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Finance Location: Bailrigg Salary: £31,396 to £36,024 Full time, indefinite Closing Date: Sunday 10 March 2024 Interview Date: Wednesday 20 March 2024 Reference: 1564-23-R The Finance Department provide a wide range of services and our core responsibilities are; contributing to the strategic direction of the University and corporate management, maintaining financial administration and stewardship, supporting and advising the University's committees, supporting and advising budget holders and managers, and reporting externally and delivering services to staff, students, members of the public, stakeholders and other bodies. Its remit also includes the management of risk and the Insurance Officer will play a key role in this area. We are recruiting for an exceptional individual to join our team. 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Another Take By Zac: TV Review: The Walking Dead 1.3 Tell It To The Frogs The third entry into the series is the least zombie filled episode yet, and while that was a tad disappointing, focusing on the humans was almost just as engaging and compelling as the rest of the series. Thankfully we find out, and maybe this was expressed last week and I just missed it, that the fact that all of these people are connected because the Atlanta folk are there from the camp. We unfortunately did not really find out much about the love triangle and how far back Mrs. Grimes and Shane’s infidelity goes. In fact, Lori’s reaction to Shane even further perplexes the situation as she basically tells him that he isn’t allowed to communicate with her or her son anymore unless absolutely necessary. In fact they fueled the fire even further on Rick and Lori’s background as they basically forgive each other for all of their past discretions as a couple. I gleaned from this that their relationship was definitely in trouble when Rick went into a comma and this makes me think that Shane and Lori might have been at it before the zombies showed up. Ok, enough about them, how bout the rest of the cast which got quite the display this week. The most intriguing development of the week was the story revolving around the abusive Ed and his wife Carol. From the first moments we are introduced to them tensions are high between them and the rest of the group and it finally comes to a head in one of the final scenes when Ed takes offense to the girls having a good time. When Ed hits Carol because he is mad at Andrea, who stood up to Ed’s misogynistic bullying, Shane steps in and beats the shit out of Ed; partly because he deserves it, mostly because he had just got rejected from Lori. Basically Ed needs to get eaten, stat. We also were introduced to Daryl, Merle’s (redneck handcuffed on the roof) brother, who is just as hick as brother. He does seem to be a bit less crazy though and while he is still a bit of a hot head, Daryl, seems a tad more reasonable of an individual. The shocking twist of the episode is that Rick, barely reunited with his family, is ready to head right back in to Atlanta to save Merle and get back his bag of guns he left in the street. Unsurprisingly, Merle is nowhere to be found when the search party shows up, and even less surprising is the fact that he lobbed his hand off to get out. All in all a solid episode just give me another zombie incident next time AMC. -As good as the show is I still feel like we need some more original beats in the show. From the chopping the hand off, to the hospital opening, and other scattered bits, I hope that the second season realizes that they don’t have to grift off its influences and that the show can blaze it’s own path, ala the zombie guts bit last week. -I did not enjoy how long it took them to kill that deer eating zombie they find in the woods, they could have easily lobbed his head off from the get go and it was the first time the violence seemed rather out of place and pointless. -Also, I don’t know if they sold Rick’s humanitarian characterization enough to make his quick turn around to head back in to town after just finding his family again that believable, especially for Merle. He is our hero though, so I let it slide. -Crossbow’s, your zombie warfare best friend for keeping a low profile. -Can Shane punch Ed a couple more times? -Still wish we got some more exposure to Dale, who is played by the great Jeffrey DeMunn, but the brief moment in which Rick told him they could strip the van they brought back from Atlanta, I got the sinking feeling him and his brother(?) might bolt once they are up and running. And that is all I got for this week, only three episodes left and you know Merle is going to cause some shit sooner or later. Here’s hoping they don’t wait till the finale. Till next time.
Q&A With Enimatik As many of the Revival Synth followers know, I am a huge fan of instrumental music, and many's the occasion an artist comes along and blows my mind away with their beautiful music. Enimatik is one of those artists. I have been following his work and his journey throughout lockdown, and it was only fitting that I found out more from this honest musician about his music and his new journey with Jane Demonroads & Renat Hassler. Sit back, enjoy his music, and welcome to the beautiful sounds of Enimatik! Q. Hi Manuel, please tell us about your musical journey pre-Enimatik A. Hi Andy. It has been a very long journey. When I was 7 years old, I started taking piano lessons at the initiative of my mother, later on classical organ. During my adolescence I discovered synthesizers and started playing in local bands with friends, they were really fun times. At the end of the 90's I started to make small productions in my home-studio, and finally I decided to make the leap towards professionalism by creating a commercial recording studio. I worked a lot making productions for tv, cinema and series, while recording and producing local groups and singers. But in 2006, for many reasons, I decided to separate my path from the music industry, until last year 2020, in which the Enimatik project emerged. Q. Who are/were you influenced by? A. My musical influences are really diverse, Prince, Depeche Mode, Queen, The Weeknd, The Bee Gees, Beyonce, Mariah Carey, Michael Jackson, The Corrs, Madonna, The Chemical Brothers, Mecano, Roxy Music, Marilyn Manson, Hans Zimmer .. I have always wanted to think that my musical culture is very broad, and I have always appreciated the great american and british productions. I believe that the time I was producing music commercially for clients trained me as a musician and producer in all kinds of musical genres, and I truly consider that I have been fortunate enough to live a few wonderful decades listening to legendary music. Obviously I have always been open to new influences, new styles and new artists, I think you always have to have an open mind. Q.How would you describe the sound of Enimatik? A. Good question. If I'm honest, at the beginning of Enimatik I didn't really know what genre the songs fit into, I had to ask people who were very informed on social media. I think that the sound of Enimatik is deeply sentimental and emotional, I seek to provoke emotions that first arise within me, be it love, passion, melancholy, sensuality... Right now my music is described as an evolution from the chillstep/ambient of the first songs towards the industrial/darkwave sound, but always with a sensual and erotic atmosphere behind. Q. You say in your Bio on your website that you found yourself in a coma with the music industry, what brought you back to life? A. Well, really what happened was something strange. It had been around 14 without composing a song or having a keyboard at my fingertips. Of course I had continued to listen to music, but I just thought "let someone else do it." During the confinement in my country, Spain, I suddenly found myself with available time, in such an exceptional and terrible situation, I think that emotionally my mind searched for a way out so as not to end up sinking. I bought a controller keyboard, sound card, monitors, software, upgraded my computer, and just started composing. It was like coming home, the knowledge and training were there, latent within me. Its very sad to think that if it had not been for this damn pandemic, I might never have had the opportunity to reconnect with music creation, but that's the way it is. Q. Do you approach your music in a different manner now? Do you enjoy it more now than before? A. Absolutely. When working as a professional musician and producer for others, I was a mercenary. I had a very direct and close contact with the music industry, with good things and bad things, but at the end of the day, on the one hand, I was grateful to be able to make a living from music, but on the other, gradually I was losing my illusion. I didn't create my music, it didn't come from inside me, I simply coupled sounds to images, with an established script, with pressures, surrounded by incompetent people. I remember one night attending the test premiere of a cartoon film that I wrote with great affection, in a spectacular cinema recording studio in Madrid, alone with the directors of the company. Behind us the sound technicians running a Protools system worth hundreds of thousands of euros. The music sounded fantastic, the managers liked it, it was a success, but when I drove home at night, I felt that I had sold my soul for money, that I was betraying myself... I ended up very fed up with everything and felt the need to leave the business. With Enimatik it's the opposite, the music I created is my soul, it's me. I am free to create, to express my feelings and my emotions. I have fun not only composing, but mixing, producing and mastering. Enimatik will really make my feelings transcend me when I'm not in this world. Q. The beautiful Jane Demonroads has recently added vocals to a couple of your tracks. In a way, that must be a dream becoming a reality for you? A. Well, really what happened was something mystical and magical. During last year, I suffered from an injury to my leg and back that caused me a lot of pain and did not let me sleep. One night, a few months after starting the Enimatik project, I was lying on the floor with my leg raised, with very strong pain medication, I happened to discover the Instagram profile of my beloved Jane, and I do not know what happened inside me. A connection came up. There were photos and videos made by Renat, and I know many will think I'm crazy, but really my subconscious got unstuck somehow. Those photos made me remember past moments and situations, they aroused feelings and emotions. I don't know how to describe it, but it happened. I contacted Jane without much hope that she would follow my profile, but she quickly accepted my request, as did Renat. With even less hope, I asked her if I could use any of her photos for the covers of my songs, and to my surprise, she was delighted. “Darkness Diva'' was our first single together, and I composed it simply by looking at a picture of Jane and letting my feelings flow. It seems crazy, but the process was something between mystical and magical for me. photos by Renat Hassler All rights reserved Q. Was Jane a missing link you’ve been searching for? A. Continuing with my particular madness, Jane brings out feelings and situations from my crazy and gothic youth in Madrid. Renat's photos are somehow connected to my experiences. I think she's always been there, even though we don't know each other in person, the connection I just think was lethargic. Before meeting, Enimatik had already released 5 songs, of which I am very proud. But from that moment on, my creative capacity overflowed, in a way that sometimes scares me. Q. Is it safe to say Jane is now part of your musical journey? A. Absolutely. We live separate lives, thousands of miles apart (she and Renat live in Moscow), we may never meet in person, but Enimatik would not be what its if I had not found her. Thanks to her and Renat, I have discovered the art of dark photography, the urbex, the gothic artistic universe ... I have expanded my artistic sensibility in a tremendous way, and this is expressed in each Enimatik song. Q. Please tell us more about your association with Renat Hassler. A. I remember the first time I asked Jane if I could use her image for the cover of a song and what the conditions would be. She told me that she had to ask the photographer, and after a while she told me to simply quote him. They were so kind and generous. I contacted Renat to thank him for his courtesy, we followed each other on social networks, and gradually I realized that I was facing an exceptional photographer and artist. He captures moments in time, forever, in abandoned places. And those moments carry feelings inside, which each one of us feels in a different way. I could say that Renat is a kind of Enimatik of photographic art, if he will allow me the expression. As time passed, the relationship developed into a long-distance friendship with a simply charming and talented guy. We talk several times a week, we are friends in the distance as Jane says... Q. When you see Renat’s photos, whether they’re of empty abandoned buildings or with Jane, do you instantly get an idea of the music you’d like to produce to capture the atmosphere of the photo? A. Well, it is very curious. What I do is connect all my equipment, start playing the keyboard with my favorite pad and I go through photos with my mobile. Suddenly one of them transmits something special to me, a feeling, an emotion and everything begins. For example on the cover of my single "Noctis Voyager" there is a photo of Renat with a gas mask, in a gloomy atmosphere. That particular photo inspired me with melancholy and heartbreak, I saw a night traveller who was going to undertake an interdimensional journey in search of his beloved. On the cover of "Darkness Diva" there is a beautiful photo of Jane, in which she glows in the dark, she is beautiful. I saw that photo and I remembered moments lived with passion in the mid-90s in the wild nights of gothic Madrid. I know it sounds strange, but it is what happened. Q. If not from Renat’s photos, where do your ideas and inspirations come from? A. I try to listen to all the music I can, especially on YouTube. So I am getting ideas, assimilating new styles and selecting artists that I like. When I'm at the controls of my sequencer I just start trying to create a chord sequence that conveys something to me, that excites me. When I have it I start the production phase of the song, although I do not always respect the original chords, they can change if I feel that I can deepen the initial idea. Q. How do you approach the current scenario that independent artists find themselves in, in regards to getting noticed, streaming, promotion etc… A. Well, I started composing music at the end of the 80s, and the world and the music industry have changed a lot. I think that now we indie artists are very lucky, we have at our disposal means of promotion unimaginable a few decades ago, and at a very low cost. When I was a teenager there was no internet, no social media or anything, the music was tightly controlled by a tough industry, and a lot of talent was wasted forever simply because many people didn't have the money to buy equipment or to record a demo. I remember recording with a 4-track cassette recorder and taking the demo to record label receptions, fantasizing that some executive would call me ... now you don't have to hand over your work to a receptionist, you upload it to the internet, you promote it. and if it's quality, they'll find you. Now it´s the best time in history to make music. Q. If you could change one thing within the music scene for indie artists, what would it be? Scammers who sell promotional services through social networks, seem to me to be unpresentable and try to take advantage of others. 100% Agree! Good shout! Q. To date, you have released 12 singles, all amazing in my opinion! Do you plan to release an album or an EP in the future? A. Yes, as soon as I have a few more songs, I would like to make a compilation that shows a tour of Enimatik's musical evolution and that includes a couple of remixes of the first songs. Q. You have an incredible knowledge into the recording process, you call it ‘ The Democracy of Sound’ on your website, a must read for any indie artist out there (in my opinion) What advice would you give to future artists who plan to invest in their project/s? I would tell them to spend less time promoting a false image of themselves on social media and to focus on acquiring knowledge of music theory, production, understanding and taking advantage of the magnificent tools that technology has made available to them today. I learned to sequence with a KORG M1, which had an 8-track sequencer on a tiny screen. I record demos by ping-ponging on 4-track cassette recorders. I saw equipment in recording studios that were worth at the moment more than a good house. Now with a computer and little more equipment, our creativity has no limits. I see many young indie artists more concerned with uploading photos to Instagram than composing good songs, learning to use the tools they have at a ridiculous price. I see young artists recording video clips, campaigning on social networks, obsessed with their image, and then you listen to their music and, with all due respect, it has no level. Q. What are your future plans for Enimatik? Well basically continue composing songs supported by Jane and Renat. We want to gradually expand the visual content of Enimatik, especially on YouTube. And I am very excited about our first remix "Gothicromance Mo Cuishle Remix", it has made us think of many things for the future. Many thanks, Manuel, for taking time out to answer the questions. Is there anything further you would like to add? Andy, I wanted to thank you on my behalf and on behalf of Jane and Renat for conducting this interview, we are excited that people can get to know a little more about the Enimatik project. And of course congratulations on the great job you do with Revival Synth, I wish it had existed in the 80s ...
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If you’re reading this, you must be hungry for some sense of what 2018 will look like, or what you should do to maximise your potential. Allow these words of wisdom to guide your decisions. A person born in the Year of the Rat is quick-witted and resourceful. They know how to get out of tricky situations, such as getting caught texting their exes by their partner. Relationships: Being easily adaptable, you will get along well with everyone you meet this year. Or you could just be pretending to be nice. Work: Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it works for you. Your tendency to have your finger in every pie may result in new skills, responsibilities, and office politics. Money: With your innate charm and resourcefulness, you can make a little extra cash by moonlighting as a love scammer on dating apps. An extra billion dollars, to be exact. Health: You are generally a healthy individual because you are active and full of energy. No one cares for your #fitspo. People hate you. A person born in the Year of the Ox is dependable, diligent, and determined. They make a great teacher’s pet. Relationships: Your partner is depending on you to propose. You are depending on them to let it go. Work: You will slog for a promotion until you get it. Expect consistent late nights, instant noodle dinners, and the perpetual feeling that your employer doesn’t care. Money: Don’t bet on things with a low return on investment, like Liverpool and the approval of your boss. Health: Build up your stamina. Train yourself by running from your responsibilities. A person born in the Year of the Tiger is incredibly confident and self-assured. They are natural leaders from the boardroom to bedroom. Relationships: If you are born in 1974, you should stay away from extramarital affairs. If you are born in other years, you may carry on. Work: Your subordinates may disagree with your domineering leadership style. Do nothing about this tension. They can always resign. Money: It’s a good year to take charge of your finances. Request that your dates pay for every meal, continue being nice to the friend whose Netflix account you still shamelessly borrow, and block all pesky insurance agents on Whatsapp. Health: You should feel confident that you will succeed at anything you set your mind to. Don’t bother climbing a mountain. Climb five. A person born in the Year of the Rabbit can be overly cautious and conservative, so radical moves might give them a heart attack. Relationships: You expect everyone to know what you’re thinking, yet get angry when they don’t. This year, try something drastic: tell someone what you want. Work: You finally decide to stand up for your rights at work. It only took you seven years to ask for a new chair. You might not get it. Money: Because you’re so afraid to take risks, financial prudence is your forte. Nonetheless, you still won’t be able to afford your own home. Health: You will fall prey to the same brutal disease that’s been plaguing you since birth. It’s called “Not Speaking Your Mind”. A person born in the Year of the Dragon can forget about being unique, seeing as Chinese believe this is an auspicious year to have children. Relationships: Everyone loves your intelligence, so expect several suitors this year. If you are already in a relationship and experience no such influx of suitors, you might not actually have said intelligence. Work: You’re not usually open to criticism, but when someone tells you to stop using ‘pls revert’, pls listen. Money: Even though you love taking risks, resist splashing $20,000 on a wedding (whether yours, a best friend’s or your kid’s). No investment plan will save you from that debt. Health: This year, your impulsiveness will have dire impact on mental health. It will cause others lots of anxiety and grief. A person born in the Year of the Snake is elusive and private. They’re very hard to read, and may actually be robots. Relationships: Someone will profess their love for you. Your cold-bloodedness will render you incapable of displaying any emotion. Work: You will be tempted to confide in someone about work-related stress, but you don’t know how to open up. So you decide to do the more efficient thing and just resign. Money: Luck is on your side. You can finally afford to check out your entire basket on Asos to fill the hole in your heart. Health: Focus on exercises that will maintain your mystery-themed personal branding. Don’t just pick up yoga; move to Ubud for six years without telling anyone. A person born in the Year of the Horse is friendly and well-liked. They usually thrive in a crowd. An introverted Horse is a myth. Relationships: This year will reinforce the fact that you are highly independent and have a mind of your own. In other words, this is the year your friends will finally have enough of your opinions. Work: Being hardworking comes naturally to you and you toil tirelessly over any project. Expect a promotion, pay raise, or a huge bonus. If you work in a startup, this will not apply to you. Ever. Money: You have 99 problems and money will solve approximately 95 of them. The other four problems will be solved by rekindling all your secondary school friendships. Just kidding, that will turn four into 400. Health: Take care of your heart. Eat fish high in Omega-3 and don’t fall in love. A person born in the Year of the Goat is kind and gentle. Because of their genuine hearts, they are great at making regular humans feel like shit. Relationships: Your partner will break up with you and say, “It’s not you, it’s me.” Don’t believe them. It is you. Work: All the bootlicking finally pays off, so you may win the Employee of the Year award. Everyone will cheer for you, but don’t be fooled, they know the award just means more work. They might also have nominated you for it. Money: It’s crucial to find an investment advisor you can trust. But this will be easy because you are naturally gullible. A person born in the Year of the Monkey can be very playful and naughty. They often have fun at others’ expense. Relationships: You are fully aware of your magnetic allure, and have no qualms about using it to get who and what you want. People will be upset. You will be blissfully ignorant of it. Work: Your employer will fall for your flirting and promote you. You will also get a 20% salary increase, mysterious hotel room keys being left on your table, and unsympathetic HR. Money: Play with the stock market. Invest in shares. Buy bitcoin. Do all of this with other people’s money. Health: You will be prone to headaches, because you can’t comprehend why the world is full of idiots. Actually, just idiot men. A person born in the Year of the Rooster is talkative and outspoken. They never shut up, especially at 6 AM. Relationships: You will fulfil your potential by seeking out people who enjoy verbal abuse. For a good partnership, look for those born in the Year of the Rabbit or Goat. Work: If you’re in sales, be prepared to close more deals. People will eventually relent out of exasperation. Money: You will be able to take bigger financial risks this year. Buy a flat in a Workers’ Party ward or add an extra fish fillet to your cai fan. Health: Your vocal chords may cause you problems, but no one will be surprised by this. A person born in the Year of the Dog is known to be fiercely loyal. As a result, they can also be excessively stubborn, like a cockroach that refuses to die. Relationships: Your loyal streak will show itself, even when you have to run into a burning building to save your master. You believe loyalty will be rewarded. This year, you will finally understand that this is not true, but you won’t be able to help yourself anyway. Work: You will work like a dog—just like you have for the past 23 (or 35) years of your life. Money: You may get a pay raise for all the work you do, if your employer stops taking your loyalty for granted. Health: After several nervous breakdowns, you will decide to remain in your dead-end job. What is the human equivalent of wagging one’s tail? Yeah, you will still be doing that. A person born in the Year of the Pig is calm in the face of trouble, even when their whole world is falling apart. No wonder people think pigs are stupid. Relationships: Your marriage may disintegrate, but you must not forget to post another Boomerang of your husband feeding your child pancakes. It is “adorkable”. Work: Expect your employer to give you more work because they think you can handle it. Expect them to be shell-shocked when you say you cannot. Money: You are a born saver, but not very smart. Expect to get swindled by someone born in the Year of the Rat, a stranger at the bus stop, or your own mother. Health: You will continue sleeping a lot to avoid reality. You will also appear to be in the pink of health.
Disclaimer: May contain ads or affiliate links My FI journey is short, only 5 years but a lot has happened in those 5 years. 2015: I graduated from Oxford University with my master’s degree, moved back to the U.S.A, and then received my first student loan bill. I have always loved creating spreadsheets so I began to make a plan to pay it back. I signed up for the IBR plan, which I talk about in this post. Upon returning to the U.S. I began my position as a Part-Time teller, as I was unable to find anything full-time but I kept applying myself. 2016: A coworker mentioned debt consolidation and I decided to do that through Navient. A client told me about Dave Ramsey and I began reading and applying the baby steps. However, I fell off the wagon as I felt that my finances were going nowhere, so I began paying the minimum and saving more. I was promoted to a Full-Time bank teller, which meant I was able to pay above the minimum. 2017: Promoted to a Full-Time personal banker, this meant more responsibilities and a higher salary. It was at this point that I realized I wanted to work in academia and get a Ph.D. but I did not want to accrue more student debt. So, I started applying and received an offer for a paid Ph.D. in Sweden at the end of the year. 2018: I began working overtime to save and I finally quit my job and moved to Sweden. At this time, I found the FIRE movement and felt that it was less stressful. I began keeping track of my net worth, click here to learn to track it. 2019: I started my blog as I realized there were no other ex-pats studying and paying debt abroad. So, I began writing about my journey and realized that I am more keen on the ‘Financial Independence’ portion or FI. I also created a plan that would work for me, which means I will graduate with some student debt but I will have the cash to be able to move on to the next part of my journey. 2020: Continue this blog and have it generating an income. I am scheduled to receive a raise as I will be halfway through my Ph.D. I will also continue to increase my net worth by $10,000.00 by saving 40% of my income and paying off student debt. 2021: Use a portion of my savings to purchase my first rental property in Florida to produce other income. 2022: Finally graduate with a Ph.D. 2023: My official pay-off goal.
A canister type of vacuum cleaner houses the suction motor and filtering system in a somewhat square or rectangular container. Variations of this type are the tank type vacuum cleaner which has a long tubular main body and the central vacuum which is mounted on a basement or garage wall. Typically incorporating a "clean-air" system, they are known for producing strong suction for use with the attachments. When a power nozzle is part of the system it is often referred to as a power team. A canister type vacuum cleaner usually contains wheels which allow it to be pulled after the user by its hose. Suction Produced by the Standard Canister The suction motor design in a canister type creates significantly more actual suction (pressure difference) than the traditional upright motor design. This is important for effective cleaning with a hose and attachments due to the higher resistance to air flow present in the hose. The velocity of the air flow plus the amount of the carpet agitation determines how well a vacuum cleaner will pick up the dirt. To effectively clean carpeted floors, a power nozzle containing a motor driven revolving brush should be used to obtain adequate agitation of the carpet fibers. For more about suction motor and fan designs, see our articles on Suction Motor Design & Operation and Fan or Impeller Types & Performance. Performance with Attachments While an upright specializes in cleaning carpets, a canister type vacuum cleaner specializes in cleaning with its attachments. On-board attachments on uprights are handy to clean a corner or your upholstered furniture but are somewhat limited in what they can do efficiently. A canister type usually has a longer hose, additional attachments for cleaning floors and more suction when using the attachments. They are easily pulled around by their hose, something uprights usually won't do without tipping over. Many canister types carry their attachments conveniently with them for fast switching from one to another. Power teams easily compete with uprights when it comes to effectively cleaning carpeted floors and are generally more versatile with the attachments. Air Flow and Filtration Aspects The air enters the nozzle near the floor and travels through the wands and hose toward the paper filter bag, carrying the dirt with it. The bag retains most of the dirt and dust while allowing the air to pass through its filter media. The air then travels through a filter pad to be cleaned further before entering the high speed suction fan or fans. Since the air is quite clean, it is allowed to flow through the motor to cool it. After leaving the motor the air is often filtered by additional exhaust filters to remove even more fine particles and carbon from the motor brushes before it leaves the vacuum cleaner. Since the "clean-air" suction motor design creates more suction (pressure difference) than a traditional upright design, more filtering can be done without significantly effecting the air flow. "Clean-air" uprights and canisters can easily have filtration efficiencies which meet the HEPA specification when equipped with appropriate filters. A canister type vacuum cleaner is very versatile, providing superior suction for use with the attachments. When it includes a motorized power nozzle or when teamed with a good upright it will clean all surfaces effectively. These combinations provide an excellent alternative to using an upright with on-board attachments. Next Vacuum Cleaner Type: Hand Held Vacuum Cleaner Index of Related Articles: - Educational Articles - Menu - Be Wise when Purchasing a Vacuum Cleaner - Types of Vacuum Cleaners - Menu - Match Your Tasks and Cleaning Style - Traditional Upright Vacuum Cleaner - "Clean Air" Upright Vacuum Cleaner - Two-Motor Upright Vacuum Cleaner - Two-Motor Power Team - Canister Vacuum Cleaner (You Are Here.) - Hand Held Vacuum Cleaner - Electric Broom Vacuum Cleaner - Wet/Dry Utility Vacuum Cleaner - Central Vacuum System - Steam (Hot Water) Extractor - Vacuum Cleaner Performance Aspects - Menu - Identifying Good Performance Factors - Filtration Efficiency: HEPA, Micron, etc. - Dustbag Performance and Filtration Efficiency - Power of the Vacuum Cleaner Suction Motor - Air Flow Through the Vacuum Cleaner System - Cleaning Nozzle Design Considerations - Effects of Vacuum Cleaner Brushing Action - Loss of Vacuum Cleaner Performance - Vacuum Cleaner Performance Checkup - Vacuum Cleaner System Components - Menu - Removing Allergens from Your Home - Menu - Specifications that can Mislead You - Menu - Glossary of Terms - Manufacturer Contact Information - Visit Other Interesting Sites
Turkey Tour: A 9-day tour of the northern region, meticulously curated to showcase the country’s rich history, natural beauty, and cultural heritage. The tour includes visits to historical sites, opportunities for hiking and outdoor activities, and cultural immersion experiences to allow for a comprehensive understanding of the region. 9-day Turkey tour - GREEN (North) Turkey tour: Experience Turkey's best tour of History, and Natural Beauty Beauty with airport transfer. Accommodation in 3-star and 4-star hotels. Visit Istanbul, Trabzon, Rize, Samsun, Amasya, Bolu Product SKU: TR9/IST/IST Product Brand: RJ Travel - Tour Operator 9-day Turkey itinerary Welcome to Turkey! Your guide will be waiting for you at Istanbul airport terminal to greet you and transfer you to your hotel or take you on a half-day tour. Your guide will also give you a brief overview of the tour itinerary and bus schedule. Enjoy your stay! Pack your bags and get ready for an unforgettable day! After fueling up with breakfast, we’ll head to the airport for a domestic flight to Trabzon. Our adventure begins as soon as we land with a visit to the ancient Sumela Monastery and the breathtaking Altindere National Park. Next, we’ll take a scenic drive up Zigana Mountain for stunning views of the Pontic Mountains. Then, we’ll discover the beauty of Karaca Cave in Gümüshane. We’ll also visit the historic Church of St. Sophia before checking into our hotel located in the heart of Trabzon. Let’s create lasting memories together! Get ready for an epic day of adventure! Today we’ll explore Trabzon city and then drive to the hidden paradise of Uzungöl in the Pontic Alps. We’ll savor the famous Akcaabat Meatball while having lunch at a seaside restaurant. Next, we’ll head to Rize city and take a short break to admire the panoramic view of the city from the Botany Garden. We’ll also visit kiwi and tea plantations and see the beautiful Firtina (Storm) Valley before arriving at Ayder Plateau. Along the way, we’ll see Camlihemsin, Konaklar, Senyuva Bridge and Zil Kale. We’ll have a gentle trek to Goksu Fall, the highest and most beautiful in the region. We’ll arrive in Ayder before sundown and check in at our wooden hotel. Get ready for a historic journey! After breakfast, we’ll drive to Samsun, a city known for its surgical instrument manufacturing dating back 4,000 years. We’ll make a stop for lunch in Ordu city, before continuing on to Samsun. Once there, we’ll take a city tour and learn about its significance as the place where the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, began the Turkish War of Independence on May 19, 1919. After the tour, we’ll transfer to the hotel for dinner and an overnight stay. Let’s explore and discover the history of Samsun! Get ready for an adventure! After breakfast, we’ll hit the road and head to the charming city of Amasya. This unique province boasts both natural beauty and rich historical significance. It was once the home of renowned geographer Strabo and has a history dating back over 3,000 years. As we explore, we’ll discover ancient remains left behind by various civilizations, including 2000-year-old water channels, 1000-year-old bridges, an ancient mental hospital; an Ottoman Palace, and a secret underground passageway. After a day of exploring, we’ll spend the night in Amasya, immersing ourselves in the city’s rich history. After breakfast, we’ll hit the road to Bolu – a city known for its natural beauty and outdoor activities. Upon arrival, we’ll stop for a delicious lunch before heading to the stunning Abant Lake. The 7-km walk around the lake offers breathtaking views, or take a horseback or horse cart tour. Surrounded by pine trees and boasting a depth of 45 meters, Abant Lake is a must-see destination. Enjoy the changing seasons and see the lake in full bloom with water lilies in the summer. And don’t miss the famous trout! We’ll end the day by checking in at our hotel in Bolu. After breakfast, we’ll depart for Istanbul (250km, 3h). Upon arrival, we’ll visit Camlica Hill for breathtaking views of the Bosphorus and its two bridges connecting Asia and Europe. Next, we’ll embark on a Bosphorus Cruise to fully appreciate the beauty and significance of the strait dividing Europe and Asia. After the cruise, we’ll enjoy a delicious lunch at a fish restaurant on the Galata Bridge. Then, we’ll explore the famous Spice Bazaar, where the air is filled with the aroma of various herbs and spices. In the evening, we’ll have dinner and then check into our hotel for an overnight stay in Istanbul. After a delicious breakfast, we’ll embark on an exciting old city tour. Our first stop is the grand Topkapi Palace, home to an impressive collection of crystal, silver, and porcelain. We’ll also see the famous jewels of the Imperial Treasury and the Holy Mantle, enshrining relics of the Prophet Mohammed. Next, we’ll be mesmerized by the beautiful Sultanahmet Imperial Mosque, also known as the Blue Mosque. Lastly, we’ll visit the ancient Hippodrome, where we’ll see the Obelisk of Theodosius the bronze Serpentine Column, and the Column of Constantine. After the tour, we’ll savor a delicious dinner before heading back to the hotel for a comfortable night’s rest. Our trip will end in Istanbul after we say goodbye to our new friends over breakfast and check out of the hotel by 11:00 am. Transfer to the Airport.
The average annual revenue growth of Erkafarm for the last three years amounted to 40%, the revenue last year reached 42 billion rubles. At the same time, the network remains the most mysterious player in the pharmaceutical market, carefully hiding the names of shareholders Photo: Vladislav Shatilo for RBC The panoramic windows of the new modern Erkafarm office in the White Square business center offer an impressive view of the city and the Moscow City skyscrapers - this is how the company's office looks like in Hollywood films at the peak of its success. “We moved recently, I haven’t had time to settle down yet,” Anastasia Karpova, general director of Erkafarm, points to the empty shelves illuminated with neon in her office. Before the move, the company was based in Maroseyka, on the second floor of the building where in 2002 the first branded pharmacy of the Doctor Stoletov chain was opened. Then Erkafarm was only one of the numerous distributors and slowly entered the retail market, opening a dozen pharmacies a year. Today Erkafarm is in the rating of fast-growing companies by RBC magazine. The average annual growth of its revenue over the past three years amounted to 40%, revenue last year reached 42 billion rubles, the network includes more than 1.3 thousand pharmacies. As the company told RBC magazine, in 2018 the revenue will amount to at least 60 billion rubles, and the market share will be more than 8%. This year, Erkafarm is launching the production of drugs under its own brands - as the company told RBC magazine, by 2020 the share of this business should be at least 5% of the turnover. At the same time, Erkafarm remains the most mysterious player in the pharmaceutical market, carefully hiding the names of shareholders from the general public. Asset out of focus As follows from the archive extract of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, CJSC Erkafarm was registered in 1994 by a graduate student of the Moscow Medical Institute, Ivan Saganelidze, who already had experience in managing his own pharmacy outlet for a year. Erkafarm immediately entered the holding of Boris (Bidzina) Ivanishvili, a Russian businessman of Georgian origin, whose largest asset was the Rossiyskiy Kredit Bank. Ivanishvili already in the 1990s tried to spend more time abroad, transferring the operational management of assets to trusted persons. Saganelidze became Ivanishvili's confidant in his pharmaceutical assets: until 2006, he served as the general director of Erkafarm (according to SPARK). Under him, in 2005, the company acquired the Doctor W pharmacy chain in the Stavropol Territory, increasing the number of retail outlets to 280. But in 2007, Dmitry Eropkin, President of the Unicor Group (managed Ivanivshili's assets), told reporters that “a year and a half ago the development plan for Erkafarm managers, but it was not implemented. " Saganelidze resigned, but continued to work in the pharmaceutical industry: he became a shareholder of the A5 pharmacy chain, then, together with business partners, began to develop his own pharmacy chain Ave, which in 2014 became the owner of 51% of the 36.6 pharmacy chain (through Palesora Ltd). but in March 2018, as Kommersant reported, it sold its share to the structures of the owner of the Moscow Credit Bank (MCB) and the Rossium concern, Roman Avdeev. After Saganelidze left, Erkafarm was in a fever, the top management of the company changed at least once a year. “The focus of the management company (Unicor. - RBC magazine) was on other assets of the group, no stake was placed on pharmaceutical retail. During my tenure as a deputy general director from 2009 to 2012, three managers were replaced, and each time plans and strategies were revised, ”recalls Anastasia Karpova, who took over as general director of the company in 2012. Until 2012, Erkafarm remained a small company with an annual turnover of about 5 billion rubles and stable losses of 200-250 million rubles. a year, Karpova recalls, this follows from the company's reporting data in SPARK. In 2011, Ivanishvili said that he decided to get involved in politics and run in the presidential elections in Georgia in 2012, and before the elections he would sell all Russian assets so that "society would not have any unnecessary questions." The buyer of Erkafarm was the investment company Haden S.A. In the official release of "Unicor" about the deal, it was reported that Haden acted in the interests of the St. Petersburg CJSC "Imperia-Pharma". As Kommersant, Delovoy Petersburg and RBC daily wrote in 2012-2017, the market called this company one of the structures of the Imperia holding company registered in 2003, registered in St. Petersburg. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, the founder of "Empire" was Sergei Matvienko, the son of Valentina Matvienko, then the governor of St. Petersburg, now - the chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation. Two interlocutors of RBC magazine on the pharmaceutical market and an interlocutor familiar with the structure of St. Petersburg business Sergey Matvienko confirmed this information. Photo: Vladislav Shatilo for RBC Sergei Matvienko closely communicated with the general director of "Empire-Pharma" Omar Gurtskaya, often appeared with him at social events. Petersburg edition "Zaks.ru" and "Gazeta.ru" pointed to the possible relationship of Gurtskaya with the former wife of Sergei Matvienko, singer Zara, without specifying what is at stake. However, the managing director of Imperia-Pharma, Mikhail Stepanov, in an interview with the industry publication Vademecum in 2013, claimed that the company only acted as a consultant to Haden S.A. in two major transactions, and the legal link between the companies never existed. But, according to data from the Panama Papers database of confidential documents, which was published in 2016 by the ICIJ (International Association of Investigative Journalists) consortium, there was such a connection. For 2015, as stated in the archive, Haden S.A. was the head office for offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands Freya Developments and Etzel Management. According to the ICIJ database, the beneficiaries of both offshore companies were Omar Gurtskaya and his business partner in several St. Petersburg legal entities, Shoren Guguchia. The data did not specify their offshore shares. According to Rosstat in SPARK, the last time the owner of CJSC Erkafarm changed was in 2013. Erkafarm does not comment on the company's ownership structure. Karpova notes that the shareholder is well known to creditors and key partners. Anastasia Karpova took over as CEO of Erkafarm immediately after the change of ownership in 2012, after which the company for the first time completed the half-year without losses. According to SPARK, in addition to CJSC Erkafarm, she heads LLC Erkafarm North-West (subsidiary of CJSC Erkafarm and through a chain of legal entities - the Cyprus offshore company Folimer Management Ltd, registered in the Cypriot Chrysanthos Hattsiganis) and LLC Erkafarm Neva ("Daughter" of Haden SA). “I didn't associate my future with the pharmaceutical industry,” says Karpova. - I graduated from the Faculty of Applied Political Science of the Higher School of Economics. She led a publishing project on medical topics. " Within the framework of it, Karpova collaborated with pharmaceutical companies, in particular with the Protek group, which invited her to work. On the eve of joining Erkafarm, she held the post of Marketing Director at the Rigla pharmacy chain, which was part of Protek. Already in 2013, Erkafarm closed the first major deal - it acquired the St. Petersburg discounter pharmacy chain Ozerki from the pharmacists Dmitry and Olga Anikievs who founded it. Now they have no business in Russia, it follows from the data of SPARK. The accounts of the Anikievs' children on social networks indicate that the family lives in London. It was not possible to contact Dmitry Anikiev, Olga Anikieva did not respond to the message of the RBC magazine. Ozerki doubled Erkafarm in terms of turnover and became the first discounter in the holding. “Plus, Peter is conservative and inhospitable to the feds. The market expected that as a result of the integration we would significantly reduce the turnover of Ozerkov, but over the past three years we have increased it almost threefold, ”says Karpova. In 2017, Erkafarm closed another major deal to acquire the Raduga - Pervaya Pomoshch - Ladushka united pharmacy chain from the Rosta group. In terms of the number of outlets, the Rosty chain was almost three times larger than Erkafarm: 1,048 pharmacies participated in the transaction, while Erkafarm owned at least 400 pharmacies. Thus, the company entered 27 new regions at once. According to Karpova, Rosta pharmacies were then in a deplorable state: “There were interruptions in the supply of goods and, as a result, empty shelves, massive layoffs of staff. The flow of buyers decreased, although the locations were very good. " For example, a network of 100 points of the Ladushki brand, popular in Nizhny Novgorod, needed reanimation. Erkafarm's management was going to focus on low prices. “When I arrived in the city, I discovered that next to each Ladushki pharmacy there were several competing discounters with signs in the style of“ It's never cheaper to find me anywhere, ”says Karpova. At the same time, she found out that in the Nizhny Novgorod polyclinics there are huge queues for therapists, since there are not enough doctors of this specialization in the city. RUB 1.15 trillion will amount to the volume of the Russian pharmaceutical market by the end of 2018 of the turnover of pharmaceutical retail in Russia accounted for three leaders (Rigla, Erkafarm and Implosion) in the first half of 2018 packs of drugs were sold in Russian pharmacies in 2017 Sources: IQVIA, AlphaRM, DSM Group In one night, Erkafarm re-branded 30 key points, changed the assortment, prices, updated the interior, and installed new signs. To prevent the information from going to competitors, Moscow contractors were attracted for the work. At the same time, they branded a truck with four medical offices, licensed as a medical clinic. Within a month, the truck moved between pharmacies. Any buyer of Ladushek received free diagnostics from a therapist. Queues were constantly lining up for the car, and as a result, the network returned the pre-crisis revenue figures, Karpova recalls. On the whole, during the year Erkafarm doubled its turnover and now, according to its own estimates, occupies 6% of the Russian commercial market, and in the future it is aimed at 30%. The company's sharp growth in recent years can be explained There are several factors. Among them, from Karpova's point of view, management's appetite for risk and the introduction of new technologies. “I am a proponent of a centralized approach, so I put a lot of emphasis on automation, this is a necessary basis for scaling a business,” she says. Now Erkafarm is negotiating with mobile operators to integrate data on traffic passing by pharmacies to select a format suitable for the location. The network also has its own CRM (customer relationship management software) with data on 1.5 million loyal customers. Two interlocutors of RBC magazine in the pharmaceutical market noted that Erkafarm's growth is not organic and is more likely due to the purchase of pharmacies. “The asset value in pharmaceutical retail is not that high today. Often, debts are acquired first, so a company that has the ability to invest allows itself to expand, ”says one of them. In the spring of this year, the specialized media reported on yet another Erkafarm deal - the acquisition of the Samson-Pharma network, founded in 1993 by Samson Sogoyan. According to SPARK, in March the post of general director of “Samson-Pharma” was taken by the commercial director of “Erkafarm” Armenuhi Danielyan. But Erkafarm does not confirm the fact of the transaction. Today Erkafarm is developing its own trade mark, but until recently the company produced only non-pharmaceutical categories. This year it will launch the production of drugs. “I think we will be one of the first or even the first to launch such a large-scale production,” says Karpova. According to her, a portfolio of brands is being finalized in all major categories - "cold remedies", "gastrointestinal remedies" and others. For each category, a strategy is developed: contract manufacturing, redemption of a marketing authorization or registration of a drug from scratch. “I really believe in this story, world experience shows that this is inevitable,” says Karpova.
For the first time, the Bristol retailer was included in the RBC rating “50 fastest growing companies in Russia”. The alcohol network of the "tobacco kings" of Russia Igor Kesaev and Sergey Katsiev was immediately in the top five Igor Kesaev (Photo: RIA Novosti) For the first time, the Nizhny Novgorod alcohol retailer Bristol became a member of the RBC rating “50 Fast-Growing Companies of Russia”, immediately appearing in the top five of the list. This is higher than that of its main competitor and the leader of the segment of chains specializing in alcohol trade - the Chelyabinsk Krasnoe & Beloe (KiB) took the ninth place. Bristol sells alcohol in the middle and lower price segments and, like its competitor, until recently developed in the provinces, operating in 30 regions. In 2017, the company's revenue grew by 60% and amounted to 67.4 billion rubles, and the number of stores exceeded 3,500 (Krasnoy & Bely had 210 billion rubles of revenue and 5268 outlets). The forecast for 2018 is RUB 95 billion. "Bristol" belongs to "tobacco kings" and one of the most private Russian billionaires Igor Kesaev and Sergey Katsiev, founders of the Mercury Group. Russian Forbes in 2018 estimated their fortunes at $ 2.4 billion and $ 950 million. In the 1990s, the company was created to import alcohol and tobacco, now it is a huge diversified holding. Only one tobacco distributor "Megapolis" (part of "Mercury") with a revenue of 656 billion rubles. took the fifteenth place in the latest rating of the largest companies in Russia RBC 500. Megapolis is the exclusive supplier of the products of transnational tobacco companies Japan Tobacco International (JTI), Philip Morris International (PMI) and Imperial Tobacco Group. According to Nielsen, in 2017 these companies occupied 66% of the Russian tobacco market. Until January 2018, control in Megapolis belonged to the structures of Kesaev and Katsiev, then, as follows from the reporting of Megapolis Distribution BV, their share decreased to 49.85%: 23% each for PMI and JTI, the owner of the remaining 4.2% is not disclosed ... Kesaev and Katsiev also own the Diksi Group (Dixy and Victoria chains) and assets outside the consumer market. Among them are the road carrier "SovinterAvtoservice", "Mercury Development", Gorevsky GOK, the "Turboholod" plant, the Degtyarev Plant. Diversification as salvation The creation of the Bristol network looked like an attempt by the owners of Megapolis to compensate for the consequences of the introduction of the “anti-tobacco law”, which prohibits the sale of tobacco products in non-stationary trade objects, that is, kiosks and pavilions. By the time it was submitted to the State Duma for consideration in 2012, more than a third of the company's cigarettes were sold through this channel. According to Euromonitor International, the volume of the Russian tobacco market in physical terms has been decreasing for six years in a row: if in 2012 it was 370.8 billion cigarettes, then in 2017 it was already 258 billion. Sergey Katsiev (Photo: ITAR-TASS) In the same 2012, several Bristol stores were already operating; Nizhny Novgorod became the starting point of the chain. Here and in Omsk, the small format Bristol Express is also developing (it mainly sells tobacco products); it began with retail real estate purchased by Megapolis from one of its Nizhny Novgorod wholesalers, Jupiter-NN. "Bristol" was immediately conceived as a large-scale project, says a company representative, the founders wanted an all-Russian scale. And although the network was built with an eye on the main competitor - in 2012, Katsiev, who oversees the retail direction of the holding, together with the former president of Dixy Ilya Yakubson even came to Chelyabinsk for consultations with the founder of Krasnoye & Bely Sergei Studennikov, she had good competitive advantages. A company of the scale of Megapolis, which, in addition to tobacco, is engaged in the distribution of groceries, energy drinks, etc., has great preferences in purchasing consignments of goods. In two years, Bristol expanded to 900 stores and, according to the owners' plan, then had to merge with Dixy Group of Companies, retaining the brand and becoming a separate division. Since 2014, the networks have begun to combine some operating divisions, and in May 2015, Dixy-South for RUB 1.78 billion. bought a 31.5% stake in Albion-2002 LLC, the operating company Bristol. Thus, its stake increased to 33%, and the purchase was supposed to be the first stage of the merger. At the same time, Megapolis announced that Katsiev had left the operational management of Megapolis to focus on the development of Bristol. But the deal to buy out the remaining 67% of Bristol's shares did not take place: at first, Dixy Group hinted that the merger might not take place because the market had changed, then the FAS banned the merger altogether. The Dixy structure returned the Bristol shares by performing a reverse sale (33% of the shares were transferred to the Cyprus offshore Kronia Limited). Katsiev returned to the post of general director of the tobacco distributor in March 2018. “As time has shown, Bristol is successfully developing as an independent project,” says a company representative. "Cannibalization" about the shareholders are not afraid of sales, since the chains have different product matrix and consumer profile. Not only "alcohol" Despite the tightening of legislation regarding the production and sale of alcoholic and tobacco products and a decrease in their consumption in Russia, alcohol stores have been the record holders in terms of revenue growth for several years. The leaders of this segment manage to eat off buyers from FMCG-chains - unpretentiousness in the choice of premises and small footage of retail outlets allow them to select sites that are not suitable for other retailers. In addition, they deliberately open stores near the outlets of the largest food retailers: Pyaterochka, Magnit, and so on. Pricing policy and assortment help to lead away consumers. KiB and Bristol focus on inexpensive alcohol because of its high turnover, and their appetite for margins in alcoholic and tobacco products is less than that of conventional retailers, which means that the final price is lower, says Evgeny Belashchenko, partner at Bain & Company. The tone in the niche is set by KiB and Bristol, Belashchenko further notes: the entire volume of the Russian market of specialized alcohol chains is estimated at $ 7.5 billion, about 50% is occupied by the Chelyabinsk company, about 15-20% by Bristol, the remaining share is other chains, both operating in the economy segment ("Norman", "Gorilka", etc.), and premium ("Aromatic World", etc.). The latter occupy 10% of the market. Having accustomed consumers to come for inexpensive alcohol, alcohol stores are trying to drift into the category of “convenience stores”, gradually getting rid of the “alcohol” prefix. Already, alcohol accounts for about 65% of the assortment of "Red & White", says Belashchenko. Bristol has only 30%, says a representative of the chain. The rest is groceries, fruits and vegetables, sweets and other goods. In addition to the assortment under the private label in Bristol, the products of Katsiev's companies are also sold: the mineral water "Nizhny Karmadon" and the fruits of the "Kazachiy Khutor" company from North Ossetia. “We cannot say that these companies are brilliant at trading in new categories, but they are gradually learning to fill the baskets of consumers with other goods,” says Belashchenko.
How Long Do I-129F Fiance Visas Take to Process & Complete The common answer for many immigration forms when the question asked is “how long will this take?” is “it depends.” This applies to Fiance(e) Visa as well. Are you here to find out how long Fiance Visas take to be processed? Great news! This process can take anywhere from six to twelve months. The requirements to file USCIS Form I-129F are: - The petitioner must be a U.S. Citizen - The petitioner and the fiance(e) intend to marry within 90 days of your fiance(e) entering the United States - You are both free to marry and all previous marriages must have been legally terminated - You must have met each other in person at least once within 2 years of filing your petition (with some exceptions) What Does it Allow You & Your Fiance to Do? A Fiance Visa allows your fiance to enter the United States and have the marriage ceremony within 90 days of entry. After the marriage, the fiance(e) can then apply for a green card and become a permanent resident. The fiance(e) can stay in the United States while USCIS processes the application for permanent residence. Keep in mind that if you do not get married within the 90 day period, the fiance(e)’s immigration status will automatically expire and cannot be extended; the fiance(e) must leave the United States at this point to follow U.S. immigration law. There are a lot of factors that go into how long fiance visas take to process. How Long Fiance Visas Take to Process Each case is different and you can check the current processing times on the USCIS “Check Processing Times” page. How long fiance visas take to process by USCIS depends upon: - Which office is working on your case - When you filed - Which country your fiance(e) is moving from Fiance(e) Visas are processed in the order that they are received. Once USCIS completes its processing and has approved the application, it is sent to U.S. Embassy or consulate via the National Visa Center (NVC). Once it reaches the NVC, this can take an extra 30 – 45 days or so. The NVC will conduct any necessary background checks and will send some visa application forms to the fiance(e) to fill out. Once the application makes it to the U.S. Consulate or Embassy, the fiancé(e) will receive an appointment notice for an interview. It is possible for the fiance(e) to be approved at the interview, but it may take some extra time depending on additional security checks. This can often depend on the country the fiance(e) is coming from. Once the visa is approved, the consulate or embassy will put a stamp in the fiancé(e)’s passport, and they will have 6 months to travel to the US to get married. The 90 days to marry begins the day the fiancé(e) enters the US. As always, the accurateness of your paperwork and the attention to detail the first time around can also determine how long the process will take. You can learn more about and begin filling out your I-129F here. The current USCIS fee (which was raised on December 23, 2016) is $535.
My Own Private Ulysses: Under Merchants Arch “I wonder what kind is that book he brought me Sweets of Sin by a gentleman of fashion some other Mr de Kock I suppose the people gave him that nickname going about with his tube from one woman to another” – Molly Bloom, of course Today’s Tubular Terrible Tercet – The Sweets of Sin whip up and fuel Bloom’s interior whirlpool: “For some man. For him! For Raoul!” Stay tuned for more de Kockian deviance. Same Sweet time, same Sinful channel.
After working on various other projects at SU, Rose first accompanied the team for the 2019 field season and later graduated from SU with her BSc in Biology in 2020. With data from 2021 and 2022, Rose's Master's thesis focused on how the visual aspect of multimodal displays can affect a female's ultimate choice in a mate. To learn more about her research, click here. She graduated with her MSc in 2022, and is currently studying Drosophila behavior as a research tech at the Clemson University Center for Human Genetics. Entering our lab after graduating from the University of Maryland for his undergrad, Derek brought with him experience working with bird song after having been in the Omland lab and later adapted this to the túngara system. In our lab, his research relied heavily on the use of soundscape analyses and the perception of background "noise" in female túngara frogs. He graduated from SU with his MSc in 2020 and is currently working at Assateague Island National Seashore. His research can be found here. Rosalind graduated from Virginia Wesleyan University in 2016 with a BSc in Biology. As an undergraduate, she completed and presented research projects in genetics and animal behavior. While in our lab, Rosalind's research focused on the use of our robofrogs in female perception of male signals. Her research can be found here. Lor moved to Delmarva from Syria in 2013. She worked in our lab for over a year and graduated with her BSc in Biology in 2019. She first joined the lab with an interest in genetics and later began collaborating with Derek Coss on his soundscape research. She is now attending dental school at Temple University. Megan worked as a Post-Doc in our lab. She graduated with her BS in Biology and Psychology from Rockhurst University. She received her PhD in Biology from the University of Missouri. Her research involved the evolution of call synchrony and of novel female preferences based on relative call timing. Her work was focused on primarily Neoconocephalus katydids, but is interested in expanding this work to frogs and multimodal signals. More about her past work can be found here. Megan is now a lecturer in the department of Biology at Indiana University. Andrew graduated with a BSc in Biology from Connecticut College and went on to work s an ornithology research technician at the University of Texas Austin before joining our lab. He graduated from our lab with his Master's in Applied Biology. His research involved studying how and why female mate preference can change as well as how multimodal signals impact auditory grouping in the túngara frog. More about his past work can be found here. Andrew is now a Ph.D student in Wouter Halfwerk's lab at Vrije University, Amsterdam. Matt graduated from our lab in 2017. His research involved studying how multimodal signaling affects a female frog's ability to perceive individual males during a lek mating. More about his past work can be found here. Matt is now working on his PhD at the University of Arkansas studying visual communication in tropical butterflies. Mark worked as a Post-Doc in our lab from 2014-2016. His research involved studying the signal assessment of male green treefrogs (Hyla cinerea) to one another during a "duel". More about his past work can be found here. Mark is now working on another Post-Doc at the University of Kentucky.
Doubling Up: Parallel Robots Sep 1, 2013 Parallel robots have lightweight arms between a fixed base and move-able part. Parallel robots are different than serial robots as each arm is controlled by its own motor; the coordination of movements occurs through a computer. All of the attributes of a parallel robot help to create a rigid arm with fast cycle times. Parallel robots, as opposed to serial robots, have several simple lightweight arms between the fixed base and move-able part. Each arm is controlled by its own motor and its movements are coordinated by a computer. The arms are placed as close as possible to the robot base, and the independent linkages work together independently of the position of other linkages. This allows for increased stability and arm rigidity with faster cycle times than serial automation. Most medical applications use serial robots, but disadvantages can occur due to the typically large and heavy serial robot. Parallel robots are promising for use in medical applications due to their compact and lightweight architectures, easy sterilization, and safe behavior near singularity. The aerospace industry is utilizing parallel robots, specifically Tricept machines. The T9000 is the most recently released model, and the T605 and T805 are also adequate for aerospace operations. All models have been used for structural machining aerospace, as well as other operations such as deburring, welding, and part assembly. Tricept is a 5 or 6 DOF hybrid PKM controlled robot. Its three actuators are exactly equal, and it has a direct measuring system. The Tricept promotes redundancy and flexibility, and helps save time between operations. Parallel robots can be used in a variety of industries. The Adept Quattro s650H parallel robot is designed for high-speed applications in material handling, packaging, and assembly. At 240 cycles per minute, it is the industry’s fastest pick-and-place robot. It features a four-arm design and advanced control algorithms. Its large work envelope encourages high throughput and smooth motion. The Fanuc F2000i parallel kinematic robot has a hexapod construction that enables accuracy. It is used for machining, part manipulation, and laser processing. The hexapod design is the most popular type of parallel kinematic robot, and is also referred to as the Stewart platform. Delta robots are another type of parallel robot, with three actuators controlling all three translational degrees of freedom of the mobile platform. It is usually used as a pick-and-place robot. SIG Robotics offers the XR Delta. Other popular parallel robots are the NanoStage Six from Adept Robotics, SurgiScope from Elekta IGS, and Quickstep from Krause & Mauser Group. Robots.com can help any company decide and integrate a parallel robotic setup into their factory floor. If you are interested in learning more on how to choose the right robots and workcell, contact Robots.com online or at 877−762−6881. You might be also interested in: Latest Advancements in Material Cutting Robotics Read about the latest technological advancements in robotic material cutting. Emerging 3D Vision Technologies for Industrial Robots Learn about the emerging 3D vision technology that businesses are using for industrial robot applications. Most Popular Industrial Robotic Applications for 2021 and Projections Explore the most popular application trends of 2021 and what to expect in the future. Request your quick quote today.
Underwater RF data communication A project in progress. Based on the AX5043 radio transceiver. For use in fresh water (conductivity 500...1000uS/cm). Wireless bi-directional RF data communication system for real-time remote control of a submersible vehicle. The system described here can be categorized as RF test equipment. It has not been tested for compliance with regulations regarding the transmission of radio signals. It is the responsibility of the user to use this equipment legally. Exploring new applications. Radio communication underwater is a challenge. In my spare time, I am working on a long-term project related to experimenting with different control strategies for depth stabilization of a model submarine. Making changes to the software in the model submarine is a cumbersome process because the model must be taken out of the water and partly dismanteld. The system proposed here is intended to solve these problems by moving the computer from the vessel to the shore. More detailed information is available on request. Evaluate underwater sailing behaviour. Wireless control of a submersible vehicle, like for instance a model submarine, in a such way that it is easy to modify software, parameters or algorithms on the fly and at the same time being able to observe the effect of these measures on the course and stability of the vessel. Desired characteristics: in compliance with radio regulations, friendly to marine life, flexible with respect to the used communication protocol, small dimensions and low cost. image Saab AB How and why? In the image above, the submerged vessel is fixed with the purpose of measuring, for example, the water drag of the hull. Inside the vessel there are no means available that support manoeuvring. By omitting the mechanical guiding rods and placing mainly sensors and actuators inside the vessel, the model can be controlled with a program running on a remote computer. Because the computer is located elsewhere, real-time and bi-directional data communication between the underwater vehicle and the computer is needed. This is the main function of the system presented here. The effects that changes to the computer program have on the course and stability of the vessel can be visually observed instantaneously. With respect to the image above, a research question could be, for example, how well the underwater vehicle is able to maintain its position as a function of the velocity of the water flow. Fewer cables in the image above. Model submarine hobbyists. Maritime research centres (hydrodynamics). Research institutes for underwater radio communication. Educational tool technical colleges/universities. Extended/next level evaluation kit RF transceiver. Those interested in real-time underwater remote control. AUV wireless data download. Exchange of data between underwater devices. Mutual communication in swarms of underwater devices. Applications not yet foreseen. And last but not least, for fun! With two prototype PCBs a distance of 6 metres could be bridged (27MHz, 100mW, half-duplex, 590uS/cm). During these tests both antennas where vertical submersed at a depth of 150cm. Because of all the testing the prototype PCB’s have worn and new PCB’s needs to be made. The new PCBs also contain some modifications that are the result of experience gained during testing. . In the Netherlands the frequency bands 27, 35 and 40MHz can be used for remote control purposes. Unfortunate radio regulations prohibit the use of these frequency bands for the system described here. It is this aspect that forces all radio communication to take place under water (no radio regulations). The lower the frequency, the larger the antenna and the greater the range underwater. Within this respect 13.56MHz offers a good trade-off between range and antenna size. Available radio transceivers ICs go as low as 27MHz, which results in to less range. One way of overcoming this is to place the antenna ashore in the air. This is however not allowed by radio regulations. Operating the system at 13.56MHz is another way of overcoming the underwater range limitation. For 13.56MHz, for example, homebrew or SDR (Software Defined Radio) could be considered. Summarized, the lack of transceivers for the frequency range of interest (3-30 MHz) and complying with radio regulations do not make it easy to develop applications such as described here. To establish a half-duplex underwater radio link, two PCB's are needed, each with their own antenna. The operating frequency is the 27MHz band (5-Ch.). The protocol is flexible in terms of the amount of payload and data rate. For measurement and control applications. Freely programmable or equipped with application-specific software. Supports a width variety of supply voltages and interface options, including a sensitive 3D accelerometer. Derivative functions such as an RF front-end and a modem are also among the possibilities. In compliance with radio regulations? It looks like there are no regulations for the transmission and reception of underwater radio waves. As a result, it is difficult to assess whether the use of this equipment is permitted or not. The best strategy seems to be to ensure that radio waves that have their origin underwater do not cross the water to air boundary. Submerge the antennas as deep as possible in the water, use as little as possible transmit power and have a as high as possible receiver sensitivity are methods used to minimize the risk for radio waves to cross the water to air boundary. A portable short-wave radio receiver can be used to check that radio waves do not cross the water to air boundary. The RF transceiver is an advanced, high performance device. A lot of attention went into verifying correct operation and optimizing internal parameters. With selectivity and sensitivity in mind the RF front-end is optimized for the difficult radio conditions underwater. The same goes for the antennas. A pleasant side effect is that underwater antennas can be about a factor 9 shorter than in air. This is due to the lower propagation speed of radio waves in water. A disadvantage is that the electrical conductivity of water affects the resonance frequency of an antenna. The image of the RF transformer illustrates that handicraft is not lacking either. Unfortunately, the handwork also indicates the lack of components suitable for lower frequencies. Another example of this is the lack of transceiver ICs suitable for the frequency range of 3-30MHz. Inland ports and swimming pools are places where people often sail with model submarines. In many occasions these places have a shoring and a bottom made of a hard material with a smooth surface structure, such as steel or concrete. Approximately the same goes for basins of maritime research institutes also. These smooth and hard materials increase the chance for multi-path fading. Within this respect the attenuation of radio waves in water can also be explained as an advantage. The use of a cable (copper or fiber optic) has not been considered because of the need to be able to sail freely and because a cable could become entangled in the propeller. Programming the PCB? The PCB is equipped with an ATMEL XMEGA AVR microcontroller. Software tools like CodeVision, BASCOM, Atmel Studio and Arduino can be used for programming. Inventory of wishes Testing new PCBs Develop antenna for underwater vessel Research to increase the range Search for new/other application areas. Interface options research PCB? PDI and JTAG programming port Two on-board LED’s, reset button, 8x DIP switch Sensitive 3D accelerometer, USART (3.3V), expansion port Two quadrature encoder inputs Analogue- and digital inputs (each 8x) NPN transistor and 5V logic outputs (each 8x) Software Defined Radio (SDR) ? SDR is about the same as a radio transceiver IC built with discrete components. Amongst others, the following items need to be taken into account when considering SDR: Continuity product availability. Difference in dimensions and costs in favour of a transceiver IC. Ability to transmit. Rapid switching between transmission and reception. Ability of receiver to quickly synchronise with transmitter signal. Support of FSK modulation. Frequency range approximately 3-30MHz. Receiver sensitivity and selectivity specifications. Programming of settings. Use in sea water? This goes at cost of range, but a few meters is feasible. Furthermore antennas need to be redesigned.
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VANCOUVER, May 05, 2020 - Gold Standard Ventures Corp. (TSX: GSV; NYSE AMERICAN: GSV) (“Gold Standard” or the “Company”) today announced an initial mineral resource estimate (“MRE”) for the Virgin gold and silver deposit (the “Virgin Deposit”) on its 100%-owned/controlled Lewis Project in Nevada’s Battle Mountain Trend (the “Lewis Project”). The mineral resource estimate was prepared in accordance with National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects (“NI 43-101”) by APEX Geoscience Ltd. of Edmonton, Canada (“APEX”) and has an effective date of May 1, 2020. The Company has decided to prepare and file a technical report in accordance with NI 43-101 on SEDAR within 45 days. In its summary report, APEX estimates an Inferred Mineral Resource of 7.74 million tonnes grading 0.83 grams gold per tonne (g Au/t), totaling 205,800 ounces of gold and 14.22 grams silver per tonne (g Ag/t) totaling 3,537,300 ounces of silver (at a lower cutoff of 0.20 g Au/t) (Table 1). A sensitivity analysis of the grade and tonnage relationships at a variety of cut off grades is shown in the accompanying Table 2 below. The Lewis Project is a separate and unique exploration project located approximately 100 km west of GSV’s flagship South Railroad development project. The Lewis Project shares a common land boundary with Nevada Gold Mines’ Phoenix mine, one of the most prolific and active gold-silver-copper producers on the Battle Mountain-Eureka trend. The Company believes that the Lewis Project inferred mineral resource estimate at the Virgin Deposit is a continuation of the Phoenix-Fortitude mineralization currently being mined by Nevada Gold Mines in the Phoenix mine. Open pit laybacks for the Phoenix mine’s approved environmental impact statement actually cross onto GSV-controlled ground and may include mining all or portions of the Inferred Mineral Resource. The Lewis Project has several known mineralized zones and has the potential for new gold and silver discoveries on the 5,340-acre (2,161 hectare) project. The Lewis Project was acquired by Gold Standard as part of its purchase of Battle Mountain Gold Inc. completed on June 14, 2017 (see news release). A sensitivity analysis of the grade and tonnage relationships at a variety of cut-off grades is shown in the accompanying Tables 2 below. Jonathan Awde, CEO and Director of Gold Standard commented: “In our view, the Lewis Project is important to the ongoing success of Nevada Gold Mine’s Phoenix mine immediately to the south, for three reasons…the value of the layback provides room for Phoenix to mine to the limits of the currently permitted pit, the added value of the mineral resource estimate which is continuous with the Phoenix mineralization, including the mineral resource estimate helps offset stripping costs for the expansion of the Phoenix operations, and the Lewis Project has its own resource expansion potential to the north along the Virgin Fault, the main feeder for the Phoenix deposit.” - Inferred Mineral Resource of 205,827 troy ounces of gold and 3,537,268 troy ounces of silver contained in 7.74 million tonnes at a grade of 0.83 g Au/t and at a grade of 14.22 g Ag/t (at a lower cutoff of 0.20 g Au/t), yielding a combined total of 248,300 troy ounces of gold equivalent (“AuEq”) at a combined grade of 1.0 g/t AuEq (using a ratio of 80 to 1 silver to gold). - The MRE is based on 193 reverse circulation holes, 33 diamond core holes, and 4 unknown holes. - Additional shallow gold and silver resource potential exists to the east and west in related sub-parallel or separate structural zones, with extensions to the Virgin Deposit open to the north and at depth. Mineralization at the south end of the mineral resource area continues into the Phoenix open pit mine. - The Virgin Deposit consists of higher-grade structures surrounded by lower-grade disseminated mineralization within a zone measuring about 725 meters in length at an azimuth of 350 degrees, up to 325 meters wide which includes multiple sub-parallel, sub-vertical zones, with up to 300 meters in vertical depth. The Virgin fault, which controls mineralization in the Phoenix mine to the south, strikes northward out of the mine and onto the Lewis Project where it also controls gold and silver mineralization in the Virgin Deposit. Gold and silver mineralization is associated with northwest trending and steep westerly dipping structures in Paleozoic sedimentary rocks. - Near surface oxide potential (< 40 m deep) remains open to the east (MAD-45, 22.9m grading 1.53 g Au/t and 22.9 g Ag/t and MAD-74, 24.4m grading 1.22 g Au/t and 55.0 g Ag/t) and to the west (MAD-64, 13.7m grading 3.16 g Au/t and 163.6 g Ag/t and BVD-9A, 27.4m grading 2.17 g Au/t and 39.4 g Ag/t). - In addition to the initial mineral resource estimate at the Virgin Deposit, high-value exploration targets on the Lewis Project include: 1) the Southwest skarn target where Barrick Gold Corp. drill hole FWL-30 intersected 17 m of 5.7 g Au/t – an intercept that remains open in multiple directions; and 2) the Buena-Vista Meagher corridor immediately north of Nevada Gold Mines’ Phoenix mine. The strong gravity gradient and historic shallow intercepts in upper plate Havallah Sequence rocks (including 27.4m of 2.20 g Au/t in drill hole BVD-9A) indicate that structure and system should be present in the favorable Antler host rocks at depth. The potential grades noted above are conceptual in nature; there has been insufficient exploration to define further mineral resources and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in these targets being delineated as a mineral resource. Table 1. Virgin Deposit MRE at a lower cutoff of 0.20 g Au/t is summarized below: \|Tonnage – Au Mineral Resources that are not Mineral Reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability. There has been insufficient exploration to allow for the classification of the inferred resources tabulated as a indicated or measured mineral resource, however, it is reasonably expected that the majority of the inferred mineral resources could be upgraded to indicated or measured mineral resources with continued exploration. There is no guarantee that any part of the mineral resources discussed herein will be converted into a mineral reserve in the future. Reported resources have been constrained within a US$1500/ounce of gold pit shell. **Contained ounces may not add due to rounding. AuEq is based upon a ration of 80:1 Ag to Au. Table 2. Sensitivity analysis of the Virgin Deposit mineral resource estimate at various cut-offs: Mineral Resource Estimate The initial mineral resource estimate for the Virgin Deposit was prepared under the supervision of Michael Dufresne, M.Sc., P.Geol., P.Geo., by Steven Nicholls, B.A.Sc., MAIG and Warren Black, M.Sc., P.Geo. of APEX, all “qualified persons” under NI 43-101, who have reviewed and approved this news release. Modeling was conducted in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate space relative to the North American Datum (NAD) 1927 and UTM Zone 11. A parent block size of 3 m (X) x 3 m (Y) x 3 m (Z) was utilized in order to honour the mineralization wireframes. The Lewis Project MRE modeling utilized 230 drill holes that were completed from 1980 to 2018. Mr. Dufresne, P.Geol., P.Geo., visited the property in August, 2019, in order to verify and validate the historic drill hole dataset and to verify the drilling of the recently completed 2017 to 2018 diamond and RC drilling campaigns completed by Gold Standard. APEX personnel were involved in the verification and validation of the Lewis Project drill hole collar and assay database and quality assurance/quality control analysis of the database. The current drill hole database is deemed to be in good condition and suitable to use in ongoing mineral resource estimation studies. A total of 34,239 assay intervals make up the assay database, with a total of 6,300 samples assayed for gold and 6,132 assayed for silver within the mineralization domains. The sample database was composited to 10 ft (3.05 m) and capping limits of 30 g/t Au and 180 g/t Ag were applied to the composites. Gold and silver estimation was completed separately using ordinary kriging. The percentage of the volume of each block below the bare earth surface and within each mineralization domain was calculated using the 3D geological model and a 3D surface model. The search ellipsoid size used to estimate each metal was defined by the modelled variograms. Block grade estimation employed varying anisotropy, which uses different rotation angles to define the principal directions of the variogram model and search ellipsoid on a per-block basis. Blocks within estimation domains are assigned rotation angles using a modelled 3D mineralization trend surface wireframe, which allows structural complexities to be reproduced in the estimated block model. A total of 464 bulk density samples were available, of which 49 were situated with the resource mineralization domains. The average density for the lodes ranges from 1.49 g/cm3 to 4.98 g/cm3 with overall average bulk density of 2.68 g/cm3 which was applied to all blocks for the Lewis Project mineral resource estimate. The resource is classified according to the CIM “Estimation of Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves Best Practice Guidelines” dated November 29th, 2019 and CIM “Definition Standards for Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves” dated May 10th, 2014. A NI 43-101 technical report disclosing the Lewis Project MRE will be filed on SEDAR within 45 days. Factors that may affect the estimate include: metal prices, changes in interpretations of mineralization geometry, continuity of mineralization zones, changes to kriging assumptions, metallurgical recovery assumptions, operating cost assumptions, confidence in the modifying factors, including assumptions that surface rights to allow mining infrastructure to be constructed will be forthcoming, delays or other issues in reaching agreements with regulatory authorities and stakeholders, and changes in land tenure requirements or in permitting requirements. Sampling Methodology, Chain of Custody, Quality Control and Quality Assurance: All Gold Standard sampling was conducted under the supervision of the Company’s project geologists, and the chain of custody from the project to the sample preparation facility was continuously monitored. Core was cut at the company’s facility in Elko and one half was sent to the lab for analysis and the other half retained in the original core box. A blank or certified reference material was inserted approximately every tenth sample. The core and RC samples were delivered to either ALS Minerals or Bureau Veritas Mineral Laboratories preparation facility in Elko, NV where they were crushed and pulverized. Resulting sample pulps were shipped to either ALS Minerals or Bureau Veritas Mineral Laboratories certified laboratory in Sparks, NV or Vancouver, BC. Pulps were digested and analyzed for gold using fire assay fusion and an atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) finish on a 30-gram split. Over limit gold assays were determined using a fire assay fusion with a gravimetric finish on a 30-gram split. All other elements were determined by ICP analysis. Data verification of the analytical results included a statistical analysis of the standards and blanks that must pass certain parameters for acceptance to insure accurate and verifiable results. Drill hole deviation was measured by gyroscopic down hole surveys that were completed on all holes by International Directional Services of Elko, NV. Both ALS Minerals and Bureau Veritas Minerals Laboratories are independent of the Company. The scientific and technical content and interpretations contained in this news release have been reviewed, verified and approved by Steven R. Koehler, Gold Standard’s Manager of Projects, BSc. Geology and CPG-10216, a “qualified person” as defined by NI 43-101. ABOUT GOLD STANDARD VENTURES – Gold Standard is an advanced-stage gold exploration company focused on building value in a responsible, sustainable and ethical manner by leveraging its strategic, cornerstone land package in Nevada’s Carlin Trend. Gold Standard intends to advance its South Railroad Project through permitting and a feasibility study towards a potential production decision. Gold Standard intends to augment this goal by advancing exploration that contributes value to the South Railroad Project. The Pinion deposit has a mineral resource estimate prepared in accordance with NI 43-101 consisting of an Measured and Indicated Mineral Resource of 28.93 million tonnes grading 0.58 g/t Au and 4.22 g/t Ag, totaling 544,000 ounces of gold and 3,929,000 ounces of silver, and an Inferred Mineral Resource of 10.81 million tonnes grading 0.64 g/t Au and 3.80 g/t Ag, totaling 224,000 ounces of gold and 1,322,000 ounces of silver, using a cut-off grade of 0.14 g/t Au and constrained by a $1,500/Au ounce LG Cone. The Dark Star deposit has a mineral resource estimate prepared in accordance with NI 43-101 consisting of a Measured and Indicated Mineral Resource of 32.72 million tonnes grading 0.88 g/t Au, totaling 921,000 ounces of gold and an Inferred Mineral Resource of 2.48 million tonnes grading 0.70 g/t Au, totaling 56,000 ounces of gold, using a cut-off grade of 0.14 g Au/t and constrained by a $1,500/Au ounce LG Cone. The North Bullion deposit has a mineral resource estimate prepared in accordance with NI 43-101 consisting of an Indicated Mineral Resource of 2.92 million tonnes grading 0.96 g/t Au, totaling 90,100 ounces of gold and an Inferred Mineral Resource of 10.97 million tonnes grading 2.28 g/t Au, totaling 805,800 ounces of gold, using a cut-off grade of 0.14 g Au/t for near surface oxide and 1.25 to 2.25 g Au/t for near surface sulfide and underground sulfide respectively. The Jasperoid Wash deposit has a mineral resource estimate prepared in accordance with NI 43-101 consisting of an Inferred Mineral Resource of 10.57 million tonnes grading 0.33 g/t Au, totaling 111,000 ounces of gold, using a cut-off grade of 0.14 g Au/t and constrained by a $1,500/Au ounces LG Cone. Neither the Toronto Stock Exchange nor its regulation services provider nor the NYSE American LLC accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release. CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS This news release contains forward-looking statements, which relate to future events or future performance and reflect management’s current expectations and assumptions. Such forward-looking statements reflect management’s current beliefs and are based on assumptions made by and information currently available to the Company. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements or information. Forward-looking statements or information in this news release relate to, among other things: estimates of mineral r resources; the opportunities for exploration, development and expansion of the Lewis Project; the intention to file a technical report for the initial mineral resource estimate at the Lewis Project; creating further value by leveraging its land package; advancing its South Railroad Project through permitting and a feasibility study towards a potential production decision and augmenting this by advancing exploration that contributes value to the South Railroad Project; and the success related to any future exploration or development programs. These forward-looking statements and information reflect the Company’s current views with respect to future events and are necessarily based upon a number of assumptions that, while considered reasonable by the Company, are inherently subject to significant operational, business, economic and regulatory uncertainties and contingencies. These assumptions include: our mineral reserve and resource estimates and the assumptions upon which they are based, including geotechnical and metallurgical characteristics of rock confirming to sampled results and metallurgical performance; tonnage of ore to be mined and processed; ore grades and recoveries; assumptions and discount rates being appropriately applied to the PFS; success of the Company's projects, including the South Railroad Project; prices for silver and gold remaining as estimated; currency exchange rates remaining as estimated; availability of funds for the Company's projects; capital, decommissioning and reclamation estimates; mineral reserve and resource estimates and the assumptions upon which they are based; prices for energy inputs, labour, materials, supplies and services (including transportation); no labour- related disruptions; no unplanned delays or interruptions in scheduled construction and production; all necessary permits, licenses and regulatory approvals are received in a timely manner; and the ability to comply with environmental, health and safety laws. The foregoing list of assumptions is not exhaustive. The Company cautions the reader that forward-looking statements and information involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements or information contained in this news release and the Company has made assumptions and estimates based on or related to many of these factors. Such factors include, without limitation: fluctuations in silver and gold prices; fluctuations in prices for energy inputs, labour, materials, supplies and services (including transportation); fluctuations in currency markets (such as the Canadian dollar versus the U.S. dollar); operational risks and hazards inherent with the business of mining (including environmental accidents and hazards, industrial accidents, equipment breakdown, unusual or unexpected geological or structural formations, cave-ins, flooding and severe weather); inadequate insurance, or inability to obtain insurance, to cover these risks and hazards; our ability to obtain all necessary permits, licenses and regulatory approvals in a timely manner; changes in laws, regulations and government practices in the United States, including environmental, export and import laws and regulations; legal restrictions relating to mining; risks relating to expropriation; increased competition in the mining industry for equipment and qualified personnel; the availability of additional capital; title matters and and the additional risks identified in our filings with Canadian securities regulators on SEDAR in Canada (available at www.sedar.com) and with the SEC on EDGAR (available at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml). Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated, described or intended. Investors are cautioned against undue reliance on forward-looking statements or information. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date hereof and, except as required under applicable securities legislation, the Company does not assume any obligation to update or revise them to reflect new events or circumstances. CAUTIONARY NOTE FOR U.S. INVESTORS REGARDING RESERVE AND RESOURCE ESTIMATES Canadian public disclosure standards, including NI 43-101, differ significantly from the requirements of the SEC set forth in Industry Guide 7 (“Industry Guide 7”), and information concerning mineralization, deposits, mineral reserve and resource information contained or referred to herein may not be comparable to similar information disclosed by U.S. companies in accordance with Industry Guide 7. In particular, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, this news release uses the terms “measured mineral resources,” ‘‘indicated mineral resources’’ and ‘‘inferred mineral resources’’. U.S. investors are advised that, while such terms are recognized and required by Canadian securities laws, Industry Guide 7 does not recognize them. U.S. investors should also understand that “inferred mineral resources” have a great amount of uncertainty as to their existence and great uncertainty as to their economic and legal feasibility. It cannot be assumed that all or any part of “inferred mineral resources” exist, are economically or legally mineable or will ever be upgraded to a higher category. Under Canadian securities laws, estimated “inferred mineral resources” may not form the basis of feasibility or pre-feasibility studies except in rare cases. Disclosure of “contained ounces” in a mineral resource is permitted disclosure under Canadian securities laws. However, Industry Guide 7 normally only permits issuers to report mineralization that does not constitute “reserves” by Industry Guide 7 standards as in place tonnage and grade, without reference to unit measures. 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Rackable Reusable Pallets For the overwhelming majority of warehouses and truck drivers, space is at a premium. In order to help your bottom line, it’s essential that you have ample space to store or transport as many items as you can. One way to help create more space and help your bottom line is to invest in rackable and reusable plastic pallets. We offer a variety of options, including automotive, beverage and container pallets. Our pallets are extremely durable, and easy to use and rack. What’s more, all of our pallet options are manufactured from recycled materials, so you’re also reducing your carbon footprint when choosing our recycled plastic pallets. Ensure that your company has the space it needs and is reducing expenses as best you can by investing in reusable plastic pallets. If you have any general or specific questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Prepared Peninsula Expo October 24 The four cities of the Palos Verdes Peninsula are once again teaming up in an effort to educate residents and the broader community on emergency preparedness at the 7th Annual Prepared Peninsula Expo on Sunday, October 24 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Palos Verdes Peninsula High School, 27118 Silver Spur Road in Rolling Hills Estates. The Prepared Peninsula Expo is an annual event the Peninsula cities produce to help Palos Verdes Peninsula residents learn how to mitigate, prepare, respond, and recover should a disaster strike. This free event will teach you how to protect yourselves, your family and your pets in a disaster. This information-filled expo will provide a free lunch (while supplies last) and feature dozens of exhibitors, demonstrations and equipment displays. Exhibitors include local organizations giving tips and tools and retail vendors selling preparedness goods, like extended life water, emergency bags, meals-ready-to-eat (MREs) and much more. The Prepared Peninsula Expo is a great opportunity to learn from experts in emergency readiness about how to prepare your family and safeguard your home for the event of an earthquake, wildfire or other disaster. Download flyer at: ow.ly/8Zea50GiTGx
Running your air cooled engine with the cowl removed is harder on the engine than you may realize. Uncowled, air is blown over the cylinders and not through the cylinder's cooling fins. So the bottom of the engine is left to heat-soak and the top is cooled. This uneven heating results in distorted cylinders which damages the cylinders and the moving parts inside the cylinders. Continental recommends fabricating a scoop out of sheet metal for use when running up the engine on the ground when the cowl is removed. This provides a safe amount of airflow for runups and can usually be constructed in a way that it is out of the way for most maintenance procedures. (Drawing credit: Continental Motors)
Prof Dane Brown Masters & PhD Co-ordinator Dane Brown is a PhD graduate of Computer Science from Rhodes University. His PhD research on multi-modal biometrics involved comprehensive theory and application of various image processing and machine learning techniques. He also holds a Masters degree in Science from the University of the Western Cape. This involved parallel processing techniques on both the CPU & GPU within the scope of South African Sign language recognition. He is a passionate lecturer in Computer Science and a member of SAYAS and IEEE Computer vision in agriculture and marine biology, signal processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, information security and biometrics. A list of publications is available on Google Scholar. Phone: +27 46-603-8625 Location: Hamilton Building, Room 106 Last Modified: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 15:57:58 SAST
LAKE IN THE HILLS, Ill.—Advanced Flexible Composites Inc. has expanded its operation with the purchase of another facility to create space for its growing coatings and food service businesses. Located adjacent to AFC's headquarters and plant in Lake in the Hills, the acquired building spans about 37,000 square feet, according to Chris Lewis, president and chief financial officer. After the firm purchased the facility, it gutted and refurbished the building to fit the firm's needs. “This building provides us the space necessary to further expand our coating capabilities with new coating lines and pro-cesses,” he said. “This vital expansion gives AFC the capacity to continue to support our customers' growing demand for our products.” Currently, according to Lewis, the new plant houses the company's engineering and maintenance operations and is used for warehousing of raw materials. “Since we build our own equipment internally,” he said, “we have to have a large and capable work force, along with enough space to house them. In the future, it is our intent to utilize additional space in this facility for some specialty fabrication, including possibly clean room needs.” A designer and manufacturer of high performance silicone and PTFE coated belting and fabrics, AFC needed to expand its coating capacity further for its PTFE products, Lewis said. That required the company to relocate a storage operation at its main plant to an available section of its new building. The vacated area became part of the PTFE coating operation.
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RUSH: Let me tell you why the market's down. It has nothing to do with Trump. It has nothing to do with impeachment. RUSH: Let me just say there's no doubt in my mind that this is a direct response to what I've been saying here for the past three days now. RUSH: By the way, our buddies at Hot Air today are speculating. RUSH: Schiff is colluding with this guy and suggested that he become a whistleblower, and right here it's clearly stated that Schiff did not expect Trump to release the transcript! RUSH: Now, I know you're gonna say, "Rush, if you don't want to watch it on Fox, why are you playing it for us?" That's a good question. RUSH: What do you mean, "The phone call's hard to defend"? The phone call's not hard to defend, and Trump isn't hard to defend! But if Trump is hard to defend, what about conservatism, you Never Trumpers? RUSH: Trump is the vessel. He's the recipient of the support of this group. This is not to diminish Trump. I'm trying to tell you that we are the real objects of their hate. RUSH: They wanted to say Trump was obstructing justice and conducting a cover-up by refusing to release the transcript. But he screwed 'em up, he released it. RUSH: I very quickly put together my own list of them here. Here are the Democrats' articles of impeachment. RUSH: If people's reaction to this is to leave New York and to leave Connecticut, to leave California or some of these other high-tax states, then what's the solution? RUSH: So, what are these outfits doing to make grass clippings and other plant-based foods palatable? You will not believe this, folks. RUSH: We've got a long-sleeve women's cotton Stand Up for Betsy Ross T-shirt and a great fleece for men or women. RUSH: The Stack of Stuff is updated in real time with specific things I got to, and also any things I intended to get to but didn’t have time: The Holdover Stack. If I don’t talk about it, you don’t need to know about it. RUSH: California is where anything goes, except plastic straws. A liberal paradise — of the left, by the left, and for the left — and where normal people are S.O.L., unless they step in one of those piles of poop!
The German-American start-up HoloBuilder is revolutionizing progress documentation on construction sites and the administration of construction processes with its software. Construction sites are now digitalized, processes, and organized with the help of 360° cameras and can be managed by all those involved just by pressing a button, regardless where they are. This success story began with the foundation of bitstars GmbH in 2014 with an EXIST entrepreneurial scholarship as a spin-off from RWTH Aachen University. In 2015 the founders received funding from the German Accelerator program. This allowed them to establish an office in Palo Alto, California, in addition to their office in Aachen. The funding program ended but bitstars remained. Under the name HoloBuilder Incorporated they opened their own branch as the parent company in Silicon Valley at the beginning of 2016. Based on the success in the American market their headquarters are now located there, whereby the entire research and development work continue to take place in Aachen. Since then the company has been called "bitstars - A HoloBuilder company." bitstars and its HoloBuilder are no longer a blank page internationally. In 2015 they won the top award at the "RICOH THETA Developers Contest“ in Japan, for the innovation power behind the function linking 360-degree pictures with 3D objects on its HoloBuilder web platform. In April 2016 HoloBuilder was named Cool Vender in Digitalization Through Industry 4.0 by Gartner Inc, the American leader in market research. Its success continues. In the year following the establishmnent of HoloBuilder Inc. they received an investment of 2.25 million US dollars at the beginning of 2017. Additionally, HoloBuilder recently won the Constructech 2017 Top Product Award, yet another sign that the young business is on the right path. The company is already a market leader in the field of cloud and mobile solutions for the digitalization of construction sites.
(RxWiki News) Which weight loss medication is the best? There may actually be a clear answer, according to a new study. Data on how well these medications, when compared to one another, has been limited until now. The University of California researchers behind this study compared how well these medications work, as well as their associated adverse events. These researchers evaluated 28 randomized clinical trials, which included a total of 29, 018 patients. All five weight loss medications were associated with at least 5 percent weight loss at one year. Furthermore, this study found that two weight loss medications in particular were linked with the highest chance of achieving weight loss of at least 5 percent. Those two medications were phentermine-topiramate and liraglutide. Dr. Siddharth Singh and colleagues found liraglutide and naltrexone-bupropion to be linked with the highest odds for discontinuation of treatment due to adverse events when compared to placebo. The approach for weight loss will depend on a variety of factors and, therefore, will be individualized. Speak with your doctor about a weight loss program that is right for you. This study was recently published in JAMA. Information on funding sources and conflicts of interest was not available at the time of publication.
Happy feast of Bl. Pope Pius IX! On today’s show, Matt Swaim and Anna Mitchell welcome Dr. Matthew Bunson to talk more about “Pio Nono.” Other guests include Emily Jaminet to unpack more of the First Friday promises of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and Fr. Hezekias Carnazzo to look ahead to the Sunday Mass readings. Plus news, weather, sports and more… Fr. Hezekias Carnazzo is online at instituteofcatholicculture.org. Emily Jaminet is online at welcomehisheart.com. Dr. Matthew Bunson is online at ncregister.com. Dr. Peter Howard is online at fultonsheen.institute. Ken Craycraft is online at athenaeum.edu. Bobby Schindler is online at lifeandhope.com. Steve Ray is online at catholicconvert.com. Catherine Fishlock is online at stgertrude.org. Donna Marie Cooper-O’Boyle is online at donnacooperoboyle.com. A Prayer By Pope Pius IX “O my Jesus, cast upon us a look of mercy; turn your Face towards each of us, as you did to Veronica: not that we may see it with our bodily eyes, for this we do not deserve; but turn it towards our hearts, so that remembering thee, we may ever draw from this fountain of strength the vigour necessary to sustain the combats of life. Amen”
Thursday, March 19th, 2020 Last modified on May 11th, 2022 We at Saebo would like to update you on how we are responding to COVID-19, also known as coronavirus. As we search for new and helpful ways to support our community during these challenging and unprecedented times, we are asking every employee, patient, and healthcare professional one simple question: how can we support you? We’re working as quickly as possible to address your questions, recommendations, and concerns, and we hope you’ll take advantage of the free resources and special offers we’ve provided for you below. Check out our most popular products designed for home-based rehabilitation. What if I need financial help? In light of the financial hardships and uncertainties now facing so many of our patients, we’re offering several new assistance programs: For questions about extended billing terms or payment plans, call 888-284-5433. We’re donating gently used products every day. Contact us for more information. I can’t go to therapy right now; what can I do at home to continue my recovery? Be safe. Stay home. But stay active and continue your recovery with these free home exercise guides. You can also follow us on Facebook to access live and recorded exercise videos, recovery tips and important information from our clinical team. How do I know which exercises are best for me? We’ll soon be launching live Facebook events to answer all of your questions and to provide you with useful suggestions for continuing your recovery at home. If I feel isolated at home, how can I connect with other patients? Join our Stroke Survivor Support Group on Facebook! You are not alone – we’ll all get through this together. If you have any other questions or simply need someone to talk to about your recovery, please don’t hesitate to call us at 888-284-5433.
Renovations at a former New York psychiatric center exposed workers to lead and asbestos hazards, leading to a huge OSHA settlement for this real estate development company. Dover Greens, formerly known as Olivet Management, was acting as its own general contractor while renovating the abandoned Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center. The plan is to turn the old mental hospital in Dover, NY, into a college. OSHA visited the work site in 2013 and discovered Dover workers and employees of 13 contractors were scraping lead paint off walls and sweeping up asbestos debris without using safe removal methods, such as wetting and vacuuming. None of the workers were wearing respirators, either. The Department of Labor called the renovation a “worksite of horrors” on its blog. OSHA stopped the work and eventually cited Dover for 24 willful safety violations. Without the safety measures, the agency claims Dover put workers at risk of long-term neurological and respiratory problems caused by unsafe lead and asbestos exposure. Dover was fined $2.3 million. However, the settlement requires the company to pay $700,000 in fines over a 10-year period. The remaining penalty of $1.66 million is being held in abeyance and becomes payable if Dover violates the terms of the settlement agreement. “The terms of the settlement are stringent and comprehensive,” said Jeffrey Rogoff, the regional solicitor of labor in New York, in an OSHA press release. “They seek to ensure that the company provides the project’s employees with safe and healthful working conditions at all times. We are prepared to take appropriate action to escalate penalties should it fail to live up to its commitments.” The settlement requires Dover to: - Select and retain a general contractor experienced in a renovation project of this magnitude and familiar with lead and asbestos hazards on a construction site. - Retain a qualified safety-consulting firm to monitor the project, and have a safety consultant on site while the work if being done. - Ensure all contractors and subcontractors are trained, that onsite supervisors and foremen have completed the OSHA 30-hour course, and that they implement a site-specific health and safety program. - Ensure contractors whose employees come in contact with lead or asbestos have documented training and experience in adhering to OSHA lead and asbestos standards. - Not oppose workers’ compensation claims from employees for illnesses related to lead and asbestos exposure. - Provide workers with notice in English, Spanish and Korean of their rights to bring claims under the state workers’ compensation program.
Hardwood flooring is a beautiful addition to any home because it’s charming, visually appealing, and fits a variety of home design styles. When properly maintained, hardwood floors have the potential to last many years. Whether you purchased new hardwood floors recently or moved into a home with existing hardwood floors, you’ll love how quick and easy it is to care for your hardwood floors with our recommendations. To help you get the enduring beauty and longevity you want from your hardwood floors, follow our hardwood floor care tips. How to Deep Clean Hardwood Floors - Start by moving any furniture or area rugs and vacuuming or sweeping the entire surface of your floors, using a wand attachment for any deep character knots to ensure all dirt and debris has been removed. - Check with your manufacturer to see their recommended cleaning solutions or products for your floors to ensure your cleaning doesn’t damage the finish. - Follow the manufacturer’s recommendations for diluting your cleaning solution and how much is necessary to deep clean your hardwood without causing any damage before testing your solution in a less noticeable area, such as a closet. - After testing your cleaning solution, start in the back of the room and mop towards the front, being sure to mop in the same direction as the wood grain until you’ve finished the room. To keep your hardwood floors looking and feeling their best, we recommend deep cleaning at least once a month. By following the above steps, you’ll be extending the life of your floor and enjoying new-looking hardwood for years to come. Be sure to start with less cleaning solution and add more as you need it to avoid longer drying times, which can be potentially damaging. Best Tools to Clean Hardwood Floors When it comes to hardwood and hardwood maintenance, you don't have to use tons of wood floor cleaners, cleaning solutions, or other homemade cleaning supplies. In fact, homemade hardwood floor cleaners and other non-recommended cleaners can damage the finish or void your floor warranty. It's important that you check with your hardwood manufacturer and the maintenance guidelines to ensure that you are not using cleaners that could cause damage to your floors or void your warranty! - Broom & Vacuum - A broom and a vacuum are excellent tools to use on hardwood floors because they pick up loose dirt and debris. We recommend that you sweep or vacuum twice a week for the best results. Sweeping or vacuuming hardwood floors will ensure that your space is free and clear of loose debris that can be tracked around easily by foot traffic. Also, be careful when using your vacuum as vacuum wheels and beater bars can take a toll on wood floors or damage them. - Microfiber Mop - A microfiber mop is another tool that is beneficial for cleaning wood floors. These mops are gentle and effective, and they pick up dust and allergens from crevices and seams. It’s best to start with these tools and remove loose dirt before moving on to the next steps. High traffic areas like entryways, hallways, and stairs will see more debris, so take extra care when sweeping, vacuuming, or dust mopping these areas of your home. - Don't Use a Wet Mop - We don’t recommend that you use a wet mop with water or steam at any time. Hardwood is susceptible to warping when exposed to water, which means that damages happen quickly when using any water-based product to clean them. How to Keep Hardwood Floors Clean There are some easy steps you can take to make sure your hardwood floors stay clean. - Remove Your Shoes When Entering Your Home - One of the easiest things you can do to keep your hardwood floors clean is to remove your shoes when entering and exiting your home. Rocks, gravel, and sand, among other materials, can easily get stuck in your shoes and be tracked around your home. Removing your shoes will help you and your family ensure that there is less of a mess. - Purchase an area rug to protect your hardwood floor - With hard-surface flooring, one addition that adds not only warmth and comfort but also protection for your floors is an area rug. Area rugs will keep your hardwood floors from becoming faded, worn, and scratched, and they can be installed in many areas. Living rooms, bedrooms, and hallways are just a few areas where area rugs can change the look and feel of the space, but also protect your wood floors from the wear and tear of daily life. - Wipe Your Pets' Paws - If you have pets, another thing you can do is wipe their paws when they come inside. Whether it’s raining and their paws are full of water and dirt, or they seem to collect all kinds of mud, using a towel to wipe down your pet’s paws will help you create a home that stays clean. - Always wipe up spills as soon as they happen - Spills and accidents are common in any household. From pets to kids and even adults, there’s no telling when water will spill on your floors. To ensure that your hardwood floors stay in good condition, always wipe up spills as soon as they happen. Standing water can damage wood quickly and should not be left to dry.
Manufacturing industry grants Future Industries Manufacturing Program – VIC If you’re an innovative manufacturing company in Victoria, the Future Industries Manufacturing Program could be for you — providing you have the funds to back it up. This grant program encourages manufacturers in Victoria to invest in new manufacturing technologies and processes as a way to increase growth, hire more people, and improve productivity. However, if companies want to be eligible, they’ll need the capital to complement the grant, as companies are expected to match $3 for every $1 granted through the program. - How much? Up to $500,000. More information about the program can be found at https://www.business.vic.gov.au/support-for-your-business/grants-and-assistance/future-industries LaunchVic – VIC LaunchVic is the Victorian government’s agency for supporting startups and innovative SMEs in the state. It was given $60 million in the 2015 state budget to help fund local startups. The agency recently closed round eight of its funding. The fund’s overall goal is to foster the Victorian startup ecosystem into one that is internationally recognised, by bolstering the skills of its startup founders and promoting inclusion and diversity across the board. - How much? Unspecified. One of LaunchVic’s most recent rounds, now closed, focused on Victoria’s health sector. Keep an eye on the agency’s website and apply here to be kept in the loop for further rounds. Regional Jobs Fund + Stronger Regional Communities Plan – VIC At its core, the Victorian Regional Jobs Fund acts as a way to support businesses to create more jobs in regional and rural parts of the state across the streams of investment attraction, innovation and productivity, employment, market access, and skills development. The total value of the fund is around $500 million, but there is no set amount of funding companies can receive. Instead, applications are judged on a case-by-case basis and companies can request certain amounts. The funding does not need to be matched. - How much? It varies/$50,000. To be eligible, businesses must be undertaking activities to make or keep rural and regional jobs in Victoria. More information can be found at https://www.business.gov.au/grants-and-programs/regional-jobs-fund-vic Complementing this is the Stronger Regional Communities Plan, which provides up to $50,000 to private sector businesses to help retain jobs in regional Victoria. CBD Small Hospitality Grant – Melbourne The CBD Small Hospitality Grant provides additional support for SMEs in the hospitality industry in Melbourne’s CBD, in light of the impact of stage four COVID-19 restrictions. Businesses must be a previous recipient of the Business Support Fund and operate a hospitality business in the Melbourne CBD, World Trade Centre, Southbank or Docklands with a capacity of 11 or more seats. - How much? $5,000 or $15,000 depending on the capacity of the business. Microcredit Loan Program – ACT Businesses or aspiring business owners in the AC can take advantage of a range of microcredit loans. Low-income earners looking to start a business can receive interest-free loans of up to $3000 or low-interest loans up to $10,000 to help grow their business through new equipment purchases. To be eligible, your combined family income has to be under $75,000 and you must have an established or semi-established business in the ACT. - How much? Up to $10,000. More information is available at https://www.business.gov.au/Grants-and-Programs/ACT-Microcredit-Loan-Program
After a year of soul searching and self-examination, Sonya Dove reached a decision to close The Doves by DNA, a salon she co-owns with Danny LeClair and Aubrey Loots in Santa Monica, California. The salon, which Dove opened with her former husband Christopher Dove as The Doves Studio ten years ago, will close on October 31. “As the lease on the space came to an end, I came to a personal realization,” Dove says. “I still love teaching and seeing seeing clients, but I want to begin to balance my work and my personal life and the only way to create time for new opportunities was to let something go—and for me that meant the salon.” As one of the world’s top professional beauty educators, Dove serves as a global top stylist for Wella Professional, as an ambassador for Hair Dreams, and as one of six educators that make up Ulta’s Pro team. As a Wella top artist, Aubrey Loots also is an in-demand educator, and LeClair divides his time between managing Loots’ career and serving as salon manager. “The lease coming up for renewal was a crossroads moment for us, and we all came to the conclusion it was best to relinquish the salon,” LeClair adds. “The most difficult part of that decision is that we’ve built a phenomenal team and we wanted to honor them by helping each one find a home that was equitable.” For the past four months, the owners have been calling local salons and helping set up interviews for their team members, and they are happy to report they have found homes for all 16 stylists. Dove will continue to see clients a few days a week out of Ulta in Santa Monica, Loots and about two-thirds of the salon’s stylists will move to Nesou Salon in Santa Monica. And, LeClair will continue managing Loots’ career, as well as take on various salon consulting and event management projects. “Some of our team members have been with me since I opened ten years ago, and they are my children,” Dove says. “We are so fortunate that many of our team members also are educators for Wella, Sebastian and Nioxin. and we will continue to work together on various projects. We also intend on continuing our tradition of getting together regularly for a cocktail.” Before coming to the United States, Sonya and Christopher Dove opened Sophisticut Salon in Great Britain in 1980. From 1984 to 1993, they traveled the world as stylists. In 1994, they moved to the United States to work as creative directors for Shelton Salon and Schools and became ambassadors for Wella’s Global Trend Vision. In 1998, they moved to New York, becoming creative directors for Elizabeth Arden Red Door Salons. In 2001, they followed their Wella careers to Los Angeles and opened the Santa Monica salon and hairdressing academy in 2007. While Dove says the last ten years have been a blast, she admits making the decision to close the salon brought with it a big sense of relief. “Owning a salon is tough in today’s world, especially in California. The constant administrative work it takes to run the business was pulling at all of us,” Dove says. “We started contemplating this decision about a year ago, and we considered multiple options—in fact we approached some of our employees to see if they wanted to purchase it, but they didn’t.” So now that Dove is finishing the chapter on her salon business, what’s on the horizon? “To be honest, I’m one of those people who just do, do, do and I don’t ever let anything go,” Dove says. “My challenge will be in not filling up the time I’m freeing up with more work. I need to learn how to just be, and truly enjoy the beautiful part of the country where I live.” For reprint and licensing requests for this article, Click here.
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No infant is wondering to him/herself, “Will they judge me if I cry? Will they think less of me if I want more of this goopy cake pile mom gave me?” As children, we are constantly on the alert to threat to connection with our parents, and working tirelessly (albeit unconsciously) to maintain this vital biological need: connection and attunement. We learn that crying can make mom angry if done at the wrong time. We learn that making a goofy face makes dad smile, and that creates joy. As we age and move into the outside world, we learn that giggling uncontrollably can lead to getting mean looks from the ‘cool kids’ in our class. We learn how painful it can be to experience heartbreak, and work to ensure it “never happens again.” We experience a friendship go sour following an argument, leading to distance. When gaining exposure to the outside world, we become more keen on social pressures and norms- how does my experience in life impact or influence others’; how do I ensure I don’t experience the gut-wrenching pain of isolation? Though these often are not fully formed thoughts (ie, primarily unconscious, often until undergoing therapy or exposure to these concepts in other ways), these dynamics influence and in many ways set the stage for how we come to expect connection and attunement to look in life. When we were children, we learned the rules and followed this same protocol. How did we accomplish this? We created defenses. “I have to be perfect or else I will lose everything." “Look at me, I am super mom! I need no support ever, I got this!" “I am the funny friend and I never get sad." “Whenever I feel bad, I just go for a run! I don’t need to talk!" “I love to help people, it’s the only thing I know I’m good at!" “I don’t care about anyone, they can all just leave me alone.” “I don’t care about how I feel- there is no point- let’s just go party!" “I am just not good enough, there’s no real point in trying.” Defenses are an essential part of living: they ensure we can survive the throes of pain and unavoidable suffering in life. They work to ascertain we can enhance the positive aspects of life to protect precious preserves of happiness. They are a universal function of being human. They also can greatly impact our life choices, leading us down a path of inauthenticity and into difficult territory. For example: Take a young person who has a strong propensity toward kindness, helping and being supportive to others. Set them up with a family complete with siblings and parents who are highly critical and demeaning of this behavior, believing it to be weak (e.g., perhaps it does not fit into the pre-established family norms passed down by generations before, where emotions are believed to be difficult and ‘in the way’ vs something to explore or empathize). This young person may learn that their family ties are under threat if they continue to display this warmth toward their brother when he ‘messes up’. Instead, this person may turn away from this warm interior in favor of a false persona-defense: “belittling emotions” becomes more normal for this young person, who may grow up to continue belittling others’ emotions, believing this is to be the normal/true way of life. They are more likely to end up with a group of friends, or a partner, who mirror these similar values, despite underlying discomfort and shame felt as a result of this discordance in underlying values/necessary defenses. This person, now believing this shame/discomfort is something to be avoided as opposed to explored (despite this being their initial impulse in life), is likely to utilize further defenses (perhaps drinking, drugs, avoidance, over-exercise, etc.) to manage these authentic impulses, pushing them further still from their authentic drive in life. Defenses are a natural part of being human: and when going unchecked, can take on a life of their own, leading to a poorer quality of life. Our defenses are often what bring us to therapy: “I am unhappy because my partner is unhappy.” “I am sad because I don’t feel good enough in any aspect of my life.” Therapy is what can help you come back home to yourself: accessing your true essence once more- the part of you that knows exactly what you need, and where, and why, and how- that gets concealed and calloused away as we experience life’s wounding nature. The best part about coming home to ourselves, is the possibility of the release of true pain and feeling becoming allowed, and the possibility there are others in the world experiencing life in the same raw and painful way you always have, also comes back online. We can actually feel that we already are safe and loved- and that we no longer have to work for it. “‘Finding yourself' is not really how it works. You aren't a ten-dollar bill in last winter's coat pocket. You are also not lost. Your true self is right there, buried under cultural conditioning, other people's opinions and inaccurate conclusions you drew as a kid that became your beliefs about who you are. ‘Finding yourself’ is actually returning to yourself; an unlearning, an excavation, a remembering who you were before the world got its hands on you.” - Emily McDowell JENNIFER EULBERG, MA, LPC Welcome Jennifer, our new blogger! 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I needed a good reason to recycle this blog post. It's one of my winter go-to recipes. Let's celebrate "Drink Wine Day" by pairing wine with African Rice (or quinoa) and Peanut Stew. If you search the Internet you'll no doubt find a handful of recipes for this dish, all varying a little bit but all high in fiber, filling ingredents, and warm spices. This is my version of the well-known dish. This meatless stew is high in fiber and phytonutrients from all the different plant-based ingredients! It's super filling, loaded with flavor and it even freezes well so you can make it once and enjoy it for several meals. Blend It! Push It! Sip It! This stew can be blended for a drinkable soup or for bolus tube feeding. I love that our whole family can enjoy the same meal together. Download the Cooking For Tubies on Kindle for more blenderized tube feeding recipes! Consulting our trusty wine guide - Wine Folly According to the fancy diagram in Wine Folly: The Essiential Guide to Wine, a Rosé or Medium Red wine would pair best with African Rice and Peanut Stew. That is, if we even read it right. To be straight, I'm a dietitian and not a sommolier. I've gone wine tasting once and took a wine pairing class once. It was loads of fun and really interesting but I'm just not that fancy. You can drink any wine you want, really, with whatever you want however I do recommend staying at or below the recommended level of alcohol for adult males or females. We don't drink much alcohol in our house but I do like to keep around a variety of wines. You never know when a recipe might call for a wine reduction or a splash in some pasta sauce to enhance other flavors of the dish. My go-to wine to keep on hand is Winking Owl wines from Aldi. They are CHEAP and delicious. Well, I only really like sweet wine but sweet wines don't work well in some dishes so if I'm cooking with it, it's not always gonna be a sweet wine. When you venture out to get your groceries, grab some Winking Owl Merlot or White Zinfindel from Aldi or if you're a big spender unlike me, pick out whatever tickles your fancy. For all the people out there who are either too busy, tired, or terrified of all the germs lurking in public spaces during cold & flu season there's Shipt. Shipt is an amazing and affordable personal grocery shopping service. Saying that "I LOVE SHIPT" is an understatement. It saves me so much time and reduces my chances of contracting contaigens that put my medically fragile child at risk. Follow my affiliate link to save $50 on a Shipt membership and I'll get $50 too! --> Share the love and save $50 Spicy Vegetarian Quinoa and Peanut Stew 1-3 tbsp. Canola or olive oil 1 large sweet onion, diced 1 large sweet potato, diced 2-4 cloves of garlic, minced 2 tsp. thyme 1 tsp. cumin 4 cups chicken or veggie broth 1-2 cups cooked quinoa (you can use cooked brown rice instead if you'd like) 2 14-oz cans Mexican style diced, crushed or stewed tomatoes 1 14-oz cans garbanzo beans, drained and rinsed 3 medium zucchini, cut into ¼ inch pieces ½ cup of chunky or creamy peanut butter Did you make it? Do you plan to make it? Do you also love Shipt? Will you blend it? Please comment below, pin the recipe, and share with your friends! Small businesses like mine rely on our fans and follwers to stay in business! Really though, I need your support to keep doing the work I love and that I'm so passionate about. Happy Cooking! Savor it! This blog post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases from these links. All recommendations and opinions are my own. While thinking about what to cook for dinner tonight a thought came into my head. Why are so many people afraid of cooking. Is it fear that your special creation won't turn out right? Is it that you just don't like cooking? Are you afraid to really mess up the recipe you're following? What is it that makes so many people reach for pre-made foods or packaged dinners? Since I've been an adult cooking for myself I find that the more I cook, the more I know about food and the more I enjoy it. The discovery of new food combinations is very exciting to me. There is also something very therapeutic about chopping fruits and vegetables and baking bread or other goodies. Consider mastering these 3 basic skills to make cooking easier, faster and more fun: After mastering these 3 basic skills I hope you will find some joy in cooking. I can assure you that your homemade pasta dish will taste better than a package of lipton noodles and your fruit salad will taste better than any canned fruit cocktail. Happy Cooking! What are your hurdles to cooking a good, healthy meal from scratch?
When the golf team’s top six – senior Miles Edwards, junior Harrison Moon and sophomores John Snyder, Jackson Crawford, Ted Zhou and David Situ – went to Diablo Grande Golf & Country Club for sectionals on May 7, they arrived at a real devil of a course. “There were quite a few rattlesnake sightings,” Snyder said. Snyder said he had seen one the day prior when he and Crawford were running through a practice round of the course as well. But not even the rattlesnakes, strong winds and hilly terrain could prevent the boys from making Country Day history and seizing the title of section champion. In fact, according to co-coach Matt Vargo, they “totally crushed it.” The team finished first with 431 strokes, 39 strokes ahead of second-place Vacaville Christian High School. In addition, finishing with only six strokes over the 72-stroke-par 18-hole course, Snyder placed second in the section. That’s not to say everything went perfectly for Snyder. “I was literally shaking on the first tee,” he said. “My putting was also extremely up and down.” Regardless, Snyder said he had some “bright spots” along the way – such as his three birdies in a row on holes 12-14. In addition, Snyder said he had made some improvement on his short putts, chipping and driving from the week prior, deflecting some negative effects from the “unusually slow” greens. Snyder wasn’t the only teammate to receive special recognition. Crawford, at eight over par, placed third in the competition. Only Snyder and a player from Ripland Christian scored in the 70s, but Crawford said that had he not hit a random ball in the fairway earlier in the course, earning him a penalty, he would have had 79 strokes. Mistakes aside, Vargo said that beating the 12 other schools was no small feat. “That course was tough,” Vargo said. “It’s really hilly, windy – has a lot of unplayable environmental areas. “They handled adversity.” Moon said that one of the factors that made it an adverse course was the length. “There were just a couple of things that threw me off – like the extremely slow greens, hilly fairways and roughs,” Moon said. “But what really bugged today was that the match took about seven hours; it dragged on forever.” Moon said some opponents took more than 10 strokes on holes, prolonging his and Zhou’s games until the very end. According to Vargo, the whole team was waiting excitedly for Zhou, as his score had the potential to make or break the team. “We knew that as long as Ted put up a decent number, we’d win,” Vargo said. And come through he did. Zhou performed his best match of the season finishing with 99 strokes, 27 above par. Last year, when the course wasn’t at Diablo Grande but was of similar difficulty, the champion schools, Sacramento Adventist Academy and Ripon Christian High School, tied with a total of 500 strokes. And whereas only Edwards advanced to the CIF San-Joaquin Section Masters last year, this year all six have qualified for the competition on Friday, May 11, at The Reserve at Spanos Park in Stockton. No snakes will slither on that course, but there may be inclement weather conditions or difficult areas to challenge the team.
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The Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation and the Naftali Steinfeld Memorial Scholarship Fund offer scholarships based on financial need for high school students participating in approved Israel Experience programs. The purpose of the Israel Experience High School Scholarship Program is to develop Jewish identity and nourish greater understanding and commitment to Israel and to the Chicago Jewish community. Dollar amounts will vary, as will deadlines as well. Applicants must be enrolled in grade 10, 11 or 12 (this includes graduating seniors who are going to college) and must demonstrate financial need. Applicants must be a resident of the Chicago-metropolitan area (applicants living outside Illinois but attending school in the Chicago area are not eligible to apply). Applicants presently in school outside of the United States are not eligible for a Jewish Federation Israel Experience scholarship. Applicant must have applied to or be in the process of applying to an approved Israel Experience program which does not begin until after the application deadline. Applicants must be committed to participating in communal Jewish activities after returning from Israel.
The ramifications were and are terrifying. A study published in March found the threat of rising seas in California has been vastly underestimated. By century's end, researchers said, California will be looking at up to US$150 billion of property damage annually, with millions of people at risk along the coast – residents previously assumed to be safe from the dangers of surging, stormy seas. You may have heard about this. But there's a good chance you didn't. For such thunderous, grave news, the body that led the research, the United States Geological Survey (USGS), made things sound decidedly less dire when they announced the findings. While the study openly contemplates an "extreme scenario [that] could equate to over 3 million residents at risk across the state by 2100", the USGS's press release on the research makes scant reference to climate change, presenting the findings almost like a valuable opportunity for governmental and commercial entities "planning for future infrastructure" in the world's fifth largest economy. It wasn't supposed to be this way, according to a damning new report by E&E News journalist Scott Waldman. In his investigation, Waldman says the USGS's sanitised spin on the findings of its own research was part of a years-long campaign by officials inside President Donald Trump's administration to censor references to climate change in federal agency communications. "It's been made clear to us that we're not supposed to use climate change in press releases anymore," an anonymous federal researcher told Waldman. "They will not be authorised." According to the report, the original draft of the press release on the California coastline findings was "significantly altered" by Trump officials, who also delayed the publication of the findings for several months. The original text of the release – written by the researchers themselves – did ultimately see the light of day, but only on the website of Point Blue Conservation Science, an environmental non-profit that contributed to the study. Point Blue's release doesn't pull the punches like the taxpayer-funded version does. "According to the study, even modest sea level rise projections of 10 inches (25 centimetres) by 2040 could flood more than 150,000 residents and affect more than US$30 billion in property value when combined with an extreme 100-year storm along California's coast," the original release states. "Even a typical winter storm, when combined with elevated sea levels, could threaten US$100 billion of coastal real estate across the Golden State annually." The E&E News report says the press release went through the office of USGS director James Reilly, who was appointed by the White House in 2018. Reilly, The New York Times reported in May, has ordered his agency to limit the scope of its climate models, not making future projections on the impact of climate change beyond 2040, which scientists say will be misleading. According to Waldman though, tampering with and censorship of USGS press releases pre-dates Reilly's appointment as director of the agency – but correlates squarely with presidential timelines. "In the last year of the Obama administration, USGS distributed at least 13 press releases that focused on climate change and highlighted it in the headline," E&E News reports. "Since then – from 2017 through the first six months of 2019 – none has mentioned climate change in the headline of the press release… Some briefly mentioned climate change in the body of the release, while others did not refer to it at all." For a body whose motto is 'Science for a changing world', this alleged censorship of press releases – among broader suppression of information on human-caused climate change by the Trump administration – amounts to an incredible disservice to the American people who fund the USGS to conduct scientific research on their behalf. "It's an insult to the science, of course, but it's also an insult to the people who need this information and whose livelihoods and in some cases their lives depend on this," climate change policy researcher Joel Clement from the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Centre for Science and International Affairs told E&E News. "What's shocking about it is that this has been taken to a new level, where information that is essential to economic and health and safety — essentially American well-being — is essentially being shelved and being hidden."
The history of oil exploration and exploitation has demonstrated time and time again the risks that these activities pose to marine and coastal ecosystems. As long as fossil fuels are essential to man, we must understand the impacts of oil-related environmental disasters, since we are unable to control them. This is one of the major issues occupying ArcticNet, a Network of Centres of Excellence of Canada that brings together scientists from many sectors, northern communities and partners from various levels of government and industry. The primary outcome of this scientific research is to assess the risks of oil exploration for Arctic ecosystems. It all began in 2007, when the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada sold concessions to oil companies in the Beaufort Sea, an area potentially rich in light oil. ArcticNet called on the expertise of four Canadian universities and a federal research centre to ensure that each of the areas targeted for exploration was safe and preserved the sustainability and wealth of the surrounding marine ecosystems. The primary factors to be considered when determining site safety were the stability of the ocean floor and the sea-ice regime, in order to prevent the collapse of platforms. The portion of the project concerned with marine ecosystems is led by Louis Fortier of Université Laval, a specialist in zooplankton and marine fish population dynamics and the Canada Research Chair on the Response of Arctic Marine Ecosystems to Climate Change. Louis Fortier has been studying Arctic cod and copepods, key components of the Arctic Ocean pelagic ecosystem that are responsible for up to 75% of the energy transfer between plankton and the vertebrate fauna (fish, seals, whales and marine birds). Given their importance, the slightest disturbance of their environment, whether due to climate change or the result of an oil spill, could lead to an imbalance in the entire food chain. Different aspects of this ecosystem have been examined, from zooplankton respiration to the transport of carbon and nitrogen in the Arctic sea bottom. The primary outcome of this scientific research is to assess the risks of oil exploration for Arctic ecosystems. It is also helping to inform government decisions on oil exploitation, in a context where oil is a significant source of income. In addition, if the Arctic deposits are large enough, their exploitation could marginalize the extraction of crude oil from tar sands, which would reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This project has also allowed the development of a unique international expertise that could lead to new partnerships in other polar regions. Finally, if the Québec government should decide to explore the possibility of exploiting the oil reserves of the St. Lawrence River, the team that has been put together would be able to quickly carry out a study of the associated risks, since the conditions are very similar to those found in the Arctic.
Governments in many countries take action to support youth employment. However, a semantic analysis of the measures they deploy reveals a great deal about their vision of the role of young people in society and in the labour market. María Eugenia Longo, a researcher at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), analyzed and compared the wording of some one hundred public policies and employment programs implemented for young people in Canada, Québec, France and Argentina. She also conducted some twenty interviews with experts and those responsible for formulating these policies. The analysis reveals that in each context, policies differ in terms of objectives, target populations, solutions and services. Most significantly, it shows that states have different meanings for employment, the role of young people in the labour market, and the support provided. These differing meanings determine the type of efforts required of young people in order to benefit from these public policies. In some contexts, they are simply asked to act individually, by getting a job, pursuing studies or training, or even travelling. In other contexts, young people are expected to be employed. Elsewhere, the emphasis is on social integration through employment, or on education and qualifications. María Eugenia Longo’s analysis therefore provides information on the way in which states conceive of their function in relation to young people. For example, in Canada, the role is more often that of facilitator without funding; in Quebec, the role is to guide and support; in France, the role is more directive, guiding educational and professional choices according to the places available; and in Argentina, the role is to compensate for vulnerabilities. This study provides a better understanding of the place that states give to young people in society and how this affects youth programs and policies.
Andy Murray congratulates brother Jamie on US Open win The elder Murray won his fifth Grand Slam title (two more than Sir Andy) after beating Michael Venus and Hao-Ching Chan 6-1, 4-6, 10-8 at Flushing Meadows, maintaining an unbeaten run that also saw them win Wimbledon. Andy Murray, who missed the US Open through injury, was watching from home as his brother and female tennis icon Hingis won their second straight mixed doubles title. Andy posted a picture on Instagram showing Murray and Hingis lifting the trophy on TV, accompanied by the message: “Proud little brother.” The brothers’ mother Judy Murray was in attendance at the final, and tweeted a photo of the winning partnership with the caption: “Having a little cry - as you do”. The younger Murray hasn’t enjoyed the success of his brother this season, struggling with injuries and losing his number one spot in the rankings to Rafael Nadal.
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Google has announced that big changes are coming to Google Drive, its cloud-based file storage platform. This latest series of tweaks to the popular cloud storage service come mainly in the form of a shiny new landing page, but there’s an extra treat in sort for iOS users. The new homepage (aptly named the ‘Home’ view) will become the default landing page for every Drive user when it rolls out over the next couple of months – though you’ll be able to swap back to the old view if you prefer. In a blog post explaining the changes, Google says that Home will be “streamlined” compared to the standard My Drive landing page, designed to make it “easier and faster for you to find files that matter most”. To that end, the Home screen will include personalized suggestions that use AI to learn which files and folders you access regularly (or documents that are tied to upcoming events in your Google calendar). It’ll also include new ‘search chips’ that make filtering your files easier, and will employ Google’s Material Design 3 guidelines for a (hopefully) more modern and user-friendly look. That’s not all, folks Google isn’t stopping there, either. A long-awaited Drive feature is finally coming to iPhone and iPad: the document scanner, which uses your device camera to take high-quality scans of physical documents which are then converted to PDFs, with the ability to scan multiple pictures in succession for producing multi-page documents. The feature has been available for Drive users on Android for a while now, so it’s good to see that Google isn’t planning on leaving iPhone owners out in the cold. The document scanner (which was recently upgraded for Android Users) will also use machine learning to suggest names for your scanned documents, such as recognizing a receipt from a store and giving it an appropriate filename. The scanner feature is rolling out to iOS and iPadOS users now, so if you’ve got an Apple device you can expect to have it soon if you don’t already. The updated Google Drive homepage will be arriving at a slower pace, with early access starting now and a wide release for personal users from January 15 next year. I’m personally a little dubious about an AI-powered homepage for Drive – ‘suggested content’ in the software I use has rarely been useful in my experience, AI-assisted or not. But thankfully Google has already confirmed that users will get an instant pop-up asking if they’d like to swap their default view back to the old My Drive page, so it’s not like this change is being forced on us.
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I get on a train and there, eventually, is Eleni Haifa: about 22, massive hair and 5 ft tall. She is either Italian, Jewish, Arab, Turkish, Kurdish or Greek. She has olive skin and is wearing high heels with gold tips, a white jacket, oyster coloured skirt and carrying two iPhones, one in a black case and one red. She has one iPhone in each hand and is transferring something from one to another by typing using her thumbs. But not the tips of her thumbs because her nails are so long – and polished – that she has to use the pads of her thumbs to type, very fast. She puts one down – the one playing her music – and then goes to Facebook on the other: to her profile, where the picture is some kind of cartoon. She flips to What’sApp – I can tell it’s What’sApp from the green message boxes. Between Clapham Junction and Waterloo she spends her switching between What’sApp and Facebook. She’s been on the train at least from Richmond. “On or about December 1910 human character changed,” wrote Virginia Woolf. Her argument was with Arnold Bennett, who claimed there were no good novels being produced because, after the 1914-18 war, writers had become unable to create characters. Woolf disagreed. There’d been a crisis in literature caused by the emergence of a new kind of person: Edwardian novelists had tried to write about them using old, Victorian storytelling forms. Then, once they’d invented new forms (streams of consciousness, fragmented time etc), the conventions the audience shared with writers had broken down. But if the conventions could be re-established she said: “we are trembling on the verge of one of the great ages of English literature” – as long as we don’t abandon character. To illustrate her point she got on a train from Richmond to Waterloo and observed “Mrs Brown”. Mrs Brown is the name Woolf gave to an elderly woman she’d watched on the train in the midst of an argument. Woolf unleashed her imagination on this old lady to illustrate how the modern novelist has to approach character from the standpoint of mind and imagination, discarding the circumstance-based characters of Victorian literature. She was, at this time, halfway through writing Mrs Dalloway, which was a non-sequential exploration of her own psyche and post-war guilt. She had written at the top of the manuscript: “A delicious idea comes to me that I will write anything I want to write”. Woolf’s famous line – “on or about December 1910 human character changed” – haunts the present. Sometime during the 2000s a combination of technology, broken economic life-chances and increased personal freedom changed human character all over again. From the demonstrations on Tahrir Square, to the small exam revision groups organised by women in hijabs in the coffee bars just off Tahrir Square, we are beginning to meet a new kind of person: the networked individual, with weak organisational loyalty, multiple personas and whose consciousness is produced by continual, multiplatform communication. This has implications for all forms of storytelling based on character. To explore these, I’ve decided to jump on the same train Woolf took – from Richmond to Waterloo in the early evening – and search again for Mrs Brown. So I get on the train at Richmond, around 1815. The platform is packed. Richmond shouts “class” at you: it’s overwhelmingly white; there are still the kind of people here who go to the cricket and the whole high street is a playground for non-working wealthy women and their kids, and nannies. In this experiment the rules are: I have to describe and maybe build a character for the first memorable “networked individual” I see. But today you can’t call a character “Mrs Brown” – we’re a global melting pot in London and marriage is on the decline except among gays and lesbians. But on Facebook the are always “invented name” memes going around: your pornstar name, your Country & Western name etc. So I’ve come up with a formula for your “networked individual” name: it’s the name on the badge of the last barista who served you coffee, combined with the place you last saw a riot on TV news. So this woman with two phones has to be called Eleni Haifa. The difference between Eleni Haifa and Woolf’s heroine, Clarissa Dalloway, is not that she might be living a liberated modern life, zipping over to a hen night in Stockholm via Ryanair, taking the morning after pill, hitting a punchbag at the gym, etc. These things are just the modern equivalents of what the liberated middle class woman from Richmond did in the 1920s. The real difference is how she thinks and communicates and how that moulds a version of the self, or several versions of it, and how she deploys them. The challenge for all forms of storytelling based on character is how to depict that. But that’s not the only challenge. The second challenge is: why would Eleni Haifa want to read a form of storytelling that was less interesting than the one she creates with her own life? With those two iPhones she has some awesome narrative firepower of her own, and those thumbs are quick. Some bullet points about the internet’s impact on the kind of self we possess… - The multiple self : we present clearly defined versions of ourself in different digital arenas – Eleni can be the woman who works for the ad agency, the girlfriend, the secret girlfriend of someone else, the kickboxer, the Arsenal fan, the Elf in Elder Scrolls Online. Each time she spins the dial dial round, to select a one of these selves, the others don’t just rotate – they reconfigure around the selected self, like electrons in a model of an atom. - The leaky self: When we’re online: “it becomes almost like a fluid, leaking out around us all the time and joining each of us into a vast ocean, or web, of relationships with other leaky selves.” (Margaret Wertheim: The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace). Eleni retweets someone’s epithet, shares her friend’s wedding photographs on Facebook, subscribes to a playlist her boyfriend posted on Spotify: the precondition for all of the above is that other people are prepared to contribute parts of their online life to hers, so she must too. - The scattered essential self: Though each of the selves is constructed there will be one self (sometimes more) selected for the processes of reflection that are available online. People will pour out personal shit on Facebook or Twitter messaging services, or via the closed services like What’sApp and Snapchat. This self will be scattered across analog and digital spaces and consists of all the unguarded and frank expressions they’ve every uttered. - The branded self: Below the age 35 most people are now maintaining a carefully constructed version of the self, aimed at the two most essential things in life: getting a partner and getting a job. They consciously construct this self – though they may not fully believe in it. To find it look at Facebook profiles, people’s Tumblrs, their profile pics. Eleni’s two iPhones could be one provided by work and another she runs herself: or they could contain two separate lives. A lot of people do the latter. - The Cartesian dualist selves: Wertheim asks, pertinently: “Where am I when I am in an immersive online world?” My body is sitting at my computer but my mind is fighting a dragon with 200 other disembodied selves. Though gaming is the condition mostly associated with this, it could be asked of anybody immersed in their tablet or their smartphone. They are newly capable of being in one place and acting in another. The key here is interaction: there are a lot of people on the train “lost” in books and e-books: this is the same as it would have been in 1924. But those who are interacting in realtime with other people can develop a different kind of online consciousness that comes close to the old Cartesian dualism, of the mind and body being separate. Other selves are available. Woolf understood the idea of multiple selves. She writes in Orlando that “a biography is considered complete if it accounts for six or seven selves whereas a person may have as many thousand”. (Orlando p. 213) But for Woolf, “people” meant upper middle class people; people who’d been to Cambridge. You can tell this by the fact that in all her writing the “selves” of working class people are one dimensional. In addition, even for Woolf, many of these selves were publicly suppressed. So her relationship with Vita Sackville West – her lesbian self – is never fully acknowledged, either in her writing or in her letters to other people; even her letters to Vita are prudish about what may or may not have happened. Her political “self” is suppressed, even in her late novels when she’s angry about fascism. She takes out of The Waves a brilliant polemic; she self-censors a risqué joke about lesbianism out of A Room of One’s Own. No. Whatever freedom and multidimensionality we think the liberated women of the inter-war era had, they only had it in retrospect: we only know it from their biographies, letters and diaries. Eleni Haifa has freedom, and a publicly multi-identity lifestyle on a scale not only unimaginable in Woolf’s time, but impossible one generation ago. She is also, of course, oppressed, harassed, crushed down by circumstance. If you plugged into a database every character in every play in the Western canon… …and plotted complexity against class, you’d probably end up with a neat curve: until around 1890 most low class characters are stereotypes; and though not all upper class characters are complex, most complex ones are upper class, or have significant power. The outliers would be underlings who play a part in the downfall of rich men: Iago, Sganarelle in Don Juan, Figaro. After that, complex working class characters begin to appear – but usually where the entire world of the drama is working class: e.g. The Daughter-in-Law, Harold Brighouse etc. It’s better in novels: there are complex working class characters in Zola, Hardy, Forster – often depicted as men and women adrift in the world of the disrupted middle classes. The real revolution, beginning in the 1890s lies in the depiction of psychology and gender and the rapid fall in the social “centre of gravity”: plays begin to be set in the world of the lower middle class, at whose edges lie beggars, dustmen, prostitutes, closet gay men and the occasional revolutionary. I say “beginning” but if you look at the statistics, the West End in the 1890s is all Pinero, H.A Jones and Sydney Grundy. “Who?” you say. Yeah who! This is London theatre scene on the eve of the date that “human character changed”. Jones, Pinero and Grundy wrote plays in which the most controversial social topics were things like divorcees being allowed to remarry. Ibsen’s A Doll’s House – the play credited with spreading feminism – was first performed in London in 1889 and again for a 7-night only run in the mid-1990s. The “change in human character” Woolf is writing about probably begins in the 1890s and is complete by 1910. Theatre, because of censorship, was lagging behind reality. She chooses December 1910 not just because it was the date of the Post-impressionist Exhibition organised by her friend Roger Fry, but also of the general election which the liberals won on a radical pledge to limit the power of the House of Lords – and because 30 November 1910 had seen “Black Friday” when 300 suffragettes demonstrating outside parliament were physically attacked by the police, sparking the major upsurge in property damage, hunger striking etc. December 1910 may have felt a lot like December 2010 did in Britain, with the student uprising. If we look at it through technology, the 1910 date for the emergence of the modern person is about right. Here’s a list of things you could do in December 1910 that you could not in, say December 1895: - go to the movies, - ride in a motor car, - play a 78 rpm record, - read a tabloid newspaper, - make a long-distance phone call, - work in a steel-frame tall building, - radio a message to a ship. People who lived through the second industrial revolution (1898-1914) understood it was a moment of rapid change – in technology, lifestyles and the psyche. And not just for the middle and upper classes. For working class people there was – via the public library, the labour movement and the night school – the sudden possibility of complexity, challenge, a language of self-reflection. For the first 100 years of industrial work, life for the working class person had been one of heavy work, scant leisure time, constrained conversation or even habitual silence. Even for skilled and literate workers, rigidly social codes defined what they said, did and thought. Theodore Zeldin explores the archaeological ruins of this world in An Intimate History of Humanity – documenting the preference for silence, taboo subjects, stilted methods of discourse among the French lower classes. I am going to discuss this further in Postcapitalism: A guide to our future (Penguin, 2015). The point here is that the new technology, combined with new social conditions, not only created the possibility of, say, a character like Mrs Dalloway but also a character like Mellors in Lawrence. When we say “a new kind of person” we mean revolutionary forms of thought infest the world of the ordinary person as well. This Eleni Haifa person on the train in 2014 is not a revolutionary: her entire mode of dress – the office wear, big hair and the gold shoes – says that. But it is to such people that the revolutions of 2011-13 happened: office workers in Cairo, Istanbul, Moscow, Syria. People who’ve spent a lot of money on shoes basically. And what brought it to them was the same networks they habitually used to discuss their ordinary lives. Woolf’s complaint was that new kinds of people had been trapped in old literary forms. It feels to me like that’s what we are living through now. In the English-language theatre, plays where characters habitually stare at their smartphones, where texting and emails are represented as an additional layer of communication and consciousness, have begun to appear. The first play I saw where this was systematically exploited was Karin Young’s The Awkward Squad (2012) – in all other ways it was a traditional piece of theatre. If I think back to the first play I saw where the characters all behaved as networked individuals it was either Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping and Fucking (1997) or his Mother Clap’s Molly House (2000). Probably the most overt impact of the new, networked reality has been seen in the American drama series: The Wire’s entire premise was a war between a hierarchy (the Baltimore cops) and a network (African American criminal gangs using cellphones and codes to communicate). But The Wire was, largely, populated by “old kinds of people”. Only the character of Omar – a gay, self-reflective outsider to all the other worlds in the drama – emerges (by Season Three) as the kind of hyper-connected, multi-self individual we see in post-2000 reality. By the mid-2010s, however something more significant has happened: it has become normal to reflect the new complexity of characters through the device of the uncertain/unresolved plot. In Homeland, and in the UK TV drama series Line of Duty, the protagonists are chronically deconstructed. We do not know, from one episode to the next, what their real motivation is, what the true facts are about them, or what they are going to do next. To achieve this, directors have begun to deprive all but the lead actor of any knowledge of how the story ends. Typically the story is not resolved. The beauty of this new device, the unresolved plotline, is that it is implicitly understood by the audience: the audience no longer has only to suspend disbelief: they have to suspend their expectations of any kind of resolution. This looks like extreme innovation in plot: in fact it is about character. It allows the creation of characters in which there is space for the multiple selves of modern life. Because the plots never have to resolve, the entire ten hours of the series become a kind of revolving dais for us to see these crystally impure and complex people, revolving round and round, like ourselves. By giving Carrie, the heroine of Homeland, bipolar disorder, the writers award themselves the ability to make her multi-selved and unpredictable. And what about the novel? Woolf describes the novel’s power as “so clumsy, verbose, and undramatic, so rich, elastic, and alive”. Has the novel’s richness, elasticity and life run out in the face of this? No – but the literary novel itself is under pressure: economically, from writers’ falling incomes, technologically – with the rise of self-published fan fiction with followings of multi-million downloads, and ultra-cheap e-books – and then existentially, from reality-based texts. If you give Frodo Baggins a cellphone The Lord of the Rings becomes a considerably shorter book. So much of old literature’s narrative power hung on the absence of realtime information, or the absence of background knowledge, and the inability to communicate, that the future of narrative where the network is everywhere has to be in question. Try it with Othello: just hack into her Facebook page, mate – Cassio’s most definitely in the friend zone, it’s that Iago you want to worry about – he’s obsessed with her. Try it with Casablanca: Rick does not tweet but his Facebook profile says “it’s complicated”: he has just 17 “friends” and he posts YouTubes of old Hoagy Carmichael songs up, late at night, with no explanation. Try it with Mrs Dalloway, however, and you run into a different problem. In Woolf’s novel the narrative of Clarissa’s day is just a framework on which to drape her self-exploration, her alter-ego – the suicidal PTSD casualty Septimus – her regrets and fantasies about lives she never got to live. What happens to Clarissa Dalloway if you give her a mobile phone is not so revolutionary: she just becomes a 1920s version of Eleni Haifa. She is already a person with multiple selves, liberated in her own mind. Given a cellphone she becomes the citizen of a world where old things are alive with new information: she gets to express these multiple selves in reality, and not in an experimental novel, or in private letters. The real problem for the novelist or playwright is not describing Eleni from the inside out: it is describing the externals. For her, reality is being bombarded with external messages every minute. Her reality is the music in her earphones, the messages and tweets and emails and likes and photographs arriving on her two (!) iPhones. The question is: can we tweak the old forms to make Eleni’s complete story possible – or do we, like Woolf’s generation, have to create new conventions? In Reality Hunger (2010) David Shields claimed that a new artistic movement was forming in which artists were “breaking larger and larger chunks of ‘reality’ into their work.” Shields cited – in music, drama, video, novels and poetry – the increasingly frequent use of “raw” material: “unprocessed, unfiltered, uncensored and unprofessional.” He described its typical characteristics: Randomness, openness to accident and serendipity, spontaneity; artistic risk, emotional urgency and intensity, reader/viewer participation, an overly-literal tone, as if reporter were viewing a strange culture; plasticity of form; pointillism; criticism as autobiography; self-reflexivity, self-ethnography; anthropological autobiography; a blurring (to the point of invisibility) between fiction and non-fiction; the lure and blur of the real. Notice how this list veers, towards the end, towards variations on a theme of instant and continuous autobiography. That is what Eleni is making on the train. It is worth noting that Woolf owned a primitive version of what Eleni owns: a self-publishing tool. She and Leonard owned and operated the Hogarth Press in their home. They self-published some of Virginia’s work, and only Leonard had any pre-publication input, and then only at the galley proof stage. She too produced, over the years, many iterations of the instant and continuous autobiography. The “delicious thought…I will write what I like” and the ability to publish it are linked. Shields does not like the novel. He believes a novel, in these circumstances, becomes not about reality but about the artifice of writing and plotting and character creation. He says the people really doing what the novel used to do are documentarists, non-fiction writers, or those prepared to montage chunks of reality and self-analysis into the prose: The power to make us feel our one and only life, as very few novelists actually do these days, has come from a memorist, a non-fiction truth speaker who has entered our common situation and is telling the story we now want to be told. This is true but I don’t think this is the whole story – otherwise why is Eleni Haifa devouring novels – analog and digital – and sitting for hours on end in front of a DVD boxed set, or going to Cirque du Soleil, or a comedy club or even an actual theatre? (When she got off the train she headed for the South Bank). When I was writing Rare Earth: A Novel my instinct was to make the periodisation fuzzy. I started writing it in a hotel room in China in May 2009, in the run up to the 20 th anniversary of Tiananmen Square; the key events concern the anniversary itself, but I could have made it “any recent anniversary”. Since there are ghosts in it, and surreal events, and the CCP is not going to be overthrown anytime soon, it would be better situated somewhere in a blob of time between Lehman Brothers and what was then to unfold – the Eurocrisis and the Arab Spring. The thing that made me reverse out of this, and set it literally day by day in 2009, was technology. The protagonist, Brough, a journalist, has a GPRS Blackberry which gets confiscated and smashed. He is (plausibly for then) not on Facebook or Twitter but is on email, uses text messaging and most definitely the Internet. Two crucial plot points happen because the Chinese try to seize and wipe “tapes” not knowing that video can be backed up to discs and cards, even if they are not yet shot onto cards. In fact members of his own team don’t know this, and are undone by it. By the next time I went to China, in 2012, all video was shot on cards. Secret policemen the world over have become adept at demanding SD cards from journalists and know how to wipe them. The real life Brough would have had a 3G Blackberry by 2010, switching to iPhone by around 2011. By 2012 some journalists were switching from laptops to iPad plus mini keyboard for everyday travel use. Meanwhile it has become near mandatory for journalists to be on Twitter. And What’sApp appeared: there are more photos sent via What’sApp per minute than there are tweets. This rapid change – the rise of social media, their banning in China and the creation of a parallel Chinese social media service, in the form of Weibo etc – all made China in 2012 seem utterly cut off from the real world, in a way it was not in 2009, when it was still part of the shared world of Blackberry, SMS and Internet. Brough is not me: he is a dumber, more sexist, less radical and at the same time more action-oriented version of me. But he is close enough to me that I realise his character – such as it is – would have changed significantly in these years of social media revolution and mass, horizontalist revolt. By 2014 he is not the “new type of person” you meet habitually on the protests, or in the alternative lifestyle movements. But he is surrounded by them and changed by them. He too is living testimony that, as I’ve argued in Why It’s Still Kicking Off Everywhere, “on or about” December 2010 human character changed. So let’s rephrase Woolf’s observation… Sometime between the painting of Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) and its first showing (1916) human character changed: the first atonal music is performed, the first abstract art is shown, Diaghilev’s dancers dance in Paris and London, Klimt’s lesbian kiss in the Beethoven frieze is exhibited and taken down. Alexander Bogdanov quits the Bolsheviks and writes his sci-fi novel Red Star, in which an idealised communist society on Mars has abolished gender identities. In politics these are the years of the suffragettes and syndicalism. During this revolution in human character, in order to find a voice for the new person, most of the conventions of communication between artists and their audience break down: so you get early surrealism, inner narratives, psychodrama, atonality, the Ballets Russes. But the physical forms persist. There are still theatres, books, symphony orchestras, opera houses. And these physical forms, as Woolf expected, gradually allow artists to rebuild “conventions of communication”. And the language of innovation is toned down, or becomes stylised. Then comes the surge towards a demotic realism once the mid-century crisis hits: Steinbeck, Greene, Brecht, Weill – the poets and novelists of the 1930s who react against Bloomsbury and surrealism. Plus you get the rise of mass cultural forms: the popular song, the Jazz record, the movie and the musical, the photograph – all of which quickly stabilise into structures dictated by their physical formats: reels of film, discs of shellac, the size and shape of a Broadway stage, the format of a magazine like Life or Picture Post. So the 1910 version of “human character changed” disrupted the way we use books, canvases and stages but did not lead to their replacement as physical forms. If, in response to the rise of network technology, we have to rethink our approach to character, then it is even more likely that we will rethink our approach to physical forms. If Shields is right we should expect to change not just what is done in the theatre, but where and when theatre is done, and what it physically consists of; not just how a novel looks on an e-reader but what kind of thing should we write for e-readers. Not just how music sounds where how it is stored and played. In each case we should expect large chunks of “reality” to enter into works of art. This is because the background to the change is not a “second industrial revolution” but a move towards the information society. Information is the raw material empowering (or disempowering, we don’t know) the woman with two iPhones on the train. A lot of it will be information that is free, or is her own information, or unprocessed information. In theatre there is, already, a boom in interactive performance; alongside this there is the rise of all kinds of re-enactment – jousting competitions in the grounds of castles, fake miners in preserved collieries etc. (When climate protesters staged a series of performance protests against BP’s sponsorship inside the Viking exhibition at the British Museum, there were times when the punters did not know the whole thing had not been actually commissioned by the Museum itself.) On top of that there the rising popularity of physical theatre. If the new generation of protesters are used to using performance – staging a climb up a power-station chimney, or creating a Clown Army to disrupt the Gleneagles Summit – then they are drawing from and adding to these two trends in theatre: interaction and physicality. If protesters use the human body to write graffiti onto the modern city, then dramatists can use them to create theatre in the same way. The vogue for clowning and circus skills in theatre is probably speaking to an unstated desire to break down forms. For where are we when we’re in a circus? Is it real or a performance? The assumption is the former: the animals, the trapeze artists, the water that used to flood the arena at Blackpool Tower circus so the seals could perform – are all real. Yet we also have slapstick, and characters: Whiteface, Auguste, the girl on horseback in a tutu. The circus is more real, and less controllable than theatre, and while traditional circuses are dying out, this mix between spectacle and theatre (quite similar to the Sirkus imagined by Peter Carey in The Unusual Life of Tristram Smith) is both commercially successful – Cirque du Soleil in nearly every casino in Vegas – and attractive to a new generation of performers. It is an ideal convention for now. There are others of course. Then there is devising. It is hard to distinguish fads from fundamental trends but it feels like a lot of serious drama is now made at the devising stage: that is, the author contributes a scenario or structure and the actors/directors bring research, analysis, improvisation etc to the task of creating sustainable characters onstage. As with the TV drama series, the plot becomes secondary: Mike Lee’s Grief sacrificed the conventional turning points of drama for the most utterly convincing and compelling character creation (by Lesley Manville) through devising and improvisation. Why is this? Perhaps actors/devisers have the confidence that they can create character better than a writer for good reason: they are nearer to the real, multiple selves of the modern person than the writer can be. Let’s go back to the train and ask: how much narrative creativity does Eleni Haifa actually want? Ask her: “do you go to the theatre” – and she will probably answer not often. Asked why, she may answer: “Because I can’t afford it”. But this is a ruse. She will pay twice the cost of a theatre ticket for a nail job, or a cheap flight to a city less interesting than her own. The movies? Yes, but unless she’s some kind of niche intellectual we are talking Hollywood genres: rom-com, action, zombie or ditzy po-mo thriller. Movies are important because they are the raw material for memes in the way theatre is not. Movies are the subject of watercooler moments for this generation: you have to see them to talk about them. Novels? You bet. A lot of other women her age were reading them on the train to Waterloo (men were also read novels but also a lot of nonfiction – why?). But as in the days of Virginia Woolf it is not likely to be literary fiction. It will be a sophisticated version of genre: by Kate or Kathy or Zadie or Allie (she is statistically unlikely to be reading a novel by a man). I am stereotyping here but within reasonable bounds. You can boil narrative down to plot, character and poetry. If we ask: what plots can Eleni Haifa deal with the answer is: complex. She is totally schooled in the reversals, twists, surprises, unresolved tensions that range across entire seasons of TV drama, and through multipart feature movie franchises like Bourne. How much poetry does she want? The answer is a lot. To steal a phrase from Jimmy Stewart’s character in Harvey, nobody brings anything small into a theatre or cinema anymore, or to a novel. The milky sunsets, weak violence and unlined faces of the Robert Redford era are gone. In literature, the style – if not complexity – of a Marquez, Pynchon, Pamuk, Zadie Smith or Arundhati Roy is a required level of intensity. But what kind of characters does Eleni Haifa want to hear about? I am asking this not in order to “give the people what they want” but just out of interest. We know what kind of characters she gets. From Hollywood, utter stereotypes. In TV drama it’s the opposite. The new archetype is Carrie – bipolar, poly, physically tougher than most men in the era of Virginia Woolf, and juggling determinedly multiple personalities (woman in the suit, woman in the hijab, the drunk woman in the bar, curled up foetus in the mental health unit). In novels? Supply creates demand here – and the supply is dominated by characters who go generally through epiphany and redemption. And the Jimmy Stewart doctrine also applies: nothing is small. All traumas have to be huge. Let’s assume the woman on the train “reads”, and can navigate intelligently, all the above formulas in popular fiction and TV drama. What is left for literature, theatre, the art movie, other genres yet to be invented? What are we trying to add? You could try to create – as Woolf did in Mrs Dalloway – the human character on steroids. One woman’s world, bursting so heavily with subtext, trauma and self-reflection that all the other characters are needed just to tell the story of what’s going on inside her brain. But at a certain point if that inner narrative is not interacting with networks – messages, memes, the thoughts of multiple selves expressed on social media platforms, long hours spent gaming (Candy Crush Saga is big among the people on the 18:15 from Richmond to Waterloo) – if these things are not there then it is not her reality. It is an old reality, like portraying the Edwardian era without suffragettes. Large numbers of young, urban, connected human beings can get up any day of the week and, like with Woolf, the idea can come to them: “I can write anything I like”. Only they will do it with their body – in an occupation, in a flamenco dance before a Spanish cathedral, spurting fake blood out of their skirt in protest at the abortion law – or in dance club. Or graffiti. Or with their fingers/thumbs using Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr on one or more iPhones. The raw material of what they produce will always be a montage of other people’s stuff and then something outrageously original by them. On the Jimmy Stewart principle it will be nothing small. It could be as simple as a Tumblr blog about haute couture by a publicly militant feminist revolutionary. The mere fact of who she is and the cool-ly uncommittal images from Vogue she’s posting is a bigger statement than the opening sentence of a lot of books. Woolf’s injunction was “never, never abandon Mrs Brown” – that is, never abandon real characters. But what does it mean to “not abandon” our woman on the train? Two things: - If we are going to depict her in literature or on stage or on TV, we have to find ways of depicting the full person: the tweets, the memes, the text messages, her Instagram photos, the filter she uses on her Instagram photos; what they mean. - And then we have to adjust the format of narrative to take account of the fact that she is probably producing a very interesting narrative of her own, every second she is awake. Let me put it another way: in my own writing I don’t have to do any of these things. Nor does any other creator of traditional narratives (film, novel, theatre, TV drama). Fuckyeah we can all stay pre-digital. Eleni will go on reading Kathy Reichs, playing Candy Crush, watching genre movies and then sharing responses to them on social media. Theatres will still get public funding, novelists will get dwindling advances, blockbusters TV series will get made that sporadically depict truth by getting less and less structured in their narratives. People will flock to Cirque du Soleil, stand up comedy and Glastonbury. But there will be no Rick, no Ilse, no Clarissa Dalloway, no Mellors, no Connie Chatterley, no Yossarian, no Taste of Honey for our time. Brilliant creators will go on creating characters like these in the old conventions – like Bach went on writing Baroque music, perfecting it even as the genre died. Give “Mrs Brown” an iPhone and it is people like Mrs Woolf who have to start worrying. WTF is Eleni Haifa? by Paul Mason is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Acknowledgements: This essay was inspired by a workshop at the Young Vic Theatre, under its director’s programme, in August 2014.
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SEC Adopts Amendments to Enhance Private Fund Reporting FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington D.C., Feb. 8, 2024 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today adopted amendments to Form PF, the confidential reporting form for certain SEC-registered investment advisers to private funds, including those that also are registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as commodity pool operators or commodity trading advisers. The amendments, which the CFTC concurrently adopted, are designed to enhance the ability of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) to monitor and assess systemic risk and to bolster the SEC’s oversight of private fund advisers and the agency’s investor protection efforts. The SEC and CFTC also agreed to a memorandum of understanding related to the sharing of Form PF data. “Since Form PF first was adopted, the SEC, CFTC, and FSOC have identified gaps in the information we receive from private fund advisers,” said SEC Chair Gary Gensler. “These amendments to Form PF will enhance the Commissions’ and FSOC’s understanding of the private fund industry as well the potential systemic risk posed by the industry and its individual participants. In addition, the adoption also furthers investor protection efforts.” Among other things, the amendments to Form PF will enhance how large hedge fund advisers report investment exposures, borrowing and counterparty exposure, market factor effects, currency exposure, turnover, country and industry exposure, central clearing counterparty reporting, risk metrics, investment performance by strategy, portfolio liquidity, and financing and investor liquidity to provide better insight into the operations and strategies of these funds and their advisers and improve data quality and comparability. Further, the amendments will require additional basic information about advisers and the private funds they advise, including identifying information, assets under management, withdrawal and redemption rights, gross asset value and net asset value, inflows and outflows, base currency, borrowings and types of creditors, fair value hierarchy, beneficial ownership, and fund performance to provide greater insight into private funds’ operations and strategies, to assist in identifying trends, including those that could create systemic risk, to improve data quality and comparability, and to reduce reporting errors. The amendments will also require more detailed information about the investment strategies, counterparty exposures, and trading and clearing mechanisms employed by hedge funds, while also removing duplicative questions, to provide greater insight into hedge funds’ operations and strategies, to assist in identifying trends, and to improve data quality and comparability. The amendments will become effective one year after publication in the Federal Register. The compliance date for the amendments is the same as the effective date.
Bug and I made some super cozy warm Valentine Hand-Warmer’s for Alpha+Mom yesterday. We tried them on the commute to school this morning. They were awesome! Perfect for pockets and that tight spot on your shoulder (that I ALWAYS have). Bug doesn’t like how her’s smelled like cooked rice so I think I’m going to make some more with dried lavender mixed in. Check ’em out! I wonder if coffee beans would microwave…?
EnGenius Launches Multi-Gig Networking Switches to Meet WiFi 6 Demands The EnGenius ECS2512FP and ECS2512 are multi-gigabit L2+ networking switches with eight 2.5 gigabit ports that automatically detect the speed needed by the end device. COSTA MESA, Calif. — EnGenius Technologies announces it has expanded its Cloud solution with multi-gigabit PoE++ switching, designed to meet the demands of WiFi 6 access points that support over 1 gigabit speeds and power devices that exceed 30 watts. The EnGenius Cloud ECS5212FP and ECS5212 multi-gig switches are the first of many switches that will be released in 2020 to serve the ever-increasing demand of new technology in mid to large environments like student housing, condominiums, assisted living facilities, hotels and resorts, according to the company. The company says the devices will not only future-proof, but further expand the capabilities of its Cloud-managed networking platform, EnGenius Cloud. The EnGenius ECS2512FP and ECS2512 are multi-gigabit L2+ networking switches that are said to provide enterprise-class features for IT professionals who are interested in using a solution that simplifies network configuration and monitoring. The multi-gigabit switches come with eight 2.5 gigabit ports that automatically detect the speed needed by the end device. Both switches support 120 Gbps switching capacity, with the ECS2512FP supporting one of the latest PoE standards, 802.3bt, for the growing demand of higher powered devices like WiFi 6 wireless access points, AV controllers, p/t/z cameras, digital signage and lighting. The switches also come with four 10 Gbps SFP+ slots that extend connectivity via fiber for uplinks, redundancy and failover. The switches utilize the capabilities of the subscription-free EnGenius Cloud, which includes real-time system metrics, deep-dive analytics, network troubleshooting and an advanced view to display network topology with the devices and relationships. “Our goal has always been to help our clients to grow by offering them a reliable service,” says MC Leo, general manager at EnGenius Technologies. “The expanding capabilities of the EnGenius Cloud will make sure that we are the clients’ preferred network-management solution provider for the years to come. We are aiming to continue delivering high-quality networking solutions aiming at mid to large businesses.” Key EnGenius Multi-Gig Switch Features - 2.5G ports to serve high-bandwidth devices like WiFi 6 access points - 10G fiber ports to connect floors and buildings at extreme distances & speeds - 240 watts of total budget for maximum power supply to PoE++ devices - Cloud managed to decreases administration time through remote management - Port-based client authentication with dynamic VLAN and security through RADIUS server - Prioritize compliant VoIP & video traffic ensuring its immediate delivery If you enjoyed this article and want to receive more valuable industry content like this, click here to sign up for our FREE digital newsletters! Security Is Our Business, Too For professionals who recommend, buy and install all types of electronic security equipment, a free subscription to Commercial Integrator + Security Sales & Integration is like having a consultant on call. You’ll find an ideal balance of technology and business coverage, with installation tips and techniques for products and updates on how to add to your bottom line. A FREE subscription to the top resource for security and integration industry will prove to be invaluable.
Tuya Smart (NYSE: TUYA), a global IoT development platform service provider, received a cybersecurity testing report based on NISTIR 8259A series from TÜV SÜD, a leading global service provider of auditing, testing, and certifications. This latest testing report is part of Tuya Smart’s continued commitment to being industry-leading in IoT cybersecurity. Developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”), NISTIR 8259 is a foundational U.S. standard for IoT device manufacturers and service providers, and one of the most comprehensive and widely accepted roadmaps available to protect customers from increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity threats. It covers six cybersecurity-related activities for device manufacturers including device identification, device configuration, logical access to interfaces, software and firmware update, and regulates IoT device cybersecurity capabilities. The report was issued for Tuya Smart’s CBU module, providing these cybersecurity capabilities to its business customers and smart devices using Tuya’s CBU module. Tuya has taken a comprehensive approach to security by partnering with independent security institutes to design and implement secure product solutions for customers. Obtaining the NISTIR 8259 attestation of conformity further strengthens Tuya Smart’s products and solutions, adding to a well-rounded set of industry-standard requirements for both the EU and U.S. Tuya has also been awarded the EU ETSI IoT Security standards by TÜV SÜD. Its new IoT security module WBR3 obtained TÜV SÜD’s ETSI EN 303 645 evaluation and Attestation of Conformity. Looking ahead, Tuya Smart will continue to work with world-leading assessment firms like TÜV SÜD to promote certification and marking services in Tuya’s ecosystem. Partnerships with TÜV SÜD include ETSI EN 303 645(EU) testing, GDPR(EU) compliance data protection assessments, NISTIR 8259(USA) test reports and AoC, CLS labels (Singapore), vulnerability scanning, and more advance pentesitng. This partnership will promote security throughout the product lifecycle and create a robust foundation for efficient safety certifications for Tuya’s customers. Tuya Smart views security certifications as an investment in its brand. Coupled with its thriving developer ecosystem, Tuya Smart’s security leadership will enable its customers to develop secure smart products and promote the advancement of industry assurance. About Tuya Smart Tuya Smart (NYSE: TUYA) is a leading technology company focused on making our lives smarter. Tuya does this through offering a cloud platform that connects a range of devices via the IoT. By building interconnectivity standards, Tuya bridges the intelligent needs of brands, OEMs, developers, and retail chains across a broad range of smart devices and industries. Tuya solutions empower partners and customers by improving the value of their products while making consumers' lives more convenient through the application of technology. Through its growing commercial SaaS business, Tuya offers intelligent business solutions for a wide range of verticals. The Company's platform is backed by industry-leading technology complete with rigorous data protection and security. Tuya partners with leading Fortune 500 companies from around the world to make things smarter, including Philips, Schneider Electric, Lenovo and many others. About TÜV SÜD Founded in 1866 as a steam boiler inspection association, the TÜV SÜD Group has evolved into a global enterprise. More than 25,000 employees work at over 1,000 locations in about 50 countries to continually improve technology, systems and expertise. They contribute significantly to making technical innovations such as Industry 4.0, autonomous driving and renewable energy safe and reliable.
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Exploring the relation between AI and art These works ... are an early alarm system for the developments ahead of us. Serpentine Artistic Director, Hans Ulrich Obrist explores the relation between AI and art. In the Introduction to the second edition of his book Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan noted the ability of art to “anticipate future social and technological developments.” Art is “an early alarm system,” pointing us to new developments in times ahead and allowing us “to prepare to cope with them. . . .Art as a radar environment takes on the function of indispensable perceptual training. . . .” In 1964, when McLuhan’s book was first published, the artist Nam June Paik was just building his Robot K-456 to experiment with the technologies that subsequently would start to influence society. He had worked with television earlier, challenging its usual passive consuming by the viewer, and later made art with global live-satellite broadcasts, using the new media less for entertainment than to point us to their poetic and intercultural capacities (which are still mostly unused today). The Paiks of our time, of course, are now working with the Internet, digital images, and artificial intelligence. Their works and thoughts again are an early alarm system for the developments ahead of us. The deep connections between science and art had already been noted by the late Heinz von Foerster. Introduced to me by my friend, the artist Maria Lassnig, he was one of the architects of cybernetics. He worked with Norbert Wiener from the mid-1940s and in the 1960s founded the field of second-order cybernetics, in which the observer is understood as part of the system itself and not an external entity. I knew von Foerster well, and in one of our many conversations, he offered his views on the relation between art and science: I’ve always perceived art and science as complementary fields. One shouldn’t forget that a scientist is in some respects also an artist. He invents a new technique and he describes it. He uses language like a poet, or the author of a detective novel, and describes his findings. In my view, a scientist must work in an artistic way if he wants to communicate his research. He obviously wants to communicate and talk to others. A scientist invents new objects, and the question is, how to describe them. In all of these aspects, science is not very different from art. Today, where algorithms of AI are applied in daily tasks, one can ask how the human factor is included in these kinds of processes and what role creativity and art could play in relation to them. There are thus different levels to think about when exploring the relation between AI and art.
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Want the perfect workout program?Take Quiz Updated On: March 03, 2023 If you are over the age of 65 and you are wondering "Are Steel Maces (aka Macebells) a good training tool to use in my fitness routine?", then read this post regarding 'steel maces for seniors' by our friend Jan Libourel, a 78-year-old unconventional fitness enthusiast. When my friends at SET FOR SET asked me to write about the benefits of macebell training, I'll have to confess to feeling some reluctance. Exercise is exercise, training is training and the virtues and benefits of macebell exercises are pretty much the same for everybody, even those of us who are not quite as strong and spry as we were 50 years ago. In any event, I have lived past my 78th birthday and have become a fervent convert to macebell training in the past couple of years, so I guess I am sufficiently "senior" to give some sort of informed commentary on this topic. (Those who would like to know a little more about my fitness history can check out my autobiographical sketch that was the February 10 entry on this blog). Let's start by looking at the virtues of the macebell, with a special emphasis on how they apply to us senior citizens. In the first place, compared to much other fitness gear, macebells are very inexpensive. The two maces likely to be most suitable as "starter" maces for an older person would be the 7-pounder ($27.95 from SET FOR SET) or the 10-pounder ($39.95). They are utterly simple devices. There is no programming or other techno-gimmickry to master--something quite daunting to many of us old-timers, at least this one! Many seniors have moved into less spacious housing as they age, and here the macebell comes into its own. You can store one or several macebells unobtrusively in a corner of your closet, under your bed, along a wall or otherwise out of the way. The same cannot be said for many other items of workout gear (exercise machines, squat racks, weight benches, etc.). Many people have the notion that you need a high ceiling and plenty of floor space to effectively perform mace exercises. This is simply not so. I find a normal, 8-foot high ceiling gives ample clearance, and I am still a fairly tall guy--about 6'1" (down from 6'3" in my prime). Since the macebell is essentially a leverage bell, you can vary the resistance it offers simply by adjusting the position of your hands: closer to the head of the macebell, easier; further away, more strenuous. There is an almost infinite variety of beneficial exercises you can perform with the macebell. Finally, I don't believe any piece of workout gear is more durable than the macebell. It is all but indestructible. There is no reason why your great-great-great grandchildren cannot be exercising with your macebells. My advice here--for seniors or really anybody else who is interested--depends largely on your present physical condition and exercise history. If you are not pursuing at this time any kind of regimen of resistance training, the standard advice is to have a consultation with your physician before undertaking such training, and I will have to second that. Be aware, however, that many physicians are frequently over-cautious about resistance training, as I know from experience. They tend to be very concerned about their patients' "hurting themselves" with weights. In regard to this, I would re-iterate this principle: Nobody ever got hurt by starting too light! If you are new to resistance exercise, a 7-pound macebell is almost certainly your best bet, and definitely nothing heavier than a 10-pounder. Pay close attention to good form in performing the recommended exercises (be guided by the demonstrations in SET FOR SET's complimentary e-book), don't use too heavy a mace, warm up in some fashion, and you shouldn't come to harm. I suspect, though, that most people--senior or otherwise--who are drawn to macebell training already have an exercise background, whether it be bodyweight, conventional weights (dumbbells and barbells) or, most likely, other forms of "unconventional fitness" that have enjoyed a revival in recent years: kettlebells, clubbells, medicine balls, slamballs, sandbags, Indian clubs, etc. If you are already performing resistance exercises, you have more leeway in choosing a macebell. I still think seven pounds is the best starting weight for most women and 10 pounds for most men, certainly those of us who can be described as "seniors." I will add that I am glad I started macebell work with a 10-pounder. Despite lengthy experience with free weights and in recent years with kettlebells, I would have found starting with a 15-pounder altogether too challenging. However, it may not be for you if you are quite strong. I realize there are some old fellows out there in their 80s who can bench 300 pounds, deadlift 500 and perform similar feats of strength. However, such men are very, very exceptional. You're probably not one of them, and I'm certainly not either. In any event, my hat is off to them, and they can readily choose whatever weight of macebell they wish to start with! The two "classic" macebell exercises are the 360 and the 10-2. Both are adapted from the Indian "gada" mace--a traditional exercise tool ancestral to the macebell--and involve swinging the mace over your shoulders behind your back. The leverage involved in these moves is among the most challenging of any common macebell exercises. You may find that the macebell you use for these exercises does not provide sufficient resistance for some other beneficial exercises like "grave diggers," "spear thrusts/jousts" or "uppercuts." Thus, it makes considerable sense to buy two maces when you start macebell training. For instance, I started macebell training with a 10- and 15-pounder. I found executing 360s and 10-2s with the latter very challenging at first. Nowadays, the 10-pounder has become a warm-up tool for me, and I have progressed to maces heavier than 15 pounds for many exercises (See my blog post for May 11 - The Case For The Heavier Mace), and you may very well end up doing the same. Back in 1970, the book Future Shock by Alvin Toffler attracted a lot of attention. It was very prophetic and discussed how the coming era of rapid techno-change was going to be daunting and unsettling to many people, and this has certainly been the case for many of us in our seventh, eighth and ninth decades. (I'm not sure many nonagenarians and centenarians are going to be interested in taking up the macebell, but if you are, more power to you, and why not?) It's very possible the macebell may seem at first like an oddity compared to many more familiar forms of exercise equipment, but it is actually based on proven, age-old systems of exercise based on the Indian gada mace that has given the world mighty warriors, invincible wrestlers and other strongmen. Really, whether you are young, middle-aged or "senior," give the macebell a try. I think you'll be glad you did. I certainly was. Comments will be approved before showing up. February 21, 2024 February 20, 2024 February 20, 2024 At SET FOR SET, we strive to equip you with the tools and knowledge needed for your fitness journey. Our team of experts, including certified trainers, dietitians, and athletes, brings over a decade of industry expertise. 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For Immediate Release (Tucson, AZ) â€”Â A documentary film entitled â€œReap What You Sewâ€ about a tailoring school established in Malawi, Africa will premiere on the NRB TV network on December 27, 2018 at 8:00 p.m. Central time. Founded by Dr. Deb Waterbury, President of Love Everlasting Ministries, the Reap What You Sew school held their second graduation this past summer. In the two years since the school began, 17 out of 19 graduates have started their own businesses and been able to lift their families out of poverty. The documentary, filmed exclusively on location in Malawi and Mozambique this past summer, follows the lives of several former graduates of the school as well as highlights the newest graduating class. Dr. Waterbury says the documentary is an accurate portrayal of the impoverishment in these countries. â€œMalawi is one of the poorest nations in the world, and the women there are often destitute,â€ says Waterbury. â€œThese women receive no education and are often widowed due to AIDS. There are no department stores in the country so you have to buy clothes from tailors, making this the perfect skill for women to learn and pass on to their children. One of our students from last semester opened up her own storefront in her village and called it â€˜Thank You Jesus Tailoring Shopâ€™. The transformation in her life has been remarkable.â€ The students at the Reap What You Sew school attend a six-month program focused on tailoring. Upon graduation, they receive a sewing machine and supplies free of charge, as well as accounting and bookkeeping training. Classes are held five days a week at Agape Life International Church in Blantyre, Malawi. Students are required to pay 500 kwacha (about .70 cents per month) so they are personally invested, and they must maintain an 85% attendance record to stay in the program. Most of the schoolâ€™s expensesâ€” tuition, teacher salaries, sewing machines, fabric, and other necessitiesâ€” are covered by tax-deductible donations from individuals and companies. Dr. Waterbury says that they have a long waiting list of women, and the need is great. â€œWe try to choose women who are economically in dire straits, and a large percentage of women in Malawi fall into that category. Our plan is to open branches of this school in other needy countries in Africa, and my ultimate goal is to offer additional training for culinary arts, aesthetics, and other necessary skills in addition to tailoring.â€ Dr. Waterbury hopes the documentary will shed light on the plight of these women, and will encourage enough donations to fund several schools in the neediest parts of Africa. â€œThe people of Africa have such a precious love for God,â€ says Waterbury. â€œA revival has been going on throughout the continent for some time now. I want these schools to be a beacon of hope for these women who are praying for a better life for themselves and their children. The people and companies who support our efforts are being the hands and feet of Jesus in a real way. My prayer is that this film will help more people catch the vision we have of offering these women a hand-up, not a hand-out.â€ Screenings of “Reap What You Sew” are currently being scheduled in several individual markets including Tucson, AZ, Atlanta, GA, Nashville, TN, among others.
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Sega is working to make a difference when it comes to the #BlackLivesMatter movement by offering up donations to worthwhile causes and organizations. In the wake of George Floyd's murder and the other demonstrations of police brutality against Black people across the country, some companies are putting their money where their mouth is in a bid to make true change, and Sega's proposition seems to stem from the desire to make a difference instead of idle promises. "Sega stands united with the Black community against all forms of racism and discrimination. Equality is everyone's business and we want to help combat these issues with help of our communities and team members," the tweet read. "Sega and its studios will be making donations to worthy causes that align with this statement. In addition, we will be matching donations made by our employees." Currently, Sega has yet to comment on which causes it will be making donations to, or those of which its employees have supported. But that information will likely come out soon. If you're looking for a way to help make a difference, you can donate to a cause as well. Additional gaming companies such as Nintendo have spoken out against racism, condemning the actions that have caused the senseless deaths of members of the Black community. As the days wear on, we hope to see others follow in these brands' footsteps as we work toward building a better, more inclusive, and tolerant tomorrow.
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If you just want the text version of the instructions: Click in the table. On the Table Tools Layout tab (one of the tabs that appears when you click in the table), in the Data group, click Convert to Text. In the dialog box, specify how you want the text separated. For more information on tables, see Add or delete a table. The selected text is automatically turned into a table. Convert a Table to Text. You can also convert an existing table back into plain text. This frees up the text from the table, so that you can keep the table’s data without the strict table formatting. With the table selected, click the Layout tab. Expand the Data group, if necessary. Tables are a great boon to users of Word. When you are working with documents that were created in a different Word processor, however, tables can be nuisances. For instance, one WordTips reader complained that his two-column text created in WordPerfect was converted in Word to tables. He asked for a way to automatically convert all the tables Convert table to Text in Word 2007. Hi all, I am trying to convert a 21 row by 4 column table to text. However, when I use the convert table to text function in only shows me the text in 21 cells. What am I doing wrong? Tables, in Word, can either be inline with the rest of your text or the text can wrap around the table. If you have wrapping set to Around and you convert the table to text, then you end up with your text in a frame. Here are two ways to address this problem and end up with your text in the body of the document. Convert a list to table. To convert a list to table, there is a built-in function called Convert Text to Table in Word. 1. Type Tab key to separate the texts which you want to place in different columns in table, use Enter key to separate texts to different rows. 2. Then select the texts you need, click Insert > Table > Convert Text to Table. 3. 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Before you convert a list or text to a table, make sure that your data is formatted correctly. Here are a few tips: Display the Insert tab of the ribbon. Click the Table tool and then click Convert Text to Table. Word displays the Convert. Text to Table dialog box. Make sure all the table settings in the dialog box are correct. (In this case, the Number of columns should be 3 and the Separate text at should be Tabs. (Word will automatically do this but Change the default settings for new documents best support.microsoft.com. Open the template or a document based on the template whose default settings you want to change.On the Format menu, click Font, and then click the Font tab. Make any changes that you want, and then click Default.Note: Most of the styles in Word are based on the Normal style. Whatever adjustments we make in the Convert Text To Table dialog box we must press the Ok button located at the bottom to take place.. In the image below, we can see how our list of text has been converted into a Table.. Once we have inserted any sort of Table in our Microsoft Word Document, two new Tabs will get activated on the Ribbon as shown in the ... In this video - How to convert TEXT into table in MS Word ¦ How to change table to text in Word I show you how to convert text to table in word easily and si In Word 2010, I want to convert a Table of Contents to a table. Each line is a new paragraph. When I select the text and click Insert Table, I cannot select Convert Text to Table because it is dimmed out or greyed out. I used the same method in another document, and it ... To do this, follow these steps: Select the entire table you want to convert to text. Click over the Layout tab and choose convert to text in the Data group. Step 2: Select the row The most important thing to know about creating an automatic Table of Contents in Word is that you first need to format your document using the Heading Styles. That’s because it’s the Heading Styles formatting (as you can see pictured below) that feeds your Table of Contents.This step is explained in detail below. Hover the mouse pointer over the table until the grab point pops up at the top left corner, then click it. Or click anywhere in the table and then click the Select icon on the left edge of the (Table) Layout ribbon and click Select Table.; On the Layout ribbon, look in the Data cluster at the right edge and click the Convert to Text icon.From there you can tell Word whether to separate the Re: Convert text boxes to text. Interesting - If you add text to an autoshape then it should be possible to. convert the shape to a frame, however if you change the wrap option of the. autoshape top in-line the convert to frame button becomes greyed and then. Select the lines of text you want to convert to a table. Click the Insert tab and click Table in the Table section. Select Convert Text to Table from the drop-down menu. Advertisement. On the Convert Text to Table dialog box, the Number of columns should already be set to 2 if you have only one tab between each item on each line. How To Use the Convert Tool. Follow along with these steps to learn how to use the feature. 1. Open Microsoft Word and highlight the text you wish to convert into a table.. 2. Select the Insert tab and choose Convert Text to Table from the Table dropdown.. 3. ... However, it can be placed in another element, such as an empty table cell, column, or text box. Type one of the three placeholder options, =rand (), =rand.old (), or =lorem (), and then press the Enter key on your keyboard. Each option is explained below. =rand () ... Convert Table to Text You can take a table of text and convert it in Word by first selecting the table. With the table selected the Table Tools tab appears. Click on the Layout tab. In the Data grouping, click on the Convert to Text. The Convert Table To Text dialog box appears. Notice the choices you have under Separate text with. Click OK True to decrease the width of the table columns as much as possible without changing the way text wraps in the cells. AutoFitBehavior: Optional: Variant: Sets the AutoFit rules for how Word sizes a table. Can be one of the following WdAutoFitBehavior constant. If DefaultTableBehavior is wdWord8TableBehavior, this argument is ignored Converting a table to text. Select the portion of the table you want to convert. In all newer versions, from the Table menu, select Convert, and then select Table to Text or Convert Table to Text. In Word 97 and 98, from the Table menu, select Convert Table to Text . Under "Separate text with", click the option for the character you In MS Word, table of contents (TOC) can be converted to normal text manually using Ctrl-Shift-F9. Is there a way to convert TOC to normal text programatically? Word VBA has TableOfContents class but, it seems, the class doesn't provide any method that can be used for such conversion. Select some of the text that you want to add. On the Home tab, in the Styles group, click the More button. and then click Save Selection as a New Quick Style. Give your new style a name–for example, TOCBody. Now, on the References tab, click Table of Contents, and then click Insert Table of Contents. Click Options. How to Rotate a Table in Word with 2 Methods. There are 2 ways to rotate a table in Word easily. The first one is rotating the table as an image, and another one is rotating it with the text box method. Part 1. Rotate a Table in Word Using the Image Method. The below method is easy and quick. It even works with older versions of Word. Select the text. Select the Insert tab. In Tables group click the Table command. Select the 'Convert Text to Table' option; It displays a dialog box. In 'Separate text at' section select the desired option. 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By 2060, that ratio is expected to switch to 2.5 to 1 with working-age versus retirement-age Americans. The U.S. Census Bureau shows that as baby boomers age, there will be more older people than children for the first time in recorded American history. One in five U.S. residents will be retiree-age in by 2030. This is happening at the same time as the continuing U.S. housing shortage. One potential solution to finding homes for more elderly people when there is less housing is to build a tiny home or in-law stuite on existing single-family home lots. Enter: The granny pod! Before 20th-century zoning laws, it was easier to add outbuildings or additions to your property. However, by around World War II, restrictions made it much harder. Only in more recent years have states and counties started to change laws to make it more feasible to add an ADU to your property. The West Coast in particular has seen a boom in ADUs recently. In 2019, Freddie Mac estimated that 70,000 properties with ADUs were sold compared to 8,000 in 2000. Freddie Mac also put the number of ADUs in U.S. homes as of 2019 at 1.4 million. Presumably, this number is even higher in 2023, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic, which found different generations of the same family joining together for living situations. If you’re interested in adding a “granny pod” or ADU to your home, check your state and city regulations to see what is required. Pros Of Granny Pods A recent Pew Research Center analysis showed that between 1971 and 2021, people in multigenerational family households quadrupled in number. The same data indicated that a third of U.S. adults gave “caregiving” as the reason why they live in a multigenerational home. Twenty-five percent of that group said it was for adult caregiving and 12% said it was for child care. 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While the average cost of an ADU can vary widely, they typically cost close to half that of building a single-family home. Negatives Of Granny Pods One con to ADUs can be how to manage the legal and financial impacts of building a separate dwelling on your property. For instance, there can be unexpected costs in building an ADU, such as upgrading existing utilities, readying your yard for a new outbuilding, the interior design of the ADU, and if construction takes longer than expected. Downsizing is also often required to fit a smaller place. And ADUs might not have enough space or adaptations for a wheelchair, walker or other necessary accommodations. So, if you’re looking to build one, make sure to take into consideration things like ramps, wider hallways, smooth flooring, grab bars, furniture, appliances, sinks and toilets that will accommodate someone with less mobility. Sometimes multigenerational living can rub the wrong way. The aforementioned Pew Research Center study showed that more people in that type of situation said it was “very positive” (30%) or “somewhat positive” (27%), 26% were neutral and 14% said it had been “somewhat negative.” Only 3% said it was “very negative” however. People considering a granny pod type of situation should examine their family dynamics and lay down ground rules. Will Grandma have her meals separately? Can grandkids come over to her house? Would you consider building a granny pod at your home?
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This plugin helps you track just about every website statistic you could ever need. You can keep tabs on demographics, downloads, search results, acquisition, and so much more. Using this plugin, you can determine if your audience is comprised mostly of females or males, and then tailor content to suit. You can see what type of content is performing best, and then create more of this type of content. You can see when posts perform best, and publish more posts around that time of day. It is really more of a holistic, big-picture writers plugin. Again, with over 7.5 million downloads and a 4.3 star rating, Google Analytics by Yoast is one of the most popular plugins on the market. It does so much more than help you determine what sort of content you should be writing, and when you should be publishing it. If you haven’t already, install this plugin today. Distraction Free Writing Mode (DFWM) can be the perfect way to focus purely on your writing; nothing more, nothing less. If you’re like me, at some stage or another, you’ve probably wished that there was slightly more functionality available while using DFWM. With the Just Writing plugin, that’s exactly what is on offer. Using this plugin, you can add a whole raft of additional commands to the toolbar (whilst still in DFWM), including spell check, various paragraph styling options, headings, alignment, colours, undo and redo, cut, copy, paste and many more. It will even add a ‘Preview’ button and allows you set which preferences display, and which are hidden. While this plugin hasn’t had a heap of downloads (only 6,391 at the time of writing), it is regularly updated and has garnered itself a 5 out 5 star rating. It also gives me some confidence that the plugin works well, given that the plugin’s author is Greg Ross, who also built WP Statistics, which has had almost 1 million downloads. This plugin gives you a bit more control over the in-built WordPress WYSIWYG visual editor. Basically, it operates like a framework for TinyMCE, allowing you to rearrange buttons and add plugins to the visual editor using a drag and drop interface. Using WP Super Edit, you can add tables, layers, advanced XHTML, image and link options, emoticons, styles, CSS classes for themes, and even search and replace. This powerful little plugin is currently undergoing redevelopment, so you may not want to install it right now, but keep it in mind for future use. It’s already had 280,000 downloads, and has a 4 star rating, so it must be doing something right. From the team at Flagrant Disregard (that’s where the FD in the name comes from), the Word Statistics plugin is one of the best readability analyses tools available for WordPress posts. It does this by using three different readability measurements: - Flesch and Flesch-Kincaid measurements: both of which are based on formulas that detect the average number of words per sentence, as well as the average number of syllables per word. - Gunning Fog: which detects the average number of words per sentence, as well as the number of ‘difficult’ words per paragraph. Words are considered ‘difficult’ if they have three or more syllables. Once the analysis is complete in a Flesch-Kincaid or a Gunning-Fog style measurement, you are presented with a score. This score represents the number of years of education your reader must have to be able to understand your copy. For more informal writing (such as this), you would be aiming for a score between 7 and 10. For more formal or technical subjects, a higher score would be appropriate. A Flesch test gives you a result as a percentage; the higher the percentage, the better the readability. With 7,000 downloads, regular software updates and a 5 out of 5 star rating, this isn’t a bad performing plugin at all. Also from Flagrant Disregard, this plugin allows you to quickly and easily add elegant looking footnotes to your WordPress posts. The plugin employs a natural syntax that is easy for any user to understand and use. All you have to do to add a footnote is add them inline to your post, like so: They will then display like this: Each of your footnotes must include a number, a full stop and then a space, followed by your actual reference. Best of all, you don’t need to remember what number you are up to (particularly handy if you’re writing an extremely long piece of copy); the footnotes will auto-magically renumber themselves when you publish the post. You can include anything you like in your footnotes using this plugin, apart from square brackets. Updated regularly, this plugin has been downloaded 23,000 times, and has a 4.5 star rating. If, like me, you spend quite a good deal of time writing in WordPress, chances are you might have found yourself wondering whether you were in need of an eye test! The font size of the WordPress dashboard can be quite miniscule, particularly if you’re used to working in Word documents. With the Visual Editor Font Size plugin you can alter the size of the font in WordPress’ visual editor. This obviously doesn’t change anything on your live site; you are the only person that this plugin will affect. With more than 25,000 downloads, this plugin is more popular than many of the others I’ve covered today. However, it hasn’t been updated for quite some time, so keep this in mind if you decide to install it on your site. Even professional writers make mistakes in their content sometimes. But, with the Proofread Bot plugin, you can eliminate grammatical gaffes and stylistic issues in your content. According to the WordPress Plugin Directory, Proofread Bot uses ‘cutting edge natural language processing’. It even checks your copy for plagiarism using Bing. It’s easy to use: once you’ve installed it on your site, an extra box will appear in your site’s dashboard. Simply click on the ‘Proofread Bot’ button, and after a couple of seconds’ worth of analysis time, you’ll receive a detailed report outlining any issues in your post. Unlike most plugins, there is a small catch when it comes to Proofread Bot: you have access to one free proofread per day, up to a limit of 600 words. Beyond this, you’ll need to purchase a proofreading package. At the time of writing, Proofread Bot had been downloaded approximately 15,000 times, had a five star rating, and was updated just two weeks ago. If, on the odd chance, both you and Proofread Bot happen to miss a typo, then there is the Front End Editor plugin. I don’t know about you, but I like to proofread my WordPress posts and pages directly on my website, on the real, live version of the site, rather than from the dashboard. I think it’s a habit gained from proofing hard-copy print proofs. So, it can be time-consuming, and more than a little frustrating, to have to toggle backwards and forwards between the live site and the dashboard in the back-end. With Front End Editor installed, this problem disappears. It allows you to change content directly on your site (provided that you are logged in). Quite nifty really. With 241,000 downloads and a 4.3 star rating, there must be quite a few people out there that prefer ‘live’ proofing. If you prefer to do the proofreading yourself, rather than rely on an automated system, then the Revision Control plugin might be right up your alley. The proofing process often results in multiple revisions of piece, while writers perfect, update and polish their prose. With Revision Control, you have much more control over this process. You can limit the number of revisions allowed by post or page, and save multiple revisions of posts and pages so that you can revert back to them if needs be. This plugin has more than 253,000 downloads, a 4.5 star rating, and was updated in early January. Although, support is no longer offered on the plugin. So, if you run into any issues, you’re on your own. As any writer, author, or content marketer will tell you, proving ownership and copyright is getting harder and harder every day. With the veritable explosion of online content over the last few years, it is becoming increasingly difficult to pinpoint the origin of ideas and unique content. With the Copyright Proof plugin, you can go some way towards protecting your work. This plugin allows you to secure a digitally signed and time-stamped certificate of content for each and every one of your WordPress posts. It automatically inserts a combined copyright, certification, licensing, and even attribution notice at end of each of your posts. You can even opt to include an anti-theft feature on all of your copy, and the plugin will record the IP address of anyone attempting to use it. It sounds quite useful in theory, although I haven’t sought professional legal opinion on this plugin, so I’m not 100% certain how it might hold up in a court of law. This copyright protection plugin has been downloaded more than 67,000 times, and was updated just a few months ago. With a 4.7 star rating, it must be performing as it is advertised…maybe it does hold up in a court of law… I came across this plugin for the first time while researching this article. It is very simple, and quite limited in terms of functionality, but I thought it was a novel idea. It allows your website visitors to leave you feedback about what topic they would like to read about next on your blog. According to its creators, it is a win-win plugin, increasing two-communication with your audience, and generating new blog topics for you. Built by Vladimir Prelovac, this particular plugin hasn’t had a huge amount of downloads (just over 2,000), but I think it’s quite a novel idea, for the right type of website of course. Just keep in mind that you could use any of the commenting plugins available to achieve the same result, and many of these commenting plugins are much more powerful. This is another novel plugin for writers. If you use DFWM regularly, you may tend to become a little bored or put-off by the stark white screen. In fact, if you happen to suffer from a bout of writer’s block, a stark white screen can often only exacerbate the problem. This little plugin can eradicate that issue. You can use it to give your DFWM a theme. There are plenty available (like the black background with lime green text or the starry night sky included below), and more and more are being added all the time. You can even write your own theme (in CSS) and add it to their database. This plugin has only had approximately 2,000 downloads, but it does carry a 4.8 star rating. A Quick Warning on Novel Plugins You’ll notice that I have included a couple of ‘novel’ plugins. While these offer new and improved functionality for writers using WordPress, I do urge you to consider whether you really need to install these on your website. The more plugins you install, the more likely it is that your site will run more slowly and require a little more maintenance. Install only the plugins that you really need. That way, you ensure that the performance of your website is as optimized as it can possibly be. There you have it, a round up of some of the most useful, productivity-enhancing WordPress plugins for writers and writing. If you have any other up your sleeve that deserve a mention, please feel free to let me know in the comments below.
The first week of the month is dedicated to drawing and for February we try our hand using charcoal. Below I have listed the types of charcoal and other equipment that is useful for charcoal drawing What type of effects can you get? Charcoal gives real atmosphere to a drawing, it can be smudged (hard not to!) blended and applied carefully it can give drama to your drawings. What type of equipment do you need? There are 2 types of charcoal; Willow and Compressed. Willow comes usually in a box in thin sticks, it breaks easily into tiny bits. I sometime put masking tape around it to hold, not essential but can help with breakage. You can buy it in different widths this is useful as you can then use it in a variety of ways (which we will be doing in class) Compressed charcoal; usually comes in a box of white, grey to black. This looks much more like a pastel stick and has a binder to keep it all together. I like these if I want to add lights to a willow charcoal drawing. Not so crumbly and needs a bit more pushing about. Surface? Smooth cartridge paper works well but so does light coloured pastel paper with a tooth. You can also use brown wrapping paper, you will get some grain showing through. Other tools? A small paintbrush, a rubber and/or putty rubber, damp cloth for your hands. Masking tape to tape paper to board For our drawing class in February we are drawing a cafe scene using charcoal. Do bring a larger piece of paper and board if you want to draw on a bigger scale - not compulsory!

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