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Singapore, Singapore, 27th April, 2022, Chainwire
The newest service tailored towards enterprises from Mintable is a gas-free minting product called Mintology.
Mintable is a technology company that delivers NFTs as part of its services. Mintable excited to introduce its new app that allows the minting of NFTs without any gas fees. The technology is called Mintology, and consumers can use it for minting NFTs for loyalty, sales promotions, and branding purposes.
As the world’s first gasless minting API, Mintology was designed in 2018 and offers a full suite of NFT-based solution services. With this technology, it’s possible for businesses to mint thousands of ERC-721 tokens on the Ethereum main net instantly without any environmental impact. In order to begin minting with Mintology, there are three steps:
- Create an account
- Select a plan
- Connect the API and mint
“Mintology is powered by Mintable, a leading mass-market NFT Marketplace with a global presence. We are backed by highly prominent and respectable individuals including industry leaders in software and technology, financial services and banking, venture capital, blockchain & film, and the arts.” Says Jason Sarria-Solis, the General Manager of Mintology. “In addition, we have a solid array of institutional investors supporting the rapid growth of our company, driven by the massive demand for our enterprise services.”
Mintology offers premium tools and services to allow businesses to streamline their NFT strategy while avoiding gas fees. The app allows users to create custom pages on Mintable.com where they can launch their NFT campaign. It also provides businesses with Smart Contracts for easy contract management.
Mintology provides scalable solutions for batch, individual, or minting on demand. Working with the app doesn’t require coding knowledge and grants access to powerful analytics tools to support an NFT campaign.
Through Mintology, businesses can offer their customers a range of payment options, including PayPal, credit card, and even crypto payment methods. The company is proud to provide affordable pricing that is 90+% cheaper than traditional minting options.
As soon as the business launches the NFT collection, it immediately becomes available on Mintable.com. Besides gasless minting on Ethereum cryptocurrency, Mintology offers custodial wallets and a fully customizable marketplace.
Mintology aims to empower enterprises through its accessible minting service and end-to-end solutions for NFT-based applications. It specializes in delivering cost-effective methods for developing NFT strategies designed by expert developers. Mintable has dedicated customer service managers to support users in understanding the company’s powerful, one-click gasless minting API.
Mintable says its Mintology technology services are currently available to over 100 million people worldwide. The Singapore Fintech Festival created 500 NFTs using Mintology’s gasless minting function to encourage audiences to buy advance tickets.
The company’s low pricing reflects the lack of gas fees for minting through Mintology. For pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pricing, businesses can expect to pay $2 per mint. This option is best for those who don’t plan to mint regularly and use the service as a one-off. However, those who are minting frequently are more likely to benefit from the company’s monthly or annual subscription service, paying closer to $1 per mint. Annual subscriptions that are paid in advance receive a further discount.
The subscription plans available include Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3. There is also a custom plan option available on Mintable’s Mintology website. Tier 1 pricing is $1000 per month for up to 500 NFTs monthly on Ethereum. Tier 2 is $4500 for up to 2500 NFTs monthly. Tier 3 is $7500 for 5000 NFTs per month.
All Custom NFT minting plans must discuss all custom plans with the company’s sales team. Businesses interested in exploring these options can visit Mintology by Mintable website or contact the sales team. They are available via email at [email protected] or by completing the online form.
Mintable is powered by Mintology, one of the leading NFT marketplaces and innovators in the NFT space. Mintable pioneered the world’s first glasses minting technology on Ethereum, saving companies millions of dollars in gas fees.
Founded in 2018 with our global headquarters in Singapore; Mintable is backed by leading investors and partners, including Mastercard, Ripple, Mark Cuban, and Marc Benioff.
- Jason Sarria-Solis
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Girard-Perregaux presents the Laureato Absolute Chronograph in a revolutionary new material: Carbon Glass – a world premiere. We were at La Chaux-de-Fonds recently where the new watch was revealed, and here is our hands-on review of the new Girard-Perregaux Laureato Absolute Rock.
We see this as a new spark in Girard-Perregaux. Whom we have always admired as having a revolutionary trait within the old world brands. The brand is no stranger to innovation in their watches – from the the world’s first high beat (36,000 bph), self-winding movement in the Gyromatic HF in 1965, to the quartz movement’s standard beat of 32,768Hz became the benchmark for quartz watches in 1971, to the Laureato Evo 3 Tourbillon with its novel use of sapphire glass as a structural component within the movement in 2006. Aesthetically, the watches are always very beautiful. The company somewhat fell on the wayside soon after the death of Gino Macaluso in 2010. The Constant Force Escapement of 2013 was the work of the decade before, and not developed in the post Gino-era. Only the Triaxial Planetarium perhaps stands as notable from this nadir.
And it is only in this last year or so that we are beginning to see the light of innovation being lit brightly again, no doubt in no small way due to the leadership of Patrick Pruniaux, who became CEO in Aug 2018.
In this new watch, Girard-Perregaux presents Carbon Glass, a revolutionary new material in the world of high watchmaking. A worlwide first. True to its tradition of innovation combining aesthetics and functionality, the Carbon Glass is exceptionally regular with a homogeneous finish. The material is 100 times stiffer than steel, and is airtight without a container. Integrating pigmented glass fibres, here in blue, the material is vibrantly alive, seeming in motion, glowing from within.
Girard-Perregaux Laureato Absolute Rock
The base watch is the same as the GP Laureato Absolute Chronograph introduced in SIHH 2019 which we review in detail here, which then featured a polished and satin-brushed black PVD-treated titanium case. The watch looked rather futuristic when we saw it in Geneva then, but what a surprise when the GP Laureato Absolute Rock – the Carbon Glass model was revealed in La Chaux-de-Fonds on November 7, 2019.
The case, dial and hands
The watch case shape remained the same as the Laureato Absolute – with an octagonal bezel which features a gentle slope to the edge and then dropping onto a round base bezel which sits on top of the stylized tonneau shape case which is at once angular and curved. The case middle looks like it is made as a single massive piece and extends at the crown side with two wing-like crown guards.
The dial layout is not unusual, with the 3 sub-dial design and a date window at 4 making it highly legible and visually balanced. But as we examine the dial, the devil is in the details, and more clever features reveal themselves.
The dial structure is a sandwich design comprising of two superimposed, hollowed plates: the one on top is a dark blue, and the lower one is a deep matte black. The indices are cutouts into the upper to reveal the lower, instead of raised appliqués. The aesthetic is such that it creates a mysterious mood with the deep black markers sunken into the dark blue dial face, but brightened by a dash in lume at the edge.
A sloped, smooth matte rehaut with a white minute markings is at the outer perimeter of the dial. The main dial face features a textured matte surface, and contrasts with the beveled step at the edge of the sub-dials and the concentric circles within. This complexity brings depth to the dial, and makes for an attractive aesthetic. We note that the press photographs (which we did not use, bar one with the rock formation) show that the main dial face is a rough sunburst pattern, but the sample we photographed shows a matte textured surface. The press release specifications stated a matte dial, as we have photographed. The press photographs also show a blue line in the groove on the chronograph pushers, while the watch we photographed had none.
The hour/minute hands are baton shaped with infill of Superluminova. The chronograph seconds hand is a needle like appearance with a lozenge like counter weight.
Carbon Glass is a new material is made from a patented manufacturing process which hinges on the use of extreme compression combined with an injection technique at high-temperature. The result is a block of matter which is homogeneous in all directions. The visual aesthetic of the material is rather striking with the integration of blue glass fibers into the carbon. Each piece is thus unique, with a character of its own. Other colours are possible, but the launch watch has a vibrant blue seen in the shards within, which seem to have a glow of their own.
The major advantage of this technique is that a perfect seal is achieved through the material’s impermeability: GP claims that no other carbon manufacturing technique matches this level of air-tightness without a container. Here, the compression of the material – which has an extremely regular and homogeneous structure which ensures the perfect seal. It remains to be seen if the material is impervious to helium, and if it is, negates the necessity of an escape valve in use for saturation diving. Perhaps a project for a future exploration.
The other key advantage is the tremendous stiffness, here, too, in all three dimensions – which other types of carbon don’t reach. Carbon Glass is also stiffer than steel by a factor of 100. Moreover, it serves purposes that reach beyond pure packaging aesthetics: with a density close to 1, it practically floats in water (the density of steel is approximately 8 and that of titanium 4.5), and feels light on the wrist.
The movement: GP 03300-1058
The case back is also made from Carbon Glass and screwed on to the massive case middle with 6 screws. This imparts an aesthetically magnificent bright streaky blue over the black base.
The case is rated to a water resistance of 50m
300m, signalling the diving intentions. The movement fitted is the GP Caliber GP03300-1058. This is a well tested movement, used in many watches, and have been well received. The movement is designed and manufactured in-house and beats at 28,800 bph with automatic winding with a power reserve of 46 hours.
Edit (June 8, 2020): One of our Readers sent us a query that he had bought one of the watches, but the case back was engraved “150ft / 50m” water resistance. We were puzzled as well, so we asked GP. Here is their explanation:
“After looking into this matter with the GP team, it appears that there was originally a prototype of this watch circulating with an erroneous engraving (300m).
As press and digital content is typically created during the prototype stage and not usually after finished product hits the market, this error unfortunately made its way into a lot of coverage about this particular product launch, which is regrettable.
All I can say is that (the reader’s name redacted) can rest assured his watch’s markings are in fact correct, and that this situation will remain a highly unusual outlier.
Girard-Perregaux certainly appreciate his and your interest in the details and strive to exceed expectations in all ways.”Quote from an email reply to our query. Signed by Meera Anand, Global Head of Public Relations, Girard-Perregaux.
While we could not open the watch up to see the finishing, we are assured by our knowledge of GP, that the finishing is well executed to a high level.
Operationally, the hand-setting and winding mechanism feels smooth and fine. The chronograph buttons operate without any irregularity, and are smooth and offer a even resistance on start/stop and reset.
The first impression when we saw the the GP Absolute Rock was that this is a beautiful watch. The brilliant, irregularly shaped flashes of blue within a black case makes it very attractive. On the touch, the surface is smooth, and feels very nice. We love the look even more after spending some time with the watch. The dials are clear and very legible. The smooth operations of the timekeeping as well as chronograph functions seals the deal, so to speak. And it is comfortable in the way in which the watch wraps around the wrist on rubber straps and the buckle’s micro adjustment system, despite the rather large 44mm diameter. It wears smaller. And feels rather light. At a retail price of S$ 23,300 – it is highly competitive.
We think this is a good step in the right direction for Girard-Perregaux. And this new material of Carbon Glass has many faces left to be explored in use as a case for GP. We also look forward to more innovation, especially in the horology and chronométrie arena from the grand old dame. We did see a few more interesting novelties during our time at the manufacture, but these are under embargo, and we will share them when the time is right. Watch out for the homecoming of Girard-Perregaux!
Photo Notes: all the original photographs (marked with the D watermark), including the Watchscape wallpapers and the CEO portrait were made with the Phase One XF IQ4 150 camera with the Schneider Kreuznach 120mm Macro Blue Line lens, with Broncolor Siros L strobe modified with an umbrella, and a small Canon Speedlight as a rim lighting. This is a top of the line camera gear, and we will do a review soon.
Girard-Perregaux Absolute Rock
Limited to 100 pieces
Material: Carbon glass
Diameter: 44 mm
Glass: Sapphire double anti-reflective
Bezel: Carbon glass octagon
Dial: Composed of two superimposed, hollowed plates: the one on top in black matt finish
Hour-markers: Baton-type with Super-LumiNovaTM. ‘Black or’.
Hands: Baton-type with Super-LumiNovaTM. ‘Black or’.
Case-back: Secured by 6 screws, engraved and lacquered Laureato Absolute logo
Type: Self-winding mechanical movement
Functions: Hours, minutes, small seconds, date, chronograph
Power reserve: Minimum 46 hours
Number of components: 419, 63 jewels
Frequency: 28’800 Alt./h. (4 Hz)
Diameter: 25,95 mm (111/2 lines)
Height: 6,5 mm
Material: Black rubber with
a ‘fabric-effect’, blue topstitching
Buckle: PVD-treated titanium,
triple folding with
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I describe the breeding pattern and system of the Harris' Hawk (Perebuteo unicinctus) and test several hypotheses that have been proposed to explain avian cooperative breeding systems. Individual Harris' Hawks were color-marked and monitored for a 40-month period in southeastern New Mexico. Between 29% and 70% of Harris' Hawk social units made a second breeding attempt in either late summer or autumn within each year, often following successful spring breeding. Clutches were initiated between 17 February and 1 November. The interbrood period was positively correlated with the size of the first brood. The number of second nests initiated was correlated with the number of lagomorphs, but not with precipitation. Harris' Hawks did not time nesting to coincide with the peak population levels of their principal prey; rather, this hawk has a flexible and prolonged breeding season that may have evolved in part to minimize the impact of stochastic climatic conditions that increase the probability of nest failure.
The average size of breeding units was 2.7 individuals, with pairs being most common (49%; n = 61). Groups of more than two hawks (n = 23) included both adult- (39%) and immature-plumaged (83%) supernumeraries that were primarily offspring of the same social unit. Immatures rarely provided food to nestlings, whereas adult supernumeraries commonly did so. Preliminary electrophoretic analysis of two groups did not suggest polyandry. Pairs and groups showed no differences in clutch size, number of young produced per successful nest, or number of offspring fledged per year. Given the overall lack of correlation between reproductive output and group size, I suggest that kin selection has not been a major influence in the evolution of the Harris' Hawk breeding system.
Univariate and multivariate analyses of 21 habitat variables revealed no differences (P > 0.1) between the nest areas of pairs and groups. However, Harris' Hawks tended to exploit habitats with greater densities of larger mesquites, less grass cover, and more exposed ground than Swainson's Hawks (Buteo swainsoni). The range of habitat used by both species was similar.
The density of lagomorph fecal pellets (an index of the abundance of the primary prey species) was slightly greater in Harris' Hawk group areas than in pair areas in summer, but the pattern was reversed in winter. Pair ranges had significantly fewer woodrat (Neotoma, a prey of minor importance) nests than group areas. Patterns of habitat variation and resource abundance were not consistent with predictions of either the habitat saturation model or the extended polygyny threshold model of cooperative breeding. Neither was frequency of groups in the hawk population negatively correlated with resource levels, as predicted by the fluctuating environmental constraints model.
My results fail to support any of the hypotheses examined. Alternatively, I suggest that a limited time period of peak prey vulnerability and/or reliance on relatively large prey may have favored cooperative hunting. The benefits of cooperative foraging may be particularly important to juvenile hawks in insuring them an adequate portion of food on a predictable basis. Thus young hawks may pursue a survival maximization strategy early in life that is achieved in part by remaining on their natal range and cooperating with their parents or other current breeders.
The fieldwork was partially supported by the Department of Energy (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant studies), The Frank M. Chapman Memorial Fund, The University of New Mexico (UNM) Graduate Student Research Allocation Committee, and the Graduate Research Allocation Committee of the Biology Department, UNM.
Level of Degree
UNM Biology Department
First Committee Member (Chair)
J. David Ligon
Second Committee Member
Manuel C. Molles
Third Committee Member
John A. Weins
Fourth Committee Member
William R. Rice
Fifth Committee Member
Bednarz, James Cary. "The Behavioral Ecology Of The Cooperatively Breeding Harris' Hawk In Southeastern New Mexico." (1986). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/biol_etds/404 | <urn:uuid:317c16ad-6ee7-4164-b3f9-a95d5d01aa23> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/biol_etds/404/ | 2024-02-28T02:46:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474690.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228012542-20240228042542-00200.warc.gz | en | 0.935586 | 838 | 1 |
Template-based protein–protein docking exploiting pairwise interfacial residue restraints
Is Version Of
Although many advanced and sophisticated ab initio approaches for modeling protein–protein complexes have been proposed in past decades, template-based modeling (TBM) remains the most accurate and widely used approach, given a reliable template is available. However, there are many different ways to exploit template information in the modeling process. Here, we systematically evaluate and benchmark a TBM method that uses conserved interfacial residue pairs as docking distance restraints [referred to as alpha carbon–alpha carbon (CA-CA)-guided docking]. We compare it with two other template-based protein–protein modeling approaches, including a conserved non-pairwise interfacial residue restrained docking approach [referred to as the ambiguous interaction restraint (AIR)-guided docking] and a simple superposition-based modeling approach. Our results show that, for most cases, the CA-CA-guided docking method outperforms both superposition with refinement and the AIR-guided docking method. We emphasize the superiority of the CA-CA-guided docking on cases with medium to large conformational changes, and interactions mediated through loops, tails or disordered regions. Our results also underscore the importance of a proper refinement of superimposition models to reduce steric clashes. In summary, we provide a benchmarked TBM protocol that uses conserved pairwise interface distance as restraints in generating realistic 3D protein–protein interaction models, when reliable templates are available. The described CA-CA-guided docking protocol is based on the HADDOCK platform, which allows users to incorporate additional prior knowledge of the target system to further improve the quality of the resulting models.
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On any job site, safety is paramount. Whether you’re overseeing a construction project, renovation, or clean-up operation, the presence of a roll-off dumpster introduces a dynamic element that requires careful consideration. In this post, we’ll delve into the essential best practices for ensuring the safety of your team and maintaining an efficient job site when utilizing a dumpster.
- Site Preparation for Dumpster Placement:
- Before the dumpster arrives, it’s crucial to prepare the site. Ensure a level surface for placement to prevent tipping or shifting during use. Clear the area of obstacles, and communicate the designated dumpster location to all team members to avoid accidents.
- Loading the Dumpster Safely:
- Efficient loading is key to maintaining a safe and organized job site. Encourage proper lifting techniques to prevent injuries, and establish clear guidelines for what can and cannot be placed in the dumpster. This includes avoiding overloading, which can compromise the stability of the container.
- Weight Limits and Overloading Risks:
- Familiarize your team with the weight limits specified for the dumpster. Overloading not only poses safety risks but may also result in additional fees or the need for multiple pickups. Educate your team on the importance of adhering to these limits to ensure safe use.
- Proper Disposal of Hazardous Materials:
- Clearly communicate guidelines regarding the disposal of hazardous materials. Items such as chemicals, paint, and other potentially dangerous substances should be handled according to local regulations. Provide separate containers or disposal methods for hazardous waste to prevent accidents and environmental harm.
- Securing the Dumpster During Use:
- Ensure that the dumpster is properly secured during use to prevent unauthorized access or tampering. This is especially important on public job sites where safety and security are paramount. Implement measures such as locks or lids to control access and protect against potential hazards.
- Importance of Clear Communication:
- Establish clear communication channels among team members regarding the dumpster’s location, status, and safety guidelines. Regular briefings and reminders about safety protocols contribute to a collective awareness that enhances the overall safety culture of the job site.
- Promoting Safety Culture on the Job Site:
- Safety should be ingrained in the culture of your job site. Implement regular safety training sessions, encourage reporting of potential hazards, and reward adherence to safety protocols. A safety-conscious team is better equipped to prevent accidents and respond effectively in case of emergencies.
- Emergency Procedures and Contacts:
- Have well-defined emergency procedures in place, including contacts for local emergency services. Display emergency information prominently on the job site, and ensure that all team members are familiar with the procedures in case of accidents, injuries, or hazardous material incidents.
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“Nuclear power that adheres to the highest standards of safety, sustainability, security, and non-proliferation has a key role to play in keeping 1.5 C within reach,” U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry said in a statement issued over the weekend at the U.N. Climate Conference in Dubai.
Other major economies that signed on to the agreement include Canada, the world’s second-largest uranium producer; France, a global leader in nuclear energy; the United Kingdom; and Japan, which suffered a devastating nuclear accident in 2011 triggered by an earthquake and tsunami.
The declaration is the most concrete step taken yet by major nations to place nuclear power at the center of the push to transition to clean energy.
Interest in nuclear is booming worldwide amid growing recognition that a more dependable source of clean electricity will be needed to support the rapidly growing role of wind and solar in power grids. Nuclear is one of the few clean energy sources that can provide power without interruption when wind and solar are not available due to weather conditions.
“Studies confirm that the goal of global net zero carbon emissions can only be reached by 2050 with swift, sustained and significant investment in nuclear energy,” the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, said in a statement in Dubai on Friday.
The head of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol, said last month that nuclear energy is making a “very strong comeback,” but government support is needed for projects.
Nuclear power capacity needs to more than double from 417 gigawatts in 2022 to more than 900 gigawatts in 2050 to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by that year, according to an IEA report published in October.
Nuclear capacity increased 40% worldwide in 2022 with China, Finland, Korea and Pakistan leading the way, according to the IEA report.
More than 40% of the 61 nuclear plants currently under construction are in China, according to the World Nuclear Association. India and Russia are also investing heavily in nuclear power.
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Technology Computer Aided Design
• The objective of the Technology Computer-Aided Design (TCAD) Committee is to promote the interests of all stakeholders in the TCAD community. We want to
- - Highlight TCAD as an essential part of semiconductor technology development.
- - Maximize the quality of TCAD and its ability to make predictions about future devices of interest to industry
- -Enable successful careers in TCAD from the undergraduate level to senior TCAD engineer or researcher
- - Build a cohesive community including all stakeholders (academia, developers of TCAD codes, and industrial end users)
Members are volunteers who serve for a two-year renewable term at the invitation of the committee chair. Membership is limited to two consecutive terms so that new ideas can be generated, incorporated, and executed.
In 2000, an exciting time for TCAD, this technical committee was formed to promote and advocate for TCAD. The first chairman was Professor Mark Law and there were 13 initial committee members.
Conferences / Journals
• Conferences that contain TCAD presentations
v IEDM : https://www.ieee-iedm.org/
v IWCN https://www.iwcn.info/home
v SISC https://www.ieeesisc.org/
v DRC : https://www.mrs.org/drc-2023
v VLSI : https://www.vlsisymposium.org/
• The following book is an excellent overview of TCAD
D. Esseni, C. Jungemann, J. Lorenz, P. Palestri, E. Sangiorgi, L. Selmi, "Technology Computer Aided Design", in Guide to State-of-the-Art Electron Devices, Publisher: Wiley, pp. 97-106, 2013, ISBN 978-D. Esseni, C. Jungemann, J. Lorenz,
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A blue-eyed black lemur baby
For three consecutive years, a female Blue-eyed black lemur has given birth to a youngling in Zoo Ostrava. She successfully raised her babies born in 2017 (female) and 2018 (male) and this year’s baby lemur is expected to be successfully raised, too. Every naturally raised young lemur (i.e. raised by its mother) is very important for saving this critically endangered primate.
Since the European population of Blue-eyed black lemurs is only 30, each born and successfully raised youngling is great news. Two baby lemurs were born in the USA this year, but they did not survive, so the Ostrava’s youngling is the only baby blue-eyed black lemur that has survived this year!
Currently, only a few females are fertile in Europe, but only the Ostrava female raises its offspring naturally, the others do not take care of the young, which are then raised artificially (i.e. by humans). But this, too, confirms that the natural raising by the mother (parents) and minimal intervention by humans is the only right way to raise (not only) lemurs, because no artificially raised Blue-eyed black lemur has ever reproduced in Europe.
In 2005, Zoo Ostrava became a member of the non-governmental organization AEECL (Lemur Conservation Association), which organises the international rescue project Sahamalaza. There are over 30 ZOOs involved. It contributes to the protection of fragile biodiversity directly in the homeland of lemurs – in Madagascar. The project includes not only researching and rescuing Blue-eyed black lemurs, but also other endemic animals and plants living there, as well as protecting the entire ecosystem, building schools, innovation and eco-friendly farming, teaching children, digging wells, afforestation, etc.
Every visitor to Zoo Ostrava is also involved in the rescue of the Blue-eyed black lemur through “Two Koruna from Every Ticket”, a programme from which the Sahamalaza project is also funded. Last year CZK 190,000 was collected for this animal during the third year of the Ostrava Zoo charity run, which was focused on the Blue-eyed black lemur and the Sahamalaza project.
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Your bedroom is your personal space where you should feel comfortable and at ease. It’s also a space that can be easily updated on a budget. Here are 5 ways you can give your bedroom an update without spending a lot of money…
Change Your Window Coverings
Curtains can add texture and colour to any room, and they’re a great way to make your bedroom feel more cosy and inviting. Choose a set of curtains that speaks to you and makes you feel good when you look at them. Alternatively you could always think about fitting blinds in Glasgow. Blinds can give a room a nice contemporary look and are often easier to maintain and operate than traditional curtains.
Add New Accessories
Adding a few new pieces can really change the look and feel of your room. Try adding a colourful rug, some new pillows, or a piece of art to brighten up the space. Why not add some plants? Plants add life and freshness to any room, and they’re especially great for the bedroom. Add a few plants that you love to bring some natural beauty into the space.
Also, why not add an extra piece of furniture, maybe a chair? Or, if money is really tight, rearrange your existing furniture, which is a great way to refresh the look of a room without spending a penny.
Paint your Bedroom a Different Colour
If you’re looking for a quick and easy way to give your bedroom a fresh new look, consider painting it a different colour. Painting your bedroom is a great way to experiment with different colours and styles, and it’s a project that you can usually complete in just a few hours.
Before you start painting, be sure to do some research on the best colours for bedrooms. There are many different shades and hues that can create a relaxing and soothing atmosphere in the bedroom. Once you’ve chosen a colour, be sure to test it out on a small patch of wall before painting the entire room. This will help you make sure you like the colour before committing to it.
Painting your bedroom can be a fun and affordable way to give your space a fresh new look. Try out a few different colours and styles to find the perfect one for you.
Replace your Bedspread and Pillows
Changing your bedspread and pillows is a great way to give your bedroom an instant update. Choose a set of bedding that speaks to you and makes you feel good when you look at it. You don’t have to spend a lot of money to get a new set of bedding – there are many affordable options available online and in stores.
When choosing bedding, be sure to consider the colours and patterns that you like. You can also think about the season when choosing bedding. For example, if you live in a cold climate, you might want to choose a warm and cosy bedspread for the winter months. Or, if you live in a hot climate, you might want to choose a light and airy bedspread for the summer months.
Get Rid of Clutter
One of the quickest and easiest ways to change the feel of your bedroom is to get rid of any clutter that might be cluttering up the space. Take some time to go through your belongings and get rid of anything that you don’t need or use anymore. You can donate these items to a local charity or thrift store, or you can simply throw them away.
Getting rid of clutter will make your bedroom feel bigger, brighter, and more inviting. It’s also a great way to start fresh and give yourself a clean slate. If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the amount of clutter in your bedroom, consider hiring a professional organiser to help you get the space decluttered and organised.
Get Ready to Transform Your Bedroom
Whatever route you decide to take, be sure to choose colours and styles that make you feel happy and comfortable. The bedroom should be a place where you can relax and unwind after a long day. With a little bit of effort, you can easily change the feeling of your bedroom without spending a lot of money. | <urn:uuid:0beebae8-9049-451a-9cd8-deda04218565> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://ehomemag.com/how-to-change-the-feeling-of-your-bedroom-without-spending-a-lot-of-money/ | 2024-02-28T02:59:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474690.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228012542-20240228042542-00200.warc.gz | en | 0.93145 | 855 | 1 |
The Effect of Mental Health on Life Experience of Criminology Student in the University of the Cordilleras, Baguio
The research design was a descriptive correlation with a cross-sectional study. The descriptive correlational study design is to understand the correlation between independent variables (mental health) with the life experience of Criminology students in the University of the Cordilleras, Baguio, the Philippines, as the dependent variable. The sampling technique is purposive sampling, in which the researcher chooses a particular person who is considered to be providing the necessary data. In this study, the samples that will be studied are UC criminology students and environmental communities. The sample were people who answered non-structure questions. Analysis and interpretation of data are using the Zung Self-Assessment of Depression Scale (ZSDS) and Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS 42). The research result stated that respondents experiencing depression, anxiety, and stress are the result of being unable to overcome the difficulties he faces.
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On March 21, 2023, the new product co-developed by Ford and Volkswagen was officially released. The new car, named Explorer EV, is a compact pure electric vehicle based on the same MEB platform as the Volkswagen ID.4. The official stated that this car will be officially delivered in early 2024, with a starting price expected to be $48,000, about 330,000 yuan.
The design language of this brand-new pure electric vehicle is slightly different from that of Ford’s previous models. The front face of the new car adopts a through-style design, but the headlamp unit is not through style. The hook-shaped DRLs on both sides are connected by black decorative strips, and the brand logo of Ford is located in the center of the closed grille, with a sturdy bumper. A U-shaped silver decoration line is added to the lower bumper, echoing the bottom line of the closed grille.
The new car adopts a floating roof design, and the window line rises at the C-pillar. Since the new car is positioned as a compact SUV, its side is not very sleek and slightly shorter than the ID.4. In addition, the wheels are multi-spoke two-color low-drag wheels, providing three options in sizes of 19/20/21 inches.
The design elements of the tail are similar to the front face, and the taillight style and rear bumper style echo the front of the car.
This car offers body colors such as Nordkap Blue, Vitality Blue, Frozen White, Magnetic Grey, Agate Black, and Vitality Red.
Inside the car, this car uses a 15-inch Ford Sync Move central touch screen that can be raised and lowered. Touch buttons are set on the island platform below the screen, which can control functions such as volume. The ambient light above the center console is actually a Sound Bar speaker. In addition, the car is equipped with keyless entry, dual-zone automatic air conditioning, wireless Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, 10-color ambient light, and other functions.
In terms of intelligent driving, this car is equipped with 12 ultrasonic radars, 5 cameras and other hardware. It is the first Ford model in Europe to offer automatic lane changing function. In addition, other ADAS functions of the car include adaptive cruise control with stop-and-go function, pre-collision assistance, crossroad alert with active braking, Active Park Assist 2.0 parking assistance system, etc.
As for the powertrain, Ford has not yet disclosed many details. However, because the Explorer EV is based on the same MEB platform as the Volkswagen ID.4, there will not be much difference in terms of power parameters.
Officially, the Explorer EV will offer both rear-wheel drive and all-wheel drive versions. The battery can be charged from 10% to 80% in 25 minutes under fast charging mode.
The vehicle has a battery temperature pre-adjustment function, which can optimize the charging speed, charging plan and trip planning through the system.
Ford officials said that Explorer EV users can use more than 450,000 charging piles in Europe this year, and this number will reach 500,000 by 2024, including more than 2,100 DC fast charging piles built by Ionity in more than 450 locations.
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The automatic irrigation system is a system used in agriculture, horticulture and landscape. It can automatically adjust the amount and time of irrigation water according to the water needs of plants and environmental conditions, increase crop yields, improve the ecological environment, and save water resources. The working principle and technical parameters of the automatic irrigation system will be analyzed below.
1. Sensor detection: Automatic irrigation systems are usually equipped with multiple sensors, such as soil moisture sensors, light sensors, temperature sensors, etc., to monitor environmental conditions and plant water needs.
2. Data analysis: The data collected by the sensor will be transmitted to the controller. The controller will analyze and process the data to determine the water needs of the plants and decide whether to irrigate.
3. Control execution: The controller controls the execution of valves, pumping stations and other equipment based on the analysis results, and starts or stops the supply of irrigation water to ensure the water needs of plants.
4. Timing control: The automatic irrigation system also has a timing control function, which can set different irrigation times and water volumes according to different plant growth stages, and perform scheduled or interval irrigation.
Analysis of technical parameters
1. Soil moisture sensor: Soil moisture sensor is used to measure the moisture content of soil, usually using resistive or capacitive sensors. Technical parameters include measurement range, error range, response time, etc.
2. Light sensor: The light sensor is used to measure the light intensity and determine the light conditions of the environment where the plant is located. Technical parameters usually include measurement range, linearity, response time, etc.
3. Temperature sensor: The temperature sensor is used to measure the temperature of the environment and determine the temperature conditions of the plant. Technical parameters include measurement range, accuracy, response time, etc.
4. Controller: The controller is the core component of the automatic irrigation system and is responsible for data analysis, judgment, decision-making and control execution. Technical parameters include input and output interface types, processing speed, storage capacity, etc.
5. Valve and pump station: Valve and pump station are the execution components of the automatic irrigation system and are responsible for controlling the supply of irrigation water. Technical parameters include flow rate, working pressure, opening and closing time, etc.
6. Water supply system: The water supply system includes water sources, water pipelines, sprinklers, etc. Technical parameters include water supply capacity, pipe diameter, sprinkler irrigation range, etc.
7. Power supply system: The power supply system includes the power supply and power grid to provide stable power supply for the automatic irrigation system. Technical parameters include voltage, frequency, power, etc.
8. Control strategies and algorithms: Automatic irrigation systems use different control strategies and algorithms to regulate irrigation water volume and time. Common ones include threshold judgment, feedback control, fuzzy control, neural network control, etc.
Summary: The automatic irrigation system detects the water demand of the environment and plants through sensors, and controls valves and pump stations through controller analysis and decision-making to achieve automatic irrigation, increase crop yields, improve the ecological environment, and save water resources. Its technical parameters mainly include the measurement range, error range, response time of the sensor, the processing speed and storage capacity of the controller, the flow rate and working pressure of the valve and pump station, etc. | <urn:uuid:cd466c7e-4ca5-4b3a-931f-bcde7dfbc14d> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://en.fujinirrigation.com/news/482.html | 2024-02-28T03:18:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474690.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228012542-20240228042542-00200.warc.gz | en | 0.875581 | 682 | 1 |
Due to rapid growth of technology, business organizations have switched over from the traditional method of selling goods to electronic method of selling goods. Business organizations use internet as a main vehicle to conduct commercial transactions.
Online stores do not have space constraints and a wide variety of products can be displayed on websites. It helps the analytical buyers to purchase a product after a good search.
Convenience of online shopping
Customers can purchase items from the comfort of their own homes or work place. Shopping is made easier and convenient for the customer through internet. It is also easy to cancel the transactions.
The Internet has revolutionized the way we shop. Because of the numerous advantages and benefits, more and more people these days prefer buying things online over the conventional method of going into stores.
Convenience. Convenience is the biggest perk. Where else can you comfortably shop at midnight while in your pajamas? There are no lines to wait in or cashiers to track down to help you with your purchases, and you can do your shopping in minutes. Online shops give us the opportunity to shop 24/7, and also reward us with a ‘no pollution’ shopping experience. There is no better place to buy informational products like e-books, which are available to you instantly, as soon as the payment goes through. Downloadable items purchased online eliminate the need for any kind of physical material at all, as well, which helps the environment!
Better prices. Cheap deals and better prices are available online, because products come to you direct from the manufacturer or seller without involving middlemen. Plus, it’s easier to compare prices and find a better deal. Many online sites offer discount coupons and rebates, as well. Not only are prices better, but you can save on tax as well, since online shops are only required to collect a sales tax if they have a physical location in your state. Factor in the saved expense of gas and parking and you have saved yourself a lot of money!
More variety. The choices online are amazing. You can find almost any brand or item you’re looking for. You can get in on the latest international trends without spending money on airfare. You can shop from retailers in other parts of the state, country, or even world instead of being limited to your own geography. A far greater selection of colors and sizes than you will find locally are at your disposal. Plus, the stock is much more plentiful, so you’ll always be able to find your size and color. Some online shops even accept orders for out-of-stock items and ship when they come in.
You can send gifts more easily. Sending gifts to relatives and friends is easy, no matter where they are. All the packaging and shipping is done for you. Oftentimes, they’ll even gift wrap it for you! Now, there is no need to make distance an excuse for not sending a gift on occasions like birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and so forth.
More control. Many times, when we opt for conventional shopping, we tend to spend a lot more than planned and end up buying items that aren’t exactly what we wanted (but we can’t find anything better in the store). Online, you don’t have to let the store‘s inventory dictate what you buy, and you can get exactly what you want and need.
Easy price comparisons. Comparing and researching products and their prices is so much easier online. If you’re shopping for appliances, for example, you can find consumer reviews and product comparisons for all the options on the market, with links to the best prices. We can research firsthand experience, ratings, and reviews for most products and retailers.
No crowds. If you are like me, you hate crowds when you’re shopping. Especially during holidays, festivals, or on weekends, they can be such a huge headache. Also, being crushed in the crowds of shoppers sometimes makes us feel rushed or hurried. You don’t have to battle for a parking place. All of these problems can be avoided when you shop online.
No pressure. Oftentimes when we’re out shopping, we end up buying things that we don’t really need, all because shopkeepers pressure us or use their selling skills to compel us to make these purchases.
You can buy used or damaged items at lower prices. The marketplace on the Internet gives us access to listings of old or damaged items at rock bottom prices. Also, if we want to buy antiques, there’s no better place to find great ones.
Discreet purchases are easier. Some things are better done in the privacy of your home. Online shops are best for discreet purchases for things like adult toys, sexy lingerie, and so on. This enables me to purchase undergarments and lingerie without embarrassment or any paranoia that there are people watching or judging me.
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German fashion brand Boss has revealed a new partnership with Aston Martin’s Aramco Cognizant Formula One team, seeing it become the official fashion partner.
Beginning next year, the premium label will design and develop looks for AMF1, including a range of formal apparel for its drivers and race and travel wear for the entire team.
The partnership was already present during the British Grand Prix weekend, spanning July 1 to 3, for which the Boss logo appeared on the AMR22’s bodywork.
This new deal will also include collaborations outside of the track, such as the co-developed limited edition capsule collection, set to be released in 2023.
“Our ambition is always to work with strong partners whose defining values match those of our brands,” said Daniel Grieder, CEO of Boss’ parent company Hugo Boss, in a release.
Grieder added: “Aston Martin’s impressive power lies in its focus on technology, craftsmanship, iconic and luxury design – all guiding principles that the Boss brand shares. We are excited to continue our long motorsports legacy with AMF1, and we are looking forward to the many shared experiences we will deliver to fans, with our joint brand power and passion for speed.”
Boss, which began its relationship with motorsport back in 1972, decided to return to the sector after Formula One announced steps to reduce its global environmental impact, including the goal of introducing 100 percent sustainable fuel by 2026. | <urn:uuid:905270b1-7b76-4f23-b200-c4bae9e23073> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://fashionunited.uk/news/business/boss-strikes-formula-one-deal-with-aston-martin/2022070463902 | 2024-02-28T01:41:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474690.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228012542-20240228042542-00200.warc.gz | en | 0.966526 | 308 | 1 |
Forests certified under Indonesia’s PHPL scheme are rated better on curbing deforestation than non-certified and legality verified areas, however its sustainability credentials are adversely impacted by competing land use rights. This is among key conclusions of a report by the Indonesian Forest Monitoring Network, JPIK.
‘PHPL: From legality to sustainability’ is based on a study of forest concessions in Central and East Kalimantan, comparing the performance of certified concessions against a range of criteria with those legally verified under the SVLK system and non-certified.
Introduced in 2009, PHPL is described by JPIK as covering the same ground as SVLK verification in timber legality ‘but requiring more effort in social and environmental aspects’. It is mandatory for industrial timber plantations, commercial logging concessions, state-owned and private community forests and, like SVLK verification, subject to annual audit by Conformity Assessment Bodies (CABs).
“It forms an integral part of the SVLK system and [Indonesia’s] VPA and all commercial entities operating in production forest on state-owned land must, at some stage, be audited under it,” states the report.
JPIK found that all types of forest studied are affected by deforestation, but PHPL-certified areas have the lowest rate with 3.10% affected over the two-year study period, followed by legality verified (4.15%) and non-certified (10.92%). In all three, deforestation is primarily due to ‘borrow-and-use permits’ for mining and ‘timber utilisation permits’ for conversion to palm oil plantations.
PHPL actually scored highest on ‘degradation’ with 2.37% of forest area affected, against 0.92% for legally verified and 1.64% for non-certified. However JPIK points out that this is not necessarily a point against the certification scheme. “Degradation in this study denotes transition from primary to secondary forest,” it says. “This is not a negative per se, if control of the concession area and management practices allow for recovery.”
Forest fires also occurred in all forest areas. Lax monitoring and poor prevention and management by concessionaires was held partly to blame. But JPIK highlights that more than half the fires occurred in areas ‘affected by deforestation due to external mining and oil palm activities’.
Of the area of forest studied, 36% of PHPL certified concessions, 30.4% of legally verified and 34.2% of non-certified were subject to overlapping land use rights, primarily for mining. JPIK also noted that despite the forest deforestation and forest fires associated with this, PHPL concessions were given consistently good environmental ratings by the CABs. This was because the latter consider government policies that impact concessions ‘territorial integrity and environmental coherence’ out of concessionaries control and do not take them into account in audits.
The JPIK report concludes that all types of forest area studied ‘had much improved environmental performance potential if other land use permits were not allowed to expand, effectively taking large parts of a forest concession out of long-term management’.
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Great question! I realize that I really wasn't clear, and that it probably does exist more in EA than my instinctive impression (also - great links, I hadn't been familiar with all of them).What I meant by leverage was more along the lines of "the value of insider's perspective and the ability to leverage individual networks and skill sets". In these cases, Nick was able to identify potential cost-effective ways to save lives because of both his training and location, and SACH is able to similarly have a cost-effective program because of their close connections with a hospital. I have a few other examples as well, such as NALA's WASH on Wheel's program (which essentially trains a team a plumbers and provides access to clean water to hundreds of program, leveraging the existing infrastructure), and anecdotes I've heard about people on the ground being able to provide crucial solutions during the current Israel-Hamas crisis.I have a sense that the classic EA (and I could very much be strawmanning here) thinks along the lines of: big problems, good solutions, niche area - but doesn't think about who is best placed to identify or implement even better solutions that can come up because the world is messy.After thinking about it, the "leverage" I'm referring to is probably more common than I thought, but maybe not so very well defined.
From what I understand, the per-patient treatments costs are both quite low and are given pro-bono, so given how GiveWell understands leverage (which @Mo Putera pointed out in the response below), they should be strongly discounted from the costs. The question of how to incorporate the infrastructure costs, ie - the hospital, staff training, etc - that enable the program to operate, is quite interesting, and I honestly don't have a great idea how that fits into the model.
Loved this post. Like sawyer wrote - it made me emotional and made me think, and feels like a great example of what EA should be.There actually is a non-profit I'm aware of (no affiliation) that hits a lot of the criteria mentioned in the comments - https://saveachildsheart.org/, they treat life-threatening heart disease in developing countries, often by paying for transportation to Israel where the children receive pro-bono treatment from a hospital the nonprofit has a partnership with. From a (very) quick look at their financial statements and annual report, it looks like it costs them around ~$6,300 to save a life, although that number could be significantly off in either direction (by looking through the annual report, it looks like the nonprofit is not especially focused on the most cost-effective parts of its programming, and does many activities that look like PR, which is probably morally good if it allows them to scale. On the other hand, it's not clear from the AR what the severity of the disease is in the children treated, and what share of their treatments are actually life saving).Your post, and nonprofits like this, make me think of something EA often misses from it's birds-eye approach to solutions - leverage. Both you and saveachildsheart use their leverage (your proximity, their partnership with a first world medical institution) to be impressively cost-effective, but leverage is hard to spot in a-priori spreadsheets.
To everyone who replied with messages of support and wishes for a better world - thank you, I'm really glad that the EA community has people such as you, especially in such difficult times.
From what I've seen, peace building initiatives are more a matter of taste than proven effectiveness.
And I would wait until after the war to understand which orgs are able to effectively deliver aid to Gazans who have been affected, things will be clearer then. Now everything is complicated by the political / military situation.
Thanks for responding.
I agree with all of the facts you present in your comment! and I don't at all think that the Israeli government is trustworthy or is trying to maximise general wellbeing, and I think that they, like most sovereign countries, value the lives of their citizens and soldiers significantly more than civilians on the other side. I don't know if that's good for the world, but it is how governments operate. I do think that there is effort being made to minimise civilian causalities, but I have no idea how much.
The point I was trying to make was more to caution against joining protests / building models without taking into account second-order effects or the broader context and interests of players. I think it's quite plausible that a long term ceasefire could be better than the current policies (obviously for Gazans, but maybe even for Israelis), or that a third-option - say, creating a global coalition for sanctions and targeted killings against Hamas leadership, without widespread warfare - would be the welfare maximising option. But, as Guy points out, you need a lot of context, and I didn't feel a need to lay out the case for them, since the ceasefire call is widespread and intuitive.
Also, there's a (small) chance that the current Israeli policy is actually welfare maximising, which should be taken into account. I dislike the current Israeli leadership and am embarrassed that they represent me and my country, but that doesn't mean they're always wrong, so I try to not dismiss their positions out of hand. For context, the "no ceasefire" posution had a pretty broad support across the spectrum in Israel.
Finally - I find it hilarious that that Israelis talking about politics is being followed closely on the forum, so thanks again for your comment.
Hi!From what I understand from conversations with SmokeFree Israel's staff (which admittedly might be biased) is that they were the only body pushing the legislation forward, and they had to work AGAINST the existing legislation. SFI wokred to fix problematic loopholes in the update to the tobacco taxation policy that had recently been passed, and petitioned to external legal bodies to help force the government to put the policy back on the agenda. They also provided the data and expert opinions that were pivotal in the discussions within the legislature once the issue had returned to the agenda.Regarding room for funding - that point is entirely valid. We don't think that SFI replaces AMF or MC as a top charity that everyone should donate to, but is evidence that more highly cost-effective opportunities exist if you look for them.
To emphasize Cornelis's point:I've noticed that most of the tension that a "cause-first" model has is that it's "cause" in the singular, and not "causes" (ie - people who join EA because of GHWB and Animal Welfare but then discover that at EAG everyone is only talking about AI). Marcus claims that EA's success is based on cause-first, and brings examples:"The EA community was at the forefront of pushing AI safety to the mainstream. It has started several new charities. It's responsible for a lot of wins for animals. It's responsible for saving hundreds of thousands of lives. It's about the only place out there that measures charities, and does so with a lot of rigor. "
But I think that in practice, when someone today is calling for "cause-first EA", they're calling for "longtermist / AI safety focused EA". The diversity of the examples above seem to support a "members-first EA" (at least as outlined in this post).
Great post, I'm glad this is up for debate. I'm mostly worried about situations where the majority of the board is made up of different representatives of a single funder / donor. For the example of Claire - I think it's fine that she represents OP interests to CEA. I'm more worried when the other board members and executives are also very strongly OP affiliated - then it seems like the nonprofits ability to carry out it's mission is harmed. If a nonprofit has an appearance of independence but in practice is managed / owned by a different organization, that seems problematic. Of course, in the case of CEA, I have no idea what went into the decision making process and what the counterfactual looks like (for example - where there other people who wanted that role?), and it's quite possible there are good reasons for this especially post FTX, so I'm less critiquing the results and more of a process that looks like philanthropy -> nonprofit, but in practice is parent company -> subsidiary.
Excellent post, and great work on the research report!From a narrative perspective I think the analogy between Clean Water and Clean Air is great. However, I'm wondering if from a R&D and implementation perspective a more fitting analogy would be clean cooking fuel, heating or solar power (which you do mention). Clean water systems need large investment in infrastructure and government implementation upfront, as much as they need more technological advancement, since Clean Water is a public good. Indoor Clean Air, or at least the solutions you described above, don't need large infrastructure or government investment. The quality of the air in my house or office is a private good. The private market can develop the R&D and market directly to consumers, without the need for the government to step in, as long as there's consumer interest. The fact that the TOC for Clean Air Indoors doesn't need to go through government makes me more optimistic about success (although of course if there are government standards and gov R&D spending, it will go faster).On the other hand, perhaps Indoor Clean Air is more similar to lead paint regulation, where the individual consumer isn't aware enough of the dangers and benefits, even though theoretically it's more lucrative to sell safe paint than poisonous paint. | <urn:uuid:3234f4b9-af47-48c7-91c1-1cc21724618d> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://forum-bots.effectivealtruism.org/users/ezrah | 2024-02-28T01:37:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474690.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228012542-20240228042542-00200.warc.gz | en | 0.975786 | 1,997 | 1 |
LIBBY D'ORSAY SNEAKER
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- 100% Italian leather in stucco suede. This tannery is rated Leather Working Group Registered and leather contains no PFAs. Leather Working Group is a tool to evaluate the environmental performance of leather goods manufacturers.
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This material may feel snug when you first put them on. This is normal as they will need a little breaking in to make them yours. Before you know it, the leather will take the shape of your foot and become your everyday favorite. We suggest wearing them with socks around the house until they soften.
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- ALMA is the last used for this sneaker. Learn more about lasts here.
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Suedes and nubucks are aniline leathers that do not have a protective finish. This means they are very absorbent and susceptible to stubborn staining. However, most of our suedes are sustainably treated with a stain-resistant surface finish making them easier to clean.
Alternatively, our waterproof suedes have an internal membrane to prevent water from penetrating the leather, keeping the foot protected and dry. The surface of the suede has not been treated, so you should apply a normal suede treatment before getting wet.
If the suede gets wet, soak up the moisture as soon as possible with a clean towel and allow it to air dry, then brush with a soft bristle suede brush. Suede should be kept out of direct sunlight for long periods of time, as it is especially prone to fade. We advise against cleaning any cleaning products containing solvents which affects the leather's surface finishing.
To clean, gently brush off dirt with a soft bristle suede brush. Use a suede rubber eraser to gently scrub away scuffs and blemishes, then brush gently in the same direction in which the suede naturally rests. Apply a suede protector before wearing to keep shoes in good condition and a reviving product after using. We recommend cleaning periodically or as needed to keep your FRĒDAs looking brand new.
To waterproof and clean, we offer a suede care and water-proofing kit here!
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LIBBY is handmade at our family owned factory in the traditional footwear town of Elda, Spain. Our leathers are sourced from the finest tanneries across Italy. Each upper is cut, sewn and lasted by Spanish artisans who are experts in their craft. Our components are developed and tested with neighboring factories in Elda, and perfected by FREDA’s design team in Sausalito. Every pair of the women's d'Orsay sneaker is handmade and finished with a vulcanized sole for reinforced durability.
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- AAmy3 months agoReviewingLIBBY D'ORSAY SNEAKER 8.5 / Stucco SuedeRated 4 out of 5 stars4 Stars
Very cute and comfy sneaker! I’m between 8 & 8.5 with wide feet. The width of the 8.5 is perfect but they are slightly big in the toe area. These didn’t require a break-in period for me; very easy to wear right out of the box. Recommend!!
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The Libby is super sleek and I love the Velcro straps. Definitely less of a break in period than the Eda. Wore all day the first time with no issues. Order a 1/2 size down from your usual or your smaller size if you tend to go between two sizes. Wish they had arch support but that’s my only complaint- they are so cute!SizingRated 1.0 on a scale of minus 2 to 2
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WASHINGTON (April 6, 2021) — New data released today by the Plant Based Foods Association (PBFA) and The Good Food Institute (GFI) shows U.S. retail sales of plant-based foods continued to increase by double digits in 2020, growing 27% and bringing the total plant-based market value to $7 billion. This growth in dollar sales (“sales”) was consistent across the nation, with more than 25% growth in every U.S. census region. The plant-based food market grew almost twice as fast as the total U.S. retail food market, which increased 15% in 2020 as Covid-19 shuttered restaurants and consumers stocked up on food amid lockdowns. Fifty-seven percent of households now purchase plant-based foods, up from 53% in 2019. GFI and PBFA commissioned the data from SPINS and custom refined the data to reflect only plant-based products that directly replace animal-based products.
The value of plant-based meat — the second-largest plant-based category — hit $1.4 billion in 2020, with sales growing 45%, up from $962 million in 2019. The plant-based meat category grew twice as fast as conventional meat and now accounts for 2.7% of retail packaged meat sales. Eighteen percent of U.S. households now purchase plant-based meat, up from 14% in 2019. Consumers are coming back for more — 63% of shoppers are high-repeat customers. Refrigerated plant-based meat sales grew 75% in 2020, with products increasingly shelved adjacent to conventional meat. This placement in the meat section helped propel growth in the segment, with refrigerated plant-based meat sales increasing more than twice as fast as frozen plant-based meat sales, which grew 30% in 2020 — 10 times faster than in 2019.
Plant-based milk — the largest plant-based category — has reached $2.5 billion and accounts for 35% of the total plant-based food market. Even as the most developed category, plant-based milk grew 20% in dollar sales, up from 5% in 2019. Plant-based milk grew twice as fast as cow’s milk and is now purchased by 39% of U.S. households. Almond milk remains the category leader and accounts for about 2/3 of plant-based milk dollar sales. Oat milk catapulted to the second-leading segment, ahead of soy milk, with sales more than tripling in 2020 and growing 25-fold since 2018. Plant-based product share of all conventional categories is increasing, with plant-based milk now making up 15% of the milk category, plant-based butter making up 7% of the butter category, and plant-based creamer making up 6% of the creamer category. While plant-based milk boasts a significant share of milk sales in all stores at 15%, it constitutes an even greater share of milk sales in natural food stores at 45%.
The success of plant-based milk has laid the groundwork for major increases in sales of other plant-based dairy products, which are collectively approaching $2 billion. Across the store, plant-based food dollar sales are growing faster than those of many conventional animal products. In 2020, plant-based yogurt grew 20%, almost seven times the rate of conventional yogurt; plant-based cheese grew 42%, almost twice the rate of conventional cheese; and plant-based eggs grew 168%, almost 10 times the rate of conventional eggs. The plant-based egg category grew more than 700% from 2018, 100 times the rate of conventional eggs.
Covid-19 gave retail sales of plant-based foods an extra boost at a time when interest in the sector was already surging, driven by a focus among consumers on personal health, sustainability, food safety, and animal welfare. These factors will continue to propel consumption of plant-based foods far into the future. According to Mintel, 35% of U.S. consumers agree with the statement ”the Covid-19/coronavirus pandemic proves that humans need to eat fewer animals.” The market has responded by meeting consumer interests with plant-based claims on-pack rising 116% among US food and drink introductions between 2018 and 2020.
PBFA Senior Director of Retail Partnerships Julie Emmett: “The data tells us unequivocally that we are experiencing a fundamental shift as an ever-growing number of consumers are choosing foods that taste good and boost their health by incorporating plant-based foods into their diet. As this industry surpasses the $7B threshold, PBFA is excited to continue our work to help build a sustainable infrastructure, including domestic ingredients sourcing, for this growing demand to expand access to plant-based foods.”
GFI Research Analyst Kyle Gaan: “2020 was a breakout year for plant-based foods across the store. The incredible growth we saw in plant-based foods overall, particularly plant-based meat, surpassed our expectations and is a clear sign of where consumer appetites are heading. Almost 40% of households now have plant-based milk in their fridge, and at this rate, it won’t be long until we see just as many households purchasing plant-based meat.”
SPINS Head of Retail Dawn Valandingham: “The plant-based category has evolved to the point that retailers can’t limit who they consider the plant-based shopper. They should now assume everyone is a potential plant-based buyer and educate them enough to see the possibilities. Between the innovation in plant-based products and the gradual return to less restrictive shopping measures, 2021 offers many opportunities for retailers to appeal to more customers and expand their plant-based offerings.”
Point-of-sale data: GFI and PBFA commissioned total retail food sales data from SPINS, a wellness-focused data technology company, having refined the existing SPINS plant-based categories to reflect foods derived from plants that provide direct replacements for animal products (meat, seafood, dairy, and eggs). Inherently plant-based foods, such as chickpeas and kale, are not included. Due to the custom nature of these categories, the retail data presented in this report will not align with standard SPINS categories. SPINS obtained the data over the 52-week and 104-week periods ending December 27, 2020, from the SPINS Natural Enhanced and Conventional Multi Outlet (powered by IRI) grocery channels.
Consumer panel data: To understand consumer purchasing dynamics and demographics, GFI and PBFA also commissioned consumer panel data from SPINS based on the same custom plant-based categories. SPINS acquires its panel data through the National Consumer Panel, a Nielsen and IRI joint venture composed of roughly 100,000 households. SPINS obtained the data over the 52-week period ending December 27, 2020, and the 52-week period ending December 29, 2019, from all U.S. outlets.
About the Plant Based Foods Association
The Plant Based Foods Association (PBFA) is the only trade association in the U.S. representing over 195 of the nation’s leading plant-based food companies. PBFA’s mission is to build a strong foundation for the industry to scale and thrive. PBFA empowers the industry by advocating for government policies that allow fair competition, while expanding market opportunities for retail, distribution, and foodservice to support the continued growth of the plant-based foods industry.
About the Good Food Institute
The Good Food Institute is a nonprofit think tank working to make the global food system better for the planet, people, and animals. Alongside scientists, businesses, and policymakers, GFI’s teams focus on making plant-based and cultivated meat delicious, affordable, and accessible. Powered by philanthropy, GFI is an international network of organizations advancing alternative proteins as an essential solution needed to meet the world’s climate, global health, food security, and biodiversity goals.
SPINS LLC is a wellness-focused data company and advocate for the Natural Products Industry. Over the past two decades, SPINS’ investments have led to a common language used across the industry as well as laid the foundation for the next generation of innovation, while providing dynamic data, actionable insights, and digital activation solutions that drive growth for our clients and partners and contribute to a healthier and more vibrant America. | <urn:uuid:39404441-de89-4db2-a12b-6a02b6c04669> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://gfi.org/press/plant-based-food-retail-sales-grow-27-percent-to-reach-7-billion-in-2020/ | 2024-02-28T02:50:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474690.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228012542-20240228042542-00200.warc.gz | en | 0.95251 | 1,727 | 2 |
The University of Strathclyde is to establish a new innovation hub within the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District Scotland. This will support the journey to deliver a sustainable net-zero economy by accelerating the development and deployment of technology supporting decarbonisation.
Researchers from the University of Glasgow are part of a new national research hub which will help to upgrade and decarbonise the UK’s complex and interconnected national, regional and local transport infrastructures and to adapt to the effects of climate change.
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Vishnu Goyal receives IPF Industrial Excellence Award at a ceremony held at Nehru Centre, Mumbai on May 21, 2022
Agro-industry giant emerges as sector’s fastest growing company
12-jury panel of industry experts confers award on CMD Mr. Vishnu Goyal at a grand ceremony in Mumbai.
New Delhi (India), June 11: Agro sector company Alfavision Overseas India Ltd. received Industrial Products Finder (IPF) Industrial Excellence Award at a grand ceremony held at Mumbai’s Nehru Centre on May 21, 2022. According to the organiser, the company was selected for the prestigious award for emerging as one of the fastest growing companies in the Agro MSME category.
A jury of 12 industry experts comprising NITIE professor Ashok Pundir, CEO and MD of Volvo Wheel Fluid India Pvt Ltd B Sheshnath, SAARC country leader Kishore Patil, director operations and projects at Henkel Adhesive Technologies Mahesh Aloni, director general of ITMMA D Mhatre, chief Risk Officer at Vienna Network), professor R Jayraman, senior director at Care Edge Raghvendra Mirjee, MD at Berlin Logistics Saikat Rai, Dr. Sharmila Ameen, Subba Bangera, Sudipta Ghosh and Vijay Anand Choudhary from Tata Technologies selected the winner for this year’s award.
The 6th IPF award gala was attended by many dignitaries, industry experts and top administrative officers from across the globe, including consulate generals of Brazil, Hungary, South Africa, Indonesia and Mauritius.
CMD of Alfavision Overseas India Ltd., Mr. Vishnu Goyal said “We have a very unique and clear vision in our policies and activities. Alfavision fulfilled all the requirements and conditions of the contemporary market to become numero uno and thus claimed a special presence in the agro-industry sector of the country. As a result, the investors are happiest with getting higher returns.”
“While in 2021 the company share was valued at Rs 35, this year it has witnessed a remarkable jump of 300% to be sold at Rs 138. The vision and hard work we have been putting in for nearly a decade to make a difference in the agro-industry sector is now recognised,” he added.
He further informed that among other important works, Alfavision had earlier successfully carried out a forestation drive on 220 acres of land near Kolar Dam, situated close to Bhopal, the capital city of Madhya Pradesh. In the endeavour, the company planted over 1.50 lakh trees in the area to conserve the surrounding forest and its ecosystem. In order to achieve its water conservation goals, the company has to date built four dams and many are in the offing. Apart from environment conservation, Alfavision is also involved in promoting organic farming especially medicine farming for the Ayurvedic units in the country and abroad. | <urn:uuid:b24a590d-9da9-41c1-a798-03b900167848> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://gwaliorbuzz.com/index.php/2022/06/11/alfavision-overseas-india-ltd-receives-the-prestigious-ipf-industrial-excellence-award/ | 2024-02-28T03:00:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474690.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228012542-20240228042542-00200.warc.gz | en | 0.94463 | 628 | 1 |
My Lords, wherever shale gas operations are conducted they must be done in a safe and environmentally sound way. There are regulations in place to ensure on-site safety, prevent water contamination and mitigate against seismic activity and air pollution. As part of this rigorous process, my department, the Environment Agency and the Health and Safety Executive must all approve an application. Local communities will be consulted before any operations and the industry has committed to provide a package of benefits from shale gas production.
My Lords, I thank my noble friend very much for that opening, but I want very quickly to say a few words about the position of shale gas in the UK. On one side, shale gas is considered as having no real future importance and as not being worthwhile; but on the other side, the position is quite different. The Financial Secretary to the Treasury recently wrote that shale gas has the potential to support thousands of jobs, generate substantial tax revenue and keep energy bills low for millions of people. If that is true then our shale gas is very important. Which way would the Minister vote on this?
My Lords, my noble friend is aware, of course, that the Treasury and the Government are very keen to explore all sources of energy. Shale gas will provide the UK with greater energy security, economic growth and jobs, and the Government are encouraging exploration to determine this potential.
My Lords, I suppose that we have all been nimbys at one time or another but it is important now that the public interest should be the main issue. Unfortunately, it looks as if the companies that are investing in fracking are being stopped or delayed, and that is clearly not in the public interest. As I am sure the Minister knows, all the evidence shows that there is only a low public health risk, and even that could be reduced considerably by proper regulation. In those circumstances we need the full support of both sides of the House. I hope that my own party will strongly support the Government on this, although there may be some critical points. What can the Minister tell us about what they are doing strongly to support the companies that are bringing in the private investment which is desperately needed in this vital matter?
My Lords, the noble Lord is absolutely right that this is an important source for us, and as with all things, we are making sure that the environmental protections are in place. We have a very strong regulatory process in this country, as he said. We are doing whatever we can to ensure that the process is followed through smoothly and as quickly as possible so that this industry which is investing in our country is not hindered by unnecessary regulations and red tape.
My Lords, do the Government consider that there are risks from shale gas exploration for such national assets as, for example, the hot mineral water at Bath and the water flowing through the caves at Cheddar? Are there methods for assessing such risks, and are there ways of preventing harm?
My Lords, I hope that I am making it clear that we take seriously any environmental risk whether it is water contamination or anything else. It is therefore right that the Environment Agency, the Health and Safety Executive and my department work very closely together to ensure that the proper processes are followed through and that all the regulations which need to be in place are in place in order for companies to do their work carefully, safely and properly, and for the country to benefit from the potential.
My Lords, does the Minister agree that there is a big difference between this country and America in that people there own the mineral rights under their farms whereas in this country it is very important to get public opinion behind it? The businesses involved may provide community benefit but that will not replace such a thing as financial benefit. I am not sure that they will get the public behind shale gas without that.
My Lords, the noble Viscount raises an interesting point. Companies have pledged through their own charter that they will at exploration stage give £100,000 in community benefits, but also that 1% of the revenues generated from each well will go to local communities.
My Lords, in the United States the shale gas industry is fragmented and there are good and not-so-good operators in terms of environmental risks. What specific lessons have been learnt from the United States? It is estimated that some 10% of the total UK water supply could be demanded by shale gas if, as many of us hope, it were to be successful. What discussions are the Government having with the water industry to make sure that that area will be catered for if shale gas development takes place?
My noble friend again raises an important point. Water UK, which represents water companies, is working closely with the United Kingdom Onshore Operators Group—the representative body for onshore oil and gas—to make sure that any potential extra demand for water will be managed sensibly. However, water companies are already obligated to produce and update every five years a proper water plan. Water companies will therefore assess well in advance the amount of water that will be available to the operator before it is used.
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The 15th European Social Science History Conference 2025 will take place in Leiden, The Netherlands, 26 - 29 March 2025, organised by the IISH and the Leiden University.
The Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” bans the Human Solvency Historical Research Prize 2024 1. The prize aims to enhance the historical research of scholars who focus their investigations on the question of economic solvency considered in all its implications, starting from those of the languages, the theological, philosophical and legal lexicons that have structured concepts key such as poverty, common good, public debt, taxation, monetary institution. The intention is to promote a long-term approach by evaluating research and analysis of historical phenomena that developed between the 11th and 18th centuries.
Call for sessions for the World Economic History Congress, to be held in Lund, Sweden, from 28 July to 1 August 2025. The text of the call and theme appears below, along with instructions for submission. Please note that:
1. The deadline for submitting sessions has been extended to March 15th, 2024. Make sure have submitted your proposals by that date. Sessions should be submitted via the Congress website at https://wehc2025.com/
2. Sessions proposals do not need to include complete lists of speakers at the time of submission. Proposals need to include a clear theme and and and indicative list of participants, but as in previous years the list of speakers can be finalised closer to the Congress.
3. While there will only be ONE main call for sessions during this Congress owing to impact of the pandemic on planning, the Executive Committee may leave room on the schedule for late breaking sessions on topics of current relevance. This will be assessed by the EC in the 6-9 months leading up to the Congress.
The 20th World Economic History Congress will convene from 28 July – 1 August 2025 in Lund, Sweden. The theme for the Congress is "Equality and Sustainability Challenges", which highlights some of the central issues facing humanity today and also connects to a broad and diverse range of historical problems. To address both the challenges and to find insights from the historical record for that endeavour, a range of perspectives will be necessary.
The IEHA has a particularly strong desire to attract sessions related to this theme. However, submissions are welcome on the economic and social histories of all places and periods, and on the exploration of varied sources and methods, and on the theory and uses of economic history itself. We also invite members to employ and analyse diverse strategies for representing the past.
Sessions may be proposed by any member of the international economic history community, whatever their institutional affiliation or status, as well as by scholars in related disciplines. Given the diversity of our membership, we will consider any submission that advances the study, teaching and public presentation of economic history. We welcome panel proposals that highlight scholarship emerging from economic history, business history, financial history, demographic history, environmental history, global and world history, social history, urban and agrarian history, gender studies, material culture, methodological approaches to historical research, history of economics and economic thought, science and technology studies, and other related fields.
The programme of the Lund Congress will be organised on the same principles as previous Congresses. The 5-day Congress will have approximately 180 sessions, with each day divided into time blocks of 90 minutes each (two before lunch and two after lunch). As in the past, it will be possible to combine two sessions into larger coherent units.
The session proposals should contain:• Name, title, affiliation, and contact information of the session organiser• Possible co-organisers (optional)• Title of the session• Description of the session’s aim, contribution, and relevance (max 5,000 characters with blanks)• Potential researchers (and their affiliations) to invite to the session or those already secured
The call for sessions will close on March 15, 2024. Sessions should be submitted via the Congress website at https://wehc2025.com/. Please note that unlike in past years, there will be ONLY ONE call for sessions. Decisions will be finalised in June 2024.
Τα σεμινάρια πραγματοποιούνται στην αίθουσα Σεμιναρίων του Εθνικού Ιδρύματος Ερευνών (Βασ. Κωνσταντίνου 48, Αθήνα, ισόγειο, μετρό «Ευαγγελισμός») και υβριδικά.
Το 1ο Συνέδριο Αγροτικής Ιστορίας "Αγροτικές κοινωνίες στην Ελλάδα (19ος - 20ός αιώνας): Κρίσεις, μεταβάσεις, προσαρμογές και κρατική παρέμβαση" θα πραγματοποιηθεί από 29 Φεβρουαρίου έως 2 Μαρτίου 2024 στο Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών (Αμφιθέατρο Λεωνίδας Ζέρβας, Λεωφ. Βασιλέως Κωνσταντίνου 48, Αθήνα).
Διοργάνωση: Ομάδα Αγροτικής Ιστορίας Ελληνικής Εταιρείας Οικονομικής Ιστορίας
We inform you that a new position has been entered in the Apella information system:
Title: Επίκουρος Καθηγητής
Organization: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
School: Economics & Political Sciences
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Submission Opening Date: 21/11/2023
Submission End Date: 21/01/2024
While inequality has played a pivotal role in shaping societies and economies worldwide, many authors have argued the importance of studying its historical evolution in order to have a deeper comprehension of its dynamics and determinants (Milanovic et al. 2011; Piketty 2013). Until recently in industrialized regions, and still today in many countries in the Global South, agriculture, and therefore land, was the main source of rents, income and wealth. This session seeks to delve into the intricate web of historical dynamics that influenced land property arrangements from Early Modern times and onwards. Our objective is to foster a comprehensive understanding of the manifold factors that contributed to the often-glaring disparities in land ownership during this transformative period. The proposed session aims to provide a nuanced exploration of the theme by employing a variety of methodologies and case studies, each offering unique insights into the complexities of land property inequality. We contend that the roots of modern land property arrangements can be traced back to this era, and understanding this historical context is essential for comprehending contemporary disparities.
The conference we are organizing in Rio de Janeiro urges scholars to rethink capitalism’s history from the vantage point of this new historical moment and to consider what are the most promising theoretical formulations, methodological approaches, and historical framings to define capitalism, identify its drivers, shed light on its mechanisms, periodize its cycles, incorporate previously neglected spaces or processes, and offer a prognosis of its current reconfiguring. While traditional analyses of capitalism’s history were centered on Europe, the United States, or the North Atlantic, new strands of scholarship recognize that such a narrow lens fails to capture the complexity of the global economy and its history.
Το «Κέντρο Έρευνας για τις Ανθρωπιστικές Επιστήμες» (ΚΕΑΕ) (www.rchumanities.gr), εκπληρώνοντας τον βασικό καταστατικό σκοπό του που είναι η ενίσχυση της έρευνας στις ανθρωπιστικές επιστήμες, αναγγέλλει τη 2η Δημόσια Πρόσκληση για Ακαδημαϊκούς Συνεργάτες (Fellows).
The History of Capitalism Project at Harvard Business School and Harvard University identifies and supports outstanding scholars whose work responds to the growing interest in the study of global capitalism from a historical perspective. We seek to organize a community of scholars who study aspects of the history of capitalism in all regions of the world and in all chronological periods. Global perspectives are strongly desired, as are contributions from a wide range of variety of disciplines. Hoping to create a global conversation on the history of capitalism, we encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds across the globe, especially from outside Europe and North America.
The Business History Initiative at Harvard Business School seeks a Postdoctoral Fellow for twelve months study and research at Harvard Business School. The fellow will work closely with Professor Geoffrey Jones, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at Harvard Business School.
The British Commission for Maritime History (BCMH) invites contributions to its twenty-ninth conference for new researchers. This year it will be held at the University of Strathclyde in the heart of Glasgow, a city transformed through maritime trade and shipbuilding from the early modern period onwards. This is an ideal location to hold this annual conference and provides a unique opportunity for new scholars to present their work in a historic setting. | <urn:uuid:3d96b066-da7e-40ab-90c3-1db2d0a49e1a> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://hdoisto.gr/en/news/all-news/ | 2024-02-28T02:09:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474690.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228012542-20240228042542-00200.warc.gz | en | 0.838745 | 2,448 | 2 |
Part 6 of the TED Radio Hour episode Maslow’s Human Needs About Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s TED Talk Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi says…
A team of researchers at the Harvard Wyss Institute have developed a soft, hydrogel scaffold that can function as a living electrode for brain-computer interface applications. The researchers used electrically conductive materials and created a porous and flexible scaffold using a freeze-drying process. They then seeded the scaffold with human neural progenitor cells (NPCs) and cultured the scaffolds for extended periods, prompting the cells to differentiate into a variety of neurons and astrocytes. The researchers hope that the resulting ‘living electrode’ could be useful for brain-computer interfaces, as its soft and flexible nature will help it to conform with soft neural tissues and its cellular cargo will help to enhance its biocompatibility and potential efficacy.
The scaffold consists of a soft hydrogel (gray) that contains carbon nanotubes (blue) and graphene flakes (red) as conductive materials to transmit electrical impulses throughout the scaffold. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University
Brain-computer interfaces hold enormous promise in unlocking therapeutic outcomes that would have seemed like science fiction just a few short years ago. From controlling wheelchairs with the mind to restoring sight to the blind, the opportunities in enhancing patient well-being are huge. However, the technology still has a way to go and on a first look, machines and the human body are not a match made in heaven. The interfacing electrodes in such systems are typically made using metal and are rigid, both of which do not assist the technology in non-invasively interacting with delicate neural tissues.
When grown on a viscoelastic hydrogel scaffold, human neural progenitor cells differentiate into multiple cell types that are found in the human brain, including oligodendrocytes (green) that produce myelin (white). Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University
These researchers set out to create an electrode that is not just flexible, but also covered in living neural cells, and is based on the concept that living tissue is likely to be the most biocompatible material to interface with other living tissue. The researchers also conceived the cell-laden material as delivering electrical impulses more naturally through cell-cell contact.
“This conductive, hydrogel-based scaffold has great potential,” said Christina Tringides, a researcher involved in the study. “Not only can it be used to study the formation of human neural networks in vitro, it could also enable the creation of implantable biohybrid BCIs that more seamlessly integrate with a patient’s brain tissue, improving their performance and decreasing risk of injury.”
To create their scaffolds, the researchers used an alginate hydrogel and added some carbon nano-materials for electrical conductivity before a final freeze-drying step. The freeze drying process creates ice-crystals in the material that then sublime during freeze-drying, leaving many pores into which cells can enter and live. They seeded the scaffolds with neural progenitor cells, which then differentiated into more mature neural cells during an extended culture period.
“The successful differentiation of human NPCs into multiple types of brain cells within our scaffolds is confirmation that the conductive hydrogel provides them the right kind of environment in which to grow in vitro,” said Dave Mooney, another researcher involved in the study. “It was especially exciting to see myelination on the neurons’ axons, as that has been an ongoing challenge to replicate in living models of the brain.”
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We all know the basics behind staging a home for a sale: fix the obvious and affordable issues around the home, declutter, depersonalize (remove family pictures, obvious personal items), remove awkward / oversized furniture, use a fairly neutral pallet (particularly when it comes to wall color), clean the place like you’ve never cleaned before, and get rid of your cat forever. If you do this, you’re already ahead of the curve. But as I discovered, if you take your staging work even further, your home will make that much more of a better impression.
People know to de-clutter their surface areas – but the fact is, potential home buyers always check to see what’s behind those mystery doors. If someone opened your closet, cupboard, pantry, or cutlery drawer, would it be filled to the brim? That might give people the impression that your home does not have enough storage space. Go through these spaces and see what you can toss, use up, pack, put elsewhere, or better organize.
To make our closet seem more roomy, we packed all our winter clothes and items we didn’t expect we’d need or wear for at least the next month. We still left plenty of items in there (going bare bones isn’t ideal either), showing how functional the space was. In our kitchen, I transferred a lot of our packaged goods into clean, clear bottles – which looked a whole lot more tidy than a mish-mash of opened bags and boxes. This gave the impression of a clean, organized and roomy kitchen – a must for any homebuyer!
Leave a Couple Things Out
You’ve been told to depersonalize, but that doesn’t mean that you have to get rid of everything. Have some popular, non-offensive books? People actually like seeing some of the stuff they already own in a place – it can help them connect and imagine themselves there. Books are the easiest way to do this. If you’re not a reader, I wouldn’t exactly load up at Amazon just to appear well-read, but most of us have some books. Stack them nicely on a bookshelf but don’t overload it. Keep your bookshelf looking like a display – some books, some space, and a few well-chosen home décor accessories.
While walls should be neutral, no one likes to walk into a nondescript beige blob. Color, used right, can brighten, lighten and tie a room together. Our living and dining room are essentially one room; a space that I wanted to show had good flow. I went to a discount home décor store and found a nice, colorful, large linen tablecloth that I liked for under $15. With zero sewing skills, some pins and scissors, I turned this tablecloth into a runner for the dining table and covered a couple throw pillows for the sofa. This material would have also worked as curtain ties all from the same fabric. I then used some simple similarly colored accessories – like apples in a bowl, a simple vase, and an inexpensive framed print to pop this color throughout the room. It was a simple, affordable but effective way to brighten and connect a space.
Bring Some Actual Life to your Home
And I don’t mean pets, pests or “Crazy” Uncle Frank. Get those outta there! Rather, a vase or jar of simple flowers on the table, or a small herb garden at the window ledge provides color, texture and a bit of freshness to your home. Just don’t get anything with an overbearing smell (like eucalyptus) and be sure to replace the flowers the instant they start to lose their luster. Nothing looks or smells worse than something decaying in the middle of the table.
Take a Whiff-Smells Play a Role in Staging
Speaking of smells, any aromas in your home? If you’ve been inside for a while, you probably don’t notice this anymore. Leave your place for a bit and go for a walk – then come back in with your nostrils wide open. Your home should smell clean and fresh – but not perfumey. Open the windows and get some air flowing through. Take care of obvious culprits like garbage, recycling, laundry, cat litter, old flowers or turned stuff from your fridge. Give all your bedding a wash. Some other sources of stale and unwelcoming smells can include dishrags, sinks, clothes that haven’t been worn in a long time, food in your pantry, and your own sweaty self. I personally think things like air fresheners or tricks like having something baking to be overkill – people might wonder what you’re trying to cover up. It’s better for your home to smell like nothing at all – or at most – faintly fresh.
The Magic Eraser Really Is Magic
I don’t know what this simple looking sponge is made of, and for all I know it will give me cancer, but this is seriously a home seller’s best friend. Little scuffs on the wall? Finger prints on the door? Even a faucet that needs shining? With just a touch of water, the Mr. Clean Original Erase and Renew Magic Eraser erased it – magically! They truly did give this thing the most appropriate name ever. It’s the go-to object we use before a showing to take care of those little things that are left behind when you’re still living in a space that’s for sale.
Storage Units Are Your Friends
I’ve visited homes that had been very well decluttered only to walk into the spare room or basement where boxes upon boxes were stacked. This ruins the illusion they worked so hard to create. We bit the bullet and rented a small storage unit. Totally worth it. The storage company we went with had a perfected operation in place with lots of security, freight elevators, dollies and even a free truck rental to pick up your stuff. And the bonus? When we eventually move into our new home, it’s an easy stop along the way to pick up our already-packed possessions. We’re paying about $120 a month for a 5’ deep x 7’ wide x 20’ tall unit – but there are a lot of options available out there for people with different needs and budgets.
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A Soothing Garden Part 2
This is Part II of a three part series on soothing gardens. The last two are about fragrant plants, their design, and the science of smell.
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This company has been in business for over fourteen years. They have solar powered lights for landscape use.
Have you ever had a perennial that was so gorgeous that you wanted to bring it indoors? I certainly have. Gardeners can now buy new plants that are suitable for both interior landscaping and outdoors.
Sisley Garden Emporium [offsite link]
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If you are looking for the best security camera for your Airbnb, you have come to the right place. As an Airbnb owner myself, it is very important to monitor the activities in my accommodation.
For this, you need a high-quality security camera, and it can be a real treasure hunt to find a suitable, durable one!
Be aware you have to disclose any cameras on your property for your guests. According to Airbnb regulations, it says under “allowed.”
Disclosed devices monitoring only public spaces and common spaces: Devices that allow for viewing or monitoring of only a public space (ex: a front door or a driveway) or a common space that are clearly identified and disclosed ahead of a reservation are permitted. Common spaces do not include sleeping areas or bathrooms.
So knowing this, and after extensive research, we have compiled a list of the best security cameras for Airbnb, especially for you.
- Weatherproof – you can place it outdoor and indoor
- 130 Degree wide-angle lens
- High-quality night vision
- Sharp and detailed video
- 2- way audio feature
- 100% Wireless
- Alexa compatible, Google Assistant, FireTV
- Rechargeable batteries
Arlo is one of the best security cameras when it comes to security cameras.
It has a wireless security system that makes installation effortless.
It can easily be placed anywhere you want to put on your Airbnb property. It also has a voice control system with Alexa and Google Assistant making it an even more powerful system.
It also comes with rechargeable batteries that allow quick charging and long battery life. Furthermore, Arlo offers you high-quality video resolution so that you can monitor everything.
With this Arlo security system, you get a wide viewing angle of up to 130 degrees. In addition, it has great night vision capabilities. With 850nm LEDs, you can monitor up to 25 feet every moment.
It also comes with 2-way audio, so you can easily talk to your guest. In addition, the Arlo Pro security system offers you 7 days of free cloud recordings.
Its smart system adds powerful intelligence to your Arlo cameras. All these features make it the best security camera for Airbnb.
- The wireless camera helps to easy placement
- Suitable for both indoor and outdoor
- Long lasting rechargeable batteries
- Free cloud storage up to 7 days
- Can be viewed live and recorded videos anytime
- Great motion detection
- Some customers find it on the expensive side
- With extremely cold temperatures, the camera might not operate fully well
The Ring camera offers an incredible deal and is significantly less expensive than numerous other cameras available.
The camera has a built-in LED light bar that lets you monitor in the dark. It delivers 1080HD quality video with infrared night vision and live-view that helps you see every single detail.
In addition, you can connect your ring camera with Alexa to listen and talk to others.
You can speak to the visitor through a compatible Echo device if you allow Alexa.
In addition, Ring offers its protection plan that records all your videos, and you can check what you have missed in the last 60 days.
The Ring camera includes lifetime theft protection. If your camera is stolen, Ring will replace it for free.
One thing that makes the Ring camera even more compatible is the motion alarm. The system alerts you on your phone, tablet, or PC when someone enters your property. Also, you can activate the siren from anywhere via your phone, tablet, or PC.
If you choose the option with the solar panel, you don’t even have to worry about its power/electricity cables!
- 1080HD Video with Live view
- Two-way talk
- Remote–activated siren
- Motion-activated alert
- Easy to install
- Wide field of view
- Efficient solar panel
- Excellent alert system
- The solar panel doesn’t charge on rainy/cloudy days
The CANARY camera fits beautifully and comfortably in your home with its award-winning design. It is equipped with a 1080P HD camera that gives you crystal clear details and high-quality audio that enhances the camera quality.
With a 147° wide-angle lens, it offers a wide viewing angle. Moreover, it has a night vision function for easy monitoring at night, one of its greatest qualities.
Moreover, the CANARY security system is one of the best security systems. It is equipped with home health technology that enhances your quality of life.
CANARY systems automatically monitor air quality, humidity, and temperature to inform you about the condition of your home.
To prevent unusual activities such as crime, theft or threats, etc., you can call the police directly with the excellent Canary app. Also, the app has a 90+ Db siren to alert you of any unusual activity around your Airbnb property.
So looking at the above criteria, we can say that this is the best security camera for Airbnb.
- Two-Way Talk
- Home Health technology
- 90+ dB siren
- 1080P HD Video quality
- 147° Wide angle lens
- 24/7 Watch Live HD
- Unlimited video download
- 30 Days video history
- High-quality Night Vision
- Easy to setup
- Some customers are dissatisfied with new updates
Zmodo’s camera must be considered in the list of best security cameras for Airbnb. If you plan to place a camera outdoors, the Zmodo camera is perfect for you.
This camera is weatherproof, which makes it ideal for outdoor use.
It is suitable for a temperature range of -10 to 50 degrees and can be placed outdoors and indoors. It offers 1080p Full HD live surveillance and provides a crystal clear Full HD image of your home.
You can even watch up to 65ft in the dark with a high-quality night vision function.
Zmodo offers cloud recording with a one-month free trial, which is convenient for you. With this plan, you can view, save and share any clip. In addition, you can control your camera in any form with the Zmodo app.
There is also a smart notification that alerts you when people, pets, or vehicles enter your Airbnb property.
- High-quality Night vision
- Weatherproof camera
- 1 Month trial cloud service
- AI-powered technology
- 1080p HD video quality
- Works with Alexa and Google Assistant
- Easy remote access
- Easy to setup
- Cheaper than other cameras
- Always notifies you if something happens
- Free 30 Days cloud storage
- Some customers find high subscription price
There are many points to consider before buying a surveillance camera. Otherwise, you will lose your hard-earned money. So, after researching the market, we have created this ultimate buying guide.
There are only two types of security cameras on the market – outdoor and indoor. You decide to place the security camera where you want.
However, it would help if you read Airbnb’s rules carefully before choosing the location for a security camera.
For outdoor use, the security camera must have weatherproof technology. Weatherproof technology helps the camera to work in any weather condition.
So no matter it’s raining or cloudy, the camera will keep running. Besides, it is much easier to install an outdoor security camera.
For indoors, the security camera does not need to be weatherproof, but it must have night vision and a motion sensor. Night vision allows you to monitor in the dark with HD video quality, and a motion sensor helps detect movement in the dark.
The best thing about the indoor camera is that it does not require installation.
As an Airbnb property owner, you may not be able to live in the property. Therefore, you must have a strong Wi-Fi connection.
In addition, some security cameras come with their internet connection system, while others need to be connected to the internet or Wi-Fi.
Research has shown that a minimum internet speed of 2.5 Mbps is required for a connection, which is very convenient.
3. Night Vision
Night vision is an important component of a surveillance camera. A large portion of surveillance cameras is needed for evening hours.
So, you need a camera that not only provides excellent video quality but also can produce ample light to have the ability to search in the dark. For this, you need to check the number of infrared LEDs it uses.
The higher the number, the better the night vision. In our list, most cameras have 6-8 infrared LED lights.
4. Field of View
As Airbnb owners, we need to know what’s happening near our property. The wider view helps capture more.
If you want to buy an outdoor security camera, make sure it has a wide viewing area.
For indoors, the security camera needs to have a 120° viewing angle, which provides a comfortable view that is not too wide.
Most security cameras in our list have a field of view of up to 150 degrees.
5. Cloud service
This is one of the most important factors to consider.
To store the footage recorded by Airbnb, security camera manufacturers offer a decentralized storage service for a monthly membership.
The advantage of cloud storage is that there are no restrictions. Depending on the agreement, you can save the recordings of the last few days or even the past. Check out the official pages of security cameras about their cloud services.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Is it lawful to have security cameras at Airbnb property?
Yes, but you must disclose the security camera to the guest. Airbnb follows very strict rules. So if you do not disclose everything about the security camera, you can expect legal problems.
It is not allowed:
- Devices that monitor common spaces that are hidden or not revealed: Any device that monitors a shared place should be installed visibly and stated in the listing description.
- Devices in or monitoring private locations: Devices should never be placed in or monitored within private spaces (ex: bedrooms, bathrooms, or common areas used as sleeping areas, like a living room with a sofa bed). Disconnected devices are permitted as long as they are turned off and notified to visitors in advance.
- Cameras and recording devices are not allowed incomplete homes or flats (Mainland China only) unless they are properly marked and declared in the communal areas of a stay identified as a “resort,” “castle,” or “villa.”
2. How much does a security camera stores?
It always depends on the security camera you have. Usually, a security camera with a 1 TB hard drive can record up to 3 -4 days.
And a security camera with a 2 TB hard drive can record up to a week. You can buy according to your need.
3. Do wireless security cameras work effectively?
Yes, wireless security cameras are very easy to set up. It will provide you with ultimate surveillance with its system.
4. How do you charge security cameras?
The wireless camera doesn’t need a power supply to charge. It can also work on a battery system.
The batteries price can vary from brand to brand, but expensive batteries last longer than standard batteries.
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American-based artist Ceteropsin shared a New Track “Playground Piece” From his Debut Album ‘My Library Is Filled With Backbeats’. Ceteropsin’s debut album ‘My Library Is Filled With Backbeats’ is out now and echoing across the underground. The eclecticism of its influences and style can be demonstrated through its list of heavyweight featured artists.
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‘My Library Is Filled With Backbeats’ is an homage to the musical influences of Ceteropsin, who made a list of hundreds of their names for the album’s liner notes. After experiencing pressure from the fine art world to abandon the elements of popular music like backbeats and melodies, ‘My Library Is Filled With Backbeats’ is Ceteropsin’s last stand to defend the music that he loves.
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Houston expert: 5 things to consider when tackling DEI at your organization
Houston is often touted as the most diverse city in the country, but with that comes the responsibility of making sure we are creating inclusive and equitable opportunities that reflect the communities we serve.
With the current state of our country dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as social and political issues, employers across the city have searched for the right thing to say and do to help their employees and customers during this time when personal feelings and beliefs impact the workplace more now than ever. While there isn't a one-size-fits-all approach to implementing DEI across an organization, here are a few steps and considerations companies can take to ensure DEI is a priority moving forward.
Understand your audience
It's important to understand the perspectives of those you serve. Identifying your audience will help develop a DEI strategy that addresses concerns from multiple lenses. At Houston Methodist, we focus on our patients, employees and the communities we serve. Anyone building a DEI program needs to not only be cognizant of their audience, but also understand their needs in today's climate before spending time and resources to develop initiatives that will address those needs. Ultimately, this will help shape a more impactful approach to DEI within your organization.
When developing a DEI strategy, success may seem overwhelming or lofty. But, viewing success as progress will help your organization accomplish your goals in a way that employees and other stakeholders will benefit from in the long run.
Set strategic and measurable goals that clearly state what your organization wants to achieve through its DEI efforts. These goals need not be big at the onset; make sure they are attainable. Most importantly, it's critical to revisit your goals on a regular basis and identify gaps, and be willing to pivot, if needed, along the way so your organization eventually reaches its goals. At the hospital, we've developed a DEI dashboard for all departments in our hospitals to help us with setting those measurable goals. Once measurable goals are identified, a DEI scorecard will be used to identify progress for departments and our organization year over year. When people are able to easily track and see progress or gaps, it will make it easier to reach desired goals.
An organization can't be successful with any new type of program if everyone within the organization doesn't understand the importance of DEI in their department and within the company as a whole. Progress often starts with one person. Providing training to employees about the impact that DEI can have on their day-to-day work will help them champion that within the organization. For example, we've launched something at our hospital called "Together We Grow," a training program aimed at building a foundation for what DEI is by exploring everyday scenarios employees may encounter. This program first started with leadership and is now available to all employees within the hospital system.
Establish a timeline
Once measurable goals have been established, develop a timeline for accomplishing those goals. By selecting two or three goals that can be focused on over a particular time period (i.e., six months or one year), your organization can implement targeted programs and best practices to drive the success of DEI for a more long-term plan. It's ok if not every program is up and running within the year; creating milestones along the way will give your organization time to grow its DEI efforts and aspire to something meaningful for your employees, customers or community. The need for DEI doesn't go away, so it's important to continue efforts year-round with a growth mindset.
Evaluate how DEI holistically fits into your business
A DEI department, team or individual can't be successful if the work isn't aligned with the mission of the organization. It does not help if an organization has competing priorities, so DEI goals must be embedded in your organization's business goals.
Additionally, it's also important to have leadership set the tone for the rest of the organization to follow. Executive leaders that fully commit to the organization's DEI efforts and promote transparency, feedback and accountability for those programs will yield the most meaningful and lasting results.
Recognize your ‘why’
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For many health care organizations, health equity has shaped community engagement efforts and programs. Addressing health equity for racial, ethnic and social minorities in the Greater Houston area has been a priority for Houston Methodist for nearly 30 years, and this work has also informed and strengthened our DEI efforts in the communities we serve.In conclusion, remember progress and feedback will help you reach your organization's DEI goals. For these initiatives to be effective, everyone within your organization must understand that each person plays a role in shaping the success of DEI efforts.
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The approach to delivering healthy and sustainable buildings has undergone a seismic shift over the past 20 years. And the concept of designing for the future has adapted to reflect the huge social and environmental changes in our cities, homes and communities. Now more than ever, we have become acutely aware of our responsibility as engineers to create intelligent and low-carbon structures. To achieve net zero carbon by 2050, we need buildings which are capable of changing use, and can lead long, flexible and adventurous lives without a cost on the environment.
Central to this is Long Life Loose Fit which provides a number of key flexible design principles. When first introduced in the early 70s the concept of flexibility centred around demountable, lightweight and low energy structures. With buildings changing use more frequently, the emphasis is now often placed on reducing destructive, high-carbon activities such as recoring.
To optimise the carbon cost associated with recoring we’ve developed a ‘Soft Core’ philosophy which runs through a number of our retrofit projects. Soft Core repositions the stability elements of an existing core, which are often aggressive to demolish, and places them into the architecture of the façade where they become much more efficient. Through transforming the central core, the building is better able to flex, move and grow to suit each change of use.
'As well as better buildings, the shared benefits of a Long Life Loose Fit approach mean fewer new build developments and less aggressive redevelopments, transforming our cities and public spaces with healthier buildings, less construction traffic and cleaner air.'
The benefits of adaptable structures should also be recognised through our building awards. Instead of awarding a project the year it completes, it should be assessed 10 or 20 years down the line. A lifetime achievement award which questions how adaptable a building has been and considers its post occupancy performance could largely help to underpin the value of flexible building stock.
To drive meaningful change our carbon counting methods should also be questioned. As an industry we have only just begun to measure embodied carbon in a small proportion of the building process. To truly measure the carbon within a building, we need to apply a holistic approach, measuring everything from transport and temporary works to retention schemes and post occupancy evaluation.
At HTS, this is a fundamental aspect of our approach and one we have come to refer to as Total Engineering. We believe that the most successful projects are delivered through a small team working collaboratively towards a shared vision. By having one team design all the key elements from the existing buil ding, the carbon cost can be consistently measured, benchmarked and lowered at every stage.
The recently completed Standard, designed with Orms Architects, exemplifies the substantial benefits of our Total Engineering approach. Working closely with the
contractor, we designed both temporary and permanent works as a single integrated system which used smart phasing to minimise the temporary works and its hidden embodied carbon while maximising program advantages. 94% of the primary structure was retained, saving 6,000 tonnes of CO2. Based on an area gain of 1,905 m3 to 18,107 m3 resulted in an overall embodied carbon value of 121 kgco2/m2 for the building structure, well below the LETI 2030 carbon target of 201 kgco2e/m2 and the RIBA 2030 carbon target of 144 kgco2e/m2.
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If the most sustainable building is one that already exists, then we need to question how our new generation of buildings will function in 20 or 30 years’ time, embedding sustainable principles into projects from the outset. To deliver sustainable structures, we need to demystify the process of reducing carbon, and adopt an informed process driven by research, reflection and evaluation. While there has been some excellent progress across the industry over the past 12 months, there is still a lot of work to do if we’re to achieve net zero by 2050.
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28-06-2022 @ 15:00 – 17:00
This event is hosted by the Royal Society of Chemistry – South Africa – North Local Section
Two talks will be presented:
Honey and more: Scams, Counting & Hexagons
Presenter: Prof Christian Pirk (Social Insects Research Group, Dept. of Zoology & Entomology, University of Pretoria)
Analysis and Human Dietray Intakes of Neonicotinoids in Honey
Presenter: Dr Ovokeroye Abafe (Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow, Division of Environmental Exposure & Risk Assessment, School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Bormingham, UK)
About this Event
This honey inspired event will consist of two specialist talks: the first on the importance of bees by Prof Pirk of the Social Insects Research Group of the Department of Zoology and Entomology and the second will focus on the analysis of honey for pesticide contamination by Dr Abafe from the University of Birmingham. The important role of analytical chemistry in understanding and managing these issues will be highlighted. A comparative honey tasting is included and a honey-inspired dinner will follow, which will be prepared and served by students from the University of Pretoria Department of Food and Consumer Science.
The event aims to raise awareness of the importance of bees and discuss the issue of pesticide contamination in honey as a result of anthropogenic activities. The important role of analytical chemistry in understanding and managing these issues will be highlighted. As an important natural food source, this honey inspired event is linked to SDG2 (zero hunger) and to SDG 11 and 15 regarding better understanding the impact of anthropogenic activities in cities on bee populations.
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Wood Fencing Solutions in Johnson City, TN
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Discover the charm and practicality of wood fencing in Johnson City, TN, with our comprehensive guide. From the rustic elegance of various wood types to the intricate installation process, we delve into everything that makes wood fencing a beloved choice for property owners.
Learn about customization, environmental benefits, maintenance essentials, and the dedicated craftsmanship that sets our services apart. Join us in exploring how our local expertise in wood fencing not only enhances the beauty and security of your property but also contributes to the community’s well-being
Table of Contents
Introduction to Wood Fencing
Nestled in the heart of Tennessee, Johnson City is a place where natural beauty meets urban convenience, and where your property deserves a fence that reflects both the scenery and your style. That’s where wood fencing comes into play.
A testament to timeless appeal, wood fences bring a sense of warmth, tradition, and natural elegance that other materials can scarcely replicate. But the benefits of wood fencing aren’t just about looks; they’re about functionality, privacy, and creating a boundary that feels as natural as the trees dotting our beautiful city.
In this comprehensive guide, we’re going to explore the world of wood fencing deeply. We’ll uncover the reasons behind its enduring popularity among homeowners and businesses in Johnson City and delve into the nuances that make each wood fence not just a property demarcation, but a statement of style and a form of expression.
From the species of wood that promise longevity and visual appeal to the design options that ensure your fence is uniquely yours, we’re here to illuminate every facet of choosing, installing, and maintaining a wood fence.
Moreover, we understand that a fence is more than wood and nails. It’s an investment in your property, a safeguard for your family or business, and a significant contributor to the aesthetic and value of your premises. Therefore, we’ll also guide you through the practical aspects, ensuring you know what to expect from the moment you decide a wood fence is for you, through the installation process, and into the years of enjoyment and security it will provide.
So, whether you’re fencing your backyard for the first time, replacing an old fence with a sturdier statement, or choosing the perfect surround for your business property, this article is your go-to resource for everything wood fencing in Johnson City, TN.
Why Install a Wood Fence Fence?
In the diverse spectrum of fencing materials, wood stands out as a star. But what makes it shine? Why do homeowners and business proprietors in Johnson City, TN, consistently choose wood fencing over other alternatives? The reasons are as varied as the grains in a plank of wood, and they all come down to a combination of aesthetic allure, customization, privacy, security, and value.
Aesthetic Allure: The Natural Beauty
There’s an undeniable charm to wood that’s impossible to overlook. The natural textures, the earthy colors, the way it complements the Johnson City landscape — these are elements that other fencing materials simply can’t replicate.
Wood has a timeless elegance that can either make it a standout feature or allow it to blend seamlessly with its surroundings. Whether you’re aiming for a rustic, down-to-earth vibe or seeking a high-end, polished look, wood is versatile enough to meet these aesthetic needs.
Customization: Make It Uniquely Yours
Wood fencing’s adaptability is another significant draw. It offers more than just different wood types; it provides a plethora of design possibilities. From the classic picket fence that evokes a sense of Americana to a solid privacy fence that serves as a blank canvas for your landscaping artistry, the customization options are virtually endless.
You can paint it to match your home’s color scheme, stain it to enhance the wood’s natural hues, or even carve and shape it into a design that reflects your personality or brand.
Privacy: Your Secluded Haven
In our bustling city, the ability to retreat into your private space is invaluable. Wood fences are excellent for creating a secluded haven in your backyard. Unlike chain link or wrought iron, wood fences obstruct view, ensuring your activities, family gatherings, or client meetings are held away from prying eyes. The sense of seclusion can transform your property into a tranquil oasis, a place where you can relax or focus on the things that matter most.
Whether you prefer the natural look of wood or the modern sophistication of vinyl, our privacy fences can be tailored to create a harmonious backdrop for your outdoor living spaces.
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Custom Wood Fence Services in Johnson City
Revitalize your environment with our tailor-made wood fencing options, each artfully designed to embody the individual style and privacy requirements of our Johnson City clientele.
Understanding that every property tells its own story, we’re devoted to crafting wood fence solutions that not only meet individual needs for seclusion and safety but also resonate with the aesthetic aspirations unique to each homeowner.
Residential Wood Fencing: A Homely Touch
Transform your home environment with our custom residential wood fences, an aesthetic and functional enhancement to your outdoor space. These fences are more than property boundaries; they’re a statement of your lifestyle and a testament to your affinity for natural elegance and robust security.
Enhancing Residential Charm
Wood fences bring a classic, timeless appeal to your property, harmonizing with the natural surroundings and adding a touch of rustic beauty. They serve not just as a physical boundary but as a visual enhancement to your garden or yard. Whether stained to showcase the wood’s natural grains or painted to match your home’s exterior, wood fences offer a versatility that complements your home’s architecture and landscape design.
A Secure, Stylish Perimeter for Families
Our wood fences are designed considering your family’s lifestyle. They provide a secure perimeter for children and pets, ensuring they play safely within the confines of your yard. But beyond safety, they add a stylistic element, serving as a backdrop for family photos, a support for climbing plants, or even a canvas for outdoor art projects. With a wood fence, your yard becomes a personal, private stage for life’s moments.
Wood Fencing for Business: A Professional Aesthetic
In business, your premises’ appearance speaks volumes. Our commercial wood fences offer a blend of professionalism and aesthetic appeal, enhancing your property’s curb appeal while providing the necessary security. They reflect your business’s attention to detail and respect for both quality and appearance.
Elevating Your Business Appeal
A wood fence around your business is a statement of elegance and stability. It’s not just about marking territory; it’s about presenting an image of established presence and taste. Clients and customers feel a sense of confidence when entering a property that’s well-defined and aesthetically pleasing. Additionally, a well-maintained wood fence can serve as a branding element, especially if it’s designed or colored to match your company’s theme.
Adaptable Wood Fencing for Various Business Needs
Every business has its unique requirements and brand image, and our wood fencing solutions are adaptable to meet these needs. We provide custom solutions for different commercial properties, considering factors like the desired level of visibility, the need for signage, or specific security concerns. From a quaint café patio to expansive corporate grounds, our wood fences are tailored to suit your business’s operational needs, aesthetic preferences, and security considerations.
Our commitment to the residents and businesses of Johnson City goes beyond mere service provision. We aim to install wood fences that resonate with the community’s spirit, enhancing the local aesthetic and providing secure, stylish boundaries for homes and businesses alike.
Wood Fence Installation Process
Our Installation Process
Venturing into a new project, especially one that alters your property’s landscape, can be overwhelming, but with our dedicated team guiding you, the path from initial consultation to the final installation is smooth and worry-free. We take great pride in our transparent process that prioritizes your desires and needs, ensuring your wood fence surpasses your expectations in both functionality and style.
Consultation: Laying the Groundwork
Every successful fencing project kicks off with a comprehensive grasp of your dream outcome. Our consultation process is meticulously structured to delve into your needs for privacy, your stylistic tastes, and the unique characteristics of your site.
Understanding Your Fencing Needs
Our specialists invest genuine effort in comprehending the subtleties of your property and your specific concerns. Are you aiming to shield your family’s private moments, dampen street noise, or perhaps establish a secure area for children and pets to frolic? Your goals become the compass directing our guidance, promising a solution that’s uniquely yours.
Diving into Customization Possibilities
Privacy and style aren’t mutually exclusive. We navigate through an array of materials, designs, and accents that echo your personality. From the organic allure of pine to the enduring elegance of cedar, your wood fence will be an authentic continuation of your residential or commercial space.
Professional Installation: Bringing Your Vision to Reality
Following the creation of a detailed plan, our adept team sets out to materialize your vision. Our installation procedure is as steadfast as the fences we erect, promising a structure that endures through seasons and trends.
Uncompromising Quality Assurance
We’re not just in the business of constructing fences; we’re in the business of building confidence. Our team is painstaking in its craft, selecting only premium materials and employing tried-and-true methods. We fixate on every minute detail, guaranteeing your fence’s robustness, functionality, and impeccable appearance.
Safety Protocols: Non-Negotiables
Your safety and peace of mind sit atop our list of priorities. Throughout the installation phase, we strictly observe comprehensive safety regulations, safeguarding the welfare of our personnel, your family, or your staff. Upon completion, your fence stands as a dependable security boundary for countless years ahead.
Our approach is engineered to gift you an effortless experience and a wood fence that genuinely augments the charm and security of your property.
Repair and Maintenance Services For Your Wood Fence
Fence damage can compromise your property’s security, which is why we offer 24/7 emergency fence repair services. Whether your fence has been damaged by severe weather, an accident, or vandalism, we’ll be there promptly to assess the situation and make the necessary repairs.
Damage Assessment and Restoration
Our experts will assess the damage meticulously, provide a transparent overview of the necessary repairs, and work diligently to restore your fence’s integrity. We’re equipped to handle everything from minor repairs to complete panel replacements, always using materials that match the quality and aesthetics of your original fence.
Longevity and Aesthetics: Preserving Your Wood Fence’s Charm
Consistent upkeep is crucial in maintaining the enduring beauty and strength of your wood fence. From routine cleaning to painting, from protective stain applications to prompt repairs, our comprehensive maintenance services are engineered to counteract the natural wear and tear, ensuring your fence remains as picturesque and robust as it was on its inaugural day.
Why Choose Us for Your Privacy Fencing Needs in Johnson City?
Understanding Johnson City’s Needs
As a local business, we understand the specific needs and challenges of properties in Johnson City, TN. We’re familiar with the local climate and its impact on fencing materials, and we’re well-versed in the community’s aesthetic preferences and neighborhood guidelines.
Compliance with Local Regulations
Navigating local zoning laws and HOA rules can be complex, but we’re here to make it simple. We’re well-versed in Johnson City’s regulations regarding fence installations and ensure that your new wood fence is fully compliant, saving you from future legal hassles.
Our commitment to you goes beyond the installation of your privacy fence. We strive to ensure every interaction you have with our team is positive, informative, and reassuring.
Don’t just take our word for it — our satisfied customers speak for us. We’re proud of the glowing testimonials we’ve received from residents and businesses across Johnson City, reflecting our dedication to quality, professionalism, and customer service.
Our Pledge to Excellence in Wood Fencing
Each wood fence we craft stands as a vivid representation of our steadfast dedication to unparalleled quality. We handpick only the finest timber and employ precision-driven installation techniques, ensuring your fence stands resilient against time and elements. Our team is acutely observant of every nuance, ensuring an impeccable finish that augments both the privacy and visual allure of your property.
Opting for our services translates to an investment in a hassle-free, delightful experience and a superior wood fence that not only aligns with your requirements but consistently surpasses your anticipations. With our expertise, your property is adorned with a fence that’s both a protective barrier and a statement of elegance.
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Arkoosh would be the first woman to represent Pennsylvania in the US Senate if she’s elected.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY — Dr. Valerie Arkoosh, the chairperson of the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners, plans to run for Pennsylvania’s open US Senate seat next year.
If elected, Arkoosh would be the first woman to represent the state in the US Senate.
Arkoosh, a Democrat, announced her candidacy in a campaign video released Monday.
“Now we’re at a critical moment,” she said. “I’m fiercely determined to make sure we do what’s right—that we stand up to Trump Republicans, push back on their harmful agenda. Instead, we’ll build a future that lifts people up—rebuild our infrastructure with good-paying union jobs, protect our planet by addressing the climate crisis, finish the job we started to lower the cost of health care.”
Arkoosh, 60, is the first woman to be voted chairperson of the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners, a position she has held since 2016. Montgomery County, one of the four counties that make up the Philadelphia suburbs, is Pennsylvania’s third most populous county and second wealthiest.
Arkoosh told The Philadelphia Inquirer that her experience in Montgomery County—with its small cities, suburban areas, and farmland—has prepared her to represent the state.
“I’ve had to serve all of those different constituents so I feel ready and able to take that experience … all across the state,” she said. “Certainly there is a very strong Democratic base here in the county and I would hope that most of those individuals would be interested in supporting me in that primary.”
Arkoosh told the Inquirer that she supports increasing the minimum wage to $15 per hour and ending the filibuster.
Arkoosh ran an unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 2015.
Before she entered politics, Arkoosh was a doctor, college professor, and public health advocate.
As president of the National Physicians Alliance, Arkoosh helped fight for the passage of the Affordable Care Act.
Arkoosh served for five years as the chairperson of the Department of Anesthesiology at the Drexel University College of Medicine. She also served as interim chairperson of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Before she joined the faculty at Drexel, Arkoosh taught clinical anesthesiology and clinical obstetrics and gynecology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
She has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Northwestern University, a medical degree from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine, and a master’s of public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Toomey is not seeking reelection.
Several other Democrats are considering running for the seat: State Sen. Sharif Street has formed an exploratory committee and filed a candidacy statement with the Federal Elections Commission. And US Reps. Conor Lamb and Chrissy Houlahan have said they are considering seeking the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat.
On the Republican side, Jeff Bartos, the GOP’s unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor in 2018, has declared his candidacy.
About half a dozen other lesser known or first-time candidates from both parties have also announced their candidacies.
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A new survey will provide information for fossil fuel industry workers who need an exit strategy for themselves and their communities.
Energy Minister Chris Bowen said on Monday over 60,000 clean energy jobs could be created in Australia by 2025, most of them in regional areas, as the economy transitions to renewable energy.
But Australia lacks data to understand new energy sector jobs, the people in those jobs, and to accurately forecast how these jobs are changing.
The Australian Energy Employment Report, an online national survey of businesses on current and future workforce issues, will be released in the middle of each year.
“Australia is going to need thousands of workers every year entering the energy sector to build the massive infrastructure projects our energy grid needs and meet our emissions reduction targets,” Mr Bowen said.
He said the findings would give federal, state and local governments insights into the energy job market to help develop policies on jobs, skills development and training opportunities.
Assistant Minister for Energy Jenny McAllister said the data would support the national electric vehicle and energy performance strategies and offer a snapshot of workforce diversity to support greater participation by women.
The construction workforce for scheduled renewable generation, storage and transmission projects alone must increase by 12,000 across the eastern states by 2025, according to the Australian Energy Market Operator.
Around 31,000 extra workers could be needed by then to support the export of green hydrogen.
The Clean Energy Council said the survey would go a long way to ensuring the sector has the workforce required to deliver the wind, solar, battery storage and hydro capacity needed to maintain reliability and keep prices down.
“Opportunity comes knocking once in a generation,” the council’s CEO Kane Thornton said.
“This is our generation’s opportunity to deliver a clean energy future for Australia and set us up to become a global clean energy superpower, creating an extraordinary legacy for Australian workers,” he said.
The survey is running until April 30.
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PhD defence George Schoneveld
2 October 2013, 16.00 hrs, Academiegebouw Utrecht University
African states offer their populations insufficient protection from foreign land grabs
Growing global resource scarcities and increasingly unstable commodity markets have in recent years encouraged large numbers of investors to seek access to the cheap and fertile farmlands of sub-Saharan Africa. Though potentially providing its often neglected agricultural sector with much-needed investment capital, with many of these investments threatening to deprive the rural poor of vital livelihood resources and contribute to environment degradation, these investments have become a topic of heated debate in the public, political, and academic arenas.
Amidst a rapidly growing body of research on particularly trends and outcomes, The Governance of Large-Scale Farmland Investments in Sub-Saharan Africa examines a critically under researched aspect of this trend, namely, host country governance. With an absence of sufficiently comprehensive international regulatory frameworks, the investment governance burden often falls solely on host country governments, which in the African context are typically ill-equipped or disinclined to provide adequate oversight. This exacerbates the risk of adverse local social, economic, and environmental impacts and undermines the effective capture of investments’ potential developmental contributions.
The primary aim of this book is to deepen our understanding of the conditions under which large-scale farmland investments can contribute to sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa. It does this by identifying the different factors that shape local outcomes. In so doing, it examines and links a range of issues that have to date often been evaluated in isolation – ranging from the formal laws and policies in host countries to institutional dynamics and local community responses. The analysis is based on original field research conducted by the author in Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia.
Findings show a remarkably uniform array of adverse effects across the case study countries. This poses an interesting conundrum: can these outcomes be attributed to systematic deficiencies in the content of the law aimed at regulating these impacts, or is the law rendered meaningless by poor implementation and enforcement, or do other structural social and economic factors outside formal governance structures explain outcomes? The Governance of Large-Scale Farmland Investments in Sub-Saharan Africa shows that an answer can be found in all three options, but highlights in particular the important mediating influence of institutional issues.
Through systematic, in-depth analysis of the conflicts and interactions between a diversity of stakeholders it highlights how investment capital tends to attach itself to and strengthen powerful local coalitions of modern and customary elites to the detriment of the rights of the rural poor. Such trends are reinforced by high-modernist ideologies, discriminatory perspectives on rural systems of production, co-optation, lack of inter-institutional coordination, collective action problems, and distortionary incentive structures. Although this calls for a reevaluation of the formal rules that govern and protect Africa’s land-based resources, this book shows that any legalistic reforms to that effect must be preceded by far-reaching institutional reforms that address institutional mandates, enforcement and implementation capacities, and incentive and accountability structures.
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Originally Published on December 1st, 2007
Twelve years ago, Larry got the wild idea of bringing notorious atheist and Oxford evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins, to Birmingham, Alabama for a debate on the central tenets of his bestseller, The God Delusion. To his credit, Dawkins agreed, and what followed was not one, but three debates and numerous private engagements over the course of the next decade. With this in mind, we thought it might be fun to reflect on the first time Larry and Richard sat down together for an interview in the latter’s Oxford home.
“Faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.”
I sat in my room sipping a hot cup of tea while reviewing my notes. In an hour’s time I would be interviewing celebrated atheist and scientist provocateur Richard Dawkins, at his Oxford home. This would be a first: Dawkins granting an interview to someone he knew to be an evangelical “Bible Belt” Christian.
I wondered at the degree of his influence over the past 30 years in science and beyond. At that moment, as if to answer the unspoken question, my musings were interrupted by the lyrics of a song emanating from the radio. The song was titled “Selfish Jean,” a clever twist on the phrase Dawkins coined in 1976 in his highly acclaimed book The Selfish Gene. Has any scientist so thoroughly penetrated popular culture as Richard Dawkins?
As I made my way through the streets of Oxford, I speculated about the sort of man I would encounter. Was he a mad scientist bent on the destruction of the existing social order; an egomaniacal chap cleverly building the cult of his personality while laughing all the way to the bank; or a true believer, an evangelist for atheism, who believes in his message and in his mission?
Visiting Dawkins at Home
It was with apprehension that I approached his house. I knocked and the door swung wide. “Larry?” A casually dressed figure stood in the foyer and beckoned me in. “Call me Richard,” he said, leading me to the living room. He was polite, even if he seemed a bit apprehensive, too. He cast a quick glance in my direction, seeming to assess me, like some sort of rare species.
He had undoubtedly been asked some of these questions many times before, but his response to each was thoughtful and measured, rather than canned. He relaxed, becoming animated, even chatty. He talked about his major books, The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype, and his proudest achievement, The Ancestor’s Tale. His passion for science was obvious and infectious. In Dawkins’ presence, one can see why he has been so successful at making atheism cool again, particularly among disenfranchised youth. He’s not only charismatic, but also a clever marketer—a handy combination for Oxford University’s “professor of the public understanding of science.” And at 66, he appears a fit and attractive 50. Good DNA, I suppose.
“All of us have doubts at various times,” I began. “Have you ever had doubts about your atheism? Have you ever considered renouncing it?”
“Of course I have doubts all the time,” he said, “and I think in a way the word ‘atheism’ is misleading because it suggests that there’s just one alternative, which is God. I’m constantly on the alert for changes of mind, but extremely skeptical that those changes will just happen to be in the direction of embracing a god of Bronze Age camel herders from the Middle East,” he concluded, echoing a familiar theme.
As we waded into more controversial territory, Dawkins began to reveal the character associated with his more inflammatory works. His latest book, The God Delusion, is a vituperative assault on religious belief in general, and Christianity in particular. It is also a runaway bestseller, with 1,250,000 in print.
“What is the objective of your anti-religious campaign?” I asked.
“I think my ultimate goal would be to convert people away from particular religions toward a rationalist skepticism, tinged with … no, that’s too weak,” he said, correcting himself, “… glorying in the universe and in life. Yes, I would like people to be converted away from religion to skepticism.”
The Evolution of AtHEISM
Dawkins uses a lot of religious language. When he speaks of the “glory of the universe and in life” it comes out sounding like an atheist’s version of Psalm 8: “When I consider the moon and the stars which evolution hath ordained … .” And herein lies one of the striking features of the New Atheism: if the atheists of the Enlightenment were reluctant to come out of the closet and those of Nietzsche’s time “agonized,” the New Atheists are openly evangelical in their zeal. In September, the Atheist Alliance International (AAI) sponsored a conference in Washington, D.C., featuring Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett, among others. The conference sold out. The purpose was to encourage, inform, and unite the unbelieving. Something like a Promise Keepers for atheists—minus singing, crying, and Tony Evans, of course.
Richard Dawkins at conference in Reykjavík
As we talked, Dawkins discussed how it was his hope that he could provide support for oppressed atheists around the world. This, too, was an insight. Unfortunately, from the perspective of some Christians, atheists are an obnoxious and aggressive lot who make it their mission in life to oppress everyone else. The standard image is that of Madalyn Murray O’Hair or totalitarian states that have institutionalized atheism. But this picture is unfair and limited, since atheists have—along with Christians—suffered intense persecution, particularly in Islamic states.
The New Atheists certainly don’t consider themselves or Dawkins as oppressors. The cover of the latest edition of Skeptic Magazine gives some indication of this, featuring a caricature of Dawkins standing on the foundation of science, lance in hand, slaying the dragon of faith in the style of St. George. For atheists, Dawkins is their champion, leading them to an enlightened future.
It is clear that Dawkins writes primarily for them. While some of his documentaries and books have an “evangelistic” intent, The God Delusion is no more meant to persuade the religious away from religious belief than Ann Coulter’s Godless is intended to persuade liberals away from liberalism. It is “red meat,” in the manner of a Ted Kennedy speech at a Democratic National Convention, rallying the faithful (pardon the expression) and providing them with leadership.
Make no mistake about it: Richard Dawkins is their leader. As the Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at arguably the most prestigious university in the world, Dawkins occupies the bully pulpit of science and culture and uses it to maximum effect. That he receives top billing at the AAI conference in D.C. should come as no surprise. Unlike Hitchens, a flamethrower and a mere pundit, or Harris, an upstart graduate student, Dawkins is a fellow of the Royal Society, the author of eight bestsellers, and a highly respected scientist. As one Oxford journalist told me: “Richard Dawkins is Oxford University.”
But he doesn’t seem to be doing much science these days. Some think that Dawkins is simply living off the capital he earned early in his career and, having established himself as an expert in one field, is now speaking authoritatively in fields where he possesses no such expertise. In a blistering critique of The God Delusion, fellow British scholar and atheist Terry Eagleton wrote: “Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.” Eagleton says Dawkins is “appallingly bitchy” in The God Delusion. “His first few books were his best,” observed one of Dawkins’ colleagues. “His latest is just a rant.”
THE RISING POPULARITY OF ATHEISM
Whatever it is, it’s selling. Dawkins and his ilk have struck a chord among people who view religion as an historically corrupt purveyor of hatred and violence. Indeed, Dawkins recently hosted and produced a popular BBC documentary titled The Root of All Evil, and you may fairly guess that the love of money was not the subject. How do we account for this surge in atheism’s popularity and Western culture’s growing enmity for religion? Sept. 11. Dawkins says that the events of that fateful day “radicalized” him, and if his book sales are any indication, he is not alone. Religion, like illiteracy or disease, is a social ill to be eradicated. But for all of Dawkins’ sophistication, there seems to be little appreciation of the fact that religious faiths and practices are not monolithic. Dawkins disregards all nuances. To him, all religions are the same—irrational and opposed to the rigors of scientific inquiry. And that is the way Dawkins frames the debate: science vs. religion. We may reasonably translate this as “fact vs. fiction” or “rational vs. irrational.”
In debating Dawkins, some Christian apologists have implicitly accepted the science vs. religion paradigm and, as a consequence, have found their position untenable. In one instance, I watched as Dawkins overwhelmed a very able theologian who attempted a defense of the totality of religious belief. To this extent, Dawkins is right: some religions are irrational. Indeed, from a Christian perspective, all that do not lead to Jesus Christ are a dead end. What interest do Christians have in defending suicide bombings or Sharia law?
Dawkins in conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson at Howard College
“What defines your morality?” I asked with genuine curiosity.
There was an extended pause as Dawkins considered the question carefully. “Moral philosophic reasoning and a shifting zeitgeist.” He looked off and then continued.
“We live in a society in which, nowadays, slavery is abominated, women are respected, children can’t be abused—all of which is different from previous centuries.”
He leaned forward as he warmed to his subject.
“I’m actually rather interested in the shifting zeitgeist. If you travel anywhere in the Western world, you find a consensus of opinion which is recognizably different from what it was only a matter of a decade or two ago. You and I are both a part of that same zeitgeist, and [as to where] we get our moral outlook, one can almost use phrases like ‘it’s in the air.’”
At this point, perhaps a word of explanation is necessary. Zeitgeist is a German word meaning “spirit of the age.” Dawkins here refers to the prevailing moral climate or mood of a given place or time. We may observe that what constitutes moral or ethical behavior differs from one culture to another; indeed, it may even differ within a given culture. This is not in dispute. The question, rather, is this: should moral standards be based on the societal zeitgeist or should they look beyond it to something else?
I asked an obvious question: “As we speak of this shifting zeitgeist, how are we to determine who’s right? If we do not acknowledge some sort of external [standard], what is to prevent us from saying that the Muslim [extremists] aren’t right?”
“Yes, absolutely fascinating.” His response was immediate. “What’s to prevent us from saying Hitler wasn’t right? I mean, that is a genuinely difficult question. But whatever [defines morality], it’s not the Bible. If it was, we’d be stoning people for breaking the Sabbath.”
I was stupefied. He had readily conceded that his own philosophical position did not offer a rational basis for moral judgments. His intellectual honesty was refreshing, if somewhat disturbing on this point.
Dawkins proceeded to cite the abolition of slavery and the civil rights movement as examples of Western moral advancements, but would not credit Christianity in the slightest.
“Now you have to remember where I am from,” I objected. “Birmingham, Alabama—the home of the civil rights movement. Many there would argue that the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., was motivated by his Christian convictions. And what of William Wilberforce?”
But Dawkins would have none of it. Christianity, in his view, had contributed nothing worthwhile to Western civilization, morally or otherwise. Moral advances—and, curiously, he did consider them advances—were matters for further scientific inquiry.
Dawkins sat back again. “I think that’s the best answer to your question, although I agree that it’s a complicated answer—it doesn’t come from anywhere simple—and it is necessary to say that whatever else it comes from, it most certainly doesn’t come from religion.” He considered me for a moment. “Anybody who thinks that they get it from religion really is deluded. Certainly nobody could maintain they seriously get it from the Bible. I take it you agree with that, because if you got it from the Bible you’d have to cherry pick which bits of the Bible you accept and which bits you don’t.”
It was a provocation intended to flush me out. I obliged.
“I would disagree,” I began slowly. “I believe you can get your morality from the Bible.”
“Well, which bits of the Bible?” His eyes flashed. “Presumably not Leviticus and Numbers and Deuteronomy?”
As I began to explain the function of Old Testament law, Dawkins pounced.
“You’re not telling me that as a civilized 21st-century man that you get your morality from the Ten Commandments?” He was incredulous. To him, it was as if I were saying, “The Easter Bunny gave us these laws, and they fall into three categories … .”
“What aspects of the Ten Commandments do you find objectionable?” I asked.
After an animated exchange and a brief search for a Bible, Dawkins went straight to the opening line of the Decalogue: “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” The idea of a personal God who demands exclusivity of worship offended him. Given Dawkins’s worldview, this seemed like a logical protest. After all, the other nine commandments hang on that one.
An Evangelist for Atheism
One might conclude that Dawkins is just a postmodern cleverly hiding behind the sophisticated language of a scientist. That would be a serious miscalculation. Although they may sound like it on questions of morality, New Atheists like Dawkins are not relativists—at least not in the strict sense of the word. They are rationalists who believe very much in absolutes. For them, science and the scientific method is the way, the truth, and the life. In an interview on The O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly made precisely this miscalculation of Dawkins (and of Catholic dogma) when he said, “My religion of Roman Catholicism … it’s true for me.” Dawkins shot back scornfully, “How can something be true for you? Something’s either got to be true or not true.” Amen.
Our discussion meandered, eventually coming full circle. After an interruption or two of the domestic sort (door bell, phone call, etc.), he followed me outside and we concluded our discussion on the lawn.
I left with a distinctly different impression than that with which I had arrived. Dawkins was neither the mad scientist nor the sensationalist out to make money. He was a true believer, an evangelist for atheism. And while I believe him to be profoundly mistaken on what he calls “the big, deep questions of existence,” his commitment to his cause was admirable. Were more Christians to demonstrate a similar commitment to the Great Commission, the world would be a very different place.
Richard Dawkins and the New Atheists present a major challenge to the church. But like all the great controversies before it, the church has been given an opportunity to retool, regroup, and reclaim the truth of the gospel, speaking it into the void. “There is nothing new under the sun,” wrote the Preacher. Indeed. If we scratch the surface we will find the New Atheists are very much like the old atheists.
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It was the month of the Bitcoin halving and 1 BTC is still worth 1 BTC. While price action as been slow against fiat, the Bitcoin sentiment score rises to its highest since 2017.
The halving event traditionally sees some mining machines switched off due to the higher cost and lower rewards. This leads to a drop in the difficulty to mine Bitcoin, which eventually entices miners back. The first adjustment to mining difficulty was a drop by 6%.
In blockchain adoption news, Thailand is turning to blockchain to boost its renewable energy push with Australian company Powerledger reports Coindesk.
Critics of crypto often point to the lack of adoption and utility of blockchain technology so more real-use case examples make the space stronger.
In Other News…
It was a busy month of book authors commenting of Bitcoin in May. Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad made a prediction that Bitcoin’s price will be worth $75k in 3 years.
Kiyosaki’s fear of a dying economy has him focusing on assets traditionally outside the financial system.
None other than J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, took to the Twitterverse to clarify understanding of Bitcoin.
Even Elon Musk chimed in to shine a positive light on the digital currency. Despite many tweeters responding to her call, Rowlings is still no closer to understanding.
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Orangutans live in the tree tops of the Southeast Asian tropical rainforests of Sumatra and Borneo. They spend most of their lives in trees and descend from the trees very rarely. The rainforest has an average monthly temperature of 20 to 28° Celsius. It has an annual rainfall of between 1.5 and 10 meters. It receives steady rainfall throughout the year with little seasonal variation.
The name Orangutan means "man of the forest" in Malay. The Orangutan is the largest of the tree dwelling apes of Southeast Asia. Orangutans can grow up to five feet tall, but males are usually 4 feet tall and females are 3 feet. They have an arm span of 8 feet when full grown. The adult male orangutan can weigh up to 220 lbs. and an adult female can weigh up to 110 lbs. They are heavily built and their arms arevery long and lanky, but their legs are short and weak. Orangutans have long, thin reddish brown hair. They have a high and sloping forehead and a rounded snout. Males have cheek pads made up of fat which keep on growing as they get older. The big toe on each foot can rotate and touch the ends of the other toes, like our hands. So Orangutans have four "hands". When on the ground, Orangutans walk on all four limbs. Their knees are bent inward and their arms are placed either flat or clenched on the ground. Their calls are whining and squeaking sounds. The adult male makes a long roar- like call.
Orangutans are duirnal and feed during the day. At night they build a platform style nest out of branches about 40 to 50 feet above the ground.
There are many special adaptations for Orangutan in the rainforest, such as long, strong arms for traveling among the trees, curved feet for extra balance when standing on branches and opposable thumbs for grabbing branches.
The Orangutan mates year round, usually beginning at the age of 8 -10. The female is pregnant for 260 to 270 days before the baby is born. A newborn orangutan usually weighs 3.4 - 4.5 pounds. They usually have one baby at a time. The baby nurses every 3 to 4 hours. At around 4 months they begin to take soft food that their mother has chewed for them. The young cling to their mother when traveling until they are about a year old. They aren't weaned until they are about 3 1/2 years old. For the first 3 to 4 years of a young Orangutan's life it will not leave its mothers side. The infant is usually carried on the back or side of the mother. A young Orangutan spends a total of 6 or 7 years close to its mother. During this time the juvenile learns what is needed to survive, such as how to gather food and how to swing from tree to tree. Birth intervals are usually 4 years unless conditions are bad. Females are sexually mature at about 8 years, but males don't become sexually mature until they are about 14 years old. Young Orangutans sometimes hang out in groups (but not too far from their mothers) before gaining enough courage to go off on their own. The young are usually 5-6 years when they move out on their own. At age twelve to fifteen the Orangutan is sexually mature.
The Orangutan is a very solitary animal. Sometimes they live in a small group of 2 females. The males have a territory which overlaps the territories of other females. They are aggressive towards other males and their territories don't overlap. They can live up to 45 years the wild and 50 in captivity.
The Orangutan is an omnivore but it mainly eats fruits, especially figs. Other food includes nuts leaves, bark, insects and occasionally birds. Orangutans find most of this food up in the trees where they live. They even find their water up in the trees, in hollows, on leaves, and on their own hair after a rain. Most of the Orangutan's day is spent foraging for food and resting.
Humans are the only predators to the Orangutan. Orangutans prey upon insects and birds. The Orangutan is currently a seriously endangered animal. Experts say estimate that there are only between 15 and 20,000 Orangutans left in the world today.
Trees play an essential role in an Orangutans life. The deforestation of the tropical rain forests is the main reason why they are endangered. It's biggest natural enemies are humans because they poach, trap, and sell them for pets. The governments of Singapore and Hong Kong have prohibited the import and export of Orangutans. Their habitat needs to be more secure.
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Solar Panel Installation - FAQs
What is solar energy?
Solar energy uses the sun’s rays to create heat or electricity. It is an unlimited, renewable resource, valued for its ability to generate energy in a quiet, clean, and reliable manner.
What is the difference between solar panels and building- integrated photovoltaic products?
Solar panels are flat panels of photovoltaic arrays mounted on a roof or a pole to capture sunlight. Building-integrated photovoltaic materials are PV arrays that are integrated into the building material itself, such as windows, roof tiles, or walls. Solar panels work well for retrofits or remodels, while BIPV are appropriate for new construction or a major renovation.
How much will I really save on my utility bills from a home electric solar power system?
There’s no one-size-fits-all answer to this question. It depends on how much electricity you use and how efficient the appliances are that you operate. In general, expect to generate excess electricity in the winter (when usage is lower), which can offset the energy you use from the grid in the summer.
Do I need special insurance requirements?
Standard homeowner’s insurance policies typically meet electric utility requirements. Electric utilities usually require that homeowners who take advantage of net metering sign an interconnection agreement.
How much maintenance do solar energy panels require?
Solar photovoltaic panels require little maintenance – no need to wash or dust. It is, however, important to place panels where they’ll remain clear of shade and debris. Thus, you’ll have to wipe them off if too many leaves fall on them. Solar hot water collection arrays don’t need much attention, either. It does help to periodically use a window wash brush, biodegradable soap, and water to clean the tubes.
Can I use a financing to buy a solar system?
Yes, and we can help. Many of our brands have payment plan options available. Please let us know you are interested in a payment plan and we can explain some of the options. Other options may include a home equity loan from your bank or rolling the cost into your construction loan on a new house.
Why is it important to get multiple bids?
As with any major investment, seeking information from multiple professionals can provide constructive advice, set realistic expectations, and help fine-tune the design that will work best for your home.
Will I need a building permit to install a solar energy system on my home?
Yes. We will need to obtain building permits to install a solar system. Similarly, building, electrical, and plumbing codes also apply. That said, residential solar power systems don’t use “radical” building techniques, and most jurisdictions have building codes that fully embrace solar energy technology. Solar professionals roll the price for permits into their cost estimate. We will also work with your Homeowner’s Association to ensure that the system is installed in accordance with their restrictions for your neighborhood.
When should I seek a solar professional?
The earlier the better. Solar installation professionals, like us, can help you determine the type and size of the system that best suits your needs. If you are building a home, we are always available to discuss some general guidelines with your architect to ensure maximum production. If your home is already built, we can offer a variety of options to maximize your production and lower your costs.
How can I calculate the cost and payback time from a solar power installation?
To estimate how much a solar electric system may cost, determine your current energy needs and costs, and compare against your future anticipated use. Once you have a sense of how much energy you use, we can help you evaluate the cost and benefits of purchasing solar power. Fortunately, in today’s market, you can take advantage of tax credits, rebates, and other financial incentives that create attractive and competitive prices for solar PV systems in Central Texas.
How long will it take to install a solar power system at my home?
Planning, configuring, and ordering materials for your solar energy system can take up to a few weeks. We also usually must get permits from the city and approval from your Homeowners Association. Sometimes those steps can take a month (or longer). The actual installation at your home can typically be completed in just few days once the paperwork is in place. There are then inspections that happen before we “flip the switch”…so the total project is anywhere between a few weeks and 2-3 months.
What is a net meter?
Net meters look very much like other outdoor meters, with one notable exception – they “spin” both forward and backward, recording both the power produced and power used. Within the Central Texas area, most meters are already capable of measuring power in both directions. With some of our rural customers we coordinate with your electric utility provider to install this newer meter as part of the project. | <urn:uuid:428e83d6-93c8-416b-985d-f1385a9ffd3c> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://maleksolar.com/solar-panel-faqs/ | 2024-02-28T03:51:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474690.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228012542-20240228042542-00200.warc.gz | en | 0.934725 | 1,024 | 2 |
The JAS 39 Gripen is the result of a joint development by Saab Military Aircraft, Ericsson Microwave Systems, Volvo Aero Corporation and Celsius Aerotech. It is a fourth generation, multi-role combat aircraft. The Gripen fighter combines new knowledge-based, software-controlled avionics systems; modern materials; advanced aerodynamic design; a well-proven engine and fully-integrated system to produce a highly-capable, true multi-role combat aircraft. The Gripen is the first Swedish aircraft that can be used for interception, ground-attack and reconnaissance (hence the Swedish abbreviation JAS -- Fighter (J), Attack (A) and Reconnaissance (S) in Swedish) and is now successively replacing the Draken and the Viggen.
In 1978 the Swedish Government decided that the Swedish Air Force needed a new multirole aircraft for the turn of the century. At the same time as the Swedish aerospace industry was defining a new project, the Air Force made an evaluation of existing foreign aircraft such as the American F-16 and F-18. After an evaluation process, Parliament decided in June 1982 to go ahead with the Swedish project and the Defence Materiel Administration signed a contract for development of the JAS 39 Gripen, and the final flight tests were completed in December of 1996.
A total of 204 aircraft in three batches have been ordered for the Swedish Air Force. The first batch of 30 aircraft has been completed. Deliveries from the second batch are ongoing, and comprises 96 one-seater and 14 two-seater aircraft. About 60 Gripens are in service with the Swedish Air Force. In June 1997, a third batch of 64 Gripens was approved by the Swedish Government and ordered by the Defence Materiel Administration (FMV). This will take the total for the Swedish Air Force to 204 aircraft, including 28 two-seaters. Production of batch thre is scheduled for 2002-2007.
Gripen offers high agility, advanced target acquisition systems - including a powerful multi-role radar, modern weapons, low environmental signatures and a comprehensive electronic warfare (EW) suite. The JAS39 Gripen system is designed to counter all current and future threats. The aircraft has been developed for the Swedish Air Force by the Industry Group JAS (SAAB, Ericsson, Volvo Aero and FFV Aerotech) in close co-operation with the Swedish Defence Material Administration (FMV). In partnership with Sweden’s Saab, British Aerospace is engaged in a number of marketing campaigns for the highly capable Gripen fourth generation combat aircraft. Engineering activity associated with improving the operability of the aircraft in the export market is now underway.
In 1995 Saab and British Aerospace (BAe) signed an agreement for the joint marketing of the Gripen. Hereby, Saab gained access to the global sales organization of British Aerospace, as well as to its governmental support in international marketing. British Aerospace will adapt the export version of the Gripen to NATO standards, and also produce certain subsystems for the aircraft. The agreement, which followed on more than a decade of cooperation between the two companies, became the basis for a consolidation between Saab and British Aerospace. It also paves the way for SaabCs deepened integration with the European aerospace industry. Saab intends to be an active player along with British Aerospace, Aerospatiale (France), DASA (Germany) and CASA (Spain) in the creation of an integrated European defense and aerospace industry - Eurospace.
In November 1998, South Africa announced that it will probably buy 28 Gripens. The value of the order is 12 billion SEK (1.5 billion USD) and the contract was expected to be signed in May or June of 1999. During the coming 10-15 years, Saab hopes to export at least 400 aircraft, on a total market for fighter aircraft estimated at 2,000 aircraft. The Gripen is currently being offered to Chile, the Philippines, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria and Brazil. Another candidate, Poland, recently announced that it will chose the Boeing F 18 Hornet.
An important factor when offering the Gripen for export, is the aircraft missile system. Currently, the Gripens used by the Swedish Air Force are armed with AIM-120 AMRAAM, AIM-9 Sidewinder, the Saab Dynamics RBS 15 for ship targets, and the Maverick ground attack missile. Saab Dynamics cooperates with the major European missile manufacturers in the development of new air-to-air missiles for the Eurofighter, the Rafale and the Gripen. The two main projects currently underway are the Meteor and the IRIS-T. The Meteor is a radar-guided, medium range (10-120 km.) air-to-air missile, which will compete with future versions of the Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM. The Meteor program features Matra BAe Dynamics, Saab Dynamics, Alenia Difesa, Marconi and German LFK. The IRIS-T is an IR-guided, short-range air-to-air missile, primarily funded by Germany for the Eurofighter. The project group includes Bodenseewerk Geratechnik and Saab Dynamics.
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It's no question that Qantas's Flying Kangaroo is one of the world's most iconic and best-loved logos. Now celebrating 100 years of service as the world's oldest airline, you can experience the milestone in person with some Spirit of Australia memorabilia and merchandise. Whether it's for a gift, memento or everyday use, the Qantas Marketplace has what you need.
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What do you give the child that has everything? Instil a love of flying long before they first take off with a model Qantas plane. With a range that covers some of the most popular aircraft in the Qantas fleet, these durable 1/100 scale models are made of solid injection molded plastic with highly detailed graphics, landing gear and a display stand. For those young Qantas fans looking for something more hands-on, the Qantas Airport Playset has everything you need, including airport vehicles, a scale model of a Qantas plane and signs.
The perfect souvenir for every Qantas flyer, never lose your way with a Qantas engine travel light keychain. Including batteries, it's the perfect addition to any set of keys, bag or wallet.
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No time to waste
Environmentalists versus the U.S. Forest Service is not a new theme, but needs a fresh look. As reported in the Methow Valley News, the North Cascades Conservation Council (NCCC) is suing the agency over the Twisp Restoration Project, which naturally involves cutting trees. NCCC contends Forest Service plans do not provide sufficient detail to meet the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
NEPA was signed into law in 1970 with the intent of protecting the environment from poorly considered projects by requiring a careful analysis before proceeding. NEPA was well-intended, but has unexpected consequences. NEPA documents can be costly both in terms of time and money. NEPA favors the status quo.
Our climate is changing and we are woefully unprepared. We have already seen horrifying outcomes from forest fires, and we can expect the climate to only get hotter and drier. Fire requires fuels, and quite simply we have too many trees. Instead of protecting every tree for carbon, we need to start imagining how a fire-resilient forest should look. Historically, Native Americans intentionally lit fires, which along with lightning resulted in more open areas and far sparser forests than we have today. Fires could burn regularly without devastation. Removal of Native Americans from the land followed by a century of fire suppression has put us in a bad place.
Past forest management practices of extensive road-building, clear-cutting and selective cutting of the finest trees makes it hard for many to trust the Forest Service, or to embrace the forest products industry, but we cannot ignore the peril of insect epidemics and fires. We need the forest products industry for more than materials to build houses — we need them to remove trees. The larger trees of fire-resistant species are to remain, but at a sustainable density. Going forward we will need periodic prescribed fire, which will require acceptance of smoke. We cannot afford to fritter away time debating details and procedure, as our forests burn and burn again, sometimes leaving no trees alive to argue about.
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Muslims appreciate gifts that show they care by being unique and personalized to them. Muslims want to know you have taken time and care in finding an item to show how much you care.
Islamic gifts adorned with Arabic calligraphy are an exquisite way to show someone how much you care and value them. From personalized photographs to handmade Arabic metalwork, these special presents strengthen relationships while simultaneously encouraging spirituality and heritage pride.
CD of Traditional Arabic Music
Arab world music embodies a complex cultural tapestry. Over centuries of indigenous and nomadic tradition has produced a range of regional styles; globalization presents these local musical cultures with new challenges and opportunities. From Anouar Brahem’s lute playing to Umm Kulthum’s metered melodies – traditional Arabic world music spans across North Africa to Levant and back again.
Up until recently, most recorded Arabic world music had been produced using Western instruments like piano and violin. But due to world music’s surge in popularity, traditional Arabic instruments and performers now enjoy greater visibility within contemporary world music scenes – such as the qanun, Egyptian harp called zither (aka the Egyptian Zither), Ney and Riq. These have all become integral components of world music’s contemporary repertoire.
Some musicians have taken steps to preserve and reinterpret traditional Arabic music for contemporary audiences. One such group, founded by Moroccan composer and musician Farid Al-Attrach, are The Master Musicians of Jajouka. Their music features distinctive, recognizable musical phrases known as maqams that use seven-tone scales arranged into distinct maqams that include tones that may sound “out of tune” when measured against equal-tempered tuning systems used on Western instruments.
Kazem El-Saher of Iraqi is another major force in contemporary Arabic world music, performing songs in Modern Standard Arabic with romantic, political, and patriotic lyrics that often express his affection for his home nation.
Islamic Wall Hangings
Islamic wall art is an excellent way to add some beauty and meaning to your home decor. There is an assortment of Islamic art styles available, ranging from traditional Arabic calligraphy designs to more minimalist modern pieces – these pieces make ideal gifts for Muslims of any denomination as well as anyone who appreciates beautiful artwork with meaningful meaning.
Islamic calligraphy is an integral part of Muslim culture and can be found everywhere from handwritten copies of the Quran to mesmerizing minarets. With its simple designs emboldened by metallic glint, Islamic calligraphy adds an air of luxury and decadence to any space it graces. Kufic is an extremely popular form of Islamic calligraphy dating back to between the 7th and 10th centuries; its bold geometric forms pair beautifully with modern interior design, making Kufic a sought-after choice among Islamic artists today.
Canvas painting is another form of Islamic wall art. Originating in Iran and spreading worldwide along with Islam, various techniques were employed when painting these pictures including watercolor, acrylic, and oil paints. Nowadays this form of Islamic art remains highly sought-after amongst Muslims as it combines beauty with spiritual meaning – making an excellent addition to living rooms, bedrooms or dining rooms alike.
Villagers in Khorashad have been weaving beautiful towels by hand for generations. Utilizing handmade instruments and natural dyes, these eco-friendly textiles have lower energy consumption and carbon emissions compared to industrially produced towels elsewhere in the country. Perfect as gifts for anyone in need of new bath, hand, and wash cloth sets or travelling abroad!
Islamic bookmarks make a thoughtful present for anyone reading religious books such as the Quran, Hadith or other texts. Crafted of magnet material with a distinctive design to easily find where one was left off when last opening their book, Islamic bookmarks also come packaged in an attractive gift box making them the ideal present.
Muslim men love giving gifts as a gesture of affection and appreciation for friends and family members, so giving personalised Islamic presents may be a wonderful way to show you care. A dua book makes an excellent present that allows the recipient to keep track of his daily prayers for forgiveness, guidance and protection.
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Settled on the coast of Initao, Misamis Oriental, Mindanao, Philippines, Emperor’s Beach Resort is a tropical paradise that beckons visitors to bask in the sun, sand, and sea. With its stunning panoramic views of the crystal-clear waters of the Bohol Sea and the lush greenery of the surrounding mountains, Emperor’s Beach Resort offers an idyllic escape from the hustle and bustle of everyday life.
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This article was originally published on Yahoo Finance
Morning Star Transport LLC, a prominent logistics and transportation company, has officially unveiled its ambitious sustainability initiative. Founder and CEO John Kaprian has spearheaded this transformation, guiding the company towards environmentally responsible practices while maintaining its trademark efficiency.
Morning Star Transport, renowned for its dependable fleet of vehicles, now proudly embraces eco-conscious transportation. CEO John Kaprian, who initially established the company to facilitate seamless cargo movement, believes it’s their responsibility to tread lightly on the environment.
Kaprian expressed, “We are embracing sustainability! We have officially gone digital and are now totally paperless. Our office utilizes LED lighting and disposes of waste in an environmentally friendly manner by utilizing recycling and composting.” The company has further reinforced its commitment by transitioning all warehouse machinery and vehicles from gas-powered to electric, a significant step in reducing emissions.
Efficiency has always been a hallmark of Morning Star Transport’s service. The company specializes in optimizing routes for swift and secure deliveries, offering highly competitive rates for yearly contracts. Kaprian noted, “We partner with freight forwarders, shippers, manufacturers, or 3rd party logistics providers, providing trans-loading, warehousing, drayage, and contract work solutions.”
Moreover, Morning Star Transport is dedicated to furnishing logistics and supply chain solutions that prioritize speed-to-market and dependable service at a reasonable cost. Their commitment to sustainability extends to their vast fleet of low-emission vehicles, compliant with the Clean Truck Program, effectively reducing emissions by up to 90% per truck.
Founded in 2015 to address unmet needs in the intermodal market, Morning Star Transport has swiftly evolved into a comprehensive transportation company. The company’s solid reputation is evidenced by its service to industry giants like Steam, C.H. Robinson, and TQL. Headquartered in Tukwila, WA, Morning Star Transport boasts over 15,000 square feet of warehouse space, offering various custom distribution, warehousing, and transportation services, simplifying deliveries for intricate supply chains. The company has consistently served some of the most bustling harbors in the US.
In addition to its environmental initiatives, Morning Star Transport has prioritized enhancing the customer experience. Kaprian shared their plans: “We aim to do this by installing features such as mobile apps for optimizing routes and fuel stops, GPS tracking for load monitoring, instant documentation, automated business operations, and more responsive customer service.” A recently launched website offers user-friendly functionalities, including quote requests, load status checks, a career page for job applications, and a driver portal providing real-time information. To further bolster its commitment to sustainability, the company has introduced additional electric trucks to its fleet.
Morning Star Transport believes that these eco-friendly changes will protect the environment and inspire others to follow suit. Kaprian concluded, “We believe in the changes we’re making and hope that, on a larger scale, every little change will add up to larger benefits for our world.”
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This site is dedicated to anything and everything regarding batwing fairings. Whether you want information on reviews and comparisons or audio options and rider photos, this is the place to find it.
A batwing fairing is a piece of hardware found on many motorcycles, either as a stock part or aftermarket. Its two main functions are to divert wind and keep road debris from hitting the rider. When cruising around the town a little wind blowing through your hair is usually enjoyable. Higher speeds and for prolonged periods, however, all that buffeting turns into a distraction and an unwanted upper body workout. In addition to the wind protection a batwing fairing helps block road debris, which at the least is annoying and at the worst can be dangerous. Another benefit of a batwing is the addition of style. A fairing can add some great visual appeal and, with a great paint job front and center, will make a motorcycle memorable to any onlooker.
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Questions to Ask When Buying a Luxury Home in the St. Louis Area
Searching for a luxury home in the St. Louis area might take more effort than you’d think it should. It’s not that the region doesn’t have a robust market of magnificent homes—it most certainly does! The problem is that luxury means something different to everyone. The word is tossed into listings all the time, but just calling a house a luxury home doesn’t make it so.
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines luxury as “a condition of abundance or great ease and comfort.” These questions to ask when buying a luxury home in the St. Louis area will help homebuyers zero in on what that looks like from their unique perspective.
Many people know about the luxury homes in affluent and distinguished areas of St. Louis like Chesterfield, Ladue, and Town & Country, but an experienced agent can uncover hidden gems all over the region.
How Do You Define Luxury?
Every buyer wants to find a house that offers good value for the price and is in a good location. Those are a given no matter what their lifestyle or budget. Luxury home buyers are looking for something that goes far beyond those basics. They want something that is unique and makes a statement. A home that feels special where they can enjoy the utmost in comfort and a little—or a lot—of pampering.
Once you get past the standard questions of school districts, square footage, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, and price, these eight questions—and the help of a good realtor—will help you learn if a St. Louis area home meets your standard for luxury.
1. What Makes it Noteworthy?
Luxury home buyers are usually not impressed by a cookie-cutter house that is just like the neighbors. Instead, they want something that stands out. Something that is in line with the status and success they’ve achieved.
While prestige goes hand-in-hand with a high asking price in real estate, money isn’t the only factor. A home’s story is often what appeals to the buyer. Does it, or its neighborhood, have historical significance? St. Louis’s Lafayette Square and the Central West End are peppered with grand homes on the National Historic Register.
Was it built by a notable architect or does it feature a famous interior designer’s work? Perhaps it is the former home of a celebrity. All of these things can make a house more interesting to a buyer.
The way the house is built or designed can be noteworthy too. Buyers might be intrigued by a home with an ultra-modern design, one that blends into the wooded scenery, or one built from sustainable materials with solar panels and little to no carbon footprint. Even features that may be unusual or even weird to some might be wonderful to others.
2. What’s Special About its Location?
In St. Louis, we don’t have the advantage of mountain views or a house right on the beach, but there are plenty of locations that may suit a buyer’s idea of luxury. For some, this might mean a condo looking out over the city’s skyline, perhaps with a view of the Arch. For others, a large home on a golf course, complete with unobstructed views of the greens and club amenities.
Whether a home buyer would be proud of how their home and lawn looks from the road, or if they prefer the concealed luxury of a house hidden down a long driveway is a personal preference. Either way, St. Louis luxury homes can offer a variety of special locations.
3. Will I Have Privacy?
Speaking of houses that are either visible from the road or hidden, privacy is often a hallmark of luxury. This could come in the form of a gated community with an attendant. Or in the case of a condo, a doorman or concierge who will not only help protect your privacy but is available to help with deliveries and other tasks.
Many people prefer that certain parts of their homes such as the backyard or pool are not in the line of sight of any of the neighbors or pedestrians on the street. They may look for a house that is a good distance away from the closest neighbor, is down a hidden drive, or has trees or other features blocking the view.
4. How “Smart” is it?
Homebuyers today want the latest technology, even in an older luxury home. It’s important to ask what “smart” features are already installed. A security system is an important feature, as are other safety measures such as locking gates, motion-detecting lights, or even surveillance cameras.
Smart devices aren’t just for luxury homes anymore. For a reasonable price, just about anyone can view a doorbell camera or adjust their thermostat with a smartphone. But the buyer of a luxury home might expect features such as automatic or voice-activated lighting, window blinds, sprinkler system, and entertainment system. A whole-house generator can eliminate the inconvenience of a power outage. Heated floors may be in many new homes, but did you know there are radiant heating systems that will melt the snow and ice from walkways and the driveway?
All of these smart devices can make life not only easier but more luxurious. A buyer will be interested in what the house can offer, or how much extra it will cost to install such amenities.
5. Does it Offer Inviting Outdoor Living Space?
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Outdoor living space is an important selling point for all homes, but especially luxury homes. Hot St. Louis summers cry out for a patio with a pool and perhaps a shady pergola. A built-in grill or outdoor kitchen, bar, dining and seating areas, and fireplace or fire pit is appealing too. Surround it with manicured gardens and water features to round out the space.
Buyers of luxury homes want space outside where they can entertain or unwind with their families. Some may have a tennis or basketball court on their wishlist. Or even a barn for horses. A luxury dream home should accommodate whatever activities suit a buyer’s lifestyle.
6. What High-End Features Does it Have?
It’s often said that kitchens and bathrooms sell houses. While luxury homebuyers usually have a wishlist that goes well beyond those two rooms, they are still important. The kitchen in a luxury home should be fit for a chef. High-end appliances, workspaces, and a walk-in pantry are a must for most buyers, whether they do their own cooking or not.
Find out if bathrooms have spa-like amenities like steam showers, sunken tubs, and bidets. All of these things fit with most people’s ideas of luxury.
Bedrooms, especially the master bedroom, should be an oasis according to most people shopping for a luxury home. Perhaps a sitting area or fireplace is something on the list of must-haves. And no luxury bedroom is complete without a spacious, Instagram-worthy, walk-in closet and dressing room.
7. Are There Any Specialty Features That Fit My Lifestyle?
When you’re in the market for a luxury home, you’ll want to find one with special rooms that fit your lifestyle and what makes you… you. That may be the tennis court, basketball court, or horse stables outside. Or it could mean a special room for your gym, yoga studio, or home office. Entertainment space like a billiard or game room, bar, or home theater might be what you are looking for. A wine cellar, library, a garage for classic cars, or a special room to showcase memorabilia might be what makes a house “the one.”
Looking for specific features that speak to your lifestyle can help narrow the search for a luxury home. Ask if the house either already has what you’re looking for, or if it can be modified to accommodate it.
8. What Special Costs Can I Expect?
An important question to ask is what special costs you may incur with a luxury home. In addition to paying a premium price for the property, there may be HOA fees or membership fees in the case of a country club or golf course. A luxury home will usually require additional home care which could be expected. Unless you plan to do it yourself—which probably doesn’t fit your idea of luxury living—the pool, lawn, and gardens, and the house itself will need to be cleaned and maintained. Add to that security fees, higher utility bills if the house is large, and property taxes, and the house can cost significantly more than expected. It’s best to ask about and be prepared for these things before making an offer.
Finding Your Luxury Dream Home Requires the Right Agent
Exclusive listings are not always advertised, and rarely have open houses, so it’s important to find an agent who can get you in to see the luxury homes that are available. The real estate agents at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Select Properties understand the luxury home market in the St. Louis area. Asking these questions will start the conversation that will help your agent understand what luxury means to you and your family. Together, we’ll find your luxury dream home!
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Top 10 Benefits Of mushroom capsules
mushroom capsules like the Reishi, Chaga, Cordyceps, Lion’s Mane, and Turkey Tail are currently gaining serious attention, and for a good reason. These mushrooms have been a part of Traditional Chinese Medicine, indigenous medicine, and global cultures’ healing practices for thousands of years. In Ancient Greece, mushrooms were used for their anti-inflammatory properties. First Nations people used mushrooms to heal wounds. Today, Western research is catching up, confirming the specific chemical pathways that create mushrooms’ beneficial effects.
While studies are still underway, more and more research is confirming that mushrooms are viable modalities for modern health issues. While many mushrooms are traditionally enjoyed as mushroom tea, mushroom extracts and mushroom capsules contain the same benefits (as long as they come from a reputable source).
Are you thinking of adding mushroom supplements to your daily wellness routine? Here are 10 mushroom supplement benefits to inspire you.
1 Improve Your Immune System Response
Reishi, Chaga, and Turkey Tail mushroom capsules are amongst some of the best functional mushrooms for immunity boosting. All three have a potentially beneficial effect on the immune system, largely thanks to long chains of carbohydrates known as polysaccharopeptides that are bound inside mushroom’s proteins.
These particles have a clear immunomodulating effect:
- The reishi mushroom has been shown to boost white blood cell count. White blood cells are a central part of the immune system — they’re involved in cell signaling and the destruction of foreign invaders and damaged cells.
- The chaga mushroom extract is a powerful anti-inflammatory. While inflammation is part of a healthy immune system response, poor cell signaling can lead to chronic inflammation. From there, conditions from stress to poor sleep to disease follow. To combat stress and the immune system impact, you’ll want to reduce inflammation. By combating inflammation, mushrooms help the immune system return to proper functioning.
- Turkey tail mushroom benefits have been found to range all the way from immunity boosting to reducing inflammation. In Japan and China, turkey tail mushroom extract is regularly used as a therapeutic aid to cancer treatments for immunocompromised patients. Clinical trials are underway in the U.S. to study the mushroom’s potential for similar purposes.
In the meantime, you can experience mushroom capsules benefits for yourself.
2 Harness Antioxidant Powers
We all know antioxidants are good for us—but do you know why? Oxidation is the process by which harmful substances—from environmental pollutants to UV rays—remove electrons from our bodies’ oxygen and water molecules. Oxidation creates “free radicals,” or inherently unstable cells that seek to bond with others. The result? Cellular carnage.
Antioxidants are an important way to combat oxidative stress, and mushrooms are full of them. The Maitake mushroom and the Turkey Tail mushrooms in particular have well-studied antioxidant properties.
Due to their abundance of antioxidants, these mushrooms:
- Prevent damage from environmental aggressors
- Lower the risk of diseases that stem from free radical damage
For even better results, look for a mushroom supplement that contains Vitamin C (ascorbic acid), another powerful antioxidant compound.
3 Glowing Skin
Another effect of mushrooms’ beneficial antioxidant compounds? In preventing free radical damage, antioxidants can also reduce fine lines, wrinkles, and age spots. Because of this, vitamins and plant extracts containing antioxidant properties are commonly used in topical treatments or oral supplements to achieve healthy skin. That’s right—mushrooms can leave you with brighter, more youthful-looking skin.
In addition, preliminary studies show that reishi mushrooms can help heal skin injuries and irritations. If you suffer from red patches, irritation or scarring from blemishes, mushrooms’ healing properties may help improve your skin’s overall appearance.
4 Soothe Your Gut
Gut health is closely related to immunity. In fact, scientists say that your gut comprises up to 70% of the immune system. The gut plays several roles in innate and adaptive immunity:
- The gut contains lymphatic tissue (gut-associated lymphatic tissue, or GALT). The lymph system is essential in cell signaling and immune system response.
- The viruses, bacteria and fungi that live inside our guts also play a central role in modulating our immune response.
Beyond immunity, good gut health is essential for a balanced, healthy lifestyle. When you can comfortably digest a wide range of foods, it makes it easier to eat out, enjoy meals at friends’ homes and test new recipes without worry.
Mushrooms can support both immunity and healthy digestion.
They do so in at least two ways:
- Most mushrooms contain beneficial fibers that can serve as prebiotics for gut bacteria. Mushrooms are a great food source for healthy gut bacteria, helping this bacteria thrive.
- Some mushrooms can increase white blood cell activity in the gut, helping your immune system to tackle foreign invaders that enter via food.
5 Maintain Healthy Blood Sugar and Cholesterol
Healthy blood sugar and cholesterol levels improve your health in the long term. It’s important to maintain a healthy diet that is low in artificial sugar and “bad” cholesterol. However, there’s only so much you can do to improve your blood sugar and cholesterol levels since genetics play a major role in how your body processes sugar and fat.
Mushroom supplements are one potential way to manage your glucose and cholesterol levels without drastic diet changes.
- Maitake mushrooms have been shown to help lower mice’s glucose levels. While human studies are still needed, there’s a hypothesis that the same chemical pathways in mice and humans, meaning that maitake mushrooms could benefit humans seeking to maintain their blood sugar.
- A similar study showed that chaga mushrooms can help lower glucose and cholesterol levels in mice.
6 Boost Your Energy Levels
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, Reishi adaptogenic mushroom capsules are used to increase Qi, or life force. Simply put, you may feel more energetic and spirited after ingesting reishi mushrooms. Beyond that, preliminary studies show that reishi mushrooms can reduce fatigue as well as improve mood.
Since inflammation is linked to low energy levels and fatigue, it’s possible that reishi mushroom capsules (along with others) can boost energy levels by reducing inflammation. This, in turn, may help improve sleep cycles so that you’re able to get better rest and start each day with more energy.
7 Sharpen Your Memory
Turkey tail mushrooms have been studied as a possible treatment for diseases that affect long-term memory. In addition to the memory benefits that the turkey tail mushroom offers, Dr. Andrew Weil shares that several edible mushrooms, including the maitake mushroom, have been linked to improved nerve growth. He writes that:
“Mushrooms may eventually be regarded as functional foods, like turmeric and green tea, which have been shown in other studies to exert neuroprotective and antioxidant effects on the brain.”
Some degenerative memory illnesses are caused by free-radical damage, which makes antioxidant mushrooms a possible natural aid.
8 Aid the Stress of Physical Activity
Are you an athlete looking to boost your performance? mushroom capsulesmay help here, too.
In 2009, researchers investigated the effects of reishi mushrooms on soccer players under considerable physical stress.They found that those who took Reishi mushroom extract had more active immune systems. This suggests that a medicinal mushroom might help serious athletes boost their physical performance without suffering ill effects.
9 Manage Discomfort
In Russia, chaga mushrooms have long been used in the culture for managing physical aches and discomfort of all kinds. While this practice may not be familiar to your culture, science now confirms that many mushrooms have analgesic effects. This may be related to their anti-inflammatory properties.
10 Feel Better Overall
mushroom capsules have a wide range of powerful benefits Their most basic function, though, is that they support holistic health.
Because mushroom capsules function at so many levels—reducing inflammation, supporting gut health, reducing fatigue—they have a strong cumulative effect. Even if you don’t have a specific complaint, you may be looking for the missing ingredient that makes you feel better.
mushroom capsules are well-studied and rarely produce side effects. That makes it easy and safe to experiment with one or several varieties and find your perfect mushroom match or blend.
How to Enjoy Mushrooms
With many mushroom products on the market, what’s the best way to experience the power of mushrooms? While it’s possible to mix and match different mushrooms and supplements, you can find capsules that contain the most potent mushrooms’ healing effects.
Plant People Immune Power Capsules
A mushroom complex benefits the mind and body by combining several beneficial fungi. Plant People’s Immune Power Multiplex contains at least 100 mg of the following extracts:
- Turkey tail
In addition to these mushroom capsules, it’s formulated with 100 mg of Vitamin C and the Traditional Chinese Medicine herb astragalus. Together, these 100% organic, sustainably-farmed ingredients create a potent immune-enhancing blend. Packed with Vitamin C benefits and formulated in vegan capsules, it’s never been easier to make medicinal mushroom supplements part of your daily routine.
Add mushrooms to your morning routine with our mushroom coffee mix, formulated with adaptogenic mushrooms, 2 different types of coffee, and green tea extract to support your energy throughout the day.
Frequent Ask Questions on mushroom capsules
What are the side effects of taking mushroom supplements?
Other potential side effects include:
- chronic diarrhea.
- liver toxicity.
- dryness in the mouth, throat, and nose.
- bloody stool.
What organ is mushroom good for?
mushroom capsules may help fend off cognitive impairment, the stage between normal age-related cognitive decline and the more serious condition of dementia.
Are mushroom supplements worth it?
Preliminary research suggests that some varieties may complement the treatment of certain types of cancers. But claims that mushrooms boost immunity (turkey tail), help with anxiety and mood (reishi), or improve concentration (Lion’s mane) have only lab or animal studies to support them.
Which mushroom is the healthiest?
5 of the Healthiest Mushrooms to Eat
- Shiitake (Lentinula edodes): Native to East Asia, shiitake mushrooms are highly regarded there for their savory flavor and numerous health benefits. …
- Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum): …
- Maitake (Grifola frondosa): …
- Lion’s Mane (Hericium erinaceus): …
- Turkey Tail (Trametes versicolor):
Who should not take mushroom?
Individuals with some bleeding disorders, such as hemophilia, in which the blood doesn’t clot as it should, or individuals who undergo surgery may experience an increased risk of bleeding when taking reishi mushrooms.
Are mushroom supplements hard on your liver?
lingzhi (Reishi Mushroom Powder) consumption was initially overlooked. However, as demonstrated in prior sections, G. lingzhi use has been shown to have toxic effects on the liver, with some case reports directly associating its use with episodes of fulminant hepatitis.
Are mushroom capsules safe?
Are mushroom supplements safe to take? Never mind the silliness of the internet which confuses fiction, like The Last of Us, with fact: Mushroom supplements are, yes, generally safe to take but you should always get the green light from your healthcare provider before starting a supplement of any kind.
How long does it take to see results from mushroom supplements?
Finally, keep in mind that taking medicinal mushroom capsules requires patience and you won’t see immediate benefits. “It takes at least two weeks to notice the effects of functional mushrooms, and it is recommended to take a week off every four to six months,” says Kessler.
Who should not take reishi?
Pregnancy and breast-feeding: There isn’t enough reliable information to know if reishi mushroom is safe to use when pregnant or breast feeding. Stay on the safe side and avoid use. Bleeding disorders: High doses of reishi mushroom might increase the risk of bleeding in some people with certain bleeding disorders.
Which is better lion’s mane or turkey tail?
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What Are Benefits Of Cheap And These Recycling?
Vinyl and Trying to recycle The use of pockets is increasing around the world. If feels like every thing designed is manufactured from materials. You can see it all over the place, which include within your the afternoon meal box plus in your shampoo or conditioner bottle, to cleaners and soap. On this boost in recycling, utilization and right removal of pockets, you’ll want to take action.
The two most critical steps toward good pockets and these recycling are instruction and administration. The first step is education and learning. Ensure that your small children know the a lot of risks of pouches. Actually tell them about each of the striper and family pets that perish from eating of vinyl. Make them discover the consequence pouches enhance flowers and the beings that live in water. Inform them how this consumption has made the sea dangerous.
Your second measure perfectly into a sensible pouches and recycling where possible train is administration. Some places and suggests have already commenced enforcing tighter legislation, you probably know this. They have learned that overfishing is mainly responsible for some critical challenges. If plastic materials usually are not reused, it results in the smelting of parts which lets out all kinds of impurities in to the oxygen.
It is very important make sure that you do what you can to reuse pockets. Don’t dump some thing that may be reprocessed, like take advantage of bottles and sodas storage containers. In its place, give these things to those that can use them and offer back to the town. Train young children about responsible practice. Show them how having product to great use, can lead to a satisfying life.
The next part in re-using components is knowledge. Ensure your kid is aware your holiday destination to discard small bit. Notify your ex about how exactly harmful it is to pitch trash can. Explain why it is not as all to easy to reuse the information presented as things are to simply pitch it aside. Make them find strategies to really make the best by using their eco friendly fabric. Inspire the kids to gain access to recycling where possible of theirtown and area. Conversely, college.
You may well be astonished at how many points is often re-cycled when you spend some time to center on it. By way of example, will possibly not realize that paper is really a large area of the pockets being thrown away. Make certain you also sell the paper and lightweight aluminum, although recycle your entire cardstock. Accountant los angeles supplies likewise that is reusable. Learn approximately you’ll be able to to enable you to produce the world an increasingly beneficial to our environment home.
You are able to delete plastics by looking at any local grocery store. Find the lets recycle canisters and allow staff know that you would like to recommend using the these recycling plan. Ask them as long as they might be able to appear outside the house and speak with you about pockets. Let them know just how much plastic material waste material they may have inside their dumpsters. Most locations are often more than happy to assist you.
The most effective way to make recycle a lot easier is usually to start out fresh. Young kids love understanding anything that entails doing one thing, jewel a plastic material unit airplane or maybe a new kitchen gadget. Permit them to be employed in the recycle bin to you in order to see how it is carried out. Every time they visit them significantly more interested in recycle when they grow up. It is a fun and interesting opportunity for children to find out and you will by no means repent your attempts.
For corporations, i suggest you retain parts apart from other types of garbage. Use big trash can cups for pouches and also have them placed the pockets in and secure up until you are prepared to make containers out. The pouches will not decompose as fast as other sorts of crap, which might propagate bacterias and bring about illness. In the event you are employed in an area that is full of the elderly that do not have a lot of exposure to microbes, this is often critical. It’s also important for plastics for being adequately dumped making sure that not one person is experiencing a severe ailment on account of while using the plastic material spend.
With materials, try to remember to implement scissers and electric razors to slice in the materials. Make sure to clear everything thoroughly before you dispose of it. Advertising and marketing safe than i am sorry, especially with regards to recycling where possible. You will never know that which you are growing around when you throw away merchandise. Through the ideal equipment and supplies from your recycling where possible middle, the pouches may also be used for making additional things. Eco friendly resources like newspaper, beers, plastics and card board may help you design your community a eco-friendly and cleanser home.
If you think maybe a sensational scene the time important to keep up with trying to recycle, then you should phone a neighborhood the environmental company for help. They’re presented 20-four hours per day, 1 week 7 days to aid you with recycling desires. They can provide suggestions about your skill to reuse and they can also give you home elevators what can be done to create your city a greener place. There is no need to endure plastic material baggage and cans nowadays. In order to do your behalf to produce environmental surroundings a much safer position, then get some therapy and initiate these recycling. You may be surprised at how straightforward it can be.
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Hsiao Ding Hong fell in love with his electric moped right away. The battery-powered two-wheeler doesn’t make noise, vibrate or emit any exhaust. It has a sleek gray-blue exterior, can be controlled via smartphone app and even sings for Hsiao on his birthday. Best of all, it takes just one minute to get a full charge.
That’s because Gogoro Inc., the Taipei-based company that sold Hsiao his moped, lets him swap out its two batteries as often as he likes for up to 630 kilometers (392 miles) of driving each month, all for a subscription fee of 849 new Taiwan dollars ($27.80). Every weekday, as the 26-year-old university administrator rides to work in Taiwan’s Hualien city, Hsiao’s app identifies the nearest swapping station with charged batteries in stock. Once there, he pulls out his moped’s depleted batteries and inserts them into a vending-machine-like device, which then distributes fresh ones. Within 60 seconds, he’s on the road again with 40 miles of new range.
“Had battery swapping not been an option, I wouldn’t have purchased an electric scooter,” says Hsiao, who drove a gasoline-powered model until 2021. “The battery swapping service is really appealing because it saves a lot of time.”
Hsiao is one of many in Asia who are starting to embrace electric mobility with the help of batteries that can be changed out on the fly. While battery-swapping is complicated to implement in electric cars — part of why it has failed to catch on in the West — companies like Gogoro are proving that mopeds, rickshaws and other two- and three-wheelers are well suited to quick-and-easy battery switches, which can both alleviate range anxiety and spur wider EV adoption.
The boost can’t come soon enough, either. In India, for example, nearly 80% of vehicles sold are two-wheelers, and motorcycles and rickshaws account for roughly one third of fuel consumed on the road, according to clean energy research group BloombergNEF.
“Electrifying two-wheelers and rickshaws can help increase emissions mitigation in this decade before electric vehicle adoption takes off in other segments,” says BloombergNEF analyst Allen Tom Abraham. In 2020, just 2% of two-wheelers in Southeast Asia were electric. BloombergNEF expects that figure to reach 20% by 2030, thanks in part to battery-swapping.
Why swapping is surging
Today, Gogoro says it has more than 500,000 active monthly users and over 260 swaps on its network every minute, plus pilot programs in Indonesia, the Philippines and India. Also in India, Hyderabad-based RACEnergy sells retrofitting kits to convert gasoline rickshaws into electric models with batteries that can be swapped at its stations. In Singapore, MO Batteries offers a local swapping pilot program and has plans to enter Malaysia; the company is also testing battery swapping with logistics heavyweight DHL in Vietnam. Swapping’s potential has even lured multinationals to the fold: Honda Motor recently installed its first swapping station for moped drivers in Tokyo.
That enthusiasm stands in contrast to Western companies, whose battery-swapping efforts have largely failed to take off. Israeli startup Better Place launched in 2007 to target battery swapping for electric sedans, but by 2013 it was bankrupt, due in large part to the exorbitant cost of developing charging and swapping infrastructure for cars. That same year, Tesla Inc. unveiled a plan to enable 90-second battery swaps for the Model S, but never rolled it out at scale.
Battery-swapping stations for mopeds and rickshaws are easier to build and finance than those for cars, says Abraham at BloombergNEF. Companies like Gogoro also make a habit of signing partnerships that ensure multiple vehicle manufacturers use a standard interchangeable battery. By contrast, limited interoperability for car batteries has made swapping a hard sell almost everywhere outside of China.
Chetan Maini, who created India’s first electric car, the Reva, knows how hard it is to get drivers to electrify. When Maini set out to sell the Reva in the early 2000s, EV adoption in India was limited by high upfront costs and minimal charging infrastructure. It took him a decade to develop a business that could circumvent those limitations: In 2017, Maini co-founded Sun Mobility, a Bangalore-based battery-swapping startup that partners with around 10 manufacturers of electric rickshaws and mopeds. Customers can switch out their batteries at roughly 300 Sun Mobility stations in 18 cities.
Maini says that letting drivers effectively subscribe to on-demand access makes electrification more financially manageable, as batteries account for roughly half of an electric vehicle’s cost. Backed by Germany’s Bosch Gmbh, which has a 26% stake in the startup, Sun Mobility has around 15,000 customers — up 650% from last year — and is working with investors to raise at least $100 million for further expansion, according to co-founder Ajay Goel. Maini estimates that moped drivers save up to 40% on monthly costs.
“From a time and space perspective, the swap solution is efficient,” says Abhinav Singh, a director in charge of the delivery operation at Amazon India, which last year doubled, to 200, the number of vehicles in its fleet using Sun Mobility’s battery-swapping service. “You’re able to turn the vehicles around really fast.”
What’s next for swapping
For some battery-swapping startups, vehicle electrification is just the beginning. Gogoro founder and Chief Executive Officer Horace Luke says his company is already transforming some of its 12,000-plus stations into so-called virtual power plants, meaning parked batteries could send electricity back to the grid when demand spikes. Gogoro has tested this idea at 10 stations in Taiwan so far, and Luke says he’s preparing to monetize the service.
While Asia’s battery-swapping experience offers a case study for other developing nations — similar services are emerging in Kenya and Brazil — the model still has hurdles to work through, chief among them the need for more battery standardization. Companies like MO Batteries are working to provide universal solutions, but the reach of any given swapping startup is limited by how many manufacturers use the model of battery it supports.
And while battery-swapping stations are proliferating, there still aren’t enough of them to support a full-scale electric transition. In India, for example, each Sun Mobility swap allows an Amazon rickshaw driver to travel 45 kilometers (28 miles), which is sufficient for grocery delivery in downtown Mumbai but falls short of reaching the suburbs. To get the company’s long-haul delivery fleet on board, “the ubiquity of the swapping solution will have to be as much as fuel stations,” Singh says.
It will also take time for drivers to overcome their range anxiety, even with swapping on the table. In Taiwan, where Gogoro has spent hundreds of millions of dollars and nearly a decade expanding its network, Hsiao still plans all his battery switch-outs ahead of time — even for the scenic 22-mile drive to a local gorge. He also swaps batteries more than is needed, citing factors like uphill driving that make him nervous about running out of juice. It’s for “ensuring peace of mind,” Hsiao says. “If I were on my gasoline scooter, I wouldn’t have worried about that.” | <urn:uuid:c3d02a12-a613-4c57-927a-98136dc454d6> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://newsmagzines.com/automobile/one-minute-battery-swaps-are-spurring-ev-adoption-in-asia/ | 2024-02-28T03:59:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474690.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228012542-20240228042542-00200.warc.gz | en | 0.958026 | 1,629 | 3 |
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In 2021, we witnessed the meteoric rise of NFT avatar projects and the trend has only increased in 2023. But what is a PFP NFT project? And, why are these cool PFP projects so popular? Basically, it all comes down to the perfect blend of art and blockchain technology.
PFPs and generative art NFTs are clearly cool enough to stick around. But, what do NFTs have to do with it? Well, NFTs make cool pfps for any social media, including Discord, Spotify, Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter. Whether you’re looking for the coolest new PFP ideas for girls, boys, in an anime style or in a 3d style, NFTs have you covered. Some people even use NFT PFPs as their LinkedIn profile pictures!
What is a PFP?
PFPs are also known as ‘Profile Pictures’. While some now define the acronym as ‘Picture For Proof’, it is currently disregarded as a false definition. The correct meaning is ‘Profile Picture’, or, profile pic.
What’s a Cool PFP Idea?
Well, you could download something from deviant art or right click save something from google images. But surely someone else will have done that already. For a truly unique and cool PFP, you should definitely consider an NFT! NFTs offer completely unique options to express yourself online. With an NFT PFP, you can guarantee you’ll have the coolest PFP of all your friends.
What are PFP NFTs?
NFT avatars, featuring a unique character, work as cool PFPs (profile pictures). Most of these projects are generative, meaning the NFT avatars are programmatically generated from a set of traits. These NFTs may grant holders access to an exclusive community. Additionally, they may offer offer access to real-life events, merch, games, or other perks too. Now, some of these PFP projects are so popular, they cost thousands of dollars.
How to find a cool PFP
While it may seem difficult finding the right NFT avatar for you, there are lots of aspects to help you make your choice. A good place to start is knowing the most popular projects. However, if you’re just looking for some cool artwork, you can also just explore an NFT marketplace to find your favorite. Just remember to do your own research and stay safe!
Coolest PFP Projects (and the most expensive)
From OG CryptoPunks to Doodles and more, here are some of the coolest PFP projects you must check out today.
CryptoPunks – The OG NFT avatars
Founded by Larva Labs in June 2017, CryptoPunks is one of the first-ever NFT avatar collections in the space. The collection of 10,000 NFTs features pixelated humans, apes, zombies, and aliens. To be honest, CryptoPunks set the standard for generative NFT projects that followed and enjoy an unparalleled iconic status in the NFT space.
Unsurprisingly, many of these have sold for millions of dollars—including this $23 million sale of CryptoPunk #5822. Now, Yuga Labs, the company behind BAYC, decided to acquire Cryptopunks. This means the collection should have many more perks to come.
Bored Ape Yacht Club
Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) enjoys a cult status in the NFT community. They even flipped CryptoPunks in December 2021. Actually, when they launched in early 2021, Bored Apes cost a mere 0.08 ETH. Since the launch, BAYC has built a strong community and a huge celebrity backing (including Justin Bieber, Snoop Dogg, Jimmy Fallon, and more).
Unlike CryptoPunks, BAYC offers its members a range of benefits. This includes access to virtual and real-life events, metaverse lands, a private digital area called “The Bathroom”, and more.
They also released secondary collections Bored Ape Kennel Club and Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC). MAYC in itself boasts around 256,000 ETH in trading volume and a 14.8 ETH floor! These are obviously a firm favorite for cool PFP lovers too!
Pixel Art PFP Projects
Nowadays, pixel art is a huge thing. Some of the most expensive NFTs in the world were just simple pixelart. The following projects are the biggest and most respected pixelart profile pictures in the industry. Check them out!
These pixelated owls, or “birbs” are the first PFP project by Proof Collective. The private, members-only collective of NFT collectors launched the project, led by Kevin Rose. Actually, you can use any of the Moonbirds NFTs as your PFP WITHOUT BUYING ONE! That is because they rescinded their IP rights for cc0 rights instead.
Put simply, Moonbirds is a collection of 10,000 pixel art owls on the Ethereum blockchain. Each of these feathered avatars is unique and comes with a range of traits with varying rarity. More importantly, each NFT gives you access to private club membership and other benefits the longer you hold the NFTs. Now, they also have a new PFP collection, Moonbirds’ Oddities, in partnership with Gremplin.
CyberKongz has established itself in the space as more than a mere NFT avatar project. The project started as a genesis collection of 1,000 CyberKongz in March 2021. Soon after, they released 4,000 Baby CyberKongz. But, it was the launch of CyberKongz VX NFTs that put the spotlight on the project. The 3D Voxel collection of 15,000 models serves as playable NFTs in CyberKongz’s metaverses.
The Cutest PFP Projects
Cool Cats is another blue-chip PFP NFT project to keep an eye on. These randomly generated NFTs hit the Ethereum blockchain in July 2021. Each NFT in the collection is unique with different traits such as body, hat, face, and outfit. With their simple and cute 2D artworks, Cool Cats is much beloved by collectors across the globe.
Since its launch, they have struck up some important partnerships, including with TIME magazine, GHXSTS, and even the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Their whole NFT ecosystem includes; Cooltopia, $MILK, Cool Pets and- soon – a whole host of other Cooltopia characters.
Compared to the others, Doodles is a more recent NFT avatar project enjoying blue-chip status. Launched last October, the Pastel-hued, line-drawn characters are one of the most loved NFT avatars in the space. The collection of 10,000 NFTs features humans, cats, aliens, pickles, and more.
Besides, the fully doxxed Doodles team is made up of experts in the field. While Scott Martin ( popularly known as ‘Burnt Toast’) is an acclaimed Canadian illustrator, Evan Keast and Jordan Castro worked with the OG CryptoKitties NFT collection.
Apart from the team’s expertise, several other factors helped in the collection’s growth. This includes the creative and diverse artwork, the team’s community-first approach, holder benefits, and more. Recently, they even launched a new collection—Space Doodles, for all current holders.
Weird and Funny PFP Projects
Goblintown.wtf is a collection of 10,000 NFTs featuring all sorts of unsightly creatures. Their unique characters include trolls, dragons, wizards, mosquitoes, and even the ugly Kevin NFT we’d all like to forget.
Goblintown struck a chord with the bear market culture within the NFT Twitter. Essentially, its humorous take on the market conditions catapulted the project into its star status. Now, the goblins enjoy blue-chip floor prices and a dedicated community that loves to laugh.
Coolest Profile Picture NFTs for Girls and Women
World of Women – meet the coolest female NFT avatars
- Collection size: 10,000
- Current floor: 7.2 ETH
- OpenSea trade volume: 55,800 ETH
World of Women (WoW) is one of the leading female-led avatar NFT projects in the space. Launched in July 2021, WoW was a breath of fresh air in a market filled with apes, cats, and other animals. In fact, WoW is one of the first-ever NFT collections focusing on diverse female avatars—something extremely lacking in the NFT space.
The 10K collection topped charts this year after celebrity endorsements from Reese Witherspoon, Eva Longoria, and others. The collection also regularly donates to women-led organisations and sustainability-focused organisations. Apart from this, WoW supports one-of-one crypto artists through its WoW Fund.
Women With Weapons
Women And Weapons is a diverse and inclusive NFT project with a firm focus on art. The art is diverse, featuring a treasure trove of ‘badass’ women. And with them, of course, an array of different weapons.
Iranian-American artist Sara Baumann is the co-founder and lead artist behind the project that offers a creative and inclusive community, aiming to empower women worldwide.
Profile Picture NFTs for Boys and Men
There are a bunch of NFT projects aimed at specific genders. Here are some cool PFP collections for men and boys:
In short, CryptoDads is a collection of 10,000 unique, randomly generated NFTs dwelling on the Ethereum blockchain. In terms of art style, it resembles the animated series, ‘Bob’s Burgers.’
“Each dad found themselves in the midst of a midlife crisis and fell into the dark abyss of shit coins and expensive jpegs of rocks,” the project’s website notes. “Some made it out with diamonds, and others never recovered.”
While cryptomories are not exclusively for men, they do donate money to men’s mental health charities. Supporting cryptomories helps support men’s mental health! CryptoMories is a collection of 10,000 adorable little skeletons.
They say they are here to “remind you that life is good, that there are a lot of amazingly kind people, and that you are one of them.” To explain their name, it’s derived from “memento mori”. In short, this is a Latin saying meaning “remember you die”.
Old School NFT PFP Projects
Maybe you want to have a piece of NFT history? These are the most popular NFT projects people still like to use as profile pictures a year after their launch. While some of them aren’t so expensive any longer, they are still great options for showing off something cool and unique on social media.
Gutter Cat Gang
Gutter Cat Gang is one such project still surviving from the NFT boom in 2021. Owing to their popularity, the project followed up with several other collections— Gutter Rats, Gutter Dogs, and Gutter Pigeons. All the secondary collections also have a capped supply of 3,000 NFTs each.
Besides, the project has built up strong lore set in the year 2050. Basically, cats have taken over the future society after an apocalypse. What’s more, the project has its own ‘Gutter Merch Collection’ featuring dad hats, hoodies, beanies, tees, and more.
Launched in August 2021, DeadFellaz is one of the top undead-themed PFP projects. The collection of 10,000 green-coloured cartoon zombies is generated from over 300 traits. Then, thanks to the team’s efforts to give back to the community, the project became quite popular in the space
Additionally, the cool PFP collection has its own ERC-20 token, called DEADFELLAZ20 and a “Deadzone 13” in Decentraland. Next, the DeadFellaz team launched a new companion collection of 13,000 NFTs called DeadFrenz. Accordingly, these NFT pets were a huge hit, with many collectors priced out of the original collection. If you want to know more, check out our interview with Betty, the co-founder of DeadFellaz.
Launched last July by Latin American NFT artist, Franky Aguilar, SupDucks had sold out in 48 hours. The 10,000 unique NFT avatars are generated from hand-drawn traits including mouths, eyes, skins, backgrounds, clothes, and hats.
With the simple and adorable artwork, SupDucks immediately struck a chord with the NFT community. With a keen focus on community-building, the team has planned many things for their members, including a merch shop and a 2D SupDuck metaverse. Check out our interview with FrankyNines for more information!
Mfers – NFT avatars from Sartoshi
Mfers is the brainchild of acclaimed meme creator, Sartoshi—a spin on the words ‘art’ and ‘Satoshi’. The collection of 10,021 stick-man NFTs is generated completely from Sartoshi’s hand-made drawings. Of course, the Mfers collection too takes inspiration from meme culture. The NFTs dropped in November 2021 and were such a huge hit that they sold out in under 10 minutes!
Bitcoin PFP Avatars
Finally, let’s take a look at Bitcoin NFTs. With their recent surge in popularity, there are lots of cool PFPs to choose from here.
Ordinal Punks is a collection of Bitcoin NFTs that pays homage to the renowned CryptoPunks collection on the Ethereum blockchain. Each Ordinal Punk NFT represents an exclusive and distinctive digital artwork. With a total of 100 unique PFPs, this collection stands out as a testament to creativity and individuality. Notably, these PFPs are meticulously minted within the initial 650 inscriptions, ensuring their complete on-chain presence on the Bitcoin blockchain.
Next, let’s take a look at Taproot Wizards, a captivating collection of 2,121 unique and wizard-themed Ordinals. This extraordinary collection has garnered widespread acclaim for its innovative approach in celebrating Bitcoin’s rich history, notably through the inclusion of the legendary Bitcoin Wizard.
The Bitcoin Wizard, initially conceived as a drawing-turned-meme by the talented artist mavensbot, first made its debut on the renowned r/Bitcoin subreddit. Portraying a wizard accompanied by the iconic phrase “magical internet money – join us,” this image swiftly captured the imagination of the crypto community.
Finally, let’s take a look at newcomers, Bitcoin Frogs. Markedly, Bitcoin Frogs is a brand new collection of 10,000 one-of-a-kind NFTs that showcases delightful artwork featuring lovable frog characters. Since its exciting debut in late February, this collection has taken the NFT world by storm.
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The physical flow through the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline at the entrance to the gas transmission system of Germany with the beginning of the gas day on October 30 dropped to zero (in the direction from east to west), transfers Interfax with reference to the data of the German gas transmission operator Gascade. Moreover, the gas pipeline went into reverse mode – from west to east.
Polish consumers receive gas through the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline not only directly from Russia, but also through a “virtual reverse” – from Germany (by contract), but in fact – by taking it out of the transit flow. In the case when the request for a virtual reverse exceeds the direct physical flow, the gas pipeline can switch to a physically reverse mode.
The revised application (renomination) for direct delivery in the western direction from 10:00 Moscow time is really equal to zero. As a result, gas is pumped only on the reverse order (about 150 thousand m³ per hour), according to the pumping data for the last reporting hour (from 11:00 to 12:00 Moscow time).
The consumption profile and logistics of gas flows on weekends are changing as industrial consumption is significantly reduced. In addition, warm and sunny weather was set in Europe on Friday and Saturday, which also reduces energy consumption.
On the morning of September 28, gas pumping through the pipeline dropped by almost 60% – to 1.45 million cubic meters per hour from just over 3.4 million cubic meters per hour. Then the Russian “Gazprom” reported that the holding fully fulfills the requests for gas supplies to Europe. The company called the decrease in supplies via the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline temporary, explaining this by requests from one of its clients. The next day, gas pumping increased to 2.33 million m³ per hour, reported TASS.
The Yamal-Europe gas pipeline with a length of over two thousand kilometers runs from the Russian Torzhok to the German Frankfurt-on-Oder. Its capacity is 33 billion cubic meters per year, or about 100 million cubic meters per day.
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Last month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) posted responses to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about the new amalgam separator rule on the EPA’s website. The FAQ document provides detailed answers to various questions such as “Who must comply with this rule?” and “What are the compliance deadlines?”
On June 9, 2017, the EPA issued final rule on effluent limitations for dental offices to reduce the discharge of mercury and other metals from dental offices down the sewer drain to publically owned treatment works (POTWs). EPA’s new technology-based pretreatment standards under the Clean Water Act require dental offices to install/use amalgam separators and follow two additional best management practices recommended by the American Dental Association (ADA).
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For the past 18 months, much of the industry talk has centered around the COVID-19 pandemic and its fluctuating effects on container movement, including record cargo numbers and congestion at the largest ports on the West Coast.
One interesting side effect to the ongoing bottlenecks has been a growing trend of shippers looking at ports with bulk and breakbulk capabilities as a creative alternative to moving commodities.
The Port of Vancouver USA, as well as the handful of ports in this feature, have seen more shippers move products in bulk and breakbulk in 2020 and 2021, many of them commodities that traditionally move in containers.
“We’ve just seen shippers start to—no pun intended—think outside the box, and start to say, you know what? I can’t move my product in a container, what are my other options?” said Alex Strogen, chief commercial officer for the Port of Vancouver USA. “So we’ve seen them start to move (products in) breakbulk again.”
Here’s a look at the bulk and breakbulk business at five West Coast seaports.
Port of Everett
For the Port of Everett, to say that the worries of two years ago versus now are night and day would be an understatement.
Ordinarily, Everett’s prime cargo value-wise consists of aerospace products and some container imports.
“The general (non-containerized) cargo that moves through here vacillates with the global economic conditions,” Port Marine Terminals Director Walter Seidl said.
When energy prices rise, the port sees robust energy cargo. When embargos on steel hit in 2016, Everett saw its steel volumes plummet. Log tariffs for cargo to China halted its log exports completely. The port’s core breakbulk commodities include project work for energy, construction equipment, steel, bagged cargo like fertilizers and high-value machinery.
This year, Everett has seen its bulk and breakbulk percentages shift, with bulk cement accounting for 35% of its total tonnage. Traditionally, bulk cement makes up 20% to 28%. In 2021, its tenant imported five vessels of bulk cement. Local demand in the construction market has also elevated the need for cement, the port said.
Everett’s general cargo position in 2021 is about 44% of total tonnage. This year, the port saw a return of steel and some energy products that were not so common for the last two years.
Meanwhile, the port moved less aerospace-related import cargo compared to previous years, a result driven by the pandemic that has led to fewer aircraft purchases.
Exports, however, balance out the port’s overall tonnage at about 21% year-to-date, pulp in bales from Canada to China as being its primary export. There are also small exports in containers to South Korea.
Because of the ongoing congestion at major West Coast ports, Everett is seeing an overflow of ship calls and cargo, and not in the traditional way with diverted container ships.
Everett is seeing shippers buy new containers in China and hire heavy lift ships, bulk ships, log ships and other non-traditional vessels to carry containers.
“This method comes with its own set of challenges, but it’s working and providing a path to circumvent congestion in other areas to move goods to market,” Seidl said. “Our challenges are simply navigating through these unprecedented times while continuing to serve our customers the best we can.”
Meanwhile, the Port of Everett continues to invest in modernizing and expanding its seaport amid a global pandemic.
In January 2021, the port finished its $57 million South Terminal modernization, adding a new full-service berth to support bigger ships and heavier cargo in Everett. The project called for bolstering a 700-foot wharf, obtaining and relocating a pair of post-Panamax container cranes from the Port of Los Angeles to the dock and upgrading electrical infrastructure at the docks to support future shore power.
“Congestion relief and handling the container surge we are seeing today would not be possible without these cranes,” Seidl remarked.
The port is also planning for future and continued growth in breakbulk and other cargo. Last July, Everett broke ground on its $36 million Norton Terminal, adding another 40 acres of upland capacity. The facility is expected to be operational next fall.
Port of Vancouver USA
The Port of Vancouver USA has also seen more ships come to its docks, and more products that wouldn’t normally move by bulk and breakbulk, including brake pads, chemicals and aluminum, said Alex Strogen, the port’s chief commercial officer.
“Because containers are at such a premium at this time, we have seen a very pronounced trend of shippers transitioning out of containers, taking their products out of your standard shipping container and then moving them via breakbulk,” he said.
Vancouver USA has been receiving requests from major retailers to bring their shipper-owned containers through its port.
“It’s kind of fun…to work with logistics managers and logistics coordinators at these different companies that had never really thought about bulk and breakbulk in their entire careers,” he said. “There’s always been an ample supply of containers, and so for the first time in their careers, they’re learning about this breakbulk option.”
With much of the West Coast’s market share of containers belonging to the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Seattle and Tacoma, the Port of Vancouver saw an opportunity in the bulk and breakbulk business with a particular goal of being the primary wind-energy gateway on the West Coast. The Washington state port has it down to a science, working with various agencies to move massive wind components the size of the Statue of Liberty from dock to job site.
That niche focus yielded a busy 2020, a record year for the port in terms of revenue and labor hours, Strogen said.
“A lot of what was driving 2020 was put into place over the course of the three prior years where we positioned ourselves to really take advantage of the wind energy market and put a lot of investment both from a labor perspective and infrastructure perspective, and that really paid out at an amazing time for the community,” he said.
The port has been handling wind blades, wind towers and other equipment for projects in the U.S. and especially Canada, whose companies use U.S. ports adjacent to the Columbia River to take advantage of big clearances on the river and the roads to move massive parts to Canada.
Meanwhile, the port is also delving into another sustainable endeavor—renewable fuels. Besides wheat, the port also handles soybeans and corn, two commodities that can be processed into cleaner-burning energy.
“We’re really excited about participating in that business as we as a country continue to transition to these cleaner, more sustainable fuels,” Strogen said.
Another major commodity is steel, which took a hit a couple of years ago because of tariffs, but has seen a resurgence with rising demand for construction materials. This year, the port moved nearly 200,000 metric tons of steel across its docks.
The $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill Biden signed into law in November could mean heightened demand, Strogen said.
Port of Stockton
With five million tons of commodity processed this year, 2021 is poised to be the Port of Stockton’s biggest year ever.
The Central California seaport specializing in bulk and breakbulk cargo is moving as much imports as it is exports this year. Typically, the port handles about 40% of exports and 60% of imports.
The backlog of containers at nearby ports has benefited Stockton, which has seen a 31% increase in business, said Port Executive Director Kirk DeJesus.
“What we’re getting is the commodity that would typically be in containers and we’re seeing it breakbulk,” DeJesus said. “They’re just taking them out of containers and moving to breakbulk.”
While Stockton is limited in how much cargo it can handle because of its draft—it’s used to accommodating 2,000-TEU vessels than mega ships—the port is doing its part to ease some of the delays and DeJesus is eyeing the potential business it could bring.
“It wouldn’t alleviate the backlog they have right now because those vessels that are waiting in either San Pedro Bay or in Oakland are going to have to unload there anyway, but what this would do in the future is it may give some shippers—maybe some small shippers—the ability to move commodities into an inland port,” DeJesus explained.
Coming to Stockton would create some efficiencies and mean less fewer truck trips, he said.
“Commodities that would normally come to the Central Valley anyway would unload in Oakland and then get trucked here,” DeJesus said. “If we could just bring it directly to Stockton, then that’s going to take some of those trucks off the road.”
Commodities vary, but Stockton typically moves steel, fertilizer, sulfur and imported cement, which so far is up 36% higher compared to than 2020 due to heightened construction demand.
Last year, about 43% of Stockton’s total tonnage was in fertilizer, with about 90% of the fertilizer coming to the Central Valley is used locally, DeJesus said.
With exports, Stockton saw a huge demand for rice this year, particularly sushi grade rice, posting a 362% increase in that commodity, typically heading to Asia.
Much of that increase was COVID-19-related, DeJesus said. The Port of West Sacramento, which usually ships the majority of that export, did not have enough available labor due to COVID, so Stockton benefitted from the business.
“A lot of that export had to go through us,” DeJesus said. “That’ll probably change next year. We assume it’ll be back down to more than normal export numbers.”
Meanwhile, the Port of Stockton has been gearing up for the future, with nearly $2 billion in approved projects over the last decade, including truck corridor and road-widening projects and a recently completed $13 million grade-separation project.
Stockton’s biggest push is in rail infrastructure. Officials are working on a plan that may feature some rail bridges to accommodate potential export customers, possibly doubling the port’s volume in the next five to seven years, DeJesus said.
“We expect to see increased volumes, and that’s just something we need to do,” he said.
Stockton is well-positioned for more cargo, DeJesus said.
“I think we’re in a really prime position based on our location for one—we have Highway 99, Interstate 5 running north-south, we’ve got (Union Pacific) and (Burlington Northern) intersecting both railroads in Stockton—so we’re in a really good position to pick up additional volumes,” he said.
Port of San Diego
Months before the media began to spotlight the backlog of cargo ships waiting outside the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the Port of San Diego had been accepting additional vessels.
As one of the ports nearest to San Pedro Bay, San Diego has been accommodating some of the overflow, fielding about 30 requests a month from companies and carriers that don’t typically do business with the medium-sized port.
“We continue to evaluate vessel potential each week with an eye to assisting the supply chain issues in LA and Long Beach,” Port of San Diego Maritime Business Development Principal Greg Borossay said.
While it cannot accommodate mega container vessels based on its size, capacity, infrastructure and available labor, San Diego is able to take in about two to four cargo ships a month with various cargo types, including lithium batteries for solar and wind farms, juice concentrate for juice packs for children and various home improvement goods for nationally recognized brands.
“We are prioritizing our commitments to and agreements with our existing cargo businesses and customers, ensuring that any spot cargo we do take in does not interfere with or slow down their operations,” Borossay remarked.
Last year, about 70.2% of the nearly 2.1 million metric tons of imported cargo San Diego processed was breakbulk, including autos. About 26.2% was dry bulk and 3.5% was liquid bulk.
San Diego’s top bulk and breakbulk cargo include:
Bauxite, a red, powdery substance generally used with cement for construction. Last year, the port processed about 113,000 metric tons.
Bagged fertilizer from Norway, which accounted for about 22,000 metric tons in 2020.
Steel coils that are typically used for shipbuilding, power stations, roof panels and other construction projects. Last year, San Diego handled about 26,000 metric tons of steel the coils, mostly from Japan.
Sugar from Mexico that’s sent to a plant in the San Diego region and converted into four different sugar products. Last year, the port handled over 50,000 metric tons of it.
Wind-energy parts from Europe and Asia for U.S. wind farms. Last year, San Diego received about 3,800 metric tons of wind energy such parts.
Meanwhile, San Diego continues to draw new cargo business, thanks to a the newly-finished $24 million Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal modernization effort. Completed last fall and partly paid for with a $10 million federal transportation grant, the upgraded terminal allowed for more laydown space and flexibility for project cargo like windmill components, roll-on/roll-off and breakbulk cargo.
Before the project was done, San Diego was able to secure a contract with major bulk and breakbulk shipping company G2 Ocean in 2018, bringing in steel products such as steel coil, steel pipe, steel plates and slabs, as well as project cargo such as transformers and yachts, and fertilizer (both bagged and bulk). The port and G2 recently extended their contract.
“Securing G2 as our trans-Atlantic shipping liner is just the first step in our long-term breakbulk and project-cargo strategy. Next, we’re looking to secure a trans-Pacific liner service,” the port said. “The modernization has also helped us attract more spot cargo opportunities from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.”
Meanwhile, San Diego garnered the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s and City of San Diego’s approval last year to activate a Foreign Trade Zone at Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal.
In addition, at At the National City Marine Terminal, Pasha Automotive Services last summer finished a project with Porsche Cars North America to renovate a warehouse facility to enhance its capability for receiving, processing, repairing and storing automobiles.
Port of Los Angeles
While the Port of Los Angeles is known for mainly moving containers, the nation’s busiest seaport also has a solid breakbulk business. About 25% of the commodities that come through Los Angeles are not in a container, including steel products from Korea and Japan and coils, pipes, wire and other products from China.
Los Angeles also receives 70,000 to 90,000 metric tons of palletized fruit from Chile that typically arrives in the wintertime, when Chile is experiencing summer temperatures that yield grapes and stone fruits. About 17 ships carrying fruit arrive at L.A. starting in December.
Auto rounds out the port’s breakbulk business, with about 103,000 units from automakers such as Nissan, which provides cars to the dealerships throughout the Western U.S.
The Port of Los Angeles is also seeing a lot of requests for shipping products such as paper and plastic resins out of containers, said the port’s cargo marketing manager, Marcel van Dijk.
For many shippers, it’s all about freight cost per ton, and the spot rate for containers has been fluctuating, at times making it more expensive to move goods by containers rather than by breakbulk, van Dijk said.
“There are additional commodities that were originally breakbulk cargo that went into containers because the freight rates were so low, but now the freight rates have increased,” he said.
So shippers have been looking into breakbulk as an option, but that also presents challenges, van Dijk said.
“We see a little bit of softening of the markets on the container side, but due to the congestion, people are moving to breakbulk,” he remarked. “But breakbulk also has congestion.”
In November, there were about six breakbulk ships at anchor, waiting to enter terminals, he said.
Los Angeles also said that it expects to see more steel and cement come across its docks as early as 2022 with President Biden’s new infrastructure package as early as 2022.
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Experimenting With Synergistic Agriculture,
by Juanfran Lopez of Ragmans Farm
Juanfran is a long term volunteer at Ragmans and he has been carrying out this project alongside his work on the farm.
Some years ago, tired of the endless routines of digging, fertilizing and weeding (which I think is useless at the beginning of the season) I began to read about Natural Agriculture. Very different to the usual, scientific approach to agriculture, this reform was pioneered by Masanobu Fukuoka (‘The One Straw Revolution’, and ‘The Natural Way of Farming’). Fukuoka proves that you can achieve good yields when leaving the soil undisturbed, active in its own dynamic and wild state.
I began to understand about soil. Then I was left with lots of questions, the most persistent was: Could I improve these techniques in the UK’s temperate climate? This question led me to discover Synergistic Agriculture.
Synergistic Agriculture is a method that has been developed since the 1980s by a Spanish woman called Emilia Hazelip. This method allows you to farm without digging or even scratching the soil, not even superficially. This protects the bacteria, fungi and all forms of invisible life allowing complex, subtle and beneficial interactions. Ploughing, or any other disturbance of the soil kills millions of underground and microscopic creatures and prevents organic matter accumulating in the soil. This destroys the living soils activity and all the resulting benefits to crops. In return we have to reproduce the benefits of the natural activity with the “myth” of applied fertilizers. In the natural environment 95% of the nutrients come from the sun and atmospheric gases.
The 4 rules of Synergistic Agriculture:
– Do not disturb or compact the soil
– Use the self-fertility of the land as fertiliser
– Add layers of humus to the growing area
– Establish a partnership with symbiotic organisms in the rhizosphere.
Synergistic Agriculture is not the same as “do-nothing” agriculture. With Synergistic Agriculture it is important to consider crop successions and companion plants over the years.
After examining Synergistic Agriculture in depth, I decided to experiment and make my own raised beds. I made my beds 1.40 m wide, 4m long and around 50cm high with 70 cm between each bed. I selected different types of materials to make my “lasagna beds”: apple branches, kitchen scraps, leaves from the woods, ashes, horse manure, compost, 3 years old wood chip, clippings…I found everything around me!!
Mindful about the time of year I started (end of winter, early spring), I knew the layers wouldn’t have very long to decompose before I wanted to plant into them. I used around 4:1 balance between brown and green layers, and considered the main needs of my first crops.
The next step was to plan the vegetables in each bed. The two main things I had to consider were time and space. The planting had to take account of the time each vegetable needs – to grown and ripen, and the space they would occupy over that time period.
My second concern was to replicate a natural balance between the plants grown. I wanted 33% of root plants in each bed, 33% of fruit/flowers and 33% in leaf. Ideally to include one legume per bed for nitrogen fixing. This ratio is not always possible and some element predominates but this can be rectified in subsequent rotations.
And thirdly, another basic consideration is the animal kingdom; we need insects in the garden. To meet this requirement each bed must have a minimum of 2 types of flowers and herbs to confuse the possible pests. These act as a biological control, and help keep a biological balance in the garden.
I used straw as a mulch. This was to reduce the need for irrigation, to keep the right temperature in the beds and avoid erosion. The slugs would have a good time in the beds too, but I had a surprise when the ducks began to visit the garden at night time when the slugs visit the vegetables. The beds get a lot of guests including a lot of toads!
After one and a half months the tomatoes were climbing up the sunflowers, in-between dwarf beans, celery, cabbage. The climbing beans were growing up the sweet corn through a sea of squash. Everything surrounded by salads and onions, potatoes, spinach and peas; with garlic and leeks around the edges; swiss chard, beetroot and peppers with shallots and turnips in the gaps. A food jungle…. so much food everywhere!!!
When I harvest I keep the roots in the soil (of course not root vegetables!!). It is very important for the soil to leave the plant roots in place. When the roots decompose they release vitamins, organic acid, and sugars. They also have a positive effect on the growth and parasitic resistance of the remaining plants and improving the soil (i.e. the general aggregate stability). When I harvested vegetables I left all the aerial plant parts as new mulch, decomposing and creating new compost “in-situ”. These residues create more organic matter in the soil than the crop removed – so I don’t need a compost bin. Sometimes I spray with aerated compost tea, which we make on the farm for spraying the orchards. (See Patrick’s Post, Beyond Organics, Holistic Orchard Management, below.)
I always try to keep dead plants with live plants, and mix annual crops with perennial crops. Now I notice that the soil is really healthy, a nice structure and full of mycelium.
Now as I keep harvesting and planting for the winter, my experience tells me that the only thing, yet the most complicated thing we have to do is “un-learn” everything about conventional growing. Observe, interact and play with nature, not against it!
Now all the work is done and I just have to walk around the garden, enjoying, harvesting and eating. Life is Wonderful!!!
And remember, the garden is a place to enjoy, not for work; let nature work for you!!!
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The Russia-Ukraine War has been an unmitigated disaster. Hundreds of thousands have been killed or wounded. Millions have been displaced. Environmental and economic destruction have been incalculable. Future devastation could be exponentially greater as nuclear powers creep ever closer toward open war.
We deplore the violence, war crimes, indiscriminate missile strikes, terrorism, and other atrocities that are part of this war. The solution to this shocking violence is not more weapons or more war, with their guarantee of further death and destruction.
As Americans and national security experts, we urge president Biden and congress to use their full power to end the Russia-Ukraine War speedily through diplomacy, especially given the grave dangers of military escalation that could spiral out of control.
Sixty years ago, president John F Kennedy made an observation that is crucial for our survival today. ‘Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war. To adopt that kind of course in the nuclear age would be evidence only of the bankruptcy of our policy – or of a collective death-wish for the world.’
The immediate cause of this disastrous war in Ukraine is Russia’s invasion. Yet the plans and actions to expand NATO to Russia’s borders served to provoke Russian fears. And Russian leaders made this point for 30 years. A failure of diplomacy led to war. Now diplomacy is urgently needed to end the Russia-Ukraine War before it destroys Ukraine and endangers humanity.
The potential for peace
Russia’s current geopolitical anxiety is informed by memories of invasion from Charles XII, Napoleon, the kaiser and Hitler. US troops were among an Allied invasion force that intervened unsuccessfully against the winning side in Russia’s post- World War I civil war. Russia sees NATO enlargement and presence on its borders as a direct threat; the US and NATO see only prudent preparedness. In diplomacy, one must attempt to see with strategic empathy, seeking to understand one’s adversaries. This is not weakness: it is wisdom.
We reject the idea that diplomats, seeking peace, must choose sides, in this case either Russia or Ukraine. In favouring diplomacy, we choose the side of sanity. Of humanity. Of peace.
We consider president Biden’s promise to back Ukraine ‘as long as it takes’ to be a licence to pursue ill-defined and ultimately unachievable goals. It could prove as catastrophic as president Putin’s decision last year to launch his criminal invasion and occupation. We cannot and will not endorse the strategy of fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian.
We advocate for a meaningful and genuine commitment to diplomacy, specifically an immediate ceasefire and negotiations without any disqualifying or prohibitive preconditions. Deliberate provocations delivered the Russia-Ukraine War. In the same manner, deliberate diplomacy can end it.
US actions and Russia’s invasion
As the Soviet Union collapsed and the Cold War ended, US and Western European leaders assured Soviet and then Russian leaders that NATO would not expand toward Russia’s borders. ‘There would be no extension of... NATO one inch to the east,’ US secretary of state James Baker told Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on 9 February 1990. Similar assurances from other US leaders as well as from British, German and French leaders throughout the 1990s confirm this.
Since 2007, Russia has repeatedly warned that NATO’s armed forces on Russian borders were intolerable – just as Russian forces in Mexico or Canada would be intolerable to the US now, or as Soviet missiles in Cuba were in 1962. Russia further singled out NATO expansion into Ukraine as especially provocative.
Through Russia’s eyes
Our attempt at understanding the Russian perspective on their war does not endorse the invasion and occupation, nor does it imply the Russians had no other option but this war.
Yet, just as Russia had other options, so too did the US and NATO leading up to this moment.
The Russians made their red lines clear. In Georgia and Syria, they proved they would use force to defend those lines. In 2014, their immediate seizure of Crimea and their support of Donbass separatists demonstrated they were serious in their commitment to defending their interests.
Why this was not understood by US and NATO leadership is unclear; incompetence, arrogance, cynicism, or a treacherous mixture of all three are likely contributing factors.
Again, even as the Cold War ended, US diplomats, generals and politicians were warning of the dangers of expanding NATO to Russia’s borders and of maliciously interfering in Russia’s sphere of influence. Former cabinet officials Robert Gates and William Perry issued these warnings, as did venerated diplomats George Kennan, Jack Matlock and Henry Kissinger.
In 1997, 50 senior US foreign policy experts wrote an open letter to president Bill Clinton advising him not to expand NATO, calling it ‘a policy error of historic proportions’. President Clinton chose to ignore these warnings.
Most important to our understanding of the hubris and Machiavellian calculation in US decision-making surrounding the Russia-Ukraine War is the dismissal of the warnings issued by Williams Burns, the current director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
In a cable to secretary of state Condoleezza Rice in 2008, while serving as ambassador to Russia, Burns wrote of NATO expansion and Ukrainian membership: ‘Ukraine and Georgia’s NATO aspirations not only touch a raw nerve in Russia, they engender serious concerns about the consequences for stability in the region. Not only does Russia perceive encirclement, and efforts to undermine Russia’s influence in the region, but it also fears unpredictable and uncontrolled consequences which would seriously affect Russian security interests. Experts tell us that Russia is particularly worried that the strong divisions in Ukraine over NATO membership, with much of the ethnic-Russian community against membership, could lead to a major split, involving violence or at worst, civil war. In that eventuality, Russia would have to decide whether to intervene; a decision Russia does not want to have to face.’
Why did the US persist in expanding NATO despite such warnings? Profit from weapons sales was a major factor. Facing opposition to NATO expansion, a group of neoconservatives and top executives of US weapons manufacturers formed the US Committee to Expand NATO.
Between 1996 and 1998, the largest arms manufacturers spent $51 million ($94 million today) on lobbying and millions more on campaign contributions. With this largesse, NATO expansion quickly became a done deal, after which US weapons manufacturers sold billions of dollars of weapons to the new NATO members.
So far, the US has sent $30 billion worth of military gear and weapons to Ukraine, with total aid to Ukraine exceeding $100 billion. War, it’s been said, is a racket, one that is highly profitable for a select few.
NATO expansion, in sum, is a key feature of a militarised US foreign policy characterised by unilateralism featuring regime change and pre-emptive wars.
Failed wars, most recently in Iraq and Afghanistan, have produced slaughter and further confrontation, a harsh reality of America’s own making. The Russia-Ukraine War has opened a new arena of confrontation and slaughter.
This reality is not entirely of our own making, yet it may well be our undoing, unless we dedicate ourselves to forging a diplomatic settlement that stops the killing and defuses tensions.
Let’s make America a force for peace in the world.
Dennis Fritz, director, Eisenhower Media Network; command chief master sergeant, US air force (retired)
Matthew Hoh, associate director, Eisenhower Media Network; former marine corps officer, and state and defence official.
William J Astore, lieutenant colonel, US air force (retired)
Karen Kwiatkowski, lieutenant colonel, US air force (retired)
Dennis Laich, major general, US army (retired)
Jack Matlock, US ambassador to the USSR, 1987 – 1991; author of Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended
Todd E Pierce, major, judge advocate, US army (retired)
Coleen Rowley, special agent, FBI (retired)
Jeffrey Sachs, university professor at Columbia university
Christian Sorensen, former Arabic linguist, US air force
Chuck Spinney, retired engineer/ analyst, office of secretary of defence
Winslow Wheeler, national security adviser to four Republican and Democratic US senators
Lawrence B Wilkerson, colonel, US army (retired)
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30 January 2023
Healthy eating, keeping fit, reading more books… whatever you are tackling this January, we are asking you to also add ‘recycling’ to your list of New Year’s resolutions.
Research suggests that nearly all of us will have abandoned our original New Year’s resolutions by now, so we would like you to consider adopting a new and easy promise to ‘recycle’ more in 2023. By pledging to make some positives changes, such as recycling more, we can not only feel better and more in control of our own actions, but also make a big difference to our environment.
“To many of us, recycling now comes naturally, we don’t even give it a second thought.” says Cllr Jackie Charlton, Cabinet Member for a Greener Powys. “In fact, Welsh citizens are some of the best recyclers in the world, with Powys residents currently recycling around 68.5% of their waste.
“However, the next Welsh Government targets require us to do even better, and by 2025 we must reach a county-wide recycling rate of 70%. This means, that we all need to make a determined effort to reduce the amount of waste we throw away and make sure we recycle as much as possible.
“By staying true to the ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ mantra, we should all be able to stay on the right track, do our bit and help tackle the current climate emergency. Something positive to feel good about this new year.”
A few simple tips to get you on your way to a more sustainable and rewarding lifestyle could be:
Reduce: When food shopping, choose products that have less, or more sustainable, packaging such as loose fruit and vegetables rather than pre-packaged items. Reduce the amount of food waste you have by using up leftovers in homemade soups or other meals, there are some great recipes on www.lovefoodhatewaste.com
Reuse: Opt for a reusable water bottle or coffee mug to help reduce the number of single-use bottles or cups you get through. Consider buying items second-hand rather than new and selling or donating items you no longer use instead of throwing them out.
Recycle: Make every effort to recycle as much of your household waste as possible. It’s amazing how much stuff can be added to your recycling boxes for the weekly collection – if you’re not sure if it’s recyclable or not, check out our handy guide online: A to Z of waste and recyclable items
“We already know that we are a county of conscientious recyclers who take great pride in doing our bit for the environment, and we have no doubt that together we will continue to make every effort to increase our recycling further and build a more sustainable future for the generations to come.” added Cllr Charlton. “However, Welsh Government figures suggest that there is still room for improvement, with an estimated 36% of the residual domestic rubbish thrown out still made up of items which can be recycled in the weekly kerbside collections, over 21% or which includes food waste.
“Just imagine what a difference could be made to our recycling rates, and the environment, if we all added recycling to our New Year’s resolution list!”
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The mining giant BHP faces the world’s largest class action after more than half a million new claimants joined the fight for justice for Brazil’s worst ever environmental disaster.
Pogust Goodhead is now representing 700,000 Claimants seeking damages of £36 billion after the collapse of the Fundão tailings dam in Mariana, Brazil. The disaster claimed the lives of 19 people and resulted in thousands of people being displaced, villages being submerged in toxic mining waste, and farms, fish stocks and livelihoods destroyed.
Our Global Managing Partner and CEO, Tom Goodhead, said: “Financial compensation will never turn back the clock for our clients to happier, healthier and wealthier times pre-disaster, nor will it ever remediate the environment to the way it was.
“If BHP had paid compensation fairly and in a reasonable time, however, they would have at least done the right thing and would have lived up to the corporate ESG values they constantly espouse.
“Instead, as a result of continued attempts to frustrate justice, they have now landed themselves and their investors with financial liabilities multiples higher than they should have been and have prolonged the agony for the victims. BHP’s handling of the Mariana dam disaster has been a textbook case of corporate wrongdoing.”
Among the new Claimants are members of the Guarani, Tupiniquim and Pataxos indigenous communities, alongside a significant number of Afro-Brazilian Quilombolas, descendants of African slaves trafficked to Brazil. They joined members of the Krenak indigenous community, whose lands run along the banks of the Rio Doce.
Maykon Krenak, one of the Claimants from the Krenak community, said: “BHP came to my house, took my food, soiled my water and tried to erase our identity. We want justice”.
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India is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, and for good reason. The country is full of culture, history, and stunning natural beauty. But if you’re planning on travelling to India, you need to be prepared. And one of the most important things you can do is know your place in the culture. In this travel quiz, we will ask you a series of questions about Indian culture and history. If you can answer them all correctly, you’re well on your way to being a confident traveller in India. Good luck!
India’s Top 5 Cities to Visit
If you’re thinking about traveling to India, these are the 10 cities that should be at the top of your list.
Mumbai is home to some of India’s most iconic landmarks, including the Taj Mahal and Colaba Causeway. This bustling metropolis also has a wealth of shopping opportunities and delicious food options.
Delhi is a fascinating city with an ancient history and many modern attractions. It’s also one of India’s most congested cities, so make sure you have plenty of time to explore it all!
Kolkata is known for its colorful architecture and lively atmosphere. This historic city is home to some world-renowned museums, as well as beautiful gardens and beaches.
Bangalore is known for its high-tech industry, but it offers much more than that – from great restaurants and nightlife to stunning natural areas and architectures – making it an ideal destination for any traveler looking for something different in India.
Chennai is one of India’s most popular tourist destinations thanks to its vibrant cultural scene and picturesque surroundings. The city boasts dozens of shopping districts, delicious food options, beautiful beaches, and plenty of activities to keep you entertained all day long! 6 . Goa Known for its stunning beaches and crystal clear waters, Goa is a popular destination for beach-
What to Pack for India
When planning your trip to India, make sure to pack for a varied climate. The country experiences three main climatic zones: the tropical south, the temperate north, and the Himalayan mountains.
In terms of clothing, you’ll want to pack light clothes that you can layer. Packings should include a decent hat, sunscreen and sunglasses, a T-shirt or tank top with shorts or pants in case it gets too hot or cold, and sturdy shoes. In addition to these basics, bring a couple of Indian outfits if you’re feeling adventurous (haldi patta is one option), insect repellent and a water filter as well as an emergency whistle in case of trouble.
If you’re flying in from abroad, bring your passport and visa along with your airline ticket. Make sure to also bring copies of your driver’s license and insurance card as they will not be accepted as proof of identification while in India. Finally, don’t forget cash—a few hundred rupees should cover most expenses during your stay.
Tips for Safe Travel in India
India is an amazing country with a rich history and culture. However, it is also a very dangerous place to travel in. Here are some tips for safe travel in India:
1. Respect the local culture. Always be respectful of the local customs and religion. Do not touch or harass people, especially women.
2. Avoid tourist traps. Be aware of the many tourist traps that are set up by dishonest operators. Do not exchange money at unauthorized places, and do not pay excessive fees for services or goods.
3. Use common sense when travelling in India. Avoid walking alone at night, use caution when using public transportation, and avoid carrying large sums of cash around with you.
4. Carry identification documents such as your passport and visa with you at all times while traveling in India. If you become stranded or lost, be sure to contact your embassy or consulate for assistance.
What to do in India
If you’re thinking about visiting India, now would be a great time to brush up on your knowledge. Take our quiz to see how well you know the country.
1. What is the capital of India?
2. What are some of the most popular tourist destinations in India?
3. What is the official language of India?
4. How many Indian states are there?
5. What is the Hindu calendar?
6. Who were some of the historical rulers of India?
How to Eat in India
As a traveler to India, it is important to be aware of the many different types of food that are available. The two main ways to eat in India are with a samosa or an Indian sub.
A samosa is a triangle-shaped pastry filled with potatoes, peas, and spices. It can be eaten as a snack or as part of a meal. To make a samosa, first heat some oil in a pan and add the samosa dough balls. Cook until they turn golden brown and then place them on paper towels to cool.
An Indian sub is essentially just a submarine sandwich made with bread and either chicken or vegetable masala. You can either get them delivered to your hotel or find places that sell them on the street. To make an Indian sub, start by choosing your bread (either naan or roti) and filling it with chicken or vegetable masala. Then top it off with some yogurt and cilantro.
What to avoid when traveling to India
India is a vast and diverse country with a rich culture. However, there are some things you should avoid when traveling to India. Below are five tips for staying safe while in India:
1. Do not wander off the beaten path – Indian roads can be dangerous, especially for those unfamiliar with the layout of the country. Stay within designated tourist areas and follow common sense safety precautions such as never travelling alone at night, using a guide if possible, and avoiding walking on blind curves.
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The small bus of the MMUST (the Masini Muliro University of Science and Technology, our partner university), steered resolutely and safely by Salome, came exactly correct, with African time buffer, in order to be able to do the above-mentioned things in peace.
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By Jeff Goodell
The Earth's climate has always been a work in progress. In the 4.5 billion years the planet has been spinning around the sun, ice ages have come and gone, interrupted by epochs of intense heat. The highest mountain range in Texas was once an underwater reef. Camels wandered in evergreen forests in the Arctic. Then a few million years later, 400 feet of ice formed over what is now New York City. But amid this geologic mayhem, humans have gotten lucky. For the past 10,000 years, virtually the entire stretch of human civilization, people have lived in what scientists call "a Goldilocks climate" — not too hot, not too cold, just right.
Now, our luck is running out. The industrialized nations of the world are dumping 34 billion tons or so of carbon into the atmosphere every year, which is roughly 10 times faster than Mother Nature ever did on her own, even during past mass extinction events. As a result, global temperatures have risen 1.2 C since we began burning coal, and the past seven years have been the warmest seven years on record. The Earth's temperature is rising faster today than at any time since the end of the last ice age, 11,300 years ago. We are pushing ourselves out of a Goldilocks climate and into something entirely different.
How hot will the summers get in India and Pakistan, and how will tens of thousands of deaths from extreme heat impact the stability of the region? How close is the West Antarctic ice sheet to collapse, and what does the risk of five or six feet of sea-level rise mean for people living on the Gulf Coast?
We are in uncharted terrain. "We're now in a world where the past is no longer a good guide to the future," said Jesse Jenkins, an assistant professor of engineering at Princeton University. "We have to get much better at preparing for the unexpected."
By all indications, President Biden and his team understand all this. In the 2020 election, nearly 70 percent of Biden's voters said climate change was a top issue for them. Biden has staffed his administration with the climate A-team, from Gina McCarthy as domestic climate czar to John Kerry as international climate envoy. He has made racial and environmental justice a top priority. And perhaps most important of all, he sees the climate crisis as an opportunity to reinvent the U.S. economy and create millions of new jobs.
"I think in Obama's mind, it was always about tackling the climate challenge, not making the climate challenge the central element of your economic policy," says John Podesta, a Democratic power broker and special adviser to President Obama who played a key role in negotiating the Paris Agreement. "Biden's team is different. It is really the core of their economic strategy to make transformation of the energy systems the driver of innovation, growth, and job creation, justice and equity."
Of course, there have been hopeful moments before: the signing of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, when the nations of the world first came together to limit CO2 emissions; the success of Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth in 2006; the election of Obama in 2008; the Paris Agreement in 2015, when China finally engaged in climate talks.
But all of these moments, in the end, led to nothing. If you look at the only metric that really matters — a graph of the percentage of CO2 molecules in the atmosphere — it has been on a long, steady upward climb. More CO2 equals more heat. To put it bluntly, all our scientific knowledge, all the political speeches, all the activism and protest marches have done zero to stop the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels.
But hope rises again. The economic winds are lifting Biden's sails: The cost of wind and solar power has plummeted by 90 percent or so over the past decade, and in many parts of the world it's the cheapest way to generate electricity.
Globally, the signs of change are equally inspiring. Eight of the 10 largest economies have pledged to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. China, by far the world's largest carbon polluter in terms of raw tonnage (on a per capita basis, the U.S. and several other countries pollute far more), has promised to become carbon neutral by 2060. Some 400 companies, including Microsoft, Unilever, Facebook, Ford, Nestlé, and Pepsi, have committed to reduce carbon pollution consistent with the United Nations' 1.5 C target, which scientists have determined is the threshold of dangerous climate change.
In her confirmation hearing, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called climate change "an existential threat" and promised to create a team to examine the risks and integrate them into financial policy-making.
Still, these are only baby steps in a very long journey. And the clock is ticking. "When it comes to the climate crisis," says futurist Alex Steffen, "speed is everything." If we magically stopped all carbon pollution tomorrow, the Earth's temperature would level off, but warm seas would continue melting the ice sheets and seas would keep rising for decades, if not centuries (last time carbon levels were as high as they are today, sea levels were 70 feet higher). Even after emissions stop, it will take the ocean thousands of years to recover.
Cutting carbon fast would slow these changes and reduce the risk of other climate catastrophes. But despite the world's newfound ambition, political leaders are not moving anywhere near fast enough. Even the goal of holding future warming to 2 C, which is a centerpiece of the Paris Agreement and considered the outer limits of a Goldilocks climate for much of the planet, is nearly out of reach. As a recent paper in Nature pointed out: "On current trends, the probability of staying below 2 C of warming is only five percent."
The great danger is not climate denial. The great danger is climate delay.
What's needed is action now. As climate envoy John Kerry put it at the World Sustainable Development Summit in February: "We have to now phase out coal five times faster than we have been. We have to increase tree cover five times faster than we have been. We have to ramp up renewable energy six times faster than we are. We have to transition to [electric vehicles] 22 times faster."
Demanding action now will also require shutting down the international financing schemes that support fossil fuels. China, Japan, and South Korea all claim to be doing their part in making carbon reductions at home, while at the same time they are financing 70,000 megawatts of coal power in places like Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Indonesia.
The goal of net-zero emissions is also problematic. "Net zero" is not the same thing as zero. It means that carbon pollution is either eliminated or offset by other processes that remove carbon from the atmosphere, such as forests or machines that capture CO2. Some of these offsets and technologies are more legit than others, opening the door to scams that claim to eliminate more carbon than they do.
In a way, the economic chaos caused by the pandemic has created a historic opportunity for the Biden administration. As one White House adviser tells me, "If you are going to pump billions of dollars into the economy, why not use those dollars to help us transition away from fossil fuels?" This is one of the central ideas behind Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure bill, which is now being negotiated in Congress.
Already the pushback is fierce, especially in states that have benefited from the fracking boom. Shortly after Biden issued his first round of executive orders aimed at the climate crisis, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott held a press conference in the middle of the gas fields "to make clear that Texas is going to protect the oil-and-gas industry from any type of hostile attack launched from Washington, D.C."
Republicans, along with stalwart fossil-fuel allies like the Heritage Foundation, recently convened a private retreat in Utah to plot ways to "reclaim the narrative" on climate, while Republican Senators like Tennessee's Marsha Blackburn continue to recycle tired old rants about how the Paris Agreement is destroying American jobs.
Every day it becomes clearer that the fight for a stable climate is increasingly inseparable from a fight for justice and equity. Catherine Coleman Flowers, who was on a task force that helped shape Biden's climate policy during his campaign, grew up and works in Lowndes County, Alabama. "I see a lot of poverty here," Flowers says. "And I see a lot of people who suffer from the impacts of climate change — whether it is heat, or disease, or poor sanitation and polluted drinking water. You can't separate one from the other. They put sewage lagoons next to the houses of poor people, not rich people. They put oil pipelines through poor neighborhoods, not rich ones."
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On January 25, 2007, NHTSA published a notice announcing a public hearing and requesting comments on an agency report titled, ``The New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) Suggested Approaches for Future Program Enhancements.'' This notice summarizes the comments received and provides the agency's decision on how it will improve the NCAP ratings program. For model year (MY) 2010, the agency will make changes to its existing front and side crash rating programs. For the frontal crash test program, NHTSA will maintain the 35 mph (56 kmph) full frontal barrier test protocol but will update the test dummies and associated injury criteria used to assess and assign a vehicle's frontal impact star rating. For side impact, NHTSA will maintain the current moving deformable barrier test at 38.5 mph (63 kmph) but will update that test to include new side impact test dummies and new injury criteria that are used to assign a vehicle's side impact star rating. Additionally, vehicles will also be assessed using a new pole test and a small female crash test dummy. For rollover, the agency will continue to rate vehicles for rollover propensity, but will wait to update its rollover risk model to allow for more real-world crash data of vehicles equipped with electronic stability control. Also for MY 2010, the agency will implement a new ratings program that will rate vehicles on the presence of select advanced technologies and establish a new overall Vehicle Safety Score that will combine the star ratings from the front, side, and rollover programs. Finally, for the agency's vehicle labeling program, we are announcing that the side score, rather than being based only on the moving deformable barrier test, will be based on the combination of the moving deformable barrier test and the pole test. Additionally, the agency will initiate rulemaking to include the new overall crashworthiness rating on the Monroney label.
Schedule of Fees Authorized by 49 U.S.C. 30141 Offer of Cash Deposits or Obligations of the United States in Lieu of Sureties on DOT Conformance Bonds
This document amends NHTSA's regulations that prescribe fees authorized by 49 U.S.C. Sec. 30141 for various functions performed by the agency with respect to the importation of motor vehicles that are not originally manufactured to conform to all applicable Federal motor vehicle safety and bumper standards. An importer must file with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) a Department of Transportation (DOT) conformance bond at the time that a nonconforming motor vehicle is offered for importation into the United States, or in lieu of such a bond, the importer may post cash deposits or obligations of the United States to ensure that the vehicle will be brought into conformance with all applicable standards within 120 days from the date of importation, or will be exported from, or abandoned to, the United States. To avoid the costs of a DOT conformance bond, some importers have attempted to post cash deposits, which would relieve the importers of the bonding costs, but cause the agency to expend considerable resources. The amendments adopted today establish a fee of $459.00 that will permit the government to recover all the direct and indirect costs incurred by the agency in processing cash deposits or obligations of the United States that are furnished in lieu of a DOT conformance bond.
Request for Public Comments on Guidance and Recommended Best Importer Practices To Enhance the Safety of Imported Motor Vehicles and Motor Vehicle Equipment
This notice solicits comments from the public, from importers and manufacturers of motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment, and from other interested parties concerning best practices to be followed by importers of motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment to reduce the likelihood of importing products that contain defects related to motor vehicle safety or do not comply with applicable Federal motor vehicle safety standards.
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Power-Operated Window, Partition, and Roof Panel Systems
This document responds to two petitions for reconsideration of a final rule amending the Federal motor vehicle safety standard for power-operated window, partition, and roof panel systems. The subject final rule, statutorily mandated and published in April 2006, established a new safety requirement for vehicle power window switches, specifically that such switches have a ``pull-to-close'' design. That final rule set a compliance date of October 1, 2008, which was the same as the compliance date for a rule published in September 2004 that amended the standard to include a performance test to prevent inadvertent actuation of power window switches, particularly by children. Petitions for reconsideration were submitted by the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (Alliance) and DaimlerChrysler Corporation. The petitioners requested an extension of the compliance date by two years, as well as additional amendments to the standard. This document grants the requests common to both petitions for an additional two years to comply with the pull-to-close operability requirements of the April 2006 rule. It denies petitioners' other requests. Specifically, we are denying the request that power window switches be excluded from the ``pull-to-close'' design requirement if the power window systems are equipped with an automatic reversal feature. We are also denying a request for exclusion from the pull-to- close requirement for switches mounted in overhead locations and switches that operate vent-type power windows.
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Windshield Zone Intrusion
This document proposes to rescind Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 219, ``Windshield zone intrusion.'' This proposed action results from NHTSA's periodic review of its regulations to determine whether a continuing safety need exists for the standard under review. NHTSA tentatively concludes that the windshield zone intrusion standard is no longer necessary because other FMVSSs are now in place to meet the safety need that the standard had addressed.
Reports, Forms and Record Keeping Requirements; Agency Information Collection Activity Under OMB Review
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comment. The ICR describes the nature of the information collections and their expected burden. The Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period was published on December 28, 2007 [72 FR 73972].
National EMS Advisory Council; Notice of Federal Advisory Committee Meeting
NHTSA announces a meeting of the National Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council (NEMSAC) to be held in the Metropolitan Washington, DC area. This notice announces the date, time and location of the meeting, which will be open to the public. The purpose of NEMSAC is to provide a nationally recognized council of emergency medical services representatives and consumers to provide advice and recommendations regarding EMS to the U.S. DOT's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
Notice of Availability of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for New Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards; Notice of Public Hearing
NHTSA has prepared a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) to disclose and analyze the potential environmental impacts of proposed Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for model year (MY) 2011-2015 passenger cars and light trucks, which NHTSA recently proposed pursuant to the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, and a reasonable range of alternative standards. To inform decisionmakers and the public, the DEIS compares the potential environmental impacts of the proposed standards and alternative standards reflecting a full range of stringencies, and it analyzes direct, indirect, and cumulative impacts in proportion to their significance. The DEIS provides a detailed analysis of potential impacts on energy resources, air quality, and climate. The DEIS uses climate modeling and NHTSA's own computer model to provide quantitative estimates of potential impacts on air quality, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, global mean surface temperature, rainfall, and sea level rise. The DEIS provides a qualitative analysis of resources that may be impacted by changes in climate, such as freshwater resources, terrestrial ecosystems, coastal ecosystems, land use, human health, and environmental justice. It examines these impacts on the U.S. and on a global scale. In addition, the DEIS analyzes potential environmental impacts unrelated to climate change. NHTSA invites Federal, State, and local agencies, Indian tribes, and the public to submit written comments and participate in a public hearing on the DEIS using the instructions set forth in this notice. As described in the PROCEDURAL MATTERS section of this notice, each speaker should anticipate speaking for approximately ten minutes, although we may need to adjust the time for each speaker if there is a large turnout. To facilitate review of the DEIS, NHTSA has posted the DEIS on its Web site, and it will be available in the Docket identified by the docket number at the beginning of this notice.\1\ Copies in hard copy or electronic (CD-ROM) form have been mailed to all stakeholders on NHTSA's National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) mailing list for the proposed CAFE standards, and NHTSA will mail a copy of the DEIS or a CD-ROM containing the Appendices to any other interested party who requests one. NHTSA will consider the public comments received on the DEIS in preparing final NEPA documents to support final CAFE standards for MY 2011-2015 passenger cars and light trucks, which NHTSA plans to issue later this year. The agency's NEPA analysis is informing NHTSA's development of those standards. | <urn:uuid:dbd03f13-cb39-4784-be30-ca28f5d8f72c> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://regulations.justia.com/regulations/fedreg/agencies/national-highway-traffic-safety-administration/2008/07 | 2024-02-28T04:08:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474690.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228012542-20240228042542-00200.warc.gz | en | 0.917293 | 2,570 | 4 |
Under the hood, its efficient 2.0L Dynamic Force Engine punches up your adrenaline the moment you shift into drive. And you can hone your paddle-shifting skills with our Dynamic Shift-CVT, which combines the immediate response of a traditional First gear with the efficiency of a Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT).
Three pedal. Six forward gears. Once incredible driving experience. Corolla Hatchback's available 6-speed Intelligent Manual Transmission (iMT) features close-ratio gears down low for a spirited acceleration, with taller gears up top to help optimize fuel economy. It also incorporates an intelligent rev-matching feature, helping reduce transmission shock when downshifting.
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Show up in style. SE Nightshade Edition's blacked out 18-in. allloy wheels, shark-fin antenna, rear spoiler, front lower grille surround, side and rear rocker panels and other black accents add to this Hatchback's charismatic curb appeal. Standard LED taillights light up the night with a distinctive look. The SE Nightshade Edition is available in Midnight Black Metallic, Super White and Classic Silver Metallic.
Corolla Hatchback's available chrome grille surround drives attention to its bold design.
Available 18-in. alloy wheels add to the unique profile of Corolla Hatchback. Every stoplight is a chance to make a new impression. Every spoke on the wheels is crafted to enhance style.
Inside, a stunning 8-in. touch-screen display makes connecting to your tech simple. Plug in your compatible iPhone® and Apple CarPlay® shows you your favorite apps on the screen. Plus, our suite of Connected Services, like Wi-Fi Connect and Safety Connect⪚ provides added convenience and peace of mind. And standard SiriusXM® with All Access trial and an available 8-speaker, 800-watt JBL® speaker system will amp up every drive.
This driver-centric cabin doesn't settle on comfort. WIth just the press of a button, the available heated seats will get toasty in no time so you can stop worrying about the cold and start enjoying every turn.
An available 7-in. Multi-Information Display (MID) helps you stay focused around every turn by bringing driving information right before your eyes. And you can keep your hands on the steering wheel scrolling through playlists, making phone calls and more with Corolla Hatchback's advanced steering wheel controls.
The standard Electric Parking Brake (EPB) with Brake Hold includes a vehicle hold feature. When activated, once you bring Corolla Hatchback to a complete stop, release your foot from the brake pedal, and the brakes will continue to hold the vehicle in place. To release the brakes and get moving again, simply press the accelerator.
Don't waste time fumblingfor your keys. Corolla Hatchback comes standard with the Smart Key System, which lets you unlock the doors and trunk all while your key fob sits comfortably in your pocket or bag. Once inside, you can start the engine with the simple push of a button.
You like it cool, but your passenger likes it warm- with Corolla Hatchback's available dual zone automatic climate control, you can both ride in total comfort.
By illuminating a warning signal on the applicable outside mirror, the available Blind Spot Monitor (BSM) is designed to alert you to vehicles that may be hiding in Corolla Hatchback's blind spot.
Corolla Hatchback's standard backup camera helps you back up with confidence, so you can easily get in and out of that parking spot.
Located behind the grille-mounted Toyota badge is a millimeter-wave radar that can help detect vehicles, pedestrians and bicyclists that may be in your driving path. Should the radar detect something, it communicates with the in-vehicle camera to determine what the object might be, and if needed, how the Toyota Safety Sense™ 2.0 (TSS 2.0) system should react. This in-vehicle camera can also detect some road signs, making it a key component of TSS 2.0's Road Sign Assist (RSA) feature.
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Investigating stratigraphic evidence for Antarctic glaciation in the greenhouse world of the Paleocene, eastern North Island, New Zealand
Tayler, M. J. S. (2011). Investigating stratigraphic evidence for Antarctic glaciation in the greenhouse world of the Paleocene, eastern North Island, New Zealand (Thesis, Master of Science (MSc)). University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10289/10113
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Early Paleogene (Paleocene-Eocene) climate was significantly warmer than today, with the poles generally considered to have been free of ice. These greenhouse conditions ended in the earliest Oligocene when the formation of the circum-Antarctic seaway between Antarctica and Australia had widened sufficiently to allow thermal isolation of the Antarctic continent and expansion of ice sheets to sea level. The associated invigorated Southern Ocean circulation patterns have been deemed responsible for formation of the Marshall Unconformity (32-29 Ma), a prominent hiatus in many Early Oligocene sedimentary sections in the wider New Zealand region. However, some recent studies have suggested there may have been short periods of significant Antarctic glaciation prior to opening of the circum-Antarctic seaway, including in the Late Paleocene at c. 58-57 Ma, referred to in this study as the “Late Paleocene event” (LPE). This study investigates the origin(s) of sedimentary sequences from four eastern North Island early Paleogene sections with the aim of determining whether any links can be made between the nature of the sediment facies and their bounding contacts with ice sheet growth on Antarctica. A late Paleogene section that records a possible occurrence of the Early Oligocene Marshall Unconformity has also been studied with the aim of comparing lithologic features from the site with those in the early Paleogene study sections. Methods used include detailed logging and description of sedimentary strata, and petrographic, mineralogical, grain size, elemental, stable carbon and oxygen isotope, organic carbon content, micropaleontologic, and palynofacies analyses. In the study sections the LPE is represented by dark grey, brown-grey, or black, occasionally glauconitic, non-calcareous mudstone, often with relatively high organic matter contents. Geochemical proxies indicate that during deposition of these lithologies siliceous microbiota were the dominant primary producers in the overlying surface ocean waters, suggesting a period of cooling and enhanced upwelling occurred at the time. Additionally, relative sea-level curves formulated for the studied sections through the Paleocene show three falls in sea level, the last of which coincides with the LPE. The relative sea-level curves are considered to represent eustatic changes in sea level and thus the fall that coincides with the LPE may record development of continental ice on Antarctica. The two interpreted falls in sea level prior to the LPE are also commonly associated with dominantly siliceous productivity and may record precursor cooling events. The occurrence of possible “dropstones” in Early to Late Paleocene strata at one section may also record fluctuations between glacial and interglacial conditions prior to, and possibly within, the LPE. There is presently inconclusive evidence for the Akitio River section recording the Early Oligocene Marshall Unconformity, but the glaucony bearing unit that has been suggested to mark the event is similar to some LPE lithofacies and is associated with an episode of increased biosiliceous productivity, supportive of climate cooling. Collectively these features suggest that the LPE may be associated with marked cooling and continental ice development on Antarctica, well before the circum-Antarctic seaway had widened sufficiently to allow thermal isolation of the Antarctic continent. This suggests that Antarctic ice sheet growth is less reliant on ocean heat transport than currently believed, and other mechanisms, such as draw down of atmospheric CO2, may also be involved. Other results from this study of less relevance to early Paleogene marine climate but of interest to general eastern North Island geology include the possible identification of Awhea Formation and Waipawa Formation at the Pahaoa coastal section in Wairarapa; interpretations of the depositional environments for the lithofacies in the study sections, involving dominantly hemipelagic upper to lower slope mudstone with occasional mass emplaced sandstone and pelagic limestone deposits; a suggested mechanism that led to organic matter enrichment in the Waipawa Formation; a possible explanation for the lateral transition of thick deposits of organic rich mudstone to relatively thin deposits of greensand and glauconitic mudstone; possible explanations for lateral variations in redox conditions; the possible correlation of an Early Eocene olistrostromic unit at Pahaoa with an olistrostomic unit farther south, suggestive of a major tectonic episode; and confirmation of an anomalous trend, noted by previous studies on several Paleocene-Eocene sections, within the Wanstead Formation of increasing terrigenous sediment input during a transgressive period.
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March 9, 2021
Texas crisis illustrates how hourly generation during high-priced hours spells the difference between big wins and big losses for clean energy buyers and sellers.
Hourly power price and generation data is now available in REmap, a tool widely used by leaders in the renewable energy industry to identify value, understand risk and optimize offtake and hedging strategies. REmap’s new Hourly Data Explorer allows users to investigate the hourly performance of thousands of operational and synthetic projects.
The Hourly Data Explorer continues REsurety’s commitment to provide unrivaled breadth of market intelligence and depth of project-specific insight, empowering key decision makers.
“The February winter storm across the Southwest provided an extreme example of an already clear trend: fortunes are made and lost by generating during the right hours, not simply by achieving a high annual energy production,” said Lee Taylor, founder and CEO of REsurety. REsurety launched the map-based tool in May 2020 as an SaaS product, to provide the data and analytics required by the complex, data-driven industry that is the modern renewable power market.
Last year, REsurety used REmap to reveal how low energy demand during the coronavirus shutdown — combined with low natural gas prices and high renewable generation in April 2020 — sent the production-weighted wholesale price of wind-generated electricity to all-time lows across the SPP, PJM and MISO power grids.
This week, in a column for Utility Dive, REsurety digs into what REmap data tells us are the top trends and takeaways in renewable energy markets today.
The resiliency that the Texas grid so badly needed in February 2021 was foreshadowed by similar — though smaller — power market events in 2020 and 2019. “One thing REmap shows us is what renewable energy projects could have generated during the Texas deep freeze of February 2021, based on the actual wind and solar resource available,” Taylor said.
Theoretical project generation data, given site-specific weather conditions and plant characteristics, will be available in REmap in early March. Hourly metered generation at the project level for ERCOT projects will follow in early May. REmap can help users understand the financial implications of the February 2021 deep freeze on contract settlements, and inform their expectations moving forward.
REmap stands for “Renewable Energy Market Analytics Platform.” To keep it populated with the latest information, REsurety collects, cleans, and analyzes billions of data points from a wide range of sources. Industry leaders use the resulting massive database to inform their decision making on new investments, to benchmark against their peers and competitors, and to inform their offtake strategies – both as buyers and sellers. Current REmap customers include developers, investors, C&I buyers, and advisors. Joan Hutchinson, Managing Director of Marathon Capital and an early REmap client, described REmap as “a sea change in the access to quantity and quality of data.”
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Arghyam announces the retirement of Rohini Nilekani as the Chairperson; Sunita Nadhamuni is appointed as the new Chairperson
Since its inception, Arghyam has operated via an endowment of Rs 150 CR provided by Ms Rohini Nilekani in her personal capacity.
Bengaluru, June 28, 2021: Arghyam Foundation announced that Rohini Nilekani has decided to retire from the foundation on September 30, 2021, as Chairperson and Member of the Board. Sunita Nadhamuni, currently Member of the Board at Arghyam and Head of Digital LifeCare, Dell Giving and Social Innovation at Dell Technologies, has been appointed to the position, effective October 1, 2021.
Rohini Nilekani has been the Founder – Chairperson of Argyham, a foundation she set up in 2001 as a vehicle for her personal philanthropy, and which, since 2005, has been working exclusively on water sector issues.
Talking about her retirement, Rohini Nilekani said: “Every organization needs a churning of its leadership to stay energetic and to bring innovation and new wisdom to its work. I have immense gratitude to the Board, the team, and to every one of our partners in civil society and in the government, for all we have worked on together. I hope I will always remain a spokesperson for better equity and sustainability in water. I am also delighted that the Board has appointed Sunita Nadhamuni as the next Chairperson of Arghyam.”
Sunita Nadhamuni has been associated with the Foundation over the years as a Trustee and was the first CEO of Arghyam in 2005. Sunita is a technology professional with a decade of IT experience in the Silicon Valley, followed by a decade as a social entrepreneur in the development sector in India. She is currently the Head of Digital LifeCare, a social impact initiative of Dell Technologies driving digital transformation of public health services. As partner to Government of India for the Ayushman Bharat NCD (Non-communicable Diseases) program, their technology platform has been deployed in 28 states with 100 million people enrolled across the country.
Commenting on her appointment, Sunita said: “I am privileged and humbled to take on the role of Chairperson of Arghyam succeeding Rohini. Under Rohini’s committed and visionary leadership, Arghyam has built up a rich body of work in diverse communities across the country through a strong network of partners and Government. I thank her deeply for her trust in me and look forward to working with the Board, Mala and the team as Arghyam continues its mission of equity and sustainability of water for all.
Talking about the transition, Mala Subramaniam, CEO of Arghyam Foundation said: “Rohini’s vision and passion for equity and justice in water has been embedded deeply and firmly in what we do as Arghyam. It has been a shining light guiding us for all these years and I have no doubt that it will continue to drive us into the future. I welcome Sunita and together, we look forward to building on this foundation to enable more people toward better water security in the country.” | <urn:uuid:687aaea6-3d02-42cd-9415-15f1df33d877> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://rohininilekaniphilanthropies.org/resources/press-release-arghyam-announces-the-retirement-of-rohini-nilekani-as-the-chairperson/ | 2024-02-28T02:56:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474690.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228012542-20240228042542-00200.warc.gz | en | 0.969628 | 674 | 1 |
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On November 28, the Gujarat High Court came down harshly upon the petitioner who had filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) which sought a ban on the use of loudspeakers in mosques for Azaan payers. While dismissing the said petition, the bench of Chief Justice Sunita Aggarwal and Justice Aniruddha P. Mayee termed it a “wholly misconceived PIL.”
As per a report of LiveLaw, the petitioner had filed a plea in the High Court urging a ban on the use of loudspeakers during various times of the day for the Islamic call to prayer.
Arguments during the hearing:
While hearing the matter, CJ Sunita Aggarwal questioned the petitioner whether other religious practices, such playing music during puja or bhajan in temples, did not cause similar public disturbance and disruption owing to noise pollution. The CJ underlined that noise pollution is a scientific matter and asked the petitioner’s counsel to present proof of the purported noise pollution brought on by Azaan, including specifics on decibel levels, as per the LiveLaw report. Meanwhile, the CJ also pointed out that the Islamic prayer of Azaan is only announced for a period of five minutes.
“For how many minutes the azaan goes on? Not less than 5 minutes, where is the question of noise pollution? Show us the decibels. Technically how many decibels of noise [is caused by] azaan?” CJ Aggarwal stated, as per the report of LiveLaw.
In response to the question put forth by the bench, the counsel for the petitioner asserted that the announcement of Azaan exceeded the decibel limit.
To the aforementioned claim, CJ Sunita Aggarwal critically retorted by bringing up the noise pollution created by the usage of a DJ and stated, “Your DJ creates a lot of pollution. We are not entertaining this kind of PIL.”
She further remarked that the practice of Azaan has been going on for years and noted “It is a faith and practice going on years together and it is a moment of only 5-10 minutes. Azaan goes on for less than 10 minutes.”
As per the report of LiveLaw, the petitioner’s counsel then attempted to strengthen their case by arguing that Azaan took place multiple times, including early morning and during the day. The same argument was shot down by CJ Sunita Aggarwal who opined that even in temples “the morning aarti with those drums and music starts early in the morning”.
Further pressing on the bells and drums used in temples, CJ asked the petitioner “That doesn’t cause noise to anyone? Can you say that the noise of the ghanta and ghadiyal remains in the temple premises only? It doesn’t percolate out of the premises?”
The CJ then added, “Mr. Counsel, in 10 minutes a person is making Azaan. How much pollution is caused in that 10 minutes please tell us. Noise pollution is a scientific issue. Since you say noise pollution, if it is scientifically placed before the court, how many decibels is raised?” If there is a scientific method of assessment of pollution of noise, can you argue as per that scientific assessment, this 10 minutes of Azaan is causing noise pollution?”
The Court was dismayed and disappointed to learn that the writ petition, which alleged that Azaan was to blame for the noise pollution, had neglected to include a scientific evaluation of the extent of the noise pollution generated by the prayer offerings while urging for ban on the use of loudspeakers decrying noise pollution.
The bench stated, “If you can argue this, we will permit you. But you are not arguing this. You have not made out any base in the writ petition. Where is the pleading with regard to the decibels? Where is the pleading with regard to the scientific method of assessment of noise pollution in the area?”
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The High Court bench dictated its order and held that it did not find any ground in the petition filed against Azaan as the court failed to understand how the recitation of Azaan through loudspeaker could reach the decibel level required to create noise pollution. The Chief Justice stated, “We fail to understand as to how the human voice making Azaan through loudspeaker in the morning could achieve the decibel [level] to the extent of creating noise pollution causing health hazards to the public at large. The measurements/assessment of noise pollution with the raising of decibel of sound is a scientific method wherein the sound created by a particular instrument etc can be measured to see that the sound caused by it is reaching beyond decibel permissible limit. No such foundation has been laid in the petition to demonstrate that noise created by Azaan for minutes at a stretch at different hours of the day would raise the level of the sound to cause noise pollution. We therefore do not find any ground.”
Based on the information in the record, the Chief Justice observed that the remaining pleas were not supported by any evidence. Notably, the counsel interrupted the CJ as she was dictating the judgment, citing an Allahabad High Court ruling to support the petitioner’s claim that police approval was required. However, as per the LiveLaw report, the CJ promptly intervened, noting that judgments from the Allahabad High Court are not legally binding on their jurisdiction. | <urn:uuid:c6e14761-0414-49aa-963c-6f746a176573> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://sabrangindia.in/gujarat-hc-on-plea-banning-loudspeakers-for-azaan-faith-and-practice-going-on-years-together/ | 2024-02-28T02:30:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474690.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228012542-20240228042542-00200.warc.gz | en | 0.958473 | 1,145 | 1 |
Congressman Jimmy Panetta vowed he would push federal officials to speed up the process of reopening the long-closed San Justo Reservoir and Clear Creek Recreation Area, both in San Benito County.
Panetta made his statements at a town hall Saturday when asked about San Justo Reservoir by Hollister Mayor Ignacio Velazquez.
Panetta responded how the San Justo Reservoir, closed since 2008 due to a zebra mussel infestation, is going through bureaucratic steps. But he referenced ways he can “light a fire under the butts” of the feds to get it done.
“They’re actually working on an eradication plan,” he said. “I know you’re looking at me like, how long does it fricken take? I get it. It’s taken way too long.”
Panetta went on to note he had received an update email on the issue last Friday that was unacceptable.
“What can I do to light a fire under the butts of these people to make sure they understand this needs to be done sooner rather than later?” he said.
San Justo Reservoir, once a popular fishing spot off Union Road near Hollister, closed in early 2008 when the exotic mussels were found at the location where federal water is stored and managed by the San Benito County Water District. The mussels can cause damage to ecosystems and infrastructure, leading to a closure for the public to prevent their spread.
Panetta said he first heard about San Justo when he initially campaigned four years ago and reflected on spending his own childhood at the Carmel River swimming with his brothers.
As for details, he said the Denver Technical Services Center is finishing a draft eradication plan, with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation planning to release the document for peer review this spring and for public review then as well.
“That project, it’s been tagged for inclusion in a nationwide effort as a case study for collaborative conservation and an adaptation strategy toolbox,” Panetta said.
He added how it’s a joint venture of the Southwest Climate Hub, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Reclamation and the Forest Service.
“So It’s on the radar of all these organizations,” Panetta said. “That’s because we’ve been pushing it onto them. My issue is, they’re going too slow.”
Panetta said once he is back from a Congressional break, he will “let them know they need to hurry it up.”
“All we’re asking for is at least so we can hike some trails or something,” Velazquez responded while seated in the audience.
Panetta went on to provide an update on Clear Creek and mentioned a bill he floated to reopen the national recreation area. He first pushed a bill in 2017 and then again in early 2019. He said the first time around, it passed the House but didn’t go further.
“Unfortunately, this Congress, they have other priorities at this point,” he said.
His goal is to get the bill on what’s called the Unanimous Consent Calendar for the House, and then onto the Senate before a possible signature by the president.
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Mr. Zuska came home this evening, tired after a long week of work. We looked at each other and said "Pizza". Which turned out to be a good thing, because when the pizza delivery guy showed up and I went to pay him, I found a package on my front porch from the good folks at Seed (specifically, Jennifer - thanks, Jennifer!) A FREE BOOK! Yay! What's not to love about free books?
And this one turned out to be written by Natalie Angier, whom I adore. Angier, you will recall, is the author of Woman: An Intimate Geography, which was the subject of my first Friday Bookshelf. The new book is titled The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science.
What I'm writing here can't be called a review since all I've read so far is the introductory chapter (but I devoured that, along with my pizza). When I've finished the book I'll revisit it here and let you know what I think of the whole thing. But I wanted to share a few thoughts.
First, other reviewers' complaints: in two overall positive reviews, the reviewers complain about her prose:
Angier's writing can also be overadorned with extended metaphors that obscure rather than explain
...her prose is a blooming, buzzing profusion of puns, rhymes, wordplay, wisecracks and Erma-Bombeckian quips about the indignities of everyday life. Angier's language is always clever, and sometimes witty, but "The Canon" would have been better served if her Inner Editor had cut the verbal gimmickry by a factor of three...The deeper problem is a misapplication of the power of the verbal analogy in scientific exposition.
Pinker compares Angier's supposedly inferior use of metaphor to the proper use of metaphor as illustrated by an example from Richard Dawkins. This is science writing, after all, and one is not allowed to use metaphor just to beautify the writing. Or to make science sound like poetry. Clever metaphors are acceptable only for strictly pedagogical purposes, my children. The evolution of the poker face: good. Comparing carbon whimsically to an egg carton: bad.
Pardon me if I hold off accepting Pinker's judgment till I've had a chance to read a bit more. I liked the intro just fine. I can't help thinking: poker face = male metaphor and egg carton = female metaphor. And then I can't help wondering: does that affect one's judgment? Does it matter that the latter was used by a woman, the former by a man? I think of my PhD committee member, who complained about my "flowery" language in my dissertation (I'm still not sure what he meant). If a woman sets out to write about science, and make it accessible, and uses language that's not dry and dull, but rich and descriptive...and if she's successful at it...maybe they just have to find some nit to pick.
But I really don't like the way Pinker compares her to Erma Bombeck as a put-down. It's insulting to Angier, and it's insulting to Bombeck, a woman who wanted to be a writer from her earliest days, who had her first newspaper job at age 15, and who campaigned for the ERA. Erma Bombeck may not be your cup of tea, but for several decades she was the wry voice of the American middle-class housewife. To use her as a snipingly dismissive insult is, in a sense, spitting upon the unnoticed and unrewarded labor of all those women who tended the homes - and the ones who still do. To compare Angier to Bombeck is to say, "your writing is no better than a bunch of old wives' tales".
Maybe I'm just an overly sensitive, grouchy old humorless hairy-legged feminist. (Though I did shave just the day before yesterday.) But that's what sucks about patriarchy: you're never entirely sure if Steven Pinker just doesn't like Natalie Angier's writing style or if Steven Pinker is evaluating Natalie Angier more harshly because she's a woman writing about man stuff.
Anyway, here's what I liked from the introduction: Natalie Angier totally gets it about the Joy of Science. She loves science, and it shows. And she wants everybody else to love it, too. Natalie Angier is the evangelist of science.
In sum, I'm not sure that knowing about science will turn you into a better citizen, or win you a more challenging job, or prevent the occasional loss of mental faculties culminating in the unfortunate purchase of a pair of white leather pants...you don't need to know about science. You also don't need to go to museums or listen to Bach or read a single slyly honied Shakespeare sonnet. You don't need to visit a foreign country or hike a desert canyon or go out on a cloudless, moonless night and get drunk on star champagne. How many friends do you need?
In place of civic need, why not neural greed? Of course you should know about science, as much as you've got the synaptic space to fit. Science is not just one thing, one line of reasoning or a boxable body of scholarship, like, say, the history of the Ottoman Empire. Science is huge, a great ocean of human experience; it's the product and point of having the most deeply corrugated brain of any species this planet has spawned. If you never learn to swim, you'll surely regret it; and the sea is so big, it won't let you forget it.
Of course you should know about science, for the same reason Dr. Seuss counsels his readers to sing with a Ying or play Ring the Gack: These things are fun, and fun is good.
There's a reason why science museums are fun, and why kids like science museums. Science is fun. Not just gee-whizbang "watch me dip this rose into liquid nitrogen and then shatter it on the floor" fun, although it's that, too. It's fun the way rich ideas are fun, the way seeing beneath the skin of something is fun. Understanding how things work feels good. Look no further - there's your should.
Hadn't you heard? According to the Scientists' Convention of 1903, scientific discourse must now be carried out in a dry manner that couldn't possibly hurt people's feelings. Look at all those strongly worded disputes in the 19th century. Then Schrodinger went and pushed the limits a bit with that cat paper, but thanks to thorough spin control, we managed to make that boring and pompous as well.
From the sample you posted, her writing seems fine. It's admittedly above the fifth grade level, and thus inaccessible to most people working for newspapers in Gringoland today. The only thing that strikes my ears harshly is the occasional place ("If you never learn to swim, you'll surely regret it; and the sea is so big, it won't let you forget it.") where my brain tries to read it as poetry, and the stresses don't fall correctly.
I look forward to hearing about the rest of it.
I wonder if Pinker has ever read Erma Bombeck or if he's just spouting a stereotype of a domestic humor columnist. She must have been trivial because she wrote about women's lives, which are of course unimportant. As a budding feminist, I loved Bombeck. She blew a breath of fresh air on the cloying images of women presented in most media at the time.
Great points about Pinker's possible sexism. Most people see Angier as being one of the two or three best science writers out there, including the AAAS which has given her a number of awards for it.
She had this great and surprisingly funny interview on Point of Inquiry about the Canon and about science writing, www.pointofinquiry.org
I haven't read the book, but going by your quote from it, the writer I'm most strongly reminded of is Carl Sagan in Demon-Haunted World. That made heavy use of the metaphor of human reason as a precarious, flickering candle pretecting us from the fear of nameless and unknown horrors.
Both 'Demon Haunted World' and the passage above give me shivers down my spine and remind me why I do this job. I'd call them both flowery, I suppose, but don't we deserve to get flowers now and again?
Oh no, hang on, flowers are lively and scented and girly and therefore bad things. I forgot.
I was at a seminar about public speaking for scientists and I gave a short synopsis of another person's research then the audience was invited to critique what I said. One of the comments was that a person (male)) didn't like that I said a certain technique "doesn't work" because that sounded "too subjective" and not objective like a scientist. I was completely floored, I couldn't understand how the phrase "doesn't work" could be considered subjective. The person running the seminar (a woman) allowed the comments to continue and at the end said, "As a woman, you have to be very careful about what you say because you will always be perceived to be more subjective than a man." This was a woman who was very well-known for teaching public speaking and had a class at the law school. Sadly, it seems, she knew what she was talking about.
I absolutely loved The Canon, and a large part of what I loved was the use of metaphors that made me laugh out loud. And I think you are exactly right about Pinker's reaction. It's not that the metaphors are bad; it's that Angier uses metaphors that resonate with certain experiences. Urban (especially New York), educated, able to remember the 70's... and stereotypically female. And that made the metaphors particularly delightful for me. But... well, what it means to be "scientific" is too often stereotypically male.
And I thought that the metaphor soup was actually very effective. Angier often ends descriptions with something alliterative and silly, yes, but I think that the absurdity helps keep the reader from confusing the metaphor with reality.
"This is science writing, after all, and one is not allowed to use metaphor just to beautify the writing. Or to make science sound like poetry."
This reminds me of what Aldo Leopold once wrote in the essay "Song of the Gavilan";
There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of the great orchestra. These men are called professors. Each selects one instrument and spends his life taking it apart and describing its strings and sounding boards. This process of dismemberment is called research. The place for the dismemberment is called a university.
A professor may pluck the strings of his own instrument, but never that of another, and if he listens for music he must never admit it to his fellows or to his students. For all are restrained by an ironbound taboo which decrees that the construction of instruments is the domain of science, while the detection of harmony is the domain of poets.
Professors serve science and science serves progress. It serves progress so well that many of the more intricate instruments are stepped upon and broken in the rush to spread progress to all backward lands. One by one the parts are thus stricken from the songs of songs. If the professor is able to classify each instrument before it is broken, he is well content.
Hmm...maybe finish the book before you disagree with the critics to the point of impugning their judgement and suggesting that bigotry informs their opinions of this book or writing style.
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NASA awards new lunar landing contracts to Blue Origin
Blue Origin will get $3.4 billion to develop reusable lunar landing stages.LEARN MORE
The launch is the first since an engine failure and crash grounded Blue Origin flights in September of 2022.
Blue Origin on Tuesday made its first successful test rocket launch since a crash suspended flights in 2022.
The Jeff Bezos-owned company launched an uncrewed capsule full of tests from west Texas to the edge of space, 66 miles high.
The rocket stage released the capsule and landed under its own power, while the capsule landed via parachute.
The launch was an improvement over the ill-fated test flight in September of last year, which veered off course and forced the test capsule to separate early, under the power of its emergency escape system.
Engineers tracked the problem to an overheated rocket nozzle. The incident prompted changes to the design of the combustion chamber and nozzle, and grounded Blue Origin's test flights for 15 months.
The new launch resumes Blue Origin's progress toward more crewed flights. In 2021, the company sent its first passengers to the edge of space aboard two flights. The crews included Bezos, his brother Marcus Bezos and Star Trek actor William Shatner. The company has since launched 31 people aboard suborbital rockets.
Blue Origin hopes to bring a more powerful rocket into service in 2024. The New Glenn rocket will be used and reused for heavy-lift payloads and crewed missions to orbit around Earth.
The total solar eclipse will be visible from more than a dozen states, and the next one won’t happen for 20 years.
Passengers will experience a rare total solar eclipse from the skies, which will sweep through about a 100-mile-wide swath of the U.S. on April 8.
Odysseus landed on its side, hampering communications with Earth and leading to an earlier end to its runtime on the moon.
The fund for Maui wildfire victims will also pay those who were hospitalized with severe injuries.
The largest of the fires, the Smokehouse Creek Fire in Hutchinson County, has expanded to 250,000 acres, or nearly 391 square miles.
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Optimizing your online presence with landscaping SEO can be a challenging journey.
The digital landscape is vast, and standing out among the competition often feels like an uphill battle. But this is what separates the average from the extraordinary.
If you’re unsure about how to navigate through search engine optimization (SEO), it’s easy to feel overwhelmed.
You needn’t worry because mastering SEO isn’t as daunting as it seems.
Our team of passionate, trained SEO professionals knows how to engage your website visitors with the right keywords and increase your website traffic.
What is SEO for Landscaping Companies?
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a digital marketing technique that aims to improve the online visibility of businesses, including those in the landscaping industry.
For landscaping companies specifically, this means optimizing your web presence in such a way that potential customers searching for local landscape services find you easily.
SEO and Its Importance in the Landscape Industry
In today’s digitally driven world, people turn to search engines like Google (no more physical yellow pages) when they need any service, whether it’s finding their favorite restaurant or seeking lawn care companies.
Having an effective SEO strategy that targets core search terms relevant to your business can make all the difference.
This involves several key elements, including keyword research, off-page SEO, and content creation.
Implementing these types of SEO services can help to increase your visibility, and establish credibility among potential clients.
Focusing on Local: A Crucial Aspect of Landscaper’s SEO Strategy
A significant part of successful landscaping marketing revolves around local SEO optimization.
As most landscaping businesses cater to specific geographical areas, focusing on localized keywords becomes crucial to engaging your searchers.
For example, when someone uses Google search and looks for “landscaping services near me”, you need your company to appear at the top of Google.
This would include prior research to relevant landscaping keywords, understanding your competitors, and customer search trends.
Further Reading: What are The Steps in an SEO Audit?
Why Do Landscaping Companies Need SEO?
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a critical element in enabling your business to be seen by those searching for landscaping services online.
Enhancing Online Visibility
Most users will engage with organic listings rather than adverts powered by pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns, but there is still a lot of distraction in the SERPs.
An effective SEO strategy can propel you into these coveted spots on search engine result pages (SERPs), thus driving more traffic to your site and increasing conversions.
Achieving Competitive Advantage
If other players in the landscaping industry haven’t yet harnessed the power of SEO, there lies an opportunity for you to get ahead.
By implementing robust SEO campaigns, including technical SEO strategies such as mobile-first indexing or even Google AdWords usage, you could gain a significant competitive advantage by being easily discoverable online.
Gaining Local Prominence
Your company’s website might be listed on directories but ensuring prominence during location-based searches is essential.
With focused efforts towards local rankings through Google Maps optimization and citation building within relevant service pages, achieving this becomes possible.
That’s why it is essential that your SEO company or digital marketing agency knows how to harness the power of local search to boost your business.
Keyword Research for Landscapers: A Crucial SEO Strategy
The cornerstone of a successful SEO campaign is comprehensive keyword research. This step involves identifying the specific terms and phrases your potential customers are using when they search online for landscaping services.
This is a time for the business owner to outline all of the services they want to be known for online. Then, turning those services into valuable keywords will give you the first step to entering Google’s first page.
Digging into Your Audience’s Search Behavior
In order to maximize the efficacy of your website, it is essential to grasp how those you are targeting utilize search engines.
What keywords might they type in Google while looking for landscaping websites or lawn care services? These industry-specific keywords can provide valuable insights about what potential clients want.
Finding High-value Keywords
A tool like the Google AdWords Keyword Planner proves invaluable at this stage as it helps you discover new relevant keywords related to landscaping businesses and provides data on their frequency of use on Google.
Evaluating Keyword Competition Levels
In addition to finding high-value keywords, understanding competition levels within SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) is equally important. Although ranking highly for competitive terms may be challenging, doing so could significantly boost site traffic from local searches by prospective customers searching these popular phrases.
Leveraging Long-tail Keywords
Long-tail keywords, longer and more detailed phrases often used by people closer to making purchase decisions, typically have less competition than broader ones.
By incorporating such targeted language into content marketing efforts – whether that’s blog posts or service pages – landscapers can attract not just more visitors but also those most likely ready to hire them.
Remember: The ultimate goal isn’t merely attracting higher volumes of traffic; instead, the focus should be placed on drawing in quality leads who are genuinely interested in utilizing professional landscaping services.
Unleashing the Power of On-Page SEO for Landscaping Companies
Understanding and implementing on-page SEO strategies is essential in a digital world where search engines rule. This rings especially true for landscaping companies looking to increase their visibility online.
The Art of Title Tag Optimization
Title tags serve as your webpage’s headline in search engine results pages (SERPs). They are vital components that help potential customers identify what your page offers at a glance. Optimizing these title tags can greatly enhance your site traffic and organic results.
Dive Deeper: What Is Keyword Density?
Making Meta Description Tags Work For You
Description tags provide concise summaries about web pages which are commonly used by search engines on SERPs.
A well-crafted description tag serves as an advertisement, enticing users to click through from SERP onto your website.
Avoid keyword stuffing; instead aim for compelling descriptions containing long-tail keywords that accurately represent each specific page content.
Blog Content Ideas for Landscapers
High-quality content is an essential element for any successful SEO campaign, particularly in the landscaping industry as it offers a platform to showcase services and provide valuable advice to potential customers.
This holds true, especially for landscaping businesses, as it allows them to highlight their services while offering valuable insights to potential customers.
Landscape Design Tips and Tricks
A blog post filled with practical advice on landscape design can be an invaluable resource for homeowners looking to enhance their outdoor spaces.
Discussing everything from selecting the right plants based on climate conditions, arranging them in an aesthetically pleasing manner, or even introducing your readership to fundamental principles of landscape design could make this topic quite engaging.
Maintenance Guides For Each Season
Your expertise in maintaining landscapes across different seasons can offer priceless guidance to your audience.
Blog posts about preparing lawns during winter months, spring cleanup activities, summer watering schedules, or managing fall leaves would all serve as excellent subjects that resonate with local searches made by potential clients.
Showcasing Completed Projects Through Case Studies
Demonstrating completed projects using before-and-after pictures coupled with details of your process helps prospective clients visualize what you could do for their property.
Not only does this showcase your skills but also builds trust among potential customers through real-world examples of your work.
Google Business Profile Setup
A Google business profile is a key element in your landscaping company’s online presence. It enables you to claim your listing on Google My Business (GMB), enhancing local SEO and increasing visibility for potential customers.
The Significance Of Claiming Your GMB Listing
An up-to-date Google business profile provides essential information about your operations, including hours, location details, contact data, and customer reviews.
This transparency fosters trust with prospective clients while encouraging them to choose you over competitors lacking similar digital footprints.
Steps to Set Up a Google Business Profile
To establish a robust presence on GMB involves several steps:
- Create or sign into the Gmail account that will manage the page.
- Navigate directly to Google My Business.
- Select ‘Manage Now’ then add the name of your landscaping company.
- Add all necessary information ensuring consistency across all platforms where you have an online footprint. This should include your social media profiles (if relevant) website address, contact numbers, email address, physical address as well as relevant images that showcase your service.
Maintaining An Optimized Google Business Profile
Maintenance is crucial once set up; any changes in operational hours or offered services must be promptly updated on the GMB platform.
Encourage satisfied patrons to leave positive reviews which influence decision-making processes among new visitors while improving rankings via their engagement factor.
Enhancing Website Load Time: A Key SEO Strategy for Landscaping Companies
The loading speed of your landscaping business’s website is a significant factor that influences its performance on search engines. When potential customers are looking up landscaping services online, they expect fast and efficient results. When a page takes too much time to show up, it not only leads to user dissatisfaction but also conveys unfavorable signs about the website’s usability to Google.
Website Speed: Why It Matters?
Today, instant gratification rules supreme, and website speed can make or break your online presence. For instance, according to data shared by leading tech companies like Google Developers, even a one-second delay in mobile page response can lead to a 7% reduction in conversions.
Tips To Improve Your Site’s Loading Speed
- Leverage Browser Caching: This method allows browsers to store copies of pages so they don’t have to reload everything on each visit, thereby improving overall load times considerably.
- Avoid Redirects: Excessive redirects increase HTTP requests, thus increasing the loading time.
Link Building for Landscapers: A Key SEO Strategy
In the digital landscape, relevant and quality backlinks play a pivotal role in enhancing your landscaping business’s online visibility. This process involves securing hyperlinks from other websites that point back to yours.
A successful link building strategy can significantly elevate your website’s domain authority and its rankings on search engine results pages (SERPs). When reputable sites link to you, it signals Google and other search engines that your content is valuable and trustworthy.
This not only improves SERP rankings but also drives more organic traffic to your site. Increased traffic often equates to an influx of potential customers interested in availing your landscaping services.
Local link building will boost a company’s visibility in specific local geographical areas.
Local citations, another form of link building where mentions include the name, address, phone number (NAP) details about businesses across various platforms online, helps improve local SEO too.
FAQs in Relation to Seo for Landscaping Company
How do I promote my landscaping business?
Promote your landscaping business through SEO strategies, social media marketing, local advertising, and by building a robust online presence with a well-designed website.
How do you market a landscape design?
Market landscape designs by showcasing them on your website and social media platforms. Use high-quality images and videos to highlight the details of your work.
How do I promote my landscaping business on Facebook?
Create engaging posts about your services, share customer testimonials, use targeted ads for local reach, and interact regularly with followers to promote your landscaping business on Facebook.
How do you write a good review for a landscaping company?
A good review should detail the quality of service received, the professionalism of staff members, and overall satisfaction. Be specific about what made the experience exceptional.
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From keyword research to on-page optimization techniques, every aspect plays a crucial role in improving your website’s ranking.
A well-optimized Google Business Profile can further enhance your local presence and credibility among customers.
Quality blog content ideas can attract more visitors, while link building solidifies the authority of your site within the industry.
And remember – speed matters! A fast-loading website ensures a better user experience, leading to higher conversion rates.
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Why Nissan Service Near 44484?
Turn to your Warren-area Nissan dealer for excellent Nissan repair near 44484 on top of everyday car maintenance and service. Our technicians are trained to identify potential issues and provide you with helpful information to make the right choice for your car, whether it's a high mileage Nissan or a different car altogether. Your 44484-area Nissan repair shop can service and maintain most vehicle types! We think taking care of your ride should be an easy, worry-free experience. Learn all about the services available at your nearest Nissan dealer and book an appointment for new tires, tire repair, brakes, oil, or battery replacement near Warren, OH.
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Flat tire put a damper on your travel plans? However you do thrill, we've got a tire to make it happen. Get flat tire repair near 44484 or buy a new set of tires. Your closest Nissan dealer in Warren carries a wide selection of trusted tire brands. We stock tires for every season and every vehicle — all at a great value. Compare performance tires, all-season tires and winter tires online or in-store for your car, electric vehicle, truck, SUV/CUV or van.
If you're not sure when to replace your tires or how to pick the right tires, stop by one of our tire stores near 44484. Our tire team can quickly tell if your tires are damaged, wearing unevenly, under- or over-inflated, or unsafe to continue driving on. You might notice it's a good time to buy new tires if your vehicle rides rough or if the tires have tears, uneven wear or bulges.
Your closest Nissan dealer is also the place to go for shocks, struts, tire rotation and wheel alignment near 44484. These important around-the-wheel services can help prolong the life of your tires and support performance.
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*Certain restrictions apply. See Dealer for details.
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Oil changes are essential to your recommended maintenance schedule. When the engine has new oil coursing through it, its many parts and pieces work together effectively. Without clean oil, your engine can struggle to run correctly. Engine parts rub against each other too hard, create too much heat and even cause your engine to stall.
During an oil change service at one of our car maintenance shops in 44484, a technician will drain your old oil and refill your engine with clean oil designed for your vehicle needs. Your Warren-area Nissan dealer carries the best high mileage, full synthetic and synthetic oil for your Nissan. We'll also replace your old oil filter with one that has a special anti-drainback valve. The anti-drainback valve holds the oil in the filter when your engine is off to help limit engine wear when you turn it back on.
No need to make an appointment for this car maintenance service. An oil change is one of many Express Services, alongside cabin and air filter replacement, tire balancing and rotation, shocks, struts, wiper installation and factory scheduled maintenance. Stop by during Express Service hours, and we'll quickly take care of your car's basic needs. Find an Express Dealer for a quick and affordable oil change near 44484.
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If your vehicle is slow to start, makes a clicking noise when you turn the key or often needs a jumpstart, it may be the perfect time to visit a car repair shop near 44484 for a simple battery inspection and if required, a new car battery. Flicking/dim interior lights or an bright, illuminated dashboard battery light are also common signs your battery charge needs a quick check. run important accessories, like your radio. When your battery is dead, you could be stuck with an engine that wont' turn over and a car that's not going anywhere.
Your nearby Nissan dealer is the place to go for car battery installation near 44484. Your visit will start with a complimentary battery inspection* and a conversation. We'll test your battery's life and recommend the best battery for your vehicle: either a standard flooded, enhanced flooded or absorbed glass mat battery. Move quickly when you have battery problems. Book an appointment at your nearest Nissan auto repair shop in Ohio for quality battery service. We can work on many vehicle makes and models.
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Cast Iron Welcome Bracket
- Regular price
- Regular price
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- 22cm W x 3cm x 32cm H
- Made of cast iron with bracket for attaching to wall (screws not included)
- Rustic finish
SHIPPING & RETURNS
WHERE DO WE SHIP?
We ship all items Australia-wide!
HOW MUCH DOES SHIPPING COST?
In an effort to keep shipping costs as low as possible for our customers, we have flat rate shipping of $15 and free shipping for orders over $100!
Some postcodes that are remote may incur an extra shipping charge due to increased freight costs to some regional areas. We will contact you if this affects your order.
WHEN WILL YOU SHIP MY ORDER?
We know you’re keen to get your gorgeous new items, so orders are processed as quickly as possible. If you place your order before 12pm AEST Monday-Friday, we aim for it to be shipped the same day. Any orders after 12pm AEST will be shipped the following business day. This is affected by Christmas trading as there are extended delays in parcel pick up and parcel delivery.
It is your obligation to enter the correct delivery address details at the time of ordering, and unfortunately we cannot be responsible for orders that have gone missing due to incorrect address details. It is your responsibility to inform us if an order has not arrive by 14 days after your order is placed by emailing us on [email protected].
We recommend shipping to a location where someone will be present to sign for your order, such as a work address. If this is not possible, please leave instructions during checkout giving authority to leave without a signature. This will be at your own risk and Sill and Sage is not liable.
HOW LONG DOES MY ORDER TAKE TO GET TO ME?
This will depend on where you live. A parcel can take from 7 to 10 business days to arrive at your address, however most packages will arrive much sooner than this, especially if you are in metro areas. We do our best to have your package to you super quick!
HOW WILL I KNOW WHEN MY ORDER HAS BEEN SHIPPED?
We'll keep you in the loop throughout the ordering and shipping process. An email with tracking details will be sent to you as soon as your order has been dispatched, and you will receive emails and text messages updating you on the shipping progress with the option to track your order if you desire. We try in every way we can to minimise our environmental impact, so we will send your invoice to you by email rather than a paper version.
WHAT IF MY ORDER IS DELAYED OR DAMAGED DURING SHIPPING
Unfortunately accidents do happen. All of our products are carefully packaged to prevent breakages in transit. If your order is damaged during shipping, please photograph the inside and outside of the box and keep all contents and packaging for insurance claim purposes. Please contact us at [email protected] for instructions within 3 days of the arrival of your package.
Sill & Sage is not responsible for any delays in shipping, packages not received, or arrival of your order at the wrong location due to incorrect delivery address.
WHAT IS YOUR RETURN POLICY?
So online shopping is hard... We don't blame you for checking out our amazing exchange and returns policy. We aim to please and want you to be 100% satisfied with your purchase!
If for some reason you are not completely happy with your purchase, you may return the merchandise for a store credit. You must notify us within three days of receipt of goods and return goods at your own cost to us within 14 days to be eligible. Items must be unused and in original packaging with tags intact. Please notify us by email at [email protected] stating the order number and item details. Please allow 3-5 business days for your return to be processed.
CAN I RETURN/EXCHANGE A SALE ITEM?
For items purchased on sale - no exchange or refund is offered. Of course, if your item is faulty, please see below.
WHAT HAPPENS IF MY ITEM IS DAMAGED?
If you believe your item is damaged, you must contact us as soon as possible describing the fault. We will endeavour to offer a repair or refund if we deem the item to be damaged. This is governed by the Australian Consumer Law. If we require the goods be returned for inspection, this must be done within 14 days of contacting us. Please note, that many of the items on this website are handmade, hand painted and individually finished. As such, small marks and inconsistencies are not considered faults on these items. If you like things shiny, manufactured by machinery, and completely perfect then this may not be the best place for you as we pride ourselves on our unique handmade products.
If you have any other questions or concerns, please email us on [email protected] and we will get back to you ASAP!
Always handle our pots with care, as with all ceramics, our items are breakable. Gravity is the arch enemy of ceramics! We recommend using a saucer or coaster to avoid watermarks on furniture and other surfaces. The majority of our pots will fit a standard size plastic grow pot. This makes watering easy - just remove the plastic grow pot, water the plant in the sink, allow to drain completely and then replace in the ceramic pot. This avoids water sitting in the planter and damaging the ceramic, plus avoids root rot from over watering.
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Crawford & Co. leaders foresee significant insurtech development this year, largely driven by catastrophe costs.
Several executives at Crawford & Co., the global claims management and business services firm, recently gave some thought to how the insurance industry will evolve in 2024.
What emerged among their varied perspectives was a significant focus on technology applications in the insurance sector over the coming year. What follows is a collection of their predictions.
Demand will grow for in-person business interactions.
“2024 will present a tipping point, as we find ourselves increasingly working with people that we’ve never met in-person before, and subsequently recognize that our working relationships are no longer the same. We’ll reach the point when virtual connection is not enough, and it will become vitally important to actually meet people and form relationships face-to-face. At this point, business relationships that have been purely virtual are going to evolve to be much more in-person, simply because the desire to have that connection is going to increase…”
“We may not be back in offices full time, but the need and desire for a stronger in-person connection will be high. Fortunately, a hybrid work arrangement and personal connection are not mutually exclusive: people can meet for lunch or dinner even when working from home. Organizations can support this evolution by reiterating the need for relationships and encouraging the pursuit of connection beyond the screen. It’s just a matter of helping people see the need; that alone may be the single biggest catalyst people need from their employers.”
— President & CEO Rohit Verma
Insurtech acceleration will continue.
“With Insurtech now touching practically every part of the insurance ecosystem, the industry’s appetite for disruptive technology is expected to continue to accelerate in 2024. Twenty years ago, nothing happened this fast in insurance, but in today’s quickly moving market, the industry has come to realize that it can adapt, change and innovate at a much faster pace in order to integrate technology into what has historically been a traditional and conservative business model. To see the current high level of appetite for acceleration in the traditionally risk-adverse insurance industry is really encouraging for the future of the industry. In the end, what lies at the center of it all is really a move toward innovating to drive better experiences for the customer – and that’s ultimately good for all of us.”
— Digital Solutions CEO Kenneth Tolson
Climate-driven CAT losses will demand better tech solutions.
“As global warming, deforestation, and other kinds of human activities continue to impact the climate and present a multi-faceted threat to our ecosystem, AI can help mitigate some of these risks. Key areas where AI is poised to be a transformer include:
- Prediction and analytics: AI models can predict climate patterns or extreme events, providing better opportunities for preparation and response.
- Resource optimization: AI can help with optimizing the use of resources like water, energy, waste reduction and emissions to mitigate risks.
- Monitoring and detection: Near to real-time monitoring of environmental conditions and detection of these changes can be achieved much earlier.
- Policy enforcement: AI can also be used to support the enforcement of environmental policies, including monitoring compliance and reporting any kind of violations.”
— Crawford Network Solutions President Meredith Brogan
AI will drive the automation of claims processes, but…
“In 2024, AI’s role in automating claims processes will expand significantly, revolutionizing claims management and aiding in climate risk mitigation. Technologies such as IoT sensors in homes, part of Insurtech solutions, will play a key role in predicting and preventing losses, though adoption may present challenges. A subset of AI, Generative AI, will be crucial in processing large volumes of claims efficiently, accurately evaluating coverage against documentation and policy terms, and enhancing the effectiveness of desk adjusters in managing inspections, thereby accelerating claim resolutions and bringing better outcomes for policyholders and clients. Despite AI’s advancements, the “human in the loop” approach remains essential, providing the empathy, ethics, and context that AI cannot offer. This collaboration underscores the critical need for an ethical AI framework, highlighting the significance of a balanced and empathetic approach in the insurance industry for responsible AI utilization.”
— Vice President of Corporate Solutions Sam Krishnamurthy
“Economic downturns historically bring spikes in claims frequency, and the looming recession leads us to anticipate increased incidences of fraud in the claims space in 2024. This will require a strong collective effort from the industry to help detect fraud, while still balancing the need for excellent customer service and adhering to principles of good faith. Opportunities exist to leverage technology to address this challenge. At an industry-wide level, we are getting better at collecting and mining data to identify systemic fraud. On an individual claim level, to help minimize fraud, AI tools can help adjusters thoroughly investigate losses, making sure all policy conditions have been met and all facts are known before making a coverage decision. Successfully combatting fraud in 2024 means paying attention to the details. We must invest the time to investigate claims promptly and thoroughly, and provide excellent service to the policyholders presenting legitimate claims; at the same time, we must find ways to resist illegitimate claims.”
— President of Canadian Operations Greg Smith
CAT-driven automation adoption
“With current weather patterns and increased CAT activity showing no signs of abating, one critical success factor for claims automation in 2024 will be technology’s role in the triage process. From the initial point of engagement with a claim, the ability to triage according to the type of loss is of critical importance. Allowing the capture of real-time data from the policyholder to ensure the right resource — field adjuster, contractor, appraiser or inspector — is sent out to the loss will help to move claims forward as quickly as possible during a CAT scenario. Geo-assigning tools will allow for physical resources to mobilize in designated areas, ensuring ease of travel and streamlined service. Additionally, the use of mobile tools will enable adjusters to process all first site visit reports on the scene, ensuring they are fully equipped to service clients and complete reports on the same day.”
— Senior Vice President, Platforms Solutions & Contractor Connection Canada Cortney Young
Product-oriented software development for the win
“Companies in the insurance sector will continue to experience pressure due to gains in consistency, efficiency, quality, and scalability to codify their core business model in software. Companies will respond to this pressure in a few ways:
- Project-oriented Underinvestment: Organizations that codify their business model with poor design and execution will find software investment to be expensive and an evolution inhibitor.
- Integration Investment: Companies that integrate other companies’ solutions for core business will see leakage of core business expertise and stifled evolution of core business differentiation.
- Product-oriented Business Reinvention: Smart organizations will embrace the cost and disruption of top-to-bottom reinvention to become a product-oriented software company and compete as SaaS in their given core domain.
While often slower than the integration path, companies that successfully achieve this kind of transformation will ultimately overcome competitors that either underinvest or solely invest in integration.”
— Broadspire Chief Technology and Data Science Officer Joel Raedeke
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Despite this growth in the smaller STC market (<100kW systems) slowed to about 10% yearly while larger systems grew rather impressively especially in the 1-5MW range.
So as we dive into 2022, what are the commercial solar insights – the big trends, challenges and opportunities – as we see them?
Commercial solar insights for 2022
Everything costs more – inflation is impacting everything – commodities, shipping, labour and interest rates.
Sustainability is here – momentum around climate change and net zero commitments is hitting all-time highs and so is the pressure on companies to demonstrate their actions.
Solar project returns are declining – as the costs of solar systems increase and grid power prices decrease, businesses may have less financial incentive to transition to solar. There are however signs that power prices will increase with Queensland spot prices up 242% in January 2022.
Bundling and retrofitting – instances of adding further capacity to existing solar systems or storage to allow for EVs and replacing diesel generators with solar and storage are increasing.
Payment options – in challenging times cash flow is more important than ever. Finding ways to fund new solar equipment with $0 upfront and that’s cash flow positive are being readily embraced by commercial sector. This includes the uptake of both PPAs and payment plans (loans or rentals).
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Lisa Conway and Emma Ongman
Listening Room Programme 1
Lisa Conway is a Swiss-Canadian composer, sound artist, songwriter, producer, and mix engineer. A graduate of the MA in Sonic Arts from Queen’s University Belfast, she is now based in Montréal, pursuing an individualized PhD at Concordia University. Lisa’s albums have received positive press from publications like The Fader, Uproxx, CBC, and Earmilk, and her compositions / installations have been presented by the Guelph Jazz Festival, the Canadian Music Centre, Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal, MaerzMusik, and the Music Gallery. She is an alumni of the Red Bull Music Academy (Berlin), and the Canadian Film Centre’s Music Residency.
Emma Ongman is an interdisciplinary artist, self-taught musician, and arts administrator. Primarily working with images, video, and sound, Emma is interested in everyday environments, the evolution of relationships, and the impact of technology on both nature and humanity. She embraces tech-accidents, the recycling of materials, and explores the intersection between magic, science and art.
Ongman has shown her work in Canada, the United States, France, and Greece. She holds a dual major Bachelor of Arts Honours degree with Distinction from the University of Guelph and has received grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the Guelph Arts Council. Emma currently lives and works in Montréal, Québec. | <urn:uuid:236bda45-6fbc-42c6-936b-f7b370bc398e> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://sonorities.net/2024/acts/lisa-conway-and-emma-ongman/ | 2024-02-28T02:22:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474690.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228012542-20240228042542-00200.warc.gz | en | 0.934067 | 317 | 1 |
Objectives(s) of Insect, Disease & Environmental Forecasting System Research and Education:
This research and education program provides early regional detection of newly emerging invasive pest & disease organisms and environmental induce crop physiological disorders. Pests include Downy Mildew of cucurbits, grapes, basil and hops; Powdery Mildew of cucurbits, grapes and hops; Late Blight of Tomato and Potato; Brown Marmorated Stink Bug; Spotted Wing Drosophila and cucumber beetle. Results explore and identify new Integrated Pest Management strategies for Ohio growers.
Planned Scope of Research:
Crop Sentinel plots include plantings at the OSU South Centers research farm and on farm research conducted on cooperating growers farms. This research is a part of a multi-state, regional and national network of cooperators for rapid communication of the occurrence of identified newly emerging invasive pest and disease and environmental induced crop disorders throughout Ohio.
Potential outcomes & significance of outcomes:
This research and education program assesses the spatial and temporal development of other disease, insect and environmentally induced fruit and vegetable crop disorders in Ohio. Research began in 1996 with the TOMCAST disease forecasting system and continues today with forecasting systems monitoring at the OSU South Centers and on farm research and monitoring sites today. | <urn:uuid:d16a6a38-5c26-4151-8944-f06300da7c1c> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://southcenters.osu.edu/horticulture/other-specialties/disease-forecasting | 2024-02-28T03:30:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474690.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228012542-20240228042542-00200.warc.gz | en | 0.918024 | 260 | 1 |
There is a ground-breaking technology, called Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) technology. This technology enables us to generate energy from organic waste: from compost to mud, from urine to plants. All organic waste streams are turned into sustainable energy sources thanks to this innovative technology.
MFC technology was included in the European Commission’s ‘100 radical innovation breakthroughs for the future’ report in 2019, acknowledging the importance of the development of this sustainable technology. The Living Light project is there to give this promising technology the attention it deserves and is the living proof that this technology can already provide us with enough energy to design practical applications.
Up until now MFC technology has been investigated in laboratories all over the world but attempts to implement this promising technology in the real world have been limited. The Living Light indoor design lamp and the outdoor park modules are the first light applications making use of this technology to provide you with energy. Microbial Fuel Cells for the Living Light collaborate with the naturally occurring microbes in the soil to generate energy. MFC technology is comparable with the solar cell of twenty years ago, standing on the brink of becoming a welcome contribution to the renewable energy mix. The Living Light is there to inspire others to develop this technology to the fullest and to tell the story of MFC technology in a magical way.
Before the Living Light project, people were skeptical about the use of this sustainable energy source for practical applications. Now our ‘Park of Tomorrow’—the Living Light Park—and our indoor Living Light lamps are the first global example that we can already use this promising technology to light up houses and parks. We want to make sure that the Living Light project is just the beginning of this impactful technology to change our energy systems and the way we think about and take care of nature.
With the Living Light project we collaborate across industries: design, science, and biology are being combined in order to create the Living Light. Credits go to our scientific partner Plant-e, who developed the microbial fuel cell over the past ten years.
Credits go to the Nova Innova team, working the last few years full of dedication, voluntarily on the project, as they believe in a future where nature is part of our energy system.
Thanks to the Nova Innova team, we turned the Living Light lamp into a practical and powerful storytelling object: softly stroking the leaves transforms this ordinary plant into a Living Light. If you provide the plant of the Living Light design lamp with love, you receive love from the plant in terms of light. In this way, your touch is the light switch of the Living Light. Furthermore, the Nova Innova team made sure that the duration of light depends on the wellbeing of the plant: the better you take care of the plant, the more energy you will receive from the plant. In this way the Nova Innova team wanted to remind us once more that if we take good care of nature, nature will provide us with everything we need.
Credits go to our early adopters who are there to advise, guide, and support us, even when working on an innovation that combines design, nature, and science becomes quite challenging. Credits go to all the professionals and individuals who believe as much in this circular way of creating energy as we do.
With support from
Next to the early adopters, who were wonderful enough to buy the first design Living Light lamps, give them a home, and monitor them closely, we received support from the municipality of the Hague and Rotterdam, for which we integrated the Living Light system into their parks. We are grateful for the 2700+ pre-orders we already received for the Living Light indoor design lamp and the conversations we have with partners to integrate the outdoor Living Light park modules in different cities, and potentially different countries. We appreciate the enormous amount of media attention we received from Vattenfall, the World Economic Forum, and national television, who all believe in the power behind this important project, and the support we received from farmers, plant growers, and architects, who believe that plants should be part of our energy system.
Nova Innova (NL) is a creative start-up based in Rotterdam that combines nature, science, and design to generate crucial, sustainable breakthroughs. There are many interesting things happening in laboratories all over the world, which remain invisible to the general public. The team of Nova Innova aims to bridge the gap between science and everyday life, by developing sustainable applications in the shape of a powerful design. Nova Innova’s aim is to inspire others by their collaboration with nature, and to develop important technologies that contribute to clean and sustainable water, air and energy systems with their practical applications.
Microbial Fuel Cell technology (MFC), the idea of using microbes to produce electricity, has been known since 1911, when Michael Cressé Potter made the subject public. In Pop Culture, the banana fed time machine was able to send mad scientists ’Back to the Future‘. But The Living Light is different—it is a practical approach to literally illuminate the mutual dependence between nature and mankind. The Living Light is about to implement Plant Microbial Fuel Cell technology in our day-to-day lives—reaching from your indoor plant providing light at home to illumination in urban parks, powered by the organisms in the soil. The Living Light is a beautifully crafted beacon into a future, where life itself can contribute to our civilization, replacing endless numbers of batteries. Especially interesting for STARTS is The Living Light as an eye opener for the engineers of the sensory based Internet of Things, where many small devices will need weak energy sources that cannot be maintained by a complicated energy network or batteries. | <urn:uuid:cc521c06-c5be-4e41-b209-5bafe4e82cc1> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://starts-prize.aec.at/en/the-living-light/ | 2024-02-28T03:30:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474690.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228012542-20240228042542-00200.warc.gz | en | 0.941443 | 1,158 | 2 |
Course Applied for: Masters in Data Science
Shortlisted University/Institution: …………………………………………….
We are living in a Data Intensive world, where every sector, human process/function and business activity is concerned with the management, storage and sharing of data. The internet still welcomes an infinite number of users, every passing day, making data and information resources highly critical and valuable in this age of digitization. The registration of more users means the expansion of existing data reserves. My interest to pursue higher studies in Data Science stems from my academic pursuits, wherein formal courses and certifications grants me the adequate set of skills to acquaint myself with the higher learnings of the aforementioned discipline. Furthermore, I have been a part of relevant projects and work-experience, which I shall elaborate underneath.
I have done diploma courses that cater towards the varied subjects of Data Science. I completed Python and SQL Bootcamps by Jose Marcial Portilla, from Udemy, in the years 2020 and 2021 respectively. I have also received a formal certification on Data Science and AI, awarded by Social Prachar (Hyderabad). Apart from my academic pursuits, my interest towards IT and Computer Science is somewhat homegrown. In other words, I have always developed a keen interest in computer design and technology, since school as a growing kid. I have always wanted to indulge in the field to know and learn more. Now as I have grown, and witnessed the digital revolution with my own eyes, I feel it is only evident for me to pursue a career in the aforementioned field; especially judging from how widespread and prioritized the field of Data Science has become during these contemporary times.
IT, Data Science, Data Analytics and every similar discipline pertaining towards the larger discipline of Computer Science embeds its roots in the USA. The country is renowned for the emergence of tech giants, establishment of the Silicon Valley and the globalization of a digital revolution that has raised the heights of innovation in every sector known to humankind. The country would be able to provide facilities that are unique, such as field-based visits and research at sites (like the Silicon Valley) where I would be able to witness functions/processes in person.
The aforementioned university further adds to my preference of studying in the USA. I have come to know about the varied facilities provided by the university, from primary sources (students/alumni) and secondary sources (internet). The institution is well-known for its faculty, whose collective efforts effectively train students and bring out their utmost potential. I can be sure about the same because of my contact with alumni who have in-fact established full-pledged careers in the aforementioned field, having studied form the same university. So, my interest to pursue higher studies/education from such places stands firm.
My academic pursuits have honed my analytical skills to a fair level, where my indulgence in symposiums, seminars at college have made me comfortable, as well as attuned towards handling and communicating information. I believe in applying the same set of skills when it comes to data management and analytical tasks. I have done a project on the Implementation of Sub Threshold Adiabatic Logic for Ultralow Power Application. Results were quite noteworthy as we were able to justify certain factoids pertaining towards energy preservation and sustainable development models. The project was a test of my practical skills and the results turned out to be fruitful.
I have attained first-hand experience of indulging/engaging in an active work-environment, whilst working for Amazon as a Customer Service Associate, and Apple as their Annotation Analysts. With both the firms combined, I have garnered experience of over 5 years. It is quite vivid as to how my work experience reflects upon my skills on handling, interpreting and using data for the distinctive requirement of such companies. I wish to raise my set of skills along with my knowledge-base, with the inventory of such experience, to keep learning and innovating the field and address the unrealized gaps of our digital post-modern society. I have won awards in college-held symposiums and quiz competitions too.
My leadership skills stem from my experience of being a student representative of IEEE during my time at college. I also garnered community-building experiences by organizing college events. I took the responsibility of organizing seminars, presenting papers and assisting groups regarding assignment-based projects/activities. With such experiences, combined, I have indeed developed vehement leadership and community-building skills, simultaneously learning the unparalleled essence/value of teamwork and collective effort.
I stand for inclusive values in society. During a time of rampant urbanization, globalization, digitization and so on, our unity is a must to retain the balance of innovation. It is necessary for everyone to acknowledge the good and bad, criticism and praise, black and white, in order to progress ahead in a sustainable manner. My value also stands for the preservation of our ecology, which seems to be in a critical situation. So, with every mode of development that’s taking place, my values motivate me to excel in whatever I pursue, holding together a keen sense of unity and environmental activism throughout my professional pursuits.
Lastly, my home country, India, is gradually transitioning into a complete IT or digitized infrastructure. The economy is becoming almost entirely data-intensive, along with a multitude of sectors, businesses (both established and emerging ones). With my distinctive set of knowledge and skill-set that I have acquired throughout my academic career, work-life and co-curriculars, I am confident enough to establish a career in Data Science, with the motive of providing concerned sectors the edge in decision making and actionable insights.
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Shipping and environmental groups welcomed recommendations by the European Commission on Tuesday to set a new 2040 emissions target aimed at reaching climate neutrality a decade later.
The move came on the same day that the two other key European Union institutions agreed on legislation to spur development in the green tech sector in a bid to reach its 2030 climate goals.
The commission recommended a 90% greenhouse gas emissions cut by 2040, compared to 1990 levels, on the way to reaching its climate-neutral goal a decade later.
The European Community Shipowners’ Associations said it welcomes the 2040 climate target for its commitment to address the barriers to adopting e-fuels, biofuels and other low-emissions energy sources.
The ECSA, led by secretary general Sortiris Raptis, said the target gives shipping priority access to these fuels over industries that have other options.
“It’s the first time we see such a strong commitment to give shipping priority access to low and zero-emission fuels such as advanced biofuels and e-fuels,” he said.
“The price gap is immense, as the cost of sustainable fuels can be four times higher compared to fuels currently used in shipping. We look forward to working with the commission to translate this commitment into immediate action.”
And towards that end, he said the shipowners’ group welcomes working with Brussels to leverage revenues earmarked from the EU’s Emissions Trading System.
The organisation said the commission acknowledged that increased costs of sustainable fuels are a key factor in keeping shipping competitive.
The ECSA gave its thumbs up to the commission’s plans to consider differentiated targets for shipping that line up with the International Maritime Organization’s global goals.
However, the group said it plans to analyse the scenarios examined by the commission to reach the 2040 target.
Green group Transport & Environment said the proposal gives shipping and other industries investment certainty on clean technology.
“The EU’s plan to reduce its emissions by 90% by 2040 marks a historic day for the climate,” the group said.
But the group pointed out that the new goals made no mention of phasing out oil and gas, despite the agreement at the United Nations’ COP28 climate conference in December to transition away from fossil fuels.
The group said the inclusion of shipping emissions in the target is a welcome step forward.
But Transport & Environment urged the new commissioners who will take office after the June elections to follow up with policies to ensure the decarbonisation of shipping.
Industrial policy model
Sofie Defour, Transport & Environment’s climate director, said the EU action showed the world that climate ambition can be turned into a “powerful” industrial policy.
“Industry players at home and outside of Europe can turn to the EU for production and sales of green tech, as they can be assured of a growing market and predictable demand,” she said.
“But this headline goal will fall flat if it doesn’t come hand in hand with a phase-out of fossil fuels and new laws cracking down on the oil majors. Europe will desperately try to meet a 2040 goal whilst still feeding on fossil fuels. But you simply can’t outrun a bad diet.”
Also on Tuesday, the European Parliament struck a preliminary deal with the European Council on the Net-Zero Industry Act, which sets a 2030 goal of producing 40% of the climate technology needed to reach the bloc’s goals.
Jo Brouns, Flemish minister for economy, innovation, work, social economy and agriculture, said the new law is a key step in creating the ecosystem needed to manufacture clean technologies.
“Europe launched a pathway towards a cleaner and sustainable future for the European industry,” he said.
“Now the time is ripe for Europe to take back the lead on the global scene for clean technologies and to build a competitive, green and job-creating industrial sector.”
But the European Environmental Bureau, a coalition of green groups, criticised the legislation for not focusing on cost-effective and immediately deployable solutions, such as renewable hydrogen for targeted sectors and batteries.
The group was critical that the law put those technologies in the same basket as carbon capture and nuclear energy.
“Putting costly, unproven technologies at the same level as proven solutions derails the original intentions behind the Net-Zero Industry Act,” said Riccardo Nigro, the group’s senior policy officer for the zero-pollution industry.
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Just kidding! They actually want to ban plastic straws, hamburgers, fossil fuels, internal combustion engines, capitalism, and personal freedoms. This is because, according to 100% of scientists (Snopes verified it), man-caused global warming is causing rainforests and aboriginal people to burst into spontaneous flames, Miami to be submerged faster than Shelley Winters in "The Poseidon Adventure," and all life on Earth to be stone dead within 10 years. Well, except for cockroaches and Keith Richards.
With eons of climate cycles in the world's past, we're more than a little skeptical of the whole "man-caused climate change" narrative. But just to be on the safe side, we're addressing the issue with some 100% Earth-friendly recycled cartoons today.
Also, we're going to wrap our feet in plastic bags from the grocery store so that we won't leave carbon footprints.
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Overview of W12W12 currently has 210 reviews that give the area an average rating of 4.12 out of 5. Located in W, residents have shared positive insights of W12, such as “W12 is home! We love it here!”. The highest rated postcode in W12 is W12 8ES with a rating of 4.28 from 135 reviews. W12 0BU is the lowest rated postcode in W12, with a rating of 3.82 from 51 reviews.
“W12 is home! We love it here!”
“Traffic noise is unbearable, so be aware, constantly during peak times.”
By Ben J.
The local area is fun, multicultural, vibrant, accessible & never sleeps
The local area is fun, multicultural, vibrant, accessible & never sleeps. It's as safe as you are smart. The area is suitable for all family members and pets, with local parks and plenty green space. Parking can be expensive but is free after 5pm on most rds or 8pm closer to shopping malls. You will never be bored or go hungry in West London.
Transport is excellent in my area, the only time transport becomes an issue is rush hour as congestion builds heavily on the shepherd's Bush roundabout and wait times can be exhausting. Trains are available on the doorstep or within a very short walking distance. There are bus stops within 100feet of each other and night buses seem plentiful although I do not use them as often anymore.
This area is a vast mix, in particular the majority are likely to be renters as house prices in this area are extremely high and most will not have the deposit nor earn enough to cover the mortgage. If anyone does own they bought the property a long time ago or they share the property to reduce costs. There are not as many students in this area but there's a music school which houses a couple hundred. Anti social behaviour doesn't seem to be an issue, but its all perspective.
West London is vibrant and multicultural, the shops and amenities reflect that with its vast array of cuisine in particular. The shepherd's Bush Market has everything you need in one place from clothing to accessories, homewarw to furniture, music and trinkets to food both Caribbean and west African. The streets are aligned with shops and local talent displaying their unique goods and then onto the main shopping complexes which house high street brands and designer. Shepherd's Bush, Hammersmith & Ladbroke Grove are the most popular especially during the summer months and carnival. The only thing missing is entertainment in the form of an ice skating rink and bowling.
W12 is home! We love it here!
W12 is home! We love it here! From the market with its array of colours, scents and characters to ultra modern westfield with its shiny floors and polished walls! W12 has so much to offer, you can go on a world wide adventure with out ever leaving this post code! If you do have to leave (perhaps you have a job in a less cool area) you will have no issues finding a selection of different transport routes to take you where you need to go! (Ps. we need more Boris bikes!) W12 you rock!
The links to central London are great, I’m never late! I wish there were a few more Boris bike docks though!
Our street rocks! We live on a quiet street which sees minimal traffic and the only annoying sound to be heard is the odd fox in the middle of the night.! There’s a mix of renters and owners on all the streets surrounding us! But everyone takes good care of their homes and front gardens and rubbish is always kept under check! We love our neighbours! The family that live below us knocked every single night of Ramadan with a different delicious dish for us all to enjoy! And to the right an Australian teacher helped us out with homeschooling projects and made great friends with our dog :) There is so much love , support and solidarity between neighbours :)
Shepherds Bush is a seriously cool place to live! Wide range of places to eat and you can sample food from all over the world! Great parks For walks with your awesome dog! West field is on our door step so we always look fly! If you want to love where u live move to W12!
Traffic noise is unbearable, so be aware, constantly during peak times.
East Acton area is not safe at all, and I have noticed that it is getting worse and worse with time. This is due to the lack of control from police, especially in the night. People can harass others without even being noticed, and it might easily lead to robbery, stabbing, raping, etc. People who live in the area are generally poor or not wealthy enough to afford a better place. I can't see many families living here, probably because they know it is not safe. So I wouldn't recommend it, not even for pets as parks are quite far from the centre, which is even more unsafe than East Acton itself. It is not a trendy area, there are no proper places to hang out with friends or family, and it looks in need of regeneration, mostly regarding the safety. There are a few fruit market stalls where you can buy cheap fruit and vegetables, and also a couple of market shops, but not a proper market with food and everything. The only good thing of East Acton is the closeness to the massive shopping centre called Westfield.
East Acton station is pretty easy to get to, it is a small tube station but it is served by Central Line, that can take you to Westfield Shopping Centre in just two stops, and this is very convenient. Central Line runs every 2 minutes on day core and it also provides a night service on Fridays and Saturdays. It's an old tube line but it connects many key places in London, very useful for tourists. There is no air/con on the Central Line so it gets really warm in Summer. The trains are usually clean but, as many tourists use it, sometimes you can find some trash on the seats. Buses are available and the service is reliable. Traffic in the East Acton area is the worst part of it. You might find traffic clustering on the roundabout with Old Oak Road. The area is generally not safe, especially in the night.
Traffic noise is unbearable, so be aware, constantly during peak times. The area is not safe because it is not controlled by police, or not enough. I have heard of many stabbing and robbery attempts around the area, especially on the main street in the night. I used to finish work very late and I was scared and pretty uncomfortable every time I had to go back home. Mostly renters live in my street, and they are people from different nationalities. Many house are crowded with people, like 10-12 people per house, which is shocking. This shows again that there is no control in the area, and the local estate agencies can sublet illegally. The local people are generally Arabic or Turkish. Bin collection is a reliable service which provides us different days to collect our recycling rubbish. It can be noisy when it gets collected early in the morning, as you can clearly hear the truck that empties every bin.
We have very few shops around our place, mostly off licences and kebab takeaway. On the main street, we have Greggs, a few coffee places, many fruit stands, discount stores, a pharmacy, two drycleaners (laundrymat) a takeaway pizza place, one estate agency and a quite big Iceland (supermarket). A short walk away, there is Homebase (DIY store) joined with Argos. No proper restaurants nearby, so this is what is mostly missing. And also well known stores such as Boots, Superdrugs, Wilko, etc. The area looks poor because of the presence of many cheap places to eat (generally selling Arabic food and fried chicken), only takeaway.
My area is very centrally Located
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It is safe,
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I most like the vibrancy of the area. I most dislike the filthy state of some of the streets
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Because East Acton is a conservation are all of the houses give it a kind of village feel.
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My area is very trendy and modern with a good culture
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I wouldn’t change anything!
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Quite but close to Central London
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