 2GX. These guys aren't new to Groovy or Grails, but I think this was the first conference appearance for each of them and they were awesome! Matt Taylor, Hamlet D'arcy, Scott Vlaminck (the 'n' is silent), and Burt Beckwith (actually I'm not sure if Burt has spoken at other conferences, so forgive me if I'm wrong)
Matt spoke on Grails UI, the YUI based Grails plugin that he developed and maintains as well as his experiences using Grails "in the wild". I caught his GrailsUI talk and was very impressed, along with the rest of the room who all gave him the coveted "green cards".
I didn't catch any of Hamlet's sessions but from what I heard from other attendees and on Twitter, he was a hit! He gave four presentations altogether: OSGi and Groovy, Functional Groovy, Compiler Metaprogramming with AST transformations, and Legacy Code and Groovy. Rumor has it that he even had Venkat Subramaniam impressed.
Scott Vlaminck, from Refactr, gave talks on Metaprogramming in Groovy and Grails, and AOP in Grails. Again, I wasn't able to catch any of these talks in person, but the feedback was quite good and in fact I happened to be in the room next to one of Scott's talks and the speaker was almost drowned out by the applause!
Burt also gave four presentations. He spoke on Spring Security in Grails, GORM performance, UI performance, and Clustering Grails apps. I only caught the GORM performance talk, but it was one of my favorites. I am already putting things I learned there to use in my day job.
Of course the usual awesome Groovy/Grails/Griffon speakers were there and they were terrific as usual, but you've already heard about them and many others have or will blog about the cool Griffon sessions, or the Grails internals, or the power of Grails plugins, or the DSLs and Groovy testing magic, etc. So I wanted to take a moment to congratulate these guys on a job well done. I look forward to seeing them present at future events.
Now, as to why I don't think this 2GX was quite as good as the first one. The full name of the conference is a clue: SpringOne 2GX. SpringOne is a good conference, but 2GX is a great conference! (or a GR8 conference :) So, when combined we ended up with a more than good but not quite great conference. Spring technology is cool. Much of it (though not all) is behind some of the power of Grails. And I do very much appreciate the support that SpringSource is giving to Groovy and Grails, but I think they just gave a bit of a "corporate feel" to the conference.
I don't want to end on a downer though. There were some distinct benefits of having the two events combined. One was that SpringOne had some very good content and some exceptional speakers to add to the mix. Another is that more than a few Spring users got to glimpse the goodness of Groovy, Grails and Griffon for the first time. The oohs and ahhs were music to my ears! It serves as a reminder to just be patient and hang in there... it's only a matter of time until they'll be holding the Groovy, Grails, Griffon and Spring conference! | <urn:uuid:6947c2db-8072-4093-90b1-2a0f4ecd3c5b> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://www.daveklein.net/2009/10/yet-another-2gx-wrap-up.html | 2024-03-01T21:55:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475701.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20240301193300-20240301223300-00594.warc.gz | en | 0.98903 | 1,043 | [
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Pros and Cons of Fractional Accounting
To scale successfully, a business must constantly seek out novel ways to lower costs, increase efficiency, and utilize its existing resources optimally.
The modern solution to these challenges for small- and mid-sized companies often involves outsourcing specific business tasks. By delegating such activities, business leaders can access specialists at an earlier stage and lower costs—all without having to hire a full-time employee.
And few outsourced tasks provide as much immediate value to a budding organization as fractional accounting.
But how does a fractional accounting model work? What are the pros and cons?
Here is what you need to know.
Reaching an Accounting Crossroads
In the early stages of business development, the business owner often handles activities by default. Typically, activities are limited to rudimentary bookkeeping and tax filing processes, which are completed with the assistance of accounting software.
But the larger a business scales, the more complex and time-consuming financial accounting becomes. Eventually, the task proves to be too great a challenge for anyone but an expert, especially as pressure mounts regarding financial transparency and governmental compliance.
Once a business owner has arrived at this critical junction, they are left with one of two options: hiring an in-house accountant or enlisting the fractional services of an outside expert.
How Does Fractional Accounting Work?
With a fractional accounting model, a company only pays for the accounting services it actually needs. How this relationship functions depends on each business. You may only have enough work to justify hiring a singular fractional accountant, or you may require the support of an entire team of high-level accounting experts.
A fractional accountant lends their services on a contractual, as-needed basis. They temporarily provide their expertise to ensure that your financial data is organized and maintained accurately. And they use best practices and modern technologies to accomplish this.
What services can a fractional accountant provide?
Although services may vary from one outsourced accounting firm to another, ideally, a fractional accountant should be capable of providing the following accounting support:
- Accounts payable and accounts receivable – Organizes and maintains accounts payable and accounts receivable so that cash flow remains properly managed, with an eye toward liquidity maximization.
- Month-end close – Ensures that your month-end financial statements are accurate and completed on time. The review, reconciliation, and reporting of financial statements enables businesses to maintain a healthy cash flow, make strategic business decisions, and measure progress towards stated goals.
- Transaction coding – Works with your team to systematize coding, implementing best practices to increase record-keeping efficiency and accuracy.
- General ledger reconciliation – Reviews your general ledger to verify that accounts are reconciled and then provides a comprehensive month-end reporting package.
With a fractional accounting model, the outsourcing professional works with the business to understand its accounting needs, budget, and pain points. Once that is understood, they then provide the hours of labor necessary to satisfy those factors. If the situation changes, the fractional services will flex to accommodate, either scaling or reducing capacity as needed.
Pros and Cons of Fractional Accounting
Every business decision has its tradeoffs. Fractional accounting may be a perfect fit for one organization but incompatible with another company’s needs.
To help you judge for yourself, here is a quick list comprising the pros and cons of fractional accounting.
Pros of Fractional Accounting
The pros of fractional accounting range from increased internal bandwidth and expertise on-call to reduced operational costs:
- Access to finance and accounting experts – By teaming up with an outsourcer, you receive immediate access to qualified financial professionals who are singularly focused on accounting services and hand-picked to meet your business’ specific needs.
- Improved compliance – Are there industry-specific accounting regulations you must comply with? A fractional accountant will be up-to-date with the most recent laws and regulations, best practices, and technologies—all of which ensure that your accounting and reporting tasks are conducted properly.
- Optimizing internal resources – When internal processes are outsourced, the employees who were previously tasked with those jobs can instead direct their time and energy toward the business’ various other demands. Outsourcing this task leaves the accounting to the experts and frees internal resources to focus on core competencies.
- Saved money on hiring – Hiring an in-house accountant is an expensive process. Just the starting salary for an in-house accountant is approximately $70,000—not including insurance, raises, or benefits. But you also have to factor in the costs of hiring, onboarding, and training. Then, there is also the risk that they may not be a good fit, which would force you to start the entire process over again.
- Business intelligence – In the right hands, your financial statements can tell a story of the business’ health. A fractional accountant can translate the data into actionable insights, using the financial information to measure the business’ progress toward stated goals.
- Improved record keeping – An expert accountant has the skills, tools, and resources to ensure that bookkeeping is done as quickly, accurately, and efficiently as possible, providing business leaders with the data and confidence they need to act decisively.
Cons of Fractional Accounting
The cons of fractional accounting are not unique; they cover the same considerations that must be accounted for whenever any responsibilities or services are outsourced:
- Less control – A fractional accountant provides a valued service, but they are not an employee. Outsourcing these tasks means business leaders have to relinquish control of the books and their management processes. That requires putting a great deal of trust in your fractional accountant’s skills, professionalism, and character.
- Less proximity – With an in-house accountant, you have the luxury of being able to ask a question or make a request and get an immediate answer. Although a fractional accounting team is available, their response may not be instantaneous. As a result, you must partner with a firm that has robust communication policies so that you can manage expectations accordingly.
- Scope creep – As the business scales, its accounting needs may increase and become more complex. This can lead to unpredictable increases in the cost of service, particularly if the fractional accountant does not have transparent billing policies.
CFO Hub—Premium Fractional Accounting Services
Financial accounting is integral to companies’ health and growth.
When financial data is organized and maintained accurately, business leaders can make the best strategic decisions that help achieve their stated goals. And by outsourcing a fractional accountant, you can derive many of the same benefits as hiring in-house at a fraction of the cost.
Are you looking for accounting, month-end close, back-office support, and greater financial insight?
We can help with that.
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Original art & home goods
Chroma Yadi fine art sells one-of-a-kind hand-painted home goods and artwork created by artist Sarah Hunyadi. She uses liquefied acrylic paint, resin, alcohol ink, and mixed media materials to create unique abstract pieces. In her work, you'll find contrast, sophistication, and an insatiable passion for what she does.
Sarah is an award winning artist and graphic designer based in Columbus, OH. She received her BFA degree from Columbus College of Art and Design in 2008 and has been working as a professional artist ever since.
She’s drawn to the flow and movement that comes with fluid art. The results are often unpredictable and therefore allow you to create intuitively and be completely in the moment. She loves encouraging young artists to chase their dreams and hopes someday she’ll be able to start a foundation for emerging artists.
What a beautiful painting! I am so happy with my purchase! Sarah was incredibly communicative, friendly and really easy to work with I will definitely be purchasing more from her in the future.
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Are you looking for a natural way to promote sleep? Essential oil rollerball recipes for sleep are a great alternative to over-the-counter or prescription medications. The best part is that these recipes are easy to make and can be customized according to your own needs.
Sleep is necessary for your physical and emotional well-being. It helps regulate hormones, boosts the immune system, and even improves symptoms of depression. But when sleep proves elusive, it can be hard to find a solution that works. Essential oils may provide relief from sleeplessness in some cases. The following essential oil recipes for sleep are designed to help you get a good night’s rest!
How to Make a Sleep Rollerball?
Roller bottles are a great way to create your own self-care products at home. They’re easy and inexpensive, and fun to make because you can customize them to your needs!
You don’t need much to make a rollerball recipe for sleep, just a roller bottle with the rollerball, a carrier oil and the essential oils you want to use. A small funnel or oil pipette can be helpful too to get the carrier oil into the bottle without spilling.
- Start with a 10 ml glass roller bottle.
- Add the drops of essential oil from the chosen recipe below.
- Fill the rest of 10 ml roller bottle with your choice of carrier oil. A little funnel can help when filling the roller bottles with carrier oils. Leave a little space at the top so there is room to put the rollerball on.
- Snap on the rollerball into place.
- Shake the bottle to mix the carrier oil and essential oils.
Carrier Oils For Sleep Roll On Recipes
- Fractionated coconut oil: It’s odorless and colorless, has a long shelf life and is one of the most popular carrier oil for roller bottle recipes.
- Jojoba oil: Jojoba oil actually is a liquid wax, not an oil. It is very similar to the natural sebum found in our skin. Vitamin E is a major ingredient, which promotes healthy skin. It is suitable for all skin types: normal, dry, oily and sensitive as well as mature. It works great in all types of roller bottle blends.
- Sweet almond oil: Sweet almond oil is suitable for all skin types including sensitive and acne-prone skin. It is one of the most gentle oils and extremely nourishing. It is rich in Vitamin D and an excellent emollient that can soften and condition the skin.
Essential Oil Rollerball Recipes for Sleep
These simple roller blends can be made ahead of time so when it is nightime and you are getting ready for bed you will be able to use them.
1. Serene Night
Are you having trouble sleeping? This essential oil recipe is perfect for relaxation and sleep.
- 5 drops Lavender
- 3 drops Orange
- 2 drops Cedarwood
2. Good Sleep
With these oils, you can have a deep night’s sleep without any problems!
- 4 drops Orange
- 2 drops Frankincense
- 2 drops Ylang Ylang
- 2 drops Cedarwood
3. Bedtime Blend
Try this blend if you are having trouble sleeping because of anxiety. Or maybe your partner snores and keeps you up all night.
- 3 drops Frankincense
- 3 drops Lavender
- 2 drops Juniper Berry
- 2 drop Vetiver
4. Sweet Dreams
Have the sweetest dream with this DIY roller blend for bedtime!
- 5 drops Sweet Marjoram
- 3 drops Cedarwood
- 2 drops Chamomile
5. Chill Out
Having a hard time relaxing after a long day, try this sleep oil blend with these relaxing oils.
- 4 drops Lavender
- 4 drops Frankincense
- 1 drop Bergamot
- 1 drop Ylang Ylang
Combat anxious moments and calm thoughts before bed with this roller blend.
- 4 drops Sweet Orange
- 4 drops Lavender
- 2 drops Vetiver
How to Use Roller Blends for Sleep
Once you have made and assembled your roll on for sleep then you are ready to roll!
You can roll onto forearms, chest, neck and/or feet as desired when bedtime nears. You can also roll on the palm of your hands, rub them together and then deeply inhale the aroma. Keep the bottle on your night stand in case to need to reapply during the night.
Roller Bottle How to Video Tutorial
Here is a great way to see how an essential oil roller blend is made. She shows you how to use a roller bottle, her recipe is different, its a pain blend but just use the sleep recipe you desire.
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Lord Balseph is one of the story bosses in Tales of Arise and you need to beat him in order to progress the game. In this Tales of Arise guide, we are going to go over how you can beat Lord Balseph.
Beating Lord Balseph In Tales Of Arise
Lord Balseph does not have a weakness but he is not resistant to anything either. For this boss fight, we recommend you play as Alphen. We also recommend moving around and staying out of closed spaces in order to avoid the Fire Avatar and its fireball attacks.
Close to the end of the fight, Lord Balseph is going to try and gather energy for a final attack. You need to deal as much damage as possible to keep that from happening. You can use boost attacks in order to get the job done.
Lord Balseph Attacks And How To Avoid Them
The following are the attacks that Lord Balseph can use and how you can avoid taking damage:
Lord Balseph will glow red and release some energy in the form of an explosion. This does not do a lot of damage but it can stagger you, leaving you vulnerable to other attacks. When you see him glowing, step away in order to avoid taking damage and being staggered.
The boss will hold his axe with both hands and slam it into the ground. You can avoid this with a well-timed dodge and even counter this attack in order to deal some damage to the boss.
There are two variants of this attack. Both are very similar. One of the variations creates a wave of fire. This can be avoided by jumping. The second variation creates an explosion that you can run away from in order to avoid taking damage.
Axe Swing Attack
The boss can swing its axe around in an attempt to hit you. You can dodge this and it is easy to do so but if you are hit then it is hard to recover from as it will leave you open to other attacks. At times the boss can use this attack twice in a row.
Axe Charge Attack
The boss can charge at you while dragging his axe on the ground. He will then attack you. You can easily move to either right or left in order to avoid taking damage.
Fire Avatar Fireball Attacks
As mentioned before, the boss is not the only one that you need to worry about. You also have to look out for the fireball attacks of the fire avatar. The fire avatar is going to appear in the second phase of the boss fight. You can avoid these attacks by moving around constantly.
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The company wants to explore untapped sensors in phones to take barometric readings.
Many people use an app on their smartphones to check the weather forecast for the day. It turns out IBM will also be looking at your smartphone to do the weather forecasting.
The Weather Company, a subsidiary of IBM, is working on a new system to boost the accuracy of weather forecasting entitled the Global High-Resolution Atmospheric Forecasting system, or GRAF. IBM announced this on Tuesday at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
This new system will require data collection from traditional sources such as weather stations and aircraft but also from a new source: the pressure sensors built into smartphones. IBM said users will be able to opt-in to sharing this barometric information.
All of this data will then be analyzed by an IBM POWER9-based supercomputer, the same kind that is used by the Energy Department.
What will all this data provide? IBM says that it will result in a more finely tuned a weather forecast that can be updated hourly.
The use of people's smartphones means there will likely be privacy concerns, even if it is an opt-in system. Engadget reported last week that the city of Los Angeles recently sued the Weather Company for not disclosing exactly how user's location data would be used.
IBM said it will be rolling out the system globally in 2019.
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Hello, everyone! How are you all doing? I hope you are getting yourself warm because winter is coming.. And most of the time we couldn’t go to school without bringing our ear mufflers and scarves.
Look at our items for show and tell! Super cute and interesting things from friends and families. Most of what we have are presents and some we got from Gocha Gocha.
More and more of our Christmas show practice.. We all memorized our lines and we remember our turn to speak. We also know where to go after we perform our scenes but we still need more and more time so that everything will be smooth and perfect(hopefully).
We researched more kinds of storytelling from different parts of the world. We have to find out its characteristics, it origin, and other details which we think is important for everyone to know.
We then made posters out of the information we got from our research. We ended our class with our poster presentation.
Mizuki gave us yummy persimmons! We had our persimmon party to celebrate and share the food with everyone. We did it during our lunch time so we had the fruits for dessert.
We played the jumbled words game. It was fun and easy because we remembered all the words in our previous lessons.
We listened to a story of a Philippine Folktale. It was called, “The Legend of the Pineapple.” After listening to the story, we identified the different elements of a story and made a storytelling path. We used the path to retell the story to the class.
Here we are presenting our work and retelling the story to Grade 1.
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Leona went and got the box, which was fastened shut and moving as the poor cats struggled to get out. Inside were three kittens -- two grey tabbies about 6 weeks old and an older kitten who looks like a purebred Siamese. She brought them to me that same night. All three were cold, thin, sick, and frightened. It's a mitzvah to help an animal in need, even if it is a stray and even if the suffering is not your fault. So of course I took them in.
The Siamese we named Koko after the famous cat detective in the "Cat Who" series. And he certainly does love to snoop around! Both cats are now doing fine and very bonded to me -- they cuddle when I lie down and sit on my lap whenever they can. And they come running every time I go in the bathroom, which is where I feed them so the other cats don't take their special kitten food. It did not take them long to learn where the goodies are!
My other cats have accepted them pretty well, with varying degrees of attention. Annabelle, who has always been a little grump, growls if they get too close, so she's not too happy about it. But Sapphire, my old blue-eyed neutered male, licks their faces and cleans them. Angel Cat doesn't go that far, but she lets them sit next to her. As for all the others, they seem to just sigh and say, "Here we go again!"
|Koko and Appleblossom curled up together.
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Dalit women in the Nepali labour market
This podcast explains how a Dalit woman in the Nepali labour market faces discrimination in society when she is trying to earn a living.
Labour markets are very dynamic. In addition to gender norms, other social categories such as caste or age can affect workers’ vulnerability. Despite constitutional recognition of multiple socio-cultural affiliations, caste and religion-based discrimination persists in Nepal. This has a differential impact on marginalised groups, particularly on women.
Dalit women are poor in terms of resources; for example, they have no land ownership or access to education, and they face discrimination due to the social practice of untouchability. Therefore, they have fewer options when it comes to choosing the jobs they want or the roles they would prefer in the labour market.
Like women from other ethnic groups, they are engaged in both unpaid and paid work; however, paid work options are not easily accessible due to the social practice of segregation. For Dalit women, the struggle to enter the decent labour market therefore becomes even more difficult, because institutional mechanisms are not strong enough to address this practice. | <urn:uuid:21021f6a-bd32-4563-8c55-fdc06d06761d> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://tales.nmc.unibas.ch/en/gender-and-labour-in-the-global-south-38/women-and-men-in-different-labour-market-sectors-212/dalit-women-in-the-nepali-labour-market-1121 | 2024-02-24T01:49:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474482.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20240224012912-20240224042912-00694.warc.gz | en | 0.951682 | 232 | [
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One of the most famous, or infamous, groups that try to “block” spam-sending
servers is SpamCop.net, directed by Julian Haight. Because SpamCop was
purchased last year by IronPort Systems, a maker of e-mail server appliances
and antispam solutions, I thought it would be interesting to see whether any of
the controversies that swirled around Haight in the past have been worked out.
Haight agreed to an interview at a coffeeshop in Lake Forest Park, Wash.,
a suburb of Seattle near his home. His comments shed light on the potential of
— as well as the problems with — the “blocklist” approach to
The SpamCop Argument In a Nutshell
SpamCop relies on a network of end users and automated programs that send in
complaints. These reports indicate that e-mail considered to be spam is coming
from certain Internet Protocol addresses. SpamCop computes a score for each
complaint and uses the scores to post an “IP address blocklist.” This list is
checked in real time by some corporate mail administrators to determine whether
or not to accept e-mail from certain senders.
• Legitimate or Not Legitimate?
SpamCop gained notoriety in late 2002 from a well-publicized run-in with
Declan McCullagh, a News.com contributor and editor of Politech, a political
discussion list. McCullagh reported at the time that SpamCop had erroneously
put Politech’s e-mail server on the blocklist
times within the space of a few months. McCullagh also accused Haight
of deliberately putting
antispam services on his blocklist.
• A Wave of Accusations.
These articles led many other Internet users to suggest that certain things
about SpamCop smelled bad. In February 2003, an analysis of the alleged
failings of SpamCop was
by Jeremy Howard, founding director of FastMail.fm, a company described by the
Sunday Times of London as “one of the slickest, most powerful e-mail systems on
the planet.” Howard charged that not only did SpamCop’s blocking list contain
inaccuracies, but that a single complaint could cause a small e-mail service
to be labeled a spammer.
• Good For Something or Good For Nothing?
The rhetoric around the blocklist grew so heated that Ray Everett-Church,
a respected antispam authority and board member of
CAUCE (Coalition Against
Unsolicited Commercial Email) wrote that SpamCop was
embarrassment to those engaged in responsible anti-spam efforts.”
At the time, Haight wrote
to Politech’s and Howard’s criticisms. These responses engendered more
responses, which finally petered out. No one seemed satisfied.
IronPort Picks Up SpamCop As An Asset
Because the one-year anniversary of IronPort’s purchase of SpamCop on June 24,
2003, is coming up, I thought some improvement might now be detectable in the
blocklist due to its fortuitous infusion of cash. In my recent interview,
Haight confirmed that he now is able to pay three assistants who had tried to
manage the flow of spam reports on a mostly unpaid basis in SpamCop’s
SpamCop is currently getting spam reports from a network of between
30,000 and 40,000 end users of its system, Haight says.
Unfortunately, end users are notoriously poor at restricting their spam
complaints to truly unsolicited bulk e-mail (UBE). All too many complaints
involve legitimate, requested mailings that the recipient simply didn’t like
or no longer wishes to receive.
study of this phenomenon was released in March by AWeber
Communications, an e-mail publishing service. It studied 22,000 AOL users who’d
subscribed to legitimate e-mail newsletters through AWeber. After 60 days, 2.1%
of the subscribers had clicked AOL’s “Report Spam” button to unsubscribe.
Even subscribers who’d been required to re-confirm their initial signups
(using the so-called double opt-in method) clicked the “Report Spam” button
in 1.4% of the cases. Regardless of the fact that the newsletters studied
were entirely permission-based, approximately 400 spam complaints to AOL
were wrongly generated by the recipients in just two months.
Haight has adjusted to this trigger-happiness by gradually giving much less
weight to his end-users’ complaints. Out of the 1.5 million reports each day
that SpamCop currently receives, Haight says, “80 to 90 percent are [now]
generated by spam traps.”
Spam traps are e-mail addresses that SpamCop has posted on Web pages but have
never been used to send ordinary e-mail. When such an address receives e-mail,
therefore, it’s presumed that the message had to have come from a spammer.
(Senders of UBE often use “harvesting” software that robotically captures
addresses by scanning Web sites.)
According to SpamCop’s current
FAQ page, reports from spam-trap addresses
are given at least five times the points in the blocklist’s scoring process
as reports from individuals. It’s much easier for him to automate the handling
of reports from spam traps, too, Haight says.
How Accurate Should a Blocklist Be?
IronPort uses SpamCop’s historical database of the last 30 days of spam
complaints, Haight says, mostly to evaluate applicants who pay to be listed in
IronPort’s own “whitelist.” That list, known as Bonded Sender, was recently
selected for use by Hotmail.
“As far as the SpamCop blacklist, I’m still pretty much the owner of that,”
Haight explains. “There’s some pressure from IronPort to improve that process,
but what we’re doing now is the best that we can expect.”
News.com’s McCullagh didn’t respond to a request for comment for this article.
But SpamCop critic Howard was happy to speak on the record about the
Surprisingly, Howard isn’t universally negative about SpamCop. He’s actually
quite effusive about the list of Web sites advertised in UBE that SpamCop
compiles. This list, in turn, is organized into an online database by
SURBL.org, a service that’s
otherwise unconnected with SpamCop. E-mails containing links to sites that have
previously been advertised in UBE, Howard says, have a high probability of
What Howard objects to is the use of SpamCop’s blocklist, which he considers
inaccurate, as a kind of yes/no Magic 8-Ball. “My criticism of the
SpamCop blocklist is using it as a blocking list,” he says.
“That’s a bad idea, because it has a large number of false positives.” SpamCop
only works well, Howard explains, when it’s just one among many factors that
computes a probability score for suspicious e-mails. That approach is used by
popular open-source spam filter, and others.
Should You Use SpamCop And, If So, How Much?
SpamCop’s own FAQ
text seems to agree that its blocklist should be taken in
limited doses. “The SpamCop Blocking List history should be used as a small
item of interest in a larger investigation,” it reads. The text goes on to
name several other antispam services whose databases can be employed together
with SpamCop in various combinations.
Unfortunately, the main
how-to page at SpamCop provides mail administrators only
with instructions to configure the blocklist as an absolute yes/no system.
“Probably 99 percent” of mail admins who use SpamCop, Haight says, configure
it in this way — as a pure pass/fail test.
When asked why his site doesn’t recommend using SpamAssassin or some
other tool that can weigh SpamCop’s blocklist as one among many factors in
scoring mail as possible spam, Haight replies, “I’ve never had anyone ask me.”
SpamCop’s site clearly states that its blocklist “should not be used in a
production environment where legitimate email must be delivered.” I’m forced
to agree with this advice. Because of its many problems, I don’t recommend
that any company rely upon the SpamCop blocklist.
Better spam-blocking tools are clearly available. An exhaustive review of 27
enterprise-level antispam solutions was published on May 10 by Ron Anderson of
Network Computing. Of the top 10 products — evaluated on their accuracy,
managability, price and other factors — the Editor’s Choice went to
Barracuda Networks’ Spam Firewall, a network appliance. The testers found that
the product had very good spam detection and the lowest overall cost of
any contender: only $0.27 per user per year for 10,000 users.
Interestingly, IronPort’s own C60 antispam appliance also made it into the top
10. But it was scored only as high as ninth place and had the second-highest
cost in the group: $11.14/user/year for 10,000 users.
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Hello there. It's about to be the Fourth of July here in America (and elsewhere, if you want to be pedantic about it). This holiday commemorates and celebrates the Declaration of Independence, as dramatized in Hamilton and some other things.
Every year around this time I like to sit down with a pad of paper and make a list of everything I appreciate about our imperfect republic. This year's list is a new record - 237 items! No, just kidding, I don't actually do that. That would be weird! But I do appreciate that America is in the top third of countries I'd want to live (future list? time will tell).
At any rate, although today's recommended items are not America-themed or freedom-themed or even corn syrup-themed, I assure you that this entire issue was produced right here in the USA. Let's begin. 🇺🇸
Item 1: a link
Item 2: a list
M&M's flavors I found on the M&M's website, ranked
- Peanut butter
- Dark chocolate mint
- Original milk chocolate
- Dark chocolate
I’ve never had this fudge brownie flavor but I’m guessing it would sit comfortably at #3:
Item 3: a media recommendation
Item 4: a photograph
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At Welltown, our youth are important to us. We meet monthly and regularly do mission projects with one another in our community. When we meet, we have fun, games, and Bible study. If you are interested in taking part in any of our Youth activities please contact us on our email at [email protected]
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- The steps below is only applicable for YouTube before version 2.00.18 and not applicable for version 2.00.18 and above.
- The following shows you the steps how to use Google Pinyin Input keyboard. In order to use Google Pinyin Input keyboard, you will need to set Google Pinyin Input as default keyboard .
Follow the steps below to use Google Pinyin Input keyboard with YouTube.
- Press HOME button on the remote to go Home menu. Scroll down to the Apps shelf and select YouTube.
- Select the search button on the top left. The onscreen keyboard will appear on the TV. The onscreen keyboard will have options.
- This will allow you to enter Pin Yin. Any character that you enter in this keyboard will be taken as Pinyin and it will then translate to related Chinese character.
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Wellspace’s platform has been acquired by PepsiCo!
For the past 3 years, we’ve been proud to enable thousands of high-quality food, beverage,
and wellness brands to efficiently offer their products to business customers across the US.
Wellspace has grown into a powerful eCommerce platform serving offices and teams nationwide.
We are looking forward to the amazing things that Wellspace’s platform will now be able to
accomplish as a part of PepsiCo.
A huge thank you to everyone who’s been involved in the journey to date: our team, our
customers, and our investors.
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Our African giant pouched rats, nicknamed HeroRATs, are helping to find landmines and detecting tuberculosis as part of an integrated approach. When deployed alongside standard methods, they speed up the process, getting people’s lives back on track as fast as possible.
• Highly developed sense of smell
• Intelligent and easy to train
• Too light to set off the landmines
• Locally sourced and widely available
• Easily transferable between trainers
• Cheap to feed, breed and maintain
• Live 6-8 years
• Indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa and therefore resistant to most tropical diseases
Which species of rat?
APOPO’s HeroRATs are African giant pouched rats (cricetomys ansorgei). This large muroid rodent is found throughout most of sub-Saharan Africa. HeroRATs are omnivorous and mainly nocturnal. Their long heads have large ears and they get their name from the cheek pouches that are used to store and carry food. They have a long bare tail, which is white from middle to tip. The body is covered with buff-colored, relatively long fur with pale under parts. Their head and body lengths range from 25–30cm and tails ranging from 30–35 cm. These little heroes weigh between 1 and 1.3 kg (2.2 – 2.8lbs).
Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA)
Early in APOPO’s history Bart Weetjens created a strong, productive partnership with the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), in Morgoro, Tanzania, that has continued until today. After consulting with rodent experts and biologists at the University of Antwerp and SUA, the African giant pouched rat was chosen as the best-suited candidate. Under a collaboration agreement with SUA and the Tanzanian People Defense Forces, APOPO established its headquarters and training facilities on the SUA campus. | <urn:uuid:0960864b-0b0f-4a98-98ca-5152e93a378b> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://apopo.org/herorats/herorats-save-lives/?gclid=CjwKCAjw-OHkBRBkEiwAoOZqlyXVkbmyvxeE0PeEdNKWdwFpx9wTcDmnlzyjddOUiQJe1MJl2D58KRoCkjMQAvD_BwE | 2024-02-28T06:41:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474697.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228044414-20240228074414-00694.warc.gz | en | 0.941576 | 411 | [
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- Exam year
WAKISSHA chemistry P2 UCE Joint Mock exam 2023.pdf
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There is 100% Expatriate Ownership made available in Mainland Companies as per the Commercial Companies Law amendments. So, there is no requirement for a UAE National holding 51% shares to register a mainland company. Also, for the Services Company License in UAE there is no requirement for a Local Service Agent.
UAE is a major business hub where the new company formation is seeing linear growth over the years. Despite the downturn from the pandemic and other global factors, UAE remains a top choice for a new company set up by many investors globally.
The services sector makes up a significant presence in the mainland of UAE. There is a strong demand for a services company in UAE. Accordingly, UAE has a growing business opportunity and availability of a wide target audience for the companies to test their service solutions.
Setup a Services Company in UAE Mainland
To set up a services company in UAE the investor must follow certain steps. Setting up a services company requires a UAE Citizen or a UAE Corporate as the Local Service Agent. Presently, the foreign investor will have 100% ownership of the company.
The Local Service Agent will act as liaising agent for all administrative related tasks with the Department of Economic Development (DED) for the company registration, visa processing, and any related activities.
They will be having no power in the operations or share capital of the company. However, the investor must pay the Local Service Agent fee annually during the renewal of the Professional Business License.
There will be a side agreement with the Local Service Agent on the payment terms and other conditions. The Service License is for the individual or a group of shareholders under a company name to legally conduct the desired business activity.
The Department of Economic Development (DED) of the respective emirates is the issuing authority for service licenses for a company in the mainland of UAE.
Wide Range of Business Activities
Service Companies in UAE can be registered by foreign investors for a wide range of business activities that fall under the service sector. Professional Business License is one of the most sought-after business license categories in the services sector.
Under the business license, investors can open consultancies and companies across a wide range of business activities ranging from engineering to information technology to architecture, and more.
The mainland services company will have a virtual license valid for 1 year that must be renewed yearly. The investor can take an office space by preparing a lease agreement with any commercial space owners or business centers in the mainland of UAE to start operations from the office.
For applying UAE residence visa for the investor and sponsor employees the company must apply for the establishment card. Then proceed with applying for the residence visa and bank account.
- Investor passport copy and photograph (white background, dark color shirt/dress)
- Company incorporation form for the professional license from the DED of the respective emirate
- Educational Certificate and previous work experience documents for review. (AURION will assist you with the document attestation from the Embassy and Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
- Shareholder Agreement if there is more than one partner (AURION will assist you in preparing it)
What are the deliverables after setting up the services company in the mainland of UAE?
Following are the deliverable documents from the Department of Economic Development upon registering the services companies.
- Professional License from DED for legally operating the services company
- Lease contract for the office space as per requirements
- Memorandum of Association and Article of Association for the company from DED
- Returning of Educational documents, license fee receipts, and other submitted documents for review
- Any other special clearances or documents required (if any)
Types of Local Agents in UAE for opening a Services Company
There are two major types of Local Agents in UAE for opening a services company, that are:
1. UAE Citizen as Local Service Agent
To set up a service company on the mainland there has to be a UAE National as the Local Service Agent. They will assist in the administrative process, visa application, and getting government clearance for the company.
They will have zero ownership in the company and will have provided only for the administrative tasks. There is a yearly fee payable to the Local Service Agent to continue the service and renew the company yearly.
In the case of a UAE National as a local service agent, there is always a provision to change the local service agent in case of any dispute or unexpected situations.
2. UAE National Owned Company as Local Service Agent
Having a UAE National owned company as a Local Service Agent is the other option for investors owning a company under the professional license.
It adds up to the security and trust of having a corporate as the local service agent. Also, there would be zero involvement in the companies working and operations by the Corporate Company.
Personal disinterest or related circumstances will be avoided by getting a Corporate Local Service Agent for the investor.
Hence, in a nutshell for setting up a service company in UAE, the investor has to get a local service agent for processing the services business license from the DED.
There is a host of business benefits for the investor from setting up a services company in the mainland of UAE. From getting government contracts to working with other mainland companies and expanding into the local UAE market, it is a perfect option for services companies.
To know more about the Services Company Setup in UAE Mainland, connect with our expert team right away!
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It is a house of high energy efficiency built with prefabricated reinforced concrete panels on a sloping plot, located in the highest area of an urbanization in the Maresme region. The prefabricated panels have the insulation built into the core, the bindings between the two panels that make up the sandwich have a specific design to break the usual thermal bridge in the concrete sandwich panels.
The strong concrete facades and the floors and windows make this house a solid fortress on the outside and cozy and transparent on the inside.
The staggering of the house causes the views to be gradually presented as we descend. A small opening in the staircase on the ground floor and large windows in the living room allow us to enjoy the scenery inside the house.
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What is a high hedge?
Any evergreen and semi-evergreen hedges that are more than two metres in height and affecting light reaching a neighbouring domestic property. The Act introduces a formal complaints system that will be operated by local councils, but it should only be used as a last resort as neighbours are encouraged to resolve the problem themselves. nidirect has useful information about resolving disputes:
The legislation will not mean that all hedges above two metres in height will need to be cut down. A complaint cannot be made about single trees or single shrubs, whatever their size. Nor will people need council permission to grow or retain a hedge along the boundary of their property. Councils will only intervene in circumstances where a complaint is made. Complainants must demonstrate that they have tried to resolve the issue with the owner of the hedge before making a formal complaint. Even then, each case will be determined on its own merits. In addition, the High Hedges Act excludes areas of forest or woodland (greater than 0.2 hectares in area). | <urn:uuid:9c420d35-f087-4965-bf95-0d6eb874ccd5> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/articles/high-hedges | 2024-02-29T14:59:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474843.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229134901-20240229164901-00694.warc.gz | en | 0.965452 | 213 | [
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Last week’s rejection of plans to redevelop M&S’s Oxford Street site have brought the complex debate around how best to create a sustainable future for historic buildings into the news headlines. But this is far from being the landmark precedent that some may be claiming, and in fact, clarifies very little for landlords and owners in similar positions.
Ultimately, the case was determined on four points: the basis of harm to heritage assets including to the setting of Grade II* Selfridges and the loss of Orchard House a non-designated heritage asset; the impact of redevelopment on supporting a low carbon future; the lack of evidence that there is ‘no viable and deliverable alternative’ scheme; and finally, the greater weight given to these factors than the substantial public benefits of the scheme.
The finding was contrary to the Inspector’s conclusion that the application, which was supported by overlapping strategic development plan policies, would avoid significant harm to the vitality and function of Oxford Street as an international destination.
The pathway itself was not straightforward. The decision was made against the recommendation of a senior Inspector, who heard two weeks of expert evidence and concluded that planning permission should be granted. Westminster City Council had previously resolved to grant permission and the Greater London Authority concluded so too. Montagu Evans was part of the project team throughout this process.
Three points stand out as being very case-specific or needing further clarification.
1. THE SoS MAKES CLEAR THE KEY FACTS ARE UNLIKELY TO BE REPLICATED
News headlines aside, the Secretary of State is clear in paragraphs 47 and 48 of his letter that the decision is not a precedent and that every case should be determined on its own merits. The SoS states clearly that future decision makers should have regards to the whole decision and the “very specific facts” which are “unlikely to be replicated elsewhere” given the greatest weight was given to the retention of a non-designated heritage asset.
Furthermore, the London context is unusual due to the extent of planning guidance on the topic of carbon and circular economy, in contrast to much of the rest of the country. Due to that policy void elsewhere, redevelopment cases are unlikely to be directly comparable.
2. MORE GUIDANCE IS NEEDED FOR REPURPOSING TO BE A NEW PLANNING TEST
Both the Secretary of State, and previously the Inspector, pay particular attention to paragraph 152 of the NPPF requiring the planning system to support the transition to a low carbon future including “encouraging the reuse of existing resources, such as the conversion of existing buildings.” Both also apply a “strong presumption” in favour of repurposing all buildings. Unlike the established sliding scale of legal requirements and policies in relation to retention, re-use and respect for heritage assets, this broader ‘strong presumption’ in relation to all buildings appears to lack a specific national policy, development plan or statutory requirement. This is an unusual feature of the decision and something that will need to be clarified.
3. THE REQUIREMENT FOR DELIVERABLE ALTERNATIVES NEEDS CLARITY
Where does the purported presumption leave the vexed question of “alternatives” to offset the presumption? There is currently no policy requirement for Applicants to evidence there are no realistic and potentially less harmful alternatives unless the case involves designated heritage assets. Planning decisions are taken on the balance of benefits and harms, and not generally based on alternatives that an Applicant does not wish to pursue or is not deliverable.
Here, the Inspector had the benefit of examining all the evidence before him including expert testimony on the testing of multiple alternatives. And in contrast to the SoS, he concluded that on balance there were no realistic alternatives, including those presented by the Applicant and a skeleton scheme promoted by SAVE Britain’s Heritage.
Applicants and authorities will need to ensure that testing options for retention or part retention are both justified by reference to the adopted policies in play, the nature of the policy requirements for the site and are proportionate. There is potential that this approach will introduce uncertainty for future Applicants as the industry calibrates the appropriate extent of evidence to be deemed persuasive by a decision maker.
One option is adding whole life carbon assessment to early options appraisal/viability analyses and keeping this updated throughout scheme development. This equips Applicants and planning authorities with the evidence needed to make informed, holistic, and transparent decisions.
More than anything, though, this case further underlines ongoing inconsistency in decision making – a major driver of risk for applicants and an inhibitor of development for our communities. The weight given, for example, to the importance of retaining the non-designated asset (Orchard House) relative to what would, in most eyes, be regarded as overwhelming benefits, is very surprising. The many arguably similar applications consented and implemented over the gestation of this decision, are cases in point.
But the decision also makes clear that however imperfectly we are doing it, the system is starting to engage properly with the more challenging end of the ‘tackling climate change spectrum’.
This industry is already pivoting towards much more repurposing. To minimise risk, at least for major schemes, applicants will need to consider adopting what is rapidly becoming an industry norm: the retrofit first approach. Development plans and national policy needs to catch up so there is greater certainty about how decision-makers will approach this in practice.
The planning system clearly has a vital role to play, and the M&S case illustrates how “sustainable development” will need to be a balance; not only the optimisation of land-use in highly sustainable locations, but also the reduction of carbon.
Optimising the equation across these factors and others including the age and condition of buildings, requires very different thinking, something we are already working towards at Montagu Evans.
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Headlight Wiring Harness Set for 2018+ Stinger
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This headlight wiring harness set (pair) will allow you to install any LED light that you want to connect to the parking lights and turn signals, without having to splice into the main headlight wiring harness in your Stinger.
The harnesses includes an LED turn signal module that'll allow you to use the LED light source as both the parking lights and turn signals simultaneously. When the parking lights are on, the lights will be on. When the turn signals are turned on, the LEDs will blink with the turn signals, and when the turn signals are turned off, the lights will turn off for a second, and then turn back on for the parking light. If you don't want to use the LEDs as turn signals, just unplug the yellow connector in the harness.
The harnesses will come with 2 pigtails with waterproof connectors. The black is ground and the red is the power wire for the LEDs. The main harness plugs into the headlights and the main headlight wiring harness in the vehicle.
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I have setup an SMB server on which I have almost all of my files important files over my local network. This works fine but what if you forgot an important presentation on your server and are standing on the podium to deliver it. Wouldn’t it be nice to have an access to that SMB server over the internet to avoid such situations. So what all do I need to know to route a whole smb server over the internet. You need nothing more than basic knowledge about your router interface. A word of caution the method I am suggesting only allows you to broadcast a single smb server over the internet if you have multiple file servers to deal with you should go for ssh.
Okay so let’s get started. So first find out how to forward ports on your router. This tell your router to allow traffic from certain ports and redirect it to a given IP. Go here and find out how to forward ports on your router. Click on the Default Guide for a general instruction guid for port forward.
Now go ahead and forward ports 137(TCP/UDP) , 138(TCP) , 139(TCP) , 445(TCP) to the ip of the computer you are hosting the SMB server on. This pity much completes the job the only thing you now need is your external IP. You can go to ip.pixeltine.com or if you are a Linux/Mac user you can give the command
Now mount the partition using this external ip and you are done.
If you want help mounting these partitions I found these posts helpful.
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Your teenager can get pretty moody on any given day. If you and your ex are going through a divorce, it can make things even worse. What can you do to make things easier for them?
A recent study published in the Journal of Family Issues shows that consistent parent-child contact is key to helping young people get through their parents’ divorce. To ensure your teen’s well-being, you should focus on maintaining communication with them.
Your relationship with your ex is not the biggest factor
Older studies suggested that cooperation between co-parents was the most important factor in a teen’s reaction to divorce. But this study found that the level of hostility between the parents did not have as much of an effect.
The researchers hope that this knowledge will help shift divorce education towards parent-child relationships—instead of focusing on civility between both parents.
Technology makes talking easier than ever
One reason that this study places communication over parental conflict is because of the changes in technology. Most teenagers have a cell phone or tablet, making it easier than ever to just send a text or call.
When you and your teen don’t see each other every day, taking advantage of these communication methods can help keep your relationship strong. Being there for your teen even when you aren’t in the same home might help them deal with their feelings better.
You don’t want your divorce to hurt your teenager. Proper communication is necessary to stay connected. Speaking openly and honestly can help you both navigate the changes that divorce brings. | <urn:uuid:5ebbb558-b063-4564-8862-7fed59b6759f> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://www.rgsmith.com/blog/2019/04/frequent-communication-can-help-your-teen-handle-your-divorce/ | 2024-03-04T18:47:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476464.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20240304165127-20240304195127-00694.warc.gz | en | 0.949179 | 318 | [
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Last night, my first night freeloading at the main Super Bowl house when I should have been living on the bus, I got on a few people’s nerves. I accidentally ate all the pizza & spilled a bunch of milk, and Dave looked over at me with cold eyes & said, point blank, “Look what ya did ya little jerk“. I was crushed.
Thankfully today was a new day where I could redeem myself…. Or at least enjoy the awesome New Amsterdam Vodka house, stocked full of good food, drinks & activities for a lady on the loose. My drink of choice was New Amsterdam with lemonade & a bit ‘o triple sec. It was *perfect for hopping on the pool float before the storm hits tomorrow, too. (It was *freezing, but still lovely compared to NY weather right now. I’ll take it.) | <urn:uuid:7aa23c56-ca13-4ba8-9595-d570f4b9b3be> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://www.barstoolsports.com/video/1210637/home-alone-liii-lost-in-the-barstool-super-bowl-house | 2024-02-21T12:36:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473472.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221102433-20240221132433-00794.warc.gz | en | 0.969125 | 182 | [
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I teach an on-line course...
"Creating Your Own Tarot & Oracle Cards"
loving it, there are some AMAZING decks comingout of this course
and really loving the topics we discuss at length in our forum.
Something incredibly important came up this week.
"Should you use the meanings that other decks use
for similar themes or your own?"
"Should you share how you came
by these Meanings?"
The heart of this questioning was MUCH DEEPER.
Some students had noticed a few deck creators and writers
had very left of center ideas as well as traditional based works and instead
of saying straight out that these are their visions,
they had spoken about esoteric groups or ethereal beings no one
had heard of that had set them
on the path and gifted them this inspiration.
SOME questioned the validity of these claims, others felt inadequate
because they hadn't had this type of cosmic tick in the box.
Well I believe that, yes, these things do exist and, yes, people do get training and inspiration from
these places. If you are creating under this influence and guidance then that's fantastic and I honour it. Unfortunately its really easy to hide a whole of lot of bullshit in SIMILAR sounding fantasies and this is the lazy path, the fast and easy path for those who mearly seek to impress and to prop up the validity of their work.
Its also tempting for the novice and those unsure of themselves, their passions and insights because they just don't seem to stack up against the other work out there at present. It's all backed up with 10 years of training as a Platinum Priestess under the Goddess Temple of Frazzlebottom and and the nightly visitations from Angel AzeKKKle from Planet 9b.
You know what? As much as its fantastic to be dedicated to an organization and have the training and its wonderful to have ascended to a level that you speak with Angels (I'm not being sarcastic I really do honour these dedications when REAL), it is more than ok to just write and create what YOU live and study on your own.
Development and experience are mighty tools!
In fact I would go as far to say, that although all this 'other stuff' gives you something that can not be denied as valuable mentor-ship, you have all you need already to connect to the All, the Earth and to learn the work of Tradition, and to be REAL!
example: It's MORE than ok if you are writing an Insect Oracle,
see bees and have feelings and 'know' words, colours,
be inspired to write pages about what a bee means and
then read the work of other animal/insect dedicated initiatives
and discuss and go and study more and experience more!
Cloistered Training and Visitations?
If you have them, have access to them, fantastic, they are enhancements,
but you have all you need to write books, paint cards and understand your world.
To be an Oracle!
You just need to go outside, be quiet, be open and EXPERIENCE.
You DO need to honour the traditional ascribed meanings as well
but they never discount your work, your insights if you are working
with true honest clear dedication. Tradition is foundation.
This is what Oracle is all about this work, this blending, this exploration.
The base meaning of Oracle Symbols are abstractions!
The Oracle Writer is taking those abstractions and experiences
and creating a magical tool that can be used by those here now.
(Greece: The Oracle of Delphi 19th Century, Granger)
The world has changed since the Oracle of Delphi.
It is changing and so is everything in it. Those here now are the conduits of the new Oracle.
Tradition should be observed but we can not undervalue
the new language and forms it will take, the additional meanings that will rise.
THIS IS FOUND WITHIN YOU!
perhaps the Mantle of High Priestess MAY assist you hearing the call
or the Visitation of Angles and Faeries may open your heart a little wider
but it's IN YOU ALREADY.
DO NOT BE TEMPTED TO LIE!
I know it may appear on the outside that it works for some,
this smoke and mirrors crap,
but it's just horrible and dishonest and really not your best work.
You don't want to have to live with this or ruin your work with it!
It's why these same people are always on the attack
at any little questioning of their work.
If you are honest, true and real, you NEVER
feel like this or have to act this way. EVER.
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Listening to the song “Mr. President” by Pink aggravated me the other day. She blames everything on President Bush. We had poverty and problems long before he was President.
Watching an online video of Ted Nugent holding a machine gun and threatening Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton infuriated me. He too seemed to want to blame politicians for all of our problems.
Blaming politicians for our problems is one of our biggest problems. Politicians fight back and forth with each other rarely making progress. When they do make decisions that affect us, they still seem to fall short of truly solving our biggest issues. Rather than seeking to serve others and solve problems we gripe about what we want others to do for us.
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Painting expert Mauro Henrique shows host Kevin O’Connor a better way to caulk. After first showing Kevin how most people caulk and why he dislikes the technique, he details the finer points (literally) of caulking.
5 Simple Tips for Using Caulk
1. Cracks and Gaps Happen
There are many reasons why cracks and gaps happen: materials drying out and shrinking may cause it, as can the foundation settling, just to name a few. However, it’s important to know that they do happen, and caulking them can make them disappear.
But simply squeezing gobs of caulking into a gap won’t do.
2. Don’t Over Caulk
Most homeowners and DIYers cut their caulking tubes too far up the tube, creating a hole in the end of the caulking tube that’s too large. This forces them to place a large, round bead of caulk along the gap, which they must then push into the gap with their fingers, resulting in excess caulk squeezing out along the wall or molding. This is a mess and, typically, a waste of caulk. Luckily, this is avoidable.
3. Cut a Smaller Hole
The first step is to cut a smaller hole. Look at the crack or gap in question to get an idea of how wide it is. Many caulk tubes have lines indicating where to cut the tube for a specific hole size. For those that don’t, start closer to the tip for smaller holes and further away for larger holes. The goal is to match the size of the hole to the gap.
Holding the tube at an angle (30 to 45 degrees, usually) use the built-in tip cutter on the caulking gun to cut the tip. Use the poker underneath the caulking gun to break the seal.
4. Force the Caulking into the Gap as You’re Applying It
Place the tip of the caulking tube into the gap, and place the pad of a forefinger on the back of the tip. While squeezing the handle of the caulking gun, drag the tip along the gap while maintaining pressure on the tip of the forefinger, forcing the caulk into the gap.
5. Clean Up the Excess
This technique combines applying the caulk and forcing it into the gap into one step, minimizing the amount of time it takes to caulk and clean up. However, it may still be necessary to touch up any remaining gaps or wipe away any excess. Using the tip of a wetted finger, drag it along the gap to remove excess caulking before wiping any squeeze-out away with a damp rag. | <urn:uuid:4b87b17a-fd8f-4d98-b43a-06e3722d0ddf> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://www.thisoldhouse.com/painting/23198459/using-less-caulk-to-fill-gaps | 2024-03-03T06:52:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476205.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303043351-20240303073351-00794.warc.gz | en | 0.917382 | 562 | [
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When applying to university you are likely to have many questions. Below you’ll find answers to the most frequently asked questions about the Leeds MBA.
How do I apply for The Leeds MBA?
Due to high-demand for places, we operate a staged admissions process for The Leeds MBA. This means that there are staggered application deadlines throughout the year. You can find out more and view deadlines on our How to apply page.
Will I be interviewed for the programme?
Yes, if your application is successful in progressing to the next stage of the application process then we will notify you that you have been invited to interview. Attending your interview is a mandatory part of the MBA application process. Interviews either take place by telephone, video call, or in person at the Business School or overseas.
You don't offer any options on the programme, why?
At Leeds we focus on the fundamentals. We have developed this approach as a result of speaking with practicing leaders, working with companies, and drawing on our own teaching experience. We believe that a detailed and critical understanding of the core fundamentals of business is more valuable to your career than a superficial understanding of a variety of more specialised functions. Hence we allocate more hours to covering fundamentals like strategy, finance and marketing and working on your leadership skills.
Do I have to pay any fees before the programme begins?
It is not a requirement of the University that payment is made in advance. You can choose to pay part or all of the fees before arriving in Leeds if you wish. Payment details will be sent with your offer letter.
If you need a Tier 4 visa to study in the UK the University requires you to pay a tuition fee deposit before being issued with a Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS). The tuition fee deposit will be deducted from your programme tuition fee and shown on your CAS. Read more about fee status, deposits and when to pay.
Do you require an application fee?
No, there is no application fee for the Leeds MBA.
Can I apply for the programme before I have my English language test result?
Yes. We welcome applications prior to taking one of these tests. If you meet all other requirements you will be given a conditional offer. However you must meet the English language requirements before we can admit you onto the programme.
If I only achieve 6 overall in the IELTS test, will I be able to take a language course instead of retaking the IELTS in order to reach 6.5?
If English is not your first language, you may be able to take a pre-sessional course before you begin your studies.
This can help if you don't meet the English language requirements for your course, or if you want to improve your understanding of academic language and practices in your area of study.
Our six and ten week pre-sessional courses are designed with a progression route to a degree programme in management. If you need to study for longer to meet the requirements of your degree programme, the University of Leeds also offers further pre-sessional courses for longer periods, with starting points throughout the year.
I have studied in English for many years. Do I still need to take IELTS/ English language test?
You may still need to take a language test. This depends on a range of factors, including how long you have studied in English, at what level and how recently. We need to consider your CV, application and accompanying documents and details before deciding whether you would need to take an IELTS test.
Are there any exceptions to the required minimum work experience?
No. The Leeds MBA is a post-experience programme and applicants must possess a minimum of 3 years' relevant management experience for the full-time Leeds MBA before they can apply.
When can I start the MBA programme?
We typically only have one intake on the full-time Leeds MBA per year - this is in September.
Can I apply online?
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Portugal is a beautiful place to retire but growing numbers of expat widows are being left with nothing for retirement because they have not accumulated enough independently to last their lifetime.
Rising longevity also means women are more likely to suffer than men in these circumstances, Gavin Scott, senior partner at the Algarve office of advisory firm Blevins Franks, told International Adviser.
He said that fewer women have independent pension savings, and this “results in some cases where women have no provision at all; other than state benefits, and these may not be complete due to an interrupted work record”.
“We are living longer than was anticipated when individuals were planning their retirement income requirements, which are higher than was anticipated,” Scott said. “This is particularly true for women, as the life expectancy tables are showing a growing gap between men and women who will out-survive their (often older) spouses.
“Couple this with an over expectation of investment performance, it results in an unanticipated shortfall.
“This is often caused by being too defensive in their investment strategy that has led to an overweight in fixed income where we’ve seen a rapid decline in yield in the current low interest rate environment.
“Many investors expect stock market portfolio returns despite not actually being invested in the stock market.”
Many women only realise their financial difficulties after their spouse has died.
“The damage tends to be done in the early years of planning and accumulation,” said Scott. “This makes the retirement phase very difficult to provide for; while taking as little risk as possible, yet still meeting the lifetime needs of the individual.
“Time in the market cannot be caught up in fewer years.
“The reality is that pensions are now ‘invested’ for a longer period in retirement than they were in accumulation/funding (we might build a fund over 15-20 years that has to last twice as long in drawdown).”
How to plan
Planning has to take place as early as possible to ensure that the surviving spouse is in the best possible financial position after their spouse dies.
Scott said that, in the pre-retirement stage, clients need to be “realistic about possible investment returns based on attitude to risk, taking account of inflation and an extended life expectancy”.
During the post-retirement stage, clients need to fully understand their capacity for loss.
“I see many cases where individuals state that they are ‘low risk investors’ and, as a result, capital preservation is very important to them,” Scott said. “On the one hand, they are saying that are prepared to accept very low levels of return in exchange for capital protection.
“But they then take a high-risk approach to income provision by drawing down on capital at a rate much higher than any realistic investment return, resulting in a guaranteed and savage erosion of capital.
“These people tend to gravitate to weak advisers that promise the earth and are either incapable or unwilling to educate their client to this folly and reality.”
A family united
Understanding the fundamentals of risk and investing when it comes to pensions is a vital issue. But having family meetings about financial planning can also really help.
“There is often pressure from children looking to parents for assistance with, say, property funding and parents often feel that, if capital is available, they’d like to help out. But this can have a detrimental effect on pension provision,” Scott added. “In reality, they can probably achieve both so long as they prioritise the pension planning during the parents’ lifetime.
“Capital is unlikely to be replaced but, where preserved, is capable of continuing to grow and provide an increasing income stream.
“Parents who wish to help their children might be better considering [paying] school fees or mortgage payments rather than gifts of capital that reduce the value of the family estate through capital erosion.
“The starting point with families is often looking at what it is we are trying to achieve in the first instance, rather than starting with a perceived solution to a badly thought out question.
“Getting the whole family involved helps to educate younger generations and assists parents in explaining that. although they may appear capital rich at this time, they require this level of capital in order to generate the income they require.”
It is still common, especially in older couples, for the man to manage the money. But Scott believes it is equally important for both partners to meet with advisers as “life expectancy dictates the likelihood that the surviving spouse will have to deal with the ‘finances’ at some time in the future”.
“It’s a lot easier for a man to say ‘don’t worry, she’ll be alright and she’s well taken over with a percentage of my income’, if ‘she’ is not in the room,” said Scott.
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We’re pleased to announce our first release of Google Cloud modules! We’re helping organizations and startups take advantage of Google’s data and pre-trained AI/ML models to launch solutions faster than ever!
Here are the newly available Google Modules that we can add to user builds starting today.
This is an add-on to Crowdbotics’ Google Cloud HIPAA-Compliance module. Transcribe medical dictation and multi-party conversations leveraging AI models trained specifically for medical & healthcare language processing. You can also process unstructured medical texts like patient records and insurance claims, drawing insights, such as correlation of side effects and dose and more.
Leverage Google’s years of experience driving recommendations from your app. All that is required is a product catalog, and that user events be sent to the platform. All of the complex machine learning is taken care of, and your data is yours, always.
Translate and transcribe spoken language in near real-time from over 11 source languages. Document translation supports automatic detection of over 100 languages!
Leverage Google Workspace in application workflows easily by adding our new Workspace modules. Enable your application to search Drive, insert a row in a spreadsheet, or dynamically generate customer proposals in Google Docs (in the background).
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As a Google Partner, Crowdbotics is always looking for ways to bring the best-in-class features of Google Cloud into our hundreds of app builds. Get in touch today to add these features to your app!
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The New York Times reports that for every 10 grades assessed to undergraduates at Yale during the last academic year, 8 were either an A or an A minus: corresponding to an increase in average GPA by nearly 0.3 points since the turn of the century, up to 3.7 from 3.42. This comes after similar patterns were uncovered at Harvard in early October, and a series of university professors were fired over their poor grade distributions: including one at Spelman College last month and a high-profile case last year at New York University.
There are many ways in which to understand these popular controversies: perhaps the problem is grade inflation, or students are struggling following the pandemic. Such theories are important to discuss, and significant attention has been devoted to them since the pandemic. However, there is an observation which we might make here, raising questions with implications spanning pre-K through graduate school: disagreements over low test scores and increasingly high grades are often disagreements over the very purpose of education, and the role it plays in our larger society. The question at the heart of the matter is deceivingly simple: who should get an A?
When asked this question, two categories of answers may come to mind. The first, and perhaps most common, is: the students who understand the material exceptionally well. The entire idea of grading on a curve is based on this premise: for any given class, a group of students will understand the material exceptionally well, a group will understand it exceptionally poorly, and most will fall somewhere in the middle. Under this scheme, grading — and, by extension, education — functions to stratify students: it supposedly identifies the best and most deserving individuals. And, by assumption, someone must always be on the opposite end of the spectrum — for someone to be the best, someone else must always be the worst. This idea, for better or worse, has had an incredibly deep impact on how we, as a society, understand both grades and education more broadly. When grades function to stratify, good grades become the instrument of meritocratic advancement up the socioeconomic hierarchy.
The logic here will be familiar to any high school student, having been echoed for years. To get a good job, you need good grades in college, and to get into college, you need good grades in high school; and to get the best grades in high school, you need to do after school tutoring in elementary school, learn to read as early as possible, and so on. When good grades are a primary vehicle for socioeconomic security, education becomes a bloodsport for which training must begin as early as possible. On this view, the awarding of A’s or A-‘s to 80% of students – as Harvard and Yale and others have done – is an unacceptable obfuscation of who has won; grades no longer function to establish the differentiation which our broader economy relies upon.
But mixed in our social consciousness is another concept of grading, built on a different idea of education. Perhaps the student who should get an A is the student who satisfied, to the fullest extent, the expectations of the course. The key difference between this notion and that described above is that, here, everyone can get an A so long as all students satisfy those expectations. Imagine, for example, you’re teaching a class on accounting, designed to introduce students to basic concepts in Microsoft Excel and prepare them for higher-level coursework which will require a basic set of skills and a common vocabulary. If this is the goal of the course, then there is no reason that every student shouldn’t get an A: if the goal is for students to develop certain skills, then it only matters that the goal is met, and the degree to which those goals are surpassed is superfluous to the purpose of the course. With realistic goals, proper teaching, and appropriate effort, every student will develop those skills, and the course will have fulfilled its educational mission. Under this scheme, grading functions to indicate competency, and education functions to cultivate it; education is not about sorting students, but rather, uplifting them as a group.
This may seem to be a radical idea of education’s purpose, but I’d argue that the idea is more common than one might think. The idea of educational standards, both at the federal and state level, is built on this idea of education: that a graduate of high school, for example, should have certain competencies. It is also why grading entirely on a curve is uncommon — if the best student gets a 98% and the worst gets a 95%, it hardly seems appropriate to award an A to the former and an F to the latter — and, further, why educators are often blamed for their student’s poor grades: we expect professors to teach all students a set of material, not merely succeed in stratifying their students into the best and worst.
Across education, we can see these two ideas of the educational mission — education as stratifying and education as uplifting — coming into conflict with one-another. Perhaps they even co-exist within most grading systems, where a C is intended to indicate competency and an A indicates exceptional understanding. But even though we may be intuitively familiar with both, I think there’s reason to take the conflict between them seriously: I would argue that not only do these two concepts of education conflict, but that they’re fundamentally at odds with one another. If stratifying students requires always failing some, then education cannot simultaneously function to uplift all students; and if uplifting all students requires providing second and third chances, then grades and education cannot play their fundamental role in our society’s larger economic system. This is exactly what has happened in medical education when the first United States Medical Licensing Exam was transitioned from a scored system to a simple pass/fail: when this change was finalized, residency program directors lost their primary metric for deciding which medical students to interview.
But we can also understand this conflict at a different level. Take the perspective of a professor. Very few educators want to be the gatekeepers of socioeconomic privilege, and most find the idea of failing students unpleasant, especially when those students make a genuine effort: most professors want to teach, to uplift their students, share their passion for the subject they have devoted their life to studying. Take the perspective of a student. In a stratifying educational system, students are actively punished for helping their classmates, and are tacitly encouraged to undermine other students to increase their standing in the grading hierarchy; in an uplifting system, no such incentives exist, and collaboration is tacitly encouraged.
Grading controversies are, fundamentally, a debate which happens between these two, radically different ideas about education and the social role it should serve. Should education uplift all, or determine who can go on? Should education be rigorous and challenging, or designed to accommodate the flourishing of students? These are not easy questions, but they are questions which we will continue to face until the contradiction inherent to modern education is resolved. | <urn:uuid:c20a0130-f192-4874-b4ab-fe10d06f02bd> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://www.prindleinstitute.org/topic/psychology-health-wellness/ | 2024-02-24T10:05:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474526.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20240224080616-20240224110616-00894.warc.gz | en | 0.969704 | 1,438 | [
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Martin Flanagan looks at Beverley Knight, owner of Alcaston Gallery and direct of the Essendon Football Club.
Quoted from the article:
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Artist: ginger riley, barney ellaga, willie gudabi
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Holidays at LEGOLAND Event
Holidays at LEGOLAND is presented by The Hallmark Channel and features some amazingly festive experiences. This event is included with your general admission LEGOLAND ticket and gives you something to do with your family during the holiday season. You’ll find seasonal shows, holiday lights, and special treats to enjoy during the Holidays at LEGOLAND event. If you’re thinking about attending this event, then continue reading to learn more about this spectacular family-friendly event.
Does LEGOLAND do anything for Christmas?
Yes! LEGOLAND hosts its annual Holidays at LEGOLAND event for families to experience a fun-filled day of treats, lights, and events. Meet Lego Santa and Toy Soldier and get a picture with them! Enjoy two interactive shows, including “Holly Jolly Jubilee”. During these shows, you can dance, sing-along, and clap along with Santa’s elves around the 30 foot LEGO Christmas Tree Spectacular.
Fun Experiences at Holidays at LEGOLAND
There are even more experiences to enjoy during the Holidays at LEGOLAND event, such as a variety of hands-on building experiences and photo ops with a giant LEGO wreath, life-size LEGO snowmen and a sleigh made out of thousands of LEGO bricks.
Enjoy seeing your favorite LEGOLAND of Florida theme park turn into a festive, jolly park full of holiday lights, treats, and amazing holiday Lego buildings. You’ll have no choice but to feel jolly as you venture through Holidays at LEGOLAND trying to enjoy every festive moment you can. From life-size buildings to hands-on activities and festive treats, your entire family will enjoy this memory-making experience.
I love that this event is included with your general admission ticket, which means we can get the whole LEGOLAND of Florida experience all the while enjoy their Holidays at LEGOLAND event without paying extra. The kids will have a blast dancing around and singing to Christmas music, and having a chance to meet LEGO Santa.
Can you take food into LEGOLAND?
As a means to fully prepare you for this event, I wanted to answer a popular question about LEGOLAND visits. Many have asked if you can take food into LEGOLAND, and the simple answer is no. You’re not allowed to bring any outside drinks or food. There will be plenty of treat options inside at the Holidays at LEGOLAND event. If you have dietary restrictions, you may call ahead to see if LEGOLAND will make an exception of any sort.
4 Reasons to Visit Holidays at LEGOLAND
Now that I’ve shared some details about this fabulous event, I want to tell you my top 4 reasons to attend Holidays at LEGOLAND, presented by the Hallmark Channel:
Meet and Greets
There’s nothing more special than seeing your kids face light up when they get to meet Lego Santa and Lego Toy Soldier. Don’t forget to snap a photo to memorialize this experience with your family forever.
30 Foot Lego Christmas Tree
I love being able to see the 30 foot Lego Christmas tree during Holidays at LEGOLAND event. This is one of those experiences that you have to see to believe and comprehend just how magnificent this Christmas tree is.
Enjoy holiday-themed scavenger hunts in Miniland USA and DUPLO Valley. You may also win some prizes for completing the holiday-themed scavenger hunts at the Holidays at LEGOLAND event.
Write a LEGO Letter to Santa
Have your kids write a LEGO letter to Santa. This activity is so much fun and gives your kids a chance to add something to their Santa wish list or send Santa a thank you card. LEGOLAND of Florida will send your letters to Santa up in the North Pole at no extra charge, too.
Holidays at LEGOLAND happens during the peak season when LEGOLAND of Florida extends their hours so that families can have a few extra hours to enjoy the park festivities. This is a great option for those who want to spend more time experiencing the holiday-themed events and exhibits during the Holidays at LEGOLAND event.
Whatever you’re looking forward to at Holidays at LEGOLAND event, I just know that you’ll enjoy your time walking through the park. You’ll feel a sense of happiness, cheer, and holiday joy flowing through your heart as you walk around this festive event at LEGOLAND of Florida.
Don’t forget to ring in the New Year at LEGOLAND with the Kids’ New Year Eve party that features a nightly fireworks show, special building activities, and dance parties for the whole family. The LEGOLAND Kids’ New Year Party runs from December 26-31. LEGOLAND will feature a brick drop at a kid-friendly hour on New Year’s Eve too, so don’t miss out on that event. If you’re ready to experience the Holidays at LEGOLAND event with your family then you can purchase your tickets online after you plan which night you’ll attend this festive event. Holidays at LEGOLAND runs from November 29-30, and December 1, 7-8, 14-15, 20-31. | <urn:uuid:fbf3cf8a-6d8c-4706-b6bc-8851faf41d46> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://mommyhoodlife.com/holidays-at-legoland/ | 2024-02-25T19:59:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474641.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225171204-20240225201204-00894.warc.gz | en | 0.927895 | 1,108 | [
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40 On Justice: The Prophetic Voice on Social Reform by Omar Suleiman
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By Omar Suleiman, Kube Publishing, paperback, 384 pages
A collection of 40 Hadith (sayings) of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) focusing on the notion of social justice in Islam.
Justice is essential to the survival and flourishing of any civilisation. The words of God and His Messenger ﷺ remind us of the centrality of justice in our lives and our societies. Injustice (Zulum) is condemned repeatedly in the Qur’an and the teachings of the Prophet ﷺ. How are we to confront injustices in our personal lives, our communities and our societies? In an age of widespread injustices against the weak, the vulnerable and the dispossessed, how does Islam teach us to respond?
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Is not easy. We’ve mostly taken to having the kid’s tablets with us wherever we go.
In the main, this means that we can eat out, as they keep the children occupied. But, as previously documented, TT managed to shatter the screen of hers (🙄)
Therefore we are back to one tablet between two children and, rather unsurprisingly, #1 Son is more than a tad miffed that he is having to share.
So, we took them out for their first trip to Wendy’s sans tablets.
I am very impressed with Wendy’s I admit. For all it’s being a fast food burger joint (and for its burgers to not be a patch on Wayback) it’s more tasty than Mc Donald’s or Burger King.
It has pretty good kids meal options – with no pickle on them 🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮 and, most importantly – you can replace fries with a baked potato.
I have occasional cravings for a good old jacket – especially as the hus-creature apparently does not like them 🙀🙀🙀
As well as:
- Rice pudding
- Fruit in pop tarts/toaster pastries generally
- Hot Pots
- Stews with dumplings
In fact, anything that could be termed “Boring British” in cuisine terms.
He will eat roast dinners but hates cooking them (a fair cop guv’nor) and loves Yorkshire puddings.
So it’s a treat for me to get one when we go out, especially if they replace fries.
So the kiddies both have cheeseburgers. #1 Son chose apple pieces instead of fries (and he actually ate them) and so did the hus-creature. TT ate some of her brother’s apple and some of her fries.
The lack of tablets caused a few issues I admit. Firstly, TT wanted to sit on a chair at a 2-person table and would not move. Then #1 Son could not be persuaded to sit still. And, perhaps more importantly when finally corralled into place, began pulling his t-shirt (long sleeved) over his head.
So, bearing everything in mind, we settled on the following:
- Only walking around our table
- Leaving his sister alone
- Keeping his clothes in place
You would think that these were neither difficult nor unreasonable requests.
Ah well. This is why we don’t go out often. #1 Son is hard to contain, TT then feeds off of his energy, and I’m meant to be watching my stress levels and my blood pressure.
Oh, and it is -13C out there right now.
Even the small furnace that is my son is starting to complain of the cold.
Not that he will wear a winter coat – the best we manage is a winter-suitable-for-the-UK one. It is at least fleece lined though.
Yep these were all taken today on the way for lunch. Welcome to New England.
It’s like Old England but on steroids.
But, you know what? For all my complaints and dread, the two of them are at least capable of some cute moments.
And there was the moment where TT demanded “Nanoo KISS”
Where I just about died of the adorable. Despite the fights (which get louder and more physical much quicker these days) these kids do adore each other.
I also let her play with crayons today. Both regular and bath type.
She completely covered several sheets of paper (both sides) and while in the bath declared that several independent and separate drawings were “dinosaurs”.
So I’m a proud mom tonight.
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Spousal support, also known as alimony, is awarded to one spouse when a married couple divorces. Spousal support is a series of payments made from the spouse with the higher income to the other during the divorce process, and in many cases, once the divorce is finalized. However, in Califonia, if the supported spouse remarries, alimony may be impacted. Our San Diego divorce lawyers explain how in the blog below.
Remarriage and Spousal Support in California
When your ex-spouse gets remarried, it’s common not to want to continue paying their spousal support. The idea behind alimony is to make the transition from a combined-income household to one less fiscally devastating for the lower-earning spouse. Therefore, when they get remarried, they are entering into a two-income home again, and support should not be necessary anymore.
Fortunately, under California law, when the supported spouse gets remarried, the obligation to pay future spousal support automatically ends. The paying spouse doesn’t need to file a motion to terminate support, and no court action is necessary.
The supported spouse, on the other hand, must notify the paying spouse that they have remarried. If they fail to do so, the court will order the supported spouse to refund the paying spouse for excess payments after the date of the wedding.
It should be noted that in cases where there are overdue support payments, vested lump-sump alimony payments, or transfers of property, the remarriage of the supported spouse will not terminate alimony.
Are There Any Exceptions to the Remarriage Alimony Law?
If the couple explicitly states in their marital settlement agreement (MSA) or prenuptial agreement that remarriage does not impact alimony, then couples can agree to waive the right to terminate spousal support.
This means that the paying spouse will still be responsible for making future support payments even in the event that their ex gets remarried. Before signing any kind of pre or post-marital agreement, it is important to consult with an experienced family law attorney to review the details.
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Cannabis is often celebrated for its ability to increase the appetite and prevent wasting. However, new research suggests that the endocannabinoid system’s role in energy metabolism is more profound than we initially thought. This puts some cannabinoids in the limelight as potential treatment strategies for metabolic disorders like obesity and diabetes.
When it comes to cannabis and metabolism, we mostly hear about cannabis’ appetite-stimulating effects. However, the body of research continues to grow into the potential of cannabinoids to have an effect that’s quite the contrary. What we’re learning now is that there are a number of cannabinoids that affect metabolism in profound ways.
Cannabis, once the munchies-inducing herb that helped people from wasting away, is now being investigated for its potential to treat metabolic disorders such as obesity and diabetes mellitus. The primary cannabinoid in question is THCV, although CBD has also shown several effects on energy metabolism.
Let’s delve into this interesting avenue of cannabis research and its implications for future medical uses of cannabis.
Metabolism and the endocannabinoid system
The endocannabinoid system (ECS) is a molecular regulation system by which the body maintains balance in several different aspects. The endocannabinoid system is involved in regulating immunity, synaptic plasticity, cell signalling, central nervous system functioning and metabolism.
Recent research suggests that a dysfunctional endocannabinoid system disrupts the balance in energy metabolism and can lead to an accumulation of visceral fat (around the belly and waist). The inability of the body to properly use energy is what characterises metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes.
In particular, the CB1 receptor and its endogenous ligands, anandamide and 2-AG, are thought to be the most heavily involved aspects of the endocannabinoid system in energy metabolism. When the endocannabinoid system is functioning correctly, these pathways enhance energy storage, usage, and expenditure. When the endocannabinoid system is not, energy metabolism can be dysregulated and contribute to obesity, diabetes, and dyslipidaemia.
Constant activation of the ECS is associated with metabolic processes carried out in the hypothalamus and peripheral tissue in those with obesity. It’s therefore hypothesised that cannabinoid receptor antagonists could have a significant pharmacological effect on those with obesity and other related disorders such as diabetes.
To put that into real-life context, THCV is one of the cannabinoid receptor antagonists capable of eliciting this effect. The implications of this are far-reaching as we discover just how much of a role the endocannabinoid system plays in one of the Western world’s most prevalent diseases: obesity.
How does THCV affect metabolism?
THCV isn’t an antagonist to the cannabinoid receptor itself. That means that it doesn’t block the cannabinoid receptor and prevent its cascade of events. Instead, THCV antagonises the ligands that bind to the CB1 receptor. This prevents the ligands from latching on and causing a cascade of events.
In a rodent study conducted in 2020, researchers administered THCV to obese and type 2 diabetic rats. Administration of THCV decreased the appetite, increased satiety and up-regulated energy metabolism. Researchers concluded that THCV could be clinically useful in the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes.
In another rodent study from 2013, researchers administered THCV to obese mice and found that it improved insulin sensitivity. It also restored insulin signalling in liver cells and muscle fibres. The researchers did note that it didn’t seem to affect overall food consumption or body weight.
Finally, THCV is around 25% as psychoactive as its counterpart, THC. This makes it a potential candidate for therapy as it can be applied across several demographics. Although this cannabinoid is not abundantly present in cannabis, the understanding of its mechanisms suggests a way that cannabinoids can be used in treating metabolic disorders.
What does the research say about CBD, THC and weight loss?
When it comes to CBD, the cannabinoid receptor in question is CB2. It remains in question because the medical world still isn’t sure what the CB2’s involvement with weight loss is precisely and how its endogenous ligands affect weight gain and weight loss.
In a 2011 study conducted on rats, CBD reduced weight gain. To assess the mechanism behind this, researchers administered AM630, a CB2 selective antagonist. This blocked the effects of CBD and led researchers to the hypothesis that the CB2 receptor is active in the process of weight gain and weight loss.
In another theory, researchers concluded that the downregulation of the CB1 receptor led to reduced BMI and reduced obesity. Interestingly, the researchers found that cannabis users (THC) had lower BMI’s but higher caloric intake than non-cannabis using people. They concluded that the long-lasting downregulation of the CB1 receptor reduces the storage of energy in adipose tissue and increases metabolic rates.
The cannabis and weight loss paradox
This seems to be one of the scenarios where cannabinoids have very targeted, specific effects. Paradoxically, cannabis can simultaneously cause an increase in appetite as well as a reduction in obesity. The likely explanation is the highly targeted nature of each cannabinoid’s role in energy metabolism.
It is still not fully understood how cannabis affects metabolism because it’s unknown how the endocannabinoid system governs metabolism. At the same time, THCV shows potential for natural therapies in diabetes and obesity treatment. It’s an exceptionally pertinent issue as the Western world faces obesity epidemics and their associated health risks.
How does cannabis affect your energy levels and appetite? Do different strains affect it differently? We’d love to hear your personal experiences in the comments.
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Syracuse UT Concrete Lifting
In Northern Davis of Davis County, the city of Syracuse is home to around 28-30,000 people. Around 12% of the city’s economy is through retail and another 13% is from public administration. That means there are lots of different businesses and local authorities that use commercial buildings. Many of them have a large proportion of concrete as the main material of their structure. As the years pile up, these structures will show signs of fatigue, particularly in driveways, entrances, sidewalks, and steps. The nearby locations of Clinton and Clearfield also have the same infrastructure design. We provide services that will repair and lift any such areas that show signs of fatigue.
Why concrete lifting?
Leveling your steps
If you’re a business located in Roy, Syracuse, Clinton or surrounding areas and are sick and tired of looking at your uneven steps, we’re all ears to your woes. If your steps seem to have sunk lower and lower over time, don’t worry this is not uncommon. We can come over to your location usually on the same day as your call. We’ll assess the situation to figure out whether it’s soil consolidation or settlement that has affected the steps. Moist soil is often the cause of shifting steps as it fluctuates in size when it expands from rainwater and then dries. If we can, we’ll access the ground underneath the steps without drilling. However, if this route isn’t possible, we’ll bore a small hole in the steps and pump a concrete mixture down into it. This will slowly raise the steps to the desired height in order to either to correct the slope or simply lift them higher.
A slanted sidewalk
Uneven sidewalks are not pleasant to walk across, even if you’re young and without physical ailments. Local authorities in Hooper and West Point want to provide safe and strong sidewalk structures for all their residents. Slanted slopes are caused by many of the same factors i.e. the underlying soil expanding and contracting from rainwater. Concrete lifting for slabs is a highly cost-effective solution. Unlike other options, concrete is used within a few hours rather than days. The aesthetic of the sidewalk is not disturbed and neither is the surrounding area such as people’s lawns and or roads. It’s also far cheaper than using brand new slabs or concrete to fix the slant. There is some trade-off, however. The slab must be in good condition as slabs with major cracks will break apart when the material lifts them up. Therefore, it’s in your interest to get it fixed quickly. | <urn:uuid:7b406e82-a3dc-4e09-b76c-8dfb7b3efff6> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://www.muddogjacking.com/concrete-lifting-syracuse-ut/ | 2024-03-04T00:31:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476409.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20240304002142-20240304032142-00894.warc.gz | en | 0.959302 | 556 | [
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What do you get when you combine ready made biscuits with your favorite beef stew? Pot pie cups! This recipe is so simple the kids can help and you can customize it in so many different ways! Use all store bought ingredients or make your own biscuit dough and stew. Use leftovers. It’s so simple to throw together and you can use just about any stew or biscuit dough you like!
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Explore the Top 9 Time-Saving Cooking Tips
Every professional cook knows that the meal prep time is just as important as the taste of the food. When preparing food on a commercial scale, you need to implement effective time saving cooking tips to ensure you meet deadlines and attend to clients' needs in record time. However, cooking speed isn't a concern for professionals alone. Everyone who cooks at home should know how to speed things up when they want to make a quick meal. In this piece, you will find some of the best cooking tips for saving time as a chef.
9 Essential Time Saving Cooking Tips
Below are the nine best time saving cooking tips you should practice.
Prepare Staple Items Once a Week
Meal prepping is the best way to save time when it comes to cooking. However, not everyone likes to cook a week’s worth of food at once because it gives them limited options. Alternatively, you can prepare staple foods needed for various savory recipes. These are dishes that make up the bulk of your diet. Some examples are white rice, soups, pasta, meat, and grains. Cook them and put them in the freezer, then bring them out whenever you need to prepare a quick meal. You can make a different side dish anytime you want to eat. Preparing these side dishes and condiments only takes a few minutes.
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Cook Once, Eat Twice
If you cook whenever you want to eat, you will waste time and resources in the kitchen. Instead of making single servings, make two or more servings. This is especially important for dishes that take a long time to prepare. Spending hours in the kitchen just for a single serving of food is not productive. Keep whatever is left in an airtight container and store it in your freezer. You can defrost it and heat it in the microwave the next day or whenever you like. Making multiple servings of food also helps you save money. You can buy fresh veggies, fresh herbs, and other essential items at discounted prices in bulk.
Pre-cut Fruits and Vegetables
Slicing, dicing, and cutting can be time consuming and annoying when you are in a hurry. You can make things easier by cutting enough fresh fruits and vegetables with a cutting board and putting them in your refrigerator. Please ensure they are in clean, airtight containers so they are not exposed to moisture. You can wipe the containers with a damp paper towel first. When you are ready to make a meal that needs vegetables, use your pre-cut vegetables to save time. You can also snack on sliced and diced fruits more frequently this way. If you don't have time to slice fruits in bulk, consider buying pre-cut options from the grocery store or farmers market.
We've already emphasized the importance of using freezers and refrigerators when saving time in a clean and organized kitchen. However, freezing deserves a paragraph of its own. It is one of the most effective ways to save time in the kitchen. Instead of cooking daily, dedicate time off to cooking. Prepare different types of food, not just staples, and load up your freezer. Put the meals into single or double-serving containers so you don't have to heat the whole thing when you feel like eating a specific dish. Whenever you are hungry, put your desired meal in the microwave or crock pot and eat it after it heats up. Some people make enough food for seven days, while others stretch it up to a month.
Keep Your Pantry Stocked
You can't save time in the kitchen if you don't invest in a homemade stock. Filling your pantry with all the dry ingredients you need for your daily meals is one of the most efficient time saving techniques in the kitchen. This way, you don't have to run to the grocery store or market whenever you want to cook. Once every month, buy things non-perishable items like rice, whipped cream, pasta, canned foods, milk, and cereals. Don't wait until your pantry is empty to restock. Keep an inventory and buy replacements before you run out of each food item.
Improve Your Cooking Skills
Sometimes, saving time in the kitchen isn't just buying pre-cut food or using a freezer. It might be a matter of skill. If you don't cook frequently or haven't been cooking for a long time, you must Improve your skills. Take courses that cover expert recipes and more efficient cooking techniques. You don't need to be physically present to learn new skills, as online classes are available during your free time. Explore different methods and improve your skills by practicing regularly. Cooking will eventually become second nature for you.
Even if you prefer eating a meal once, there will be times when you have leftovers for one reason or another. Instead of discarding it, tweak it a little for extra flavor and make it a dish for another day. Leftovers make great foundations for new meals and prevent you from starting from scratch every time. It saves time, reduces wastage, and allows you to explore several creative ideas. For example, you can slice the leftover steak from Friday’s barbecue and add it to a bowl of vegetable salad for Saturday's lunch.
Keep a List
A food list or timetable is another excellent way to save time, especially if you have just started cooking. Consider this list of your favorite recipes as a blueprint, and use it whenever you want to cook complicated recipes. Instead of thinking of the next steps, you have to follow the list. Apart from following recipes, you should keep a list of all the food items in your house if you love cooking. This inventory will make it easier to identify every item when cooking and replace others when necessary.
Keep a Clean and Organized Kitchen
If you leave your kitchen cluttered and messy, you will have difficulty finding necessary things when cooking. So, declutter your kitchen and make sure it is always clean and organized. If you store dry spices for savory recipes in jars, labeling is also a great way to find things quickly and save time in the kitchen. Place them on the kitchen table, but make sure they are separate from utensils, crock pot, cutting board, frying pans, food processors, and other cooking tools.
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Janet Yellen, chair of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve, gave a speech in October 2014 in which she said that, “The past several decades have seen the most sustained rise in inequality since the 19th century after more than 40 years of narrowing inequality following the Great Depression. I think it is appropriate to ask whether this trend is compatible with the values rooted in our nation’s history, among them the high value Americans have traditionally placed on equality of opportunity .”
These remarks raise several questions:
- What are the facts on inequality?
- Why has inequality increased?
- Why does inequality matter?
- What can be done about it?
A lot of attention has focused on the fact that, particularly in the US, the richest 10 percent, and even more so the richest 1 percent, have increased their share of income while average salaries have stagnated.
According to OECD data, market income inequality has risen considerably since the crisis while disposable income inequality has increased much less due to welfare state taxes and transfers. And, the risk of poverty has shifted from the elderly to the young as disposable income has not fallen for the elderly.
Figure 1 below displays the changes in the Gini coefficient, an inequality indicator with a scale of 0 (no inequality) to 1 (maximum inequality), for OECD countries. Figure 2 shows the Gini index for disposable income and the wide differences between several countries.
The Causes of Inequality
The roots of inequality are complex. One explanation for the increased share of the top 1 percent is that managers influence boards and assign themselves high salaries, though this view is at odds with the high remuneration received by managers in firms closely controlled by the owner.
Furthermore, globalization and digital technology expand the market for talent, giving rise to the “superstar” phenomenon. The value of a top soccer player is much higher today thanks to digital global media, than it was in a world dominated by national TV, or going further back in time, in a world with no TV.
The entry of emerging economies, such as China and India, with a massive supply of unskilled workers, has impacted low-skilled workers in developed economies and pushed wages down. This affects the standard of living of middle classes in developed economies.
The evolution of family structure may play a role. At one extreme, there has been an increase in the numbers of couples in which both partners are high earners, resulting in children who are bound to be high earners, due to their advantages in family background and education. At the other extreme, the growing number of single-parent families has increased the risk of poverty.
Policy interventions may also have an impact on the evolution of inequality. In the US, relevant factors include the lowering of marginal tax rates during the Reagan era and efforts to provide credit to the middle classes during the Clinton era, in order to foster consumption with stagnating salaries.
Inequality may corrupt and endanger democracy. In the US in the late 19th century, large concentrations of power brought about by the formation of large firms was viewed as a menace. In fact, an early driver of antitrust regulation was to prevent these concentrations of power. The danger is a government captured by the interests of a segment of society.
Policy should have clear goals and a social welfare function, focusing on the redistributive aims society wishes to accomplish. For example, do we want equality of opportunity or outcome?
The OECD recommends that countries promote employment and good quality jobs, greater participation of women in the workforce, improve education and skill acquisition over the working life, and optimally design the tax-benefit redistribution system. In her speech, Yellen emphasized four specific building blocks for improving equality of economic opportunity in the US: resources for children, affordable higher education, business ownership and inheritance. Food for thought. | <urn:uuid:463f9b44-a6b6-4b6a-b193-40724e570548> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://blog.iese.edu/economics/2015/12/09/why-inequality-is-increasing-and-what-can-we-do-about-it/ | 2024-02-21T21:16:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473558.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221202132-20240221232132-00094.warc.gz | en | 0.965228 | 782 | [
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Nicholas Sparks love stories don't always have a traditional happy ending and are real and practical. Here are 5 must-read books by Nicholas Sparks.
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Location: Surreal coastal resort in North Wales
Perfect for: Escaping reality and indulging your imagination
A playground of pastel turrets and quaint cottages gently interrupted by the most bizarre pagan imagery. Everywhere. It’s all so deliciously unexpected!
Monsieur 2 and I are about to embark on a six-hour car journey to North Wales; Portmeirion in fact, where a friend of ours is getting hitched.
There’s something rather magical about Wales. Its long, winding roads take you through some of the UK’s most spectacular scenery. Hikers may collectively flock there to trek across its greatest mountains, but it’s also a wonderful den of romantic backdrops, vast caverns and the most breath-taking views.
It might be late in the day, but the Welsh hospitality hasn’t ended. We were greeted warmly and shown to our room. It’s not the epitome of luxury, but it’s modern, comfortable and has a little kitchenette.
The best bit has to be the complimentary sherry (which, we discover later, is refreshed every day!). It’s no Tio Pepe, but its the kind of nightcap I need to calm my nerves after Monsieur 2’s Formula 1 driving. I blame Lewis Hamilton. Ever since he’s come onto the scene, Monsieur 2 has developed a strong affection with the accelerator. Which is alright for a racing track, but not the back lanes of rural Wales. I’ve confiscated the keys.
The Castell is at the entrance to Portmeirion village and is a magnificent structure of Welsh stone.
Rude awakening by an over-enthusiastic old friend, Caroline. Her greedy wants require a breakfast companion, and with her boyfriend sensibly declining (as is mine), I’ve been declared the lucky volunteer.
This place is fabulous. Fabulous. Scoffing enough toast and tea (couldn’t face the fry up) to fuel our early-morning village walk we ventured out of Le Castell’s epic gates into the great outdoors. And how great Portmeirion is outdoors.
It’s a playground of pastel turrets and quaint cottages gently interrupted by the most bizarre pagan imagery. Everywhere.
We steal around the village inconspicuously trying to re-enact scenes from the psychedelic 60s allegorical sci-fi tale – The Prisoner – which was set here, taking it all in. But before we knew it, we, like the Prisoner hadn’t escaped, and it was time to get ready for wedding vows. We’ll visit the eclectic range of shops later.
Monsieur 2 is showered, changed, and singing along to MTV. I need to get my skates on.
The wedding was in the Town Hall. I’m sure the service was very charming, but we were distracted by the reliefs on the walls around us – a mixture of snakes, cherubs, and a horse biting a man’s privates. It’s all so deliciously unexpected and quietly alarming!
Lunch was fantastic, partly because the food was sensational – lamb roast, followed by a fresh and fruity summer tart – and partly because our table got on famously. Someone came up with the bright idea to run a book on the length of the speeches, which happily awakened everyone’s mischievous sides.
The winner, sitting next to Monsieur 2, swung her arms with such jubilant triumph her wine was sent flying into the lap of an unimpressed, though he hid it well. His napkin took the brunt of the offence, but his shirt needs a change. So, smelling like a Ian Beale’s freshly laundered catering coats, we’re ready to re-enter the party.
It was around the time that I saw Monsieur 2 performing some sort of mime that I decided we’d better head for home, but Caroline had other plans which involved us playing charades on her balcony (penthouse suite) until 5.30 this morning.
Monseiur 2 busying himself making coffee in the kitchen, whilst I supposedly do the packing. I’ve found the keys, and as sorry as I am to bid adieu to this fantastically surreal place, it’s most definitely time to head home. And I’ll be doing the driving.
Our rating: Nothing can prepare you for Portmeirion – an utterly fabulous gay friendly boutique hotel in Wales that you simply must visit. It gets a 3.5 star rating from us for its accommodation.
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A simple zipped pouch that can be used as an organizational tool and thrown inside a bag or attached to the side of the Roll Top Bum Bag using the optional attachment pack.
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Each spot is for up to 3 kids. If you have more than 3 kids please email Miss Emily at [email protected] to register.
Pre-schoolers will build letter and number identification skills while enjoying stories, songs, and activities with their caregivers.
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Cherry Point, NC, May 25, 2023 – VRC Metal Systems, a leading developer of advanced cold spray technologies, recently implemented their Brolga Trailerized Cold Spray System at the Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE), the largest industrial employer in Eastern North Carolina. The Brolga System is expected to significantly improve the center’s aircraft repair and maintenance capabilities.
Cold spray technology has been used for years by defense and aerospace industries, but its application to in situ aircraft repair is relatively new. Cold spray technology is a metal consolidation process that sprays powdered metal particles at supersonic velocities to create a strong bond between the particles and the surface being coated, without causing damage to the substrate.
FRCE, in conjunction with the Naval Aviation Enterprise Cold Spray Integrated Products Team, worked with VRC Metal Systems to implement the latest advancements in cold spray technology for in situ aircraft repair. The partnership is part of the Defense Manufacturing Science and Technology Program managed by the Office of the Secretary of Defense. The program is aimed at improving the military’s manufacturing and repair processes by introducing new and advanced technologies.
“The new system will help cut the time the assets are out of service for repairs, and greatly improve the range of repairs that can be completed,” Kevin Conner, H-1 Drives and Diagnostics Manager for NAVAIR’s H-1 Fleet Support Team at FRCE, said in a news release published by the depot. “This capability affords the opportunity to execute in-service repairs in place of transferring the entire aircraft out of the squadron and into the depot, which reduces the aircraft’s time out of service and increases mission readiness.”
VRC Metal Systems’ various cold spray systems can repair damaged aircraft components instead of replacing them; this not only saves time but also reduces costs. The Brolga used at FRCE is an all-inclusive trailerized system that includes VRC® Raptor cold spray system, a Fanuc 6-axis articulating robot arm, with an optional VRC’s Vark portable dust collector, and an extendable boom hoist. This system can be deployed on-site and provides a highly mobile and effective solution for repairs.
“We are excited to partner with FRCE to introduce our Brolga mobile cold spray system to the aircraft repair industry. Our system is a game-changer for the industry, enabling on-wing repairs that rival what any fixed production installation can achieve. We are proud to introduce this new capability to the industry and to partner with FRCE in implementing this capability for the US Navy.” -Aaron Nardi, Chief Technology Officer at VRC Metal Systems.
VRC Metal Systems’ latest accomplishment comes after the development of their VRC® Dragonfly system, which is a field deployable cold spray system used for shipboard repairs while the ship is underway. The company also took part in the U.S. Navy’s REPTEX exercise from August 22 – September 2, 2022, and developed the C.A.M.P Site Cold Spray Cell (Cold Spray Advanced Manufacturing Portable Site), VRC’s self-contained deployable cold spray manufacturing cell.
“VRC is proud of our long-standing relationship with the US military. It is rewarding to see this new technology fully implemented into the FRCE infrastructure. FRCE will see cost savings and readiness improvements for years to come.” -Rob Hrabe, CEO of VRC Metal Systems.
About VRC Metal Systems VRC Metal Systems is a leading developer of advanced technologies from South Dakota. VRC Metal Systems officially was founded in 2013 after years of technology development and since then has rapidly expanded, winning many grants, awards, and recognitions. VRC is the leader of the cold spray equipment market and is a full-service cold spray provider of equipment, process development, engineering, integration, training, and on-site and regional support. Learn more about VRC Metal Systems and their products here: www.vrcmetalsystems.com.
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Sew a Reversible Jumper with our original dress pattern
This Reversible Jumper sewing pattern is designed to fit youth sizes 4-14. Because it is reversible, you can use two fabrics for two jumpers in one! This girl jumper coordinates excellent with a pair of leggings and turtleneck, or wear it alone for a great summer tank dress! This youth jumper pattern is the easiest available ANYWHERE. There aren't any unexpected or unexplained steps. You will get it right the first time! The pattern includes helpful hints, as well as, great ideas on where to get fabrics for cheap or for free!
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Next to Boeing's massive Everett factory near Seattle, a big part of the company's future is being built.
In the 12ha Composite Wing Centre, the wings of the next generation 777s are being baked in 500-tonne autoclaves.
The big pressure cookers use nitrogen, natural gas and water to cure parts of the wings, the biggest ever built by Boeing for an airliner.
While the 777X fuselages will be built largely of aluminium, the swept up composite wings are brand new for the aircraft, which are being considered by airlines such as Air New Zealand and Qantas for flying further than they've ever flown before.
The 777-9 is due to roll off the production line in 2020 but it is the slightly smaller 777-8, due in 2022, that will be suited to ultralong-range flights that are of interest to airlines in this region.
While the plane could make Europe from Australia's east coast or New York from Auckland, it is crucial there are no payload penalties. Airlines want to be able to fly full planes to make them profitable.
The 777X will compete against the Airbus A350-900ULR, an aircraft that will beat it into service. From next year, Singapore Airlines will fly the ultralong-range A350 more than 15,000km from its base to New York.
Both Air New Zealand and Qantas will assess the Boeing and the Airbus aircraft for their fleet replacement programmes next decade.
Dinesh Keskar, senior vice-president, Asia Pacific and India Sales, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said the 777X programme was on schedule for a test flight in 2019 and delivery to its launch customer, Emirates the following year.
The 777-9 version can carry up to 425 passengers with a range of 14,075km, while the 777-8 seats up to 375 passengers with a range capability of 16,110km - almost 2000km further than the distance from Auckland to New York.
Keskar told the Herald Air New Zealand had requested information about the new 777s.
"We work with all airlines around the world to keep showing them what are the new technologies," he said.
"Having worked with these airlines for a number of years, we understand what their aspirations are and what their future requirements are."
The wingspan of the 777X is 72m and can fold up about 6m from the wingtips.
Keskar said this would allow the aircraft to use gates at airports that another Airbus rival, the A380, cannot use as it has a fixed wingspan of 80m.
Folding wings have been used for decades, notably on aircraft carrier-based planes, but Boeing had simplified the technology for the 777X. Rather than hydraulic mechanisms, the new plane would have a wire running out to a small motor at the point of the fold.
"By doing so there's no complexity - a lot of pilots have come and had a look at it. They're very comfortable with it."
Boeing had opted for the traditional aluminium fuselage rather than carbon fibre because testing had revealed it was as strong as it needed to be for larger windows, and to be pressurised to a lower altitude than existing 777s, which first flew in 1994.
The Boeing Dreamliner fuselage is made from a large proportion of carbon fibre, but to do the same with the new 777 would have required an investment in new autoclaves and pushed up costs that airlines could have baulked at.
"It would have outweighed the benefit of doing that - so that's the trade," said Keskar.
Boeing this week announced 20 orders for the 777X from Singapore Airlines. So far there have been 326 orders for the plane, including from all three Gulf carriers.
The new 777
The 777-9 can carry up to 425 passengers as far as 14,075km
The 777-8 seats up to 375 passengers as far as 16,110km
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Hamilton, Dr Allen - Sarah's out of body experience when clinically dead
Type of Spiritual Experience
I don't know quite how to classify this, as clinically she was dead - or at least dying, but from her evidence she had an out of body experience rather than a near death experience. I have hedged my bets and put all three.
This observation is about a patient who underwent controlled hypothermia in which she became effectively brain dead in order to surgically repair an aneurism. ‘The patient’s body cooled, the heart stopped as expected and the brain waves disappeared. She was dead be every clinical criterion used in modern medicine’. She was like this for 17 minutes whilst the titanium clip was put into position.
A description of the experience
The Scalpel and the Soul – Dr Allan Hamilton
There's a video and audio track documenting the operation through the microscope. The audio portion is simply a recording of whatever ambient noise is picked up on a small boom microphone. Nothing fancy. A microphone like the kind one would pick up at Radio Shack. This audio track would eventually prove to be one of the most important pieces of evidence we would sift through.
As the operation began to wind down, several trivial conversations were picked up. One part related to a conversation between Tom Reed and the perfusionist, the technician who oversees the heart-lung bypass pump.
"We're going to need to start the pump back up in a minute or two. Everything ready to go?" Tom asked.
"Yeah, we'll be ready. We've got to blow first," the perfusionist answered. To "blow" is vernacular for firing up the pump and letting it circulate for a few seconds to ensure any bubbles in the system are cleared before re-establishing blood flow in the patient.
While the pump was readied, there was a second important conversation picked up by the microphone. One of the nurses in the operating room, a certain Rita Hightower, announced she had just gotten engaged. A couple of the other nurses shrieked in excitement. Because Rita was scrubbed in, wearing surgical gloves, she wore no engagement ring.
But she said, "Oh, wait till you see it. It's a one-and-a-half-carat square-cut yellow diamond. And he proposed to me right there at Morton's. John got down on his knees and proposed. In fact, one of the waiters didn't see him and tripped and fell into the wine case. Nothing broken, but it was funny." A couple of oohs and ahhs. Someone in the background asked where the ring was from. "Johnston Fellows." This was one of the most exclusive shops in the Phoenix area. "John had it custom-made for me."
The pump was cleared. "Thar she blows, captain" came the answer.
"Okay, then. Let's pump this baby up, shall we?"
The bypass machine churned and red blood began to flow again through the patient's tissue. The patient's body was gently rewarmed. Her heart started beating again. A few minutes later a normal, healthy brain wave pattern reappeared on the EEG. The operation by Dr. Reed went flawlessly. But there was one matter that troubled everyone. That was why I felt compelled to go see things for myself.
As the patient awoke in the intensive care unit, she emerged gradually from the grogginess left by all the anesthetic agents. After several hours, her head cleared. She sat up to greet Dr. Reed and his team of residents when they stopped in to see her in the evening.
"How did everything go today?" the patient asked.
"Textbook-perfect," Tom said with a smile. He quickly examined her. All of it was recorded on the video camera in her room.
"Well, I thought I remembered hearing something 'blow' during the case," she said. "Did the aneurysm blow?"
"No" Tom must have gone sheet-white. I could not see, as his back was toward the stationary camera in the corner.
"I thought someone said, 'Thar she blows.' Like in Moby-Dick."
"Yes, well that. . . what you might have heard. . . was the tech telling me all the air bubbles were blown clear out of the lines. That's all."
"Oh. I'm glad. I was just remembering what a disaster you said it would be if the aneurysm leaked or ruptured."
"No. Everything went fine with the aneurysm." Tom leaned in closer to the young patient. "Is there anything else you recall?"
"Yes, a ring. A one-and-a-half-carat yellow diamond from Johnston Fellows. Oh... and Morton's restaurant where someone fell into a wine case."
Tom just kept staring at her. "You remember all that?"
"Yes. Why? What does it mean?"
*'Well, those were just conversations we had in the operating room. Nothing special."
Tom left the room and immediately paged the anesthesiologist.
"She remembers what happened in the OR!"
"No. No way!" answered the anesthesiologist. "No, it's impossible."
“Well, you come here and ask her what she remembers!"
The anesthesiologist came up a minute later and charged into the room and made her repeat word for word everything she could remember. He began to scratch his head and muttered, "How the hell could this happen?"
What shook everyone up who watched the video between Tom and his young patient was we all knew that this woman's brain had been dead-without discernible electrical activity whatsoever. This meant that no brain cells were active, working, firing, or emitting electrical signals. Yet somehow the patient managed to recall the conversation in the operating room while her EEG was flat. In other words, while she was, for all intents and purposes, clinically dead-with no ability for her brain to function-she somehow managed to make or "encode" specific memories of that conversation in the OR. And this was no hazy recollection. The patient was reproducing practically word for word what had been said. Right down to the jewelry store and the waiter stumbling. No, she clearly recalled what had been said. There was no doubt about that.
[Later Dr Hamilton continues the conversation with her and visits her]
"Is there something wrong with me? With my brain?”
"No. Not at all. It's just when you came up to the ICU, you recalled so much of the conversation from the operating room. That's, well, that's never happened. It's not supposed to. . under circumstances like. .. the conditions of your surgery. Do you have any recollection of being in the operating room? Of looking down from above? Maybe of seeing yourself on the operating table?" I asked.
"No," she answered, almost brusquely. "I'm sorry. I don't remember anything. Just what I heard."
"Do you remember hearing the voices? Hearing people speak?"
"Yes and no. I can tell if it's a woman's voice, for example. But I don't know what she looked like."
"What do you imagine" I asked, "say, about the woman you heard discussing her engagement? What do you think she might look like?"
Sally looked down at the nurse's call light button in her hand. A look of sadness came across her face. "I imagine" Sarah confessed, "she's blonde. About five foot six. Petite. Wearing a surgical mask and hat."
"'What color eyes?"
"Blue." She concentrated on the call light. Like she might have to call for help.
"Does the hat on her head look like a large surgical hat? Pulled over her head like a shower cap?"
"Yes. I think so."
"Sarah. . . how do you know she's blonde? Which she is, by the way."
She closed her eyes. "Because I think there was a curl of blonde hair showing. Sticking out. Like it had fallen out. Onto her forehead."
As I quizzed her for further details, it was obvious she had an image of everyone in the operating room. There were so many little facets that she knew. For example, she was able to tell me exactly where the heart-lung bypass was located in the suite. Yet it had only been brought in after she was under general anesthesia for more than two hours. In other words, she could not have seen the machine before surgery began.
Sarah also knew the pump technician had a beard. She told me the second scrub nurse was African-American and very tall. In fact, she was over six feet tall.
What emerged from the several conversations I had with Sarah over the next two days was that she was aware of the room, its occupants, and the conversations that took place within it. Her consciousness was present in the operating theater even though it was not supported in any way by her brain.
The source of the experienceHamilton, Dr Allan
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Welcome to Comic Con New Orleans 2024, an exhilarating celebration set in the heart of the vibrant and culturally rich New Orleans! Scheduled for January 5-7, 2024, at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, this event is a paradise for fans of comics, anime, and television. Organized by Informa Connect, Fan Expo New Orleans offers an unforgettable adventure where the fantastical worlds of your favourite stories come to life.
Imagine stepping into a universe where the pages of comic books unfold around you, where anime characters leap into reality, and TV universes expand beyond the screen. Comic Con New Orleans 2024 is more than a convention; it’s a dynamic, immersive experience that combines the thrill of fan culture with the unique charm and spirit of New Orleans.
From meeting stars and creators from beloved series to witnessing the incredible artistry of cosplay, there’s no end to the excitement and discoveries. The expo features a diverse range of programming, including engaging panels, workshops, screenings, and a marketplace brimming with comics, collectables, and unique merchandise. Whether you’re a seasoned con-goer or a first-time attendee, there’s something to captivate and inspire fans of all ages.
So, mark your calendars and prepare to dive into a world of imagination and celebration. Comic Con New Orleans 2024 promises to be a gathering that’s not only about enjoying your passions but also about being part of a community that shares your enthusiasm. Get ready for a journey filled with wonder, excitement, and the unforgettable flair of The Big Easy!
|January 5-7, 2024
|New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Center
|Comic Convention with Anime and TV Programming
Main Events at Comic Con New Orleans: A World of Entertainment and Adventure!
1. Celebrity Q&As, Autographs & Photo Ops
Experience the thrill of meeting your favourite celebrities! Get your photo taken by a professional photographer, obtain an autograph, and engage in up-close Q&A sessions. It’s your chance to interact with the stars!
2. Fan Fave Cosplays, Competitions & Cosplay Red Carpets
Cosplay is at the heart of Fan Expo! Marvel at thousands of incredible costumes and participate in cosplay competitions. Explore a range of activities from comic discussions to gaming debates – there’s something for every fan.
3. Comics, Anime, Sci-Fi, Horror, Animation, Gaming, and more
Dive into an extensive lineup of programming, including discussions, debates, and workshops across various genres. Check the schedule to discover all the exciting events tailored to different interests.
4. Panels, Demos & Workshops
Learn from the pros in various fields like costuming and acting. Attend insightful panels, watch live demos, and engage in one-on-one interactions. The schedule is packed with diverse topics and sessions.
5. Video Game Tournaments & Free Play
Compete in ultimate gaming tournaments or enjoy some free play. Test your skills against other enthusiasts in a variety of games, as per the event schedule.
6. Tabletop Gaming
Join in on Magic the Gathering games, tournaments, and drafts. Explore a vast library of board games for free play, meet new friends, and challenge old rivals in this gaming haven.
7. Community Groups & Fan Meetups
Connect with people who share your passions! Whether you’re into Doctor Who, Star Wars, or any other fandom, find local clubs, movie props, trivia contests, and enjoy photo sessions with fellow fans.
8. Interactive Family Zone
Perfect for families, this zone offers activities for all ages. Meet superheroes, princesses, and voice actors. Participate in kid-friendly workshops and panels, with special family passes and coupons available.
9. Over 150,000 Square Feet of Shopping
Shop till you drop with hundreds of retailers. From rare comic books, original artwork, and graphic novels to memorabilia, games, and toys – it’s a shopper’s paradise for unforgettable finds.
Fan Expo New Orleans is more than an event; it’s a universe of experiences waiting to be explored, making it a must-visit destination for fans of all ages and interests!
Additional Highlights at Fan Expo New Orleans
Celebrity Photo Ops
Capture a moment that you’ll cherish forever with your favourite celebrity! Fan Expo New Orleans offers a unique opportunity to get a professional photograph taken with one of the star guests. This is your chance to get that perfect, high-quality 8×10 glossy photo in an intimate setting. Whether it’s a snapshot with a beloved actor from your favourite series or a legendary comic book artist, these photo ops create lasting memories and a tangible keepsake from the event.
Immortalize your fandom with an autograph from one of the celebrity guests attending Fan Expo New Orleans. Good ink truly lasts forever, and what better way to celebrate your love for your favourite characters and stories than by getting a signed autograph? Bring along your prized possessions – be it comic books, posters, or memorabilia – and have them signed by the stars. These autograph sessions are not just about getting a signature; they are a chance to have a brief personal interaction with your idols, making the experience all the more special.
Fan Expo New Orleans is dedicated to creating these extraordinary moments for fans, where they can connect with their heroes and take home a piece of the magic.
Superstar Guests Coming at Comic Con New Orleans
Get ready to meet an incredible lineup of CELEBRITIES at Fan Expo New Orleans 2024, a key part of Comic Con New Orleans! From renowned actors in your favourite films and TV shows to influential figures in the entertainment industry, these celebrity guests are the heart of the expo. They bring the magic of the screen to life, offering fans unforgettable experiences through Q&As, autographs, and photo ops.
ANIMATION VOICES are also set to grace the event, bringing the voices behind some of the most beloved animated characters to the forefront. Meet the talent who give life to characters from popular cartoons and animated movies, and learn about the art of voice acting.
ANIME GUESTS will be a significant highlight for fans of Japanese animation. These guests, ranging from voice actors to directors and creators, offer a peek into the world of anime. They are the stars behind some of the most iconic and beloved anime series and films.
GAMING STARS at Fan Expo New Orleans, part of Comic Con New Orleans, are set to excite all the gamers. These are the personalities who have made significant contributions to the gaming world, be it through voice acting, game development, or live streaming.
COMIC CREATORS are the backbone of the comic book industry, and at Fan Expo New Orleans, fans get the chance to meet some of the most talented writers and artists in the field. These creators are the minds behind some of the most iconic comic book stories and characters.
Last but not least, TATTOO ARTISTS will showcase their incredible artistry at the event. These artists specialize in fandom and pop culture-inspired tattoos, offering attendees the chance to get inked with designs that celebrate their favourite characters and stories.
Fan Expo New Orleans 2024 at Comic Con New Orleans is set to be a thrilling gathering of stars from various realms, promising an event filled with excitement, inspiration, and unforgettable moments
ADMISSION TICKETS for Fan Expo New Orleans 2024
Are you ready to dive into the excitement of Fan Expo New Orleans 2024? Great news for all fans: Advanced ticket pricing is available now and will last until December 21, 2023, at 11:59 PM CT. This is the perfect opportunity to secure your admission to this amazing event at a special rate!
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Take advantage of the advanced pricing by purchasing your tickets today! Whether you’re a lifelong fan of comics, a gaming enthusiast, an anime lover, or thrilled by the prospect of meeting your favourite celebrities, buying your tickets early ensures you get the best deal for this incredible experience.
For Full Details on Buying Tickets:
Here, you’ll find a variety of ticket options catering to everyone, from single-day visitors to those who want to enjoy the entire weekend of festivities. Remember, the special advanced pricing is only available until December 21, 2023. Secure your tickets now to join us for a spectacular celebration of all things fandom.
Gear up for an extraordinary journey into the heart of pop culture at Fan Expo New Orleans 2024. We can’t wait to see you there!
As Fan Expo New Orleans 2024 at Comic Con New Orleans draws near, we’re reminded of the unique and vibrant celebration of fandom it brings. This event is not just a gathering; it’s a spectacular showcase of passion, creativity, and community. From the array of celebrities, animation voices, anime guests, and gaming stars to comic creators and tattoo artists, each element of the expo contributes to an immersive and unforgettable experience.
Attendees can look forward to engaging with their heroes, discovering new aspects of their favourite genres, and creating memories that will last a lifetime. Whether you’re getting an autograph from a beloved actor, participating in a gaming tournament, or admiring the artistry of a comic book, every moment at Fan Expo New Orleans is a testament to the unifying power of fan culture.
In the heart of The Big Easy, Fan Expo New Orleans 2024 promises to be more than just an event; it’s a celebration of the stories, characters, and art that shape our imaginations and bring us together. So, let’s gear up for an adventure filled with wonder, excitement, and the shared joy of all things fandom at Comic Con New Orleans.
Top Question :
Fan Expo New Orleans 2024 is a comic convention that also features extensive anime and TV programming. It’s a vibrant gathering for fans of these genres to meet, share their passions, and enjoy a variety of interactive experiences. The event is scheduled for January 5-7, 2024, and will be held at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, located in New Orleans, Louisiana. Attendees can look forward to meeting celebrities, participating in cosplay events, exploring a wide range of exhibitors and vendors, attending panels and workshops, and immersing themselves in the unique culture of New Orleans combined with the exciting world of comics, anime, and TV. Tickets can typically be purchased online through the event’s official website. There are usually various types of tickets available, including general admission, multi-day passes, and potentially VIP experiences. It’s recommended to check the website for the latest ticket information and pricing. Yes, it’s important to familiarize yourself with the event’s policies, which can include guidelines on cosplay weapons, appropriate behavior, and photography. These are put in place to ensure a safe and enjoyable experience for everyone. Always check the official website for the most up-to-date information on event rules and guidelines.
What is Fan Expo New Orleans 2024?
When and where will Fan Expo New Orleans 2024 take place?
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Are there any special guidelines or rules I should be aware of?
Fan Expo New Orleans 2024 is a comic convention that also features extensive anime and TV programming. It’s a vibrant gathering for fans of these genres to meet, share their passions, and enjoy a variety of interactive experiences.
The event is scheduled for January 5-7, 2024, and will be held at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, located in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Attendees can look forward to meeting celebrities, participating in cosplay events, exploring a wide range of exhibitors and vendors, attending panels and workshops, and immersing themselves in the unique culture of New Orleans combined with the exciting world of comics, anime, and TV.
Tickets can typically be purchased online through the event’s official website. There are usually various types of tickets available, including general admission, multi-day passes, and potentially VIP experiences. It’s recommended to check the website for the latest ticket information and pricing.
Yes, it’s important to familiarize yourself with the event’s policies, which can include guidelines on cosplay weapons, appropriate behavior, and photography. These are put in place to ensure a safe and enjoyable experience for everyone. Always check the official website for the most up-to-date information on event rules and guidelines. | <urn:uuid:753e4146-205c-447b-9143-0346ad1bc02a> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://ianmcginty.com/comic-con-new-orleans/ | 2024-02-26T00:31:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474649.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225234904-20240226024904-00094.warc.gz | en | 0.906081 | 2,620 | [
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Regular alcohol consumption can also lead to weight gain, which may feel like bloating. First, choose alcoholic options that contain fewer calories and sugars. Instead of going for sweet mixed drinks or beer, choose cleaner drinks like vodka and club soda, a gin martini with olives or tequila with lime. These will all contain about 100 calories per drink, as opposed to the 155 calories in beer. The best way to avoid the negative effects of alcohol is to quit drinking entirely.
If you’ve been drinking alcohol, you should drink water to quickly get rid of bloating in your face and stomach. All kinds of alcohol — beer, wine, whiskey, you name it — are relatively calorie-dense, topping out at about moderate, heavy, binge 7 calories per gram. Add other ingredients to alcohol — like sugar — and the calorie count increases even more. Have you ever noticed puffiness in your face and your body after a long night of drinking alcohol?
Be careful of adding vodka to mixers, however, since they are frequently high in sugar. The truth is that diet versions of drinks like beer, wine, and vodka are usually still higher in calories than the “regular” versions — and sometimes even higher. This is because the non-alcoholic ingredients used to make them taste better—like syrups, liqueurs, and sweeteners—typically contain more calories than the ingredients used in regular drinks.
Cortisol is the stress hormone in your body responsible for the “fight or flight” response. You’ve just poured 674 nutritionally empty calories into your body. A doctor may prescribe medications to protect the stomach lining from damage due to high levels of stomach acid. The duration of alcohol bloating will depend on its cause and the individual. Gastritis can be erosive, allowing stomach acid to damage the stomach lining. This can lead to the development of stomach ulcers, or peptic ulcers, which can become severe without the right treatment.
You’ve doubled the recommended caloric intake of an entire day in the span of a few hours. This is because alcohol activates starvation mode in the brain, which is why you may suddenly catch yourself eating an entire bag of Doritos after a long night out as if your life depended on it. But not until your body is done with the alcohol and if you’re a heavy drinker, well, your body has only so much metabolic bandwidth. Here are some questions people often ask about alcohol bloating. So yes, it’s possible to gain weight from alcohol, but it’s not inevitable.
“Like most alcoholic beverages, vodka can help you relax,” she told The List. It’s important to note, however, that these studies were conducted on individuals consuming large amounts of alcohol. Consuming vodka in moderation, alongside a healthy diet and lifestyle, is unlikely to have a significant impact on your metabolism or BMI. When it comes to managing your weight, it’s important to watch what you eat and drink. In this article, we will explore whether vodka, a commonly consumed alcohol, can make you gain weight.
But if you’re drinking a lot, there’s a good chance you’re going to catch whatever is going around — and that’s definitely not a good thing. So, if you want to drink vodka every night, don’t do so in excess. This bubbly beverage is made by fermenting sweet tea with a culture of yeast and bacteria called a SCOBY (symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast). The end result is a slightly sour but still sweet drink that’s full of probiotics and antioxidants. Not only does this make it a healthier choice than sugary sodas or juice-based cocktails, but kombucha also has a similar effervescence as champagne or other sparkling wines.
Research has found that moderate drinking may actually help people maintain a balanced diet if consumed with certain foods. The science behind this correlation lies in the fact that alcohol, including vodka, contains empty calories. Unlike protein-rich foods or complex carbohydrates, there is minimal nutritional value to be derived from alcohol consumption.
In other words, elevated cortisol could contribute to weight gain, especially around the belly. Alcohol can also affect hunger levels, which may lead you to snack more, which then causes you to consume more calories, which ultimately may cause weight gain. Alcohol may have various effects on your health that link to weight gain. Alcohol is high in empty calories and may affect hormones that signal appetite, hunger, and stress. People who consume excess food and drinks that are high in empty calories have a higher risk of having overweight and obesity than others.
If keeping slim figure is important for you while indulging in a few drinks at happy hour or parties, then opt for low-calorie mixers such as sparkling water instead. For example, a 12-ounce beer contains about 153 calories, and a 5-ounce glass of wine contains about 125 calories. Vodka is a clear, distilled spirit that is made from grains or potatoes and has no carbohydrates, fats, or cholesterol. This makes it a popular choice for people who are on low-carb or low-fat diets.
“People will opt for a flavoured vodka like one infused with blueberry and mix it with soda water, or they’ll mix regular vodka with fruit-infused water. Either way, they’re cutting out any added calories,” Macfarlane says. A 5-ounce serving of red wine contains around 125 calories, while a 1.5-ounce serving of vodka contains around explainer: what would japanese intervention to boost the weak yen look like 97 calories. However, wine also contains antioxidants and other beneficial nutrients that vodka does not have. Before we dive into the question of whether vodka makes you gain weight, let’s first understand what vodka is made from. Vodka is a distilled spirit that can be made from grains, such as wheat or barley, or potatoes.
Nowadays, you can find vodka infused with the natural or artificial flavor of just about anything. Alcohol intake of all levels can lead to impaired digestion and absorption of these nutrients. This can greatly affect the metabolism of organs that play a role in weight management. Intake of alcoholic after years of enjoying drinking, my body has just stopped beverages can also inhibit proper digestive function. Research suggests that alcohol can lead to increased periods of wakefulness during sleep cycles. The primary role of your liver is to act as the “filter” for any foreign substances that enter your body, such as drugs and alcohol.
People typically drink vodka drinks in addition to their regular diet, and those extra calories add up. Consuming approximately 3,500 extra calories over your daily needs leads to a pound of fat gain, according to Mayo Clinic. The extra calories from a drink here and there won’t do too much damage, but drink vodka drinks regularly and you could reach that 3,500-calorie mark more quickly than you realize. | <urn:uuid:5ee978b9-b7b1-48ec-bceb-45912332cae1> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://www.aviationgroupbd.com/2023/10/17/does-alcohol-make-you-gain-weight-5-ways-it/ | 2024-02-26T01:20:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474649.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225234904-20240226024904-00094.warc.gz | en | 0.947443 | 1,455 | [
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by Joseph C. Dean, P.E. and Steve Geusic, P.E., for the Director, Corrosion Policy & Oversight (DCPO), (DASD) [Materiel Readiness]
This Knowledge Area includes corrosion prevention and control (CPC) insights and information for Waterfront and Coastal Structures and the associated facility categories. This Knowledge Area has been developed to help the facilities professional better understand the corrosion challenges that exist in the waterfront environment. Typical waterfront and coastal facilities and structures include (See Figure 1):
- Pier decking
- Dockside Supporting Utilities
- Lay down areas adjacent to piers and wharves
- Cathodic Protection Systems
- Piles and Pile Caps
- Sheet piling
- Floating Berths
- Shore protection
- Tie backs and Fender Systems
- Mooring systems
- Boat lifts and hoists
These structures can be buried or submerged and subjected to heavy vertical and lateral forces in addition to chemical deterioration of corrosive forces. Awareness of the corrosion risks for waterfront and coastal facilities and structures such as piers and wharves requires the interaction of many engineering disciplines such as structural, electrical, environmental, mechanical, civil, and specialty engineering areas such as cathodic protection and paints and coatings. Each discipline has an essential role to play in ensuring that the waterfront infrastructure is designed, constructed, and sustained in the best possible life cycle cost effective manner.
These facilities are almost always operationally focused and mission impacting when readiness levels are not up to required levels. Corrosion impacts these facilities as follows (see the Facilities Corrosion Impacts on Operations and Missions Table ):
Corrosion Deterioration Description: For the Department of Defense (DoD), there is a direct interface between the waterfront facilities and Naval Fleet operations. Corrosion can adversely affect Fleet readiness. Waterfront zone exposure causes high structural and system corrosion deterioration resulting in reduced support capabilities. Sea level rise (fixed elevation exposure to high salinity impacts from gradual and dramatic variations in sea level) has exacerbated the risk levels. Wood destroying organisms such as marine borers, insects, and fungi can cause significant damage and deterioration of marine timber structures. Corrosion can have a significant effect on operational systems which are then more prone to failure leading to structural collapse and leakage of hazardous or flammable materials. Corrosion often occurs before it is noticed (see Table 1 for Common Depictions of Corrosion). Conducting an effective Sustainment, Restoration and Modernization (SRM) program preceded by good design and quality construction are essential for continuous system responsiveness; a facilities management life cycle sustainment process helps in the early discovery and resolution of corroded Coastal and Waterfront Structures.
Factors Contributing to Corrosion: Salt water is an excellent electrolyte contributing to an aggressive corrosive environment. Hydrostatic forces, wind, salt spray, currents, tides, waves, and ice all contribute to corrosion and erosion of waterfront systems and structures. Waterfront operations and industrial activities (pollution, fuels, hazardous materials, deicing salts, and stray currents) often add to the corrosion severity. Humidity, rain, chloride containing environments, salinity from deicing salts (especially salt water, dramatic shifts in tides), structural loading, applied chemicals, erosive factors, temperature, moisture, and water borne pollutants impact waterfront systems. Utilities are particularly susceptible to corrosive forces. Failures are often not visible until the facility is in extremis.
Operations and Mission Impacts: Corrosion negatively impacts facility availability and increases structural degradation, accompanied by high sustainment costs, and reduced life cycle. Corrosion of waterfront systems result in reduced capacity and berthing availability. Repairs are costly since access to structures can be difficult (immersed, buried, or foundational). Loss of berthing or the associated utilities can be a huge concern, especially if the ship is preparing to deploy. Environmental contamination from leaking fuel and hazardous material poses a significant environmental concern causing fleet operation reduction and work arounds. The cost to handle fuel and hazardous materials that leak from corroded facilities usually exceeds the costs associated with the control of the corrosion responsible for the leak. In some cases, the products of corrosion themselves are hazardous and corrosion must be controlled to prevent direct environmental damage.
The Waterfront Environment
The waterfront environment is often the most severe atmospheric corrosion zone. Individual components may have corrosive forces from multiple electrolyte mediums in addition to the atmosphere such as seawater, soil, and concrete. Understanding the waterfront environment and its risks and stresses on facilities is an absolute must for the supporting engineering disciplines. Salt water is an excellent electrolyte contributing to an aggressive corrosive environment. Hydrostatic forces, wind, salt spray, currents, tides, waves, and ice all contribute to corrosion and erosion of waterfront systems and structures. Structures are often buried or submerged and subject to heavy vertical and lateral forces in addition to corrosion caused by chemical deterioration. Waterfront operations and industrial activities (pollution, fuels, hazardous materials, deicing salts, and stray currents) often add to the corrosion severity. Wood destroying organisms such as marine borers, insects, and fungi can cause significant damage and deterioration of marine timber structures. Environmental Severity Classification (ESC) for the waterfront area is typically C5 (Very High Corrosivity), and must be addressed during the planning, design, material selection, and construction processes. Photo 1 and Figure 2 provide insights into the complexity and dynamics of the waterfront environment.
The waterfront is composed of five zones (see Figure 2): The atmospheric zone, the splash zone, the tidal zone, the submerged zone, and the subsoil. The zones are delineated by the mean lower low water datum and the mean higher high-water datum:
The MEAN LOWER LOW WATER (MLLW) datum is the average of the lower low water height of each tidal day observed over the National Tidal Datum Epoch. The National Tidal Datum Epoch is a specific 19–year period adopted by the National Ocean Service as the official time segment over which tide observations are taken and reduced to obtain mean values
- The MEAN HIGHER HIGH WATER (MHHW) datum is the average of the higher high-water height of each tidal day observed over the National Tidal Datum Epoch
The type of CPC implemented for components or portions of a structure is influenced by the zone in which it resides:
The Atmospheric Zone is any portion of the waterfront structure above the splash zone.
- The Splash Zone is the portion of the structure just above the tidal zone. This portion of the structure is predominantly dry but is likely to intermittently wet by wave action and wind driven spray. See Figure 2 for a depiction of the Coastal Zone and Transitions. In UFGS 03 31 29 Marine Concrete with Service Life Modeling the splash zone is defined as:
- 2 meters above the tidal zone for locations protected by seawalls or sheltered from open ocean waves
- 6 meters above the tidal zone for unprotected locations
The Tidal Zone is defined as the portion of the structure that is located between Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) and Mean Higher High Water (MHHW); In areas with minimal tides, this would be defined as the area located between Mean Sea Level (MSL) and Mean High Water (MHW).
The Submerged Zone is the submerged portion of the structure that is located below Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW). In areas with minimal tides, it would be defined as that portion of the element below Mean Sea Level (MSL).
Understanding the interaction between each zone such as differential aeration cells, will often dictate the appropriate use of coatings, encasement, and cathodic protection strategies.
Table 1 shows 10 different types of corrosion, all of which are fully explained in the Corrosion Science Knowledge Area. CPC management solutions for waterfront and coastal structures depend upon understanding these corrosion types and selecting the appropriate corrective action.
Steel Corrosion in Seawater
Interaction of the various waterfront zones and associated forces leads to a complex distribution of corrosion on steel structures. The corrosion versus depth profile in the submerged area is due to a differential aeration cell. The high availability of oxygen at the tidal area makes this zone cathodic with respect to the zone just beneath the mean lower low water level where the corrosion is high. A similar but less dramatic effect also occurs at the mud line. To protect steel in waterfront structures, protective coatings are critical. Coatings or encasement is necessary to prevent corrosion in the atmospheric zone, splash zone, and the tidal zone. The coating in the tidal zone will reduce the attack just below mean lower low water. Cathodic protection can effectively prevent corrosion in the submerged zone and is particularly effective when used with a factory applied coating on pilings. It is usually more cost effective to cathodically protect an existing bare steel structure in the continually immersed zone than to attempt to coat the structure using expensive underwater coatings. See Photo 2 which shows extensive corrosion and failure of a steel sheet pile bulkhead without protective coatings or cathodic protection.
Soil and Seawater as an Electrolyte
Seawater and other natural waters, such as brackish and river waters, is saturated with dissolved oxygen creating a biofilm promoting the cathodic corrosion reaction. Because of the presence of a large amount of dissolved salts (sodium chloride (NaCl)) that are ionized, this makes seawater an excellent conductor. The chloride ion is particularly aggressive as it causes a breakdown of passivity.
Since Soil is an electrolyte medium, waterfront structures buried in soil like sheet pile and metal pipelines suffer from corrosion. Soil resistivity, moisture content, pH values, and the presence of chlorides, sulphides, and bacteria, are the key factors in its corrosivity on buried metals. Another key factor is the difference in soil composition along the structure. Hydraulic fill is soil often used behind waterfront structures such as bulkheads. It is typically drawn up by the suction head of a dredge, pumped with water through a pipe, and deposited in an area being filled or reclaimed. Hydraulic fill may be of good quality, consisting of granular materials, or may consist of plastic organic silt, which is considered poor quality. Utility piping and tie rods may pass through different adjacent soil compositions like hydraulic fill and select backfill at waterfront structures such as bulkheads, caissons, and piers.
Generally, soil resistivity has the greatest impact on corrosion with respect to soil properties and environmental conditions. Soils with the poorest drainage (clays) and highest moisture content are generally the most corrosive and lower resistivity values. Conversely well drained soils (sands and gravels) have higher resistivity and are considered the least corrosive. Backfilling pipe trenches and excavations with sand or gravel improves the long-term protection in corrosive poorly draining soils. Acidic soils with pH of 0 to 4.5, may represent a serious risk to common construction materials and metal. Soil in contact with waterfront structures are often contaminated with chlorides as a result of wave action, overtopping and hydraulic gradients. As a result, chloride ions are harmful, as they participate directly in pitting initiation of metals and their presence tends to decrease the soil resistivity.
Waterfront structures buried in soil like sheet piles and metal pipelines suffer from corrosion because of one or more of the following soil conditions:
- Low Resistivity values
- High moisture content
- Low pH values (Acidity)
- Presence of chlorides, sulphides, and bacteria
- Differences in soil composition like hydraulic fill
The corrosion potential can be increased due to:
- Dissimilar materials, including new and old adjacent materials
- Surface scratches and irregularities
- Presence of stray currents
Waterfront and Coastal Zone Protection Techniques
Methods of Corrosion Control in the Waterfront and Coastal Zone include:
- Altering the Environment
- Good Design Practices with design geometrics considerations
- Corrosion Allowance
- Material Selection
- Protective Coatings
- Cathodic Protection
Altering the Environment
Examples of Altering the Environment include:
- Using a selective backfill around a buried structure
- Using corrosion inhibitors such as fuel additives
- Modifying the structure to provide adequate drainage
- Relocating sources of stray currents
- Reducing wave action and erosion with the addition of breakwaters, groins, jetties, rip rap, and stone revetments
Altering the environment is best employed during design, however, careful identification and characterization of corrosion problems will often reveal opportunities for changing the environment to control corrosion even after the structure is built.
Good Design Practices
Practicing and employing good design and construction practices is a professional responsibility. Here are a few for your consideration:
- Avoid details that can trap water or create crevices
- Structures should be designed so that water is not trapped since water greatly accelerates deterioration
- Many coatings are designed for atmospheric exposure and not immersion
- Avoid relying on drain holes as they often become plugged and provide challenges for uniform covering of protective coatings
- Poor welding details often cause crevices and are oxygen-deficient areas that accelerate metal corrosion
- Continuous welds should be used rather than skip welds
- A painter must be able to apply a uniformly thick, continuous film to obtain protection of a surface
- Sharp edges should be rounded because a uniformly thick coating cannot be applied over the edge due to wet coatings will draw thin on them
- Sharp interior corners should be avoided since they may receive an excessive coating thickness
- Irregular surfaces such as welds and other projections should be ground smooth to eliminate projections through the paint film
- Weld-spatter, which is loosely bonded to the steel, must be removed as it creates areas for crevice corrosion and as the mill scale becomes dis-bonded, the barrier film will be broken
In a marine environment, designing in corrosion allowance is not sufficient without other forms of protection such as protective coatings and cathodic protection. This is due to the various types of corrosion present. The use of thicker materials for corrosion allowance is only effective where low-rate uniform corrosion is anticipated. In soils, typically, greater sacrificial thicknesses are required when soil salinity levels (chlorides) exceed 2000 ppm and soil resistivity is less than 2000 ohm–cm. For timber fender piles, dolphin piles, and other timber piling requiring lateral load-carrying capacity and impact, consideration should be given to increasing pile diameter because preservative pressure treatment tends to reduce lateral load-carrying capacity.
General material selection considerations include:
- Determine the severity of the environment and exposure
- Identify probable types of corrosion (see Table 1)
- Select more corrosion resistant materials
- Avoid dissimilar metal usage
- Avoid incompatible environments and materials (for example, aluminum should not come into direct contact with concrete, because the alkalinity of the concrete will attack the aluminum)
When selecting the type and grade of the material, it is critical to identify the severity of the environment and probable types of corrosion that may affect the component. Inspect the component detail and surrounding assembly of components. Determine the electrolyte and amount of exposure. Look for water traps, crevices, welding, and dissimilar materials. Note that there is a wide range of materials in use on the waterfront (steel, weathering steel, nonferrous metals, concrete, timber, fiber reinforced plastics (FRP), ultra-high molecular weight (UHMW) plastics, and high-density polyethylene (HDPE), composite piles, each with its unique challenges, protection, CP, coating, and deterioration profiles.
Consider coating mechanisms for protection which may include the following:
- Barrier Protection—Protective coatings and linings attempt to isolate the structure from the environment (electrolyte)
- Cathodic Protection (CP)—Some protective coatings have a high loading of fine zinc particles. Once cured, the electrical contact between the particles and underlying steel provides a type of CP
- Inhibitive Pigments—Some pigments are added to primers to inhibit corrosion at the coating/metal interface
Note: UFC 3-190-06 Protective Coatings and Paints and various Unified Facility Guide Specifications (UFGS) provide detailed information on coating requirements and guidance for various components and systems:
- Most coatings provide corrosion protection by forming a barrier that is relatively impermeable to moisture and electrolytes
- Keys to a successful coating involve selection of the right coating for the substrate and the environment, good surface preparation, and proper application.
- Surface preparation is recognized as being one of the most important factors in coating performance and is about 45% of the total painting costs. Keys to successful surface preparation include removing contaminants that inhibit adhesion, providing a surface profile for tight bonding, and ensuring sharp edges and projections are ground smooth, weld spatter removed and crevices filled.
- Grease and oil will prevent tight bonding of coatings, as will loose dirt, dust, rust, scale, and chalk from old paint. Salt remaining on metal surfaces after cleaning may accelerate osmotic blistering. Salt can become trapped in metal pits and crevices where it is difficult to remove.
- Mill scale is a bluish, somewhat shiny oxide residue that forms on steel surfaces during hot rolling. Although initially rather tightly adhering, it soon cracks, pops, and dis-bonds. Unless completely removed before painting, mill scale will later cause the coating to crack and expose the underlying steel.
- While smooth surfaces may prevent a tight bonding of coatings, too great a surface profile may present coating difficulties for relatively thin primers. Pinpoint rusting occurs soon when peaks of blasted metal profiles receive only thin films of coating.
- Selecting the appropriate application method involves evaluating the desired appearance, ease and cost of the method, specialized equipment and the operator skill, access to the substrate, and environmental requirements (see Figure 3).
For example, trying to coat an existing structure in the continually immersed zone requires dewatering or using expensive underwater coatings. Because of the difficulties in accessing the substrate and the cost of the coating, it is usually more cost effective to cathodically protect an existing bare steel structure in the continually immersed zone than to attempt to coat the structure. All coatings degrade with time. However, premature failure of the surface coat or more severe cracking and peeling which exposes the substrate must be prepared to prevent corrosion.
For limited or localized damage, spot cleaning and repair may be suitable. Spot repairs require cleaning of exposed metal and surrounding tightly adhering topcoat(s). The coating edges at damaged areas should be "feathered" (beveled) to achieve good adhesion of the patch and provide an attractive finish. Primer and topcoats used in these repairs should completely cover the metal and overlap onto the existing coating system to prevent weak joints of new to old coating.
There is extensive guidance and advice for coating steel, weathering steel, and nonferrous metals. Refer to the appropriate criteria. This includes UFC 4-151-10 General Criteria for Waterfront Construction, UFC 4-152-01 Design: Piers and Wharves, and UFGS 09 97 13.26 Coating of Steel Waterfront Structures, Zero Voc, (SZC) Splash Zone Coating)
Properly installed and maintained CP systems can reduce life cycle costs by extending a utility's lifecycle. These systems can also reduce the potential liability from premature failure of utilities, such as gas line explosions and jet fuel leaks, while also ensuring the avoidance costs associated with the leaks such as fines, environmental cleanup, remediation and disposal of contaminated soil, and monitoring requirements (see Photo 3 and Figure 4).
In marine environments, a Cathodic Protection System can greatly extend the life of the submerged zones of steel waterfront structures. For buried and submerged structures, a Cathodic Protection System in conjunction with other protective measures such as material thickness incrementation, protective coatings and encasement is recommended for:
- Steel sheet piling bulkheads
- Steel Bearing piles for piers
- Steel fender piles for piers
- Mooring components
Provide CPS and protective coatings for the following buried or submerged metallic utility systems regardless of soil or water corrosivity:
- Petroleum, Oil and Lubricant (POL) pipelines
- Oxygen pipelines
- Underground POL and gasoline storage tanks
- Underground hazardous substance storage tanks
- All water storage tanks interiors
- Other buried or submerged new steel, ductile iron, or cast iron utility pipelines not mentioned above when the soil resistivity is below 30,000 ohms
Note that POL piping systems require special consideration for protective coatings as well as cathodic protection systems. Aboveground and immersed fuel lines can be coated much the same as steel fuel tanks with a multiple coat epoxy system. New coating as specified in "UFGS 09 97 13.26 Coating of Steel Waterfront Structures, Zero Voc, (SZC) Splash Zone Coating" is applicable. A petrolatum paste/tape system has also been used very effectively in protecting fuel lines under piers. See the Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants (POL) Storage and Distribution Systems Knowledge Area for additional insights.
Cathodic Protection is often used on steel sheet pile bulkheads in the submerged zones in addition to protective coatings and concrete caps to a depth of 3 ft. below Mean Low Water. Other marine structures utilizing cathodic protection include mooring components, ship and boat hulls, and floating pontoons.
A cathodic protection system can be rendered fully or partially inoperative due to a lack of maintenance and repair which is all too common. Regularly scheduled maintenance inspections are recommended to minimize risk of failure of the cathodic protection system. Coatings and CP should most always be used in conjunction with each other for buried or submerged structures. Both are required by law for Underground Storage Tanks (UST) and certain Petroleum, Oil and Lubricant (POL) lines.
Designers need to employ a CP subject matter expert and ensure that all the parameters are considered when designing, installing, and maintaining a CP system in the waterfront zone. For additional information on CP see DoD Continuing Education Courses (login account required), CPC Source Training Page, and Cathodic Protection Knowledge Area. See also CP assessment, design, installation and sustainment (see UFC 3-570-01 Cathodic Protection and UFC 3-570-06 Operation And Maintenance: Cathodic Protection Systems).
Waterfront Dockside Utilities Considerations
Corrosion prevention and control requirements for utilities in the waterfront area is required and covered in UFC 4-150-02 Dockside Utilities for Ship Service, UFC 4-150-07 Maintenance and Operation: Maintenance of Waterfront Facilities, UFC 3-570-01 Cathodic Protection, and UFC 3-570-06 Operation and Maintenance: Cathodic Protection Systems and UFC 4-151-10 General Criteria for Waterfront Construction. Corrosion resistant material selection impacts distribution lines, supports, covers, access panels along with how each line connection is made which also include the appropriate grounding techniques. Attention to these details will ensure that the required utility services will be available on demand throughout the anticipated life cycle. See Figure 5 for an example of waterfront utility distribution line details.
Dockside utilities systems support might include:
- Permanent salt or non-potable water
- Steam and condensate
- Potable water
- Compressed air
- Ship oily waste generation
- Hazardous waste collection
At a minimum, hangers, bolts and specially fabricated supports and braces must be hot dip galvanized after fabrication. Where salt spray exposure is severe options include:
- Application of epoxy coatings
- Stainless steel
- Fiberglass support systems
- Special alloy bolts, such as Monel bolting
For steam and condensate piping under a pier, wharf, or in a drydock where submergence may occur:
- Encase in a pressure-testable, prefabricated conduit system
- Use a corrosion-resistant conduit coating
- Use a Polyethylene heat-shrinkable sleeves and/or high temperature tape wrapping at joints and fittings
Utility mains and laterals serving utility connections must be protected from damage by waves, wind, floating debris or ice, tidal immersion, and corrosive exposure to saltwater and spray. It is preferable to place them in the utility corridor of a double deck pier or in trenches or tunnels of a single deck pier. Exposed above-deck mounting of utility services is discouraged. Although the trench covers need not be watertight, use a good seal at joints to prevent accidental seepage of spilled liquids. Frequently spaced drains should be placed along the trench to prevent flooding.
The Marianas Navy and Marine Corps Design and Construction Standards (MDACS), lists corrosion related guidance for corrosion in general and specifically for utility systems and exterior structures. Guam's hot humid climate requires special design, knowledge, material selection, mechanical design and construction methods to prevent corrosion problems, structural failure, and moisture problems. Absent careful attention to these details, costly repairs and loss of use critical facilities will occur while repairs and mitigation actions are being performed.
The following guidance highlights are required in Guam where the ESC Zones are 4 and 5. Designers, engineers and sustainers can gain understanding of what is required under those conditions and apply them to local situations where similar ESC Zones exist. MDACS guidance for Guam construction and sustainment includes:
- Material selection is key to success in hot humid design
- All surfaces of materials shall be sloped and drained to prevent standing water
- Isolate dissimilar materials to prevent galvanic action
- Reinforced concrete is the structural material to be used unless otherwise indicated. Provides guidance on the use of ASTM A 706 and A615 steel
- Exterior metal framing, fasteners, and connections shall use properly selected stainless steel (or equal) corrosion protection
- Provide protective coatings and cathodic protection for buried metallic fuel or hazardous waste storage tanks and associated pipelines
- All steel water structures shall have a protective coating system, which prevents the current from flowing between the metal and electrolyte, and an impressed-current cathodic protection system
- The Public Works Utilities Criteria requires:
- Under pier pipe hangers and other structural support provisions, including hanger rods and nuts/bolts, shall be 316 stainless steel.
- Dockside Ship Wastewater Provisions: Pipe hanger assemblies for suspended under pier collection manifold piping shall be 316 stainless steel (threaded rods, pipe saddles, nuts & bolts); provide locking nuts on assemblies.
- New waterlines under piers shall have an epoxy-polyamide coating system conforming to MIL-P-24441.
Relevant Criteria Highlights
The following is a representative list of some specific applicable UFC and UFGS and their highlights. For a more complete list of resources see the "Relevant Codes, Standards, and Guidelines" Section at the end of this page.
UFC 1-200-01 DoD Building Code provides very specific guidance for design, construction and sustainment actions related to CPC, especially in corrosion-prone locations. See below quoted content:
- Note that "any project site within 1 mile of seawater is ESC C5. Any project site within 1 to 6 miles of seawater is ESC C4, unless the installation ESC as stated in Appendix A is higher." See additional guidance concerning calculated values.
- "Considerations include life-cycle maintenance costs and potential for corrosive microenvironments."
- The UFC identifies the waterfront and coastal locations as a corrosion prone location and requires the following:
- "For structures proximate or at the waterfront, in addition to atmospheric corrosion, design for the presence of hydrostatic forces, wind, salt spray, currents, tides, waves, ice, marine borers, insects, and pollution from waterfront operations. Some common grades of stainless alloy such as Type 304 or 316 are susceptible to corrosion when immersed in salt or brackish water."
- "For corrosion prone locations, provide added corrosion protection to the design such as, but limited to, the flowing:
- Where material options are provided in a UFGS, use the most durable options.
- Provide higher level of corrosion protection as defined in the appropriate corresponding UFGS.
- Do not use unprotected ferrous metal unless there are no alternatives.
- Coat galvanized steel with an industrial coating.
- Use Type 316L. \1\ 304L, 304, or 316 /1/ stainless steel or duplex stainless steels where stainless steels are used.
- Coat aluminum with an industrial protective coating or heavy-duty anodized coating.
- Isolate dissimilar metals (for example, aluminum and steel, stainless steel and carbon steel, and zinc-coated steel and uncoated steel) by appropriate means to avoid the creation of galvanic cells which occur when dissimilar metals come in contact."
- "Detail designs to prevent accelerated deterioration of facility components. Design geometries that prevent collection of debris, allow water to readily drain in all situations, incorporate sealed joints between components, are protected from mechanical coating damage, and avoid dissimilar materials in direct contact with each other. Follow best engineering and design practices to prevent galvanic. Corrosion. Slope surfaces and pavements to drain away from the structure. Avoid designs that tend to direct corrosion elements to any specific area od a structure. Minimize the flow of water, airborne contaminants (for example, salt and pollutants), and humid air over susceptible materials when designing facility components, systems, and assemblies."
- "Tidal and splash zones will experience higher corrosion than continuously immersed or atmospherically exposed zones."
- "For submerged or partially submerged structures, account for differences in corrosion potential associated with each zone (for example, atmospheric. Splash, tidal, submerged, and subsoil)."
- See Appendix ESC for DoD Locations, identifies the ESC Zone for each of the DoD installations around the world, which then drives the selection of the types of materials and processes that should be used for corrosion-prone locations.
UFC 1-300-02 Unified Facilities Guide Specifications (UFGS) Format Standard Defines standards for the use of UFGS. Requires "when the selection of a material, component, or system for corrosion prevention, life cycle cost effectiveness, or durability depends on the location, application, conditions, or atmospheric and chemical environment. In the notes, provide direction on identifying and selecting those variables. Use International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9223 and Environmental Severity Classification (ESC) factors, to help specify when to use materials, coatings, and other design elements in each project location or atmospheric environment. Additionally, provide direction on what item to use based on other relative criteria such as soil corrosivity, ultraviolet exposure, solar radiation, biological, or other factors causing deterioration of a material or its properties because of a reaction of that material with its chemical environment. Additionally, provide direction on what item to use based on other relative criteria such as soil corrosivity, ultraviolet exposure, solar radiation, biological, or other factors causing deterioration of a material or its properties because of a reaction of the material with its chemical environment."
UFC 3-190-06 Protective Coatings and Paints provides requirements and technical guidance for the effective use of paint-type coatings to protect common materials such as metal, concrete, pavements, gypsum board and wooden structures at military activities from deterioration. Requires paints and coatings that are durable and minimize the need for preventative and corrective maintenance over the expected service life of the component or system. Defines coating systems for specific uses. Requires coating systems specifically designed for waterfront structures (also section above discussing protective coatings for additional information).
UFC 3-570-01 Cathodic Protection delineates the use of "CP systems in conjunction with other protective measures such as proper material selection, protective coatings, and encasement, for the following submerged metallic waterfront structural systems:
◦ Steel sheet pile bulkheads along waterfront or waterway
◦ Steel bearing piles for piers and wharves
◦ Steel fender piles for piers and wharves
◦ Submerged mooring components br>
◦ New waterfront structures, as well as POL, utilities, fire protection, etc.
- Petroleum, oil and lubricant (POL) systems, waterfront structures, and utility systems have been found to be the most critical facilities in terms of a combination of risk from corrosion, the need for continuous direct support of base operations, and the life cycle cost effectiveness of utilizing appropriate corrosion control systems." (Note that utility and POL systems are found in the waterfront zone.)
- Evaluate the economic feasibility of providing CP systems for existing steel waterfront structures and reinforcing steel in concrete.
- Addresses pre-engineered CP for pier pilings.
- Requires evaluation for the use of CP on existing waterfront structures.
- The UFC provides extensive information and guidance on specific systems, locations and related information.
UFC 3-570-06 Operation and Maintenance: Cathodic Protection Systems provides guidance for operation and maintenance of CP systems including the elements of a good CP program. "CP is considered an integral part of the design, construction, operations and maintenance of facilities" [under the cognizance of NAVFAC EXWC]. "Waterfront structures, POL systems, and utility systems have been found to be the most critical facilities in terms of a combination of risk from corrosion, the need to provide a continuity of direct fleet support, and the cost of effectiveness of utilizing appropriate corrosion control systems." It should be used by field personnel to perform scheduled inspections and preventive maintenance and to troubleshoot and repair CP systems. Information on non-routine field measurements is also included to enable technical assistance personnel to troubleshoot problems beyond the normal capability of field personnel to isolate or correct. Delineates mandatory CP systems use.
UFC 4-150-02 Dockside Utilities for Ship Service provides guidance for dockside utilities. Discusses CP and Corrosion protection in marine environments. A few of the corrosion related instructions are:
- Where salt-spray exposure is severe, add corrosion protection for hangars and support assemblies.
- Splash and atmospheric zones will require reapplication of coatings and encasements for maximum system service life.
- A qualified corrosion engineer must be provided for CP Systems. The UFC is very specific about qualifications of engineers and corrosion specialists engaged in the design, construction, and operation of these systems. [See the UFC for specific wording and requirements]
- Provides extensive guidance on the construction, access and covers of utility trenches. Utility mains and laterals serving utility connections must be protected from damage by waves, wind, floating debris or ice, tidal immersion, and corrosive exposure to saltwater and spray. It is preferable to place them in the utility corridor of a double deck pier or in trenches or tunnels of a single deck pier. Exposed above-deck mounting of utility services is discouraged.
- Provide CP System and protective coatings for:
- Petroleum, Oils and Lubricants (POL) pipelines
- Oxygen pipelines
- Underground POL and gasoline storage tanks
- Underground hazardous substance storage tanks
- Water storage tanks
- Other systems as defined
- Delineates specific requirements, concerns and materials selection and use where salt or brackish waters are present for equipment and materials.
- Addresses location of collecting sewers, pump stations and utility trenches for increased functionality and reduced corrosion.
UFC 4-150-07 Maintenance and Operation: Maintenance of Waterfront Facilities contains many references to corrosion and the appropriate mitigating actions.
- Describes materials in use on the waterfront and approaches to inspection, repair, rehabilitation, and maintenance. A thorough inspection program that includes identification of corrosion-related issues is essential to maintaining and sustaining waterfront facilities.
- Provides extensive descriptions of corrosion damage, inspection tables (see the Figures for waterline steel structures checklists), guidance for inspection of materials and facilities (e.g., quay walls) and the associated inspection report format.
- Addresses corrosion in supporting structures such as foam-filled fenders.
- In addition to inspections, the UFC provides insights into repairing corrosion damage and recommended materials for use in the waterfront zone. For example, it recommends specific procedures for installing cathodic protection systems to protect steel sheet piles.
- This is an excellent document for design engineers for waterfront structures. Through understanding the corrosion risks and associated deterioration processes, designers will be able to mitigate potential corrosion damage, thereby extending facilities' service life.
UFC 4-151-10 General Criteria for Waterfront Construction requires the following:
- Weathering steel to be coated in the splash zone and other areas not boldly exposed to sun, wind, and rain. There are no consistent data on the rate of corrosion loss for steel surfaces in contact with various soils, so that consideration should be given to coating these surfaces in the same manner and degree as for ASTM A36/A36M, Carbon Structural Steel.
- In tropical environments, and other locations where corrosion is particularly severe, encase steel pilings in concrete jackets to at least 0.61 m (3 ft) below MLLW and provide cathodic protection for the submerged and buried sections of steel. Encase steel H-piling in concrete in and above the tidal range and to a minimum depth of 1.5 m (5 ft) below MLW. Cap steel sheet piling with concrete rather than with a steel channel or timber. Partial concrete encasement of steel piles creates a zone of high potential at the concrete encasement-to-bare steel pile interface where submerged. Provide CPS in these circumstances in addition to the partial encasement.
- Bituminous or plastic coatings are not considered effective below the mudline and require special care to avoid damage during driving. Except for temporary structures, give substructure timbers a preservative treatment. Use a species that will accept deep treatment such as Southern pine or Douglas fir. Do not use untreated timber for permanent structures. Resistance to borers and decay of any untreated lumber - even of species presumed to be of superior resistance - is still inadequate for long-term use. Encase species that do not accept preservative treatment.
- When rehabilitating existing steel pile bulkheads by driving new sheets outboard:
- Electrically isolate new piling from old piling
- Electrically isolate new tie rods from existing sheet piling by cutting a hole in the old piling and providing a di-electric sleeve through the pile.
- Coat tie rods and new piling on all sides.
- Provide Cathodic Protection System
- Utility mains and laterals serving utility connections must be protected from damage by waves, wind, floating debris or ice, tidal immersion, and corrosive exposure to saltwater and spray. It is preferable to place them in the utility corridor of a double deck pier or in trenches or tunnels of a single deck pier. Exposed above-deck mounting of utility services is discouraged
- Although the trench covers need not be watertight, use a good seal at joints to prevent accidental seepage of spilled liquids. Frequently spaced drains should be placed along the trench to prevent flooding.
- Discusses factors affecting loss of steel due to corrosion (location, exposure to salt spray, tidal planes, stary electric currents, etc.).
UFC 4-152-01 Design: Piers and Wharves provides extensive discussion of material strengths and weaknesses and requirements. Corrosion issues are detailed. A few highlights include:
- For deck-supported structures and for support of piping and conduits, aluminum members are useful. However, do not use unprotected aluminum underwater or in the splash zone. To prevent corrosion, aluminum should be electrically isolated from adjacent materials by nonconductive gaskets, washers, or bolt sleeves. In certain applications nonferrous metals are more resistant to corrosion by seawater and marine atmosphere than steel.
- Concrete enhanced with fly ash has proven to be the best material for pier and wharf construction, and, when properly designed and constructed are highly durable in the marine environment.
- Corrosion of prestressed concrete pile reinforcement can be controlled with "proper mix design and, extreme cases, by epoxy coating reinforcement."
- Aluminum members are useful for deck-supported structures and for piping and conduit support. That said, aluminum should be electrically isolated from adjacent materials.
- Fiberglass-reinforced plastics (FRP), ultra-high molecular weight (UHMW) plastics, and high-density polyethylene (HDPE) are being increasingly used in waterfront construction.
- Disadvantages of composite materials which include low strength, uV light deterioration, long term durability and high cost are addressed. In non-shaded applications ensure the resins are formulated to enhance UV resistance and specify ASTM D4329 Standard Practice for Fluorescent Ultraviolet (UV) Lamp Apparatus Exposure of Plastics to specify UV performance.
UFGS 03 31 29 Marine Concrete With Service Life Modeling This is a complex UFGS that provides very specific guidance covering the requirements for reinforced concrete exposed to marine and chloride environments for projects with a defined service life. In addition, this guide specification should be used for projects with concrete exposed to weather in locations with Environmental Severity Classifications (ESC) of C4 and C5 and where deicing salts are used on the structure, where service life modeling is appropriate. It contains specific requirements for quality control (actions taken by the Contractor) and quality assurance (actions that may be taken by the Government). This guide specification includes provisions for performing concrete service life modeling.
UFGS 09 90 00 Paints and Coatings addresses "requirements for painting of new and existing, interior and exterior substrates." Discusses corrosion and invokes UFC 1-200-01. Delineates ESC requirements for ESC Zones C3, C4 and C5 and ASHRAE 90.1 humid locations in climate zones A, 1A, 2A, 3A, 4C and 5C. It includes contractor qualification requirements (SSPC QP 1, QP 2, etc.) and refers to SSPC, NACE, and MPI Standards. Topics include coatings, corrosion, rust, deterioration, mold, and mildew.
UFGS 09 97 13.26 Coating of Steel Waterfront Structures, Zero VOC, (SZC) Splash Zone Coating addresses requirements for coating new or existing steel-sheet piling and other steel waterfront structures may also be used for repairing and coating aged surfaces.
- A coating condition survey (CCS) is required for maintenance coating designs.
- Addresses qualifications and certifications requirements for the third-party protective-coating specialist, the coating-inspection company, coating contractors, testing laboratory, individuals applying coatings, and other relevant parties.
- Provides extensive requirements on the coating system, execution, including surface preparation and application, inspection and quality control.
- Note that the complexity of the application of these coatings and the associated process is consistent with the dynamics of the waterfront zone and the life cycle requirements for the facility.
UFGS 31 62 13.20 Precast/Prestressed Concrete Piles states, "Cement type and quantity of cement required in mix design is dependent upon the environment, soil conditions, need for corrosion protection, and location of piling" and in the Reinforcing Steel section, "Minimum cover for reinforcing steel in concrete structures is dependent upon the environment, soil conditions, need for corrosion protection, and location of piling." Similar wording can be found in UFGS 31 62 13.24 Concrete Cylinder Piles.
UFGS 31 62 16.16 Steel H-Piles addresses CPC in the marine environment. CPC for steel H-piles includes splash zones, seawater protection, the use of coating systems, cathodic protection and steel encasement or metal jacketing.
While the UFC and UFGS highlights list above is not all-inclusive, it does contain insights into the magnitude of design, construction and maintenance of waterfront and coastal structures, especially in corrosion-prone locations. Considering and addressing these issues will assist in achieving CPC such that the design supports the mission and meets life-cycle expectations. It will also ensure that all design choices are made to account for the realities of waterfront dynamics. Environments are evolving, with more intense storms, temperature changes, and higher sea levels. Therefore, decisions on structure placements, the extent of splash-zone coverage, orientation of facilities, and material selection will have a direct impact on the extent of corrosion and CPC measures required to keep facilities operationally ready.
It is recommended that the designer carefully review each criteria document to ensure that the appropriate materials are selected and placed in service along with the associated processes. Submittals may include shop drawings, product data, samples, test reports, certificates, manufacturer's instructions, and operation and maintenance data. Understanding Corrosion Science (see Corrosion Science Knowledge Area) as it affects Waterfront and Coastal Structures will help the designer and Sustainment, Restoration and Modernization (SRM) manager make decisions that create facilities that are life cycle cost effective and more durable.
Waterfront and Coastal Structures Sustainment, Restoration, and Modernization (SRM) Insights
Figures 6 and 7 provide insights into sustainment management program flowcharts and considerations. The use of BUILDER™ Sustainment Management System (SMS) provides for the creation of a database, assessment and maintenance management of facilities assets.
Figure 7 illustrates the sustainment maintenance process and the associated workflow. Identifying and tracking building system deficiencies through this process will ensure that the necessary work will be scheduled and accomplished in a timely process.
The broad area of Waterfront and Coastal Structures presents a long list of challenges for the facilities manager. This diverse range of facilities must be represented accurately in any SMS and along with the associated inspections, preventative maintenance, and SRM actions to keep them operational. The alternative to having a good, responsive sustainment program for waterfront and coastal structures is "break down maintenance" which is never good and always drives last minute decisions and actions. This usually results in costly repairs, rather than ensuring that system sustainment decisions and repairs are accomplished in a more cost-effective manner over time.
For waterfront areas, repairs may be beyond local funding and project authorities which means that planning and avoiding "breakdown maintenance and repair" is an absolute must. This may involve underwater inspection techniques as well as specialized repair teams for submerged structures. The following information highlights the types of repairs that exist in the waterfront and coastal zone. The information is not complete, but it can give the reader some ideas about types of work that could be required. Refer to the relevant UFC and UFGS for complete requirements. See UFC 4-150-07 Maintenance And Operation: Maintenance of Waterfront Facilities for complete information and guidance.
Reinforced Concrete repairs are one of the leading maintenance costs associated with U.S. Navy piers and waterfront structures. The service life of concrete repairs using conventional repair methods is often observed to only be approximately 7 years. The conventional repair method includes:
- Removing spalled/chloride contaminated concrete
- Using squared saw cuts to remove concrete
- Don't feather patch edges
- Replace corroded rebar as necessary
- Providing appropriate concrete mix design
To extend reinforced concrete repair service life:
- Use form and pressure pump concrete procedures
- Use of cathodic protection in selected areas may be economical
Note that enhanced repair methods utilizing better substrate surface preparation, embedded galvanic anodes, and form and pressure pump concrete placement is expected to double the service life of the concrete repairs to 14 years.
Typical repairs for steel piles and sheet piles include:
- Concrete encasement
- Installing a concrete cap or face
- Partial and full replacement
- Cathodic protection
The steel sheet pile bulkhead pictures in Photo 6 had the protective coating scoured away by wave action within eight years. As a result, the area above the sand is well corroded where the area below the mud-line is cathodically protected and is near the original design thickness. Concrete encasement is the recommended repair.
When rehabilitating existing steel pile bulkheads by driving new sheets outboard:
- Electrically isolate new piling from old piling
- Electrically isolate new tie rods from existing sheet piling by cutting a hole in the old piling and providing a dielectric sleeve through the pile.
- Coat tie rods and new piling on all sides.
- Provide Cathodic Protection System
Timber structure rehabilitation and repair include:
- Concrete encasement and caps
- Plastic and polyvinyl pile wraps
- Applying underwater curing epoxy and fiber reinforced wrap
- Replacing timber pile with new timber or concrete pile
- Repair of dolphins
- Repairing/replacing timber components (superstructure, chocks, wales, and fender piles)
- Reinforcing or installing a tie-back system
These are just a few of the challenges and possible fixes for some of the waterfront facility structures. SRM program supported with accurate data, thorough planned inspections and recurring maintenance, and. a responsive public works force will make a huge difference in keeping facilities operational. Being prepared for (and expecting) damaged facilities should be part of every SRM program.
For more insights into CPC sustainment management see the CPC in Operations and Maintenance (O&M), and, Sustainment, Restoration, and Modernization (SRM) resource page. Additional information is provided on SMS, Builder™, and CPC data collection.
The Waterfront Zone has a myriad of facilities and structures that must be maintained and ready to have a successful transition from ship (or seagoing vessel) to shore. This includes the complex support and logistics chain. This zone is dynamic and highly susceptible to corrosion damage and interruptions. Facilities professionals who plan, design, and construct these facilities are challenged by the forces of nature and the everchanging parameters that exist in this Zone. It is an absolute imperative that these professionals understand everything that there is to know about the risks, materials, requirements, and sea-shore transitions (utilities, mooring, piers, wharves, etc.). The SRM professionals are challenged because sustaining these facilities comes with a huge price tag. The pressure is on the Facility Managers to ensure that the facilities in the waterfront zone are mission ready for the operating fleet and others who support the fleet. Responsiveness to any issue must be immediate to reduce the existing hazards and to improve fleet readiness.
Department of Defense
Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC)
- UFC 1-200-01 DoD Building Code
- UFC 1-300-02 UFGS Format Standard
- UFC 3-190-06 Protective Coatings and Paints
- UFC 3-220-01 Geotechnical Engineering
- UFC 3-250-01 Pavement Design for Roads and Parking Areas
- UFC 3-270-01 O&M Manual: Asphalt and Concrete Pavement Maintenance and Repair
- UFC 3-270-08 Pavement Maintenance Management
- UFC 3-570-01 Cathodic Protection
- UFC 3-570-06 Operation and Maintenance: Cathodic Protection Systems
- UFC 4-150-02 Dockside Utilities for Ship Service
- UFC 4-150-06 Military Harbors and Coastal Facilities
- UFC 4-150-07 Maintenance And Operation: Maintenance of Waterfront Facilities
- UFC 4-151-10 General Criteria for Waterfront Construction
- UFC 4-152-01 Design: Piers and Wharves
- UFC 4-159-03 Design: Moorings
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- UFGS 03 31 30 Marine Concrete
- UFGS 09 90 00 Paints and Coatings
- UFGS 09 96 00 High-Performance Coatings
- UFGS 09 97 13.26 Coating of Steel Waterfront Structures, Zero Voc, Splash Zone Coating
- UFGS 26 42 13 Galvanic (Sacrificial) Anode Cathodic Protection (GACP) System
- UFGS 26 42 15 Cathodic Protection System for the Interior of Steel Water Tanks
- UFGS 26 42 17 Impressed Current Cathodic Protection (ICCP) System
- UFGS 26 42 19.10 Cathodic Protection Systems (Impressed Current) For Lock Miter Gates
- UFGS 31 62 16.16 Steel H-Piles
- UFGS 31 62 19 Timber Piles
- UFGS 31 62 19.13 Timber Marine Piles
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- UFGS 31 62 13.24 Concrete Cylinder Piles
- UFGS 35 59 13.14 20 Polymeric Piles
Whole Building Design Guide
- Corrosion Prevention and Control Source
- Corrosion Toolbox
- CPC Source—Environmental Severity Classification (ESC)
- Corrosion Prevention and Control Checklists Tool
- CPC Source—Training
- Cathodic Protection
- Corrosion Science
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Public Works Technical Bulletin (PWTB)
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Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP) [National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) and Society for Protective Coatings (SSPC)]
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The Windrush Cymru Elders was established by Mrs Roma Taylor in 2017 as part of Race Council Cymru. They are a proactive group of 50+ elders who promote understanding of ethnic minority elders concerns, needs whilst celebrating key milestones and marking the contributions of people of African descent. The group meets weekly in Cardiff to enjoy each other’s company and take part in creative activities in and around Wales. Race Council Cymru staff and the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama provide support and meeting facilities!
- To bring together and foster understanding amongst older people from the diverse communities in Wales.
- To promote recreational social activities, mutual support and joint aid among our members.
- To establish community engagement with the Older Peoples Commission and other Welsh public, private and third sector bodies as relevant for the benefit of members.
- To use art, dance, drama and music to share culture and experiences.
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15 Steps to Using the Music You Know and Love to Get the Goals You Want
So, are you really serious about your music? Needle-dropping, tube amp driving, vinyl-snobbing, turntable spinning, high-end, audiophile type of pay-through-the-nose-for-your-music kinda serious? After all, you know all the names of the band members of The Dave Clark 5, what’s up with Stevie Nicks’ lamp, and can show your friends all the verses Tupac lifted from William Shakespeare. That kinda serious?
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Sailors in the 17th century had it rough. For months, they were away at sea, sustaining themselves on an unsteady diet that included brined beef, dirty water, and tough crackers known as ship biscuit. In the days before pasteurization, seasickness likely came more often from the food than the waves.
A handful of cookbooks and ship journals detail the odious smells and tastes of 17th-century ship fare. But we can only imagine the decomposing food and its effect on the health of sailors.
Until now, that is. These questions led Grace Tsai, a PhD student specializing in nautical archaeology, to recreate ship food aboard an old-timey vessel. She and her fellow researchers at Texas A&M University have spent over three years on what they dubbed the Ship Biscuit & Salted Beef Research Project. They’re now analyzing beef as gnarly as what sailors ate, and are planning to give the rest of us a taste of a sailor’s life.
In August, the team mounted their barrels of ship food, which included salted beef, ship biscuits, peas, and beer, aboard the Elissa in the port of Galveston, Texas. Their model was the English galleon the Warwick, a ship sunk by a hurricane in Bermuda’s Castle Harbor in 1619. A team of archaeologists began excavating the Warwick’s remains in 2010. Among the wreckage, they discovered glass shards containing beer and wine, as well as cow bones. So Tsai packed for Bermuda.
“There are just a handful of ships where you can find remains like this,” Tsai says. “We have a good archaeological record of the bones that are on board.” Studying those (mostly beef) bones gave Tsai a sense of the cuts of meat sailors brought—knowledge she used to butcher beef for the Elissa. Working from an additional year of archival research, she and her team slaughtered and butchered a hog and steer, then made salted food according to a 1682 recipe. Each food and drink put onboard was the product of a similar process, and the plan was to let everything sit for two months.
Just a week later, Hurricane Harvey ravaged Texas, putting their work at serious risk. What would happen to the salted cod, made with hundreds of pounds of salt they sourced from a French bay? Would the wine they stomped with their own feet be destroyed?
Amazingly, not much happened. “Weirdly enough … the ship wasn’t damaged at all,” Tsai says. The only major difference came from the color of the salted beef: The brine within the cask mysteriously turned a deep, bright red.
Every 10 days, the team boarded the Elissa. They checked the meat barrels for leaks, refilled it to the top with brine, and simulated how sailors handled the beef. “We would have whoever was touching the meat wear gloves… [and] not just put the gloves on and touch the meat, but touch some of the rigging on the ship,” Tsai says. “Because they wouldn’t wash their hands before touching the meat.”
After two months, the salted beef smelled gnarly and didn’t look fresh, but it wasn’t quite rotten, either. “It smelled pretty bad,” Tsai laughs. Hunters told Tsai that the meat, although not in ideal condition, was still technically edible. Yet researchers were astonished to find that of all the goods on-board, ship biscuit survived the best—even amidst the late summer Texas heat and humidity. Ship biscuit, colloquially known as hardtack, had lived up to its name.
According to the team’s research, our conventional wisdom about boiling wouldn’t pass muster in the 1600s. While we consider a roiling boil good enough to kill everything, the meat from the Elissa needed thirty to forty minutes in boiling water to see a decrease in germs. Tsai attributes this to sailors bringing very large cuts of meat onboard.
But our seafaring predecessors weren’t always worse off—the team’s preliminary results suggest that good bacteria grew amidst the bad on ship food. “Their gastrointestinal systems were getting really good and really bad things,” says Tsai. Their queasy-looking foods may have helped them build up immunity to germs just as much as it made them sick.
While Tsai and her team couldn’t try any of their ship biscuit or salted meats due to safety concerns, they are making something the public can enjoy: beer. This month, they’ll ferment beer at Brigadoon Brewery, then bring it aboard a ship (likely not the Elissa—they’re looking for another vessel whose hours are more amenable). Later on, they’ll brew a commercial batch with Houston’s Karbach Brewery, so people will be able to taste history while raising a glass.
The jury is out on what the beer will taste like. But Tsai speculates that it will be sour. “We know that they said their beer would turn sour and cloudy, which was not good. They did not like that,” Tsai says. “Now it’s sort of a fashionable thing to drink sour beer.”
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Diti Ronen, a Jewish Israeli poetess and a scholar would deliver the lecture. Ronen, who is a professor of English at the Bar-Ilan University, Israel is visiting UoM on a month-long tour.
Besides being a noted poet, she is the daughter of a holocaust survivor. The Tel Aviv born writer is named after her grandmother, who was killed in Auschwitz. This identity leads her to repeatedly try and reflect, in her work, the experiences of the catastrophe that tore several families apart and snapped the very thread of the society in various parts of the world.
K M Chandar, chairman of the department of English, UoM said that the poetess has kept her promise to come as a visiting professor to the University.
She was in city early this year to attend the Kritya Poetry festival held at Central Institute of Indian Languages(CIIL). Her poetries like ‘Littlebird’, ‘Inner Moon’ and ‘With the Slip Showing’ deliberate on the thoughts of being the daughter of a holocaust survivor.
Ronen’s poems are taught in academic institutions, adapted into plays and have served as lyrics for songs.
She is regularly invited to talk about holocaust literature at the Sal Vangelder Institute for Holocaust Instruction and Research at Bar-Ilan University.
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Jason Ramasami is a graphic designer/illustrator/animator who has a wonderful way of making abstract ideas concrete. He did a bunch of illustrations for my imagination books. Check out his Youtube channel. Or cool stuff on his homepage.
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Bethinking.org is a site aimed at giving answers about life's big questions. It's operated by the U.K.'s UCCF (Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship), and it's got just a great library of videos and other material helpful for sorting out faith and life. Find them here. | <urn:uuid:043a6620-432d-4b95-addd-0c7eba8b87f4> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://www.tedturnau.com/links | 2024-03-03T21:52:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476399.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303210414-20240304000414-00094.warc.gz | en | 0.958238 | 165 | [
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Jack Garvey and Seamus Keenan who both won medals at last week's Leinster secondary schools cross-country competition.
Boyne AC athlete Jack Garvey competed in the Leinster secondary schools cross-country competition on Wednesday 7th February and came away with a well-deserved gold medal.
Even though he was a year out of age, Garvey was on the intermediate boys team and was determined to give it everything as he lined up in a massive field of over 140 competitors.
Garvey was not at all daunted by the 4.5 km long, sweeping course, but the beautiful surroundings of Phoenix Park made it all the more enjoyable. A true test of stamina took place and Garvey persevered admirably to win a team gold medal.
This was an amazing accomplishment for this young man, especially when you consider that he only started running a little over a year ago. No doubt he will already be looking forward to the all-Ireland Secondary school Cross Country finals set for March 9th.
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Seamus Keenan, who also participated in his school's junior team and easily qualified from the North Leinster Secondary Schools Race, is another athlete who Boyne Ac are very proud of.
Seamus made the running in a fantastic 3km race to get a well-deserved fifth team position. Although he is known to favour a longer distance, Keenan’s determination has to be commended.
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Unique opportunity to own 3 updated floor-through apartments (58%) of 1390 Lexington Avenue, a 4 story building conveniently located between 91 & 92nd Streets on Lexington, across from the 92nd Street Y. Accessed through a private entrance next to the retail space, which is separately owned and not for sale, is the skylit stairwell to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floor apartments.
Apartment 2: Zoned as both residential and commercial space and just a half flight up is an approximately 1,200 square foot floor-through 1-bedroom, 1 bath apartment with a huge (approx 550 square foot) west-facing deck surrounded by mature trees and gardens. It has a large east-facing front room with a wall of windows onto Lexington Ave, and a windowed kitchen off a spacious west-facing great room with access to the deck. The current lease expires May 31, 2024.
Apartment 3: This sunny, approx 1100 square ft, apartment has a flexible floor plan consisting of 4.5 rooms facing east and west. It can be used as a 1 or 2 bedroom with separate office or den, renovated windowed kitchen, dining foyer, washer/dryer and a large updated bathroom. There are hardwood floors and beamed ceilings that add to the prewar charm.
Apartment 4: Walk up 2 flights to this bright, 4.5 room, approx 1100 square foot apartment, also with a flexible plan. 1 or 2 bedrooms with a renovated, windowed open kitchen with breakfast bar, living room and a separate dining or office space. This charming apartment also has a washer/dryer, updated bath with skylight, hardwood floors and beamed ceilings.
Numerous possible used include maintaining this property as an income producing rentals or creating a stunning triplex residence with substantial outdoor space. Nestled in the heart of Carnegie Hill, 1390 Lexington Avenue is surrounded by the neighborhood’s best restaurants, shops, and a short distance to both the express 86th or 96th street subway.
Dishwasher Pets Allowed Private Outdoor Space BUILDING AMENITIES Laundry in Building OUTDOOR SPACE Terrace
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Demi Lovato performed her new song with a message for viewers to “VOTE” … but when it aired on NBC … the network muzzled her message.
Lovato took the stage Wednesday for a moving rendition of her song “Commander in Chief,” a song that takes direct aim at President Trump. We’ve obtained footage of Demi’s performance — the way she wanted it to air and it was originally recorded — and at the end the word “VOTE” is very clearly displayed across the video board on the stage.
That final message was gone when the show aired on TV. In its place — a close-up of Demi at the piano.
Sources say the network pulled the plug on the “VOTE” message because the song itself was a slam on Trump and the “VOTE” message was a call to vote against him.
The song’s lyrics leave no question about Lovato’s feelings about the Prez … “Commander in Chief, honestly. If I did the things you do, I couldn’t sleep, seriously. Do you even know the truth? We’re in a state of crisis, people are dyin.’ While you line your pockets deep. Commander in Chief, how does it feel to still be able to breathe?”
She doubled down on her message earlier Wednesday, saying, “I literally don’t care if this ruins my career.”
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The idea that talented handlers get their skill by following their “natural instincts” is baloney. This is good news for all of us – there is no “natural instinct” for dog agility. ALL improvement is about absorbing and applying new information, and the best source of information is top performers. So steal it. Again, this is from The Little Book of Talent by Daniel Coyle.
Coyle points out that stealing has a long tradition in a variety of pursuits; art, sports, and design, and that we often soften the idea that things have been stolen by saying that our own work has been “influenced” by the work of others. Pablo Picasso has been quoted as saying “Good artists borrow – Great artists steal.”
When looking at talent hotbeds, Coyle found this again and again. The director of a music talent hotbed even told him “…you gotta steal like crazy. Look at every single performer better than you and see what they’ve got that you can use. Then make it your own.” He also found some interesting trends with regard to talent, and suspects that these trends allow for more opportunity for theft, and therefore greater opportunity to develop talent.
On his website, Coyle asks us to consider what he calls the Michael Jackson Law. This is the rule that the most talented performer in a family musical group will be among the youngest children. Consider:
- The most talented Bee-Gee? Andy, the youngest.
- The most talented Jonas brother? Nick, the youngest.
- The most talented Hanson brother? Zac, the youngest.
- The most talented Andrews Sister? Patty, the youngest.
Mozart and Bach were also the babies of their families.
Coyle suggests that in addition to having more material to watch and to imprint on their minds in the form of their older siblings, the younger siblings have more material to steal, test out, and make their own. In fact, Coyle suggests that one of the talents that great performers all seem to share is their ability to steal. He says “Most top performers tend to be incorrigible thieves, relentlessly on the prowl for new ideas, methods, and techniques. You might even say that stealing is their greatest talent.”
When you steal, focus on specifics, rather than general impressions.
Capture concrete facts: the location of a handler relative to her dog on course during a specific handling move. Or, the particular angle of a handler’s arm as she’s rotating toward her dog to cue collection. Or perhaps the angle of a handler’s legs and the positioning of her feet as she executes a front cross. In each case, ask yourself:
- What, exactly, are the critical moves here?
- How does this top performer perform those moves differently than I do?
I’ve already put forth that you should watch the performances of top performers intently, and regularly, to imprint those performances on your mind, as well as to inspire you to dig deeper with your training and practice. And, the first tip of the year was to put together a notebook, so that you could keep track of your performances, and plan for the future. Here are some more ideas for effective thievery:
- Try to steal one good idea every day and write it in your notebook. Keep track of which ideas work for you, and which ones don’t.
- Don’t limit your thievery to agility. Look for top performers in other dog sports and be prepared to steal their good ideas as well. Look to a top rally obedience performer for ideas to improve your agility footwork. Look to a top obedience performer for ideas to improve your training for sit stays, go-outs, and recalls. Look to a top herding performer for ideas on how to train your dog to respond to verbal directionals at a distance.
- ASK. Most top performers are happy to talk about their training and handling methods and techniques. If you’re in a position to ask some questions, ask them!
Now, I’m not advocating stealing another instructor’s lesson plans and reteaching them for yourself, wholesale. There are definitely some considerations, and there’s a line that we should all be careful about crossing. It’s one thing to steal ideas to improve our own performances, but it’s another thing entirely to steal ideas, market them as our own without attributing credit to who we stole those ideas from, and profit off of them.
The point is, it’s okay to copy top performers, and it’s okay to do what they’re doing to improve your own training and handling. There’s no shame in being honest about not having come up with something for yourself. If somebody asks me where I learned a particular move, or where I got some particular information, I’m going to tell them.
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Now Merck's new head of research, Roger Perlmutter, has announced plans to revamp research at Merck with a plan that will involve cuts to R&D. I have no access to the organizational structure of Merck, or it's costs or infact any inside information. However, I do know that when a research organization has problems, it almost never resides in the foot soldiers who carry out the day to day research. The choice of therapeutic areas, staffing, funding basically everything but the day to day research is a senior management problem.
Bringing in a new head of R&D is a start, but laying off the researchers will do nothing to make the pipeline more robust. The issues at Merck are deep. The shareholders should consider the way the military handles problems with performance in the field. They fire generals, not privates. If a division fails, the commander is gone. They don't cashier 10% of the privates to make a "leaner more efficient" division keeping the chain of command intact.
I firmly believe that no one has ever reorganized themselves to greatness. I believe that this is why most organizations fail over time. There is too much power in the upper echelons and the tendency to shift blame downward is too entrenched. Even the shareholder activist investors, when they wrest control from an ossified senior management, gut the company to see how they can get the largest sum, for the best parts of an organization and the devil take the hindmost. Tomorrow I will continue this thread with why I feel the merger and acquisition mania that has swept the pharmaceutical industry over the last two decades has caused this problem of weak pipelines and low levels of innovation. | <urn:uuid:b38d80e6-e2c1-4fc2-8b3e-b12deaf4e6cf> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | http://www.victrixcmc.com/victrix-sounds-off/the-house-that-max-built-or-can-one-reorganize-oneself-to-greatness | 2024-02-23T11:05:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474377.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223085439-20240223115439-00194.warc.gz | en | 0.949332 | 347 | [
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PRETORIA – During an Intelligence-driven operation today, members of the Western Cape Anti-Gang Unit assisted by the National Anti-Corruption Unit arrested two station commanders at the level of Brigadiers in Gauteng.
The Brigadiers have been arrested for their alleged involvement in fraud, defeating the administration of justice and contravention of the Firearms Control Act (Act 60/2000) in multiple case dockets in the areas of Edenvale, Kempton Park and Norwood in the province of Gauteng.
The arrest of the two Brigadiers brings to 28 the total number of people arrested in connection with these cases after the 26 people were arrested earlier this year. Of the 28 suspects 17 are police officers of which two are retired and 11 are civilians.
These investigations started three years ago when it emerged that during November 2017 security companies were involved in crimes of extortion in the Western Cape Province relating to firearm applications in Gauteng.
In January 2018 it was found that several other people, family and friends in Cape Town obtained there competency and licence to possess a firearm/s as well as Temporary Authorization to possess a firearm/s in an allegedly fraudulent manner.
Investigations revealed that the applicants all made applications in Gauteng area and more so in SAPS Edenvale, Norwood and Kempton Park.
Information was received that the applicants would go to a gun shop in Kempton Park where they would do a proficiency test to make an application for competency to possess a firearm and ammunition.
The National Commissioner of Police, General Khehla John Sitole has applauded the perseverance of the team in this investigation.
“We are systematically identifying and routing out corruption and corrupt members from the SAPS”, General Sitole reiterated.
It may be the hope and desire of many that criminality within the SAPS should be more speedily eradicated. These investigation processes, in order for them to be executed effectively, takes time.
“The most effective way of dealing with corruption is to prevent it and in order to do this, I am again urging both members of the SAPS as well as the community at large to refrain from engaging in such activities – because you WILL be caught”, added General Sitole.
The two Brigadiers are expected to appear in the Kempton Park Magistrates Court tomorrow, 28 October 2020.
We appeal to anyone who may have any information on crime to contact the SAPS on the Crime Stop number 086 00 10111. Information can also be communicated via the MySAPSApp, an App which can be easily downloaded via Play Store on any iPhone or Android handset.
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Christmas and new year bring new hopes and good luck to our lives and we wish to share the joy with our family and friends. Therefore, here we bring you a brand new greeting animation of Happy Christmas and Happy New Year so that you can put it on social media or send it to your peer group. This footage is available in 1080p full HD resolution on our official website. Although it is licensed under the YouTube Creative Commons Attribution, you can reuse it after getting it downloaded successfully and the most fascinating fact is that you need not pay any money to access this animation. You just need to check out the link given below and there you are. This is a short video footage of one minute and ten seconds although you are free to extend it or crop it as per your requirement. In this beautiful footage you have backgrounds of different colours for example pink, violet, red, purple. The colour of the backdrop changes seamlessly and the greeting texts are placed in the very middle of the screen with a golden fireworks effect. On the top of the screen you have a hanging template of “2024” and a bunch of lush green far leaves. Except for that there are more Christmas decorations such as balls, snow flakes, bells and so on. Besides you have a pretty bubble effect on the background screen in addition to all these themes. Last but not the least, there is a background audio already attached to the video footage and it is by Jingle Punks from the Album “O Christmas Tree ” but you can edit it with preferable music if you wish. It is a loopable and editable video thus it is perfect for sharing with your loved ones on the special occasion of new year and Christmas.
Wishing You a Merry Christmas and Wishing You Happy New Year 2023 Whatsapp Status Video Greetings
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Files source: AllDesignCreative
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Looped Video: No
License: Free to use for private/commercial
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Type of File: MP4 File (.mp4)
Frame Rate: 29 frame/second
Complete Licensing Information: Standard Licence (i)
Author Channel: www.youtube.com/alldesigncreative
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Our iconic A-frame is just off Main St and walking distance to The Village and shopping on Main Street.
The Ridge Collective is Ridge Merino's Mammoth Lakes-based retail collaboration of premium outdoor apparel, accessories and gifts.
If you're in the area, stop by and check out our showroom featuring Ridge Merino's Merino wool base layers, mid layers, underwear, accessories and logo tees. Cool partner brands include recycled sunglasses from Sunski and Pendleton blankets, towels and camping gear - to name a few.
Stop in our Mammoth Clothing store at:
4 Alpine Circle, Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546
(Mile 906 on the Pacific Crest Trail)
Partner brands include Ridge Merino, Pendleton Woolen Mills, Sunskis, All Good, Lifestraw, Joyous Organics, MiiR and Meriwether.
Pictured: Artist Nate Riefke (@saltytimbers) creates our mural of Convict Lake.
Limited Edition Products
We are fortunate to be minutes from Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, John Muir and Ansel Adam's Wilderness Areas and less than an hour to Yosemite National Park.
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