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Yellowbrick Data Warehouse
The only modern enterprise cloud data warehouse.
The Yellowbrick Data Warehouse is an elastic, massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that runs on-premises, in the cloud, and at the network edge. It was designed for the most demanding batch, real-time, ad hoc, and mixed workloads and can run complex queries at up to petabyte-scale with guaranteed sub-second response times. Yellowbrick is proven, providing business-critical services at many large global enterprises with thousands of concurrent users. It is available on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud as well as on-premises.
Elasticity in Your Cloud Account
The Yellowbrick Data Warehouse runs in your cloud account without data ever leaving your network to an external SaaS provider. This eliminates compliance and security risks. Running costs are lowered by paying for the cloud infrastructure (both storage and compute) using your own enterprise cloud agreements.
In an industry-first, full SQL-driven elasticity with separate storage and compute is available within your own cloud account as well as on-premises. Compute resources – elastic, virtual compute clusters (VCCs) – are created, resized, and dropped on-demand through SQL, and cache data persisted on shared cloud object storage. For example, ad-hoc users can be routed to one cluster, business-critical users to a second cluster, and more clusters created and dropped on demand for ETL processing.
Each data warehouse instance runs completely independently of one another. There is no single point of failure or metadata shared across instances. Global outages – when deployed with replication across multiple public clouds and/or on-premises – are impossible.
Yellowbrick is secure by default with no external network access to your database instance. Encryption of data at rest is standard with keys you manage. Columnar encryption, granular role-based access control, column masking, OAuth2, Active Directory, and Kerberos authentication are built in. Integrations with best-in-class enterprise data protection solutions secure PII data. Enterprise-class high availability, backups for data retention, and asynchronous replication for disaster recovery are standard.
Simple and Predictable Pricing
We support both on-demand and subscription-based pricing. All pricing is based on consumption of vCPUs for compute; we do not charge for storage since data is persisted on object storage in your own cloud account. On-demand pricing caters to short-term burst needs and is billed monthly in arrears without credits. Subscription pricing is predictable, works across cloud and on-premises, and allows efficient acquisition of capacity that you know you’ll need. Models can be mixed and matched to meet business objectives.
Designed for Performance
Yellowbrick was conceived with the goal of optimizing price/performance. The storage engine is a hybrid column and row store: Most data is persisted in the column store while the row store supports real-time streaming ingest of hundreds of thousands of records per second from CDC tools and Kafka. Yellowbrick’s patented Direct Data Accelerator Architecture is an OS bypass technology enabling in-memory analytics performance at petabyte-scale without requiring a typical database buffer cache – leading to more predictable response times and massive cost reductions.
Rules-based workload management makes sure business objectives are met in an environment with dynamically changing workloads. Long-running ad-hoc queries do not obstruct business-critical queries. Queries operate with their own set of assigned resources and hard resource controls are present to make sure queries can’t starve each other. Yellowbrick supports thousands of concurrent users and, through provisioning of multiple elastic compute clusters, can scale to thousands of queries per second.
Open Standards Support
Yellowbrick’s database engine is fully ACID compliant. A deliberate design choice was to make use of PostgreSQL’s SQL grammar, wire protocols, and metadata schema to avoid vendor lock-in and provide compatibility with a database familiar to modern developers. We’ve enhanced the PostgreSQL grammar with compatibility functions for other databases as well as improved manageability. All core SQL data types are present (numeric, UTF-8 varchar, dates and times, etc.). Further semi-structured data support is a key roadmap item. Views and PL/pgSQL stored procedures are fully supported as are cursors for data retrieval.
Access to Yellowbrick is through PostgreSQL ODBC, JDBC, and ADO.NET drivers. A substantial number of commercial and open-source tools, including Python, R, Kafka, and Spark interoperate with Yellowbrick.
The Yellowbrick Data Warehouse is designed for business-critical data warehouse workloads and has no single points of failure. It is resilient to storage, server, and network outages. Data is persisted on shared object storage for the highest possible availability in the cloud and on erasure-coded local storage for on-premises deployments.
Full, cumulative, and incremental backups allow businesses to meet off-site data retention requirements. Transactionally consistent, asynchronous replication is built in and supports failover and failback; replication of DDL, data, and metadata allow provisioning of read-only hot standby databases for disaster recovery which may be in the same cloud, a different cloud, or on-premises.
Modern with Minimal Management
The Yellowbrick Data Warehouse largely runs itself on autopilot. Minimal administrative activities are required: there’s no need for creating and maintaining indexes, vacuuming, keeping statistics up to date, and defragmenting; provisioning and managing storage is completely unnecessary.
A friendly web UI called Yellowbrick Manager surfaces all information needed to keep the instances running, configure integrations and control, and optimize workloads. For developers, Yellowbrick Manager provides a simple way to execute queries, develop and maintain schemas, and profile query plans. All management and monitoring functionality can be accomplished through SQL and system tables as well as the web UI.
Migration from legacy data warehouses and SQL-on-Hadoop is largely automated. We partner with Next Pathway to offer their SHIFT™ Migration Suite. Shift features a workload profiler to automatically isolate workloads and identify their dependencies in complex data warehouses and Hadoop clusters, allowing estimation of migration effort and cost ahead of time. SHIFT enables >95% automated migration of the vast majority of database objects as well as ETL, BI, and even BTEQ scripts. Testing and validation services are offered alongside. We also partner with KPMG, Capgemini, Accenture, ZS, Systech, and Cognizant for other ongoing development and migration work.
Thanks to Yellowbrick’s unique distributed data cloud architecture, cloud migrations can be staged to reduce risk. Staging allows you to incrementally migrate from legacy on-premises warehouses to Yellowbrick, replicating data to the cloud and moving workloads as needed. Organizations with complex on-premises ecosystems prefer this approach: In particular, Yellowbrick is supported by both Informatica Powercenter and Informatica Cloud to enable easier ETL migrations. Our Customer Success Managers have first-hand migration experience and will be by your side throughout the process.
Yellowbrick is the modern data warehouse designed to solve today’s analytics challenges. It provides full elasticity in your own cloud account as well as on-premises, with separate storage and compute. Pricing is simple and predictable, and our architecture, optimized for performance, means that nobody runs data warehouses faster or more cost effectively than Yellowbrick. Yellowbrick is built on open standards to avoid lock-in, meets the availability needs of business critical, ad-hoc workloads, and is easy to use. Migration from legacy data warehouse platforms or Hadoop is largely automated. | <urn:uuid:7376b9a9-6d0b-4e30-a948-cf6beea5ed6b> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://yellowbrick.com/resources/executive-overviews/yellowbrick-data-warehouse-technical-overview/ | 2024-04-19T11:20:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817398.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419110125-20240419140125-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.911267 | 1,646 |
Bought this torch to convert to water cooled well made
Nice replacement for the air cooled torch. Install hook ups could be a lot better though. I had water back flow to the flow meter, until I figured out how to hook it up. Then all was good.
This torch appears to be well made but I\'m not sure since I haven\'t hooked it up yet. It didn\'t come with any instructions and while it sounds simple the design of this torch and parts doesn\'t make sense. There is an adapter that appears it should be connected to the gas port on the front of the machine and the gas hose connects to it. It also has 2 water lines on the top for connection to the cooler. There is no pass through for gas in the adapter. The gas goes out the water line port, through the hose to the torch and back to the cooler. This seems to me that with this setup water will be coming out of end of the torch along with the gas. | <urn:uuid:379526ab-e4ff-4ebb-bb10-924c1cd0e0a5> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://yeswelder.com/collections/welding-guns-torches/products/water-cooled-tig-welding-torch-wp-18-5p | 2024-04-19T12:40:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817398.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419110125-20240419140125-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.977454 | 203 |
THIS IS NOT A TOY!
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THIS DART LAUNCHER IS NOT FOUND ANY WHERE IN STORES!!! EXCLUSIVE SOLD ON MEGA KNIFE. EXTREMELY LIMITED STOCK AVAILABLE, GET YOURS NOW AS THEY WILL SELL OUT QUICKLY!
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Megaknife's dart gun is one of a kind. To fire each dart, remove the top safety cover and pull down the protective collar. Press each button to unleash the ballistic stainless dart above it. To reload this device, put the darts back in and put most of your body weight on the rear of the device until they lock into place. Each dart is constructed of a solid piece of 440C stainless steel, & includes 3 extra darts. Accurate at 20 feet but has no problems reaching 30+ feet. The protective collar acts as a "safety" and will not fire unless pulled down.
- Silver Dart Launcher
- Dimensions: 5.5" X 1.6" X 1"
- Construction: Stainless Steel w/ ABS Fittings
- Total Weight: 3.7 oz
- Dart Material: Solid 440C Stainless Steel
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Written by, Rob O’Donnell, WyldLife Representative, Eastern Division
As WyldLife leaders, we have a lot of different hats to wear at camp. Many of our students are experiencing overnight camp for the first time. With that experience come many thoughts and feelings. Normally, they would go to their parents, but instead, we get to be there for them.
As their leaders at camp, we have a very important role to play in their lives. We are called to “not only share the Gospel, but our lives as well.” This can take on many different forms during a week of WyldLife camp.
The students who come with us are at various places developmentally. Some students will need more care and “one-on-one time,” while others we may have to track down every time there is an event or meal. We need to be able to recognize each individual’s needs and cater to those needs as best we can.
Middle schoolers do not want to be treated like elementary school students any longer. At the same time, there is a healthy anxiety for them as they step off of the bus into a new place, far away from home, and without their parents. We want to create an environment where they can explore and grow in a healthy and safe way. We want them to take risks, try new things, and to begin stepping into maturity.
As they try new things during the week, we have an opportunity to come alongside and care for them. They do not need someone hovering over them every moment, but we do want them to know that we want to spend time with them. It all boils down to “earning the right to be heard.”
As we care for them, they’re gaining a sense of self, because we’re treating them as individuals. They are beginning to understand who they are and that they can make decisions for themselves. This is so important, because during the week we’re going to ask them to consider the greatest decision they’ll ever make!
If we’re babysitting them, they will continue to look to someone else to make that decision for them. If we care for them well, they will understand it is their decision to make, and that we will continue to walk through that decision with them.
As you prepare for WyldLife camp, take some time to pray that the Lord will reveal to you how to care for each camper individually. It sounds like a daunting task, but God knows each of the kids who are coming. Pray for the knowledge of when to step back and when to engage with kids. Remember, when we’re at camp, we are on holy ground! God has gone before us, and we can pray with great expectations that our WyldLife friends will come to know Him! | <urn:uuid:8854898c-5cad-477a-a3f0-add2e446a89e> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://younglifeleaders.org/2016/06/how-to-care-for-your-wyldlife-friends.html | 2024-04-19T12:29:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817398.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419110125-20240419140125-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.980233 | 593 |
Equipping the saints is one of the primary responsibilities of church leaders. Equipping believers to do works of ministry – leading towards maturity. This is really important as there seems to be a generational gap – with few qualified overseers. Equipping the saints is critical – but not just for increased program and sweet ideas. Rather, we need to equip the saints to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit – and in that power and foundation – work towards kingdom transformation. Let’s get excited. Gods on the move! | <urn:uuid:53acab5e-3098-4bd0-89a4-3f80d6c79c23> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://youranchorpoint.com/messages/the-mustard-seed/ | 2024-04-19T12:00:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817398.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419110125-20240419140125-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.954136 | 105 |
While the Chinese Christmas duck image from “A Christmas Story” may be stuck in your head, duck and other alternative menus can make a holiday celebration very special. (Note: video clip at the end of this post – hilarious scene).
Now I’m the first to admit that I’m not a great cook, but I’m not afraid to try new things. After all, it’s just following instructions, right? Here are a few recipes I’m considering for this year:
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Here are some excellent lessons for start-ups and long-established companies. I like the following quotes:
“If there’s a guerilla in your space, what are you going to do that they can’t do? You need to build something meaningfully different when going up against an incumbent-something they aren’t able to do.”
“Today’s companies succeed by creating a better customer experience, and they do this by investing in Design – I’m talking about Design as a methodology and not simply making their apps pretty.”
The first quote asks you to define who you are, and why your company and its products and services matter. Without answering these questions, you should not proceed with creating a business plan. Just because you can run a business, does not mean you should be starting one.
The second quote brings me to something that you see everywhere now: only what the customer thinks and wants, matters. This does not mean the look and feel of the sales and marketing departments, or your website. Digital transformation is going to confront us with more going forward. And we need to develop the skills now for dealing with this. | <urn:uuid:c7d5702a-3f4a-4176-97f3-7c3c47121ad0> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://yourpreferredfuture.com/startup-marketing/ | 2024-04-19T11:11:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817398.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419110125-20240419140125-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.964781 | 246 |
Table of Contents
- 1 What are the causes of failure in product launching?
- 2 What might happen to a company in the introduction stage of the product life cycle?
- 3 Why do so many new products fail quizlet?
- 4 What happens in the introduction stage of a product?
- 5 What are the costs during the introduction stage of a product?
What are the causes of failure in product launching?
7 Reasons Why Most Product Launches Fail And What To Do About It
- #1 Trying to fix a non-existent problem.
- #2 Targeting the wrong market.
- #3 Incorrect pricing.
- #4 ”Build, and they will come”
- #5 Wrong Positioning in the Market.
- #6 Poor Product Launch Timing.
- #7 No BETA customers or references were available.
Why do so many new products fail in the market?
About 30 to 45\% of new products fail to deliver any meaningful financial return. This typically happens due to a number of reasons, from poor product / market fit, failure to understand customer needs (or fixing a non-existing problem), to a lack of internal capabilities.
What stage of the product life cycle do most products fail?
Decline Stage In the fourth stage of the product life cycle, the product fails to make the same kind of revenue and profits as it did before, though it could still be profitable, albeit with smaller margins.
What might happen to a company in the introduction stage of the product life cycle?
When a product is successfully introduced into the market, demand increases, therefore increasing its popularity. These newer products end up pushing older ones out of the market, effectively replacing them. Companies tend to curb their marketing efforts as a new product grows.
What is a failed product?
Product failures are the state or condition of not meeting the intended objective or expectations of people. This can be viewed as a failure of the product. Product failures occur when a new product after its launch fails to gain an adequate amount of sales, leading to its loss.
What is product failure definition?
Product Failure is defined as a malfunction in the Equipment or Software that prevents the accomplishment of the intended function(s) of the Product.
Why do so many new products fail quizlet?
The reason that a new product fails that states that the ideal market is one that is large with high growth and real buyer need, but often the target market is too small or competitive to warrant the huge expenses necessary to reach it.
What is decline in product life cycle?
Decline Stage: The decline stage of the product life cycle is the terminal stage where sales drop and production is ultimately halted. Profitability will fall, eventually to the point where it is no longer profitable to produce, and production will stop.
What products are in the decline stage?
For example, products like typewriters, telegrams, and muskets are deep in their decline stages (and in fact are almost or completely retired from the market).
What happens in the introduction stage of a product?
During the introduction stage, the owner launches the product to the market. It’s during the introduction stage that research and development of the product occur, and large investments are made to introduce the product to the market. The primary goal of the introduction stage is to gain market demand for the product.
What is a product in the introduction stage?
Description: The introduction stage is the first stage in the product life cycle where a company tries to build awareness about the product or service in a market where there is less or no competition. Pricing a product in the introduction stage is very important to gain market share.
What is the life cycle of a product?
The initial stage of the product life cycle is all about building the demand for the product with the consumer, and establishing the market for the product. The key emphasis will be on promoting the new product, as well as making production more cost-effective and developing the right distribution channels to get the product to market.
What are the costs during the introduction stage of a product?
During the introduction stage… – Pricing will either be high (skimming) in order to cover development/promotion costs, or low (penetration) in order to gain market share and brand loyalty. – Distribution costs may be high, as new production lines will have to be created.
What happens when a new product is launched?
Small or no market: When a new product is launched, there is typically no market for it, or if a market does exist it is likely to be very small. Naturally this means that sales are going to be low to start off with.
How is the product life cycle linked to capacity utilisation?
The product life cycle is linked to capacity utilisation.. – At launch, sales of a product are likely to be limited. So a business will have spare capacity. – When a product is at its growth stage a business will often be expanding its production and using up spare capacity to meet the rising demand for the product. | <urn:uuid:5691b9e0-b6f8-4fca-825b-4cdabe7c0e6f> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://yourquickinformation.com/what-are-the-causes-of-failure-in-product-launching/ | 2024-04-19T12:33:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817398.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419110125-20240419140125-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.960546 | 1,048 |
One of our most popular sweaters Strokkur is the perfect introduction to colourwork yokes.
Ysolda designed Strokkur after visiting Iceland, inspired by the traditional Icelandic Lopapeysas - sweaters with colourwork yokes that are practically a national uniform. They know what they're doing: knit Strokkur in Icelandic wool and you'll have the perfect garment for getting outside no matter the weather.
Strokkur features a more refined fit than many traditional yoked sweaters. It is worked from the bottom up with gentle waist shaping. The yoke patterning is fairly short; to flatteringly frame the face and avoid bagginess around the underarm. Short rows are worked both above and below the stranded colourwork to create a scooped neckline.
Learn all of the skills you need to make Strokkur with our beginner colourwork course. The Stranded Colourwork Basics course is a 4 week self-guided online knitting course, with continued access to the course so that you can return to each chapter for a refresher, again and again, whenever you need.
Find out the latest news from the studio such as sales, pattern releases, and new workshops or KALs our learning community, The Knitwork. We also share helpful tips and exclusive subscriber discounts... | <urn:uuid:33dd24a0-10a1-439a-9108-3fd570d90c0f> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://ysolda.com/collections/sweater-patterns/products/strokkur | 2024-04-19T13:19:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817398.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419110125-20240419140125-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.951895 | 269 |
Our Training Schools
Discipleship Training School
is an intensive, live-in six (6) month discipleship course (three (3) months of lecture phase followed by three (3) months of outreach). The DTS aims to develop the student’s character, and to help the student develop their relationship with God. The DTS provides an environment that helps the individual get the heart of God to reach the lost. The aim is to form Christian character through an obedient response to God.
DTS stands for Discipleship Training School, a six-month training which consists of 3-month lecture phase and 3-month outreach phase.
During the lecture, you’ll get to know more about God. Fundamental topics are included such as: Nature and Character of God, Father Heart of God, Worship and Intercession, Missions and Evangelism, Divine Plumbline, Making Jesus Lord, Discipleship and many more!
What are you waiting for? Come and Join us! We’ve already started accepting applicants. And the earlier you apply, the better so you may prepare yourself better, too.
The official start of the school is on the 4th day of February. You may download or fill up your application at www.ywamatc.org.
Next DTS Starts: July 1st, 2024 until December 13th, 2024.
Video compilation from the DTS that graduated last December 2023:
NEW! WORD by HEART1
Starts JULY 1st, 2024 at the YWAM Antipolo Training Center
NEW! Bible School for the Nations (BSN)
The recent BSN was: JULY 3RD to DECEMBER 15th, 2023 in ANTIPOLO
January 2022 photo – departing on outreaches on January 15th.
BSN (Bible School for the Nations)
The BSN chronologically studies through the OT and NT to discover the truths of the Bible that transform individuals and nations. Skills are taught to interpret the Bible in the context of its history, culture and grammar, to approach difficult passages, to construct a biblical timeline resource, and to creatively and effectively communicate the Word of God.
BSN’s 3 major goals:
- To teach an OVERVIEW of the BIBLE: We chronologically study through the whole Bible, highlighting the Nature and Character of God along the way—after all it’s His story. The last two weeks of the course are designed to teach how God’s story has continued since the Bible. We teach how Liberty has spread across the world from the early church to today! We use Historical-Grammatical Approach.
- To build a BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW : As you examine the Gospel message and God’s principles of discipling nations, including the areas of the family, the church, education, civil government and economics, you will be challenged to align your worldview, your message and your methods with those of the Book. Grow in your love for God as you deepen in your understanding of His character and as you build a Biblical foundation for life and ministry.
- To Train PEOPLE to be TEACHERS! One of the main goals in the BSN is to train teachers who can effectively teach and disciple the nations. The BSN outreach works alongside the Biblical Education and Leadership Training (BELT) ministry.
Biblical Education & Leadership Training (BELT)
The vision of BELT is to see people transformed by the Word of God by focusing on training community and church leaders who already have a sphere of influence in their society.
BELT’s main tool presently is a series of three intensive Bible seminars called the Transformation Series. The goals for all three courses are to:
Multiply leaders who know God and His ways and are able to teach others
Equip men and women who can reason from the Scriptures to all areas of
Build unity between church
The Level One Seminar, Transformation of the Heart, focuses on the Gospel message with an emphasis on repentance and reconciliation to the purposes of God.
The Level Two Seminar, Transformation of Character, deals with Christian life matters of spiritual victory, relationships, prayer, stewardship, and leadership.
The Level Three Seminar, Transformation of Society, examines Biblical principles for societal institutions beginning with the individual, family, church and extending to education, civil government and economics.
The BELT seminars are conducted to make the teachings as culturally relevant as possible so as to meet the felt needs of the people. The New Testament or whole Bible should be available in the local language for use during the course. Translated course outlines are given to the participants at each session.
Practical application of the material taught and outreach opportunities are fundamental aspects of the course.
School of Evangelism
After the DTS is a secondary school called the School of Evangelism. A 24 week program with 12 weeks in the classroom and over 400 hours of evangelism. The perfect follow up to the DTS before launching out into a career of ministry and missions. We have 18 SOE locations internationally to choose from. The next SOE is September 23rd, 2024 to March 7th, 2025.
SOE: [pending] 2025.
School of Worship
is a secondary school in YWAM. The aim is to establish the foundations of our calling to be true worshipers. The SOW equips students on how to use worship and intercession to demolish strongholds. The students develop as worship teams and their skills in leading worship effectively in their various local churches and ministries.
SOW Graduated last March 10th, 2023
Currently, as of January 6th, 2024, there is no date available for next SOW.
SUGE’ Outdoor Adventure and Leadership Course
Since 2003, the SUGE’ Outdoor Adventure has ran 40 Batches through their five-day courses in Subic Bay, Cebu, Davao, Naga, and their “home course” in Tanay, Rizal.
A Japanese word which means: Great! Wonderful! Super! Good job! Yea! as in a shouting
proclamation at an athletic event during the scoring of a point.
The SUGE’ challenges you to discover your mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual strengths and weaknesses. Your relationship with God and others will be tested and or proven through this outdoor adventure experience and physical encounter.
You will learn to confront issues of leadership, personal identity, facing and overcoming obstacles, and preparing you for life decisions.
The NEXT SUGE’ will be:
un-decided as of April 4th, 2024
possible next SUGE’ is 2025.
Cost is Php3,500
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MK Ultra is an Indica dominant medicinal marijuana strain that has ultra-strong cerebral effects. It is created by crossing the Indica variety G-13 and sativa variety OG Kush. It has a deceiving THC level of 20 percent. While the THC level is average, it packs a very hard-hitting punch. It has a pungent flavour that is a blend of skunk and earthy tastes. MKU is well-known for its hypnotic powers that immediately affect your system.
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As Edgar Pomeroy, and his eighteen-year-old daughter, Suzanne, started out their Saturday morning by driving in opposite directions from their house while his wife, Bernice, bustled about in the kitchen preparing a warm welcome for Suzanne’s former boyfriend, Butch Carlson, eighteen-year-old Charles Womack snoozed naked with his forty-year-old mother, Colleen, in her widow’s water-bed. Spooned against her warm bare backside, with his crooked left elbow loosely laid over her ribs, he blissfully breathed softly through the short ash-blonde hairs at her nape. Not so softly, his natural morning wood worked its way between her slightly parted thighs. Like snake-grass poking through an asphalted parking lot, it insistently nudged resolutely until its nose successfully rutted past her outer labia and nuzzled the little bald man trying to sleep in his sheath at her cunny’s hairy apex.
In their slumber, neither mother nor son was cognizant of their dream-lovers’ identities, but each automatically moved to enhance their pleasure. Colleen rolled in place, as if on an invisible spit, and briefly broke contact before firmly pushing Charles’ cock solidly into her needy socket as she soughed, “There, Wally. Yes. Right there.”
In his unconscious mind, Charles didn’t register his dead dad’s name, but he more than registered the appreciation he heard in his sex-angel’s tone as his thick stiff tuber slid smoothly into her tight trap. Turning into her embrace and thrusting home, he spun Colleen back onto her back then pushed his pelvis forward another impossible inch. Still asleep, she locked her forearms behind his back and her ankles high above his butt. Moaning as she squeezed her pussy, she awakened just as her boy opened his eyes and spent his wet-dream seeds while the clock-radio buzzed its nine o’clock wake-up call.
“Oh… Charlie! Oh! More?” Colleen voiced her subconscious anguish as she reached up to the waterbed’s walnut headboard and snapped off the alarm while she came to terms with having a third dose of sperm-laden semen dumped on her probably fertile womb’s doorstep. Despite the expressed concern, however, her Kegels refused to release their imprisoned penis without putting up a fight.
Misunderstanding her words, but taking to heart her tugging twat’s massaging message, Charles panted as he answered, “Yeah, Mom… More! And, uhn… more and more and morrrrr!” He couldn’t believe that even though he had ejaculated, he was still as hard as a rock and as horny as hell. Lifting his torso from hers, he bowed his back, crushed her full tits in his fists and flexed his jabbing dick against her cunt tunnel’s roof.
Colleen arched her back, driving her boobs more harshly into her son’s clawing grip. At the same time, she surrendered herself to her ecstasy. Charles’ concrete-and-velvet cock graded her G-spot while his clutching fingers twisted her breasts like faucets. She screeched, “YES! Oh God! YES, Charlie! Yes, give me MORE!”
Red-faced, Charles huffed as he energetically rocked his hips and mauled his mother’s mountains. She closed her eyes and rolled her head on her pillow while she raked her nails along his spine. Gasping, sensing another surge preparing in his groin, he fell forward, slid his hands beneath her back and bear-hugged her to his heaving chest while he copiously creamed her cervix with burst upon burst of his virile vitality. She cried out, then bit into his shoulder point, as her pent-up passion exceeded her control and continued unabated while she shuddered in his tight embrace.
Exhausted and exhilarated, Charles flopped limply to the mattress onto his left side beside Colleen with his right arm draped across her midriff. She pulled his hand to her left breast and held it to her heart as her breathing settled down and her post-coital glow filled her with well-being. He wheezed into her ear, “When I asked ‘Can we do this again? Soon?’, I had no idea… Now that I know, I don’t want to ever not do it again… does that make sense, Mom? Can I still call you ‘Mom’? Even when we’re… you know…”
“…fucking,” Colleen filled in quietly. “Oh, Charlie… you can always call me ‘Mom’ because that’s what I am.” She sighed, then continued, “And when I said ‘We’ll see’, I think I was hoping that you would hear, ‘No.’ But I don’t see how I can say ‘no’ to you, now.”
Turning onto her right side, Colleen kissed the teen sweetly and ran her left fingers through his scrubby towhead brush-cut. As her wedding ring glinted in the morning light, she rationalized in her mind, “Death did us part, Wally, but I can keep you through your grown-up son. And if I’m pregnant, whether by Ford, or by Charlie, it’s a Womack in my womb and no Plan B is going to prevent it.”
Solidly resolved to her new commitment, Colleen added aloud, “But we mustn’t ever let anyone know about this part of our love, Charlie.” She looked carefully into his eyes as he nodded his understanding and concurrence, then she went on, “And it’s possible that we may have begun a new life genç gaziantep escort in me, which will mean some other level of deception and discretion will have to be devised if that is so. Tell me that you’re man enough for that.”
Charles solemnly nodded again and assured, “Yeah, Mom. I’m man enough for that, now. Yesterday I was a dweeb, but no more, I guarantee it.” Then, he grinned at her and teasingly chastised, “You shouldn’t have held my hand there so long, Mom. You’ve made my boner come back.” Pulling her hand, with his, to his crotch, he closed her fingers around his recharged rod and asked, “Do you want to find out if I can cum again?”
Colleen tightened her hand on Charles’ chub and smiled as it firmed up noticeably. Stroking it, first to its base and then back to its rosy-purple bulb, she tenderly capped its slit with her thumb and irritated the inner membrane until it oozed a tiny oily bead for her. As she spread the pre-cum globule over the surrounding spongy surface, she watched her son sniff small jerky inhalations and grin from ear to ear. Returning her fist to his fully engorged erection, she twisted her way back to his balls while she asked, coyly, “What about you, Charlie? Do you want Mom to help you find out something about yourself? Would you like to cum again for your mommy? Hmmm?”
“uhnn…huhhnn,” Charles gutturally affirmed. Colleen’s soft skinned strong fingers were magically amazing. He had jacked off countless times, but it had never once felt like it felt now. She moved her right hand slowly. Deliberate loving squeezes tantalized him beyond thought.
Colleen pushed her son’s chest with her left hand as she quietly ordered, “Lay back, Charlie, I’ll take it from here.” She carefully continued to stroke his iron cock while she cruised his pectorals and toyed her index fingertip in the curly amber hairs hiding his nipples. Her sharp nail on his rubbery pips shot thrills to his balls. He quivered and snorted with each desire-provoking zing.
As Charles submissively flopped, he gazed unseeing up at the bedroom’s stippled ceiling. Colleen swiveled, clambered across his supine body and knelt by his right hip, near to her work. “Mmm hmm,” she hummed encouragingly. “I think this’ll do quite nicely.” He groaned as heat raced from his gonads through his gut. She lifted her finger from his chest to his lips, traced them, then gently probed past his teeth and laid it two-knuckles-deep on his tongue as she shushed him, saying, “No, Baby… you don’t have to say anything… Mommy can tell what you like. Suck my finger. I’ll make you squirmy.”
Charles couldn’t hear his angel’s words for the cotton fuzz in his ears and mind, but the music in her voice filled his soul with wonder. Happily, he drew on her joint and smiled through lidded eyes. Colleen didn’t know what had possessed her to stick her finger in her son’s mouth, but the sensation reminded her of the pleasure that she had derived and given when Wally used to cradle her head while she slurped his hot shooting semen. She longed to replace the hard lump that she felt in her itching throat with another, harder, lump.
Careful not to disturb Charlie’s avid feeding, Collen swung her right leg across his thighs and crouched low to the throbbing obelisk in her pulsing fist. Craning her neck, she divided his fat testicles with her tongue, then swirled them in a figure-eight pattern. He reflexively dropped his hands to her neck, then buried his fingers in her locks. “Oh, my God,” she thought, as she felt her juices burst and lubricate her pussy. “Like father, like son. Thank you, Wally, for teaching me, so that now I can teach and enjoy Charlie!”
Raising her head, Colleen replaced her tongue on Charles’ eggs with her cupped closed right hand while she enveloped his dickhead with her mouth. Its blood pounded wonderfully against her cheeks as she pulled against its flanged rim then took his full length in until it slid past her glottis. Proudly, she thought, “Over four years, but I still can relax and not choke…” She slithered back to the helmet’s edge and rejoiced as Charles’ holding hands kneaded her scalp appreciatively.
In his wildest sex fantasies, Charles hadn’t imagined the fabulous joy his mother’s mouth brought him. He hiked his hips from the waterbed and simultaneously pulled her head to his crotch. Keeping her captured, he flexed his prick and closed his thighs about her ears. He wanted to fuck her throat raw and then soothe it with his ejaculating balm.
Colleen’s eyes widened and teared up as her boy’s meat lanced deep into her gullet. His firm grip restrained her, then relaxed and allowed her to retreat just before her gag reflex forced her to cough. Her respite was merely momentary. He jammed her face to his pubis and again held her sealed to his pubes.
When Charles eased up once more, Colleen inhaled a great gulp through her nose and prepared herself for a third plunge, but fate was merciful. The inexperienced gaziantep genç escort teen couldn’t contain his balls’ inspired response. As her head move back and his soft glans raked her hard palate, the friction was too much. While his bulb blasted her cavern’s roof and walls, he giddily shouted, “MOMMM! You DID it! I’m cumming again!”
Colleen was glad for the serendipity. She sucked, swallowed and swabbed the spurting semen as fast as it came. As she did so, her heart sang and her pussy percolated. Her excitement didn’t reach orgasmic heights, but she was imbued with complete satisfaction.
Moments after the fountain subsided, Charles released Colleen’s head, moved his hands to her armpits and hauled her upward onto his body like a human blanket. Kissing her deeply, he tasted his own seed as she shimmied her bare tits, belly and cunt against him in their embrace. Huskily, he said, “Thanks, Mom. Do you really have to go somewhere right now? I’m tired again and want to snuggle and nap with you a little more.”
Colleen peered lovingly into her now not-so-innocent son’s eyes and brushed her hand lightly through his brush-cut as she thought about how her world, their world, had permanently changed. Sighing, she burbled, “I don’t need to go anywhere, Charlie. Hold me here as long as you like.” He smiled, affectionately tightened his coiled arms around her warmth, then closed his eyes and dropped off to sleep.
It was just past noon when Charles awoke next. His stomach rumbled and he heard a shower running. Rubbing the sleep matter from his eyes, he rolled left off the bouncy waterbed then started for the master bathroom, but thought better of it and stopped abruptly. As he stood in front of his mother’s mirrored dresser, he decided he should learn more about her sizes and her fashion taste in intimate apparel.
The first drawer Charles opened was all panties and honeysuckle sachets. He smiled immediately as he picked up an ivory rayon tricot pair and saw his hands’ details through the thin material. Neither opaque, nor quite sheer, the high-cut full-seat briefs’ texture was uniquely smooth and rough all at the same time. As he rubbed the fabric between his fingertips sensual messages raced through his body and his naked dick twitched.
The other panties appeared to be similarly styled, but some were plain cotton while others were slick pearlescent satin. Charles noted the tags were all marked ‘Medium’, except for a beige tricot one which read ‘Size 6 (27-29)’, which he assumed was his mother’s waist size in inches. There wasn’t much range in the colors. Most were white or cream or ivory and none were pastel or dark colors.
The next drawer Charles investigated yielded Colleen’s bras. All were underwired with wide bands supporting deep plunging cups. Their tags read ’34D’ which didn’t mean as much to him as how wonderful her tits felt when he held them himself, but it was useful information that he was glad to have. As he stared at the neatly arrayed lingerie, he nodded his head thoughtfully, then closed the drawers and left the bedroom.
In his own room, Charles quickly dressed then retrieved the pink-and-black gift card he had hidden away in his sock drawer Friday afternoon. Hurrying quietly from the house, he drove to the Quadrangle Mall, parked his Mazda and walked straight to the Victoria’s Secret. Filled with new-found confidence, he strode purposefully through the store’s entrance without caring who else might be there shopping. The only person who noticed him at all was the same pleasant mature saleswoman who had helped him before.
“Hi there,” said the smiling clerk. “You’re back!” She saw right away that Charles was different than when they first met. She didn’t know why he seemed less shy and more determined. Behind her professional poker-face, she fretted, “I hope he hasn’t chickened out and isn’t trying to return the gift card.”
Charles didn’t stop moving until he was chest-to-chest with the saleswoman. As her fragrance hit his nose, he stepped back a foot and apologized, as he pulled out his wallet and flashed the card, “Sorry, didn’t mean to crowd you! But, man, I am glad you are here…” Realizing he was practically panting, he consciously paused, took in a long breath, then continued, “I changed my mind and don’t want my mom to have to come in and buy something for herself. She’s almost forty. I want to get her something that will make her feel, like, you know, she’s young and, and…”
“…Still sexy?” Chimed in the clerk. She chuckled silently at the teen’s naivety. She was, herself, thirty-seven years old, and related to the many women, who, like her, kept their youth by wearing daring beautiful undergarments. “I know just what you mean,” she added, as she calculated correctly her persuasive strength. Using just the right amount of motherly control, she reached out, grasped his right upper arm and guided him deeper into the store.
As she led her lamb, gaziantep genç escort bayan the saleswoman casually intoned, “You are an exceptionally thoughtful son, but to get something that is just right, you might need to spend a little more than you already put on that card. Is that okay? Or do you want to stick with ‘the bargain table’?” She well knew the power of a careful chosen word spoken with a hint of derisive consequence.
“Oh, no,” Charles swiftly answered. “I have more money. That’s no problem, as long as, like you say, it’s ‘just right.’ Have you got anything lacy in red, or black, or some color that’s not, you know, uh, blah?” He coughed as he tried to say ‘skimpy’ and ‘revealing’ without using that exact language.
“Oh, you poor boy,” thought the clerk. “You really have it bad. I wish I could be there when your mother opens her present. She’ll either kiss your or slap you, or maybe both!” Out loud, she replied, “I have a couple of ideas which I’m sure you’ll just love.” Twenty minutes and sixty dollars in addition to the gift card later, Charles left Victoria’s Secret with a large box.
While Charles explored her most personal wardrobe, Colleen stood under her spraying shower head mulling, “What’s the likelihood that I’m pregnant if I ovulated today?” As she remembered learning that a woman’s egg could only be fertilized up to twenty-four hours after it left its ovary, she speculated hopefully, “And sometimes an egg is only viable for twelve hours.” Frowning, she recalled, “Ford fucked me three times between ten and midnight, so maybe I’m safe there, if I didn’t have an egg waiting for him.”
Colleen’s mind reminded her, “Yes, but don’t forget, a man’s sperm can hide out in your womb for up to five days, so you may not be out of the woods before Tuesday, and maybe not even then. Don’t forget that Charlie loaded you up twice more just since six o’clock this morning!”
Colleen idly rubbed her wet belly then clasped her hand over her dripping dusky pubic curls as she considered, “Okay, worst case basis, there’s still only about an eight percent chance of a pregnancy under the most optimal circumstances. So, let’s see… five times point oh-eight is forty percent…” Her head started to hurt and she burst out, “Oh, that can’t be right! But it can’t be too far wrong, either!” She sighed, turned off the taps and stepped from the stall into the steamy room.
Standing at her sink, Colleen stabbed out her right index finger and drew on the fogged mirror glass a wavy line silhouette of a profiled woman with a baby bump. Then, wiping it away, she exclaimed, “Que sera, sera!” As she toweled herself dry, she resolved again, “No Plan B. I’ve only ever made love to three men and all of them are Womacks. One of them gave me a son and now maybe one of them will give me another, or perhaps a daughter. Any way the dice roll is okay with me.”
Lighter in heart, with her headache gone, Colleen exited to the bedroom. Noticing that her son was no longer in her bed, she pulled on her velour robe, scuffed into her pink slippers then patrolled the small house calling out, “Do you want me to make you a sandwich, Charlie?” As she realized that she was alone, she muttered, “Boys!”
An hour or so later at the Pomeroy house, Edgar, momentarily disoriented, roused in his daughter’s queen-size bed. Mixed triumphant guilt swirled through his brain as he remembered where he was and what he had done. Looking into her sweet placid face, he recalled her enthusiastic ecstasy as he took her virginity. His libido outwrestled his fatherly feelings; his prick maximally stiffened and his swelling chest ached.
When Edgar’s hard shaft pushed its soft nose over her thigh’s smooth bare skin, Suzanne opened her eyes and sleepily smiled as she greeted, “Hi there, Daddy… does that mean you want us to ‘do each other’ some more?”
Edgar hesitated less than a second then answered throatily, “Only if you want to, too.” Stroking his right hand over her naked right titty to her firm abdomen, he dipped his long fingertip into her shallow navel as he followed-up, “Do you want to be your daddy’s best girl, Buttercup? Hmmmm?”
Suzanne covered her father’s hand with her own and pushed it lower, past her downy motte to her lubricating netherlips. Coaxing him to insert a finger, or two, in her itching vagina, she murmured, “Uhn-huhn… but I’m going to want a lot of attention. Won’t Mom have something to say about that?”
Edgar hooked his ring finger through Suzanne’s slick iris and grunted, “Not if we don’t tell her. What she doesn’t know can’t hurt her, can it?” He grinned as he watched the facial reaction while he tickled his little girl’s G-spot and simultaneously pressed his thumb firmly on her exposed clitoris.
Suzanne sucked in a sharp breath and squeaked, “N-no… won’t tell… UHN! More!”
Suddenly remembering how sexy and desirable Suzanne looked earlier in the kitchen with her cereal milk dribbling from her mouth’s as her admonished not to talk with her mouth full, Edgar pulled his hand from her cunt and thrust his sticky finger past her teeth. “Here’s a little more, Buttercup,” he declared. “Taste yourself on my knuckle.” He let her coo for a moment then took away her little lollipop and replaced it with his bigger all-day sucker as he gutturally ordered her, “Now taste this and you’ll get all the ‘more’ that you can handle.” | <urn:uuid:4d6645fe-7f42-40f1-a12c-9bb2b78b0639> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://zargana.biz/dweeb-ch-07-more/ | 2024-04-19T13:26:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817398.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419110125-20240419140125-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.984499 | 5,187 |
Many people have often thought about what is more profitable: to ride your own car or use Uber. A similar question arises for companies who need to test their product on real devices: to set up their own device farm or to use a public device farm. We will clarify it below. Furthermore we will consider two public device farms.
Uber is cheaper than using a private car, if you drive in the city not more than 91 km per month in USA, not more that 98 km per month in UK, not more than 67 km in German. Let’s see how things are with test automation, when you need to choose between a public device farm devices and a creation of your own device farm.
Device Farm is a testing environment that helps to test remotely the performance of web and mobile applications on various real devices. Device Farm includes both modern and outdated devices from multiple manufacturers.
The need for device farms arose when the smartphone market started. Even then testers had to test applications on various physical devices and on various OS to make sure that everything works fine. But every year, more and more new smartphone models enter the market, and now almost every day new models come to market. Moreover, different models have different versions of firmware, which makes manual testing more lengthy. To reduce the amount of manpower involved, some companies started to create device rental services, or private device farms.
Now you can use a specific device from the device farm remotely: if the developer or QA engineer works from home or even from another country. In practice, it works as follows: through remote access a special script is run, which simulates the user’s behavior on a particular device.
Public device farms are farms that provide separate devices for public usage.
Using Public Device Farm can be a good solution for midsize businesses that care about quality assurance of its product. At the same time these businesses can’t afford to maintain a large QA team or large number of devices for testing.
Public device farm allows you to:
- Run tests on the same devices that your customers use.
- Simulate real customer issues that may occur in real life while using your software.
- Access numerous devices from different manufacturers with different features, different versions of OS, and firmwares.
Public device farms work with various types of cloud, such as public, private, on-premise. So you can not worry about the security of your data and customers’ data.
Private device farms are farms that individual companies create for their own use. They use devices that they have and unite them in one system with access through a cloud. Every employee gets access to every device from anywhere.
Private device farms can be useful for customer service. A customer with a faulty device can connect it to a private device farm through the cloud and allow the technical specialist to fix the issue remotely. Once the customer disconnects from the farm, remote access to its device is immediately terminated.
If your company already has all devices necessary for testing, then it’s a great idea to create your own private device farm. If you don’t have all the necessary devices to build your own private device farm, it’s better to use a public farm.
Let’s see how device farms work comparing 2 products.
AWS Device Farm is a service for testing Android, iOS, and Web applications on real devices such as smartphones, tablets, desktop web-browsers, and improving the quality of tested products. The service allows to execute test-cases in parallel, generates logs and video to rapidly fix the bugs identified. AWS Device Farm is used for automation testing and for testing with remote access.
The workflow of automation testing with AWS Device Farm:
- Step 1. The customer selects an app (native, hybrid, or web app) to test.
- Step 2. AWS Device Farm tests the customer’s application against selected real devices (smartphones, tablets). Developers get access to selected devices through local host-machines.
- Step 3. The customer gets results with marked bugs and performance issues.
Features and benefits of AWS Device Farm:
- Testing native, hybrid and web-applications on mobile devices.
- Testing cross-platform applications including apps created with PhoneGap, Titanium, Xamarin, Unity, and other frameworks.
- Automated tests against a wide range of smartphones and OS versions.
- Remote access to screen via browser and interaction with devices (gesturing, swiping and interacting with devices for Android apps).
- Parallel running of tests against a range of devices.
- Using built-in or open-source test frameworks Janet, RLi, others.
- Integration with multiple AWS services, including solutions for different market industries (advertising and marketing, media, entertainment, game tech, IoT, and more) and various business aims (analytics, data storage, machine learning, data security, and more).
- Test environment can be configured by location, language, network connection, application data, pre-installed apps to simulate real-world customer conditions.
Why AWS Device Farm suites not for all customers
- This is an expensive tool when you use it intensively.
- Not very clear reporting.
- UI could be better. Some customers have problems with understanding how to use the functionality of this tool.
- Limits for devices. Almost all devices are public. The customer couldn’t keep one device more than 150 minutes per session for manual and automated testing.
Zebrunner Device Farm is a physical device farm for mobile testing, works with private and on-premise types of cloud. Customers get full access to the devices through ADB, and the ability to develop and debug remotely. Zebrunner Device Farm provides a cross-platform solution, a private mobile cloud for testing apps. A private cloud ensures the highest level of security.
What problems Zebrunner Device Farm solves
Necessity to execute a large amount of automated tests daily (500+). At the same time, using a public device farm for this purpose is expensive.
Complex test flow, where simply test-cases require an interaction with multiple mobile platforms, web, API, and IoT devices.
Ensuring the highest level of data security, mandatory for a number of industries.
Main features of Zebrunner Device Farm
Multithreaded tests execution. You can divide the test-suite into multiple threads, when you need a rapid result of test execution. You also can run a simple thread for deep regression coverage of every device.
Dockerized container. Each device has its own dockerized container. If you need to restart Appium or ADB service, it’s not necessary to restart the entire cloud, it’s enough to restart the container for a separate device.
Full control over the selected device. Each selected device is accessible through the admin panel. The customer has full control for manipulation, logging, screenshots/videos.
Plug-n-play. Easily remove mobile devices, when you need it for manual testing. When you’re done, plug it back, and it will work automatically.
Integrations. Use tools that you prefer and get results from them in one place. Retrieve the results directly where you want to work with them: Jenkins, Teamcity, TestRail, JIRA, Slack and many more.
Automation Frameworks. Run mobile test scripts using Selenium, Appium, Carina, XCUI Test, UI Automator, Protractor, Custom Test.
Zebrunner Device Farm benefits
Pricing. We apply elastic pricing when you pay just for time of using this tool. This price includes access to private cloud, dedicated set of devices, secure access via SSO, parallel test execution, automated and manual test scenarios, permanent access and full control, hardware installation and maintenance.
High speed of test running and test execution. Zebrunner Device Farm allows users to run hundreds of tests in parallel and get the results within minutes.
Security. Support team can configure the entire infrastructure directly in your office or in a remote data center, ensuring compliance with all IPSEC and data protection standards.
Rapid scaling. You can use as many devices as you need.
Uber Business Model is beneficial in automated testing in such cases as:
- You have a small or medium-sized company, and you care about quality assurance, but can’t afford to create your own QA department and purchase a necessary number of devices for testing.
- You are in a hurry to release your apps faster and want to save time on testing and processing of test results. Even if your company has its own testers and devices for testing, the process itself is very time-consuming. Sometimes it’s a good solution to save man-hours and use professional service from third-party device farms. As a rule device farms allow to run multiple threads in parallel and save time on testing and analytics of test results significantly.
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Choko Tip Omelette
- 2 x Zenag Eggs
- 2 tbsp chopped onion or shallots
- 1½ fresh baby chocko tips
- Spray a non stick frying pan with cooking oil or add a knob of butter to a medium heated pan. Gently cook onion over medium heat until tender. Add chocko tips and cook until soft, stirring occasionally. Set aside.
- Beat Zenag Eggs and season with salt and pepper.
- Pour in the Zenag Egg mixture into the pan and move the pan around to spread the egg mixture out evenly. As the mixture begins to firm up and sets at the edges, add the onion/choko tips on one side of the omelette, and using a spatula gently fold one half over the onion/choko.
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What You Need to Know About Oxycodone Overdose
Oxycodone is a prescription medication used to treat severe pain. It’s a semi-synthetic opioid that’s similar to codeine and morphine. Oxycodone is available as an immediate-release or extended-release drug with the brand names Tylox, Percodan, and OxyContin.
Oxycodone can be highly addictive, and people who use it may quickly develop a tolerance to it. This means they’ll need to take larger and larger doses to get the same effect.
Tolerance can lead to addiction and oxycodone overdose. Here’s what you need to know.
At Zinnia Health, we offer a comprehensive approach that can help people struggling with oxycodone addiction overcome their disease and build a foundation for long-term recovery. For assistance, call our helpline 24/7 at (855) 430-9439.
Can You Overdose on Oxycodone?
Yes, as with other prescription opioids, you can overdose on oxycodone.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), people who abuse oxycodone may start crushing and snorting it or dissolving it in water and injecting it.
These methods increase the risk of overdose because they deliver a large amount of the drug directly into the bloodstream.
What to Do in An Emergency?
If you suspect someone close to you is overdosing on oxycodone, call 911 immediately.
Please call 911 right away to get help and advice for a person who is overdosing.
What Are the Treatment Options for an Oxycodone Overdose?
If you suspect that someone has overdosed on oxycodone, it is essential to call 911 immediately. The best way to treat an opioid overdose is with the anti-overdose medication naloxone, which can reverse the effects of opioids like oxycodone.
Naloxone is available as a nasal spray or injectable. In most states, it can be administered by laypeople in an emergency.
It is essential to remember that naloxone is not a cure-all. It will only work if administered within a certain timeframe after the person has taken oxycodone.
People who have overdosed on oxycodone may also require additional emergency room treatment, such as oxygen therapy or artificial ventilation.
Is an Oxycodone Overdose Dangerous?
Overdosing on oxycodone is a very serious matter. While the drug is designed to help relieve severe and chronic pain, taking too much of it can be dangerous.
An oxycodone overdose can lead to brain damage and even death.
How Much Oxycodone Does It Take To Overdose?
The amount of oxycodone it takes to cause an overdose varies from person to person, and it depends on factors such as individual weight, height, and tolerance to the drug.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that taking more than 20-50 morphine milligram equivalents (MME) per day can increase the risk of overdose.
What Are the Signs and Symptoms of an Oxycodone Overdose?
Symptoms of an oxycodone overdose may include:
- Slow heart rate
- Shallow breathing
- Loss of consciousness or coma
Other Oxycodone Side Effect Complications
While oxycodone is effective at alleviating pain, it can also have many adverse side effects, including:
- Nausea and vomiting
- Drowsiness and confusion
Withdrawal symptoms include:
- Muscle aches
- Abdominal cramps
- Nausea and vomiting
Overcoming an oxycodone addiction can be a long and difficult road. However, at Zinnia Health, we offer a unique approach that can help people get their lives back on track. For support, call our helpline 24/7 at (855) 430-9439. We work with most healthcare providers.
What Increases The Risk of an Oxycodone Overdose?
The most common cause of an oxycodone overdose is taking too much of the drug at once.
Other risk factors include mixing oxycodone with alcohol or other drugs such as fentanyl, having a medical condition that affects how the body metabolizes the drug, and taking oxycodone for an extended period.
Why Does an Oxycodone Overdose Occur?
There are many reasons why an oxycodone overdose may occur.
- The drug can be incredibly addictive, and people who misuse it may take extremely high doses because they have built up a tolerance.
- Oxycodone is often mixed with other drugs or alcohol, increasing the risk of overdose.
- People may accidentally take too much oxycodone if they do not properly understand how to use the medication.
How to Tell If Someone Is on Oxycodone?
One of the most common signs of oxycodone abuse is changes in mood or behavior.
People who abuse oxycodone may seem irritable, withdrawn, or secretive. They may also have sudden changes in their sleep patterns or eating habits.
Another sign of oxycodone abuse is changes in physical appearance. People misusing this drug may lose weight, have unusual bruises or marks on their bodies, or wear long-sleeved shirts even in warm weather to cover up needle marks.
People abusing oxycodone may have slurred speech, constricted pupils, or seek out new sources of the drug when their usual supply runs out.
Why Would Someone Take Oxycodone?
Because it can be addictive, oxycodone is usually only prescribed for short-term use. However, there are some legitimate reasons why someone might take oxycodone.
For example, if they have been in a serious accident or have undergone surgery, they may need it for pain relief. Oxycodone can also relieve pain from cancer or other chronic conditions.
People who use oxycodone recreationally do so because it produces a feeling of euphoria. Oxycodone users may also feel relaxed and calm. Some people use oxycodone to self-medicate mental health conditions such as anxiety or depression.
How to Help Someone With an Oxycodone Use Disorder?
Here’s how to help friends and family members with an oxycodone use disorder:
- It’s important to understand that opioid addiction is a disease, not a choice. This means that the person struggling with addiction is not solely responsible for their condition.
- Avoid enabling addictive behavior. For example, don’t provide the individual with money or access to drugs. Instead, you should provide them with resources and support to get treatment.
- Don’t be afraid to seek medical attention. Addiction is a complex disease and often requires the help of a trained professional to overcome it. If you or someone you know is struggling with an oxycodone use disorder, don’t hesitate to reach out for help.
For those struggling with oxycodone addiction and opioid use disorder, Zinnia Health can offer a new way forward. Zinnia Health is a unique rehabilitation center that specializes in helping people overcome drug abuse, including oxycodone addiction. If you or someone you know is struggling with oxycodone addiction, please call our helpline 24/7 at (855) 430-9439. | <urn:uuid:adb473a1-76df-43b2-8803-bc651f0cab46> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://zinniahealth.com/substance-use/oxycodone/overdose | 2024-04-19T12:24:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817398.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419110125-20240419140125-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.936702 | 1,519 |
ZUN Front Exhaust Flex Pipe For Honda Accord 2.4L V4 2003-2007 52349 34961558
NOTE: Please check the size of the product, especially the bolts, before buying.
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Anthropologists did not work for business until recently. They even did not study it. Today participation of anthropologists in business processes has become a trend. What can an anthropologist do for business?
✦ Doing complete ethnographic research
✦ Understanding how your business works in terms of social mechanisms
✦ Localising your problem within the general context of the activity of your enterprise
✦ Approaching it holistically
✦ Strengthening your working community culture while knowing the rules of how cultures function
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NavTuner: Learning a Scene-Sensitive Family of Navigation Policies
The advent of deep learning has inspired research into end-to-end learning for a variety of problem domains in robotics. For navigation, the resulting methods may not have the generalization properties desired let alone match the performance of traditional methods. Instead of learning a navigation policy, we explore learning an adaptive policy in the parameter space of an existing navigation module. Having adaptive parameters provides the navigation module with a family of policies that can be dynamically reconfigured based on the local scene structure, and addresses the common assertion in machine learning that engineered solutions are inflexible. Of the methods tested, reinforcement learning (RL) is shown to provide a significant performance boost to a modern navigation method through reduced sensitivity of its success rate to environmental clutter. The outcomes indicate that RL as a meta-policy learner, or dynamic parameter tuner, effectively robustifies algorithms sensitive to external, measurable nuisance factors.
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Projective Inference in High-dimensional Problems: Prediction and Feature Selection
This paper discusses predictive inference and feature selection for generalized linear models with scarce but high-dimensional data. We argue that in many cases one can benefit from a decision theoretically justified two-stage approach: first, construct a possibly non-sparse model that predicts well, and then find a minimal subset of features that characterize the predictions. The model built in the first step is referred to as the reference model and the operation during the latter step as predictive projection. The key characteristic of this approach is that it finds an excellent tradeoff between sparsity and predictive accuracy, and the gain comes from utilizing all available information including prior and that coming from the left out features. We review several methods that follow this principle and provide novel methodological contributions. We present a new projection technique that unifies two existing techniques and is both accurate and fast to compute. We also propose a way of evaluating the feature selection process using fast leave-one-out cross-validation that allows for easy and intuitive model size selection. Furthermore, we prove a theorem that helps to understand the conditions under which the projective approach could be beneficial. The benefits are illustrated via several simulated and real world examples.
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On 9th December 2007, Brisbane's Lord Mayor Campbell Newman officially opened the Forest Lake Water Treatment Plant as part of the regional drought relief strategy. Collectively, these 5 (Sunnybank, Runcorn, Algester, Chandler & Forest Lake) plants provide an additional 20Ml/d of high quality potable water into the network. Despite the very challenging programme, all plants to be delivered for Brisbane have been
commissioned well ahead of the Target Date of 31st December 2007, a clear demonstration of the commitment and excellent performance of the BCAA Alliance Team.
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Aquatec Maxcon acknowledges the Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia and we recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
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By Frank Moher
A young woman died of a drug overdose in Vancouver yesterday. Her name was Ashley. She became one of the approximately 120 people who will die of drug overdoses in Vancouver this year.
She happened to be at the Occupy Vancouver encampment when she died.
Or perhaps it wasn’t coincidental. Perhaps she had been drawn there by the communal spirit of the place. By a desire for company. Or safety. Maybe she was there because she believed in its ideals. Or wished she could. At any rate, that’s where she was.
It has been instructive, overnight, to watch her death congeal into a reason to shut down Occupy Vancouver, especially among journalists. One watches this, of course, on twitter:
garymasonglobe Gary MasonGregor Robertson has no choice now. The OV camp has to come down. Now. This isn’t about politics any longer.fabulavancouver Frances BulaCan see why this death an argumnt for shuttng camp. If you claim you’re in charge, you are responsibe. Imagine if a shelter had an OD deathrodmickleburgh Rod MickleburghThe point that #OccupyVancouver needs to consider is whether the occupation at VAG makes any sense any more, the original cause is forgottengarymasonglobe Gary Mason#occupyvancouver is a health and safety issue now. The original cause is beside the point.
steveburgess1 Steve Burgess@rodmickleburgh Eventually it was going to be about itself. It always happens.acoyne Andrew Coyne
Mr. (James Andrew) Coyne, son of James Coyne, the governor of the Bank of Canada from 1955 to 1961, appears to be saying that the Occupy movement has always been “about itself” — in other words, one big self-indulgent wank. Perhaps we should be grateful: It’s not often Coyne so candidly tips his hand.
One plaintive note of logic was sounded among Canadian journos:
colbycosh Colby CoshHow can a death at Occupy Vancouver be a cause for breaking up the camp in the absence of any real knowledge of the cause?
And so they did — overreact, that is. By the end of the evening, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, in the middle of an election campaign, and knowing that all this self-satisfied hand-wringing would show up in the newspapers over the next 24 hours, had announced that the city would “expedite the appropriate steps to end the encampment as soon as possible, with a safe resolution being absolutely critical.” Good luck with that, Mr. Mayor.
Journalists such as Mason et al. are paid to think — but only for a moment or two. Then they must produce their required column inches of opinion. So, in fact, what they mostly do is react, and, as we have seen, with no less emotion and bluster than most people. They simply have a knack for expressing it better. We can hope that by the time they get around to generating their think-pieces today, they will have gotten over the notion that Ashley’s death is any more meaningful, or any less, than those of the other 120 people who die of drug overdoses in Vancouver every year, and that somehow it means the Occupy Vancouver encampment should be shut down. That is an absurdity. Chasing the protestors off the art gallery lawn will make no difference to the numbers of addicts who die each year; it will simply guarantee that they go back to doing it on the streets of the Downtown East Side, where they may be comfortably ignored.
Of course, maybe that’s the point. Much of the middle-class is discomfited by the Occupy the World movement, and would like to see it go away — why should journalists be any different? But if that’s the case, they should just admit it’s all too messy and amorphous for them, and that they’d prefer to be able to watch football without the distraction. (The Lions game was another trending topic among them last night.) But let them not invoke Ashley and cry crocodile tears for her while they do it.
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A question I recently saw on Stack Overflow titled Faster way to delete matching [database] rows? prompted me to organize my thoughts and observations on the subject and quickly jot them down here.
Here is the brief description of the task: say, you have 2 MySQL tables a and b. The tables contain the same type of data, for example log entries. Now you want to delete all or a subset of the entries in table a that exist in table b.
Solutions Suggested By Others
DELETE FROM a WHERE EXISTS (SELECT b.id FROM b WHERE b.id = a.id); |
Updated: September 16th, 2012
Slave delay can be a nightmare. I battle it every day and know plenty of people who curse the serialization problem of replication. For those who are not familiar with it, replication on MySQL slaves runs commands in series – one by one, while the master may run them in parallel. This fact usually causes bottlenecks. Consider these 2 examples:
- Between 1 and 100 UPDATE queries are constantly running on the master in parallel. If the slave IO is only fast enough to handle 50 of them without lagging, as soon as 51 start running, the slaves starts to lag.
- A more common problem is when one query takes an hour to run (let's say, it's an UPDATE with a | <urn:uuid:f1f926a1-b607-4df9-ac5a-55759cd6fed6> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | http://beerpla.net/tag/replication/ | 2024-04-20T16:05:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.924979 | 283 |
Food makes us who we are. If we talk about physical strength, presence of mind, our height, weight etc all these things depend on the type of food we eat. Food provides us nutrients, vitamins and minerals which are required for our growth and wellbeing. Sadly, not all food is good for us and for our health. The foods that are not good for our health are junk food. The nutrients like vitamins and minerals are too less in junk food while the amount of calories are more. Most fried foods are processed food, thus are not in their natural state. Fried food is generally high in calories. An unhealthy fried patty burger, alone, contains over 1,200 calories.
Unhelpful effects of junk food:
2) High blood pressure
Kamala nehru college
B.a. Philosophy (honrs)
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I’ve been friends with Sarah’s mother, Sallie, for a few years now – we met thanks to knitting and discovered early on that we both love the same colors – we’ve even bought almost the same yarn in the past! So I’ve heard about Sarah & Sean for some time now.
When I was asked last year to photograph Sarah & Sean’s wedding, I was super excited. Every wedding is special, but it takes on a special dimension when you know the family personally. I photographed their engagement session in February – my first chance to meet Sean – and had so much fun. I knew it was going to be a special day, and it didn’t disappoint at all!
Thank you again to Sarah & Sean – and both of their families – for letting us be a part of their wedding. If you have a moment, check out the photos from their engagement session and the sneak preview of their wedding on the wedding photography blog. | <urn:uuid:6a952de0-b93d-48dd-940d-bbee80fd0f0a> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | http://bigpinkcookie.com/tag/wedding-photographer/page/2/ | 2024-04-20T16:12:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.973615 | 204 |
SCHMUCK 2014 – Munich – 12-18 Mars 2014
Schmuck exhibition opening BLANCO
We present to you BLANCO, an international group of young jewellery makers.
Within the connecting point of the Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht we all developed our own approach to the making of jewellery, at the same time we were always fascinated by each other. Our diversity is characterized by following subjects: the ideal of beauty, one’s self-awareness, aesthetics and oddness, tactile perception and fragility, as well as the use of symbols in our visual culture, the bridgeover of cultural differences and the confrontation with the past. Now the time has come to continue our creative exchange and open up to the audience. BLANCO is a starting point for us as beginners and a meeting point. Therefor we like to cordially invite you to our exhibition.
Christie Schellings — Babs Zwanink — Anne Eissen — Heike Tittes – Sangji Yun – Anke Huyben
« I make jewelry for the world to show my ideals. My work always has a direct relationship to the body. They originate classical use of costumes. I take it to it and process them into a new story. »
« The increasing digital world leaves his marks on our daily lives. The volatility of those thousand of photo images floating around like a ‘blur’ in the air. Where are all those things that we wanted to preserve by capturing it with a camera? I want to cherish the tangible and let people see the fragility in both the analog and digital world. By wearing it you still get the sense of reality and preciousness, which is lost in the digital world. You can preserve the purity of capturing the moments by treasuring the piece with love and care, to never forget that fragile things are there to cherish. « (Fragile Volatility)
Sangji Yun – Confrontation with the past – Stranger, aluminum, steel, installation and brooches, 2013
Anke Huyben – Rash necklace – A series of necklaces made by causing a rash around the neck
Anke Huyben - « Lekker indrukbaar » is a project about my body and how I sometimes am dissatisfied with it. To hide the parts of my body I feel insecure about I take certain postures to cover them up. But by assuming these postures I in fact draw attention to these body parts. The space between my breasts when I cross my arms, the space between my stomach and my crossed legs;
these opening in my closed postures are casted in bronze. By wearing these bronze objects I force myself in these comforting postures that, in contrary with their intention, emphasize my vulnerabilities.
Anke Huyben – « Lekker indrukbaar »
« A piece of jewellery is a decoration of the body. Without the body it cannot exist.
I study the body as carrier of the jewellery and I take my personal obsessions and insecurities about my body as the starting point.
I don’t offer solutions but just seek to visualize them »
Anne Eissen - Sysiphos
« In contrast to the perception that contemporary means fast, digital and short-lived, there is another one, which is all about craftsmanship and staying busy by making things with your own hands.
Thereby objects are able to constantly change under your influence.
I enjoy having this influence and stay close to my work. Even if it is a never ending business sometimes.«
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Some of my friends and family will not be voting for Obama. Many others won't be voting for him either. It surprises me that any citizen can vote against Obama. Or that anyone can vote for Romney. Here is why I am for Obama.
Our country is heading is the right direction with Obama. Being an older guy - I had a different Romney sticker on my car in 1968 - perhaps I take a longer view. History is important.
So I look at the dire situation this country was in at the time GM was facing bankruptcy. Job losses were huge. The stock market was losing value. Personal wealth and in particular home values were going negative. The world was on the brink of a depression. The Democratic team in government moved us away from this doom. So I am for Obama.
The deficit and the debt is a threat but to solve either unemployment must be lower. First, employment is heading in the right direction. Look at these charts and situation either candidate will face in January. Lower unemployment. Booming housing market. And better consumer confidence. The United States is back thanks to the last four years. So I am for Obama.
But back to the deficit and debt. People often talk about these together and they are two different problems. So I want to focus on the deficit and then the debt. First the current situation is not dire given the historically low interest rates that treasuries are now paying. Second, the deficit is being reduced because of the economic situation I just mentioned. Third, is there any reason to believe that a Republican administration can reduce the deficit? History shows us that Democrats are better able to do this than Republicans. Just look at Clinton's surpluses verus Bush's deficits. Fourth, tax cut will not reduce the deficit - see Ben Stien on Fox and Friends. So I am for Obama.
Now to the debt. Politician are right to talk about this as something that we leave our children. Politicians tend to kick problems down the road. Our current debt crisis is overwhelming a result of the previous Republican President, Vice President and Congress. Look at this one chart that shows the huge problems caused by the Bush tax cuts and the unbudgeted wars. Romney's and Ryan's support of continuing the tax cuts is the wrong direction. So I am for Obama.
Science advances our civilization. The anti-intellectual leanings of the previous Republican administration is not something I want to go back to. Embracing the anti-climate change views is just one example. Steven Chu appointment as Secretary of Energy is one example of were professionalism mattered for this administration. So I am for Obama.
Less government is a nice rallying call. But often people say this when they really mean that they don't trust government. But let's first look at less government. Government employment is down. Here is the chart showing public sector employment. Part of the reason we have a slow recovery is because we have taken the path of less government. But you cannot want less government and then blame Obama for slow recovery too. So I am for Obama.
The social conservatives really don't believe is less government. They are against gay marriage. Defense of Marriage Act was so misnamed. They don't want individuals make decisions on abortion. Andrew Sullivan has called this out over the years. So I am for Obama.
Trust in government. Is government more efficient that the marketplace? No. But does that mean that every function of government should be privatized. Absolutely not. Look at the poor history of chartered schools. Look at the problems with military and semi-military contractors. Look a prisions. A company running a prison wants more business and not to find a way to reduce the prison population. So I trust government. I understand that you may not. But I do. So I am for Obama.
The disgrace of voter suppression and non-existant voter fraud must be blamed on the Republicans. The voter id laws that Republican legislatures have passed is one of the most anti-democratic acts that I can remember in my lifetime. How can any candidate support this? It is unpopular to be against voter id but the Department of Justice has acted. So I am for Obama.
The other disgrace of the last few years has been the Republican Congress. During their first year of a majority in the House they did virtually nothing for job creation. They passed bills isolely for publicity and not to help the country. Their unified stance to be against anything the President recommended was selfish and echoes of the legislative problems in Congress pre-civil war. Obama has some blame as Woodward points out in his book. This situation worries me greatly. But many individual Republicans in Congress took this stand. So I am for Obama.
Libya may have been Obama's finest hour contrary to what we are now seeing in the news. I believe history will show Hillary Clinton as an outstanding Secretary of State. This is speculation and history will decide. But there should be little doubt that our relationship with our allies is improved. Our country is still paying for the reckless acts of the neocons of the previous administration who are Romney's advisors. So I am for Obama.
Even if one was opposed to any war, one must support our vets who bear the consequences. Though I have not studied this issue, it appear that this administration has supported vets better than any previous administration. So I am for Obama.
Obamacare. I am so glad to see Obama embrace this label. It maybe is legacy. It is hard to understate the positive impact of this legislation. Study the issue of pre-existing conditions. Study health insurance in other developed countries and the United States looks backwards. While I don't think it went far enough, I certainly don't want it repealed. So I am for Obama.
"Just trust me, I have a secret plan." I've heard that before. Recent news about George McGovern remind us that Nixon said the same about the Vietnam War. And we trusted Nixon? History has a strange way of repeating itself, or being so perceived. I'm not for Obama because of this, but Romney's asking for trust scares me.
Drones and privacy. I don't think either candidate speaks for where we should be going as a country related to these two issues.
One side point to keep this all in perspective. NPR pulled together an all-star team of economists to create a dream candidate based on economic policies they could all support. If enacted we could be a better country. But as you'll read, it is probably impossible to have any of these policies enacted just as single payer healthcare is unlikely.
And a final note. This is a billion dollar campaign and too much money corrupts. Lawrence Lessing's book Republic Lost details this. The ability to raise money is seen as an indicator of a successful candidate. I don't this our forefathers thought so. Obama has called for a constitutional amendment that is probably too small of a step. But it is the right direction. So I am for Obama.
Conventional wisdom is that incumbents had to run on their record. Thus, much of the above relates to the last four years. Foes argue that we need a plan for the next four years. Previous actions are the best indicator. I'd like to see the policies of the last four years continue for another four years.
I'd like to see the economy continue to recover. I'd like to see social progress continue. I'd like to see us continue our current foreign policy and withdraw from the battle field. I'd like to see Obamacare fully implemented. So I am for Obama.
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With so much great work being done in converged infrastructure and hyper-converged appliances, many users are getting to the point that the only boxes with blinky lights that they want to see on their floor are those converged infrastructure (CI)/hyper-converged appliance (HC) platforms, since everything else is running inside those bundles.
But one of the last “blinky” holdouts is the data protection setup being used to protect the CI/HC platforms. Even when the data protection software engine might run within a virtualized server, the protection storage (typically a storage array performing backup deduplication) is often still physical and adjacent to the rest of the infrastructure.
My recent hands-on experience with a new virtualized backup deduplication array has validated my beliefs that those platforms should also be virtualized. In the past, many argued that key systems, such as database platforms, needed dedicated hardware due to imbued latency going through the virtualization layer or because of the demand for so many CPU/memory/I/O resources, the machine would be essentially dedicated if it hosted just one VM.
But the innovations that have thinned the hypervisor layer and optimized I/O also negate the first argument, while the second argument of being dedicated actually favors the single-VM-on-host model. VMs are easier to protect and recover than physical servers, and they are much easier to upgrade:
* If you have a dedicated physical server that requires more resources, you must rebuild or migrate that OS, application and dataset.
* If your virtual machine requires more resources, you can add them from the host or move the VM to a new host that has more of what’s needed.
If those are the scenarios for a dedicated database server, why can’t they be the same for a dedicated backup deduplication platform? In fact, that argument should be even more compelling to those who use dedicatedbackup deduplication appliances, since the task of replacing the controller head of a dedupe platform has traditionally been arduous.
According to ESG research on data protection appliances, most organizations believe the tipping point between a virtual appliance and physical appliance to be around 32 TB, but if VMs continue to scale larger, that becomes less of a barrier. Moreover, some of the most exciting innovations in backup deduplication are coming from products with controllers that interconnect for both scale-out and scale-up. At that point, why not put a few virtual dedupe appliances in the same infrastructure, split across I/O boundaries, such as one dedupe-VM in each of the four nodes within a hyper-converged appliance?
The reasons for virtualizing backup deduplication go far beyond “because you can without penalty”:
* Distributed environments can run virtualized dedupe within each remote office, and then take advantage of highly efficient, compressed/deduplicated replication from the branch to a larger deduplication appliance at headquarters.
* Small and midsized organizations can finally get the economics of deduplication, without potentially complicating their otherwise consolidated environments. And they can efficiently replicate from their own SMB environment to another of their own sites or to a service provider offering cloud storage or disaster recovery as a service.
* Service providers can choose to spin up a virtual appliance per subscriber, instead of relying on multi-tenancy or making significant Capex investmentsup front. Instead, they can create virtual dedupe targets on demand, with complete isolation of data and management, and then add capacity licensing (and do migration-based maintenance) transparently.
* Dedupe vendors benefit from virtual dedupe, since it’s much easier for pre-sales team members and reseller partners to spin up a VM than it is to requisition a physical demo unit for a proof of concept.
* Backup software vendors can also benefit, if they choose to ship a virtual backup engine and perhaps partner with a virtual dedupe vendor. The customer/partner installs two VMs that are known to work together, and everyone benefits.
For the vast majority of environments, disk is the right choice to recover from — and from a cost-efficiency perspective, you really have to have backup deduplication. That said, the argument that you need a physical deduplication platform is being challenged as innovations in virtual products continue to exceed expectations.
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In 1943, Maslow’s Pyramid of Needs described a hierarchy within psychology, whereby until you addressed foundational elements such as Food/Water … you can’t feel safe, you can’t find love, you struggle with self-respect, etc. Data protection actually has a similar hierarchy (starting from the bottom):
The most basic need of any data protection scenario is the assured ability to recover your data. If you aren’t confident in your ability to reliably recover your data, then the DP solution has no purpose at all.
The answer to this need is better backups … but not just backups, but combining backups with snapshots and replication. And doing that for your workloads that are physical servers on premises, virtual machines on-prem and cloud-hosted, as well as native cloud software. Wherever your workloads are today (or will be six months from now), the requirements to protect them persevere.
Ask yourself “Can I reliably restore my stuff ?” And just like Maslow’s Needs, until you address this foundation, you really can’t move up the stack.
Get your data out of the building! For the last 30 years, that has meant tape for many of us. Today, many are leaping into clouds … but please, get your data out of the building. I do want to point out that “the cloud” does not and should not entirely replace or kill tape. In most organizations, 85%+ of your data does not have long-term requirements.
- Yes, you should keep versions of almost everything for perhaps a year or so, to mitigate cyber-attacks and folks that overwrite last year’s stuff with this year’s – so maybe 15 months.
- There is a good amount of data that really could have unlockable value – so for data mining and analytics, I could foresee 2, 3, up to 5 year retention using the cloud
- For 10+ year retention, for what might be 5-10% of your data that actually has mandates related to long term retention or regulatory compliance (patient lifespans, patent/research histories, executive and legal directives, etc. … TAPE, long-lasting, portable, durable, modern tape.
Now if you (or your boss’s boss) truly doesn’t like tape – then maybe consider a cloud service provider that will do a monthly tape for you? Else, send everything to a cloud (or two). At the end of the day, get your data out of the building, so that your data survives … so that you have a better chance of ensuring that your business survives.
BC/DR — Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
There are at least four aspects of BC/DR to consider:
DR and BC aren’t the same. DR is taking the survivable data and the reliable restore-ability and executing it somewhere else … whereas BC focuses first and foremost on the business processes. Real BC/DR is grounded in understanding the business processes and correlating their dependencies on IT systems.
Planning & Expertise: Understanding and quantifying operational processes, IT dependencies, business impacts, etc. is critical. That expertise likely won’t come from your Backup Admin, so seek outside expertise that can objectively help you understand your processes and then plan to mitigate IT interruptions accordingly.
Preparedness: recognize that if a server was running in Dallas, but now it’s been spun up in Boston or just in “some cloud,” the users won’t just reconnect. Networking, especially with cloud-hosted DRaaS, but really any multi-site topology, requires connectivity that necessitates significant pre-planning and testing. Do not underestimate this.
BC/DR is NOT just about earthquakes and fires, its about continuity of operations. Most interruptions of IT service can actually be foreseen in platform migrations. IT wants to move your servers from physical to virtual, from Dallas to Boston, from HyperV to VMware, or from on-prem to cloud-hosted … they are all server moves, which (left to old-school methods) will result in outages … albeit planned outages. Instead, think of migrations, including P2V, V2C, or C2V as all being interruptions to your business… so your agility to mitigate downtime by using those same rapid and reliable recovery mechanisms that would recover from a flooded server room can enable you to move from your data center to a cloud … or in between clouds … or back on-prem again. Otherwise, you are creating your own outages; don’t do that.
When we get past tactical restorability and the assurance of survivability … you start to see a lot of process-centric capabilities that are encompassed within BC/DR. Here is the problem, humans are not good at repetitive tasks – especially complex repetitive tasks.
So, get the humans out of the way. Humans are great at defining strategy, establishing goals, and creating the process steps. After that, you should be looking for orchestration where you can develop workflows for each of those recovery tasks … then orchestrate running those recovery workflows on a regular basis … and deriving reports that identify what is working and what needs improvement … that is where humans can get involved again.
In Maslow’s hierarchy, the top of the pyramid is Self-Actualization … becoming the best possible you. In this pyramid, the pinnacle (the best possible) Data Protection is Data Management.
The first four layers are a great set of capabilities, and frankly those outcomes are better that what most organizations have today. But that level of investment in effort and planning and hardware and software has a cost. The ROI of most legacy approaches to data protection were to simply quantify downtime and data loss … and then compare that with the cost of the data protection hardware, software, services, and labor. Any way you look at it, it’s a big investment; but what if you could do more?
- You already have a data protection solution that can reliably recover your data.
- You can recover your data to a location other than where the data typically resides.
- You can automate the connectivity to that data and orchestrate tasks.
So, what if you did those orchestrated restores into a sandbox (a test area) that wasn’t visible to the production network? Automate bringing the data in and enabling connectivity to the secondary instance, so that now, others have access to a benign copy of the data while the production data continues unscathed?
- You could test patches or new application versions without affecting production. If the new build breaks the test environment, you’ll be glad that you didn’t roll it out.
- You could enable DevOps to test their applications with live data. Every morning, they come into work and yesterday’s live data is ready for them to play with.
- You could provide access to AI/ML or other data mining tools.
- You could provide access to regulatory compliance auditors.
This applies to any scenario where you are enabling others to do their jobs better, because they now have access to production data without affecting the production environment. Every one of those scenarios creates business value because it creates a positive benefit to the business. Now, your ROI for data protection is not “just” the mitigation of downtime and data loss, but also the acceleration to the business with these new capabilities.
Like in Maslow’s Pyramid, where you often can’t be who you want to be if you don’t first meet some foundational needs, you can’t get to the data management that you want, without first addressing the foundational needs of data protection.
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Ami has been with Third Place at the Ravenna location for a year and a half. If you've been in the store in the past year, you've no doubt heard her spontaneous and resounding laughter at some point.
Ami is pretty hip and awesome. I am forever intimidated by her interesting and unique reading taste. She's also pretty well versed in loads of social justice matters. Her favorite food is, in her words, "probably all sandwiches."
When she's not reading or being generally hip and awesome, Ami enjoys playing Pokemon. (that's not a joke)
What do you do at the bookstore? I shelve biography, drama, film, music, home, garden, homesteading. (editor's note: Ami also works on returns to publishers, she puts the Ravenna calendar together, and she makes sure that all of us choose a book for our monthly staff picks. She should probably be given a medal for that last one; we aren't the most cooperative bunch)
The most underrated book in your sections? I Await the Devil's Coming by Mary MacLane.
What book do you recommend most? I Love Dick by Chris Kraus (editor's note: she really does love this book... see)
What's your favorite bookstore besides Third Place? Book Thug Nation in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
What are you reading right now? Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace by Nikil Saval.
Can you read more than one book at a time? I'm usually only reading one novel. But I can read more than one nonfiction book at the same time. I'm currently (still) reading The Noonday Demon and Open Veins of Latin America. And I'm occasionally reading from Kay Ryan's The Best of It: New and Selected Poems.
A book you've given up on recently? The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. (editor's note: GASP!)
Favorite author, or two, or five? Top five favorite authors: Lorrie Moore, Ann Beattie, Lydia Davis, David Foster Wallace, Alice Munro.
Least favorite author? Jonathan Safran Foer.
Guilty reading pleasure? The Animorphs Series.
How are your bookshelves arranged at home? I have NYRB books together and the Vintage Contemporaries together, the rest of them are just wherever, on the floor, holding up other things, etc..
A book you loved that you wouldn't have read unless someone recommended it to you? Pan by Knut Hamsun, which Mark B. recommended. I rarely read books in translation.
Favorite book as a kid? Harry Potter (duh). Also So You Want to be a Wizard? by Diane Duane (just the first one though).
Have you read Ulysses? Nope. Probably never will. Oh well.
What's your favorite movie version of a book? (editor's note: Ami responded to this question in two additional emails after her initial responses to the above questions. This is how those emails read...)
Email #1: OH favorite movie version of a book: American Psycho.
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The Merry Sisters of Spring
Spring is one of my favorite times of the year – not because the sun is rising higher in the sky and the days are getting warmer and longer, but because the world has suddenly awakened to an explosion of happy flowers. All the flowers are not outside, and there is a virtual galaxy of smiling faces to greet you when you enter the greenhouse or solarium. Spring is the most prolific flowering time for the large-flowered Cattleya species and we are welcomed by some of the most beautiful stars in the orchid world, Cattleya mossiae, C. lueddemanniana, C. lawrenceana, C. mendelii, C. gaskelliana and C. warneri.
The brightest star in the galaxy is Cattleya mossiae, the national flower of Venezuela, and probably the most popular Cattleya species of all-time. Most people do not realize that this lovely plant has some of the largest flowers in the genus with many stretching over 8 inches across. The first Cattleya mossiae flowers described by William Hooker in 1836 were 8 ½ inches across and famous varieties like Mrs. J.T.Butterworth, FCC/AOS can reach 9 ½ inches. Only Cattleya warscewiczii flowers are larger.
Cattleya mossiae is one of the most free-flowering of the Cattleya species and 5 flowers on a flower spike is common. It has an almost irrepressible floriferousness and has been known to virtually bloom itself to death. It has always been recommended as a good plant for beginners because it is so easy to grow and flower. C. mossiae has a wonderful, bright fragrance that is stronger than all the other large-flowered Cattleya species except C. dowiana, and its lavender color is classic. It was actually called “orchid color” in the heyday of cut-flower cattleyas during the 1940s and 50s.
One of C. mossiae’s charms is its distinctive shape where the petals tend to fall forward, unlike most of the other large-flowered Cattleya species where the petals stand out straight. The shape is really quite attractive if you ignore the opinions of the judging community, and it makes C. mossiae different and individual from the other Cattleya species. Shape is a dominant trait in C. mossiae and is usually passed on to its hybrids. C. mossiae has the longest flowering season of all the large-flowered Cattleya species. While it peaks in March and April in the United States, there are varieties that always flower in February. May, and even early June. Because it flowers in such abundance in late March and April, it quickly became known to commercial growers in the United States and Europe as “the Easter orchid” and growers learned how to manipulate greenhouse temperatures to make the plants come in bloom exactly the week before Easter.
Cattleya mossiae is in many ways the First Lady of cattleyas. It was the first cattleya pictured on the cover of the American Orchid Society Bulletin in the first year of the Bulletin’s publication in 1932. It was the first orchid planted by Dr. Lewis Knudson when he developed the sterile technique for growing orchid seed. It was the first large-flowered Cattleya species that orchid growers could actually buy after John Lindley established the genus Cattleya, and it was first in the hearts of spring orchid show exhibitors as evidenced by the hundreds of varieties of C. mossiae they named over the past 150 years.
As beautiful and wonderful as it is, however, C. mossiae is not the only spring star. Another important and very popular species is Cattleya lueddemanniana which is a striking study in contrast to C. mossiae. C. lueddemanniana has a more conventional, upright shape than C. mossiae, but produces fewer flowers on a stem. Two flowers are normal with C. lueddemanniana compared with 4 or 5 with C. mossiae. This big difference in number of flowers made C. lueddemanniana unpopular with commercial cut-flower growers even though it was usually in flower for Easter. Because of this, relatively few plants of C. lueddemanniana were imported during the 1930s and 40s compared with C. mossiae where literally tens of thousands of plants were brought in to meet the demand for spring cattleya flowers. Because of its good shape, however, C. lueddemanniana has always been popular with hobbyists and hybridizers. Cattleya lueddemanniana has a shorter flowering season than C. mossiae and it is limited to March and early April. It also has a more subtle and delicate fragrance than C. mossiae. The biggest difference between them, however, is in their growth habit. C. mossiae completes its growth in the autumn in the United States and then roots and rests for several months before sending up buds and flowers in the spring. C. lueddemannina, on the other hand, is actively growing in the spring and it flowers before its new growth is fully mature. C. lueddemannina requires more sun than C. mossiae to get it to bloom and is not generally considered a beginners plant. There are many beautiful varieties of C. lueddemanniana, and it is often considered a connoisseur species in its native Venezuela. Like C. mossiae, C. lueddemanniana has been used extensively to produce spring-flowering cattleya hybrids largely because of its good shape. The cross between C. mossiae and C. lueddemanniana is the famous Cattleya Gravesiana, a common hybrid in Venezuela but rare today in the United States. C. Gravesiana is probably best known for its alba strains that were common cut-flowers during the 1930s and 1940s. Since C. mossiae is so floriferous and C. lueddemanniana has such good shape, C. Gravesiana enjoys both qualities and is a great hybrid. There are two general types of C. lueddemanniana, the large, light-colored coastal form and the smaller, darker Larense form. Both are beautiful and well worth growing.
One of the most charming of the spring cattleyas is Cattleya lawrenceana. Although this species has flowers only 2/3s the size of C. lueddemanniana, its flowers are presented very individually and give a truly enchanting effect. It reminds us that fine round shape is not really a necessary ingredient to make a cattleya flower attractive and appealing. C. lawrenceana also has an unusually long and thin tubular labellum that is quite different from all other Cattleya species. Because of this unusual lip, C. lawrenceana’s status as a genuine Cattleya species has never been questioned.
Because it was collected almost to extinction during the late 1800s and early 1900s in its native Venezuela, Cattleya lawrenceana is not as common in orchid collections today. When it is present, however, it makes the spring bouquet sparkle and it is one of the first species to flower in March. C. lawrenceana is not as easy to grow as C. lueddemanniana or C. mossiae and it needs more careful watering to keep its roots healthy. It also prefers warmer night temperatures of 63- 65F. When well grown C. lueddemanniana produces an abundance of flowers – from 5 to 8 on a spike. Like C. lueddemanniana and C. mossiae, C. lawrenceana has a range of color forms from light to dark lavenders, albas, semialbas, albescens and even flammeas and coerulaes. The species comes primarily from Venezuela, but is also found in Brazil and Colombia in areas adjacent to the border of its Venezuelan home.
One of the most elegant and delicately colored of the spring stars is the large-flowered Colombian species, Cattleya mendelii. This species has a growth habit similar to C. mossiae and completes its growth in the autumn and rests for several months before sending up buds and flowers in the spring. It usually blooms in May in the United States. Like C. mossiae, C. mendelii is an easy-to-grow, trouble-free plant and a reliable producer of 2 to 4 flowers and is certainly recommended for beginners. The flowers are 6 to 7 inches across, but there was a strain of C. mendelii available during the late 1800s that had 8-inch flowers of very fine form, but most were lost to cultivation and it is rare to find one today. Most C. mendelii have petals that are light lavender and there are a number of beautiful semialba varieties with dark purple lips. The species has a mild and lovely fragrance.
The next of our spring stars has the distinction, historically, of filling the only vacant space in the year-round flowering display of the large-flowering Cattleya species. In 1882, there was still a brief period about late May when there were no cattleyas in bloom. Then in 1883, Cattleya gaskelliana was discovered and one Cattleya species or another was in bloom every day of the year. The event opened the door for cattleyas to become standard florists’ blooms, available all the time like roses and carnations. No other orchid had this year-round flowering quality.
Cattleya gaskelliana is a very attractive species that I feel has not received the recognition it deserves. Because it blooms at one of the hottest times of the year in northern greenhouses, commercial growers were never enthusiastic about growing it - the flowers tended to be short-lived from the intense heat. Under normal growing conditions and cooler temperatures, the species has good lasting qualities staying in bloom over three weeks. C. gaskelliana flowers can be large - 7 inches across is not uncommon, and many varieties have good shape. The species is very free-flowering and produces 3 or 4 blooms on a spike. The plants are vigorous growers, produce multiple leads and can make great exhibition displays. They have a growth pattern similar to C. lueddemanniana and are actively growing in the spring, flowering as the pseudobulb is maturing. C. gaskelliana has some very good coerulae forms, like ‘Blue Dragon’ that have contributed significantly to the production of “blue” cattleya hybrids, and it was an important parent in the famous white hybrid, Cattleya Bow Bells.
The last of our spring stars is the late spring-flowering species, Cattleya warneri – the species that closes the curtain on springtime. Cattleya warneri begins growing in the winter and continues into the early spring, but unlike C. lueddemanniana and C. gaskelliana that produce flowers while the pseudobulb is still growing, C. warneri completes its growth before buds begin to form in the sheath. It starts growing before C. lueddemanniana and C. gaskelliana, but flowers after them. C. warner has fairly large flowers in the 6 to 7 inch range and there are a few that reach the 8-inch spread of C. mossiae. There is even a record of one plant the produced 9 inch flowers. C. warneri is the only spring-flowering Cattleya species that has a double sheath. Like its autumn-flowering sister, Cattleya labiata, that also has a double sheath, it is native to Brazil. Although most C. warneri have only fair shape, there have been a few really fine round varieties that were awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in the late 1800s and early 1900s which contributed significantly to the high quality of early C. warneri hybrids.
Cattleya warneri has been an important contributor to producing June-flowering Cattleya hybrids. Its hybrids with the two summer-flowering species, Cattleya dowiana and C. warscewiczii produced Cattleya Comet and C. Dupreana, the two most important breeding plants for the June cut-flower market.
C. warneri had more of a struggle than most other cattleyas to establish itself as a genuine species. It was mistaken for Cattleya labiata originally and sat under the labiata-cloud for more than 100 years. It was actually described as a species in 1862 in the book, Select Orchidaceous Plants, published by the man for whom it was named. I have never understood, however, why orchid authorities kept associating it with C. labiata when it flowers at a totally different time of the year than C. labiata and has other distinct characteristics. C. warneri is a very rewarding plant to grow. It is a strong grower, resists rot well and produces multiple leads. Its flowers are more durable and resistant to heat damage than C. gaskelliana and it has a wide range of color forms from pale lavenders to dark purples. There are albas, semialbas, and coerulaes and the species has unusually clear coloring in its flowers. C. warneri presents a beautiful close to the spring season.
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A.W. Tozer once wrote, "Salvation comes not by 'accepting the finished work' or 'deciding for Christ.' It comes by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, the whole, living, victorious Lord, Who as God and man, fought our fight and won it, accepted our debt as His own and paid it, took our sins and died under them, and rose again to set us free. This is the true Christ, and nothing less will do." Join us as we celebrate Pentecost this Sunday and praise God for the coming of the Holy Spirit! | <urn:uuid:01b1bc9e-bd4e-4c5a-9cb8-c3ab9b323118> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | http://christourrock.net/sermons/counsel-for-faiths-journey-simple-obedience/ | 2024-04-20T17:34:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.965272 | 132 |
Early last week I facilitated a ½ day workshop on leadership at the 1st Post-Doc Days at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. One of the topics we discussed was motivation, the topic that researchers ask most questions about. Science is not for the faint-hearted: as one participant pointed out, about 90% of her experiments don’t work. Few days are graced with success. This explains the interest in motivation as a topic and curiosity about how to keep going in the face of adversity.
In a two-stage exercise we explored some of their experience with motivation. In the first stage people discussed phases where everything was going well in their research and found words to describe that: excited, energized, at peace, skeptical, enthusiastic, motivated, positive, and calm. In the second stage they discussed what contributed towards them experiencing this state. The answers fell into one of four categories, each of which represents a key to unlocking motivation:
- Meaning What meaning does your work provide in your life? Research demands a lot and it gives back a lot. Without the passion and curiosity, it can be hard to keep going. Leader cannot force people to find meaning in their work. However, they can remind people from time to time what the work is about, so that they can reconnect themselves to the meaning. On a day-to-day level, it’s helpful when leaders explain the importance or relevance of tasks they delegate (especially when someone might think the task “stupid”.)
- Feedback This is meant in two senses. First, how you are progressing vs the project plan provides strong feedback from the research project about progress. Secondly, people appreciate feedback from their boss and colleagues about their progress and contributions. Therefore, it’s helpful when progress meetings about research projects concentrate not only on the science, but also take a few minutes to review progress against the plan. In an earlier article I discuss one way to give feedback.
- Sense of Belonging The poet John Donne wrote, “no man is an island” and a lot of researchers comment about how important a good and happy atmosphere in the lab is to their productivity and motivation levels. Leaders take care to integrate new arrivals into the team as quickly as possible, rather than leaving it to chance.
- Situational Control Have you the skills, resources and time to do your work? When any of these are missing, motivation and quality levels can drop. So, it can be counterproductive to demand the impossible from people. At the same time, if you set challenging targets, you can help your people to grow and develop their skills.
My experience is that in cases where somebody is labeled as suffering a dip in motivation, one of these four categories is affected. When all four keys are intact, motivation results. Thus, the leadership challenge becomes, instead of concentrating on how to motivate their staff, focusing on supporting the development of the the conditions that allow motivation to emerge. And if they’re experiencing reduced motivation, they can apply it to their own situation.
One answer that didn’t fit into any of these categories at first glance was “luck”. As we began to discuss the role that luck plays in research, one of the participants shared what Louis Pasteur had said on the subject: “In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind” and so luck lands in the Situational Control category.
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Rapidly funded on Kickstarter, Heartbound has already surpassed its $5,000 goal. While the campaign never reveals too much, the brief glimpse it gives into its tale of secrets and sanity is a bit chilling. The story follows a troubled young man named Lore who has a habit of leaving his socks everywhere. He’s also frequently under attack by his own internal turmoil and negative thoughts. This makes every day a struggle as Lore’s outlook has the power to alter and change his perception of the world around him.
Aiding Lore in his adventure is the boy’s loyal guardian, best friend, and dog, Baron. Despite a naturally optimistic outlook on life, Baron has an intense fear of isolation and relies on Lore to function. As the campaign explains, “Baron would do anything for Lore even at the cost of himself.” Add to that the note about Lore’s father being “almost entirely absent from his life due to issues outside of his control,” and things escalate quickly from whimsical to worrying.
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Outside of these quick character bios, the campaign never explicitly spells out what players can expect. Usually, we encourage developers to put all their cards on the table when they seek crowdfunding. However, in this unique circumstance the parts they’ve left out actually make the project feel more intriguing.
Pirate Software does let players know what not to expect from Heartbound. Namely, traditional RPG leveling, experience, or consumables. Instead everything the player does is skill-based. Combat is carried out through enemy specific Wario World-esque mini-games. Defeat in combat doesn’t lead to death. Instead it allows players to view memories from their enemies perspective.
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Tal Nuriel, PhD
Tal Nuriel, PhD
Research efforts in my laboratory are primarily focused on understanding the mechanisms responsible for the increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) among carriers of the apolipoprotein E ε4 (APOE4) allele. This research began during my postdoctoral work in the Taub Institute, in the laboratory of Dr. Karen Duff. Together, we performed a large-scale multi-omics screen to determine the effects of differential APOE isoform expression on metabolomics, lipidomics and transcriptomics changes in AD-linked brain regions in mice and humans. During the course of this work, we uncovered several novel findings, including observations that APOE4 expression in the entorhinal cortex (EC) of aged APOE targeted replacement mice has unique effects on neuronal activity, endosomal-lysosomal function and bioenergetics. The reports on APOE4’s effects on neuronal activity and endosomal-lysosomal function in the EC were both published in late 2017, and the report detailing the effects of APOE4 expression on bioenergetics was published in March 2020. Together, these studies reveal a diverse set of Aß-independent outcomes of APOE4 expression in a vital, AD-vulnerable brain region, which may play a causative role in the pathogenesis of AD.
As a result of this work, I was able to obtain independent funding, including a K01, an R21 and a “Next Generation of Researchers in Alzheimer’s Disease” R03 award, and in January 2019, I was promoted to assistant professor in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology (in the Taub Institute). My research continues to utilize systems biology approaches to further investigate these important and likely interconnected effects of APOE4 expression in the brain, as well to identify additional novel pathways. Together with the following talented individuals, my lab has several ongoing projects that we are excited to continue pushing forward:
Research Technician Hirra Arain is responsible for the majority of my wet lab research, including a TAME-AD funded single-nucleus sequencing project on APOE mouse brains. Hirra has developed novel multiplexing antibodies for simultaneous labelling and sequencing of nuclei from different samples, and is also responsible for a large mouse and cell-culture project to characterize the effects of differential APOE isoform expression on the propagation and neurotoxicity of tau pathology. During this challenging pandemic period, Hirra is keeping busy with data analysis and, like all of us, is looking forward to getting back into the lab as soon as it is safe to do so.
Helen Figueroa is an experienced animal technician who managed the Duff lab mouse colony for nearly 15 years. Helen’s time is now split evenly between myself and several other Taub Institute investigators, including Dr. Natura Myeku, Dr. Abid Hussaini, and Dr. Catherine Clelland. Helen’s role has been crucial during this shutdown period, as the survival and wellbeing of our aging mouse lines are essential to our ability to continue our research efforts once the stay-at-home restrictions are eased. Helen walks to campus several times each week to check on the mice and to tend to pressing issues flagged by the mouse facility.
Gautam Kumar is a data scientist and biostatistician who works with me and with Dr. Abid Hussaini. Gautam’s data science skills have become even more valuable during this shutdown period, as my lab has temporarily shifted many of our research efforts toward bioinformatics. To that end, Gautam has been downloading, organizing, and analyzing online datasets from Synapse and ADNI. Utilizing these datasets, Gautam and I have begun several exciting and large-scale projects investigating the effects of APOE4 expression on RNA and metabolite levels, as well as on imaging biomarkers, in different brain regions of AD patients and healthy controls.
Members of the Nuriel lab collaborating remotely! Clockwise from top left: Hirra Arain, Tal Nuriel (PI), Helen Figueroa, and Gautam Kumar.
Lastly, given the current pandemic, I am in the process of setting up collaborations to investigate the role of APOE4 in the severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection, especially as it relates to potential brain infectivity and the long-term effects that this might pose. Although these research efforts are in the very early stages, I am eager to investigate whether an individual’s APOE genotype may play an important role in SARS-CoV-2 infection and in COVID-19 disease progression.
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I love this week's Less is More challenge where Chrissie and Mandi have gone all oval! Come and see what I've made:
This is one of my favourite kinds of card - a bit of nature, lots of space, a bit of texture and a splash of colour. I've used the oval one of the Designer Frames embossing folder set. (TIP: If you use the Crease Pad instead of the top cutting pad in your Big Shot sandwich, you don't get any unsightly creases.) The image inside was made with my new Watercolour Winter set and cut out with my extra large Oval punch.
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Kent and I are planning for another game of Bolt Action this week. Time to put my Germans aside for a while and try something different, my Free French.
I did a wee bit of rebasing today. I wanted the force to look more of a hodge podge of uniforms to represent troops that had fought their way through Tunisia, Italy and possibly into Europe. So I've mixed up my second Goumier squad with one of my US infantry in great coats ones so the units have a nice mix of US helmets and equipment, as well as British and French (Adrian helmets) equipment. There are a couple of great scenes in the movie Days of Glory where the troops are being addressed by officers and they are wearing a variety of US, British and French uniforms, that is the kind of look I'm trying to get.
A couple of shots of Days of Glory- the final battle is a bit Saving Private Ryanish but an otherwise enjoyable film, which highlights the issues (such as institutional racism) faced by native troops in the French army during WWII and afterwards.
Goumiers in Italy- djellabah being worn under US webbing. Note the British and US helmets.
I'll use my one unit of djellabah wearing Goumiers as tough fighting mountain troops (vets). The whole tough fighter thing is well and truly overdone in Bolt Action so I'm going to limit myself to a ratio of 1 in 4 infantry squads. I've tried and tried to make regular troops work for me but slowly but surely my troops have been finding themselves upgraded to Vets as they are more survivable vs small arms fire and in assaults.
And the finished product: 2 Squads of Free French veterans.
I simply run them using US lists/rules and use the French LMGs as BARs.
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DataRPM offers an award-winning cognitive predictive maintenance solution for industrial IoT. The patented platform automates predictive modeling, leveraging proprietary Meta Learning capabilities to increase quality, accuracy and timeliness of equipment failure predictions, leading to hundreds of millions of dollars in savings.
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Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Li Zhanshu, Wang Huning, Zhao Leji, Han Zheng and Wang Qishan attend the closing meeting of the third session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, May 27, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]
Chinese People's Political Consultative Conferences should be an important channel for building consensus and resolving conflicts, and play a better role in China's governance system, Wang Yang said on May 27 in Beijing as the annual session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference ended.
Wang Yang, chairman of the 13th National Committee of the CPPCC, called on all CPPCC members to keep in mind the overall strategic vision of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and major changes in the world so that their proposals can better contribute to the undertakings of the Communist Party of China and the State.
He made the remarks in a speech to about 2,000 national CPPCC members at the closing meeting of the third session of the 13th CPPCC National Committee. President Xi Jinping and other Chinese leaders attended the meeting.
Wang said the weeklong session was held at an important point, as China's COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control efforts have achieved major strategic results and the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects has entered a decisive stage.
During this session, all CPPCC members have actively made proposals and consolidated a consensus focusing on normalizing epidemic prevention and control, promoting economic and social development and realizing the goals and tasks of winning the decisive battle of poverty alleviation, he said.
Wang urged the members to further improve their ability to perform their duties. CPPCC members should further grasp consultation methods, make good use of the internet, big data and other modern methods to make their proposals more forward-looking and accurate and be more targeted and effective in consensus building, he said.
Wang stressed the role of the CPPCC in Chinese-style democracy. "Taking advantage of socialist consultative democracy, the CPPCC can effectively organize all political parties, different ethnic groups and people of all walks of life to make suggestions and build consensus, which is conducive to integrating adherence to CPC leadership with multiparty cooperation," he said.
Participants at the closing meeting approved a resolution on a work report of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee, a report on the examination of proposals and a political resolution on the annual session.
During the second session of the 13th National Committee of the CPPCC last year, 5,488 proposals were submitted and 4,089 of them were accepted for deliberation.
Zheng Jianbang, vice-chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, said CPPCC members should focus more on key tasks this year such as building a moderately well-off society in all aspects, eliminating absolute poverty and drafting the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25).
More consultation on proposal handling will be carried out to provide a communication platform between proposers and handling units. Online methods will also be adopted, he said.
CPPCC members attend the closing meeting of the third session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Beijing on May 27, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]
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Pek, the traveller flea
In this eTwinning project several European schools, among them the IES Clemente de Santiago de Compostela and the Centro de Profesores de Nájera, have jointly created a comic which narrates the adventures of a travelling flea. Each school has created the adventures of the flea in their own country and the final result is a trip half way round
In a first phase each school wrote the script of Pek’s adventures in their own city in English and drew it with black ink. The vocational training students coloured the images using the image editor Gimp. Then the schools translated the script into their native language and lastly the production team generated the comic with Scribus.
This project is proof that the will to work as a team makes it possible to overcome obstacles which at first sight seem insurmountable: five different languages, multiple drawing styles, pupils from different levels… An intelligent work plan has made it possible to achieve a high quality end product which is available in seven languages and in which we are sure that each and every pupil enjoyed creating his or her part as much as reading the contributions of the others.
Thanks to this project the pupils have become aware that Europe is made up of several countries and that in spite of there being so many different languages, communication is always possible thanks to what is learned at school. And in the process they have learned to use a multitude of ICT tools.
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Photo Credit: African Philanthropy Network Website
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August 20th, 2019 — 5:26pm
Where’d You Go, Bernadette -rm
At best, the main character is a quirky brilliant architect who is married and has a lovely daughter. They care deeply about each other and the connection between them is very touching. Circumstances and misunderstanding lead them on a wild adventure to the Antarctica and the South Pole.
The cast is top notch staring Cate Blanchett, Trojan Bellisario, Billy Crudup and Kristen Wiig, also featuring Judy Greer and Laurence Fishburne, all working under the guidance of veteran director, Richard Linklater.
The film obviously touched the funny bone of much of the audience as we heard frequent out loud laughter. However, we viewed the main character as a misunderstood, if relatable woman frustrated by the events in her life and seemingly suffering from a potentially serious depression which supported her husband’s attempt to arrange an “ intervention “ with a mental health therapist. Viewing this film about a troubled person made it hard to appreciate the humor that was obviously there and enjoyed by much of the audience. (2019)
Comment » | 3 Stars, Comedy, Drama
March 13th, 2016 — 9:37pm
What Happened, Miss Simone? -nf
This Oscar nominated documentary biography will grab you and hold your attention and your emotions. You will re-experience the meaning that the Civil Rights Movement may have had to you and how you understand its significance in this country. Music as it always does, creates and brings out deep-rooted feelings and the haunting music and lyrics of this gifted singer and musician will do just that. You will come to understand who Nina Simone was and where she came from and what she was trying to do. But this film will also raise questions about Miss Simone, as a wife, mother, and troubled soul that will remain unanswered although undoubtedly you will share our admiration for her.
Nina Simone grew up as the preacher’s daughter in North Carolina. She was noted to have musical talent and as a young girl she played the piano in church. She went on to get formal music lessons and she had a lifelong unfulfilled wish to be the first black classical concert pianist. She also , clearly, experienced the pain of the Jim Crow South and multiple occasions of blatant discrimination because she was black.
This film documents what she did become and that is a widely acclaimed blues singer with a very distinctive style. When the Civil Rights Movement burst upon the scene, her music and words became part of its anthem alongside of Martin Luther King and others. This was symbolized by the controversial song ( click to hear this great song) which was embraced by the movement but apparently ultimately marginalized Miss Simone’s ability to work in the musical industry.
The details of Miss Simone’s journey were very well documented with film clips and interviews with people who were very close to her including lifelong friends, fellow musicians, her husband, and her now grown daughter. One of the most fascinating and convincing parts of this documentary film was the showing of the handwritten pages of her own diary. These scribbled words with printed subtitles at the bottom of the screen, documented her love and dependency on her husband, a former New York City policeman who guided a good part of her successful career but also apparently viciously beat her according to her own words. We do not really understand why and how she tolerated him so long before divorcing him. Nor do we understand how she could suddenly leave her loved only young daughter with her good friend and abruptly go off to Europe to try to revive her career.
Her own diary also documents her bouts of suicidal thoughts during this period. As a psychiatrist, one of us (MB) knows we can never properly make a diagnosis or understand the clinical issues in someone we have never seen in our consulting room. However, it should be stated that in her late years, we clearly see a very depressed woman. We are told in the words of her grown daughter and others that she had a diagnosis made of manic-depression and was prescribed “Trilafon†(a second generation antipsychotic medication – not usually the medicine of choice for this condition). We are also told that the medication helped her a little bit. It is also stated that she subsequently had certain symptoms of stiffness and twitching of her lip which are common side effects of this medication that was given to her. While we certainly don’t know all the details we can’t help wondering if she had the best treatment
Miss Simone died at the age of 70 and we do not know too much about her last few years. We have come away from this well-done documentary film by director and producer Liz Garbus with an appreciation how this talented woman was able to find her destiny at the same time that she was able to touch the emotions and express the voice of so many people during the Civil Rights Movement in this country. Through this film and her music, there is the opportunity for her work reach future generations. (2015)
Comment » | 4 Stars, Biography, Documentary
November 18th, 2015 — 7:43am
This is an excellent film that should score a touchdown on several counts. Significantly, it may put an unwavering light on the brain damage that football brings about due to the repeated slamming of the brain in its fluid container inside the skull, which is so characteristic of our highly popular American sport. The viewers of this film will take in this awareness in the course of this most dramatic presentation. The audience will also witness an outstanding sensitive performance by Will Smith who plays Dr. Bennet Omalu, the true to life Pittsburgh pathologist who discovered and named Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy as a result of performing autopsies on three former professional football players who died at a young age. Their death was often preceded by memory difficulties, mood alterations which included depression and labile mood which often led to out of control behavior and even suicide.
Will Smith deserves Oscar consideration as he brought to life the persona of this brilliant Nigerian born doctor who had numerous degrees but yet was sensitive to his deceased patients and felt compelled to be sure that their true story was told. He worked in a Pittsburgh morgue under the supervision and support of famed pathologist, Dr. Cyril Wecht who was played very well by Albert Brooks. Wecht was portrayed as quite wise yet with a smidgen of comic undertones, which made him quite warm and believable. Dr. Julian Bailes (Alec Baldwin) who was a former loyal NFL team doctor who once he appreciated the solidity of Dr. Omalu’s discovery, stood by him in his confrontations with the NFL.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw sensitively portrayed Dr. Omalu’s girlfriend, who became his wife. The film may have taken on a little too much unnecessary poetic license in at least one place by showing Dr. Omalu’s wife being harassed by some people following her while she was driving alone in her car, which led to her having a miscarriage. Director/Writer Peter Landesman in response to MB’s question admitted that this incident shown in the movie was not exactly what happened. He said, it was meant to symbolize and condense the real harassment that Dr. Omalu and his new wife had from the many football fans in his community when some of them realized that the essence of professional football was being challenged by this one unknown doctor who documented and published scientific articles backing up his findings which challenged the safety of football at all levels from the NFL down through college, high school and even at the youngest level.
We know that ultimately lawsuits were brought against the NFL and were settled for large sums of money with the caveat that the NFL does not have to acknowledge how long they knew about the possibility of brain damage in the players. Practices have since been adopted to take players out of the game who show signs of head injury. However, it has been estimated that at least one-quarter of professional football players will develop evidence of brain damage. We do not know what the full extent of these injuries will be especially in high school and college players or even at the most junior level who are playing the sport. Â
The authenticity of this film is confirmed by the fact that the real Dr. Omalu and Dr. Cyril Wecht are consultants to the movie. There was one line in the film, which states that if 10% of parents hold back their children from playing football, it could destroy football as the big time multibillion-dollar sport that it is today. We don’t know if that statistic is true. We also don’t know if this film will get wide enough distribution to make this impact. The filmmakers wondered if the NFL would use their influence to stop the film from being advertised during NFL TV games. Apparently, that is not going to be the case. So the general public is going to get a chance to learn about this outstanding movie and parents as well as young people will decide if the youth of America is going to play this game knowing what they know about concussions, brain trauma and aftermath of these events. (2015)
Comment » | 4 Stars, Drama, History, Sport
July 8th, 2015 — 4:14am
The End of the Tour – sp
David Foster Wallace was a highly acclaimed author who was cited by Time Magazine as one of the hundred best English language novelists. His life was cut short by depression and suicide at the age of 48 in 2008. Several years prior to this tragic event, David Lipsky, a writer for Rolling Stone Magazine and a novelist himself, of less acclaim, convinced his editor to let him accompany Wallace on the last five days of the book tour for his latest best selling novel, Infinite Jest, in order to write an article for the magazine.. Lipsky, in 2010, wrote a book about his encounter with Wallace on this tour, which subsequently inspired David Margulies to write a screenplay for this movie and bring onboard director James Ponsoldt.
The resultant film is a fascinating study of the chemistry and interaction between these two men as depicted by Jesse Eisenberg, as Lipsky, and Jason Segel, as David Foster Wallace. This famous author is shown to be a paradox of a confident, brilliant writer but yet as someone who consistently is concerned that he will not be found to be authentic. He desperately wants to be successful with women and yet has difficulty in establishing relationships and his best friends at this point appeared to be his two dogs. He cares that Lipsky will find him interesting and relevant. Yet, he was afraid that he, himself, would become addicted to fame and what people thought about him. Lipsky admired the literary giant that he was spending time with and yet we see an evolution of his understanding of the subject of his interview. The reporter began to identify with the struggle of the subject and was drawn to him perhaps as a comrade-in-arms. They become, for a while buddies hanging out, with two women connected with the tour (Mickey Summer and Mamie Gummer). There is also comic relief provided by another woman, their book tour escort, played very well by Joan Cusack.
Most of the movie is set in the snowy Midwest which is shown to be cold, crisp, and beautiful. The director, James Ponsoldt, has blended together this unique story and magnificent acting by Eisenberg and Segel plus a musical score background put together by Danny Elfman, which will cement your interest in what is happening on the screen.
It is interesting that we know very little about the psychological history of Wallace or the nature of his fatal depression. Many of the audience also may not be familiar with his writing. However, the connection between the two main characters sustains the movie and will hold your interest.(2015)
Comment » | 3 Stars, Documentary, Drama
May 31st, 2015 — 11:38pm
We did not choose to go to see this thousand mile trek when it was in the movie theatres but we thought we would give it a try at home via Netflix. What we saw was an admirable performance by Reese Witherspoon, who occupies the screen for just about the entire 1 hour and 55 minutes as her character walks a thousand miles over the entire Pacific Crest Trail by herself from Mexico to Canada. She does this with having little experience in hiking. We see her have some brief encounters with people she meets along the way but she mainly has short flashbacks of her past. She is taking this trip to clear her head of her mother’s death and her own addiction and depression as well as her breakup with her husband because of her promiscuity. It is heart wrenching as she recalls her closeness to her mother as a child and her mother’s dying days of cancer. There is great beauty as we see the magnificent scenery through which she travels. The cinematography of this film is outstanding. It is even more amazing that this is a true story actually lived by a woman by the name of Cheryl Strayed, who wrote about her journey in a very successful book that is the source of this movie. There is no complicated plot with a resolution. “It is what it is.†You can decide if this three month journey sounds like it is worth nearly two hours of your time. (2015)
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The Lost Son
by Tamra Torero and Preston Norton
Paperback, 192 pages
Expected Publication Date: October 9, 2012
by Sweetwater Books
Book source: Netgalley
Book Summary from Goodreads: Sixteen-year-old Jacob has always been able to charm his way out of trouble with the law. But when he’s sentenced to work at a family Christmas tree farm in place of Cody Matthews—a boy killed in Jacob’s last DUI—Jacob is in for a harsh reality check. This emotional story of loss, love, and redemption is impossible to put down.
Cathy’s Review: Jacob is a normal teenager, he has a girlfriend, Melanie, but he’s not above making out with other girls, he also likes to party and that includes getting drunk. Unfortunately, Melanie quickly finds out about Jacob making out with a random girl dressed like Marilyn Monroe and breaks up with him. This was just not Jacob’s night first a fight, then getting kicked out of the great party and then Melanie breaking up with him. Jacob gets into his car to head for home, he’s driven drunk lots of times and nothing ever happens. This time though, Jacob hits another car and kills a young man named Cody Matthews while also injuring his father. When Jacob’s case goes to trial, he knows he’s going to be spending a lot of time in Juvie, but to his surprise someone speaks up for him, someone he would never have expected. Sam Matthews, Cody’s dad, tells the judge that one boys life is over and they shouldn’t ruin another boy’s life because of that. Sam asks that the judge have Jacob come to his Christmas Tree farm and help out in Cody’s place. With his arm injured, he could really use the help. Jacob is sure that this is some sort of revenge for his killing Cody on Sam’s part, and he’s afraid that Sam will try to kill him. But as he gets to know Sam, he learns that the situation is far different from the way he’s pictured it, and he slowly starts to change and to forgive himself for what has happened.
This was a cute story. I liked the characters and the plot. I thought that the characters could have been more developed at times, I really like to get to “know” the characters and it seemed like the knowing part was pretty superficial in this story. I liked how this story shows the effects that one person can have on other people’s lives. Jacob, in a moment of stupidity, killed Cody which in turn hurts Sam and also Corrine and he got to see just how both of them had been hurt and the impact that Cody dying had on their lives. I think that’s something we should all work harder to remember, just that people have feelings and most things we do are going to have an impact on others, and that impact is sometimes bigger than we would have imagined it would be.
Content: underage drinking, wolves attacking
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A reprint from We Lived (A GENEALOGICAL NEWSLETTER OF NEW BRUNSWICK SOURCES published by Cleadie B. Barnett)
of Rev. F. Dibblee, Rector of Woodstock
by Alice I. Conlon
Frederick Dibblee, youngest son of Rev. Ebenezer Dibblee, Rector for fifty-one years of the Anglican Church at Stamford, CT, was but twenty-two years old when the War for Independence put an end to his studies at King's College in New York. He would have graduated in 1776, with the intentions of taking Holy Orders. In Nov of 1776 Frederick, with other Stamford Loyalist, was transported to eastern CT, but was allowed to return home in the spring of 1777. His stay was short, for in April, when the King's troops attacked and burned Danbury, his life was threatened when he refused to take an active part with the rebels. He fled to Long Island to join his brother Flyer. Here he acquired some property, and engaged in trade with Mr. Jackson at Oyster Bay. It was during this time, 1781/2, that he married Nancy Anna Beach, daughter of Abel and Mary (Lewis) Beach, of Stratford, CT.Life was hazardous on Long Island. Frederick and his partner suffered grievously when they were plundered five times by rebels who came from New Jersey in whale boats. In Nov 1782 these vandals stripped him and his wife of their household goods and best wearing apparel. The aggregate loss was £1200. Little wonder that they were willing to join the Loyalist in 1783. They left in the June fleet on the "Bridgewater", arriving in NB in late summer. Here Frederick drew Parrtown lot # 117, but he went to Kingston, where the family resided four years. During that time Frederick was often "chosen to read prayers."
Hearing favourable reports about the Loyalist settlements on the upper Saint John, Frederick obtained a grant on the Meductic. When exploring his property, he fell asleep in the canoe and the Indian who was poling the craft went far beyond the intended destination. But Frederick was much impressed with the area t Woodstock, and not long after he exchanged his Meductic grant for one at Woodstock. These grants were the most awkward shapes. His 500 acres measured approximately 3/4 mile river frontage and extended westward almost eight miles. This is equivalent to a town lot 1 foot wide by 120 feet deep. Near the river he built a log house for his young and expanding family. This rude structure served for about twenty-four years until he built a frame house in 1811.
At the urging of his neighbours Frederick travelled to Halifax where he was ordained on 23 Oct 1791, by Rev. Charles Inglis, first Bishop of Nova Scotia, as Rector of the Woodstock Parish and Missionary to the Indians. It took three months to make this arduous journey by canoe, schooner, skating and on foot. Upon his return his first official act was to preform the marriage on 30 Oct 1791, of Michael Smith and Phebe Ketchum. Eleven days later he baptized John Bedell.
Pioneer life was difficult. Each November the log house had to be "plaistered" to keep out the drafts. Lumbering went on all the time. The sudden uprising of the river often washed away their store of firewood, or demolished their supply of fence rails. He had little help until his sons grew old enough to help plant and harvest the grain and get it to the grist mill. There was hay to exchange for potatoes; maple trees to be tapped and the sap boiled down for the annual supply of sugar, "honey" (syrup), and vinegar; cows, hogs and sheep to be cared for. They hunted ducks and geese, and the pigeons which made the daytime dark as night, but nowhere is there mention of hunting bear, deer, elk or moose.
There was constant visiting among the pioneers. One is amazed at the formality of address among old friend --- Parson Dibblee and Lady --- Captain Ketchum and Lady. Christmas was strictly a religious observance but New Year's celebrations brought together most of the villagers. They were very lenient in arranging recreation for the young people --- "balls", sleighing parties, harvest festivals and "frolicks." The children attended school in Kingston or Fredericton, which afforded frequent visiting.
Rev. Frederick kept a diary which has been invaluable in learning of the daily life during this time. He seldom mentioned his clerical duties of burying, marrying and baptising the people, but church records show him to have been meticulous in recording these vital records. His death occurred 17 May 1826 age 73, completing thirty-five years of service as the Rector of Woodstock.
SOURCES: "Centenary of the Ordination of Rev. Frederick Dibblee: 1791-1891"; Esther Clark Wright's "Loyalist of New Brunswick"; mss -- Genealogy of the Dibblee Family, by Arthur Mejia, prepared in 1960 for Mr. Harrison Dibblee, of Ross, CA; Vol 2, "Diary of Rev. Frederick Dibblee 1803-1825" (LDS micro-film)
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Gudhi Padwa 2016 was a special occasion for Janardanswami Yogbhyasi Mandal Nagpur for several reasons. First, we had an almost record turnout of over 700 people for the Gudhi Padwa celebrations this year and perhaps more over the two other functions that followed. Second, we had a series of performances from our very talented Sangeet Vibhag, attended by more people. And lastly, but most importantly, we had the Bhoomipujan of the proposed “Paduka Bhawan” of Janardanswami at the hands of Hon. Guardian Minitster of Nagpur district Shri Chandrashekharji Bawankule, Corporator Shri Parniay Fuke and Raju Hadap were also present.
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KEIR RADNEDGE REPORTING —- After all the weeks of accusations and counter-accusations, Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain was elected decisively as new president of the tormented Asian Football Confederation.
Salman shrugged off controversies over his human rights record and the overt support of Asian Olympic leader Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, to win with a two-thirds majority in the first round of voting in Kuala Lumpur.
He collected 33 votes to achieve a runaway success over Thailand’s Worawi Makudi (seven) and Yousuf Al-Serkal of the United Arab Emirates (six). Saudi Arabia’s no-hope candidate, Hefez Al-Medlej, had withdrawn on Wednesday.
Salman celebrated a double success after he defeated Hassan Al-Thawadi of Qatar by 28 votes to 18 for a seat on the FIFA executive committee.
Logic won out: it would have been nonsensical if the AFC had elected a new president with no access to the top table of the world federation.
Asia is also represented at FIFA by Makudi and by Prince Ali of Jordan, a FIFA vice-president. A fourth place fell vacant on Tuesday when FIFA banned Sri Lankan Vernon Manilil Fernando for eight years for unspecified ethics code breaches. The AFC must act quickly to find a replacement who can joint Asia’s representatives at FIFA Congress in Mauritius on May 30 and 31.
Makudi poor result in the presidential election places a questionmark over his FIFA slot credibility. Five of the votes he had been promised by the south-east Asian association abandoned him when push came to vote.
The one snag for Salman is that his term of office will last less than two years before he must fight for re-election in Australia in January 2015.
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He was succeeded on an acting basis by China’s Zhang Jilong, who had been senior vice-president, until the legalities had been overcome and the AFC had been free to hold this formal election.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter, present at Congress, sent Salman a message of congratulation and urged him to work to unify a significant disunited and fractious confederation.
Blatter acknowledged Salman’s “brilliant election” and cautioned: “One of the key missions he will have to ensure is that unity prevails within the AFC. Unity, as well as solidarity, are absolutely key and necessary pillars for any institution to build solid plans and structures for its future.
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Zhang told Congress: “I have served Asian football in various capacities for more than 30 years now. As I step aside I would like to advise the new president and the office-bearers to guide and lead the AFC by example and keep personal or political interests aside when governing Asian football.”
Australia’s Moya Dodd was elected unopposed for the position of female vice-president. Dodd, an AFC vice-president since 2009 and chair of the AFC women’s committee, was the only candidate for the position, the term of which runs until the next AFC Congress in 2015.
Dodd also serves as the ASEAN zone’s female executive committee member.
North Korea’s Han Un-gyong and Palestine’s Susan Shalabi Molano were voted unopposed on to the exco as female members for the East and West Zones respectively.
The fourth female member of the AFC executive committee is Bangladesh’s Mahfuza Akhter who was elected unopposed to the South and Central Zone seat at the 2011 Congress.
Northern Mariana Islands were not entitled to vote as an associate member, while Brunei were approved voting rights after winning a motion at the start of the congress despite not taking part in the required two AFC competitions in the last two years.
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Issue number 84 16th May 2004
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II. 'Kant - The Death Penalty' by Archil Avaliani
III. A New Format for Ask a Philosopher
In this issue, Hubertus Fremerey in a thoughtful and ambitious essay considers the task for philosophy following the Enlightenment, looking at the paradoxes of utopian thinking and the practical, personal and spiritual aspects of 'building a house together'.
Archil Avaliani from Georgia gives a careful exposition of Kant's views on capital punishment, showing why Kant's arguments - even if we do not agree with his conclusions - still demand to be reckoned with today.
It is nearly five years since the Ask a Philosophy service was launched on the internet. The greatly increased volume has necessitated a change of format which I explain below.
I. 'WHAT IS "MODERN" IN MODERN PHILOSOPHY?' BY HUBERTUS FREMEREY
What is 'modern' in modern philosophy?
From the world created by God
to the world we humans are constructing now.
The Great Transformation
This moment we are living in the third great transformation of the situation of humankind. The first was the transition from pre-human ape to true human existence, when language, art, and religion - in short: CULTURE - began to develop sometimes before 25.000 BC.
The second great transformation was what Jaspers called "Achsenzeit": The time of around 500 BC, when the first great philosophical and theological systems developed in Israel, Greece, India, and China. The common trait of those systems was a first methodical approach to philosophy and science in general and a special concern with social and personal ethics and the human personality, self, and conscience. All great philosophical and religious systems of lasting relevance have been formed in this 6th century BC.
The third great transformation - ours - began "to take off" at about 1750 in Europe and is transforming all other cultures of Asia and Africa just now - partly against their will and resistance. It is a transition from a pre-modern, agrarian society of very slow changes favouring experience and by this honouring old age, to a modern, industrial, rapidly changing sort of culture, favouring daring inventiveness and entrepreneurship and by this valuing youth above old age.
How does philosophy answer to the "Great Transformation"?
The following essay tries to understand modern philosophy since the Enlightenment as an answer to this third great transformation and its challenges. Of course there are many histories of philosophy around, treating those "schools of thought" and important thinkers who are listed in the "contents": Kant and Kantianism, Rousseau and Rousseauism, Hegel and the left and right Hegelians, Marx and the Marxist schools, Comte and Positivism, Freud and the many schools deriving from his work, American Pragmatism, logical Positivism and the Vienna Circle, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, Existentialism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism etc.etc.. But I will not enter any of these, since they all are treated elsewhere well enough.
There has been some really deep thought on the situation of "Modern Man" in world-historic perspective, on "the meaning of progress" and on "the significance of the modern technological worldview". These deeper concerns may be concentrated into one terrible question: If we were granted three wishes by an omnipotent being, WHAT SHOULD WE CALL FOR? This is what I call "the terrible question of utopia". The whole history of modern philosophy since the time of Rousseau and Kant may be seen as a great effort to understand the MEANING of that question.
Why should it be a "terrible" question? If you offer a child three wishes, you should be prepared to reject at least two of them if not all three as absurd. "No more school, always sweeties, lots of money and fun every day!" How do we know that our wishes are of a better quality?
As one author writing on modern SF-dystopias has it "...many modern thinkers have been worried not that utopia cannot be realized, but that it can... Utopia itself (in a special sense of the term) has become the enemy". This is the famous theme of Huxley's Brave New World.
Thus to arrive at a "perfect" world could mean to arrive at a dead end, way behind what man was meant to be in the context of evolution or in any serious philosophical or theological assessment. Was he meant to be the perfect customer or the happy tourist or the happy raver on speed?
If not - what then else was he meant to be? By what argument? This question is haunting all cultural critics of modernity - Nietzsche, Heidegger, Aldous Huxley, Herbert Marcuse, and many others, even the churches: How do we define the MEANING of being a "good" human - good to be taken here not in moral but in a metaphysical sense? Thus "the terrible question of utopia" is very much a philosophical question, not only - and not even in the first line - a mere technical one.
The old "Great Order under God"
To understand the answer we have to understand the problem first, ie. we have to understand the philosophical significance of the Great Transformation. What does it mean?
Newton had shown shortly before 1700 that planetary motions can be explained by simple forces and formulas valid in the same way on the earth and without the need of any magic. While Newton himself still argued in the context of "natural theology" and treated the Law of Gravitation as a proof of Gods eternal wisdom, soon people were content to have the formulas and sent God off over the horizon as the "blind watchmaker" who was not needed anymore even as a "hypothesis". But this had consequences.
As long as Western man lived in the world that God made, he did not need to think how it should be. God the creator in his wisdom knew how to make the world "the best of all possible worlds". But this idea of Leibniz was the first sign of crisis: Doubt crept into the minds of philosophers. This was "The Second Fall": Did God really get it right? Did God exist at all? Could he be a great collective illusion, as Freud had it (cf. "The Future of an Illusion") or "the opium of the masses" in the sense of Feuerbach and Marx? For a short time from about 1650 to 1750 "theological naturalism" (or "natural theology") was a desperate measure to avoid the downfall of the old order of things: Nature as the second revelation of God in his creation was consistent by mathematical formulas describing the "laws of nature", as Newton had shown, and by this seemed immune to confessional struggle. This was Neo-Platonism again, rising from Renaissance-thinking in Quattrocento Italy, including Alchemy and Astrology, but fostering the rise of modern mathematics too. This vision of a great natural order was the gospel of Descartes and Spinoza, of Leibniz and Newton, and it was the gospel of Deism around 1700 and of Shaftesbury. It even was the gospel of Rousseau and of Scottish Enlightenment: Let nature have its way, don't interfere. Humans are stupid. God's wisdom inherent in the ways of nature will get things right in the end. Virtue, senses, and beauty combined praise the great order of God's creation.
The breakdown of the Great Order from around 1750
Then suddenly all came down: God, the Church, the old Order of Estates. There was the order of nature, yes, and there was the order of man, yes, but there was no God to hold them both together as His one creation. God was absent and nature didn't care. Mankind had to find and to go its way all alone. Man had to stand on his own two feet. This was the program of Kant, the program of Enlightenment. When theodicy failed, the vindication of God, anthropodicy had to step in its place.
Man had to take on his responsibility for his doings and for his planning and thinking.
Put differently: Pre-modern thinking, as e.g. the Platonic or the Christian or Islamic one, did assume a great order behind the many disturbing and absurd experiences of human life. Even if we dumb humans do not understand what is happening, God will know. And if there is "Doomsday", then it will be the Doomsday brought about by God "to judge the living and the dead". Then there will be eternal bliss in a "New Heaven and Earth that God made". Thus it's still "Gods wisdom". But if there is no God, then how do we know that man will not spoil his own future by being stupid and arrogant? No God from the background, no "deus ex machina", and no nature will save man from the consequences of his own stupidities and errors. This was new.
The pre-modern view could give comfort even in the most absurd tragedies and sufferings, while the modern view leaves man alone with all disasters that befall him - self imposed or not. Thus consolation is to be had - if at all - from the challenge itself, from the idea that to be grown up should be a cause of pride. This was what Kant tried to say in his famous essay on "What is Enlightenment?" (1784).
This is not ethics. The problem is NOT "How to do things right?" The problem is: "What does it MEAN to do things right, what does it mean to make a good use of our freedom, of the means and ends at our disposal?"
Modern man - that was in essence what Nietzsche found out - has to design and to define himself - and by this he has to define what is "right". Ethics only will tell you how to do something in the right way, e.g., how to build a house, but it does not tell you what house to build and where. Thus ethics will not tell us what future to go for. And since man is not God, since man does not really know what he is doing, I called the question what to do about the future a terrible one.
Two "steps" of the breakdown
The breakdown of the old order proceeded in two steps or turns. During the times of Rousseau and Kant there has been what I call "the subjectivist turn": Since there was no accepted authoritative truth represented by the churches and the old corporative state lead by kings and princes anymore, the new approach to valid truth was the democratic one. In the view of Rousseau and Kant, prepared by the views of Hobbes and Locke and even by the views of Luther and Calvin, the socio-political order is not the traditional well established order of estates instituted by God or nature, but any political order should be founded on the personal agreement of free people thinking and speaking for themselves, defending their cause before the bench of reason embodied in the assembled audience of other "reasonable people". By this principle the "post-Calivinist" Rousseau and the "post-Lutherans" Kant and Hegel defined much of modern democratic thinking, which was "subjectivist" in the sense indicated. In this sense Protestantism was "modern" while Catholicism was not, sticking with authority and order.
And there was a second step of breakdown around 1900, which I call "constructivist turn". While the subjectivist turn reflected the breakdown of the former "objective order" of society as an order represented by the church and the corporative state, the constructivist turn got to the extreme and even dismissed the concept of "the natural" altogether as outdated and meaningless.
What has happened? The concept of "naturalness" does include "made by nature" and "grown naturally". The modern concept set against this around 1900 was "things are made by humans" and "constructed from parts" like a machine. The symbol of constructivism could be a modern space-station made from "modules" as compared to a temple or cathedral "built up from fundaments" or even a tree grown from seeds and roots.
In a similar way music, art, and literature around 1900 began to be "constructed from parts" - from sounds, from colours and patterns, from subjective snippets and flashes of impressions, thoughts, and memories ("stream of consciousness") put together as a collage in a music or a picture or a novel. Even personality - well defined in the times of Goethe - changed to "patchwork personality" assembled from conflicting traits and biographical breaks scarcely hold together by some "will to be". There is nothing like "the true nature" of anything left anymore. The argument that something is "as God wanted it to be" was ridiculed as "ideological". Of course this was a shock for many people - and even is today.
As was to be expected this "constructivist turn" happened in philosophy too when Husserl tried to get rid of all or most of "natural" philosophical concepts and back to the "original experience" in his phenomenology. He too tried to build up the world anew. But likewise did Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle and Heidegger from different approaches. They all posed the same question: "What are the primary givens and elementary 'facts' from which we then may start to build up 'our world' and our concepts of "person" and "society" anew?" What we call "the natural way of seeing things" may be nothing more than traditional preconceptions, some sort of collective delusions and illusions.
Thus we see a strange paradox: From Protestantism over Montaigne and Descartes and Pascal up to Rousseau and Kant and down to Husserl, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein we have in the Western history of thinking a gradual breakdown of the idea of a "great order of things - man included" as Aristotle and Thomas had depicted this world, and as even Spinoza and Hegel and Schelling tried to defend it with support from Goethe. In the end nothing was left over: No God, no "imperium and sacerdotium", no natural order of things, not even the things themselves. What had been "a world to live in" before had fallen to ruins and rubble and even rubbish. But at the same time this Great Downfall opened the plain for the creative inventiveness and ingenuity of man to build his new house and town for himself. This is the modern condition.
Building the new house of mankind
The ambivalence of the modern human situation was well known even to the Romanticists in the latter days of Hegel and Goethe: While some of them fled into the Roman Church and into dreams of a renewal of the corporative state and its cathedrals and castles, or tried to get hold on "mother nature" and pantheism, others began to see the creative artist and engineer as the new models of man incorporated in the figure of Prometheus, praised by Goethe in the 1770s.
Thus while the old world broke down, the new one already was in the making. This was the attitude of Marxism and of Liberalism and of the new "philosophical Darwinism" in the different readings that Spencer and Nietzsche and Dewey and others suggested. They all turned from asking what the world "is" in any timeless sense to asking what it should be like "in the best interest of mankind". But this of course is not a scientific question in the first line, but essentially a metaphysical one.
It was not only that "the house that God and nature built" and where mankind grew up for millennia now had to be left and replaced by "the house to be built by man himself". More and more another strange possibility began to be realized: that even "the HUMAN that God and nature built" would have to be replaced by "the human to be built by man himself". This possibility - indicated by today's advances in genetic and electronic engineering - once more urges a new metaphysics of man himself.
We have to see the difference here very clearly of the old "natural" metaphysics as compared to the new "artificial" one: The old "natural" metaphysics may be called "the blueprint of the house that God and nature built", which was the blueprint that Aristotle and Thomas, Spinoza and even Hegel wanted to understand. But since "the house that God and nature built" has been left - and possibly for all time - this blueprint has become without value anyway. By this argument "old" metaphysics is dead. But now we need a "new" metaphysics, a blueprint for the house to be built by ourselves. And we need a blueprint for the new human too, for "super-man".
The paradoxes of utopia
First there was a great hope: The hope of Enlightenment-era of improving the lot of mankind by science and technology. Much of this has been achieved. The "standard of living" in modern "Western Industrial States" was unimaginable in the times of Kant and Goethe around 1800.
But then there were causes of great fears and disappointments too: The two World Wars, the Cold War and the Bomb, the possible collapse of global and local ecosystems, caused by an imminent "population bomb" that made world population quadruple over the 20th century from some 1,5 at 1900 to over 6 billion people now.
From the beginning around 1750 there was the permanent struggling of "technocratic optimists" against "humanitarian skeptics" in the Western world, a struggle that is now continued on a global scale in different forms of "clash of culture". And there has been the permanent struggle of socialisms and liberalism that are both legitimate children of "Enlightenment", both trying "to improve the lot of mankind by science and technology", only by following different strategies. These hopes and fears of Enlightenment and Modernity and the arguments supporting socialisms, liberalisms and conservatisms have been central topics of hot philosophical debates since the times of Rousseau and Kant.
One of the great problems of this project of "improvements by science and technology" has been its paradoxical nature: Most modern problems are consequences of just those improvements brought about by "good intentions" and their successes. Thus the prospect of "ecological crash" is a consequence of world-population multiplying fivefold from the times of Kant, from about 1,2 billion then to over 6 billion now and probably arriving at 9-10 billion in 2050. But this "population bomb" was the consequence of good intentions and medical and nutritional progress. Many of our modern ailments are consequences of longevity, which in itself is once more a "progress" brought about by good intentions. In this way every solved problem seems to generate new ones like the chopped heads of a hydra. There are several such paradoxes of progress.
Of course the greatest paradox of all is a growing uneasiness with the concept of progress itself: While there are surely many "improvements", most people if asked directly hesitate to call our time a time of the good life generally. And surely not those "cultural critiques" like Nietzsche or Heidegger or Marcuse and Adorno. So we have to ask why this should be so.
The quest for a "New Cultural Order made by Man"
The most natural idea to realize the great vision of Enlightenment was proposed by Saint-Simon, Fourier, and Comte: Study humans and human societies and institutions in the same "positivist" way as you study the movements of the planets or the behaviour of plants and animals. Marx and Durkheim and Weber as sociologists tried to do just that, and so did historians and ethnologists and political philosophers and economists from about the middle of the 19th century up today: "Don't moralize - analyze!" was the program that Marx and Mises both could subscribe to. But positivism is a dead end. Why?
Animals behave in their "natural habitat" in a way prescribed by their instincts. Humans are not living in any "natural habitat" but in countless "artificial habitats" - material and immaterial ones - called "culture". Every religion or philosophy is such an "immaterial habitat" - a "world". In this sense the history of religions and philosophies is not different from the history of the arts: This is not the history of "progress" but of "different ways of seeing things". The great danger of positivism and scientism is always to end in technocratic and bureaucratic prescriptions. But the idea of the gourmet of "good eating" is quite different from that of the dietician. There is no single "scientific" or "technical" concept of "the good life" anymore than a single "scientific" or "technical" concept of "good art" or "good literature" or "good cooking".
The quest for a "scientific" philosophy is a misunderstanding following from a confusion: The buildings-engineer is not the architect. The buildings-engineer has to apply sciences of statics and stress-analysis and materials etc.. But the architect has to design a house - which is quite a different task. The same applies with philosophy. The analytical philosopher is in this sense a "buildings-engineer applying sciences of statics and stress-analysis and materials" to prevent our philosophical houses from crashing over its inhabitants. But this does not render the work of the architects worthless. We still want to live in wonderful buildings and not in mere social flats and hangars.
Thus when Nietzsche and Heidegger and Wittgenstein reminded us that a good human and a good society are great collective challenges to the creative human mind far above the imagination of any mere technocrat or bureaucrat, they suggested the right answer to the challenge of modernity, to the problem of what to build on the place that had been cleared after the old order of God and kings and nature fell down into rubble: Don't let those technocrats and bureaucrats rush in and take over!
To build a house you need the WILL to build it.
When building "a new house for mankind" we have to take into account first the practical aspect of social and political and economical engineering. We won't give up on good standards of decent living for everybody - including peace and human rights.
Then we have to take into account an interpersonal aspect of mutual love, acceptance and support in the sense of Buber and Levinas and others, since we are social animals and like to talk and cuddle and be together with other nice people and feel regarded then and now.
And surely we have to take into account a spiritual aspect, since humans are spiritual animals asking for meaning and greatness and beauty and not only for material comfort like any pig or cow. As was said before, the future of humankind is a metaphysical challenge, not only a technical one. We are not designing a cowshed.
But why not simply be a happy cow, grazing here and now?
The greatest trait in man is his DISSATISFACTION WITH THE GIVEN. The greatest achievement of religion is to always hold up this dissatisfaction. This is what Plato, St. Augustine and even Marx tried to get across: That there must be a world where things are as they should be and not as they are here and now. This even was what drove Don Quixote and Faust and every great revolutionary.
This means: You always need some tension, some field of force to drive history. There is no movement without some force causing it. There always must be a hunger or a will or a fear or a love. Therefore Plato was right in assuming a "Platonic love" that drives people to ask for truth, for the good, for what is beautiful, or for justice. If there is no such love then people won't care. This is what differentiates humans from animals.
Socialism is not different in principle: The driving force behind socialism is "dissatisfaction with the given" too. But so is the driving force behind liberalism. The true liberal simply hopes that by all those little improvements here and there the world will become a better place eventually. In this way socialism, liberalism, and religion all are driving people by something of great value waiting "transcendent" behind the horizon - a better future of "wealth and social justice", or God.
To build the great house for the future of mankind you need much industry, craftsmanship and daring inventiveness of course, you need the spirit of the pioneering architect. But the force that drives the whole endeavour must be "faith, hope, charity" - and dissatisfaction with the given. In this sense it's not a technical problem to be left to the engineers and managers. And this is what concerns modern philosophy.
The above text is about one third of what it should be - or less. Many important topics had to be skipped. And the footnotes alone would be nearly as much text again. I am busy on it. If anybody is interested to have a copy of the extended version then please contact me.
(c) Hubertus Fremerey 2004
II. 'KANT - THE DEATH PENALTY' BY ARCHIL AVALIANI
Immanuel Kant, a great philosopher of ethics, formulated one of the first and the most scientific approaches to the death penalty - part of the Categorical Imperative. According to it "society and individuals must act in such a way that you can will that your actions become a universal law for all to follow" (Capital Punishment). Some scientists think, "Kant's approach is actually superficial and fundamentally self-contradictory (Wright, 2000, p.559).
The aim of this paper is to review Kant's approach to the death penalty and to discuss different aspects of his theory. It is not subject of the paper to discuss if Kant's view on the death penalty is morally right or not. Present theories on the death penalty are not analyzed either.
This paper is a close discussion of Kant's death penalty. I will try to understand and review the major aspects of this theory and in conclusion express some of my thoughts on Kant's concept of death penalty.
Kant's Approach on the Death Penalty
Kant's doctrine on crime and capital punishment is stated in his work "Metaphysics of Morals" (Part One), written in 1797. This doctrine is based on and derived from Kant's ethical views that were developed in his work "Criticism of Practical Mind" (1788). That's why it is not accidental that Kant's ideas on crime and death penalty are given in his work that has an ethical nature (Metaphysics of Morals).
Kant starts Metaphysics of Morals with the definition of "crime" and "the right to punish". In his opinion neither a society, nor a state can exist without laws. If there is no law, there is no society and no state. Therefore enforcement of the law, which is the society's foundation, means protection of the society and the state. Thus, any person violating the law loses the right to be a society member, opposes social order and consequently must be deemed guilty and punished. The right to administer punishment is the right of a ruler to make violators and criminals suffer. It is impossible to punish the ruler himself since the authority to administer punishment belongs to him. A ruler can retire due to his crimes but cannot be punished.
Kant's definition of the crime is derived from the above statements. A crime is a violation of social laws i.e. it is committed against the society and therefore subject to punishment. People who observe the society's laws are the society members, while people who commit crimes lose the right to be the society members and must be punished.
Violation of law can be a personal or a social crime. A personal crime is committed against a person. Such crimes are reviewed by a civil court. A crime committed against the society must be reviewed and punished under the criminal code. Kant differentiates private and public crimes: "Any transgression of the public law which makes him who commits it incapable of being a citizen, constitutes a crime, either simply as a private crime, or also as a public crime" (Kant, 1996). In his opinion private crimes are such as deceiving a person while selling goods, or abuse of someone's trust etc., while public crimes are coinage offence, theft, fight etc., because these crimes are damaging not just for one person, but the whole society. This does not mean that a private crime is less serious compared to the public one and therefore subject to a lighter punishment. A crime is a crime even though some crimes might be graver than others, but the main difference between personal and social crimes is whether the damage is incurred by one person or the whole society. Even in those cases when a crime is committed against one person, this person has no right to punish the violator. Administration of punishment is always the state's function. If a victim punishes the violator himself, this is no longer deemed to be a punishment but revenge.
The law always provides for punishing violators. If a violation or a crime is unpunished it means that the law is weak. In this case the law cannot administer justice. Weakness of the legal system indicates that the society itself is weak. Law administration is one of the main characteristic features of the state. Its absence means that there is no state. A sentence passed by a court differs from a natural punishment, because in the first case we are dealing with the punishment administration, while in the second - a guilty person punishes himself: "Judicial or juridical punishment is to be distinguished from natural punishment, in which crime as vice punishes itself, and does not as such come within the cognizance of the legislator" (Kant, 1996). The court does not take self-punishment into consideration, because this function must be administered by the state and not a private person, even when the person is guilty himself.
According to Kant punishment is a legal act that definitely has a certain basis. This basis is a crime. If there is no crime there must be no punishment. Punishment of innocent people is a result of a worthless legislation; this means that the legal system is unable to establish guilt and make a differentiation between innocent people and criminals.
An action cannot be considered criminal if there is no corresponding decision made by a jury. The only goal is inflicting a deserved punishment upon a guilty person. A person can not be punished just for sake of the society's benefit i.e. in order to prevent others from committing the same crime. This would mean that a guilty person is treated not as a criminal deserving punishment but as a means to benefit the society, which is inadmissible: "He must first be found guilty and punishable, before there can be any thought of drawing from his punishment any benefit for himself or his fellow-citizens" (Kant, 1996). No one has a right to do so, even the state, because this kind of approach would imply the possibility of punishing an innocent person to prevent him from committing a crime. Even more so, this approach would not require punishment of criminals, because the basis for punishment would be not "crime", but "benefit". The "punishment" concept would lose its meaning if a crime did not serve as a basis for punishment. In this case the punishment would be groundless and nothing else but a denial of justice.
The fact that the goal of punishment is to inflict damage on a criminal makes punishment more like revenge. It means: "eye for eye". This wording can be used to express the concept of fair punishment. Again, this does not imply that punishment is administered for the sake of benefit i.e. in order to teach criminals or the whole society a lesson. Thus a punishment is retribution in a legal form. It must not serve as an instrument to scaring or improve someone, but only to penalize.
A criminal does not realize that the damage inflicted by him on the society is no less harmful for himself as a member of this very society. If you steal from someone, you steal from yourself too; if you beat or kill someone, you harm yourself too. A human being cannot exist outside a society. Therefore harming a society means harming its each and every member. If a person thinks that theft is admissible for him, he must realize that he might become a victim too. This means that if you steal or kill, you establish a precedent and next time it might be you who suffers from the same kind of crime.
The above formula: "eye for eye" is mostly admissible and allows fair punishment, but it is not always acceptable either. E.g. a monetary penalty must not be set as a compensation for an insult, because this way a wealthy person can always insult the poor and pay money. An insulted poor person might even apologize and kiss the offender's hand, because the social position of the poor person is lower. This would not be fair.
Kant absolutely insists on capital punishment of murderers. According to Kant "whoever has committed murder, must die" (Kant, 1996), because no matter how difficult life might be, it is still better than death: "However many they may be who have committed a murder, or have even commanded it, or acted as art and part in it, they ought all to suffer death" (Kant, 1996). A court decision is mandatory for punishing a murderer. A society that does not sentence a murderer to death turns into an accomplice of this crime.
Kant quotes the opinion of an Italian lawyer Beccaria Cesare that nobody has a right to deprive a person of a right to live, therefore death penalty is unjust. Kant sharply criticizes this opinion and calls it "Sophistic". According to Kant it is not clear why a state should not have a right to kill a murderer. He does not accept the argument that nobody would be willing to sign a contract with the state if it included a provision allowing the state to kill him.
In Kant's opinion a death penalty is justified only regarding murder and not any other crime, unless it causes a very substantial damage to the society. It is impossible to allow a situation where a murderer would be entitled to any legal rights and would be able to justify his actions. Kant believes that we cannot possibly replace capital punishment. If the death penalty is abolished what could be used instead? Life imprisonment is an extremely shameful measure, worse that a death penalty. Suppose there are two prisoners sentenced to death. One prefers death and the other is ready to accept shameful life in prison to survive. Whish one of the two is better? Kant thinks that the first: "I say that the man of honor would choose death, and the knave would choose servitude" (Kant, 1996). Based on this logic Kant concludes that by abolishing capital punishment we impose an even more severe punishment which is unfair because a murderer deserves death and not something worse.
A person sentenced to death might agree to allow usage of his body for medical experiments (if he hopes to survive). Such medical experiments might be beneficial to the society, but Kant considers this unacceptable because justice will not be justice if it is sold for a price.
According to Kant there are circumstances when a murderer deserves lighter penalty. E.g. sometimes a mother kills her child to avoid shame; people die fighting a duel to defend their honor etc. In these cases law provides for milder punishment but as the time passes, the society becomes more and more liberated from those indulgences and the principle requiring capital punishment for murderers is still valid.
If a criminal is not punished it means that the society has a controversial nature. This way the society undermines itself. If punishment of an innocent person is a mistake of justice administration, failure to punish a criminal indicates that the absence of justice, which is worse than mistake.
Kant thinks that besides murderers, people who commit lese-majesty also deserve death. Lese-majesty is a crime equal to death, because it might bring very significant misfortune upon each member of society. As an example Kant describes Karl Edward Stuart's unsuccessful attempt to usurp the throne (1745-1746). A lot of people died due to this rebellion, including Lord Balmerino. Of course the rebels did not have the same goals. Some fulfilled their duties towards Stuarts' dynasty, others had some private interests.
A punishment must always correspond to the crime. It is a mistake to impose different punishment for the same crime, even in those cases when the criminal has no honor. E.g. let's get back to the above example when one prisoner prefers death and the other shameful life imprisonment. A death sentence would be an equal punishment for the both, but a life imprisonment will not, because it would be a more severe punishment for the first prisoner, who prefers death. Therefore, when a sentence is passed on rebels a death sentence would be highest measure.
In Kant's opinion for a murderer sentenced to death it is unallowable to appeal for pardon or lighter punishment. If the murderer is pardoned or a lighter punishment is set, the justice will be in a ridiculous condition. Legal authorities have no right to allow such a situation but if they still choose to do so, it means that legal authorities contradict themselves. Legal authorities must not violate justice, arbitrariness regarding justice can not be allowed. A legal system must strictly abide by the law, because observation of laws is an expression of justice.
Kant several times stresses that a murderer shall die by all means. This is required by the justice as an "a priori" established by law: "The categorical imperative of penal justice, that the killing of any person contrary to the law must be punished with death, remains in force" (Kant, 1996). If there are many criminals deserving a death sentence, application of capital punishment becomes impossible because it would lead to a significant decrease of the population number. In this case capital punishment must be replaced with deportation. Even though this measure is not in compliance with the law, the punishment must be executed based on a personal order and be deemed as a specific form of pardon.
A person is punished not because such is his wish, but because he committed an action deserving punishment. If a person is willing to be punished or thinks that he deserves punishment, it is no longer a punishment, since punishment must be related to suffer and pain while a desired punishment no longer causes it.
At the same time, Kant believes that those people who determine the laws must not be involved in any crimes. If something like that happens the person will not be able to fulfill legislative functions. If such a person still carries out the function and passes a sentence on himself, he will have to administer the punishment too. The functions of passing and administering the sentence will be combined in one person.
Kant differentiates two types of crime that deserve capital punishment, but he points out that it is still questionable whether the legal system is authorized to punish such criminals. Both of these crimes are based on honor. I have already discussed these situations earlier. In one case a mother kills her child to avoid shame: in Kant's opinion it is shameful to give birth to an illegal child, so there are certain circumstances that mitigate punishment. The other case is a duel. For a person who has dignity an insult worse than death. During a duel the insulted person risks his life. It means that for him dignity is more precious than life. But the state legislation does not always reflect the principles of honor and dignity i.e. the legislation might not view honor as proper justification for murder: "In all instances the acts are undoubtedly punishable; but they cannot be punished by the supreme power with death" (Kant, 1996). In this situation people might consider the legislation unjust.
Since the relevant punishment for murder is always death, pardon is out of question. It is impossible to pardon a murderer based on the state legislation. Such an action would be in controversy with the public opinion and can cause a conflict between the public and legislation.
According to Kant only the head of the state can have the authority to pardon and only if the insult has been directed against the head of the state himself. It will be a pardon granted by a private person, not provided for in the legislation.
Kant historian Keno Fisher writes, that this last view is neither clear nor correct. It is not clear because firstly Kant is talking about the head of the state but the right to pardon belongs to the executive government. Secondly, insulting the head of the state is the worst possible offence that cannot be pardoned. The head of the state actually has less right to pardon than anyone else. Insulting the head of the state is the same as insulting the state itself. In Fisher's opinion it is not clear why Kant views an insult of the head of the state as a private issue, when a monarch actually personifies the state authority.
According to Kant punishment is the head of the state's function, thus he himself can not be punished. If the head of the state violates the law he must retire (or be forced to retire): "The head of the state cannot therefore be punished; but his supremacy may be withdrawn from him" (Kant, 1996).
In Metaphysics of Morals Kant gave a deep analysis of such concepts as "crime" and "punishment". Both of these concepts have a social nature. The society and state are founded upon certain legal and moral norms and laws violation of which is very harmful for the society. Therefore a violator of these laws must be punished.
Kant is absolutely correct saying that a punishment cannot be assessed from the point of view of its benefit, because then innocent people can also be punished if it is beneficial for the society. This would be unjust.
In my opinion Kant is definitely right to demand capital punishment for murderers. In many countries, including my home country Georgia the death sentence has been replaced with the life sentence. According to Kant this seemingly human act is not human at all. Any person who can feel shame would prefer death to a lifelong imprisonment, while the life of those who have no dignity or shame is worthless. This is briefly Kant's view, which seems to be correct.
But I would like to disagree with the genius philosopher's opinion that the capital punishment cannot be used against the head of the state no matter how guilty he or she is. Kant is convinced that the maximum possible punishment should be resignation. In my opinion the head of the state has the biggest responsibility towards the people and country, therefore in case of treason he must be sentenced to death. Just a resignation would not be enough.
Kant is correct stating that a person must not be punished just because this would be beneficial for the society, because in this case punishment of an innocent person can also be justified. At the same time I would like to disagree with the view that the capital punishment does not have a fostering function. Punishment of a criminal is not just a personal retribution but also a warning to other society members not to commit the same offence. The punishment plays a certain role in influencing the criminal's morals too (of course if it is not a capital punishment). That's why the prisons are also called corrective or reformatory houses.
In general it must be noted that Kant's doctrine on crime and punishment contains many valuable ideas on issues that are widely discussed in the modern world. It is still very useful for contemporary legislators and moralists.
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Since her appointment as Independent Reviewer on November 26, 2014, the Honourable Susan Lang has consulted with two leading forensic toxicology experts, and has obtained information and materials from the Motherisk laboratory regarding the immunoassay hair-testing methodology that it used in the period from 2005 to 2010. She has also received and considered a number of responses to her request for submissions concerning the period from 2005 to 2010.
The Independent Reviewer’s work is ongoing. However, in the course of that work, the Independent Reviewer became concerned that the issues related to the Motherisk laboratory may not be limited to the use of the immunoassay hair-testing methodology, and determined that it was also necessary to consider the extent to which the Motherisk laboratory adhered to internationally recognized forensic standards.
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WHAT IS A FAMILY INTEGRATED CHURCH?
A family integrated church is simply a church that seeks to worship and minister as much as possible with families together. We believe age segregation tends to hinder and impede spiritual growth and maturity. The family is the first institution ordained by God in Genesis, and is a critical building block of the Church of Christ . Today’s modern churches in their ministry approach separate families; and although their desire may be to strengthen families, this approach undermines them. We believe the primary responsibility for Biblical training has been given to the spiritual head of each household. We encourage men to teach God’s Word in their homes every day (Deut 6:6-9, Eph 6:4).
The doctrine of the sufficiency of scripture leads us to look to the Bible not only for theological issues, but for methodology. Much of the methodology used in the modern church comes from the last 50 to 100 years of church history, and is based on traditions of men and humanistic philosophies. Another way of explaining family integrated churches is to compare them to old fashioned country churches where the focus is on preaching the Word of God, and families are encouraged to “live out the gospel”.
WHAT DO THE CHILDREN DO DURING THE SERVICES?
The children will worship God with their parents. This does pose challenges to parents who are not used to worshiping or attending Bible studies with their children. We believe that the modern church culture has underestimated the ability of children to learn from a young age. Even very young children, who cannot understand everything, learn when they worship with their parents and see God working in their parent’s lives.
We realize that this is not always easy, but God’s way is not always the easiest way, and with patience this will bear much fruit. Parents will be encouraged to elaborate on the teachings each Sunday, and to make the teaching relevant to the lives of their children and families.
WHAT KINDS OF CHURCH PROGRAMS WILL YOU OFFER?
We believe age segregated programs are detrimental to the family, the church, and even the unsaved in many ways. Here are some examples:
- Programs separate the family during their time at church.
- A church with many programs also keeps the family separated during the week by requiring evenings away from home.
- Programs directly and indirectly take up a large percentage of a church’s budget. Expenses can range from the curriculum needed for all the different ages to the “need” for new buildings and classrooms to house the programs and activities.
- The scriptures illustrate the home as being the center for hospitality, evangelism, discipleship, prayer meetings and other ministry opportunities. Today’s approach is to minister “at church.”
- Children miss the blessing of learning from their parents. This privilege and responsibility is often passed on to the church staff or lay leaders.
- Also, spontaneous opportunities for ministries are often neglected by a busy, program oriented church. For example, if one has to be at church three or four nights a week, the desire and energy to be able to minister and meet a need in one’s own neighborhood is usually avoided because of the many commitments to church.
WHAT ABOUT YOUTH GROUPS?
We believe that the modern (20th century only) practice of separating children from their parents is producing poor, unfruitful results. For example, there is a documented high rate of promiscuity in youth groups. It has also been documented that a very high percentage of those active in youth groups do not stay in the church after they leave the youth group. The largest group of people missing from the pews of American churches today is the 19-29 age group. If the youth group approach is a false hope and the results (or lack their of) prove this.
The modern myth of “adolescence” is just that, a myth. Children do not have to go through a stage of rebellion. The word teenager is a recent, modern term. It was never contemplated until modern humanistic principals (in the last 50 years) sought to challenge the biblical view of children staying under the authority of their parents and learning to honor and obey them.
The Bible also teaches that foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; that a companion of fools will be foolish; and to flee youthful lusts. Youth groups tend to encourage and foster immaturity, peer dependency, a spirit of rejecting parental authority – all in the name of ministry. This results in young people who are more concerned with being accepted by their peers than they are of being taught and trained by their parents
Age segregated teaching also clearly has its origin in evolutionary, humanistic, and non-biblical methodology. Instead of placing our youth into a peer group separated from their older, wiser parents, we believe in adhering to the biblical model. This scriptural teaching is found in Deutoronomy 6, where fathers are responsible for the ministry to youth. And if you read that passage, you’ll see that it should be a ministry that occurs seven days a week. This is one of many examples of the danger of the Church not recognizing its jurisdiction. Whenever jurisdiction is overstepped, it either creates conflict, or causes one party to nullify their responsibilities within that jurisdiction.
DO YOU HAVE TO BE IN A FAMILY TO ATTEND?
All persons are welcome at Heritage - single, married, grandparents, youth, young adults and children. In fact, with the Bible’s emphasis on multi-generational vision, we look forward to diversity in age in our congregation. Those young people who do not have an active father in the family are welcomed too. Our church families are encouraged to open their homes to them, bring them to church, and to disciple them, as they should do with anyone God brings into their life. Psalm 68:6 says, “God setteth the solitary in families…”
WHAT IS YOUR STYLE OF WORSHIP?
Heritage is a distinctively conservative Bible believing church that believes that the worship service should be centered on God, and the expository preaching of the Word of God. This means that we will be first of all Christ Centered. We have communion every Sunday. We also believe that the worship service should be a sanctuary from the world. We sing primarily hymns, traditional and modern. The music with which we worship will reflect those concerns, with the purpose of directing us toward God, and away from ourselves and the world. | <urn:uuid:a91aba94-1a02-4664-aecc-b059ee8a641e> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | http://ourheritagefamily.org/m/19004/p/229893 | 2024-04-20T17:22:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.968291 | 1,356 |
Harrisburg, Pa. − October 21, 2020 − Today in a hearing of the Senate Education Committee, Senator Art Haywood shared stories he had learned from Black students at the PA State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) universities and blasted PASSHE Chancellor Dan Greenstein about his mishandling of these issues.
Chancellor Greenstein presented to a joint hearing of the Senate Education and Appropriations Committee on his proposal to redesign the State System – but Senator Haywood and others were deeply concerned about the harassment of students of color in recent years. While the System has hired a new Vice Chancellor for diversity, Senator Haywood does not believe it goes far enough.
“It appeared to me that this was a typical play I have seen over and over where a black person is given a diversity assignment to fix the white problem of race discrimination,” Senator Haywood said to Chancellor Greenstein. “Institutional racism creates an unsafe climate for African American students and causes a lot of stress which impacts their overall performance. Lip service and simply adding relevant courses are not part of the solution, unless they are requirements to graduate.”
Senator Haywood has been talking to many students at PASSHE schools about their experiences and how discrimination is addressed on their campuses; he’s heard:
- A student shared that African American student at Bloomsburg University say they don’t go past the water fountain in town, as the fountain marks the beginning of a neighborhood known for racial discrimination. The student said he does not feel safe. The student had been cursed at while walking. He also complained that cultural clubs are given offices in the basement of buildings.
- Another Black student at Bloomsburg said he was heavily recruited to attend the university but once he got there he found no supports and felt like he was an outcast. He heard of a slave auction reenactment on campus that was not condemned. He has had minimal access to Black academic counselors or professors or mental health support and no Black studies course of study.
- A third student from Bloomsburg says she has been stereotyped as a poor inner city kid with no father. She is a suburban kid with a father. Either way she is not inferior. She reports having been called the ‘n-word.’
- East Stroudsburg students of color also report having been heavily recruited, but the university made no efforts to retain them. They’ve had racist roommates with no consequences and seen hate groups grow on campus.
- A Shippensburg student, also heavily recruited to attend, has been told to ‘go home, [n-word]’, chased on campus, and called other racial epithets with no repercussions for the other students who have committed these acts. They also report seeing many Confederate flags on cars on campuses.
- An IUP student described Confederate flags on campus, few if any white students, faculty or staff participating in diversity training and no consequences for harassment from a racist Zoom bomb incident.
“There is a pattern in our State System: students of color are recruited to attend these schools when they are in high school, but once they arrive – the Administration does little to support them,” said Senator Haywood. “They are faced with racist treatment by their classmates and roommates, disregarded by professors and administrators, and PASHEE does nothing to protect them.”
“Imagine seeing the re-enactment of a Holocaust gas chamber on campus. The Chancellor and Administration would condemn it immediately and there would be immediate consequences for the students behind it,” said Senator Haywood. “The racist mistreatment of our Black students must be taken just as seriously.”
“Our State System is supposed to be an accessible option for every Pennsylvanian student who wants to further their education, and while the Administration seems interested in increasing minority enrollment, I am angry by how students of color are harassed and abandoned when they arrive on campus,” Senator Haywood continued. “We cannot finance race discrimination on campus need to see immediate steps from the Chancellor to end the harassment and tolerance of racism.” | <urn:uuid:0ea948ab-fd58-4a8f-b41e-dae4fe86f535> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | http://pasenate.com/senator-haywood-highlights-harassment-of-black-students-at-passhe-schools-questions-chancellor-in-senate-hearing/ | 2024-04-20T17:12:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.979539 | 861 |
Electrical control panels are designed and used to control mechanical equipment. Each one is designed for a specific equipment arrangement and includes devices that allow an operator to control specified equipment. Electric Panel is a module of an electricity supply system that divides an electrical power feed into subsidiary circuits, while providing a protective fuse or circuit breaker for each circuit, in a common enclosure. Main switch and residual current Breakers with overcurrent protection will also be incorporated. They are used in all major industries where heavy machinery is used. The purpose of the distribution panel serves not only the inefficient distribution of incoming power but also to protect the subsidiary circuits in case of overload and short circuits. Some of the major industries included are textile, power, sugar mills, iron & steel, and cement plants. Electric Panel is primarily designed to distribute and control the power for various mechanical implements. These panels are unit products of smart quality raw materials by industrial quality standards.
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Ineffective erythropoiesis may be the hallmark of beta-thalassemia that creates a cascade of compensatory mechanisms leading to clinical sequelae such as for example erythroid marrow expansion, extramedullary hematopoiesis, splenomegaly, and improved gastrointestinal iron absorption. (Tfr1),12,13 and Tfr1 is necessary for erythrocytes Telatinib to uptake transferrin-bound iron. These results claim that suppressing Jak2 activity could lower iron uptake by erythrocytes, thus limiting oxidative harm and reducing hemolysis.6 Lastly, iron overload network marketing leads to a rise in non-transferrin-bound iron (NTBI), and NTBI is a catalyst for formation of ROS.10 Therefore, iron overload can contribute right to the increased oxidative strain that characterizes IE. Provided the important function of GDF15 and hepcidin in regulating iron absorption, and proof the fact that serum degrees of these human hormones are indicative of IE,14,15 they may be useful biomarkers in -thalassemia. Latest work shows that GDF15 amounts correlate with serum ferritin, liver organ iron concentration, as well as the multiplicity of iron overload related problems in transfusion-independent sufferers with -thalassemia intermedia (TI).15 Telatinib 6. Potential potential therapies Jak2 inhibitors show up promising for the treating -thalassemia predicated on the potential function of Jak2 in IE and iron fat burning capacity.2 Preliminary research in murine types of -thalassemia show than Jak2 inhibitors make a difference IE and reduce spleen size.5 Results from clinical Telatinib research in sufferers with myeloproliferative disorders that are seen as a activating Jak2 mutations claim that Jak inhibitors could be a highly effective treatment option using a tolerable safety account. For example, within a stage 1C2 research, the Jak inhibitor INCB018424 was proven to quickly reduce splenomegaly in sufferers with myelofibrosis and palpable spleens.16 Predicated on the Hbb-bh1 available preclinical evidence, it really is anticipated that Jak2 inhibitors might decrease splenomegaly, transfusion requirements, and perhaps iron overload in sufferers with -thalassemia; nevertheless, clinical evidence isn’t yet obtainable. Reducing iron overload could possess a variety of results in sufferers with -thalassemia, especially people that have TI. Reducing erythroid iron intake might limit the formation of heme and the forming of hemichromes and ROS, which might bring about far better erythropoiesis, elevated circulating hemoglobin (Hb) amounts, and reduced splenomegaly. This may potentially be performed by restricting eating iron or by raising serum degrees of hepcidin. Within a murine style of TI, Hbb em th3 /em /+ mice given an iron-restricted diet plan or genetically built expressing moderate degrees of hepcidin didn’t develop iron overload.17 These research in transgenic Hbb em th3 /em /+ mice further confirmed that modestly raising expression of hepcidin elevated Hb levels, decreased splenomegaly, and elevated erythropoiesis, as evidenced by fewer erythroid progenitor cells in the spleen. As a result, drugs that boost serum hepcidin amounts or become hepcidin agonists may be helpful in -thalassemia.18 However, although research in mouse models show that moderate degrees of hepcidin are advantageous, high amounts can adversely affect iron recycling by macrophages, one factor that needs to be examined carefully if this Telatinib plan is employed in transfusion-independent sufferers with TI.10,18 Administration of exogenous transferrin could be another method of normalize erythropoiesis in sufferers with -thalassemia. Research in murine versions show that long-term administration of transferrin Telatinib shots to Hbbth1/th1 mice elevated Hb production, reduced reticulocytosis and serum EPO amounts, reversed splenomegaly, and improved hepcidin manifestation.19 These findings claim that exogenous transferrin administration may bring back more normal erythropoiesis; that is in keeping with the hypothesis that in individuals with -thalassemia, modulation of iron delivery to erythroid cells could profoundly ameliorate IE, boost hepcidin secretion, and right dysregulation of iron absorption, distribution, and rate of metabolism.2,19 7. Conclusions Latest studies, mainly in murine types of TI, possess begun to reveal the complicated molecular mechanisms root IE as well as the connected compensatory pathways in individuals with. | <urn:uuid:114c202d-a60e-4ca1-90a9-a7d2367858c8> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | http://pdgfr-inhibitor.com/2018/11/ineffective-erythropoiesis-may-be-the-hallmark-of-beta-thalassemia-that-creates-a/ | 2024-04-20T17:14:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.894168 | 1,003 |
I make the assumption here, that if you are reading this, you have spent a considerable amount of time around your complementary gender. So, you don’t need to be a psychologist to have noticed that the psychology of men and of women can be very different, to be sure. Neither may be judged as better or worse: each has it’s gifts; each it’s drawbacks. It is often against the backdrop of any emotionally committed relationship though, straight or gay, that questions about the definition of being a “man” emerge, often confusing and difficult, and even painful.
Although not exclusive to men and benefits notwithstanding, the tendency to be more linear and concrete in thinking and communicating, oriented more toward solitary problem-solving and decision-making, having a lower frustration tolerance, difficulty with managing anger, are just a few manifestations of issues associated with men, that have led to significant misunderstandings and conflict between intimate partners, often leading to the suggeston of couple's counseling.
Cultural norms and expectations, program a host of other unfortunate consequences. Consider the injunctions against men expressing fear or sadness. How does the inaccessibility and denial of these deeper feelings really affect you? How about your relationship?
Transmitted mainly through our fathers (who learned from their own fathers), both expressed and implied messages about not being “good enough”, being a “baby ~ grow up!”,“be strong”, and so on, lead to ‘one-up/one down’ competitions, where the ‘one-down’ means somehow “broken or damaged goods”; Shamed! Rejected! (Incidentally, this kind of competition turns up all to often between fathers and sons themselves, at the unfortunate expense of an intimate relationship with each other) Can you relate? These issues have caused deep wounds and great pain among our men and in turn, to our life partners.
Most men and women are unaware that these wounds even exist, much less understand, or have compassion for them. Sadly, they have in large part remained unconscious and hidden throughout the life of men. Unconscious but nonetheless operating, you may be able to relate to some of the experiences below. Misunderstood and unattended, they will inevitably contribute to relationship difficulty in your home, often at work, and socially as well:
- The inability to see yourself as exploited, oppressed and suffering, and therefore:
- Resistant to asking for, and accepting help
- Anxiety and anger at ‘male role’ expectations
- The inability to acknowledge all of your feelings, as well as those of others
- The difficulty or inability to express sensitivity and empathy for other’s feelings
- Feelings of shame, or isolation and loneliness
Here’s the paradox: how can we as men, expect our life partners to deeply ‘know’ us, if we don’t even know ourselves? How can they know, much less understand us if are not willing, or able to show them who we really are? Most men are “too busy” to spend any time in self reflection. In those brief moments of “stillness” though, we may catch a glimpse of our shadow. It may show up in depression, it may show up in anxiety, but so often it does eventually show itself. Unemployment, boredom, guilt and sorrow following a ‘blowup’ with a loved-one, can drive a man to introspection, and that awakening glimpse. Most men don’t realize that, unconscious though they may be, painful unresolved issues directly affect those we love. The therapeutic relationship can provide a safe forum in which to explore and get to know our authentic Self. I offer an opportunity here, to challenge cultural assumptions, dictates and programming that perpetuate shallow, painful myths about being a “man,” so that we can get ‘real’ with ourselves and the world!
Please feel free to email or call me with any questions or comments at the address below.
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I’m feeling stronger, and the mirror seems to be showing results, but the scale is mocking me, the tape measure is mildly encouraging, and the fat caliper is indifferent. The exercise is coming along well and the trifecta stretches are moving up to the next level. The straight bridges have become ridiculously easy, and I’m struggling somewhat with the angle bridges, I will have to try a gentler angle and work it up (or down – depending on your POV). The N hold I’m doing from push up bars. Throwing in the daily knee tucks has greatly helped with the clicking in my hips, the clicking is quieter, goes away sooner and is not uncomfortable anymore.
While I’m down on the floor for the knee tucks I’m thinking I should also add in the hollow body progression: http://gymnasticswod.com/content/hollow-body-progression-pt1 This should help me to connect the upper & lower body better in martial arts movement. The downside of this is that my nice short workouts are getting ever longer. | <urn:uuid:6a1a618f-39b0-46f5-bbfe-a481c63aa090> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | http://phreebase.com/index.php/2012/02/febnew-month-new-challenge/ | 2024-04-20T16:01:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.941849 | 230 |
This may not be the exact look of your condition. Please confirm your diagnosis with your dermatologist.
What is it?
Shingles is a viral infection that forms a line of blisters and is usually uncomfortable or painful. The cause of shingles is believed to be the varicella-zoster virus, which also causes chickenpox. Anyone who has had chickenpox also has the varicella-zoster virus, which remains dormant in nerve endings, except for its outbreak as shingles.
Someone who has contracted shingles can transmit the virus to anyone who is not immune to chickenpox; that is, anyone who has not had a vaccination, or has not had chickenpox, or whose immune system is not strong. In those people, the virus is spread through direct contact with the shingles.
Shingles is typically localized to a particular area of the body often, but not always on one side, and presents itself as a very painful red rash with small blisters. It is often accompanied by numbness and/or a tingling sensation, which can sometimes occur before the actual shingles outbreak is apparent on the skin.
Other symptoms include:
Fever and/or chills
Severe itching, burning, pain or discomfort
Could this be what you have?
People over age 50, people with a compromised immune system or those not immune to chickenpox are more likely to contract Shingles.
Treatment Options @ Pinnacle
The best change of defense against shingles is the chickenpox vaccine, and for certain people, the shingles vaccination. Once shingles has appeared, however, treatment options include:
Prescription antiviral drugs
Numbing creams or sprays
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I suppose that this is really a blog, though I hesitate to call it that. The real bloggers seem so much
more interesting. I cover stuff which I find interesting, and I hope that you will too.
If you really want, you can get an RSS feed of Chateau Gladstone news here:
For more information about what I'm interested in, see the Ponding pages.
Is winter ending?
12 Mar 2006
The ice has finally melted from the pond, and all the snow has gone. Our thoughts are turning to spring and summer projects -- including ice cream. We have put together a list of Birthday Icecream Flavors that tell you what your special flavor is, based on the your birth month.
First big storm storm of the season
9 Dec 2005
We received 13.5 inches of snow today. I guess that the snow started at about 7 AM. At 8 AM we had between 1 and 2 inches. We then received another 12.5 during the day till it tapered off at about 4 PM. The total is 13.5. You may wonder how that can work out -- it is because the later snow compresses the earlier snow. See the Snow Measurement Guide for the full gory details of how snow measuring should be done.
If you are interested in measuring snow, then check out CWOP Snow Measuring to see what you need to do.
The major problem with performing these measurements (apart from having to go outside in the cold weather) is trying to find a suitable ruler -- it should be marked in tenths of an inch. These are very hard to come by in the US.
GEOURL is back online
4 Mar 2005
GEOURL is a neat website that has come back online after a long period of downtime. It allows you to find websites by geographical proximity. For example, these are the websites near me.
I notice that DeviantArt has local users.
I must confess that I really don't understand it, even though my niece has a gallery.
CWOP makes it into the New York Times
30 Dec 2004
CWOP is the Citizen Weather Observer Program. This is a loose network of amateur
weather station operators who feed their data into NOAA's Forecast Systems Laboratory. From their it moves all over the map.
The New York Times had a nice article entitled Hobbyists Fill Out the Weather Map which told some of the personal stories behind the technology.
This is relevant to me as I run the Weather Data Quality service. This takes data from the FSL and
reformats it and then e-mails it to weather station operators as requested. The data shows how their station readings
compare with the surrounding stations. This often allows the
operator to spot problems with their sensors.
Innumeracy a tale of $2.09
10 Sep 2002
I bought a small power connector in Radio Shack for $1.99. It came to $2.09 including tax. I initially handed the clerk $2 and a quarter which he entered into the cash register. I then handed him another four cents for a total of $2.29. This completely floored him, and it took some explaining that I now wanted 20 cents in change.
On to BJs for a few items -- one of which was a gallon of milk. The checkout person managed to give the milk to the person in front of me, and charge her (on her credit card) for it. The checkout person was completely flustered (I think that she had not been working long). I offered to give the $2.09 (for the milk) to the person in front of me as that would solve the problem. This solution was agreed. However, as I'm walking out, I observe that I have been charged for the milk as well (on my credit card). At this point, I decide to write off the money and give up.
John Allen Paulos has written a wonderful book called Innumeracy
that deals with the poor state of arithmetical knowledge in the general public. Definitely recommended.
Major storm blew through
28 Jun 2002
Last night a significant thunderstorm blew through. The lightning stroke rates were quite impressive (see the graph), peaking at 20,000 strokes per hour. What is better is that the 1-wire
weather network held up. I'm chalking this up to the surge protection that I added to the network.
The pondcam held up, and the UPS kept everything running while we were out of power. I use an APC UPS that I got from Sams Club with apcupsd to control it.
Some piece of my hifi rack was not so lucky -- sound now longer travels from the cable box to the amplifier and out to the speakers.
Leonids of 2001
18 Nov 2001
We saw the Leonids this morning, and very nice they were too.
I got a couple of photographs which are worth looking at (out of 200
which I shot!)
1-Wire Barometer woes
5 Oct 2001 (Updated 28 Oct 2001)
I'm in the process of building a 1-wire barometer to add to the weather station.
However, it isn't going very well. See the progress page for the full story.
Update: I'm going to add an instrumentation amplifier to do the level shifting, provide some gain and buffer the input to the A/D.
Update: It now works much better with the instrumentation amp. I'm leaving it running overnight to see if it
really works (i.e. measures the pressure)!
Another big storm
30 Jun 2001
Another big lightning storm came through and destroyed
various bits of equipment. This is the reason that the
weather readings stopped after 6pm today until I replaced
the 'dongle' that is used to interface the sensor network
to the computer. I also lost the mouse (it melted!) and
various bits of networking gear (hub, print server).
It was all on my UPS and surge supressors, but I guess
that not much can be done for lightning. I have a whole
house surge supressor as well. I'll put up the lightning
photographs soon -- I managed to capture some strikes on
Update The print server has recovered but it looks
as though the webcam didn't make it. Still, this may be
an excuse to get a better camera!
Update I had disconnected the 1-wire network from
the dongle on Sunday July 1 before the next storm came
through. Unfortunately, one of the temperature sensors
seems to have gone shortcircuit in the second storm. It
was just wired to the end of a long peice of wire, and I
guess that the induced voltage was too large (although since
it is all twisted pair, I don't really understand it).
I think that the new network will have more voltage
supressors, but I'm nervous about the capacitative loading
that it will introduce.
The storm of June 20, 2001
20 Jun 2001
In spite of the weather forecast, this wasn't a bad
storm. I did get a couple of lightning pictures.
See the storm page. I've also included
the various weather charts for the day, and the graphs
are somewhat interesting (if you like that sort of stuff).
cwop The Citizen Weather Observer Program is a loose collection of amateur weather station operators.
ffmpeg Open source audio/video streaming software -- this drives my pondcam
gunnera Neat description of the Gunnera Manicata -- a truly monstrous plant!
jreceiver Open source server for the Rio Receiver -- this is what I use.
docsearls The Doc Searls weblog -- he seems clueful and I read him.
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The home buying process can be taxing, with lots of items to complete. Your home inspection shouldn’t be just another dreaded task and that’s why we like to answer the question upfront “How long does a home inspection take?”
To be as detailed as we should be, a home inspection will take 2-4 hours. This will allow us enough time to examine your home from top to bottom including setting up ladders, taking pictures, crawling in tight spaces, and walking the parameters of your property. During this time, you the homeowner or buyer may also choose to be onsite, so some of this time may involve hearing about issues you’d like to ensure are covered and sharing documents.
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By the decrees of the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, the First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Border Troops, the Deputy Commanders of the Border Troops of the State Committee for National Security of the Republic of Tajikistan and other units of this structure were appointed from among experienced and faithful officers, graduates of two higher military institutions of the Republic of Tajikistan and abroad with good commanding and organizational skills.
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The President of the country, Honorable Emomali Rahmon, mentioned the constant attention and concern of the Government of the Republic to this military unit and expressed that in recent years the situation of supply of Border Troops with the necessary supplies has improved and the conditions of living and conducting the service are decent and meet the requirements.
The state of material and technical support of the Border Troops of the State Committee for National Security is improving day by day, based on the requirements of the military statutes, and until the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Border Troops, which is expected next year, the construction of modern facilities, checkpoints, border detachments and other necessary infrastructure in the field should be completed, - stated the Leader of the Nation.
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T.K. Group was founded by two brothers, Mohammed Abu Tayab and Mohammad Abul Kalam, in 1972.
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Moving is a big decision, and we understand that there’s a lot you want to know. That’s why Settler’s Ranch Apartment Homes has compiled answers to the most common questions. We are very thankful that you have chosen us to be your new home! If you have any questions or comments please don’t hesitate to reach out to us @ 281-922-6700.
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Several key trends emerged in the global NPK market in 2019. Governments played a key role in the market, as changes to import and export legislation in major producing and consuming countries disrupted long-established trade flows.
Chinese exports surge following export tax removal
China had been a net importer of NPKs, but on 1 January
2019 the government scrapped the export tax on NPKs — it
had been set at Yn100/t in 2018. The policy change boosted
Chinese NPK exports significantly, with shipments in January-
November rising by 170pc on the year, and exports exceeding
imports in March and August.
Myanmar and the Philippines received the largest shares
of Chinese exports in January-November, GTT data show.
Exports to Myanmar rose by 364pc on the year to 359,827t,
while shipments to the Philippines rose by 144pc to 184,430t.
Exports to other southeast Asian markets grew considerably,
as the graph below shows. The growth is particularly
noteworthy as import demand for NPKs across southeast Asia
was reduced throughout 2019 by poor crop returns, low cash
flow and unfavourable weather.
Chinese producers also appear to have targeted Africa.
Mozambique was the third most popular destination for
exports in January-November 2019, according to GTT data,
although shipments did not pick up immediately after the
export tax was scrapped — of the 130,890t delivered to
Mozambique in January-November, 117,890t was shipped
from July onwards. Meanwhile, in October, a 10,000t cargo of
Chinese NPKs was shipped to Zambia, the highest monthly
volume for Zambia recorded on GTT and the first shipment
there from China since 2003.
Chinese producers have taken steps over the last year to
raise their profile as exporters. In March, Kingenta passed
the prequalification stage in the Kenya Tea Development
Agency’s (KTDA) tender to buy 88,655t of 26-5-5, having
failed to prequalify in 2018, when KTDA was not familiar with
Supply diversifies following ban on Russian fertilizer imports
On 1 July 2019, the Ukrainian government banned all fertilizer
imports from Russia. Although the ban was preceded by
various sanctions and duties that reduced Russian producers’
share of Ukrainian NPK imports, the import ban represented
the loss of what had been Russia’s largest NPK export market
and Ukraine’s largest supplier. Russia accounted for 72pc of
Ukrainian NPK imports in 2014-18, while Ukraine accounted
for 19pc of Russian NPK exports, the highest percentage for a
single country, GTT data show.
Although flows from Russia did not stop entirely after 1 July
— pre-sold NPKs were allowed into the country after the ban —
imports fell by 94pc on the year in July-November to 26,316t,
latest customs data show. The supply gap prompted an influx of
new product. Ukraine imported 31,387t of Moroccan
15-15-15 in August- September, as OCP entered the market.
And Nippon Jordan Fertilizer delivered 14,400t of 10-26-26 to
Ukraine in September — Ukraine’s first Jordanian NPK receipts.
Bulgarian producer Agropolychim also made its Ukrainian
market debut, shipping 7,820t of 15-40-10+2S to the country
in July-November. And the first Greek NPKs arrived in Ukraine,
too, with 7,310t imported from Hellagrolip in July-November.
Other producers that were present in Ukraine before the
ban, but very much in the shadow of Russian firms, saw
big increases in their exports to the country. Imports of
Yara product rose by 299pc on the year in July-November
to 81,353t, customs data show, while imports from Serbian
producer Elixir increased by 68pc to 24,658t. Romania’s
Azomures first shipped NPKs to Ukraine in April 2019, and of
the 23,388t received from Azomures since then, 16,549t was
delivered after 1 July, customs data show.
Despite these increases, monthly imports fell on the year
each month in July-November. And just as Ukrainian importers
failed to replace Russian supply, Russian producers failed to
entirely replace Ukrainian demand.
Russian NPK exports fell by 5pc year on year in January-
November to 5mn t. The impact of a 48pc drop in exports to
Ukraine was mitigated by a 21pc rise in exports to China,
which is now Russia’s largest export market, but shipments to
other regions in January-November were relatively stable.
Producers’ attempts to replace Ukrainian demand have
pushed them to focus on other markets. In mid-November, it
emerged that Phosagro will supply Benin’s Interprofessional
Cotton Association (AIC) with 180,000t of 14-18-18+6S+1B
and 25,000t of 13-17-17+6S+0.5B+1.5Zn. These are the first
significant consignments of Russian product to be shipped
to Africa. And in late October, Phosagro announced plans to
open a trading office in South Africa, increasing its potential
to disrupt OCP’s dominance of the continent.
Nigerian NPK import ban removes a key outlet for OCP
In December 2018, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) announced
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finished imported NPK products. The action was requested by
the Fertilizer Producers and Suppliers Association of Nigeria
(Fepsan), which argued that it would save on foreign exchange
reserves, protect domestic producers and encourage the use
of more soil-specific fertilizers.
Nigeria imported 351,821t of NPKs in 2018, AFO data show.
The bulk of this was supplied by OCP, with Moroccan NPK
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OCP has been unable to entirely offset the loss of Nigerian
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major African markets fell, with exports to Ivory Coast falling
by 5pc to 78,823t, exports to Angola fell by 37pc to 34,906t
and exports to Ghana were down by 84pc, at 8,604t.
With insufficient demand in Africa to replace Nigerian imports,
the ban forced OCP to seek new markets. Moroccan exports to
Europe in January-October increased by almost 600pc year on
In Europe, Spain received the largest volume of Moroccan
NPKs in January-October, with shipments to the country rising
by 192pc to 54,383t.
Ukraine was another key European growth market for OCP,
with Moroccan exports there in January-October totalling
41,081t. This reflects the producer’s success in capitalising on
the Ukrainian government’s import ban on Russian fertilizers
— OCP had never exported NPKs to Ukraine before July 2019.
Outside Europe, exports to Uruguay rose by 86pc on the year
to 35,515t in January-September.
BRAZIL AND INDIA
Emerging markets a key focus
Demand from emerging markets continues to increase, as
both Brazil and India imported record volumes of NPKs.
Brazil imported 1.3mn t of NPKs in January-November 2019,
latest GTT data show, surpassing the 1.2mn t imported in all
Indian importers have purchased 749,918t of NPKs so far in
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arrivals in January), according to Argus data, exceeding the
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year. The higher demand is attributed to a healthy monsoon
that encouraged importers to diversify supply.
Among the record total were the first imports from South
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25,000t of the grade. Samsung sourced the fertilizer from
South Korean producer Namhae.
Southern India-based fertilizer producer FACT imported 16-16-
16 for the first time, buying 27,000t of Russian product from
trading company Swiss Singapore in May. FACT then issued
its first tender for 17-17-17 in late June, but the tender was
scrapped after attracting just one bid.
New terms in Africa’s largest procurement tender
African demand was disrupted by signi cant changes to the
Ethiopian Agricultural Business Corporation’s (EABC) annual
procurement tender. This is the largest African procurement
tender of the year, and volumes continue to rise. In 2018, it
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White to play
JMGB v Heppel, Surrey League October 2011
I'm writing this before I go to Penarth, although by the time you read these words I'll have been back for a day or two. On the assumption that the journey home will leave me no time to write on Saturday, and that I'll be fancying a break from chess on Sunday, it seemed sensible to get something in the bank.
So it's back once more to my rook ending year thus far. I've had a bunch at Golders Green (AH: The Morrissey Question), not all of which have been entirely successful (AH: The One That Got Away), and I had a pleasing second session entirely devoted to rooks and pawns too (AH: The adjournment).
I've also spent some time recently looking back at the games I played prior to 2013. All this extra rook ending experience has rather changed how I see quite a few of them. The game from which the position at the head of today's blog is taken being a case in point.
"They're not taking the piss this time?"
Carlsen hears of his latest appearance on S&BCB's 'Rook & pawn Monday'
It was an otherwise rather forgettable Surrey League game played a couple of years back. I played Kh2, which must be OK, and drew fairly comfortably anyway. Still, If I ever have anything like this position again I'd push g2-g3 without thinking.
Just like Carlsen did against Short at the London Classic a few months after my game ...
... and just like he did against Grischuk a few years before.
It looks counter-intuitive to trap your king on the back rank, cutting it off from the defence of the pawn, but when you think about it, how can the other side take advantage? The only way to attack the pawn is with the rook, but that would allow the king back in the game so in truth there's nothing to worry about.
Sure, these 3v2 or 2v1 pawns on the same side rook endings should be drawn. Still, it's possible to get yourself into a pickle if you're not careful and one way to do that is to let yourself get a little cramped as the attacker advances. Better, then, to advance your pawn and grab some space when you can.
My Kh2 worked well enough in practice on that occasion, but it looks a little clumsy to my 2013 eyes. A small sign, maybe, that my understanding of these positions is moving in the right direction.
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It’s Wednesday — and it just so happens we’re now over the hump on the ballots for the 2016 Swamplot Awards for Houston Real Estate, too. Quick refresher: So far voting has begun for Favorite Houston Design Cliché, Best Demolition, the “Where Are They Now?” Award, and Best Industrial Incident. The official list of nominees for this year’s Award for Special Achievement in Parking is now ready for your perusal, too; thanks again to everyone who joined in to help round up the contenders.
Remember, you can stuff the ballot box by voting 4 times for this award — that’s once by commenting below, once by shooting us an email, and once each by Facebook and by Twitter. Get the complete details here to make sure your votes count, and don’t forget to ask your friends to help push your nominee to the top! All votes are due by 5PM on Tuesday, December 27th.Â
Who made the greatest strides this year in the oft-stagnant field of parking? Take your pick from the nominees below:
1. Parkside Parking on Allen Pkwy., Downtown Redevelopment Authority. Opening up the green space by adding more gray space: “Parking added to Allen Pkwy. has been a game-changer — the redo swapped out the eastbound de facto freeway frontage for a new west-bound stretch of 175 extra-long spots along Buffalo Bayou Park.”
2. Heights Blvd. Paveover, Heights Mercantile. A bit of Heights de-densification: “When the request for a variance to the off-street parking ordinance hit a snag, the developers solved the problem in a laudably car-friendly way: by buying 2 more buildings next door to the development, knocking them down, and putting a surface parking lot on Heights Blvd.â€
3. Astrodome Basement Parking Plan, Harris County. A true-to-form Houston mashup: “There is nothing that says ‘Houston’ quite like filling the floor of the 8th Wonder of the World and our city’s greatest historic landmark with a basement-level parking garage.”
4. Historic Flattenings on Louisiana St., Lancaster Hotel. Another parking gem polished up out of the nearby rough: “The Lancaster Hotel’s creation of a brand new Downtown surface lot to hold 50 cars out of the 2 musty 100-year-old buildings next door is a very special achievement.â€
5. Parklet-to-Parking Conversion, Montrose Whole Foods. Helping a forgotten corner become what it was always meant to be: “After letting the corner of the parking lot languish as largely unused green space, they corrected course and helped the remaining land fulfill its stripy destiny.“
6. Imitation Fig Leaf Parking Garage Coverup, Rice University. A little privacy for parking business: “It’s not done yet, but the under-construction garage alongside the new admin building will be covered in simulated fig greens to hide all those sensitive parking spots from the Med Center’s prying eyes.“
Who’s earned the prime spot? That’s up to you — voting opens now!
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Wu Announces 2022 Outdoor Dining Program
Mayor Michelle Wu announced the return of the Outdoor Dining Pilot Program, a collaboration of the Licensing Board, Boston Fire Department, Inspectional Services Department, Boston Transportation Department, Public Improvement Commission, Disabilities Commission, Public Works, Office of Economic Opportunity and Inclusion, and the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services. The Outdoor Dining Program is a citywide initiative that allows restaurants the use of expanded public spaces for outdoor dining. The applications for the 2022 Outdoor Dining Pilot Program are now open. Those interested can apply here. Visit boston.gov/outdoordining for more information and ongoing updates about the 2022 Temporary Outdoor Dining Program. Questions and concerns about the program can be sent to [email protected].
Roll up Your Sleeves at the Annual Muddy River Cleanup
Registration for the 2022 Muddy River Cleanup is now live! Each year since 2009, the Conservancy’s largest annual volunteer event has brought hundreds together to pick up litter, remove invasive plants and assist with park maintenance throughout all 1,100 acres of the Emerald Necklace. This year’s cleanup takes place Saturday, April 23 in each park of the Necklace, from Franklin Park to Charlesgate Park. The Muddy River Cleanup is part of the larger Charles River Cleanup, which was recognized nationally from 2016-2019 by American Rivers for the Most Pounds of Trash Collected and Most Volunteers Mobilized. Register at https://www.emeraldnecklace.org/event/mrc2022/
126th Boston Marathon–Monday, April 18
30,000 entrants will participate in the 126th Boston Marathon, starting the 26.2-mile route from Main Street in Hopkinton to Boylston Street at Copley Square near the Boston Public Library. Race day road closures will be in effect on roads in the vicinity of Kenmore Square, Copley Square, Boston Common, and other areas in the Back Bay. Please visit www.cityofboston.gov for more information as closures become available.
Crowd barriers will be set up along Boylston Street and areas of the course within the City of Boston. Spectators are asked for their cooperation in following reasonable and common sense guidelines that will help ensure the safety and security of participants, volunteers, and spectators. For more information, please visit www.baa.org.
Taking public transportation is strongly encouraged. The following nearby MBTA stations will be open:
• Hynes Convention Center Station (MBTA Green Line)
• Prudential Station (MBTA Green Line)
• Back Bay Station (MBTA Orange Line / Commuter Rail)
• Arlington Station (MBTA Green Line)
Please note, Copley Station (MBTA Green Line) will be closed for the entire day on race day. For more information on MBTA service, please visit www.mbta.com/events.
BPL Concerts in the Courtyard Applications Open
Musicians! Apply to be a part of the BPL’s Concerts in the Courtyard 2022 season and get a chance to play live in our spectacular courtyard at the Central Library in Copley Square. All genres are encouraged. The deadline is April 4. Learn more and apply at bit.ly/BPLCITC2022.
Annual Spring Celebration at Clarendon Street Playground
Ring in Spring at the Clarendon Street Playground on Saturday, April 9, 10 AM – 12PM. Children and families are invited to delight in seasonal games and crafts, complimentary beverages and snacks and balloon art at their favorite neighborhood playground. Donations will be accepted and directed to UNICEF to support humanitarian efforts in Ukraine. If you are interested in volunteering at this event, please email [email protected].
Women’s Lunch Place Spring Fundraiser
The Women’s Lunch Place will host their spring fundraiser “Eat, Lunch, Give” on Thursday, April 14, at the Park Plaza Hotel. Learn more at womenslunchplace.org.
Fenway Community Development Corporation’s 49th Annual Meeting
Attend and celebrate the Fenway CDC’s accomplishments, hear keynote speech, and celebrate our community awardees on Thursday, April 7, 6PM – 7:15PM. For more information and to register for the virtual meeting, visit fenwaycdc.org. Questions? Please contact Hang Le at [email protected] or (617) 865-9915.
Indoor/Outdoor 2022 Spring Open Studios
Please join the artists of the Fenway Studios at 30 Ipswich Street, Boston, MA 02215 for a springtime weekend celebration on Saturday, April 30 and Sunday, May 1, 11AM – 5PM. Learn more at fenwayartstudios.org.
Fenway Cares Food Distribution
Fenway Cares distributes free food boxes every other Wednesday at the following locations:
• West Fenway: Fenway Community Center, 1282 Boylston St. (pickups at Jersey St. entrance).
• East Fenway: Symphony Community Park, 39 Edgerly Rd. (in case of inclement weather pickup is under the breezeway next to Whole Foods and across from Caffe Nero).
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WHITE HALL — Ace Hardware has been in the Middletown Mall since Monty Burdoff, owner, opened the business 14 years ago. Over the years the store has been successful.
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The opinion seems to be that many like them and even use them, but only when they have utility and don't conflict with the character concept; the Necromancer title for Magic-Users the oft cited example.
Most of the level titles seem to work well enough. The thief ones are generic enough, the fighter seems fine (with maybe the Swashbuckler being the odd one out). Te cleric ones follow a general logical progression, maybe move bishop up one to replace "Lama" and make the old Bishop into "Abbot".
Oddly enough it seem Magic-Users are the ones that have the most problems.
Most likely it is due to the fact that many of the level title names don't seem to have ranks implied like the Cleric and Fighters do. It is also due to that the names represent different types of magic-using types in other games and in later versions of D&D itself. A Necromancer is a particular type of Magic-User, as is an Enchanter, Sorcerer and Witch.
This is also something that is easily fixed.
Have a quick look at my Gnomes for Basic D&D. For this I wanted something different than Gnomes as Illusionists and especially Gnomes as "Tinker Gnomes". I went back to the research on gnomes when they were earth spirits used by alchemists and other arcane types. So for me Gnomes did magic via alchemy. I used a variation of the Degree Titles for Rosicrucians and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn for them.
Using this as a guide this can give us new level titles for Magic-Users that would work regardless the type of magic they are doing.
Level | Title |
1 | Initiate |
2 | Apprentice |
3 | Neophyte |
4 | Adeptus Minor |
5 | Adeptus Major |
6 | Adeptus Exemptus |
7 | Magician |
8 | Magister |
9 | Magus |
10 | Mage 10th level |
I opted for "Mage" instead of "Wizard" since these are "Magic Users" and the Mage is the highest level of a magic-user. A Wizard would be a specific type of Mage then. To alter this for say AD&D/OSRIC then add "Adeptus Superior" to level 7 and shift the rest up (Wizards were "name" level at 10th, not 9th).
I am releasing this under the OGL and it is 100% Open Content. Please use in your publications as you see fit. For your Section 15 you can identify this as "Level Titles for Magic Using Classes" Copyright 2010 Timothy S. Brannan.
It is based on one of my previous publications, "Liber Mysterium: The Netbook of Witches and Warlocks" Copyright 2003 Timothy S. Brannan and the Netbook of Witches Team.
I am going to put up a full OGL deceleration on my blog later.
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AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Health and Human Services has filed an application with the federal government seeking approval to set up the wholesale prescription drug program outlined in a 2019 law from Senate President Troy Jackson, D-Allagash. The application outlines how Maine would implement this program, meet safety standards and generate significant cost savings for Maine people.
Maine must receive federal approval before moving forward with this program. President Donald J. Trump and his administration have indicated their support of similar programs in other states.
“Access to lifesaving medication shouldn’t cost hardworking Mainers their life savings. With many Mainers experiencing financial hardship and the hope of a new COVID-19 drug on the horizon, we need lower prescription drug prices now more than ever,” said President Jackson. “We know medication across the Canadian border is safe, effective and most importantly a fraction of the price as the same medication in the U.S. I hope the federal government will move quickly so Maine can get this program off the ground. I’m grateful to Maine DHHS for working swiftly to get this plan to the federal government in the midst of responding to a pandemic.”
President Jackson’s measure was signed into law last year along with a suite of prescription drug reform bills. It received unanimous support in the Senate and strong, bipartisan support in the House.
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The networks' disproportionate preoccupation with that ambush against a unit of the Tenth Mountain Division in the countryside south of Baghdad twelve days ago persists. Of the seven GIs involved, five are known dead with the remaining two missing, believed captured. The latest update was the identification of the fifth fatality--Pvt Joseph Anzack--which sent NBC's George Lewis and ABC's Miguel Marquez to his Torrance Cal hometown as his former high school football Spartans mourned their one-time nose guard.
It is astonishing those two reports were the 11th and 12th on the weekday nightly newscasts devoted to this single skirmish. As much as the US military seemed to overreact to the incident by sending 4,000 troops to search for a mere three captives--that was covered by ABC's Terry McCarthy, CBS' Mark Strassmann and NBC's Ian Williams from Baghdad--the networks' overattention has been in kind.
When it was revealed that the unit is based in Fort Drum, ABC's David Muir (subscription required) and CBS' Sharyn Alfonsi visited. When Gen David Petraeus stated, erroneously, that the trio was alive, NBC's Williams aired that soundbite. When troops went door to door in the so-called Triangle of Death, CBS' Strassmann accompanied them. When the fourth fatality was identified, NBC's Jennifer London brought us his bereaved family. When Anzack's body was found in the River Euphrates, NBC's Williams and CBS' Strassmann told us about it.
By rights, this should be enough--but we still await the fates of the sixth and seventh members to be documented in minute detail.
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Stocks are sitting near all-time highs, getting a boost from last night’s Apple earnings which impressed Wall Street with better guidance.
As for me, I’d say the options portfolio is looking healthy…
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While earnings have been the big talk (SQ, QCOM, and CZR report this evening) for the last two weeks, the attention switches back to the economy this afternoon when the FOMC has their policy meeting at 2 PM.
Now, no one is expecting them to raise rates at this meeting. However, we’re all interested in the language they use to describe the current economic environment, as well as, their outlook on rates in the future.
For some this might sound boring…but I’ll tell you this…
It pays to know how the Fed moves
You see, through its actions, the Fed has the ability to manipulate interest rates and influence market sentiment.
Not only that, but over the years I’ve found that my money pattern (check out the “Bonus Section” in Option Profit Accelerator) works especially well with the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT)… in which I love trading options on.
(Every trader has one or two symbols that is always good to them, TLT is one of them for me, here’s my current position in TLT. If you’re ready to start receiving my alerts in real-time click here)
That said, I think there will be an opportunity to trade TLT after the FOMC announcement. Read on about my trade idea, as well as, my in-depth preview of the upcoming FOMC announcement.
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FOMC Will Probably Continue With Its Dovish Stance
It’s that time again… Fed day. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will tell us about its economic outlook and give us clues as to where interest rates can be headed. (Spoiler alert: rates aren’t going higher.)
Now, the market is expecting interest rates to remain at 2.25 and 2.50%. However, traders are pricing in a 2.5% chance of rates actually being cut by 0.25%.
Just because the market is expecting the FOMC to leave rates unchanged… it doesn’t mean Fed Chair Jerome Powell and other voting members have it easy.
You see, there have been a lot of data points since the FOMC last met. First, we saw strong U.S. GDP data – hinting at slowing inflationary pressures. Additionally, we’ve seen strong jobs numbers. That said, the Fed will have to cautiously navigate between improving growth rates and softening inflation pressures.
With this meeting, the Fed will likely continue its dovish stance and remain patient. You see, given the current economic environment, the Fed’s current monetary policy is appropriate.
So what are we watching for with this FOMC meeting?
- The Fed to leave rates unchanged.
- Questions regarding the U.S. President’s tweets about cutting interest rates.
- Policymakers to be at a standstill with some looking to tighten interest rates.
- Inflation has actually weakened, and it’s below the FOMC’s 2% target rate.
- Growth has accelerated.
- The FOMC to comment about inflation (the language of their statements will be important)
- Fed officials to reference remaining “patient” regarding interest rate hikes or cuts.
Now, when it’s Fed day, I like to look at the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) for potential setups.
Trading Around A Dovish Fed
If you don’t already know, bonds are heavily related to moves in interest rates. Now, if interest rates rise, bond prices tend to fall. In turn, bond ETFs like TLT will drop. On the other hand, when interest rates fall or remain the same, bond prices will tend to rise.
That said, around FOMC meeting announcements and press conferences, there’s usually a trading opportunity in TLT… if you know what you’re looking for.
For example, last week, I sent Weekly Money Multiplier clients my trade idea in TLT.
Now, I was stalking TLT for about a week at the time… and I started to build a position just as TLT was hitting the lower end of the Fibonacci retracement.
Keep in mind, TLT doesn’t move a whole lot… so a small percentage move in TLT could mean a big winner in options.
Here’s a look at the hourly chart ahead of the Fed.
TLT is right near my target price of $124… and just 2 days after I got in, there was a bullish crossover (blue line crossing above the red line) – indicating TLT could run higher, which it did.
Not only did TLT trade set up on the macro front, the technicals also confirmed the move. You see, just that small move in TLT caused the options to go up by more than 60%.
Lastly, if you need a refresher on options trading, feel free to download my ebook 30 Days to Option Trading eBook. It will get you up to speed and where you need to be to start trading options.
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