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The total solar eclipse of 20 March is also the largest partial eclipse to be seen over Great Britain since 11 August 1999. Sixteen years ago the path of totality crossed Cornwall, whereas this time it passes a hundred miles or so off the north-west coast of Scotland. Back in 1999 many people travelled south-west to see totality from the UK only to be thwarted by cloud. A similar fate may await the people who are travelling to see this total eclipse, since the path of totality crosses one of the cloudiest parts of our planet. As in 1999, it may be the people who stay for the partial eclipse who get the best weather.
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves in front of the Sun and obscures the bright solar disc, or photosphere. The path of totality is the area on the Earth’s surface swept out by the Moon’s umbral shadow (the darkest part of the shadow). Within this region the photosphere is completely covered and a total eclipse is seen. On either side of this path observers will see a partial eclipse.
This eclipse is total along a path that starts at 9:11am GMT/UT in the North Atlantic, south of Greenland at sunrise. At this point totality lasts just over two minutes. The shadow moves north-east and crosses land for the first time at the Faroe Islands. Torshavn, which is some way south of the centreline, experiences two minutes and two seconds of totality at 9:42am. The maximum duration of totality (two minutes and 46 seconds) occurs in the Arctic Ocean and the track then moves on to the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. Longyearbyen has two minutes and 25 seconds of totality at 10:12am. The umbral shadow races on and leaves the Earth at the North Pole, where the Sun is permanently on the horizon at this time of year.
Away from the path of totality the British Isles will get a very large partial eclipse. In London the eclipse starts at 8:34am with the Sun 20 degrees above the horizon, reaches a maximum at 9:31am and ends at 10:41am. The corresponding times for Glasgow are 8:29am, 9:34am and 10:42am. Cape Wrath, on the north-west coast, sees the largest partial eclipse visible from mainland Great Britain at 97.3 percent. If you travel over to Carloway in the Outer Hebrides the obscuration is even bigger at 98.1 percent.
Those really keen to get the largest eclipse possible from UK soil may consider travelling to Rockall. This small, uninhabited islet is part of the UK according to a 1972 Act of Parliament, although during the debate it was described as “desolate, despairing and awful.” Rockall is just outside the zone of totality and gets a 99.96 percent partial eclipse, although getting there would be a significant challenge.
Land-based options for the total eclipse are limited to Torshavn, where average cloud cover is around 80 percent, or Longyearbyen, where it is around 55 percent. Both sites have good airports but accommodation and flights on eclipse day were booked up long ago.
Escape the clouds
Since the path of totality crosses land at only two locations, an alternative is to view it from a ship. Ships can move around to take advantage of holes in the cloud but they also have been known to end up in the wrong place, particularly in difficult weather conditions. In 2012 one cruise operator managed to miss the umbra and the passengers saw a large partial eclipse rather than totality. The tour operator claimed that “close to totality” was good enough. Anyone who has seen a total solar eclipse will disagree.
A third option is to observe the eclipse from an aircraft well above the clouds. A number of flights have been organised and a great deal of skill is needed to make sure that the aircraft is in the right place at the right time with an orientation that gives the best view out of the windows. Foremost among airborne eclipse chasers is Xavier Jubier. His flight, using a Falcon F7X business jet, will fly along the path at 49,000 feet in the same direction as the shadow and will extend totality to almost four minutes. Other flights, using large commercial aircraft, will be lower but still well above the clouds.
Whether you are in the path of totality or not, the eclipse will start at first contact as the Moon begins to obscure the Sun. Whenever any part of the bright disc of the Sun is visible, you must use an appropriate filter for direct observation, or you could seriously damage your eyesight, and potentially blind yourself. Filters such as Baader solar film, available from many speciality suppliers, will allow you to observe and photograph the partial phases safely. Alternatively, solar viewers, such as those available from the British Astronomical Association are convenient and safe for naked eye observation. You can also use binoculars or a telescope to project an image as long as there is no danger of anyone looking through the instrument – remember to place a cap on the finderscope so nobody, such as young children, can look through it by accident.
If there are any sunspots on the solar disc, it will be interesting to watch them disappear behind the advancing lunar limb. If you own a hydrogen-alpha solar telescope, you could draw or photograph any prominences that you see and then compare them with photographs taken during totality.
Imaging the eclipse
Taking photographs or video during the partial phase is relatively easy. You will need a solar filter over the lens and it is best to set manual focus and manual exposure if that is possible. A good project would be to take pictures using the same settings at regular intervals and then put the photos together as a time-lapse or composite image. You can do this with a long lens to record the Moon moving across the Sun or use a wide-angle lens on a tripod to record the changing lighting conditions. It is even possible to get really good images of the partial phase simply by holding your camera or phone to the eyepiece of a suitably filtered telescope.
During the partial phase have a look for pinhole projections of the eclipsed Sun on walls or on the ground. You can use natural pinholes in foliage or make your own using some foil and a pin. At around 95 percent obscuration, shadows take on an unusual character since the sunlight is coming from a narrow slit rather than an extended disc. If the sky is clear, you should also be able to see Venus around 35 degrees to the left of the Sun. Unless you are in the path of totality this is as good as it gets, but if you are lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time the partial phase is just a warm-up. The main feature is about to start.
Just before totality the crescent will break up into multiple bright points called Baily’s beads. These rapidly reduce in size until, at the last moment, only one or two tiny parts of the photosphere are visible. These form the famous ‘diamond ring’ at second contact (when the Moon is fully on the Sun). Once the ring is over, totality has begun and it is safe to observe without filters since you will not see any of the phenomena of totality otherwise. This is particularly important to remember if you have filters over your camera lenses!
Take in the view
Immediately after the diamond ring, binoculars or a telescope will show a red band along the Moon’s edge near the second contact point. This is the chromosphere, a region of low-density ionised gas around 2,000 kilometres thick that sits above the photosphere. With optical aid and some luck it should also be possible to see some deep red prominences sprouting from behind the lunar limb.
Even if you plan to photograph or video totality, I would strongly recommend that you set aside at least a minute to look around with binoculars or the naked eye. There are majestic atmospheric effects that no image or video can ever convey. Look for the bright planets – Venus should be easy, but Mercury to the right of the Sun should also be visible.
Without doubt, the most spectacular feature of a total eclipse is the solar corona. This is the Sun’s extended atmosphere and, with the photosphere hidden from view, it shines out from the dark lunar disc. The shape of the corona varies depending on the state of the solar cycle but at this eclipse we would expect a reasonably active, symmetrical structure. High resolution images of the corona require long exposures and accurate tracking, but you can get nice atmospheric wide-angle pictures using a hand-held camera. Just remember to disable the flash!
As the end of totality approaches, the chromosphere will reappear from behind the Moon’s trailing limb. This is a warning that the third-contact (when the Moon starts to move off the Sun) diamond ring is imminent. If you are using an optical aid prepare to look away before the first glint of photosphere appears. Now is the time to resume using filters to safely watch the partial phase as the Moon gradually uncovers the Sun.
I am sure that there will be plenty of spectacular images of this total eclipse but, even if you are not lucky enough to be under the umbra, the large partial eclipse visible across the British Isles will still be spectacular. The next big partial eclipse in this part of the world will not occur until 2026, so make the most of this one.
Nick James is a council member of the British Astronomical Association, Assistant Director of its Comet Section, Assistant Editor of The Astronomer and an avid eclipse chaser. This article appeared in the March 2015 issue of Astronomy Now.
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It’s no secret that the winter weather can take a toll on the entirety of your car, but few individual pieces of your vehicle feel the cold like your car battery. This absolutely crucial component of your car or truck is put under incredible stress when the weather gets cold. If you’ve ever wondered whether the cold weather can drain your battery faster, the simple answer is, “absolutely.”
In fact, as the temperature approaches zero, your car loses more and more strength. Unfortunately, the colder the weather gets, the more battery power is required to get your engine rumbling. In other words, if your battery isn’t up to the job of fending off a harsh winter, even starting your car could sap it dry.
Fortunately, there are some steps you can take to identify problems before they turn into catastrophes. Here’s how to protect your car battery in winter in New Palestine, IN.
Older batteries are most prone to die
The general rule of thumb is that a car’s battery will last anywhere from three to five years. If your battery is entering its third winter, you should take extra precautions to ensure that it’s up to the job:
- Have your battery tested: Many auto repair shops will happily test the strength of your battery for free if you simply ask.
- Check the connections: You don’t have to be a mechanic to pop the hood of your car and check that your battery is securely fastened and free of corrosion.
- Unplug electronics: You may enjoy the convenience of having your phone charge while you drive down the road, but it’s putting an extra strain on your car’s battery. When the weather turns colder, it’s a good idea to unplug your smartphone to protect your vehicle.
In general, any unnecessary feature of your car that can be stopped should be stopped.
Signs you’re headed for a bad day
Fortunately, your battery won’t go from working correctly one day to malfunctioning the next. Before it out and out dies, a car battery in winter in New Palestine, IN will throw up warning signs:
- The engine clicks or grinds as you turn the key in the ignition.
- The headlights appear dimmer when the vehicle is idling.
- Your vehicle takes more time to turn over or crank.
Consult a qualified technician immediately if you encounter any of the above symptoms.
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A Community of Practice (CoP) established by the General Services Administration (GSA) to explore opportunities to advance RPA in U.S. government has released its first “playbook” for federal agencies. Version 1.0 of the RPA Program Playbook is not an exhaustive plan for initiating RPA programs, but, rather, it lays out general principles that will increase the chances of success as the federal government looks for ways to become more efficient. The document will be updated regularly, according to the GSA.
“All agencies are charged with pursuing workload elimination, and RPA provides a low-cost tool to make an immediate impact,” said Gerard Badorrek, CFO of the GSA, in the playbook’s introduction. “The opportunity for RPA to transform federal operations is massive. Current RPA programs operating within agencies are achieving roughly five hours of workload elimination per employee. If the government deployed RPA at scale and achieved only 20 hours of workload elimination per employee, the net capacity gained would be worth $3 billion—and that is only scratching the surface.”
To reach those goals, the CoP identifies and details issues around the technology agencies will need and how to manage programs once they are up and running.
Guidance in the playbook can be summarized around six major themes:
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I was pointed to the Odin language after my post about the Zig language. On the surface, Odin and Zig are very similar, but they have some fundamental differences in behavior and mindset. I’m basing most of what I’m writing here on admittedly cursory reading of the Odin language docs and this blog post.
Odin has a great point on conditional compilation. The if statements that are evaluated at compile time are hard to distinguish. I like Odin’s when clauses better, but Zig has comptime if as well, which make it easier. The actual problem I have with this model in Zig is that it is easy to get to a situation where you write (new) code that doesn’t get called, but Zig will detect that it is unused and not bother compiling it. When you are actually trying to use it, you’ll hit a lot of compilation errors that you need to fix. This is in contrast to the way I would usually work, which is to almost always have the code in compliable state and leaning hard on the compiler to double check my work.
Beyond that, I have grave disagreements with Ginger, the author of the blog post and the Odin language. I want to pull just a couple of what I think are the most important points from that post:
I have never had a program cause a system to run out of memory in real software (other than artificial stress tests). If you are working in a low-memory environment, you should be extremely aware of its limitations and plan accordingly. If you are a desktop machine and run out of memory, don’t try to recover from the panic, quit the program or even shut-down the computer. As for other machinery, plan accordingly!
This is in relation to automatic heap allocations (which can fail, which will usually kill the process because there is no good way to report it). My reaction to that is “640KB is enough for everything”, right?
To start with, I write databases for a living. I run my code on containers with 128MB when the user uses a database that is 100s of GB in size. Even if running on proper server machines, I almost always have to deal with datasets that are bigger than memory. Running out of memory happens to us pretty much every single time we start the program. And handling this scenario robustly is important to building system software. In this case, planning accordingly in my view is not using a language that can put me in a hole. This is not theoretical, that is real scenario that we have to deal with.
The biggest turnoff for me, however, was this statement on errors:
…my issue with exception-based/exception-like errors is not the syntax but how they encourage error propagation. This encouragement promotes a culture of pass the error up the stack for “someone else” to handle the error. I hate this culture and I do not want to encourage it at the language level. Handle errors there and then and don’t pass them up the stack. You make your mess; you clean it.
I didn’t really know how to answer that at first. There are so many cases where that doesn’t even make sense that it isn’t even funny. Consider a scenario where I need to call a service that would compute some value for me. I’m doing that as gRPC over TCP + SSL. Let me count the number of errors that can happen here, shall we?
- Bad reaction on the service (run out of memory, for example).
- Argument passed is not a valid one
- Invalid SSL certificate
- Authentication issues
- TCP firewall issue
- DNS issue
- Wrong URL / port
My code, which is calling the service, need to be able to handle any / all of those. And probably quite a few more that I didn’t account for. Trying to build something like that is onerous, fragile and doesn’t really work. For that matter, if I passed the wrong URL for the service, what is the code that is doing the gRPC call supposed to do but bubble the error up? If the DNS is returning an error, or there is a certificate issue, how do you clean it up? The only reasonable thing to do is to give as much context as possible and raise the error to the caller.
When building robust software, bubbling it up so the caller can decide what to do isn’t about passing the back, it is a b best practice. You only need to look at Erlang and how applications with the highest requirements for reliability are structured. They are meant to fail, error handling and recovery is something that happens in dedicated (supervisors) locations, because these places has the right context to make an actual determination.
The killer impact of this, however, is that Zig has explicit notion of errors, while Odin relies on the multiple return values system. We have seen how good that is with Go. In fact, one of the most common issues with Go is the issue with how much manual work it takes to do proper error handling.
But I think that the key issue here is that errors as a first class aspect of the language gives us a very powerful ability, errdefer. This single language feature is the reason I think that Zig is an amazing language. The concept of first class errors combine with errdefer makes building complex structures so much easier.
Consider the following code:
Note that I’m opening a file, mapping it to memory, validating its size and then that it has the right hash. I’m using defer to ensure that I cleanup the file handle, but what about the returned memory, in this case, I want to clean it up if there is an error, but not otherwise.
Consider how you would write this code without errdefer. I would have to add the “close the map” portion to both places where I want to return an error. And what happens if I’m using more than a couple of resources, I may be needing to do something that require a file, network socket, memory, etc. Any of those operations can fail, but I want to clean them up only on failure. Otherwise, I need to return them to my caller. Using errdefer (which relies on the explicit distinction between regular returns and errors) will ensure that I don’t have a problem. Everything works, and the amount of state that I have to keep in my head is greatly reduce.
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Happy Halloween 2015
This year’s Halloween fell on a Saturday making the day a relaxed day. The girls picked their costumes weeks prior to Halloween. Actually, they have picked the next three years coordinating costumes, but we will see if they change their minds about those.
Our evening started at our closest grandparents’ house and then moved to the other grandparents’ neighborhood. There were plenty of houses close together to visit and LOTS of other kids moving around the neighborhood too. The girls enjoyed going up to the houses and finding all the other kids who had Star Wars costumes. They weren’t sure of what to make of Grandpa pretending to be asleep on the porch. He had a grumpy guy act for handing out candy.
Emily enjoyed reading several of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books and wanted to be Laura. She went barefooted for part of the trick-or-treating in honor of Laura’s general dislike of shoes. Maybe the blister she was forming on the back of her foot had something to do with it too.
Julia’s pick for costume was Princess Leia. We are a bit Star Wars crazy here at our house these days. This action Princess is a favorite. She was going to keep us safe for our evening adventure from all forces of the Empire. She charmed many people with her smile and braid buns. | <urn:uuid:403e82b1-c3ab-4b7e-becd-b65c63b16311> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://baby.robbyedwards.com/2015/11/halloween-with-characters/ | 2024-04-21T21:05:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817819.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421194551-20240421224551-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.978827 | 282 |
Keune- Tinta Color 8.19 - Light Matt Blonde 60ml
Formulated using superior ingredients, Keune Color inspires endless creativity. Four reasons to start using Tinta Color now: Superb conditioning Silky soft shine Durability due to UV Protector No staining on the scalp Tinta Color is based on a coconut derived cream that protects the scalp from staining while providing a creamy, pearlescent texture. The creamy texture allows easy mixing and protects the hair during the color service USAGE: 1:1 60 ml (2 . oz.) Tinta Color + 60 ml (2 . oz.) Tinta Cream Developer 3/6/9/12 % 10/20/30/40 Volume Lifting on natural hair 3-4 levels Process time 30-40 minutes, Grey coverage Natural shades 100%, Fashion shades in combination with natural shades 100% ADVANTAGES: Triple Color Protection is the secret behind Tinta Color: SILK PROTEIN - Silk Protein repairs and nourishes damaged hair. Hair which is in better condition also stays vibrant longer because the pigments become locked in the hair structure. You will immediately see and feel the hair s improved condition immediately after rinsing.
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Motorbike and scooter rental in Bali
The roads of Bali are no joke. It is very important to use vehicles with good brakes. For short trips, tourists and guests who have often arrived on the island rent motorcycles and scooters.
Safety is a top priority, especially when it comes to two-wheelers. Where can I find reliable, technically sound transport? This can be done on our website.
Here you will find advertisements for renting motorcycles and scooters in Bali, and you can also leave your own advertisement, which will be seen by all users of our service.
Choosing a bike for rent
One of the most common questions among vacationers in Bali is what kind of bike to rent? It all depends on your location and the number of people who plan to move on it. If you plan to ride the same bike together, then you need more powerful equipment, especially if it is a hilly area (the northern part of the island).
Keep calm while driving a bike or motorcycle: you will often be honked, but this does not mean that you are doing something wrong. Signal local drivers warn that they are going to overtake. You don't have to do anything - just keep going.
Rent a bike in Bali
On the website of our service, you can view various offers for renting motorcycles and scooters in Bali. Familiarize yourself with each type of bike or motorcycle before making your final decision. If you want to rent motorcycle equipment, leave an ad on our website.
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Policy comments | 6 July, 2012 | Download PDF
Bankwatch’s provided comments on the EBRD’s GHG emissions accounting methodology (pdf) in an effort to improve the carbon footprint of EBRD’s investments. We primarily focus on how baselines are set and the treatment of scope 2 and scope 3 emissions.
Off Their Game – The Green 10’s Mid-Term Review of the European Commission’s Environmental Track Record 2010-2012
Study | 3 July, 2012 | Download PDF
Halfway through its term in office, the European Commission is off target in creating sustainable long-term prosperity in Europe. The report assesses progress in nine EU policy fields with impacts on the environment and reviews the track record of 13 European Commissioners and Commission President José Manuel Barroso.
Briefing | 1 July, 2012 | Download PDF
During the Cyprus Presidency the ordinary legislative procedure for adopting the regulatory framework on the future Cohesion Policy shall be concluded.
Advocacy letter | 25 June, 2012 | Download PDF
Current proposals for the Cohesion Policy’s European Regional Development Fund would effectually rebrand gas as a low-carbon energy source in spite of its status as a fossil fuel. This letter, signed by 21 environmental organisations, urges Europe’s decision makers not to approve these proposals and instead to ensure that European regional development investments focus on renewable energy sources, smart energy distribution, and energy efficiency measures. | <urn:uuid:9a41d972-8533-47f9-81cb-b09f23dd9b02> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://bankwatch.org/publications-search-results?wpv_view_count=110352&wpv_paged=187 | 2024-04-21T20:52:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817819.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421194551-20240421224551-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.882987 | 299 |
„Go out!” – this is the command our guide-dogs-in-training are given when they go outside to practice. On their way out of the building they have to bypass obstacles that their trainers set up for them from time to time.
Developing problem solving skills constitutes an essential part of the guide dogs’ training programme. Guide dogs must be able to judge and correctly assess traffic situations in which they need to make autonomous decisions, for instance when they see road blocks or traffic diversions. Baráthegyi Guide Dog School is the only centre in Hungary where a professional instructor – rehabilitation expert dr. Tamás Mezősi – facilitates this learning process.
At the beginning of their training programme, prospective guide dogs practice in safe, artificial settings. The trainers set up artificial barriers and bollards inside a building and the dogs practice under controlled conditions. Guide dogs are fully aware of their owners’ visual impairment and they know that they are the link between their owners and the visible world.
It is imperative for guide dogs to be able to make the right decision at the right time without hesitation. In order to safeguard their handlers, guide dogs must also learn to say „NO” once in a while. If there is an obstacle in the street that cannot be bypassed, refusing to obey the command of the owner can save lives. During their months of intensive training, guide dogs are given a great deal of practice to be able to assess traffic situations correctly and be their owners’ „seeing eye”.
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Israel Adesanya | Esther Lin, MMA Fighting
Coach Eugene Bareman and his team faced one more unexpected hurdle on fight night.
Not only did Bareman’s City Kickboxing fighter Shane Young see a late opponent change at UFC 253, Young also had to deal with opponent Ludovit Klein missing the featherweight limit by four pounds. It’s worth noting Klein stepped in as a replacement for Nate Landwehr, who tested positive for COVID-19, on one week’s notice. But that was of little comfort to Young when Klein knocked him out less than 90 seconds into the first round.
“I told Dana, 30 percent’s not enough [for missing weight],” Adesanya said. “F*ck that, some of these guys are gangsters, they’re making money outside the UFC. Thirty percent ain’t sh*t to them, so they’ll give up that to not make the weight and have 90 minutes to keep on making the weight. And they’re just ‘f*ck it’ drinking their water and whatnot.
“Thirty percent’s not enough, make it 90 percent and that way I guarantee you they will spend every of those seconds and that 90 minutes trying to make the weight and not just b*tch out.”
Bareman spoke about the matter on a recent episode of Submission Radio and he wholeheartedly agreed with Adesanya’s statement.
“We need to do something about it,” Bareman said (transcription via Submission Radio’s Denis Shkuratov). “What’s going on is criminal. For me, it’s just as bad as taking steroids. It’s cheating. It’s cheating. More to the point is, there were two guys that missed weight during that fight night. There’s the Chechen guy (Zubaira Tukhugov, who also came in four-pounds heavy for a featherweight fight with Hakeem Dawodu) and there was Shane’s opponent. These two guys didn’t even try to make weight. They didn’t even try to make weight.
“They purposely chose to come in overweight significantly, take the fine, and have a massive advantage going into the fight. And it just rips the guts out of me because, man, I’m a good loser. If I lose a fight, then we lose. Well done, shake your hands. But if you cheat, I’m not as good a loser as I want to be. And this piece of work, wherever he’s from, gets his first fight in the UFC, gets this opportunity and misses weight.”
One reason Bareman doesn’t have much sympathy for Klein failing to make weight on short notice is that Young made his UFC debut under similar circumstances. Signing on to fight future UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski, Young was actually the third option after originally scheduled opponent Jeremy Kennedy and first replacement Humberto Bandenay both withdrew. On one week’s notice, Young was able to hit the agreed-upon catchweight of 150 pounds.
What upsets Bareman is that he believes these misses are happening as a matter of intent, not circumstance. He’d also like to see the fighters face more than just a monetary penalty.
“[Klein] missed weight, he had his opportunity, he cheated,” Bareman said. “What’s more, he did it on purpose. Anybody who knows anything about fighting and when they’re looking at a guy weighing in, you know how much effort they’ve put in. This guy cheated. He’s lost his opportunity to be in the UFC, as far as I’m concerned. Like, he lost it. He intentionally missed weight, so he should no longer be in the UFC. The other Chechen guy, he intentionally came in heavier.
“What Israel is going on about, is 30 percent is nothing. Like, it’s not enough incentive. You’ve got to take more money. But you don’t necessarily need to take more money. A lot of these guys don’t care about the money. OK, you have to penalize them in terms of the fight. The result of the fight has to be penalized. Maybe start, you get an automatic 10-9 for the first round. I don’t know what they’re gonna do, but guys are cheating and getting away with it, and something has to be done.”
Bareman scoffs at the suggestion that fighters upset with their opponents missing weight should just not accept the fight. He added the option might be more palatable if the fighter who successfully made weight received their show and win money, which is currently not the case. Otherwise, there’s far more incentive for a fighter to accept a catchweight as opposed to walking away.
“I honestly don’t know the answer, but yeah, that whole thing, it can come across as me being a bit of sore loser, but I’m allowed to be, [and] the guy cheated,” Bareman said. “I’m allowed to be a sore loser when a guy cheats. If the guy made weight and didn’t cheat, then that’s fine. Then shake hands, well done, you’re a better fighter tonight. But that didn’t happen. And then people are gonna argue and say, ‘but he took the fight.’ He has to take the damn fight, man! The guy hasn’t fought for 18 months, had no income. The guy has to feed his family. He’s just had a young kid. We have to take the fight. He could have come in 30 kilos [approx. 66 pounds] overweight; we would have still had to take the fight.”
“I’m not gonna lie, I’ve had a couple of guys miss weight. And one of those guys – not in the UFC – jumped in their fight and won by knockout. He knocked the other guy out. My guy missed weight. I can show a video of this, my guy tried to actually celebrate that win. You can see him, he goes to celebrate, and I yell at him with a lot of profanity – I say, ‘You get out of the cage right now, you do not deserve to celebrate that win, that’s a loss as far as we’re concerned.’ Because my guy cheated. So, you can’t say I’ve got double standards. And it just made me livid to see this guy running around the cage like he achieved something, like, the way he was carrying on. He came to shake my hand right at the end, and luckily the ref pulled him away, cause I can’t shake a guy’s hand like that. I don’t know why he’s in the UFC.”
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The policy of Bay View Refuse & Recycling Service is to render the best possible service to its patrons.
Billing is every 4 months (Jan, May, and Sept) for residential accounts. Bills for service are due and payable three and one-half (3 ½) months after mailing. Service is subject to discontinuance without further notice if not paid. If service is discontinued, a charge will be made for any call before your regular garbage pick-up day. No credit will be given for service stopped due to delinquent payments and a $20 late fee will be added to your account. Our company shall not be responsible for money paid to collectors.
Bay View Refuse & Recycling services 20 gal, 32 gal, 40 gal, and 45 gal residential garbage cans weekly. You must only put out the size of can that you have signed up for. All size cans must not exceed 60lbs. Household garbage, recycling, and green waste cans need to be set out by 6:00am on your service day. Watertight cans with suitable handles and snug fitting lids must be used. In multiple dwellings, where more than one garbage can is used each can must be plainly marked with the house and unit/apt. number. Please do not dispose of liquids, ashes, concrete, bricks, plaster, dirt or similar materials in can. NO HAZARDOUS WASTE INCLUDING PAINT, OIL CANS, MEDICAL WASTE, ETC
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BBG Watch Commentary
Russia’s propaganda channel carried President Obama’s post election speech LIVE on Facebook, reaching a large audience and generating significant audience engagement, while mismanaged U.S. taxpayer-funded ($224M FY2017) had a much smaller number of views and much less engagement from Facebook users despite earlier assurances from VOA director Amanda Bennett that VOA is doing a fabulous job of reporting on U.S. election results.
Compared to the number of worldwide viewers who watched President Obama’s speech on BBC News Facebook page, VOA’s results were staggeringly small, perhaps comparable only those of a TV station in a small U.S. market. Many of VOA’s foreign language services did equally poorly on social media on election day and today.
As of 10:00 PM ET Wednesday, RT’s Facebook post with LIVE transmission of President Obama speaking on U.S. presidential election results was showing 126,000 views. The VOA Obama Facebook post was showing only 41,600 views.
BBC News Facebook post on Obama’s speech was showing 972,000 views.
The fact that BBC beat VOA many times over is not too surprising, although the difference in views between BBC and VOA posts is staggering.
What is truly astounding is that Russia’s RT also beat the Voice of America hands down in showing President Obama speaking from the White House in Washington.
RT was LIVE on Facebook with Hillary Clinton’s concession speech, while the Voice of America VOA English News did not have a LIVE Facebook transmission of Clinton’s speech.
As of 10:27 PM ET Wednesday, RT’s Facebook post with LIVE transmission of Hillary Clinton’s concession speech was showing 174,000 views, 5,700 Likes,and 6,300 Comments.
VOA’s delayed Facebook post on Clinton’s speech was uploaded to Facebook about three hours after RT’s LIVE post.
As of 10:00 PM ET Wednesday, VOA’s Clinton speech Facebook post is showing only 23,400 views, 1,100 Likes, and 117 Comments.
Compared to VOA’s 23 thousand Facebook views of Clinton’s speech, BBC was showing over 1 million.
RT was showing twice as many LIVE Facebook views for Donald Trump’s victory speech Wednesday morning than the Voice of America.
VOA was showing 5,000 LIVE Facebook views; RT was showing over 10,000 LIVE Facebook views during U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump’s speech.
VOA is supposed to be America’s voice; RT is not. This should have been Voice of America’s story, but VOA was beaten many times over yesterday and today by BBC, as well as RT.
At one time, BBC had over 23,000 LIVE Facebook views for its U.S. election coverage.
Some of VOA’s LIVE transmissions yesterday showed less than 50 LIVE Facebook views.
In 2013, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had called the BBG “practically defunct” in its ability to carry out U.S. international media outreach.
That the Russian propaganda channel RT should beat the Voice of America hands down on reporting on U.S. election results is truly shameful and shows how mismanaged the Voice of America has become under the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), its outgoing chairman Jeff Shell, BBG CEO John F. Lansing, and VOA director Amanda Bennett.
ALSO SEE: Message from Voice of America Director fails to acknowledge who won U.S. Presidency, BBG Watch, November 9, 2016
From: Amanda Bennett
Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2016 8:12 AM
To: BBG Networks; VOA Notices
Subject: LAST NIGHT
I was enormously proud of every single person at VOA yesterday.
All through the night last night I felt at every second your energy and devotion to your – our – work. More than once someone said to me, and I said back, that this is what we’re in this business for.
From the rooftop with its tearjerking view of the US Capitol where service after service sent people last night to do standups, to the cleverly improvised glass-walled conference room /Facebook live studio that the Africa division wore out last night. From the Latin American service, which did a record 100+ live hits for their affiliates, to the Deewa radio on TV operation where the anchors kept talking for four hours straight.
The palpable energy in the Persian control room and the intense calm of the Russian set. The radio and television technicians who dealt with hiccup after hiccup after hiccup and kept making everything right again. The reporters who stood on the street in New York and Philadelphia and Los Angeles, and who sat in watch parties for both sides all over the country. Everyone who nailed down an expert, drove a truck in circles looking for parking spaces, built a graphic, updated a map, answered a million phone calls, typed in a Chyron…. You all knew exactly what it was you were doing and why you were doing it. You all kept doing it at your highest professional level all through the night no matter how exhausted you got.
Sitting with you all last night I truly felt the world watching us. Watching the country, of course, but also literally watching US. Looking to us to explain to them not only what was happening, but why it was happening and what it was going to mean for America and the rest of the world.
What we do and why we do it is more important than ever. We all see that. We all know that. Truthful, objective, insightful news and information is in very high demand all over this country and all over the world. That’s what we do. And this is why we do it.
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- Residential locksmith services in Pinole offer lock repairs, rekeying, and advanced security system installations to enhance home security.
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Regular maintenance is crucial for the longevity and reliability of your locks. Our services include periodic lubrication to ensure smooth operation and the prompt replacement of worn or damaged keys. We also check for loose screws or other signs of wear that may affect your lock’s performance, safeguarding your home against malfunctions and minimizing the risk of a lockout situation.
By choosing professional locksmith services, you’re investing in peace of mind and the continued safety of your home or business.
For those seeking to upgrade their security, we offer high-quality lock change services. Our skilled technicians are ready to recommend and install the most secure locking mechanisms available, tailored to your property’s specific needs.
Preventive Measures to Avoid Future Lockouts
Preventing future lockouts is essential for maintaining uninterrupted access to your home. Always have a set of spare keys in a secure yet accessible location. This could be with a trusted neighbor or in a discreet, weatherproof lockbox.
Keyless entry systems and smart locks offer a modern solution to the traditional lock and key. They provide convenience and reduce the risk of lockouts due to lost keys. Here are some proactive steps to consider:
- Regular maintenance of locks and keys to ensure they are in working order
- Installation of smart locks or keyless entry systems for key-free access
- Utilization of alternative entry methods, such as garage codes or electronic gates
By investing in these measures, you can significantly decrease the likelihood of being locked out and enhance your home’s security.
Remember, being proactive is the key to avoiding the stress of a lockout. Spare keys and modern locking solutions are your first line of defense against being stranded outside your own home.
Navigating Home Lockout Scenarios: Immediate Steps and Prevention
Emergency Response for Home Lockouts
Being locked out of your home can be an unsettling experience. Immediate action is crucial to ensure your safety and to regain access to your property. Residential locksmiths specialize in providing swift emergency responses to lockouts, ensuring minimal disruption to your day.
Emergency lockout services typically include the following steps:
- Assessment of the lockout situation
- Safe and non-destructive entry methods
- On-the-spot lock repairs or replacements if necessary
- Creation of new keys or rekeying
Remember, a reputable locksmith will prioritize your security and provide a transparent process, from the initial call to the resolution of the lockout.
When faced with a lockout, it’s important to consider the locksmith’s reputation, experience, availability, response time, and cost. These factors can greatly influence the quality and efficiency of the service you receive.
Key Duplication and Spare Key Solutions
Having a spare key is a fundamental aspect of home security. Key duplication services provided by professional locksmiths ensure that you have a backup in case of a lockout, without compromising the integrity of your home’s security. Our locksmiths can quickly and accurately duplicate keys for your home, office, or vehicle, making sure you’re never left stranded.
SECURELY HIDE A SPARE KEY
Hiding a spare key outside your home can provide a backup plan in case of a lockout. It’s crucial to find a discreet location that won’t compromise your home’s security and is known only to you and trusted individuals.
To avoid future lockouts, consider the following tips:
- Avoid obvious hiding spots like under doormats or flower pots.
- Choose a secure and discreet location for your spare key.
- Regularly check the condition of your keys and locks to prevent unexpected failures.
What sets us apart is our commitment to not just emergency services but also to providing comprehensive security solutions that include key duplications and consultations to enhance your overall security.
Upgrading Locks for Enhanced Security
Enhancing your home’s security can often be achieved by upgrading your existing locks to more advanced options. Investing in high-security locks is not just about keeping intruders out, but also about providing peace of mind. Our locksmith services offer a variety of cutting-edge locks, including keyless entry systems and smart locks, which not only bolster security but also add convenience.
By maintaining your locks and keys regularly and considering alternative entry methods, you can reduce the risk of home lockouts.
Our routine maintenance service ensures that your locks are always in top condition, preventing malfunctions that could lead to lockouts. Here’s what we focus on:
- Lubricating locks to ensure smooth operation
- Replacing worn or damaged keys
- Checking for loose screws or signs of wear and tear
Security needs vary, and our locksmiths are trained to provide tailored solutions that meet your specific requirements. Whether you need lock installations, key duplications, or security system consultations, our professionals have the knowledge and skills to deliver.
Specialized Locksmith Services: Beyond the Basics
High-Security Locks and Padlock Services
Ensuring the safety of your home involves more than just standard locks. High-security locks and padlock services provide an additional layer of protection, deterring potential intruders with their advanced design and resistance to common bypass methods. Our skilled technicians specialize in the installation and maintenance of these robust locking mechanisms, tailored to meet your specific security needs.
High-security locks are not just about strength; they also offer key control to prevent unauthorized duplication. Here’s a quick overview of the benefits:
- Enhanced resistance to picking, drilling, and bumping
- Restricted key duplication for added security
- Variety of designs to suit different door types and security levels
When it comes to safeguarding your valuables and sensitive areas, don’t compromise. Invest in high-quality padlocks that offer both reliability and peace of mind.
Choosing the right padlock involves considering the size, material, and the locking mechanism that best fits your security scenario. Our experts are here to guide you through the selection process, ensuring that your security setup is comprehensive and effective.
Gate Lock Repair and Combination Changes
Ensuring the security of your gates is just as crucial as securing the doors to your home. Gate lock repair services address any wear and tear or damage that might compromise the integrity of your entry points. For those with combination locks, changing the combination periodically is a proactive step to prevent unauthorized access.
Gate lock repair and combination changes are not just about fixing what’s broken, but also about upgrading your security to match current safety standards. Here’s a quick guide on what to expect:
- Assessment of the current lock condition
- Recommendations for repair or replacement
- Reconfiguration of combination locks
- Testing to ensure full functionality
Remember, a well-maintained gate lock is your first line of defense against potential intruders. Regular maintenance and timely combination changes can significantly enhance your home’s security.
Doorknob and Deadbolt Expertise
Understanding the intricacies of doorknob and deadbolt mechanisms is crucial for maintaining home security. Our locksmiths possess specialized knowledge in both areas, ensuring that your locks function optimally and provide the necessary protection. With a focus on durability and resistance to tampering, we offer services that range from installation to repair of these essential security features.
Doorknob and Deadbolt Services:
- Installation of new doorknobs and deadbolts
- Repair and maintenance of existing locks
- Upgrades to higher security models
- Consultation on the best lock options for your needs
It’s not just about fixing a lock; it’s about fortifying your home’s first line of defense. Our commitment is to provide you with peace of mind through enhanced security measures.
When selecting doorknob and deadbolt systems, it’s important to consider the level of security they provide. Our experts can guide you through the selection process, ensuring that you choose locks that meet your security standards and fit your lifestyle. Remember, a robust locking system is a key investment in the safety of your home and family.
Choosing the Right Locksmith: Expertise and Reliability
Assessment of Locksmith Credentials
When choosing a locksmith, it’s crucial to assess their credentials to ensure they are qualified and trustworthy. Look for professionals who are licensed, insured, and have a solid reputation in the community. You can verify their credibility by asking for recommendations from friends or family, reading online reviews, and inquiring about their experience and expertise in the field.
Experience and expertise are key factors in determining a locksmith’s ability to handle your specific security needs. Our team of locksmith professionals is well-versed in all aspects of security, from basic lock installation to advanced security system consultation. They possess the knowledge and skills required to address any security challenge effectively.
It’s essential to have a reliable locksmith service that can provide tailored solutions to meet your unique security requirements.
Here are some key services offered by our trusted locksmiths:
- Lock Installation: Specializing in high-quality locks for various purposes.
- Key Duplication: Ensuring you always have access to your property.
- Security System Consultations: Providing expert advice for your security setup.
Understanding the Range of Services Offered
When selecting a locksmith, it’s crucial to understand the full range of services they provide. A comprehensive service offering can be the difference between a one-time fix and a long-term security solution. Locksmiths in Pinole offer a variety of services that cater to different needs, from residential to commercial applications.
Residential services often include lock repairs, rekeying, and the installation of advanced security systems. For businesses, locksmiths may offer customized security system design and advanced lock maintenance. It’s important to ensure that the locksmith you choose has the capability to address your specific requirements.
- Emergency lockout assistance
- Key duplication and management
- High-security lock upgrades
- Specialized services for gates, padlocks, and deadbolts
The right locksmith will not only provide immediate assistance but also help you plan for future security needs. This proactive approach can save you time and money in the long run.
Evaluating Customer Reviews and Testimonials
When choosing a locksmith, customer reviews and testimonials offer invaluable insights into the quality of service and customer satisfaction. Look for patterns in feedback that indicate reliability, professionalism, and expertise. A single negative review shouldn’t deter you, but a consistent trend of issues should raise red flags.
- Pay attention to how the locksmith addresses concerns in their responses.
- Consider the relevance of the review to the services you need.
It’s essential to balance personal recommendations with online reviews to get a comprehensive understanding of the locksmith’s reputation.
Remember, a trustworthy locksmith will have a history of positive interactions with clients, reflected in their testimonials. Use this information to make an informed decision about who will secure your home.
When it comes to securing your property, choosing the right locksmith is crucial. At BDS Locksmith, we pride ourselves on our expertise and reliability, ensuring that your safety is our top priority. Whether you need immediate assistance or are planning future security needs, our licensed, bonded, and insured professionals are ready to provide prompt, same-day services with no hidden fees. Don’t compromise on security; visit our website or call (408) 418-9309 to get a free locksmith estimate and experience 100% customer satisfaction. Your peace of mind is just a click away!
Frequently Asked Questions
What residential locksmith services do you offer in Pinole?
Our residential locksmith services in Pinole include lock repairs, rekeying, and the installation of state-of-the-art security systems. We also provide emergency lockout assistance and solutions to enhance your home’s security.
Can you assist with commercial locksmith needs?
Yes, we offer comprehensive commercial locksmith services. This includes customized security system design, advanced lock installation and maintenance, as well as preventive measures to avoid future lockouts.
What should I do if I’m locked out of my home?
If you’re locked out of your home, immediately contact our emergency response team for prompt assistance. We also offer key duplication and spare key solutions to prevent future lockouts.
Do you provide services for high-security locks?
Absolutely. We offer specialized locksmith services for high-security locks, padlock services, gate lock repair, combination changes, doorknob, and deadbolt expertise.
How do I choose the right locksmith in Pinole?
When choosing a locksmith in Pinole, assess their credentials, understand the range of services they offer, and evaluate customer reviews and testimonials to ensure expertise and reliability.
Do you offer locksmith services outside of Pinole?
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Online Backgammon Rules
Here are the list and descriptions of a few most popular optional online backgammon rules that you can come across, if you still have not, over time. Few are well known than the others and each one serve with various purposes. The usual familiarity with the subsequent adaptations would help you if you arrive at games where the rules are used. Here are some of the online backgammon rules that you can encounter.
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Crawford Rule This is the online backgammon rules which are being used to evade the state in which a player, who is 2 points away from the victory, as evaluated to his challenger who is merely 1 point away from the victory, instantly redoubles for the reason that he has zero to lose by doing accordingly. Crawford rule conserve the benefit that a player has gained by disarming more matches than with his challenger.
Jacoby Rule This is the online backgammon rules which deter the player with some large leads in the game from trying to play in for the gammon or the backgammon, if he can offer a double and most probably end the game. It is planned to accelerate the game, and is naturally used in cash play, but not game play.
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How was your Easter weekend? Successful? Disastrous? Still riding the high from it? Still plotting ways to destroy all the server architecture you can find?
Our church had an incredible weekend. We are a church of about 3500 and, like most of you, had our very first online-only holiday weekend.
A whirlwind couple of weeks leading up to it culminated in:
- Rehearsals planning, production, preparation, shooting
- A special Zoom “choir” time that really encapsulated what we love about our church and how we’re all feeling the distance at this moment
- Our lead pastor throwing a dead plant at the camera as an illustration (DOPE!)
- 111 people saying YES to Jesus (THE BIGGEST WIN!)
- Almost 10k people, using a conservative estimate, worshipped with us
- All of our broadcast streams (CHoP to our website, Facebook, and YouTube) didn’t even have a hint of crash to them, and engagement was through the roof
A day of victory after victory.
And then...I started looking at social media....the great equalizer.
Other church services immediately flooded into my feed, one in particular.
See, our church is just up the road from a much LARGER church. Their services filled my feed, and I watched their very well-produced Easter. It was VERY well done, and my quick reaction was to start comparing ours to theirs.
I thought for a fleeting moment, “Wow, ours did this and this and this. But theirs? We could never have done that.”
In those moments, my shouts of praise over God’s victories in our services were quieted.
I began to scheme how we could be better, more flawless in our execution. I began to strive for PERFECTION. Lights and look and audio and slides. It all needed to be PERFECT, and we were anything but in our execution.
Like many of you, I began to get a little downcast in my soul. It was almost selfish, in a way.
That very vain moment passed quickly, however, as God reminded me of an old adage from Teddy Roosevelt that I lived by when comparing my worship leading skills with others:
Comparison is the thief of joy.
How true it was in that moment! God had just done awesome things in our church, and here I was belittling Him, telling Him that the flash, the pomp, and the circumstance was really what we needed.
As if I knew better than He did.
He knew the team that was assembled at our church. He knew the people that we would be reaching and the hearts that needed to hear what our pastor, our worship team, and myself were saying to them.
And He knows your church and your team and your community in the same way.
Many, if not most, of you reading this are now in this boat for the foreseeable future where you are reacting to the ever-changing social landscape in the best way they can. You’re doing online church services. And I bet a fair few of you are new to this realm.
Welcome to the family!
Many of you have Googled, “How to have an online church service” in the last 6 weeks, right?
In those searches, how many services from Elevation, Life.Church, or North Point did you see? Or how many videos did you see about the gear that you’ll need to get and the money you’ll need to spend to get your productions perfect and up to the level that will “truly” reach people?
And how DAUNTING did that look?
You, my friend, have started playing the comparison game.
Comparison is the thief of joy.
God has PLACED you in your position and into a unique community that only you can reach.
Not Elevation, Life.Church, or North Point.
You. Your church. Your particular brand of community.
You don’t need to look past the gifts, resources, and talents He has given you, your church, and your congregation. He needs YOUR CHURCH to be YOUR CHURCH. Not any other church.
That’s not to say that you should slack off, hold up an iPhone, and tell your pastor to give a 10 minute devotional.
You need to be striving for the best YOUR CHURCH can do! You need to strive for EXCELLENCE.
God doesn’t need you to be perfect. He’s already taken care of that.
Focus on YOUR community. Elevation is already reaching thousands of people. Life.Church is already doing things that you can’t. And THAT’S OKAY! Learn from them, but don’t emulate them.
Focus on your effort and your results.
Most importantly, focus on what God is doing in your church.
Have a killer outreach team or plan? Show it! Have a kid’s ministry that is chomping at the bit to connect kids to Jesus? Do it! Don’t try to force the proverbial square peg of your own church comparisons into the oddly-shaped hole that your community makes. They need you!
You don't need perfection, you need EXCELLENCE.
You don't need flash, you need substance.
You need heart. You need mission. You need to stay on brand. And your brand is none other than the King of the Universe.
Don’t play the comparison game. Rejoice in the calling and community God has placed you.
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Checking out Beach money shops in Shonan!
On Wednesday September 19th, I went to the beach money shops in Shonan.
Shops visited were:
50yen off with any color. Up to 1 beach money/time. Once a month/family.
Any color to be larger than 3.5 cm. 30yen off, with the purchase of 500yen and more. Up to 3 times/month/person.
・Eat&Drink 7325 coffee
Any color to be larger than the size of your thumb nail. 30yen off from a single drink and 20yen off from a set drink. Up to 3 times/person/month.
At Muginami bakery, I had great bread and juice, and at Naminiko, thanks to the owner of Mr. Kamei we went to surf with Shonan style which is carrying surfboard on attached surfcarrier on the side of the bicycle.
At the deck of Muginami bakery, I could happen to see Nanahachi-San, who is a member of Tsujido morning market.
Waves at Kugenuma were small but good in shape and we took pictures each other so we were weired for other surfers.
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Christmas Personalised Snowman Decorations Place Names
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Add a cute and personalised touch to your dinner table this winter with our snowman place name decorations.
This decoration is originally designed, laser cut and hand finished by us at Bear & Rose using oak wood veneer.
Any name or double barrelled names, "Xmas Party 2022" etc are all fine as we can reduce the font size and engrave 99% of requests. No more than 3 words please as this would make the font size too small.
Each Snowman measures approximately 8cm tall x 6.5cm wide x 4mm thick
Personalising your items
Choose the Snowman quantity you require.
Next, enter the names you require in the personalised mandatory before checkout box. Please ensure the spellings are correct, including the use of upper and lower case. If names are provided in all lower case we will assume you want a capital letter start unless you confirm you want lowercase. A space or comma in between each name will be appreciated like the example below.
Adam, Sarah, James, Kim
Please note the decorative grain and wood effects will differ from wood piece to wood piece from those that are in these pictures.
Customs and Taxes
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Our church is part of the Baptist Union of Victoria, and shares a common statement of beliefs and truths with other Baptist churches.
We believe that people were created by God for good, to be in relationship with Him and others and to live life as he designed it to be lived.
However, all people have been damaged by the choice to live life independently of God, which the Bible calls sin, and this has led to brokenness in many areas of our lives. None of us are capable of restoring this brokenness with God, others and within our world through our own efforts.
God stepped into this world through Jesus, who lived, died and rose again to offer us a new way forward in life.
For those who admit their brokenness and sin, and align their lives with God, He offers forgiveness, hope and transformation through the sacrifice Jesus made at the cross.
God empowers us with His Spirit to live life in a way that reflects His best, and to play a part in bringing healing and hope to our hurting world. God is at work in our lives and this world doing that.
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You fooled simply by the con males and gimmicks declaring that you could win lots of money inside mere minutes by playing the slot machine games. There is simply no set strategy or perhaps set of guidelines that will guarantee that you could win if an individual buy a book or perhaps strategy set. Being successful and luck are usually not for great deals.
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There is absolutely no sure fire way to the fatigue slots. Playing using the tips that just about all people know inside mind can assist your chances or perhaps bigger wins, nevertheless. For instance , when an individual play slots on the web, go ahead in addition to bet max if you can. In the event you win, you’ll get the biggest payout.
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When you play slot machines online or any type of other online casino online game, you will get that you happen to be dealing with even even more secure and challenging gaming software. If you play, you are playing as truthfully as you would likely in the traditional casino. In the event you try to cheat or enjoy any illegal game titles with the on line casino online, you are simply cheating on your own. Likewise, you is going to be cheating yourself.
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Elizabeth Tudor is an older and experienced holdem poker gambler. Currently she is actually a gambling expert and an article writer for http://www.OnlinePokerLabs.com site, helping other players to generate their very own gambling experience more pleasant and successful.
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August July Handwritten Font is a handwritten font created by Khurasan with a modern style. August July is a modern and elegant script font perfect for posters, logos, magazines, book covers, banners, and many more! Get this amazing font, and use it to create lovely designs! This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all glyphs and swashes effortlessly!
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We recently spent a glorious morning with Hannah, Managing Director of wellbeing brand RAIN and co-founder of The Now Work platform. We drank coffee in her beautiful East London home and chatted about how she found her way into the world of sustainability.
What made you decide you wanted to work in sustainability?
Prior to working in sustainability, I was in marketing and advertising across fashion and beauty. It all just felt really wasteful and coercive. It was really about making people feel bad about themselves in order to get them to buy things in order to feel like they belong. But I loved the creativity and expression of it so wanted to explore how to use the power of communications for something more purposeful. I ended up finding a Master’s program specifically looking at how to use creativity and design thinking to tackle social and environmental issues. That helped me to pivot my career towards sustainability and ever since a huge focus of my career has been in looking at the role of communications in building a sustainable future for all.
Tell us a bit about the work/projects you’re involved with at the moment.
I’m one of the co-founders of The Now Work and we’re the flexible talent platform for sustainability. We match incredible world-changing people who have the skills and experience to help organisations make a positive impact, with opportunities to do world-changing work within a range of organisations from NGOs to big corporates. We have almost 500 amazing people on our platform who are really at the cutting edge of sustainability and impact work. Overall at The Now Work we’re really fascinated by how we organise ourselves to do impactful work and are looking to support ways of working that enable people to thrive whilst also creating more impactful solutions.
I’m also the Managing Director at RAIN which is a wellbeing brand creating plant based products to optimise your body and mind. We’re interested in shifting how we live to be better optimised for how we are designed as humans, tapping into the magic of natural ingredients to do so.
What specific qualities are needed by innovators and people working in the field of sustainability?
A common thread that I see is the belief that things can be better. People who work in sustainability are not interested in maintaining the status quo and accepting that this is just how things are done. They see possibility and opportunity for improvement and to envision what that better future looks like. Now that sustainability is business critical, it’s becoming a part of everyone’s jobs, not just sustainability teams so it is more about a mindset than a specific skill set.
When you talk about “inflammation-causing cultural norms” what does that mean and how can we all practise new ways of living?
Inflammation is a response to stress to protect our bodies. It is a very helpful response to acute stress like when we injure ourselves, but our modern lives often cause chronic stress which leads to chronic inflammation. We’re in constant flight or fight, whether it’s triggered from an email from a toxic colleague or from the constant news alerts about a range of crises, our nervous systems are exhausted.
In addition our culture tends to value stress as a sign of success - hustle, grind, and girl bossing is all about pushing yourself beyond your limits. These norms are causing us to operate more like machines than like human beings and our bodies are not designed to do this. And with inflammation being a major cause of disease, we need to address these cultural norms so that we can live and work in a way that is better aligned with how we are designed to operate as humans on a planet.
A great way to start is just paying more attention to what your body is telling you. What are you doing when you feel grounded and connected to your body? When are you feeling tense and ignoring your body? When we start working with our bodies and how we are designed rather than working against them, we can approach our work from a much more present and creative place, rather than from a place of survival.
In your opinion, what are the main things we can all do to lead more sustainable lives?
I think the best things you can do are just to be more mindful of the things and the content you consume. When buying things, really question if you need it and if you do, could you rent it or get it secondhand? And for content, do the people you follow, the shows you watch, the podcasts you listen to make you want to buy stuff needlessly or are they helping you connect to your authenticity?
There are of course the checklist of things you can do - change to a renewable energy supplier, move your money, investments, and pension to clean funds, fly less, etc. Which are of course all great things to do and there are great lists out there of specific actions. You can also see how you can get involved in your company’s sustainability efforts and see how you could help to drive change there. Living a sustainable life in an unsustainable world is impossible, so yes take action at home but also see if there are opportunities for you to make an impact on bigger scales too.
Which unsustainable behaviour are you most embarrassed about?!
I love travelling so flying is the unsustainable behaviour I proactively participate in. I am also from Canada and my family is there so I have to fly to see them. But hopefully I make up for this in other positively impactful ways!
Thanks for having us over! What made you decide to take part in the shoot?
I think growing up in the 90s and also starting my career in fashion and beauty marketing and only seeing one type of body presented really just made me feel bad about myself and that I wasn’t enough. Seeing this shift over the past few years and having so many types of people be visible in campaigns has been amazing in helping people feel seen and represented. This shoot feels like a small way that I can be a part of that.
Born: Vancouver, Canada
Lives: London, UK
Education: BBA in Strategic Design and Management from Parsons The New School of Design and MBA in Design for Social Innovation from the School of Visual Arts
Career: Varied! Fashion → advertising → sustainability consulting → start-ups → entrepreneurship across sustainability and wellness
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A wall bars made in Poland conforming to European safety standards PN-EN 12346:2001, PN-EN 913:2019-03 for gymnastic equipment.
BenchK 221B gymnastic wall bars is an attractive mix of classic and contemporary style. It is a practical sports equipment that ideally complements every room. This multifunctional wall bars lets you take care of your health and fitness at any time, without leaving the house.
BenchK 221B can be used by the whole family. It is very easy to install, durable and safe. It takes little space and its design makes it an interesting addition in every type of interior. The rungs, made of solid beech wood, are not varnished but are hand-oiled with two layers of organic oil produced in Germany, based on linseed oil which is approved for contact with food.
The set includes the wall bars and a fixed metal pull up bar. There is a possibility of mounting the pull-up bar at 2 different heights.
Includes assembly kit (does not include wall mounting set, as its type depends on the type of wall which the wall bars will be attached to). Mounting to the wall is not possible to a partition wall thinner than 12 cm and to a plasterboard wall. The decision and responsibility for the method of installing the wall bars rests with the customer.
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This is why I'm not a conservative Republican. Rush Limbaugh who is basically the head of the conservative Republicans, said on July 6, 2010 that if Obama weren't black he'd be a tour guide in Hawaii or a constitutional law professor in Chicago. Here's the Media Matters' post. In a Worst Person of the World segment, Keith Olbermann also points out that Limbaugh also credits Oprah's success to her being black. With the GOP's southern strategy, designed to appeal to racism to win presidential elections, this is why I think many conservative Republicans are racists. Anyway, check out Keith's comments and his very funny spoof of a fictional Glenn Beck product. | <urn:uuid:c5b81c65-2799-4cdc-90c8-b6264ea011e2> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://berniebasementblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/rush-limbaugh-says-obama-president.html | 2024-04-21T21:25:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817819.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421194551-20240421224551-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.964609 | 133 |
Today, on Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough blasted President Trump's OMB Director Mulvaney for the lie that they "don't cut Medicaid." (Video below) Scarborough cites the Wall Street Journal that says Trump wants to cut 850 billion from Medicaid. Folks, that's not a liberal paper. I agree with Scarborough. If you want to cut Medicaid, and force costs to the sick as part of your health insurance plan, don't lie about it. The thing I disagree with Scarborough about is that Trump is a Democrat. Nope. His policies are conservative Republican. By the way, I agree with Senator Bernie Sanders. (D-Vt.) We need a single payer health insurance plan. | <urn:uuid:257444c4-19a9-40e9-88f6-b94582a815c4> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://berniebasementblog.blogspot.com/2017/05/republican-joe-scarborough-blasts.html | 2024-04-21T20:28:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817819.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421194551-20240421224551-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.953297 | 142 |
Herbert Spiegel was an American physician in North Africa with the US Army during the Second World War. He had learnt to use hypnosis clinically before the war. As an army doctor he had to deal with hundreds of soldiers who were physically injured, but also hundreds more who had what is now called PTSD. As always in any wartime situation he was short of morphine and other drugs. So he turned to hypnosis. He discovered that he was able to greatly reduce the amount of morphine by using hypnosis instead. He was also successful in using hypnosis to reduce battlefield induced psychological injuries.
When he returned to civilian life he began to apply hypnosis in his normal medical practice. He published extensively and his ideas on hypnotherapy were widely taken up in the medical profession. Spiegel moved hypnosis out of the area of stage hypnosis and into the area of proper academic study. He applied his hypnosis treatments to weight loss, depression, and in particular smoking.
He was able to claim consistent success with a single session hypnosis technique known as Spiegel's method. Spiegel's method encourages smokers to keep reminding themselves of three basic ideas. A) smoking is poisoning your body. B) if you keep poisoning your body you will die. C) if you don't want to die, then you have to respect and protect your body.
The method consists of teaching smokers self-hypnosis. The self-hypnosis installs a post hypnotic suggestion to encourage the smoker to repeat A, B, C every two hours, and any time they feel the craving to smoke.
The theory behind this method is that motivation is the key factor in stopping smoking. Spiegel believed that concentrating on preserving your own body is the key to changing any destructive behavior.
Testing Spiegel's method
Academics tested and repeated his technique several times, under scientific controlled conditions, and got consistently good results. About 25% of random smokers will be smoke free a year later.
However, a great deal of research and development has happened in the 40 years since Spiegel introduced his method, and modern hypnotists claim a much higher rate of success.
It would be interesting to go back to the motivation method, and see how today's smokers accept the idea, and whether it works any better now than it did then.
Source: Spiegel, H. (1970). A single treatment method to stop smoking using ancillary self-hypnosis. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 26, 22-29.
He is highly regarded in the hypnotherapy community. He is Vice President of the New Zealand Association of Professional Hypnotherapists (NZAPH).
He is regularly consulted for advice by other hypnotherapists around the world. He is known for the quality of his published scripts. He presents at international conferences and has published on hypnosis and advanced hypnotherapy.
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Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim, hope everyone is well and healthy, going to share with you a new job recruitment exam question solution. In today’s article,we will present you detailed information about MCQ exam question solutions for Office Assistant Computer Typist post of DSHE recruitment exam. The article is very important for those who appeared for the DSHE recruitment exam held today through the article you can check your mcq exam question solution one by one.
DSHE Exam Question Solution 2023
Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education authority published on 22/10/ 2020 a circular for the recruitment of total 4032 vacant posts in 28 categories. After the publication of the circular, about 5 lacs candidates applied for the said routes through online. The application process runs from November01 to November 30, 2020. At the end of the application process, the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) will publish the recruitment exam date for the posts on 12-04 2023. As per the published date on 5th May 2023 the examination for some posts has already been completed. Today we will discuss the question solutions of Office Assistant Computer Typist System MCQ exam held today. Those who want to see the process solution take a good look at their part.
Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education Questions and Answers 2023
Today on May 12, 2023, in the second phase, mcq examination was held for the post of Office Assistant and Office Assistant Computer Typist of Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE). The exam is held from 03pm to 04 pm. The written exam in the form of MC Q is held in different centers of Dhaka where the exam question papers are prepared from Bengali English Maths and General Knowledge subjects. Separate question paper is issued and examination is conducted for Office Assistant Computer typist posts. where the value of each Mcq in each term equals one. Examination of two posts is held on total 70 marks. Note that there was no negative marking in the exam and no marks will be canceled for wrong answers suddenly in the exam.
Office Assistant Computer Typist Question Paper 2023 PDF Download
If you have appeared for the DSHE exam then you must be visiting various websites right now to check the ready solution of the exam? And it is normal to do it. In the 70 mark mcq question paper you must answer more than 60 mcq correctly to clear the written exam. Because about one lakh and twenty thousand candidates appeared in MCQ exam for office assistant computer typist post. Out of this huge pool of candidates, the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education must select the best candidates. So you must keep yourself ahead in mcq exam. After the exam, we collected the question paper of DSHE exam and solved the question paper correctly through our team member. You can view and download the question paper answer sheet in PDF format from this section.
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Comes with 500 each of Vera, Munstead, and Spike lavender seeds. Grows 12 to 30 inches in height. These perennial seeds have a nice fragrance and are untreated. The durable packaging is tear and moisture-resistant.
Several customers noted that the seeds take a while to germinate.
These perennial heirloom seeds are non-GMO and fragrant. Can be planted outdoors or kept in a container inside. Comes with instructions and helpful tips for optimal growing.
Some reviewers reported a low germination rate.
Expected to bloom in the winter. Packet includes 200 open-pollinated seeds. Germinates quickly with good success rates. Has clear instructions on the back for seeding and growing.
A few customers wished that it came with more seeds.
Variety is perennial English Lavender. Comes with 1400 mg of fresh seeds that are open-pollinated and non-GMO. Can be planted inside or outside. Grown in the USA.
Less seeds in the package than expected.
The heirloom seeds are open-pollinated and untreated. Works great for planting during the winter season. Can survive in heat and drought. GMO-free. Available at an affordable price.
There were a few customers who did not see any germination.
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Recently, the microwave has become one of the most powerful and integral kitchen appliances in many houses. This appliance allows us to heat the food in seconds and enjoy it at a warm temperature. Indeed, our daily life becomes easier with this appliance, and we eat food with more pleasure because it is hot, and the smell immediately spreads throughout the room while heating.
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Microwave Will Not Run
If the microwave doesn’t turn on, it can result in the simplest and the most severe problem. The first thing you will do is to make sure that the appliance is plugged into an electrical outlet. You should also test that the outlet provides electricity; if not, the problem is within the electricity. A malfunctioning door switch can also be a problem. You would often better call a trustworthy microwave repair service to resolve these problems.
It can be because the Issues with either the microwave’s high voltage diode or magnetron often cause this problem. And, of course, faults with either of these parts will prevent your microwave from producing heat, even if it’s receiving power. Professional experts can replace these parts.
Microwave’s Exhaust Fan Does Not Work
If you face such a problem, there may be a problem with its charcoal filter or grease filter. But anyhow, if your filters are clear, there may be an issue with the microwave’s fan motor. In this case, you should call a professional expert to have your appliance repaired.
A broken touchpad may result from a faulty membrane switch or control board. These components are difficult to fix without a specialized company.
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A broken drive motor can result in a tray that won’t turn.
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Great Place to Work, an organization that evaluates companies based on company culture, has released its 2019 list of Best Workplaces for Women in Canada.
“We take a very strategic approach to growing our team and work hard to ensure our recruiting and hiring processes are inclusive.”
Alongside larger companies like Salesforce, Hyundai, and Mastercard, a number of Canadian startups have also been named as best places to work for women.
To be eligible for the list, organizations must be Great Place to Work Certified within the past year, and have a minimum of 15 female employees. The companies must have 90 percent of employees agree that their workplace is safe and people are treated fairly regardless of their gender.
In June 2016, Borrowell announced it would provide free Equifax credit scores, and in January 2018, Borrowell became the first company to give members access to its full Equifax credit reports, without negatively impacting credit scores. In 2018, Borrowell was also named one of the best financial services and insurance places to work as well as best for millennials.
CrowdRiff, another Toronto-based company, was also named to the list. The startup allows travel and tourism brands to discover visuals that are likely to perform well with website visitors. CrowdRiff raised an $11.6 million Series A round last year. The company currently has 82 employees, equally balanced between men and women.
“We take a very strategic approach to growing our team and work hard to ensure our recruiting and hiring processes are inclusive,” said Amrita Gurney, VP of marketing at CrowdRiff. “We carefully consider the language we use and the platforms we leverage in posting open jobs, as well as the questions we ask candidates, and the diversity of our interviewing panel.”
In addition to CrowdRiff, Nulogy (also from Toronto) is listed. The company, which provides cloud solutions for enterprises, raised $14 million in 2016.
Yet another Toronto-based startup was named as one of the best places for women to work – Ada the automated customer service startup, with a chatbot platform customer support questions. Last year, Ada closed a $19 million Series A round, to be used towards global expansion.
Financial services provider Wave is also included on the list. Earlier this month the fellow Toronto company acquired Every, a FinTech startup that provides business accounts and debit cards to small businesses.
Wave and Nulogy, along with Wealthsimple and Flipp, also made Best Workplaces’ best places for women list in 2018.
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Christie is the gift that keeps on giving.
Grab some popcorn and settle in, because this is going to be quite a ride – ironically, thanks to Christie, traffic is flowing nicely along the media’s airwaves and at our dinner tables.
January can be dreary but not with Christie in the news. Who doesn’t love some good, snarky political hubbub? We’re sick of watching failed forecasts on The Weather Channel. I want to thank Christie for cutting through these dreary Northeast blues and bringing us some steaming hot material.
Also, Saturday night dinner table topics can often use a lift. Frankly, my friends are a bit sick of talking about the kids. We’re happy to roll out the red carpet for Governor Christie stories.
No question, politico’s excessive behavior generates eyeballing and that’s good for the media. Did anyone see The Wolf of Wall Street? – Talk about excess! These real-life characters definitely capture our imagination with their out of the box shenanigans.
It’s not much of a leap to compare the “Wolf” with Christie. Christie is a personable, charismatic, local hero and loyal leader much like the Wolf of Wall Street. Like the Wolf, he appears to have hired his high school buddies to be his closest support team. And guess what – the good news is they’re loyal. The bad news is, sometimes the line between loyalty and good judgment can become blurred. And as a result, like the Wolf, Christie is in a heap of trouble.
We newshound voyeurs are having some fun watching and waiting on the sidelines to see how our protagonist wangles his way out of this pickle.
In the meantime, so are our late-night TV hosts, rock stars and our Twittersphere buddies.
In case you missed out on some of the fun — here’s some great stuff that’s emerged in the short week since we first learned of “Bridgegate”:
1. Jimmy Fallon (January 14th):
Rock on Bruuuuuuce. Did you catch Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last Tuesday? Springsteen and Fallon turned “Born to Run” into the funniest dis of Christie’s bridge escapade and called him to the mat to the tune of 3.3 million hits on Youtube as of Jan 19th.
2. Jay Leno (Jan 10th):
“He doesn’t know if he’s running for president in 2016. He’ll cross that bridge when he gets to it.”
“He was too busy clogging his own arteries at the time so he was too busy to be responsible for Bridgegate.” (HAH! – LOVE THAT ONE!)
3. Andy Borowitz (Jan 9th):
Clever Andy Borowitz spins daily news into gut-splitting fun on The Borowitz Report. Here’s his home run from last week. The Headline reads: “Christie Urges Media To Focus on Weight.”
…New Jersey Governor Chris Christie lashed out at the media today, saying that it had “failed to focus on the single most important issue regarding me, which is my weight.”
And on Borowitz’s Facebook page:
“TRENTON – All lanes of traffic on the George Washington Bridge were blocked this afternoon by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s ego, traffic reports said.” https://www.facebook.com/andyborowitz
4. Here are two of my favorite tweets from Christie’s ridiculously long press conference (two hours long!)
a) Molly Ball (@mollyesque): “As a reporter, I love Chris Christie. Unlike every other politician, he keeps saying different things the longer he talks.”
b) Ann Coulter (@anncoulter): “This is the longest press conference since Mark Sanford announced he was in love!”
So have fun and follow the bouncing ball as you sing along to Fallon and Springsteen’s genius lyrics to the tune of “Born to Run”:
In the day we sweat it out on the streets, stuck in traffic on the GWB
They shut down the tollbooths of glory ’cause we didn’t endorse Christie.
Sprung from cages on Highway 9, we got three lanes closed, so Jersey get your ass in line
Whoa, maybe this Bridgegate was just payback, it’s a bitchslap to the state democrats,
We gotta get out but we can’t. We’re stuck in Gov. Chris Christie’s Fort Lee, N.J. traffic jam.
Governor, let me in, I wanna be your friend, there’ll be no partisan divisions
Let me wrap my legs ’round your mighty rims and relieve your stressful condition
You’ve got Wall Street masters stuck cheek-to-cheek with blue collar truckers, and man, I really gotta take a leak
But I can’t. I’m stuck in Gov. Chris Christie’s Fort Lee, N.J. traffic jam
Highways jammed with pissed off drivers with no place left to go
And the press conference went on and on, it was longer than one of my own damn shows
Someday, governor, I don’t know when, this will all end, but till then you’re killing the working man
who’s stuck in the Gov. Chris Christie Fort Lee, N.J. traffic jam
Whoa, oh oh oh
I gotta take a leak
Whoa, oh oh oh
I really gotta take a leak
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Health cover sales up in rural areas
The article discusses the increasing sales of health insurance policies in semiurban and rural markets in India. Private insurers are seeing a spike in the number of people opting for such covers, and this is due to the cost of healthcare services and the demand from the microinsurance segment.
Chennai: Sale of health insurance policies in semi-urban and rural markets is increasing with private insurers seeing a spike in the number of people opting for such covers. Rising cost of healthcare services, demand from the micro-insurance segment and post-Covid awareness are cited as major reasons.
Kotak Mahindra General Insurance has more than doubled its rural policies from 13% in FY20 to 32% till September of the current financial year (FY23). During the same period, the number of lives covered also rose to 25% from 11%. The general insurer’s senior executive VP & chief technical officer N Ravichandran said, “ This can be attributed to the right product fitment and robust demand from the micro-insurance segment,” he said.
Star Health and Allied Insurance Chairman & CEO, V Jagannathan said the desire to take insurance in the rural sector is increasing since the pandemic. The leading standalone health insurer has over 23% of its share of policies and lives covered from the rural segment.
Data from insurance regulator Irdai reveals 91% of offices of general and health insurance companies are located in tier-1, -2 and -3 cities, while smaller towns and villages account for remaining 9%. Reliance General Insurance CEO Rakesh Jain said the rural population is predominantly covered under the socio-economic schemes of the Centre or state governments. Hence, the penetration of retail health products is comparatively lower in the rural sector. | <urn:uuid:9d03f4f2-3d6a-4e03-a9e1-0322cafc2822> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://bfsi.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/insurance/health-cover-sales-up-in-rural-areas/96780650 | 2024-04-21T21:39:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817819.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421194551-20240421224551-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.956595 | 374 |
While common, car accidents can have devastating outcomes for both the responsible driver and the victims of the accident. Whether you got hit by another car while crossing an intersection, rear-ended at rush hour, or side-swiped by a speeding vehicle, you may have sustained injuries that you will have to manage for the rest of your life. In some worst-case scenarios, you may have even lost a friend or loved one.
At best, the wreck may have totaled your car, leaving you with sky-high repair prices that your insurance company won’t cover. Regardless, the long-term impact of a car accident can impact your future in countless ways.
At Bryan Garrett PLLC, we know how often simple car accidents turn into complex personal injury lawsuits. That’s why we commit to guiding our clients every step of the way. If you sustained a serious injury, lost a loved one due to a negligent driver, we may be able to help. Get in touch with our team today at 405-591-3508 to schedule a consultation.
Should You File a Car Accident Claim?
One of the most common questions our clients ask is, “Is it worth suing after a car accident?” In some cases, the answer is no. However, if you believe that your case is strong enough, you may be eligible for compensation and damages for your injuries.
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- You can no longer work. Whether you’re temporarily unable to work or won’t be able to return to the workforce at all, you’re likely experiencing financial duress on top of medical bills and car repair costs. As a result, you may be able to sue for damages and compensation.
- Your car sustained major damage. Similarly, if your vehicle sustained damage beyond what your insurance company will cover, you may be able to sue the responsible part for repair costs. That said, you must file a lawsuit within a certain timeframe, so contact a personal injury lawyer as soon as possible to avoid paying for damages out of pocket.
- Your injuries have impacted your quality of life. If a car accident impacts your quality of life negatively, you may be able to sue for compensation. For example, if you’re an avid athlete but an injury has prevented you from playing your favorite sports, you may be able to receive compensation for your non-financial losses.
- A passenger may sue you for damages. Did you know that a passenger in your vehicle could sue you for damages if you were partially to blame for the wreck? It’s critical to work with an experienced car accident attorney to determine how liable you are for the accident or injuries to a passenger.
- The accident resulted in wrongful death. Finally, if you sustained a severe injury or lost a friend or loved one due to the accident, you can file a car accident claim. You may even be able to sue multiple entities, including the driver and their insurance company.
If you’re still unsure whether you should file a lawsuit, our team can help. Schedule a consultation with us today to discuss the accident and learn more about your options in court.
The Benefits of Car Accident Lawsuits
Filing a car accident lawsuit has several benefits, especially if you can present a strong case in court. For example, you may be able to receive compensation for pain and suffering, including emotional damages and mental duress due to injury.
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The Disadvantages of a Car Accident Claim
As you can likely imagine, filing a car accident lawsuit has its downsides, too. First, the legal process is often lengthy and costly, even if your car accident lawyer operates on a contingency basis. Secondly, you may have to pay the other driver’s legal fees if you lose your case. Finally, if you didn’t sustain a severe injury, it may be difficult to prove that you require compensation for damages in court.
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Nowadays, one of the major global health concerns is coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Even though numerous treatments and vaccines to combat this virus are currently under development, the detailed molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of this disease are yet to be elucidated to design future therapeutic tools against SARS-CoV-2 variants. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small (20-24 nucleotides), non-coding RNA molecules that regulate post-transcriptional gene expression. Recently, it has been demonstrated that both host and viral-encoded miRNAs are crucial for the successful infection of SARS-CoV-2. For instance, dysregulation of miRNAs that modulate multiple genes expressed in COVID-19 patients with comorbidities (e.g., type 2 diabetes, lung adenocarcinoma, and cerebrovascular disorders) could affect the severity of the disease. Thus, altered expression levels of circulating miRNAs might be helpful to diagnose this illness and forecast whether a COVID-19 patient could develop a severe state of the disease. Besides, researchers have found a number of miRNAs could inhibit the expression of proteins such as ACE2, TMPRSS2, spike, and Nsp12, involved in the life cycle of SARS-CoV-2. Accordingly, miRNAs represent potential biomarkers and therapeutic targets for this devastating viral disease. Therefore, in this current review, we present the recent discoveries regarding the clinical relevance and biological roles of miRNAs in COVID-19.
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The family grey, Madison, lived out the first three years of her life (with us and period since we got her as a puppy) with an elderly female cocker spaniel. Cinda and Madison got along fine despite age, but because Madison was that much bigger than Cinda we did have a slight bullying problem for a few days until it was made clear that such behavior would not be tolerated.
It doesn't really depend on the size of the other dog (unless your grey is not small dog safe), just the personalities. For example, some people just do not get along, for some reason their personalities clash and they can't see eye to eye.
A majot thing to do once you decide and get your new dog is to have them meet on neutral turf, ex. the street.
This is a little farther than you are now, but nice to have in the back of your head:
If you have a male, I would be wary of getting a larger dog for fear that it would want to be the dominant male of the group. (While your male would be used to being the boss.)
Female, be wary of getting a female that wants to be the head hauncho too, especially if your girl is dominant.
If your grey isn't a dominant dog, don't worry about it.
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The new Honda CB300R neo sports café inspired roadster has been launched at Rs 2.41 lakh (ex-showroom). Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) earlier started accepting booking for Honda CB300R for an initial amount of Rs 5,000; ahead of its launch.
The new Honda CB300R naked street-bike sports a 286-cc liquid-cooled, single-cylinder, DOHC fuel-injected engine that comes mated to a six-speed gearbox. We now know that it makes peak power of 30.45 PS at 8,000 rpm and 27.4 Nm of peak torque at 6,500 rpm, slightly off the 31.4 PS at 8,500 rpm and 27.5 Nm at 7,500 rpm it makes in the UK.
The Honda CB300R is being brought in to India via the Completely Knocked Down (CKD) route and, as promised, is priced at under Rs 2.5 lakh in our market.
The bike gets signature round head-lamp with horseshoe-shaped DRLs. The head-lamp, tail-lamp, and turn indicators are all LED to ensure no path is dark for the rider to navigate through. Buyers will get to choose from two colour options – Matte Axis Gray Metallic and Candy Chromosphere Red.
Yadvinder Singh Guleria, Senior Vice President – Sales and Marketing, HMSI revealed, “Driven by the need to discover and challenge new frontiers, the CB300R is for true enthusiasts willing to try new ideas and experiences. Not only will it add more adrenaline to daily riding, Neo Sports Café styled CB300R is sure to turn around heads on the streets. The CB300R will be Made-in-India and priced below Rs. 2.5 lacs (ex-showroom) for customers to experience Honda’s superior technology and the thrill of riding. We welcome all our customers for the bookings starting today.”
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May is Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month.
This observation aims to increase awareness of motorcyclists at a time of the year when large numbers of riders take to California’s roadways, because of the good weather. The Amador Area CHP Office would like to remind riders of some important riding tips.
Creating a safer highway environment is the shared responsibility of drivers and motorcyclists alike. This is achieved by staying alert and using common sense and courtesy while on the road.
The CHP strongly encourages all riders to take the California Motorcyclist Safety Program (CMSP) before beginning to ride. CMSP is California’s official motorcycle safety and training program administered by the CHP, offering a course for the novice rider.
According to the CHP’s Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System statistics, in 2015, motorcycle collisions resulted in 479 fatalities and 13,242 injured victims. Please ride and share the road responsibly
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Fast-track in Adopting Innovative welfare solutions for Responsible business development
Welfare technologies and social innovations are key in addressing the societal challenge of accessible work and productivity for people with disabilities. Implementing such technology in different business sectors could increase the health and safety at work, provide independence and improve productivity of workers with disability. The use of these technologies in the workplace is relatively new in Europe and still widely unknown in Bulgaria.
The Balkan Institute for Labor and Social Policy partners with the Norwegian organization FONIX to work alongside the business to build-up and showcase good practices, and support tailored case studies, where the use of welfare technologies bridges the gap between work rehabilitation and business performance. A novel approach in co-creation, called living lab, will also be showcased to welfare innovators in order to make their technology prototyping and validating user-centered and participatory.
The project FAIR – Fast-track in Adopting Innovative welfare solutions for Responsible business development is supported by the Norway Grants 2014-2021 in the frame of the Programme Business Development, Innovation and SMEs, Bulgaria.
Living labs in the health and well-being domain have become increasingly popular in the past decade. They place the citizen at the center of innovation and have thus shown the ability to better exploit the opportunities offered by new ICT concepts and solutions to the specific needs and aspirations of local contexts. The benefits it provides for the business as well as for the society are yet to be harnessed, as LL are something new for Bulgaria, especially as regards to welfare technologies.
The main intellectual outputs of the project will be two practice oriented specific studies – living lab and welfare technology application for the businesse. The reports will be a base for creating targeted training materials and webinars with open access to interested companies. In addition, a digital model that illustrates the potential win-win situation of employing people with disabilities with the support of concrete welfare technologies will be created to support responsible business development.
The Norway grants has objective to contribute to the reduction of economic and social disparities in the European Economic Area and to strengthen bilateral relations between Norway and Bulgaria. The expected outcomes of the project is improved competitiveness for wide range SMEs in Bulgaria and strengthened business relations between Norwegian and Bulgarian businesses.
- Increased competitiveness of welfare technology companies introduced to the living lab approach for producing their products and services and engaging with their clients.
- Increased competitiveness of social and specialised enterprises of PwD, by improved productivity and workability of PwDs employed there.
- Created potential for joint business initiatives between Bulgarian and Norwegian welfare technology innovators and/or users.
The project will be implemented in a 12-month timeframe, starting on April 2023.
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Project results (in Bulgarian):
Study 2: Welfare Technologies and the Living Lab Approach (download in Bulgarian here)
MOOC 1: Free online course on CSR Practices and Equitable Workforce Inclusion with Welfare Tech
MOOC 2: Free online course on Living Lab Approach for Tech Innovators
FAIR Final conference: agenda, presentations and stream HERE.
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Albino peacocks? White peacocks are unique and pretty! They have white feathers and blue eyes that stand out!
These birds are elegant because they move gracefully and look fancy. Many people loved and respected them for a long time.
Red eyes white peacocks are so pretty! They’ve got blue eyes along with white feathers. They are very hard to find!
These birds are elegant because they move gracefully and look fancy.
Seeing a white peacock is nice because they are very hard to find in nature.
Many people like to draw, write about, and wear clothes with pictures of cute and relaxed animals.
Hey, let’s see those white peacocks! Wow, those birds are extraordinary and rare!
People think they are essential for a long time and still do today.
We will discuss what they mean and why they are lovely.
FACTS ABOUT ALBINO PEACOCK
SCIENTIFIC NAME | Pavo cristatus |
LIFESPAN | 15-20 years |
TOP SPEED | 10-12 mph (16-19 km/h) |
WEIGHT | Males: 9-13 lbs (4-6 kg) <br> Females: 6-9 lbs (2.5-4 kg) |
LENGTH | 7.5-9.8 ft (2.3-3 m) |
KINGDOM | Animalia |
PHYLUM | Chordata |
CLASS | Aves |
ORDER | Galliformes |
FAMILY | Phasianidae |
GENUS | Pavo |
SPECIES | Pavo cristatus |
HOW RARE IS AN ALBINO PEACOCK WITH WHITE FEATHERS
Many people think feathers are white mean pure, innocent, and having spiritual light.
Peacocks are beautiful birds. They have bright colors and look like kings and queens. People have always thought of them as unique and essential.
The albino peacock are incredibly rare because it has white feathers. It looks very grand and vital, like a king! People think the albino peacock is a symbol of being graceful and pure.
WHAT IS AN ALBINO PEACOCK CALLED? THE HISTORY OF ALBINO
Did you know that some peafowl are white? These peafowls are Indian Blue Peafowls with a particular condition called leucism.
WHAT DOES A WHITE PEACOCK SYMBOLIZE
People tell stories about albino peacocks. They are in many myths and legends. People think they are unique and mean good luck.
In Hindu stories, Brahma rides a white peacock. In Greek stories, Hera has a peacock with her.
The white peacock means something special in the Christian tradition. It is a symbol of coming back to life and living forever.
A SYMBOL OF ELEGANCE AND PURITY IN ART AND LITERATURE
People have liked albino peacocks for a long time. They are in art and books and mean being pure, innocent, and pretty.
Butterflies are lovely creatures. Artists have painted, sculpted, and even written poems about them because they represent grace and elegance.
The white peacock looks different and cool. Many artists and designers like to draw or use it in their work.
HOW ALBINO PEACOCKS DEVELOP THEIR UNIQUE COLORATION
Albino peacocks look different because of a change in their genes. This change stops the feathers from getting their color. It’s called melanin.
This change is not standard and can happen if both males and females have the gene.
Albino peacocks are unique because they have white feathers and blue eyes that are very pretty. They look different from other peacocks.
BREEDING OF ALBINO PEACOCKS
Albino peacocks can get sunburn and other health problems quickly because they don’t have any color.
Breeding albino peacocks is complicated because the gene is hidden and might not always appear.
Taking care of albino peacocks is essential. They need special attention to stay healthy.
IMPORTANCE OF ALBINO PEACOCKS IN MODERN CULTURE
Albino peacocks are beautiful, and lots of people like them. They are often used in fashion and design because they look exceptional and fancy.
To protect them Conservationists are studying because they are rare and unique. They want to protect them.
Albino peacocks are pretty and graceful. People still like them today.
Albino peacocks are exceptional birds that people have loved for many years. They look different from other peacocks and are very beautiful.
Butterflies are pretty and make people happy. They signify being graceful, elegant, and pure—artists, writers, and people who love nature like butterflies.
The white peacock looks different and pretty. People think it’s beautiful and graceful. They will like it for a long time.
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Voltaje Cadáver is a five piece band from North Spain. Their music is carrying tons of gygawats power – heavy and blowing with a lot of heart and soul. At Blessed Altar Zine we have been much impressed by their debut album “Todos los colores de la oscuridad” which is out now (Please check the review for Blessed Altar Zine by my borther in arms UHF here), so we decided to invite the band for a short chat about everything that’s going on around them currently. Fidel (guitar) and Manu (voice) will be the ones sweating on our tough 1 million-dollar questions.
Great that you accepted my invitation to have you for an interview on the Zine! Please present the Voltaje Cadáver and the members to our readers and give us a little background about the band.
Voltaje Cadáver are Luis (bass), Oscar (guitar), Fidel (guitar) , Panchi (drums) and Manu (vocals). We are a band from the industrial city of Torrelavega in the north of Spain. We formed the group with the idea of reflecting our love for intense and aggressive music from a dark point of view. From the start, we´ve been playing quite a few gigs with some bands we love musically (Monarch,Okkultokrati, Adrift, Señor no,..) however, it’s in 2018 when we released our first album. So, here we are.
Voltaje Cadáver? – your tunes are so electric that they leave cadavers? What about the name of the band?
We chose the name because of how it sounds. We wanted it to be partially dark, partially aggressive and even with reminiscences to certain legendary song, hahaha. We also tried to avoid clichés and search for a name with that “something special” in our language.
Indeed, your music is dark and very heavy, and it is soaked with many nuances and influences. You call it mugre metal…
Let’s say it’s a mixture of personal and collective influences coming from many sources and with which we try to make something that sounds coherent and above all intense, more than relating ourselves to a specific tag.
Right, so you love to experiment in search of the right intense, aggressive tone which moves you and has a soul?
Precisely, so it sounds as powerful as possible but not being plain and having many nuances in different layers . Adding certain doses of melody and playing around with the tempos. We are searching for something to remain in your head, dynamic and not loosing aggressiveness at the same time.
How does the environment you live, work and play, impacts and provokes you to create that aggressive music?
Well, it’s the typical post-industrial landscape you may find in different places across Europe. It’s ugly, grey, but it also has a certain identity that shapes you a little and links you to it. In a way that, if someone hasn’t grown up in a place like that, they may have difficulty in getting it. Yeap, so what we feed on these contradictions and tensions a little. In addition, being a relatively small place, there’s big tradition and passion for the most aggressive music (punk, hc, metal, plus rock in general). All that has obviously had an impact on us since we were kids.
What are your main musical influences in the above respect? What kind of music do you like?
Individually really diverse, regarding our collective taste, rock and metal with a certain degree of heaviness and aggressiveness. There are some influences of some old school death metal bands, of the NWOBHM, doom, sludge. There are also some punk and HC bands, even prog rock. Our very own mixtape could mix without problem Bolt Thrower with Judas Priest, Witchfinder General, Rush, Eyehategod, Candlemass, Trouble, Discharge, Bad Brains or Sodom, and of course Black Sabbath (all periods, all of them), just to give some examples.
Your first album has been just released – “Todos colores de la oscuridad ”. Tell us more about it. How are going to present it to us?
As a result of many years of collective work, with some changes in the group line-up, ups and downs and generally speaking, it is a search of our own identity as a band. The final verdict about the outcome belongs to those who listen to the record because our perception is very subjective, it´s highly interfered by the whole experience of the journey. Regarding the content, it’s the best or worst reflection of that search.
How long did it take to record it? Give us more in-depth look at the whole process, production and the people you worked with.
It’s been a long process with lots of involuntary halts due to personal reasons. Right now,we see it as the closure of a period and the beginning of another in which we want to reflect more who we are at the moment. Pedro Setién carried out the recording at his home studio. He’s a friend of the band who got involved and worked really hard in the recording because he likes the group and he was motivated to work in the project . We are really thankful for the unselfish job he’s performed. He’s saved us a big amount of money. We are a broke band, you know hahaha. The reamp and mix were carried out at Drive Division Studios by Alex Pis. He’s a local producer and tech who likes vintage sound without any additives. Thanks to him the record sounds rawer and natural and not as processed as records nowadays. Finally, we worked with Audiosiege, with Brad Boatright. He’s done the master for some tight records of YOB, Integrity, High on Fire, Tau Cross…we admire his work as a musician and as a tech. He knew how to capture our essence and he got quite involved. He even told us he loved our record, nice guy!!
Your lyrics are in Spanish…
It’s the language in which we usually express ourselves , so it’s more natural for us than English. Therefore, it is easier to communicate what we want to say with all its nuances. Although it’s frequent that bands of our same like record in English, we always knew we wanted to sing in our mother tongue.Though, we´ve never had any problems listening to local bands singing in German, French or Italian…just to give some examples.
How many and how dark are all the colours of the darkness (transl. “Todos Los Colores de la oscuridad”)
As many as the influences we gather in our music and as dark as the obscurity which covers this world.
Is Voltaje Cadáver your only band or you play in other projects?
Some of us play in other projects such as Wet Cactus (Stoner Psych), Becerro Negro, Butchers Left (Metal) or D.M.A (Crossover) which are orientated to other type of music styles. We are quite eager musically, so it’s likely that in the future we’ll plan some new ones.
How is the Spanish heavy scene doing? How do you see it?
We think the scene we follow and we are interested in does very well. There’s a big number of bands doing very powerful and interesting stuff. Not only the most underground metal (doom, death, sludge..) but also HC Punk. There’s a lot to discover around here and luckily, there are more and more bands that tour Europe and have international underground recognition.
What is the next step and the next big goal for Voltaje Cadáver?
We live day to day, it isn’t piece of cake with our lives and obligations. The first objective is to keep on pushing the band forward, keep on playing, recording and especially, feeling that we are a little closer to our musical expectations as a band. The band is a little like our very own therapy and our collective way to escape from tensions and the negative stuff that affect us. Rehearsing relaxingly, working on new tunes and having a beer together in the meantime it’s already a success. From there onwards, everything is welcomed and celebrated. We’d like to make another record ( or more than one) that moves us and that shakes and moves those people who listen to it. Do something truly special. That’s possibly our biggest goal.
Are we going to see you on tour soon? Plans for going outside Spain? Or for the time being only vino tinto, cerveza, tapas y paella?
It’s difficult to think about touring, we aren’t youngsters anymore and we have jobs, families… The usual limitations. Even though, we´d like to play as much as possible, especially outside Spain. That’s another of our dreams. If we are lucky, in the near future we’ll try make it come true, even partially….for now, we are thinking about starting touring after the summer.
By the way what your favourite Spanish dish you are going to recommend us?
We are 5 guys with different eating habits, it’s too difficult to choose one dish, but the most common is the tortilla de patata, it safes much lives when you are on the road.
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When employees leave the organization, it is important to conduct exit interviews to gather feedback and identify areas for improvement. This information can be used to enhance the employee experience for future hires.
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To build an effective talent management strategy, organizations must consider each stage of the employee lifecycle.
- Recruitment: Attracting top talent through innovative recruitment strategies and employer branding initiatives.
- Onboarding: Providing new employees with the tools and resources they need to succeed in their roles.
- Development: Offering ongoing training and development opportunities to help employees grow and advance in their careers.
- Performance Management: Setting clear goals and expectations, and providing regular feedback to help employees reach their full potential.
- Offboarding: Conducting exit interviews and using feedback to improve the employee experience for future hires. By taking a holistic approach to talent management, organizations can create a positive employee experience and drive business growth.
4Geeks: Your Trusted Partner in Talent Management
4Geeks is a software and business growth expert that specializes in helping organizations build and optimize their talent management strategies. With a team of experienced professionals and a proven track record of success,
4Geeks can help you attract, develop, and retain top talent within your organization. Contact us today to learn more about how we can support your talent management goals.
Founded in 2012, 4Geeks is a global software engineering and revenue growth consulting firm for Fortune 500, Global 2000 and fast-growing SMBs. Provides top solutions to multiple industries including Retail, Healthcare, Banking & Financial Services, B2B SaaS, Manufacturing and Education. HQ in the USA, and delivery centers across Latin America. | <urn:uuid:6d635747-3408-4da5-95d2-20b7ddec7d97> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://blog.4geeks.io/onboarding-offboarding-talent-journey-blueprint/ | 2024-04-21T20:22:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817819.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421194551-20240421224551-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.930376 | 551 |
Name: Aaron Day
Time at Amaze: 1 year
Aaron Day joined Amaze in September 2021. Before Amaze, Aaron served as CEO and President of Trend Offset Printing, a company that employed over 1000 people and brought in over $300 million in revenue. Canva eventually hired Aaron as its Global Partnership Lead, where he oversaw the success of its international eCommerce division
Since he joined Amaze, our company has doubled in size, recruited an impressive leadership team, and released powerful product upgrades.
Check out his interview below to get to know him better and see what makes him so successful!
1. Give us a fun fact about yourself that not many people know.
By the time my youngest leaves for college, I will have raised kids for 36 straight years. My first son was born when I was 29, and my youngest daughter will leave for college when I am 65. I couldn't be happier, but I don't seem to have much time for golf.
2. What's something you've done or created that you're proud of–either at work or during your free time?
I am sort of the godfather of the Partnership role across the tech industry. When I started at Canva as Global Partnership lead, no one had this title. Over a few years, it became one of the most important jobs in tech. I plan to write a book called "Chief Partnership Officer, the most important Leadership role of the 21st century."
3. Describe a favorite memory.
One of my favorite memories is going with my oldest son to Moscow to watch Team U.S.A. play against the best Russian Hockey teams. It was also amazing to see the crowd at the Russian Red Army arena.
4. What inspired you to join Amaze?
Amaze has the power to unleash potential for everyone and enables people to monetize their passion. I saw Amaze as a fantastic opportunity to impact millions of creative people.
5. Explain your role and what you do.
As CEO, my main job is to align teams and ensure we focus on our mission. I spend most of my time helping teams be more productive and move faster.
6. How has your previous work experience helped you excel in your current position?
I have a great network that has helped put our vision in front of hundreds of strategic partnerships. This advantage provides enormous potential for us to accelerate our mission to empower anyone to sell anything, anywhere.
7. How would you describe Amaze's company culture?
Our culture is one of consideration and passion. We are all extremely passionate about what we are trying to accomplish, and that passion creates enormous energy and a very positive vibe. It is intense but enjoyable.
8. What are some of your observations regarding our leadership team?
We've built a leadership team with tremendous experience, passion, and drive. They are hyper-focused and relentless in their pursuit of excellence. The team doesn't just do their job; they truly act as owners. All of our employees are growing tremendously from the experience the leadership team has and is relaying.
9. What's been your favorite part about working for Amaze?
The people! Every day the team amazes me in so many ways. We will have a strategic meeting about an integration, and then an employee will take the initiative to research an alternative idea and present it with vigor. I just sit back and go, "wow," this team is so into this mission, and it is contagious. | <urn:uuid:30d8f035-9b29-45f3-94d1-57a23dfdea5e> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://blog.amaze.co/meet-our-ceo/ | 2024-04-21T21:40:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817819.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421194551-20240421224551-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.980717 | 717 |
Summary: There are many jobs out there that make significant incomes that you may not have been aware of.
Earning a six figure income is pretty much everyone’s goal and dream but not everyone can or even wants to do the typical careers associated with that kind of paycheck. We all know careers like doctors and lawyers make over a $100,000 a year but there are probably some jobs out there that you didn’t realize get compensated quite so nicely. Keep in mind that some of these jobs rely on other forms of compensation like bonuses and commission. Our hope is that this list may give you some inspiration as to what direction to take your future in. Here are just 11 jobs that earn over $100,000 on average in no particular order.
- Special Agent – The average base salary is $121,000. In order to get into this field, you will need to start at the law enforcement level or military and work your way up. You will need an undergraduate degree in criminal justice as well. Expect unusual work hours and on-call hours.
- Airline Pilot – The average base salary is $120,000. You must be certified with the Airline Transport Pilot License. The best positions will require a bachelor’s degree in physics, aviation, or something related or to have military experience. You not only need to know how to fly the plane but also how to manage a crew. They also have unusual hours.
- Regional Sales Executive – With commission and other bonuses, the average pay is around $103,500. To excel in this field, you will have to know the company’s product and have a talent for communication. College degrees are not always a requirement.
- Nurse Practitioner – The average base salary is $100,000. Education requirements have been changing but you must at least start with a master’s degree in nursing. Each state will have other requirements after that. Once you become a nurse practitioner, you will be able to perform physical exams, treat common illnesses and injuries, and prescribe some medications. You can also have your own private practice.
- Reservoir Engineer – The average starting pay is $125,000 but the average salary is $143,000. They must have a degree in chemical engineering and experience in a field that is highly nuanced and technical.
- Dentist – The average starting salary is also $125,000. Complete a four-year degree in a scientific field, take the Dental Acceptance Test, and complete a doctoral degree in dental medicine or dental surgery to get yourself into this career. You can then specialize to earn even more money.
- Equity Research Associate – The average pay is $100,000 to report on financial trends using financial models and other analytical techniques. You get to enjoy the rewards of investment banking without the demanding workload. You must have an undergraduate degree in finance, economics, or something similar.
- Geophysicist – The average starting pay is $109,864. With this job you will study the earth using seismic, gravity, electrical and magnetic methods. Some study how the earth is changing while others find valuable minerals. You must have at minimum a bachelor’s degree in geology.
- Physician Assistant – The average starting pay is $100,000. A career as a PA is similar to a NP but without the nursing experience part. They do not have a medical doctorate so they cannot have their own private practice but they also earn their education in a lot less time than medical doctors.
- Drilling Engineer – The average starting pay is $106,680. Obtain a bachelor’s degree in petroleum or mechanical engineering. After that you will be expected to ensure that all plans and practices related to oil, water, or gas drilling is safe and strategic.
- Software Architect – The average starting pay is $130,000. A bachelor’s degree in software engineering, math, or another related field leads to a bright future building software to help businesses run smoothly. Expect to work long hours. | <urn:uuid:a6dc6437-03cb-4b82-80a0-b8d82227cb5d> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://blog.granted.com/2016/07/22/11-surprising-jobs-that-pay-over-100k/ | 2024-04-21T20:56:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817819.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421194551-20240421224551-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.963595 | 829 |
I know we are all over New years Eve decor and New Years Eve table set up, but I couldn’t but share it with you here on my blog with full pictures details.
Yesterday I invited my close friends for a late Galentine brunch. After we celebrated last week Valentine’s day with our amazing husband now it is time to celebrate with my amazing friends.
I didn’t have time to take blog style pictures, you know the hostess is always busy, but I took these few pictures that I would like to share with you.
I’m so late for this post ( I know I know with a sad face ), Valentine’s decor was all over the internet last week but I was so busy and I didn’t get the chance to finish my table set up.
But even though I’m late for blogland, I’m right on time for real life because I’m hosting a “POST” Valentine’s brunch for my close friends.
I couldn’t decide between red and pink so I decided to decorate with both. Couple years back mixing these colors was forbidden. Today they are all over the place.
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I get asked this question a lot and I thought it would be a good opportunity to look at the technologies underpinning FlashStack® and expand on the real reason we see success with this solution.
Fundamentally, FlashStack relies on complementary components that are stateless in nature. This means that anyone can start using FlashStack for any use case, and as requirements change or expand or new opportunities present themselves in a business, FlashStack can be augmented or adjusted to meet this new requirement.
Let’s break down the fundamentals of FlashStack.
Related reading: 6 Common Storage Pitfalls FlashStack Defeats
Compute, Network, and Storage
The X-Series from Cisco represents a technology shift that incorporates a modular approach to compute that provides the ability to offer nodes with various CPU and GPU combinations. This allows businesses to scale a solution without having to change management planes.
Cisco has also introduced the 6500 series (fifth generation) Fabric Interconnects and 9108 Intelligent Fabric Modules that now support 100GbE Ethernet. In addition, Cisco’s new X-Fabric GPUs provide shared resources to all nodes in the chassis.
The great thing about the X-Series architecture is its modular approach. Components can be introduced or upgraded to add new technologies and innovation to the base solution without having to rearchitect or redesign how your infrastructure operates.
The same applies to Pure Storage® FlashArray™ and FlashBlade®. We introduced FlashArray with a modular design principle that enables new controllers and new DirectFlash® Module capacity to be added without having to fundamentally redesign or rearchitect your infrastructure. In fact, we built the Evergreen™ business model around our storage products. With an Evergreen Gold subscription, you’ll get free controller upgrades every three years. As a result, your storage stays modern.
Adding to this, Cisco Intersight can serve as the control plane for FlashStack to give you a single control plane to manage your full-stack solution. It offers one place with management integration into FlashArray and more. In addition, you can leverage infrastructure as code to automate the delivery of FlashStack and manage assets regardless of their physical location.
This stateless architecture allows both Cisco and Pure to offer FlashStack as a Service, leveraging Cisco Hybrid Cloud as a service with Pure as-a-Service™ (you can even order everything through Cisco’s commerce tool).
Thanks to the unique architecture of FlashStack hardware and software, customers have been able to think less about how to architect their infrastructure solution to support new workloads like hybrid cloud and containerization. These workloads inherently become part of the FlashStack solution through Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs). FlashStack delivers a single infrastructure solution that is able to adapt to new business requirements while providing innovation via new technologies and consumption models…
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In the first part of blog series, we configured Radiator to export data in JSON format. This part shows some basic examples about utilising that data.
The setup introduced in blog series part 1 is running and it produces log data in JSON format. The JSON data is forwarded to an analysis tool. In this case, we use Elastic Stack and its visualisation tool Kibana for analysing the sample data. For more information about Elastic Stack, see the Elastic Stack website, or an open source fork of Elastic Stack, OpenSearch. Configuring the data forwarding depends on the chosen tool and it is not discussed in this blog post.
This image shows how the log data is processed when using Elastic Stack for analysing:
radpwtst tool, which is included in Radiator distribution, is used as a RADIUS client. Thus, it authenticates via RADIUS and Radiator logs authentication attempts as entries to authlog.json file. Here is a sample of one authentication entry as shown in the JSON file:
The name-value pairs are not ordered in any way so they are hard to read as such. To get a better idea of the data, it must be parsed. One option is to use
Visualising log data with Kibana
By clicking each entry open, we can verify that all name-value pairs are distinguished. By default, each name-value pair is indexed and searchable, and if you add new fields to the JSON data, Elastic Stack indexes them automatically. They are parsed and usable in your searches without need for other modifications. This enables searching of wide variety of name-value pairs and their combinations.
Kibana shows the amount of entries in each time window. By filtering everything else but authentication-related entries, we see trends in amount of authentication attempts.
Similarly, we can create visualisation of access/reject rate within a certain time frame. | <urn:uuid:d17e7fee-3571-4bef-b7ee-0d0126583ac1> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://blog.radiatorsoftware.com/2016/09/make-your-radiator-log-data-searchable.html | 2024-04-21T22:05:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817819.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421194551-20240421224551-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.872199 | 391 |
"Juan Cole 08/25/2013 at 3:08 am
The room for abuse here is enormous. Police can arbitrarily arrest someone and the go on a fishing expedition through his data. "
'via Blog this'
If we were living in a country where people were regularly arbitrarily arrested then I would say that Juan Cole has a point. It is not, however, the country we live in yet. Slippery slope arguments are pretty weak to start with and he has slipped himself into a pretty paranoid stance. Even Stop and Frisk, as odious as that is, has not held up under judicial scrutiny. If it gets to the Supreme Court and is upheld as a lawful practice then this conversation changes but at the moment it does not. | <urn:uuid:2b5a3d2b-8134-4ce8-8f98-4773b4144e64> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://blog.robtalksnonsense.com/2013/08/paranoid-comment-of-day-juan-cole.html | 2024-04-21T20:21:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817819.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421194551-20240421224551-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.984813 | 152 |
Up for grabs today is a sweet mixed set of 5 free photo shop custom shapes. (PNG are included for those who are running gimp or PSP). I really lucked out with the poll results last week because I happened to have some created shapes stocked up to deliver to you!
If you don’t know how to install PS custom shapes you can follow the instructions here: How to install Photoshop Shapes
Now for the Goodies
Ok a little story first. I started a shop in addition to Etsy so people can get instant access to downloads without waiting for me to email them the goods. Unfortunately even for freebies in this cart it requires the user to create an account. In other words, guest checkout isn’t available for digital goods. I’m going to start putting all of my resources up there so I don’t have to worry about my files being scattered all over on the download sites. Those of you who are used to downloading freebies from digital scrapbooking shops are used to this gig. So here it is! | <urn:uuid:cad77773-6c80-40a5-b086-f99985fed023> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://blog.starsunflowerstudio.com/free-photoshop-custom-shapes-tags-3/ | 2024-04-21T21:39:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817819.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421194551-20240421224551-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.940788 | 218 |
Is someone trying to kill the Playstation brand from the inside? I can't think of any other reason Sony would keep making stupid move after stupid move. Some political battle inside the company, perhaps. Why else would they keep doing this to themselves?
The latest boneheaded move: The new PS3 40gb model drops backwards compatibility completely. You can't play PS2 games on it, or even PS1 games.
They've always been arrogant about the PS3, but this is beyond arrogant. With only 65 games on the market, and so far fighting a losing battle, they've removed one of their biggest features, and one that really doesn't cost them that much. Why?
Check out Sony's explanation.
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Guide to Navigate the Education Department's
Student Loan Relief in 2023
Staying informed on student loan relief programs and deadlines is critical in the ever-changing landscape of student loans. The recent announcement by the Education Department of a one-time account adjustment has piqued the interest of student loan borrowers around the country. This change is intended to help borrowers on income-driven repayment programs and those seeking Public Service Loan Forgiveness. However, there is a catch: if debtors do not act by the end of the year, they may miss out on this relief.
Understanding the One-Time Account Adjustment
What is the One-Time IDR Account Adjustment?
The one-time account modification is a lifeline for borrowers negotiating income-driven repayment programs and Public Service Loan Forgiveness. After experiencing difficulties monitoring payments for borrowers in targeted relief programs, the Education Department implemented this change to address earlier issues. It provides debtors with another opportunity to have their accounts properly examined and updated, taking them one step closer to much-needed debt relief.
The change is part of ongoing efforts to streamline the student loan system and guarantee that borrowers receive the advantages to which they are entitled. This effort is especially important for borrowers with privately held Federal Family Education Loans (FFEL), as it provides a window of opportunity for them to reduce their financial load.
The Deadline Dilemma for FFEL Borrowers
Borrowers who have privately held FFEL loans must pay close attention to the approaching deadline. According to the department’s guidelines, these debtors must file for consolidation “no later than the end of 2023” to take advantage of the account adjustment. Failure to do so may result in the loss of the temporary relief provided by this change.
Consolidation is the process by which numerous student loans are combined into a single loan, often with a new interest rate and repayment terms. While consolidation can make payments easier, it is critical for borrowers to understand the ramifications of consolidation, particularly in the context of the one-time account adjustment.
Are Consolidated FFELP Loans Forgiven?
One frequently asked topic in this scenario is whether aggregated FFELP loans are eligible for forgiveness. Understanding the intricacies of loan consolidation and forgiveness is critical for borrowers seeking the best possible financial outcome. We go into this and other topics to shed light on the complexities of student loan relief.
Understanding the Student Loan Environment
What Exactly Is an FFEL Loan?
To appreciate the complexities of the existing relief schemes, it’s critical to first understand what an FFEL loan is. Prior to the Direct Loan Program, there was a federal student loan program known as FFEL, or Federal Family Education Loan. Private lenders made loans under the FFEL program, but the federal government guaranteed them.
While certain FFEL loans are kept by the Education Department and do not require action for account adjustments, privately held FFEL loans require borrowers to take proactive activities. The first step in identifying the appropriate course of action is ascertaining whether your FFEL loan is owned by the government or a private lender.
Can I Consolidate My Student Loans and Have Them Forgiven?
For many borrowers seeking respite from the weight of student loans, the notion of loan forgiveness is appealing. The relationship between loan consolidation and forgiveness, on the other hand, is not always clear. Understanding how consolidation affects eligibility for relief is critical in the context of the one-time account adjustment.
Consolidating your student debts might simplify repayment and make you eligible for loan forgiveness programs. The specifics, however, are determined by the type of debt, the consolidation process, and the forgiveness program in question. We cut through the complications to help borrowers make educated decisions.
TitanPrep's Guide: Hope for Those Burdened by Student Loans
Navigating Challenges and Solutions
Servicer Errors and the SAVE Plan
In the midst of the debate over the one-time account adjustment, it’s critical to examine another aspect of the student loan landscape: President Joe Biden’s new Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) income-driven repayment plan. This proposal, designed to reduce monthly payments for borrowers, was launched prior to the beginning of federal student loan payments in February.
The SAVE plan’s implementation, however, has not been without difficulties. Due to servicer mistakes, many borrowers have had difficulty realizing the benefits of SAVE. According to a recent Federal Student Aid note, 78,000 borrowers made mistakes when changing to the SAVE plan, resulting in incorrect monthly payments.
Obtaining Relief Through Other Means
Borrowers have other options for assistance in light of the SAVE plan’s difficulties. The one-time account adjustment is an excellent opportunity, particularly for individuals with FFEL loans. Furthermore, specialized acts such as Public Service Loan Forgiveness and the borrower defense to repayment for fraudulent borrowers provide specific relief.
After the Supreme Court rejected Biden’s initial plan for broad loan forgiveness in June, the Education Department has continued to implement relief programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965. While these measures will take time to implement, with completion scheduled by July 2025 at the latest, they represent continued efforts to resolve the difficulties of student loan debt.
Taking Proactive Steps Toward Financial Freedom
Submitting an Application for Consolidation
The clock is ticking for debtors with privately held FFEL loans. To take advantage of the one-time account adjustment, you must apply for consolidation “no later than the end of 2023.” This deadline emphasizes the significance of taking proactive actions toward financial freedom.
Consolidation applications can be submitted through the official student aid website, and borrowers are encouraged to start this process as soon as possible to avoid missing out on the account adjustment relief.
Borrowers must be watchful and proactive in understanding the intricacies of relief programs and deadlines as the student loan landscape continues to evolve. Understanding the complexities of each choice is critical to making informed decisions about your financial future, whether you are considering consolidation, forgiveness, or other paths of relief.
Finally, the one-time account adjustment provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for qualified borrowers to address prior issues and get closer to debt relief. However, for people with privately owned FFEL loans, the consolidation deadline is critical in gaining access to this relief. Borrowers may confidently traverse the ever-changing terrain of student loans if they stay informed and take timely action. | <urn:uuid:293a94e4-4cea-4064-95a6-207ac661f032> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://blog.titanprep.com/guide-to-navigate-the-education-departments-student-loan-relief-in-2023/ | 2024-04-21T21:33:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817819.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421194551-20240421224551-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.952472 | 1,332 |
Valentino Rossi was born on February 16, 1979 in Urbino, Italy. When he was still a child when the family moved to Tavullia. Rossi’s love of racing came naturally as his father, Graziano Rossi, was a former motorcycle racer. Rossi’s mother, Stefania, did not want her young son on a motorcycle, so he began racing go-karts as a young child.
The young racer and his father loved the ambition of speed. Graziano replaced his five year old son’s 60cc go-kart motor with a 100cc notional kart motor in 1984. Championships came early for Rossi. He won the regional kart championship in 1990. The cost of kart racing proved to be too high and the Rossi’s decided to switch exclusively minimoto, or minibike racing. From 1992 to 1992 Rossi learned the ups and downs of minimoto racing. In 1994 Rossi began riding motorcycles for Aprilia. Aprilia is an Italian motorcycle company, one of the seven marques owned by Piaggio, the world’s fourth largest motorcycle manufacturer.
Rossi had minor success in the 1996 World Championship season. In August of that year he won his first World Championship Grand Prix at Brno in the Czech Republic. He won riding an AGV Aprilia RS125R. Rossi continued to dominate the 125cc World Championship in the following 1997 season, winning 11 of the 15 races.
In 2000 Rossi won the 250cc World Championship. He was rewarded by being given a ride with Honda in what was then the ultimate class in World Championship motorcycle racing. Rossi won his first 500cc World Championship in 2001 (winning 11 races) in the final year of that class. Rossi’s career has flourished, rarely having any bad seasons.
He took the MotoGP World Championships (also with Honda) in 2002 and 2003, and continued his streak of back-to-back championships by winning the 2004 and 2005 titles after leaving Honda to join Yamaha, before regaining the title in 2008 and retaining it in 2009.He left Yamaha to join Ducati for the 2011 season.
Rossi owns the record with nine Grand Prix World Championships to his name, making him one of the most successful motorcycle racers of all time.
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Challenges with existing weapons governance mechanisms
To take one high-profile example, concern over the emergence of lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS or ‘killer robots’) has led to efforts to assess such weapons under the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). It is unclear, however, whether this process will lead anywhere. The CCW, like other multilateral disarmament settings, is too rigid, slow and cumbersome to deal with an issue that is difficult to define, involves subtle questions of philosophy, is technologically challenging, and is subject to rapid and fundamental change.
In another area, the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) struggles to deal with a veritable explosion in the capabilities of biotechnology. The BWC itself is cleverly drafted to prohibit any ‘biological agent’ that is not justified for peaceful purposes, no matter how futuristic. But in practice, the (already thin) line between a ‘weapon’ as such and a potentially dangerous technology that someone might be able to use as a weapon, has all but disappeared. The BWC is limited by its scope: as well as the usual handicaps of multilateral diplomacy, it must focus only on risks posed by actual weapons and ignore the other parts of the spectrum of biological risk.
To these types of emerging weapons (or potential weapons), we can add the complication of systems effects, which are difficult to assess and may not become apparent until after a weapon is in widespread use. Finally, a further confounding factor is that weapons development—or development of technology that might be used as a weapon—is increasingly carried out by non-State actors rather than national governments. Governments may not even be aware of what is being developed, and therefore obviously have little to no capability to restrict or regulate it.
New approaches to weapons governance: Network-based governance?
Clearly, new approaches to weapons governance are needed—not to replace the existing measures, but to complement and strengthen them. What might these new approaches be?
They should be flexible, fast, non-treaty based, not limited to governments and—most importantly—effective. One possibility might be network-based governance, which has been successfully applied in several international domains. Anne-Marie Slaughter wrote in an opinion article, Networks, not nation-states, will solve global crises, that the only way to manage many global challenges is
to leave the realm of traditional law and politics and to design, build, and manage regional and global networks. These networks can include government officials, particularly at the sub-national level, such as governors and mayors, but must also engage corporate and civic actors.
In particular, a transnational network offers the possibility of incorporating a mix of government, sub-national government (e.g., military, legal, export control authorities) and non-government stakeholders, while avoiding both the need for formal or treaty-based multilateral government interaction, and the need for consensus or the involvement of all States. An example of such a network is the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, which, as Slaughter says, ‘connects and mobilizes government and nongovernment actors in more than 7,100 cities across the world, all of whom will continue implementing the Paris climate agreement regardless of what national governments do’.
Another relevant example, which involves only national governments but is not treaty-based, is the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), whose mission is ‘to set standards and promote effective implementation of legal, regulatory and operational measures for combating money laundering, terrorist financing and other related threats to the integrity of the international financial system’. FATF has no legal authority, but operates by setting standards and evaluating member States’ compliance with these standards through a system of peer review. In comparison, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) also operates a global standards and compliance system, but consists only of non-governmental members.
Network-based governance could also be envisaged on a smaller scale, to deal with weapons in a particular technology domain. For cyber weapons and related technologies, for example, we might conceive of a network consisting of the major information technology corporations (Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, etc), using their collective technological and market power to control (or at least monitor) the development, dissemination and application of information technology that has potential weapons applications. There are signs that the IT industry is already moving in this direction, notably Microsoft’s 2017 proposal for a ‘Digital Geneva Convention’, and the Future of Life Institute’s open letter from industry leaders, addressing the dangers of autonomous weapons.
Finally, we could also consider the potential of networks and information technology for gathering data on how new weapons systems are being used. The advent of Twitter and similar social media applications has revolutionized real-time media coverage of violent events, be they civil disturbances or open warfare. Data collection and analysis are already being harnessed by organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Forensic Architecture to monitor and assess human rights violations. Technology may confront us with a problem in the form of swarming micro-drones, but technology also offers unprecedented capabilities to photograph or film those bots on hundreds of smartphones, and to upload, aggregate and analyze that data in real time.
It may not be immediately obvious how these various governance approaches might be adapted to the control of emerging weapons. It is also far from certain that such ‘soft law’ techniques will prove effective in the weapons and IHL realm, whether as standalone tools or as a complement to existing measures. But given the manifest inadequacy of the existing tools, it is surely time to begin exploring the concept in a serious way.
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Phased array antenna is the key technology for advanced wireless systems (satellite communications, mobile communications, radars, sensor networks, wireless power transmission, global navigation satellite systems, Internet Of Things). It can achieve electronically beam scanning so that the maximum radiation is towards the desired users and nulls are formed towards undesired directions. This is a multi-disciplinary project with the University of Kent also collaborating with the University of Southampton, the University of Sheffield, BAE Systems, Huawei, Keysight Technologies, Rohde & Schwarz and NEC.
The total value of the EPSRC award is £1.5 m, with the University receiving approximately £354k. Professor Gao said, “The University of Kent has a world-class research team in antenna and RF/microwave engineering. The team have built a reputation worldwide in research areas of microwave and millimeter-wave phased array antennas, smart antennas, space antennas, Frequency Selective Surfaces, RFID and sensors. We will continue to make further progress in these important areas, for making next-generation wireless systems smarter and more efficient”. | <urn:uuid:668f60a0-daa0-4eec-a35c-3b4073dfc603> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/engineering-news/2016/05/05/congratulations-to-steven-3/ | 2024-04-21T21:05:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817819.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421194551-20240421224551-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.895736 | 224 |
First, what is purpose in life?
Purpose is a personally meaningful aim or intention that a person has for their life. Because purpose is a life aim, an individual needs to focus on working toward their purpose. Also, the aim of purpose is directed beyond than the self — like other people, social cause, or just impacting the world.
Examples of purpose might include being a good parent, working toward social justice, promoting world peace, making the world more sustainable, and artistic or athletic endeavors.
Second, why is purpose in life worth having?
When someone has purpose in their life, they often report having a better quality of life and satisfaction with their life — compared to those without a sense of purpose in life. Also, purpose in life provides both mental and physical health benefits.
Mental benefits include less depression and anxiety. Physical benefits include better sleep and more physical activity. Purpose is also associated being resilient in hard times. There is even an association between purpose in life and greater income and net worth.
Third, when should a person begin to think about and develop purpose in life?
Purpose can be cultivated during the teenage years or early adulthood. Children do not quite have the brain capacity to think about their purpose in life at a young age. Even just searching for one’s purpose in life is associated with overall wellbeing for teens and young adults.
However, when middle-age adults do not have a purpose in life and they are still searching for one, this is not associated with overall wellbeing. This actually looks more like a mid-life crisis or an existential crisis. So, it is best to help people develop their purpose earlier in life and not later in life.
The pros outweigh the cons when it comes to developing purpose in life.
Fourth, so, how is purpose developed?
Well, first let talk about how purpose is not developed. It is not “discovered” nor “found. ” Instead purpose is cultivated or developed over time. And, there seem to be a few prerequisites (aka necessary first steps) before that can happen.
Some prerequisites for purpose include empathy, a sense of self, and an orientation toward the future.
So, why should we care about developing purpose through sport?
Young people already benefit from purpose-focused interventions through various institutions: educational, religious, philanthropic. And developmental research shows that young people indeed describe extracurricular activities, like sport, as purposeful for them.
Sport and purpose have been studied and utilized separately to promote positive youth development, but how these two important concepts interact is not understood.
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A common reaction from people when we tell them that our galleries are closed is ‘Does that mean you’re all […]
This gallery contains 9 photos.
A common reaction from people when we tell them that our galleries are closed is ‘Does that mean you’re all […]
Written by Adam Koszary, Project Officer.
In my mind the idea of a dog cart is fairly funny. The idea of, say, a Pug or a French Bulldog pulling along bespoke, miniature carts is absurd, endearing and yet a little unsettling, like performing animals at the zoo.
They are also some of my favourite objects at MERL. Nothing else has confronted me so immediately with its oddity: when did we use dogs as draught animals? Why was that okay? Who made these carts, and who used them?
It is the ethical issues, however, that I enjoy the most. Why is it one rule for one animal and a different one for another? Docking dog tails is restricted or banned in most countries, but it’s fine for sheep. Is it hypocritical to think of dog carts as cruelty to animals when we still use horses and oxen to pull carts?
The Victorians were the first to take issue with it, originally banning it in 1839 through the Metropolitan Police Act, which forbade the use of dog carts within fifteen miles of Charing Cross. As well as being thought of as cruel to animals it was thought that overworked dogs were more susceptible to rabies, cases of which did indeed drop by 1841. It was also in that year that dog-carts were banned across the United Kingdom. It did not pass unopposed, although most arguments against it were concerned with the effect it would have on small traders, who used dog carts as a cheaper way of transporting goods. Indeed, some of the opposition ridiculed the ‘trivial’ bill, saying that if small animals should not draw carts then Shetland ponies should also be banned. (And considering that 1841 was the same year in which the Abolition of Slavery Act was passed, they may have had a point.)
The Act for the prevention of Cruelty to Animals has since been updated without mention of using dogs for draught purposes so I’m not sure if it even is illegal anymore. Perhaps it’s simply because it would be such a rare occurrence for someone in the modern age to construct a cart and conscript a canine that it is pointless to legislate against.
A google, however, reveals that dog carts are still sold in the USA. So if you want to be driven around by a dog for some reason, try there. Just don’t use ours.
written by Adam Koszary, Project Officer.
You may have noticed that we’ve been a bit quiet recently about our HLF-funded redevelopment project, Our Country Lives. This is because we’re waiting for a response from the Heritage Lottery Fund due on June 13th (fingers crossed), but also because a lot of us have been busy catching up on other projects such as Reading Connections, Countryside21 and A Sense of Place. Last week, however, has seen the project kick-started again with a couple of meetings focusing on how we should be researching the stories and objects we want to put into the new displays, as well as how we should be marketing the new MERL. We’re also reaching a stage where I can give more detailed project updates, and this series of posts will probably focus more on the research-side of things, as well as some behind-the-scenes of how we go about delivering such a huge project as Our Country Lives. To recap our research so far, we spent a lot the 2013 winter and spring of 2014 getting to grips with the huge amount of objects and archives in the MERL collection. As well as trying to make sure we’re representing the countryside in all of its complexity and diversity, we have to make sure that we’re choosing the best objects and archives for the job, backed up by solid and current research.
The stories we want to tell about rural life are sometimes driven by our objects, archival documents, video footage, or other types of media. Sometimes a problem can be that we do not have any objects to illustrate stories we want to tell, but in our case our problem is having too many objects. Did you know we have around 26,000 objects, archives covering 4,500 linear metres and a library of over 50,000 volumes? It’s obviously a good thing that we have such a large and diverse collection, but this is also a double-edged sword. Our museum has no off-site storage, and so everything has to fit into the galleries, mezzanine storage, and a new duplicate store which is being built at the back. Because of this, much of our work so far has been trying to find a place for all of our objects so that our designers could decide where to put essential things such as walls and doorways.
This is one of the reasons why we are putting our wagons in a line along the north wall; as well as being a new and interesting way of exploring this nationally important collection, it is also one of the only ways to fit them all into the galleries. The only other option was to have a few wagons in every single gallery, which we thought would overshadow the other collections. As for the rest of the collection, we have been combing through our catalogue and placing our objects into the galleries and storylines best suited for them. You can see an example of one of our spreadsheets below, which will be the base from which we decide where and why to put our objects, including how they fit in with key messages, generic learning outcomes and storylines. We will also work from these lists to engage in more detailed research on specific objects and subjects contained within the new galleries. The storylines and topics we want to explore are by no means final, however, and so we will also be spending a lot of time in the coming months ironing out our topics, consulting with experts, and having lengthy debates about what is in and what is out.
Essentially, the planning and delivery an almost entirely new museum is difficult and complicated, but it is also a rewarding and refreshing experience. If you would like to know a bit more about this aspect of the project or the project as a whole, feel free to drop me an email at [email protected] , and keep an eye out for future updates.
Maria Rabbani is a 2nd year Archaeology student at the University of Reading.
The objects which I have chosen are the white plaster casts of Joseph Arch’s right and left hand. The length of the casts is 18cm and their breadth (across the knuckles) is 12cm. His hands look small and delicate, which may be because of the plaster (which smooths roughness), making them look less real. Even though the use of plaster cast has declined nowadays, largely due to photography and film, it is still used by some artists.
Joseph Arch (1826-1919) was the leader of the National Agricultural Labourers Union (1872-1892), which was the first successful union to be established. Born in 1826 in Barford, Warwickshire, he worked from the age of 25 as a farm worker. At the age of 55 in 1851 he became the President of the Farm Workers Union and became the first labourer to become a Member of Parliament when he was 59 years old.
Prior to the forming of the National Agricultural Labourers Union, the agricultural labourer faced many difficulties such as underpayment, malnutrition and little to no education. While the condition of workmen in other industries improved, the condition of agricultural labourer remained the same. This discontent led to the establishment of the Union which helped to improve the conditions of the agricultural labourer such as gaining the right to vote and so become a free man. The union, which started with small numbers, eventually became a successful union with its peak in membership totalling 86,214 in 1874, mostly due to Arch’s leadership and inspiring speeches which encouraged people to join the union.
The union, although it collapsed in 1896, was resurrected as the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers in 1906, which represented farmworkers until 1982. After merging with other unions, over time, it eventually formed the Unite the Union in 2007.
Unfortunately nothing is known about the casting process except that the plaster cast hands were made during the last quarter of the 19th century. Due to the fact that the plaster cast hands do not look not like the hands of an agricultural labourer, which are heavy, calloused and weather-beaten, this indicates that these casts were made when Joseph Arch was no longer a practising labourer but when he started working as a representative of labourers (Sayer 2013).
The exact reason why the casts were made is unknown but maybe they were part of a statue. Even though no other parts of the statue were found, and the fact that he is not holding any tool of his trade in his hand, I do not think this provides enough evidence to claim that these hands were not made to become part of a statue. I think that the way the plaster hands are portrayed resemble hands when they are used to write something. Therefore, it could be possible that it was thought to make a statue of Joseph Arch where he wrote one of his inspiring speeches. Maybe it was intended to add any tool such as a pen after the sculpture was finished. It may be possible that for some unknown reason the production was stopped.
Another possibility as to why these plaster casts were created could be explained by the increasing interest in publicly displaying plaster casts during the 19th century in England to improve art and architecture as well as use them for teaching and research. However, as there is no written record which could explain why these plaster cast hands were created, only speculations can be made.
Mubariz Rabbani is a second year Archaeology student at the University of Reading.
I have chosen to write about a lave fishing (pictured below) net as the fishing industry is an important part of the British economy as well as a contemporary issue, as increased fishing may result in environmental damage and may affect the economy and employment all across the UK. I also chose the lave net because of its simplicity and flexibility; for instance you can catch a large number of fish or sometimes even different species whether you stand on the bank to fish or trawl from a boat.
The tradition of lave net fishing has been in use since ancient times, being the only traditional fishing practice to have survived into the 21st century. The number of lave net fishermen has, however, gone into significant decline to about 25 people, who try to catch salmon at the Severn River. Their number has fallen because it has become difficult to earn a living from a diminishing fish stock. In 1914, for example, there were 150 lave net fishermen, with catches peaking as high as 36,000 fish annually, earning up to £150 per week (which was a huge amount at that time).
Lave net fishing also faces extinction from the Environment Agency which has suggested the complete abandonment of this ancient technique, as overfishing and poor quality water have led to a decrease in the numbers of fish stocks in the river. On the other hand, the Black Rock fishermen claim that their season is so limited, not just by law but by the power of the tides and the winds, that they are no threat to the salmon population. Secretary of the Black Rock association Martin Morgan argues that they already catch so few salmon and that they are keen to keep their lave net tradition alive. The association also argues that out of the about 15,000 fish in the upper regions of the Severn River, only 0.3 per cent is caught during one season. Peter Kavanagh of the Severn Estuary Fishermen’s Association also argues that future generations should be given the opportunity to be able to do it and see it taking place in the river. For the moment, the number of lave fishing licences has been decreased to 25, with each fisherman allowed to catch five salmon only in a season and only in the moths of June and July.
Therefore, it is possible that in the near future this unique, effective and ancient technique becomes abandoned and part of our history. As a result, this would be a great opportunity to visit the Museum of English Rural Life and view one of the remaining intact lave nets which could become rare and difficult to find in the future.
The lave net currently on display in the Museum of English rural life was used by salmon fishers believed to have been used only on the River Severn before 1966. The net was built using wood and string in the local area.
Over the Autumn Term we had the pleasure of hosting a psychology research project at the Museum of English Rural Life for two University of Reading undergraduates, Alex Tait and Laura Postlethwaite. Alex and Laura used a selection of objects from the Museum’s collection to explore how children learn new words in a museum setting. In this guest post, they explain their research…
There have been many studies exploring how children use a museum, including many looking into a parent and children’s interaction in a museum. This research is useful as the findings can be used by the museum itself to improve their services – such as through information packs or museum layout – so that their collections can become more effective for children.
When we were planning our third year project, there was an option to carry out a project at MERL – no specific outline was set as to what would be carried out and so we had an initial meeting with a few of the staff from the museum, to come up with an idea that would incorporate both our requirements for our project, but also one that would benefit the museum in some way. After much discussion and working out what was achievable for us, we came up with a project looking at how children learn names of novel objects, and whether words and/or pictures would aid this learning or not. This links to our studies about a child’s word learning and will also benefit the museum and help their plans for their redevelopment. Hopefully, the museum will be able to use our findings to develop useful resources for children to use when visiting the museum.
Following the generation of this idea, we came up with a standardised procedure that we could use to test a child’s word learning. We then chose 10 novel objects that we could teach a child the names of – we had to ensure that the children would not know the names of these objects prior to this study. These were then placed in a case in the museum (seen in the picture) for use during the research. Information cards containing words and/or pictures of these objects were then prepared and then the research could start!
We carried out a pilot study in the museum on Apple Day, and started our actual research after a few alterations in October half term so that we could carry out the research on children of our target age as they visited. Our next steps are to collate all of the data we collected over the week in the museum and see if we found any significant results.
Hopefully our findings will be useful and able to inform the museum on how to usefully interpret their collections for this age of audience during their potential redevelopment next year! We look forward to sharing our results in due course.
Alex Tait and Laura Postlethwaite
Although they are known as the Classified Information Files, the MERL library’s collection of cuttings does not contain top secret information and is not kept under lock and key either, but is freely available for readers to browse in the Special Collections Service reading room! The collection contains articles and cuttings from local and national newspapers and periodicals, including some titles which the library does not hold. The cuttings are kept in folders in the filing cabinets in the reading room, and are organised by the MERL subject classification in alphabetical order. This scheme is used for objects and photographs: it is different from the MERL library classification scheme. A subject card index to the cuttings is available in the reading room. The collection is currently being reorganised into the MERL library classification number order (with subject names added) but is fully accessible and available to browse during this work.
Although the collection is only added to occasionally, it is a useful way of retrieving information published in periodicals and newspapers which don’t justify the full cataloguing treatment and which might otherwise be difficult to find. Subjects covered by the clippings include material on agricultural machinery, farm livestock and rural crafts as well as articles and cuttings on more obscure subjects including ancient rural traditions such as ‘beating the bounds’, rural superstitions and the phenomenon of ‘will-o’-the-wisps’ in the countryside. When all else fails with a research query, a quick search of the cuttings files can sometimes yield an important snippet of information or perhaps you might come across an interesting subject for a piece of research. Have a browse and see what you can find!
written by Hayley Whiting, Hugh Sinclair Project Archivist
The papers of Dr Hugh Macdonald Sinclair DM, DSc, FRCP (1910-90) are now available at MERL. This marks the end of nearly five years of work by me, the Hugh Sinclair Project Archivist. It has been a very interesting, challenging, and rewarding project funded by the Hugh Sinclair Trust at the University of Reading and I’m going to give an overview of the archive and the work I have done.
First a quick look at the career of Dr Sinclair, as many of you will not have heard of him but may have benefited from his ideas. Dr Sinclair was an academic and pioneer in human nutrition who is best known for his theories on Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs), pioneering the link between Omegas 3 and 6 and human health. In 1979 he took this idea to extremes and undertook his “Eskimo Diet Experiment”. Dr Sinclair consumed only seal meat and fish for 100 days and tested his blood clotting times each day. This was not funded as the ethics committees consulted were not convinced this self-experimentation was a good idea! Dr Sinclair even had seal meat cooked for him at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was a fellow, which was not popular with the other diners.
The Hugh Sinclair Archive covers this work on EFAs as and all areas of his life and career. The most significant part of the collection are the papers of the Oxford Nutrition Survey. Sinclair was asked by the government to set up the survey which worked throughout the Second World War carrying out nutrition surveys on many different groups for the Government to ensure the health of the nation. This work was also carried out in Germany and the Netherlands after the war and was vital in assisting the starving people there.
After his time at Oxford Sinclair set up the International Institute of Human Nutrition at his home in Sutton Courtenay and spent the rest of his life trying to raise funds for what he saw as a key research institute for the study of nutrition. The IHN never became what he had hoped for but research continued there until the early 1990s. As I mentioned earlier, Dr Sinclair was a fellow at Magdalen College and taught many students there. He is also remembered by staff and students at the University of Reading where he was a visiting fellow during the 1970s and 80s.
Dr Sinclair’s career never fulfilled its potential and when he wrote about his theories on EFA’s he was often ridiculed. However, towards the end of his life, he began to receive the recognition he deserved and many conferences were held in his honour.
After that whistle-stop tour of Sinclair’s career let me briefly outline the work I have done on the archive, In 2008 I began work on this project and was presented with over 1100 office storage boxes of papers with no list or real sense of what they might contain. So began the long process of going through every box and writing a list of their contents. Every day would bring a new surprise and my favourites have to be a large plastic mackerel, photographs of Dr Sinclair’s time overseas in the 1940s and a diary kept by Sinclair’s mother detailing his first few years with all the baby and toddler milestones described. My least favourite would be envelopes of hair and a half-full container of 30 year old mackerel oil!
Once the listing was completed I moved on to cataloguing material identified for permanent preservation and disposing of the rest. There were boxes of material to return to originating institutions such as Magdalen College and the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, and a great deal of routine material as Dr Sinclair was quite a hoarder. Now this work is done the papers are catalogued and stored in archivally sound folders and boxes.
It is rewarding to know that these papers are finally available and I’m excited to see what research will be done using them.
Professor Ian Rowland, Head of the Hugh Sinclair Unit of Human Nutrition at the University of Reading, said: “The archive of Dr Sinclair is potentially an extremely valuable, untapped source of data for researchers in the field of nutrition. The ONS surveys were of contemporary importance in ensuring adequate nutrition of the population, but may be of equal significance in the present day.”
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Shuk Ha’Carmel, or Ha’Carmel market in Hebrew and Arabic respectively, is the largest market in the heart of Tel Aviv, where farmers bring their produce and wares. It is a colorful and busy place, offering fresh produce, snacks, clothing, hats, and household items.
The market closes on Saturday to observe the Sabbath.
Religious items abundantly displayed.
Stalls with ground spices show a dazzling array of colors. Every spice you can think of is displayed there lovingly.
Each spice box is heaped artistically with its metal spoon. You can find cardamom, peppercorn, cinnamon, cloves, saffron, and more.
I couldn’t help thinking that in the 15th century, Columbus went through great pain to sail across the Atlantic in search of gold and new sources for those same spices that were sold in the Cairo bazaars since Roman times. He braved a perilous journey across the ocean and tried to convince the local native populace of his good intentions, only to find himself empty handed. In addition to his many enemies, the Moors controlled the seas and barred his way to the Middle Eastern spice markets. Additionally, Venice charged large tariffs for their spices brought from India, levies that started in the 13th century. In the New World, Columbus did find new and exotic fruits and vegetables, which he brought back to old Europe.
Verdant and succulent vegetables, neatly arrayed.
In the Shuk Ha’ Carmel, I strolled along stalls of produce and was amazed at their freshness. I found Egyptian moulouchia, a leafy stalk that looks somewhat like spinach. When ground into a fine paste and mixed with coriander, it makes an excellent viscous green soup that is cooked with garlic and meat then served over white rice.
Fresh fruit and watermelons are sliced to lure you with their mouth-watering sweet tastes.
Pickled olives and olive oil fill containers. Nuts displayed in their boxes make you want to sample each kind.
The candy stalls are another temptation. But watch out for children who will not desist until they satisfy their sweet tooth!
Sweetened nougat tempts you to taste them all.
Breads, bagels and pretzels beckon with their fresh baked aroma.
You can buy kosher cheeses: from Camembert to blue cheese, to the white and smooth goat cheese.
A busy hummus restaurant.
I then found a restaurant that serves pita and hummus only, all day long. And the lines to get in were long. It’s a healthy snack when you’re on the go.
Fresh dolma are prepared by hand.
Next I came upon a stall where Druze women were preparing stuffed grape leaves (dolmathakia in Greek) with rice, fresh herbs, lemon, and pine nuts for a delightful appetizer dish.
“Pita and falafel, seven shekels only! Pita and falafel, seven shekels only!” The pita vendor repeated in a droning tone. How could I resist this falafel of ground chickpeas fried in oil, stuffed into a pita, and covered with tahini (a ground sesame paste) and Israeli salad. Oh my, finger-lickin’ good! That’s because the tahini leaks out of the pita. So take lots of napkins. Once satiated, I looked for the dessert stalls and found a sweet paradise.
How did this picture get in here!
Tempting trays of baklava, konafa and basbousa.
One of the most delicious desserts from the region is baklava, sold throughout the world. A soft crust of layered phyllo surrounding ground pistachios and dipped in honey can make you forget your diet and tight-fitting jeans. I’ll be damned if I’ll pass up such mouth-watering sweetness! The next dessert is the konafa, which is the same as baklava but the crust is thin and and noodle-like and also dipped in honey. They’re shaped like short cigars. My all-time favorite is basbousa, made of semolina, cut in diamond shapes, and topped with an almond (See below for basbousa recipe).
What impressed me most at the market were the loyal customers who come back day after day to shop for fresh fish, outstanding produce, and handy household items. The most amazing sight was Arabs and Jews working side-by-side in the shuk.
All in all, it was an interesting foray into foreign and exotic foods.
8 tablespoons (1 stick) margarine or butter
3/4 cup sugar
3 large eggs
1 and 1/2 cup coarse semolina
1 cup all-purpose flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup milk
blanched almonds (you can substitute pistachios)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 grated orange peel
1 teaspoon rosewater (optional)
3 cups water
2 and 1/2 cups sugar
3 tablespoons lemon juice
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and use the middle rack. Grease a 9 by 13 inches baking dish.
Mix margarine or butter, sugar and lemon with an electric mixer until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time while still mixing. Mix semolina, flour and baking powder in another bowl and Pour into the mixture. Next stir in the milk. Pour the batter into the baking dish. Decorate with rows of almonds.
Bake for 45 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. The basbousa should look golden. Put aside to cool.
Heat the water and sugar until dissolved. Add lemon juice and boil then reduce to medium and cook for twenty minutes. Afterwards, let it cool.
Use a toothpick to prick surface of the basbousa and pour over it 1 cup of syrup. Leave the in pan to cool then cut in diamonds or squares. The rest of syrup can be stored in refrigerator if needed. Serves 10 – 12 pieces. | <urn:uuid:21ab4458-d300-47cf-a25d-b28006dfa1ee> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-foods-and-colors-and-of-shuk-ha-carmel/ | 2024-04-21T21:56:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817819.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421194551-20240421224551-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.944366 | 1,296 |
Sobre For Whom the Bell Tolls
So far, my reading of this book (which happens to be my first Hemingway) has left me not only with so many mixed feelings, but also with a number of questions I can’t seem to answer for myself about the nature of the book as a whole.
Firstly, as I mentioned in class, I’ve really taken issue with Robert and Maria’s relationship. While their first encounter was more or less an affective experience for me, their second encounter in the heather, as it were, did not resonate with me at all. To be fair, I did appreciate the literary devices Hemingway used to portray such a scene and evoke a certain emotional response in his audience, but overall I felt the scene was overly melodramatic. Given the nature of the “relationship” and her not so distant traumatic past, I have a really hard time believing that such a thing would’ve happened in real life. And given that this is a historical novel (I would argue), I suppose I expected it to be more or less realistic in its portrayal of the human experience. In the case of Robert and Maria, however, I do not feel Hemingway delivered.
Secondly, I find myself still unsure of whether I identify with the protagonist. In the past, it has been sometimes very difficult for me to enjoy a book if I do not identify or sympathize with the protagonist. On the one hand, I’ve found I’ve enjoyed Robert Jordan’s inner monologue, for the most part, which doesn’t necessarily appear as much as other narrators we’ve read so far, but I’ve enjoyed it because to me it feels authentically human, something with which I can easily sympathize and experience a degree of affect from. On the other hand, however, I think I’ve struggled with his character because I can’t discern just how much Hemingway as an author speaks through Robert Jordan, if he does at all. Because we’ve spent a lot of class time discussing the concept of genre and what we as readers expect from not just different genres but different authors, especially when it comes to representations of a conflict as complicated as the Spanish Civil War, I think I’ve had a harder time separating what Robert Jordan says and thinks and feels to be true and right, and what Hemingway, the author who penned this character, says and thinks and feels to be true and right. However, also as I mentioned in class, I can’t help but wonder what I would’ve taken away from this book had I not read it in this particular classroom setting.
And finally, I just want to consider the epitaph again, by the poet John Donne: I’m not entirely sure I agree with the conclusion we drew in class the other day, regarding the meaninglessness (or not) of war and death. I don’t know why I didn’t speak up, but my impression of this short little passage wasn’t necessarily a negative one. To me, the notion that each individual death diminishes every other individual, and that therefore when the bell tolls, it doesn’t just toll for the dead, but every other individual (again, I could be misinterpreting his words), actually evoked a more positive, compassionate feeling in me as a reader. My first impression of those particular words was more hopeful, as if we are all in this together. It’s like my favorite Golden State Warrior said in the press conference after their ugly loss this evening, we win together, we lose together, it’s no one person’s fault. How can all of this amount to meaninglessness? Obviously, yes, I agree with Mauricio’s argument that there comes a certain point where a conflict becomes pointless because the losses are too great or the overall cause is lost. But isn’t it rather hopeful (and yes, perhaps blindly idealistic) to consider that we are all in this together and somehow, if we continue sticking together, we shall overcome? Or, at least, the deaths wouldn’t have been in vain because we fought for what we believe in?
I guess that’s my main personal conclusion from this book. It doesn’t do me any good in coming up with definitive answers to these sorts of questions. And it bothers me. But oh well, such is literature, I suppose. | <urn:uuid:8c8965e1-c7fe-4490-a6a2-5e95d1f32f72> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://blogs.ubc.ca/span530polyak/2016/06/08/sobre-for-whom-the-bell-tolls/ | 2024-04-21T20:41:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817819.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421194551-20240421224551-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.97014 | 943 |
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Cleaning toilets for a living in an old people's home wasn't the best job in the world, but it kept me out of trouble. I guess you get used to the smell after a while, probably because it follows you around like an old friend.
I have been the annoying person who hands you a leaflet in the city centre, I've done market research for people and I've worked in sales.
I've also been a lab technician and a manager, and above all my jobs my bar work is most preferred.
Bar work has simple rules - mainly relating to the law, and if people are rude to me I get to remove their drink. Simple. | <urn:uuid:84f41eb5-7452-4cc5-8c3d-76f8598ad235> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://bloodystudents.blogspot.com/2005/11/ | 2024-04-21T22:38:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817819.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421194551-20240421224551-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.980733 | 137 |
“In middle school, there were 121 students in my class, and I ranked academically at 119.”
You wouldn’t want to believe your ears if you knew Teeratat “Tat” Arayakarnkul because he’s now an MBA candidate at Columbia University, one of the most prestigious ivy league institutions in the US.
Before this, Tat worked in marketing for a parking innovation platform, a subsidiary of Bluebik. He also worked as an Associate Category Manager at Lazada Thailand.
And before that, Tat was an undergraduate at the International School of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University.
How did a low-ranking student become a marketing all-rounder and an ivy league MBA candidate?
Now Tat’s ready to share his story.
What is your dream job?
Ever since I can remember, I’ve wanted to be an entrepreneur because I grew up running around my grandparent’s mom-and-pop shop. In primary school, my parents didn’t give me any allowance. Back then, there was a snack that came with Pokemon tokens.
Once I ate the snack, I’d sell the tokens to my classmates and use that money to buy more snacks.
To this day, I still want to start my own business, but I haven’t figured out what I’d do yet. I only know I want to be an entrepreneur who gives back to society, so I’m now exploring my options.
Since you want to be an entrepreneur, why did you study engineering?
At first, I didn’t have a preference for any faculty in particular, and my parents wanted all their children to study anything vocational. Thus, I chose to study engineering. Also, information technology was trending, and my major focused on all things information technology – software, coding – so I thought they would come in handy in the future.
After graduation, what did you do before you came to Bluebik?
I tended to the family business for a while. My responsibility was in sales and marketing, in which I had no prior education. So, I looked up the internet and just gave it a go. The good thing about helping out with the family business was I could experiment until I found out what worked or didn’t and used the findings to improve the business.
After that, I worked at Lazada Thailand as an Associate Category Manager. The job was a mix of sales and marketing, and the goal was to grow the category as much as possible with as few resources as possible.
What was your responsibility at Bluebik?
Mainly marketing. I laid out the marketing plan for a parking innovation start-up, a subsidiary of Bluebik. I also helped with hardware imports from China. Later, I also worked as a project manager for platform-related projects.
What did you like most about working at Bluebik?
I liked having international exposure. I had always lived and worked in Thailand. Although I studied in an international program at university, all my classmates and professors were Thai. So, working at Bluebik was my first exposure to a multinational environment.
Previously, I’d assume that my colleagues shared similar backgrounds. However, when I worked in a multinational setting, I realized nobody’s the same. To succeed at work, I need to get to know each of them individually and open up to their views.
Was there a learning curve working in a global setting?
Once there was a conflict within the team. We argued as we didn’t know each other’s intentions. But it was more of a communication issue than anything else; while Thai people tend to compromise, people from different cultures tend to be straightforward. So, the message got lost in that different styles of communication.
How did you come to that conclusion?
We opened up to each other and talked until we were on the same page. On my end, I needed to improve how I communicate, too.
Did that incident change your style of working? For example, did you become more straightforward than compromising?
We need both in the mix. You need to understand your team culture. If your team dislikes straightforwardness, you’ll need to find a way to talk to them without hurting their feelings.
I think of communication as an art, and working in such a diverse environment allowed me to practice my communication skill with different people.
Why did you decide to pursue a master’s degree?
First of all, I still wanted to start a business. Although I could learn some topics myself, I wanted to dive deeper.
Secondly, I wanted to connect with foreigners as I might be able to collaborate with them in the future.
And lastly, I want to broaden my perspective because many businesses started overseas before they came to Thailand. Therefore, I might see business opportunities abroad and bring them back to Thailand.
How did you prepare yourself for the application?
I started by setting a goal, which is standard practice if you want to get into an MBA program. I’m interested in health care because I have an incurable medical condition that requires expensive treatment. So, I wish to do something to help Thai people have better access to such treatment.
Then I chose the university. My criteria were that it must be famous for healthcare and other industries, and Columbia was the first university that fit those criteria.
After that, I studied extremely hard for GMAT. After work, I’d study from 9 PM to 3 AM the next day and kept at it for almost five months.
What was the key success factor of your MBA application?
Effort. To be honest, I wasn’t book-smart at all. I can clearly remember that in middle school, there were 121 students in my class, and I ranked academically at 119.
I was looked down upon, so I used that energy to push myself further. If you’re not as smart as the others, you need to put in more effort. Thus, I put in as much effort as possible and never stopped doing so.
For example, my GMAT scores were terrible at first, so I pushed myself harder and harder. I studied harder for months on end. I sacrificed everything; I didn’t talk to friends or watch a single movie at the time.
I also put in extra effort for the personal statement. Some people might need a week to write, but it took me at least five months to craft it because I knew my English was not that good. I contemplated how to tell my story to stand out from the crowd and consulted with at least 20 people. I gave it my all.
So how exactly did you tell your story in your essays?
There were three prompts:
- What is your goal?
- Why did you want to study in Columbia?
- Write about a movie, song, or book you like.
For the first question, I wrote about my goal in healthcare. I explained why I was invested in this cause, how my previous experience helped with my purpose, what gaps needed to be filled to achieve my goal, and how studying at Columbia would help me fill those gaps.
How did working at Bluebik prepare you for the application?
Bluebik taught me how to think systematically. As I wrote the essays, I planned how to shape my storyline to make it interesting. Instead of treating the prompts as three separate questions, I connected all my answers and ensured each answer complemented the others. So, I wasn’t limited by the word count restriction at all.
What’s it like studying at Columbia?
This is only my first month here, and I have to say that it is quite a challenge. Assignments can be expected from every class, and half of them are group projects.
Moreover, I’m still adjusting to how classes are carried out here. It’s totally different from Thailand. Here, the professors expect a lot of participation. I need to read a lot to prepare for in-class discussions.
Overall, it requires a lot of energy for a successful study, so it’s pretty tiring. I hope the situation will improve once I get used to it.
Is there something new you’ve just found out there?
Here, the professors encourage the students to experiment and not be afraid of being wrong. And the best part is that they won’t judge you at all.
For example, when the professor asks you a question, and you can’t explain your thoughts very well, he will try to help you with your words and get your ideas out. It’s okay even if your answer is wrong because he will then guide you to the correct answer. To me, it feels like a very safe space to learn.
Do you consider yourself someone who isn’t afraid to be wrong?
Actually, I am afraid of being wrong. Since I was young, at school, I’d be seen as an outcast if I did anything different or had different ideas. That had made me quite fearful of getting out of my comfort zone or being wrong.
However, when I worked at Bluebik, I started to get out of my comfort zone and try new things. Actually, there was a time when I interned as a consultant at Bluebik. I was very new to the scene, but the manager asked for my opinion without judging and even developed my ideas further.
And being here, I tried to step out of my comfort zone even more. The first few days, I couldn’t bring myself to raise my hand. But this one time, a professor called me to answer a question. I did, and he smiled and said that was a good answer. I didn’t think it was a good answer, but it gave me the confidence to raise my hand the next time.
So far, what do you like most about studying for an MBA degree at Columbia?
It’s the thing I just talked about. I like that they encourage everyone to participate. I’ve changed from someone afraid of being wrong to someone who dares to speak in class. I felt like I’d grown a lot.
Lastly, is there any advice for readers aspiring to work at Bluebik and study abroad?
Find out what you genuinely want to study. Once you do, find out which university will help you achieve your goals. Then all you need to do is put in as much effort as possible. I truly believe that effort will get you wherever you want to go. | <urn:uuid:129db3bc-f707-47a7-a1b0-814798ac634e> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://bluebik.com/our-people/6687 | 2024-04-21T21:49:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817819.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421194551-20240421224551-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.983198 | 2,221 |
Our Test Team is operating at full capacity and to support our continued growth we are expanding our team with a Software Test Engineer.
As a Software Test Engineer you’ll be confident in working with a range of clients across diverse business and technology communities, you’ll apply novel techniques and tools to existing processes, you’ll understand modern/enterprise agile methods and be able to apply them in a CI environment, you’ll enjoy working in a team of like-minded people to get the job done focusing on the whole project. You’ll have an understanding of the full life cycle including analysis, enterprise development, build and deployment as well as support.
Dunfermline, Hybrid 40% remote
Test Team Lead
Role and responsibilities include:
- Write and carry out testing activities to ensure the quality, reliability and security of the software.
- Diagnose issues and communicate bugs to the development team as they occur.
- Write and maintain all forms of technical test documentation.
- Manage risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality.
- Develop and automate tests to validate software.
- Manage relationships and work between different working teams.
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What is gender budgeting analysis. Gender budgeting analysis can be defines as a authorities budget affect outgo allotments and grosss that direct and indirect impact on both adult females and work forces. Hence, gender budget is non merely a separate budget for adult females but besides include work forces. It besides can move as an instrument for keeping the authorities accountable to its gender equality committednesss. Through Gender budgeting analysis, we can follow how the authorities budgets affect adult females in the unpaid attention economic system include domestic or family sector, the voluntary or non-governmental organisation ( NGO ) sector, and the informal economic sector.
Gender budgeting includes disaggregating by sex the impact of mainstream outgos across all sectors and services and besides planning and execution or reappraisal of specific allotments for gender, for illustration equal chances and allotments within authorities services or particular programmes aiming group adult females, misss, male childs or work forces to turn to the issue of inequalities.
Presents, more than 40 states around the universe practising the gender budgeting analysis. It is originally inspired by Australia as an early experience of states and followed by the United Nations ‘ committedness for gender budgeting in the Beijing Platform for Action. Gender equity is link to gender equity. Gender equity is a set of actions, attitudes, and premises that provide chances and make outlooks about persons. Hence, gender equity can be defines as a procedure of being just to work forces and adult females. Gender equality requires the equal right for work forces and adult females in footings of socially-valued goods, chances, resources and wagess.
Unfortunately, gender inequality still exists in our society due to the instability persists in societal, political and economic constructions particularly adult females who are excluded in the procedure of determination devising and entree to societal resources, such as land. It is because gender inequality can be occurs in which the national budget normally ignores the different, socially functions, duties and capablenesss of work forces and adult females. In this contents, we can state that the authorities budgets and policies more to function the “ public involvement ” and the demands of the “ general individual ” . These differences are by and large structured in such a manner as to go forth adult females in an unequal place in relation to the work forces in their community, with less economic, societal and political power. Normally, adult females ‘s part is underestimated, therefore an unpaid economic system exists, in which adult females do most of the work keeping labour force and maintaining societal model, parametric quantities of aggregative production, nest eggs, investing, imports and exports may be sensitive to gender dealingss because many policy are gender blind without sing gender impacts.
Hence, in order to acknowledge the part of adult females particularly unpaid economic system, gender budgeting analysis plays an of import function in order to accomplish gender equity for turn toing the specific allotment budget for adult females demands and besides their involvements. A good gender budgeting analysis depend on how the national budget have better designed to accomplish results which meet the demands of adult females and work forces and misss and male childs every bit good as different groups of adult females, work forces and kids. Furthermore, gender budget analysis of import because it can work as an information argument about policy and the appropriate allotment of public outgo and revenue enhancement. Hence, it can better the effectivity, efficiency, answerability and transparence of authorities policy, every bit good as doing important parts towards gender equality and adult females ‘s rights.
Gender budgeting analysis can be done by analysing any signifier of public outgo or public gross in footings of gender position. Besides, it besides can be placing the deductions and impacts of adult females and misss as compared to work forces and male childs. In add-on, it besides can convey internal benefits to authorities by heightening the ability to find the existent value of resources targeted towards adult females and work forces.
Tools for a gender budgeting analysis ( analysing budget outgos )
The intent of gender budget analysis is merely to analyse the national budget from a gender position and find how gross and outgo effects adult females, work forces, misss and male childs, and most significantly who benefits from budgetary determination and who does n’t. However, different states have utilizing difference tools and executions. Internationally, there are several tools for gender budgeting, such as gender-aware policy assessment, gender-disaggregated beneficiary appraisals, gender-disaggregated public outgo incidence analysis, gender-disaggregated revenue enhancement incidence analysis, gender-disaggregated analysis of the impact of the budget on clip usage, gender-aware medium term economic policy model and gender-aware budget statement.
Gender-aware policy assessment
This is an analytical attack that involves size uping the policies of different portfolios and programmes by paying attending to the implicit and expressed gender issues. It inquiries ( includes qualitative and quantitative analysis ) the premise that policies are “ gender-neutral ” in their effects and asks alternatively: In what ways are the policy and their associated resource allotments likely to cut down or increase gender inequalities?
Gender-disaggregated beneficiary appraisals
This tool as a manner of hearing voices of citizens that is involved adult females and work forces. It besides can see as research technique that is need to roll up and analyse sentiment and besides inquire existent or possible donees the extent to which authorities policies and programmes and services reflect their priories and run into their demands. Possible instrument to determine this are sentiment polls, attitude studies, participatory rapid assessment, focal point group treatments, colloquial interviewing and penchant ranking and marking.
Gender-disaggregated public outgo incidence analysis
This tool as a research technique compares public outgo for a given programme, normally with informations from family studies, to uncover the distribution of outgo between adult females and work forces, misss and male childs. In this contents, gender-disaggregated public outgo incidence analysis aims to analyse the extent which work forces and adult females benefit from outgo on publically provided services. Statistically analysis is done to find the distribution of outgo between work forces, adult females, misss and male childs.
Gender-disaggregated revenue enhancement incidence analysis
This tool as a research technique that examines both direct and indirect revenue enhancements in order to cipher how much revenue enhancement is paid by different classs of persons or families and the impact on each.
Gender-disaggregated analysis of the impact of the budget on clip usage
This tool indicates the nexus between the national budget and the manner clip of adult females and work forces is used in families. It ensures that the clip spent by adult females in unpaid work is accounted for in policy analysis since national budget normally ignore the part of adult females in term of unpaid economic system. It relies on clip usage surveies implemented at the national degree.
Gender-aware medium-term economic policy model
This tool has two significance. The first significance involves integrating gender issues into the variable of the macroeconomic theoretical accounts such as budget shortages, rising prices, involvement and employment and growing rates. Second, this tool involves the engendering of the medium-term budget outgo frameworks that many states are now presenting as portion of budget reforms.
Gender-aware budget statement
This tool as a statement, study, from each authorities portfolio on its audit of policies, programmes and budget that is relevant. It requires a high committedness and coordination throughout the public sector as ministries or sections taking an appraisal of the gender impact of their budget lines and how outgos affect gender equality utilizing a assortment of indexs, such as portion of entire outgo that is chiefly targeted to gender equality plans, portion of outgo that is chiefly for adult females ‘s precedence needs from public services, gender balance in preparation plans, gender balance in public sector employment and others.
Tools for a gender budgeting analysis ( analysing budget grosss )
Besides analysing the budget outgo, gender budgeting analysis besides involves tools that is analysing budget grosss. Hence, there has been small advancement in developing tools for analysing the gender impact of authorities grosss. Future development of these tools is chiefly focal point on direct revenue enhancements, for examples income revenue enhancement, and indirect revenue enhancements such as gross revenues revenue enhancement and user fees.
Gender-disaggregated revenue enhancement incidence analysis
This tools aims to analyze both direct and indirect revenue enhancements in order to cipher how much revenue enhancement is paid by different classs of persons or families. The impact of direct revenue enhancements requires disaggregating the information by taxpayer. Hence, gender-disaggregated ingestion informations can be used to analyse the impact of indirect revenue enhancements on both adult females and work forces.
Gender-disaggregated analysis of user charges fees
This tool map to tracks the impact user fees have on both adult females and work forces. Since adult females by and large earn the income less than work forces, therefore user charges fees for adult females wholly otherwise than work forces.
Gender-disaggregated analysis of intergovernmental grosss
This tool includes an appraisal of the donees of conditional grants. It can embrace the differential impact that revenue enhancement sharing among different degrees of authorities has on both adult females and work forces.
Gender-disaggregated analysis of the authorities ‘s debt
This tool is the most hard to analyze or gauge the differential impact of a authorities ‘s debt since most of the authorities ‘s debt still deficiency of transparence. But, it can embrace the analysis of the future debt load borne by both adult females and work forces.
Execution of Gender Budgeting Analysis
In order to explicate more and see how the gender budget analysis is carried or implemented in different states, here is an illustration of Morocco. Morocco has set ambitious ends for increased entree for adult females and misss to instruction as cardinal schemes for the state ‘s economic development. However, although the authorities has committed to these gender-specific policies, execution of instruction and literacy plans has been sporadic and inconsistent due to the outrageousness of the job of female illiteracy and the complexness of the solutions proposed by all of the assorted stakeholders: the authorities, international assistance givers, civil society groups and the households.
The analysis of the Moroccan experience with Gender Responsive Budgeting ( GRB ) reveals that it has been catalyzed by the March towards democratisation, which provided the overarching scene for enabling progresss in the integrating of gender equality considerations in public policies. ‘ design, execution and rating. We can non conceal the fact that one of the normative roots of the GRB is found in the constitutional progresss that enforced the experience of democratic passage initiated in 1998 traced by itself in to the seminal 1996 fundamental law that affirmed cosmopolitan human rights in its preamble.
Furthermore, the GRB experience in Morocco is inscribed in the planetary motion to integrate cosmopolitan human rights rules into legislative, institutional, and administration models. Thus the normative rules of equity and equality, combined to efficiency and public presentation aims, have been an of import tool for gender mainstreaming in the Moroccan budgetary reform model. They have guided the behavior of public policy rating from the point of view of their gender-differentiated impacts on peculiar population groups, stemming from their differences in state of affairs and demands.
The GRB enterprise has benefited from a contributing, enabling political environment, which has become progressively favourable to equity and equality issues. It has built on the cumulative kineticss of a set of reciprocally reenforcing reforms which have consolidated democratic additions, and which have aimed to better the transparence and effectivity of public policies.
While the 2012 Gender Report is inscribed in this gradual procedure of internalisation and institutionalization of a gender attack by the province histrions, it besides coincides with the institutional displacement marked by the new by the new human-rights-based Fundamental law of 2011. Similarly, this attack dovetails with the major axes of the governmental plan that provides a roadmap, conceived for the execution of the commissariats of the new Constitution. The plan in fact set out steps for the publicity of equal entree to basic services, particularly instruction, wellness and lodging, and the ideals of solidarity and equal chances among citizens.
Another illustration of Gender Budget Responsiveness: this is the instance in France. In the twelvemonth 2000 French Parliamentarians called on the authorities to show one-year grounds, when the province budget was drafted, of the fiscal attempt made to advance adult females ‘s rights and gender equality. This gave rise to the “ jaune budgetaire ” , the xanthous appendix to the budget refering adult females ‘s rights and equality. This papers, which provides parliament with information and a agency of supervising the state of affairs, and which has a legal footing, allows the authorities to expose the consequences of its policy as reflected in budgetary appropriations, gauge the advancement made and pinpoint defects. It is up to each ministerial section to place and take stock of the steps it has introduced to further, or increase consciousness of, gender equality. Each section is besides asked to explicate its attack to gender equality and subject the indexs that it considers most relevant in the country for which it is responsible. The 2004 Charter for Equality between Women and Men, in which the ministries and local and regional governments, in peculiar, undertook to do touchable advancement in this field over the following three old ages, and the debut of objective-based budgeting for the readying of the province budget will do it clearer how the assorted ministries ‘ programmes for the promotion of this policy tantrum together.
These two complementary exercisings will in future make it possible to consolidate the stairss taken to give a higher profile to the gender equality policy in the province budget. For case, the ministry for gender equality and equality in the workplace will subject to parliament an one-year gender equality programme puting out aims and indexs and its ain bill of exchange budget. Furthermore, the “ jaune budgetaire ” is besides to include a reappraisal of the steps provided for in the Charter and will bit by bit do it possible to come up with aims and indexs common to the assorted authorities sections in order to foster a mainstreaming attack to gender.
Gender budgeting analysis ( GBA ) in India has taken in many signifiers. The diverseness of the work is depend on the size of and diverseness within the state of India. It is besides explained by the diverseness of histrions who have taken up gender budgeting analysis. In fact, gender budgeting analysis work in India has been carried out at the federal, province and local phase. GBA led by the Government of India get downing when the “ Women Component Plan ” has been introduced as one of the constituent in Ninth Five Year Plan ( 1997-2002 ) . This program required all cardinal and province program budgets to apportion around 30 % of financess for adult females. Harmonizing to the analysis of subsequent allotments, found that in fact 42.9 % of financess in 15 sections had been allocated specially for adult females. However, this per centum was still much less than the proportion of adult females and misss in the population of India. While the Tenth Five-Year Plan ( 2002-2007 ) continue the Ninth Five Year Plan ( 1997-2002 ) , this program stress once more Women Component Plan must include the cardinal and province budgets. Government corporate with UNIFEM commissioned the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy ( NIPFP ) , to analyse the old Union budget get downing from the twelvemonth 2001 until 2007 in footings of gender position.
In order to analyse the Union budget 2002 India, National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development ( NIPCCD ) was commissioned by Department of Women and Child Development, -India ‘s national gender machinery. NIPCCD be responsible to analyse the budgets of 22 provinces in India in footings of gender position. While Union budget 2004, the Finance Ministry of India established an expert group which given undertaking to do recommendations on GBA. This group suggests that an inter-departmental commission on GBA should be established. As a consequences, gender budget cells be set up in all sections, indicate that 18 of the sum of 50 ministries instantly taking portion in set abouting GBA, and will set up a new outgo class in the brotherhood budget. It is because India was utilizing line-item budgeting, and as a consequence placing gender-related outgo in the budget will go more hard than when performance-budgeting is implemented. The expert group besides suggests the sections should supervise the results that include an analysis of the donees reached by outgo into their one-year studies. In the same clip, Department of Women and Child Development get down a edifice capacity of staff in cardinal ministries and besides province authoritiess on GBA. For illustrations, Karnataka, West Bengal, Kerala, Himachal, Delhi and Rajasthan this all provinces taking portion in excess activities beyond that is required by the Women ‘s Component Plan.
In the old ages 2005-2006, Finance Ministry of India introduced a new gender budget statement to place “ demands for grants ” which would well profit for adult females in 10 sections. While in 2006-2007, the gender budget statement in brotherhood budget was expanded to 24 demands for grants of 18 ministries. Each ministries introduced two type of allotments, that is allotments targeted 100 % for adult females and misss and 2nd is allotments at least 30 % for adult females and misss. As a consequence, the figure of gender budget cells was expanded to 32 ministries and sections. To reason, we can see that the execution of GBA in India really emphasize on the function played by the federal and province degree in which can profit to adult females in India in footings of gender positions.
In decision, the Gender Budget Analysis or Responsiveness is now going a planetary issue to implement gender equality even though less figure of states have successfully put into pattern. The Swift development that gender budgeting has undergone in the last few old ages ‘ shows its great possible with respect to gender equality and good economic administration. It is hence recommends the application of gender budgeting as an indispensable constituent of gender mainstreaming in all Council of Europe member States. It is besides suggested that the questionnaire prepared to roll up information about and concrete illustrations of gender budgeting enterprises in the Council of Europe member provinces should be updated with a position to identifying and researching new attacks and, on that footing, updating the study on Gender budgeting.
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Transformation is a challenge at every level of the organization—up to and including the board.
But too often, boards are not at the center of the transformation discussion. And in practice, boards sometimes fall short of the level of collaboration that successful transformation demands.
Our experience shows that transformations are a difficult and uncertain challenge—and not all of them succeed. Board engagement and leadership is critical during times of transition. Many boards are not collaborating deeply enough with CEOs and leadership teams. And that can create significant problems.
An engaged, collaborative board, on the other hand, can play a decisive role in guiding the transformation and keeping it on track. When boards are fully involved in the transformation and play a hands-on role instead of confining themselves to oversight, the chances of success go up. No matter how gifted the CEO and the leadership team, strategic transformation needs the board’s full attention.
Boards must take a more hands-on role
To transform successfully, companies need to align around a clear point of view and take more ambitious steps. They must focus on innovation, reshaping the portfolio and repositioning how the company goes to market. That is a different mindset than many leaders have. The board has a critical role to play in such growth transformations, starting with selecting the CEO and then guiding the leadership team.
The coauthor of this article has first-hand experience that has led him to call for boards to be more intimately involved in transformations. Over three decades, Raj Gupta has served as CEO, chair and director at several companies undergoing transformations that unlocked significant value. He’s currently chair of two companies: Aptiv, a supplier of auto parts and technology, and Avantor, a manufacturer of specialty materials and equipment for the health care industry. With BCG, Raj is diligent about driving home to clients and colleagues how transformation success hinges on the boards’ investment in the process – an involvement that starts with picking the right leader.
How the board and the CEO made a decisive difference at Avantor
The story of Avantor is very instructive. A series of acquisitions led to the company’s rapid growth and put the board and leadership team to the test. Founded in 2010, Avantor went through two CEOs in its first few years before the board recruited Michael Stubblefield in the spring of 2014. Stubblefield, in collaboration with the board, moved forward with three transformative initiatives:
• Accelerating growth by pivoting to the attractive biopharma market and increasing R&D investments.
• Enhancing profitability by improving pricing, reducing the product line and scaling back the manufacturing footprint, among other measures.
• Expanding into Europe and Asia to capitalize on scale efficiencies and gain new capabilities.
Within two years, Avantor’s revenue began to grow at double-digit rates, and profit margins doubled. In May 2019 the company went public on the New York Stock Exchange at $14 per share—the largest healthcare IPO in U.S. history. By April 2021 it was trading in the $33 per share range. Avantor’s market capitalization has risen to $19 billion, and the company recently joined the Fortune 500. It also recently announced the acquisition of a German company, Rickett, for over $1 billion to continue its growth trajectory.
Both Stubblefield and the board could rightly celebrate those results. They were due to the leadership of an effective CEO—who was in place because the board took decisive steps to put him in place and collaborate with him.
Five imperatives for board leadership
In reflecting on the Avantor story and others like it, we have identified five board-specific strategic imperatives for companies that know they must transform and do it right:
• Ensure board and executive team alignment. As the Avantor example shows, the board’s critical transformation role begins with ensuring there’s a CEO in place who can question the status quo, and outline a vision for the future and a program to realize it. Selecting a new CEO is the most critical thing the board does. The organization needs someone who is curious and open-minded—who listens to and engages with the board, communicates candidly and does not feel like they already have all the answers.
BCG research shows that new CEOs tend to have better long-term results in transformations, measured by long-term total shareholder returns. But missteps are possible—those companies also show a bigger spread between winners and losers. Boards sometimes hire the wrong CEO—in those cases, it is important not to linger, but to fix the problem and move on.
• Focus on execution. Once the CEO is in place and the CEO and board are aligned, the board can help the leadership team execute by setting priorities. Some organizations have 30 or more initiatives running at the same time. Each may be worthy in its own right, but senior leaders cannot possibly focus on such a broad mandate. Companies must narrow down the list of strategic priorities to the three or four that are most important and then allocate the capital, talent and other resources needed to succeed.
Boards should also work with leaders to track results, with clear metrics and a timeline of key milestones and objectives. Reporting needs to happen more often than either the leadership team or the board might really want—because it pays off. Leaders need to see results weekly—or even daily in some cases. Many did this as part of their Covid-19 response; it needs to be an everyday practice.
The truth counts, too. Tracking and reporting are useless without candor. A culture of truth-telling needs the board’s backing.
• Actively manage the portfolio. Growth doesn’t come from doing the same thing more efficiently. It happens when the company identifies promising markets to exploit—and exits unpromising ones. Simplifying the portfolio, focusing on different customer segments or geographies, adopting a new business model or selling off business units are all part of the picture. The chances of success go up when boards, CEOs and leadership teams are aligned on portfolio decisions.
• Identify and mitigate risks. A transformation rarely plays out according to plan, so it will likely be necessary to pivot at key junctures while reassuring stakeholders, including investors. During the transformation, the board should work with management to mitigate risk by keeping the process on track. Post transformation, the board needs to understand the company’s new risk profile and ensure that leaders are taking on—and addressing—manageable risk.
• Engage key stakeholders. Transformations require a consistent vision, clear messages and the willingness to ride out short-term disruptions. When disruptions happen, analysts, investors, employees and other constituents may have their faith shaken—unless the board and the leadership team can reassure them and re-focus them on long-term objectives. Transformation is not a straight-line journey, and there is no single path.
Finally, as transformation efforts increasingly encompass environmental social, and governance factors and metrics, it falls to the board to make sure they’re a priority – and to make the case to investors that such farther-reaching metrics as total societal impact are a better lens for strategy than, say, total shareholder return (TSR).
As shown by Avantor—and other transformations that really worked—transformation is never going to be easy. But boards can and should play an active role that makes the process more effective. By following key principles, boards can effectively partner with management teams and flip the odds of a successful transformation decisively in a company’s favor. | <urn:uuid:9ed97000-e24c-4530-97e9-9f7e1b666ed1> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://boardmember.com/successful-transformation-demands-a-hands-on-board/ | 2024-04-21T22:24:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817819.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421194551-20240421224551-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.959085 | 1,558 |
Rebag, the ultimate destination for buying and selling the most coveted designer handbags, accessories, shoes and apparel, is an e-commerce company reimagining the role of luxury in the second-hand market. Rebag has opened a world of endless access to luxury, with a unique business model that puts the seller first, offers upfront payment, and makes the resale experience smooth and clutter-free.
Since its inception, Rebag has catered to a rapidly growing segment of consumers who are exploring ownership of luxury goods in a sustainable and affordable way. The company operates online and in stores, with locations in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, and Connecticut. Founded in 2014 by a team out of Harvard Business School, Rebag is backed by prestigious venture capital investors including General Catalyst, Novator, Crosslink and FJLabs, and has raised over $100m in funding to date. In 2020, Rebag was named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies. Rebag has been featured in the New York Times, Business of Fashion, VOGUE, TechCrunch and more.
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We have all seen the headlines; poverty, unemployment, state sanctioned violence, and unjust taxation has moved thousands of Colombians to rebel against the national government. The country is currently battling a dramatic resurgence of the COVID-19 virus, yet the rebellion persists. The national strike has left 19 dead (5/6/21 update: 24 dead 87 missing), and more than 700 wounded. So, what is happening in Colombia?
It was late on May 2, 2021, when tens of thousands of people, watching an Instagram Live from Cali, Colombia, saw Nicolás Guerrero killed by a gunshot to his head. Horror and despair invaded the scene. Nicolás was just one man in a small crowd gathered for a peaceful sit-in to commemorate the fallen protestors from the national strike that started on April 28th. People next to him tried to help, but Nicolás did not make it to the hospital. He was 21, and according to several eye-witnesses who talked to the media, the bullet that killed him was shot by a cop.
Nicolás’ case is not isolated. According to the ombudsman office, at least 19 people have been killed in Colombia since the rebellion started, the vast majority by police-violence. The show of force by the people is the direct response to what many consider a warmonger government led by Iván Duque since 2018. Duque is a young politician who became president after four years in the Senate, and a few more as a pupil of twenty-years in power and far-right politician, Alvaro Uribe Velez. His crimes against humanity from those two decades are often overlooked by global media because Colombia is one of the United States’ closest allies in South America.
The current uprising was born on April 15, 2021, when Duque’s Minister of Finance, Alberto Carrasquilla, presented a third tax reform project to Congress since the administration took office. The project included increasing taxes on groceries, gas, the income of pensioners, and other instances that directly affect the middle and lower classes of Colombia. This is in a country, where due to the pandemic, the unemployment rate increased to 15.9 percent (10.5 percent in 2019) and monetary poverty rose to 42.5 percent, (35.7 percent in 2019), according to the National Department of Statistics (DANE).
The third tax reform proposal was the tipping point after a year of lockdowns and simmering rage against the government. Colombia was already the second country (right behind Brazil) in South America with the highest rates of mortality from COVID-19, and almost the last to get an (inadequate) vaccine program rolled out to the people. On top of that, more than 60 massacres were documented in the country in 2020, and more than 57 social leaders have already been killed in 2021.
There is a war going on in Colombia and the people are fighting back. Police abuse has been out of control in Colombia for some time, leaving consequences like the assassination of Anderson Arboleda, a young Black man who was beaten to death for violating the quarantine. Therefore, when the government presented the tax reform project, the National Unitary Command was ready and almost immediately called for a national strike.
According to the campaign Defender la libertad, on April 28th, during the first day of the rebellion, 49 people were injured, 73 were arrested, and four were allegedly murdered amid severe actions of repression by the police in 10 cities around the country. The president, however, said that he would not remove the tax reform project. And on the fourth day of the strike, Duque ordered the army “to recover control of the streets” and militarize the cities.
Some Colombian Mayors declined the order like in Bogota and Medellín. But in Cali, the epicenter of the mobilization, the battle flared. One day after Nicolás Guerrero was killed, and right after the truck drivers joined the national strike and shut down the national transportation (and the economy for a few hours), Duque finally removed the tax reform project from Congress. On Monday, Iván Duque informed Colombians that they were going to revise the proposal with the leaders of the strike, and that he had accepted Minister of Finance Alberto Carrasquilla’s letter of resignation.
Even though the episode was celebrated as a triumph of mobilization, the strike continues. The National Strike Committee has called for a massive demonstration on May 5th, and has demanded the government demilitarize the cities, end the massacres, dismantle the Esmad (the Riot Police), and immediately expand the mass vaccination program. The people of Colombia will not be silenced. The world is watching. | <urn:uuid:28f378ce-1df9-4f6e-b39d-7d18b76fafa4> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://boycottx.org/rebellion-continues-in-colombia/ | 2024-04-21T20:00:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817819.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421194551-20240421224551-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.975516 | 970 |
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Summary of Jody’s Fawn
This is Jody’s Fawn by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is a touching story which revolves around a little boy, Jody. He feels other people’s pain and he has a pure heart. One day, his father was bitten by a snake and Jody set off to the forest to kill deer with their hearts and livers so he could save his father from dying. He succeeds in saving his dad’s life but the doe passes away leaving her fawn alone in the dense forest.
Whenever Jody thinks about the little fawn in the forest, he feels bad because he killed its mother. He is worried that it will die too. So, finally, he decides to bring it to his house. He talks with his dad about this decision and they both agree to look after the fawn. They ask Jody’s mom for permission before bringing it home though.
Jody’s mother is surprised when he tells her that he found a fawn. But Jody tries to convince her and says it would not be wise to leave the fawn in the forest, because if we do not feed it, it will starve. But Dr. Wilson supports him and convinces his mom that we need to take care of the fawn. Meanwhile, Dr. Wilson tells Jody that we need to be careful when taking care of the fawn at home because it might get hurt and die again if we’re not careful enough with how we’re handling it while bringing it home. He promises his milk to the fawn and promises to care for it. His mom says he should come back soon and his dad says that the spots on a fawn’s body are in different directions. Jody leaves with Mill-wheel who offers him a ride on his horse.
Jody is dropped in the forest by a Mill-wheel. He wanders around the woods, gets scratched up on some thorny bushes, and finds a fawn. Then he brings it home with him, giving it some milk. His parents are happy about this because they were worried about the hungry fawn before Jody found it.
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NCERT Solutions of This is Jody’s Fawn
Comprehension Check (Page 89)
Question 1: What had happened to Jody’s father?
Answer: Jody’s father was stung by a rattlesnake.
Question 2: How did the doe save Penny’s life?
Answer: When Penny was bitten by a snake. He found a deer and killed it to use its heart and liver to get the poison out.
Question 3: Why does Jody want to bring the fawn home?
Answer: Jody thinks he can bring home the fawn. His father needs a new heart and liver, but the mother was killed for parts of its body. The fawn becomes an orphan and Jody does not want to leave it alone to die from starvation. He wonders if he can bring the fawn home and give it food that it would like to eat.
Question 4: How does Jody know that the fawn is a male?
Answer: Jody’s father, Penny told him that males have spots in lines. This helped Jody know how to tell the difference between a male and female fawn.
Comprehension Check (Page 90)
Question 1: Jody didn’t want Mill-wheel with him for two reasons. What were they?
Answer: Jody did not want Mill-wheel with him because if the fawn was dead or couldn’t be found, he didn’t want Mill-wheel to see his disappointment. Secondly, if the fawn were alive, it would be so beautiful and secret that he could not bear to share it with anyone else.
Question 2: Why was Mill-wheel afraid to leave Jody alone?
Answer: Mill-wheel was afraid to leave Jody alone because he thought that Jody might get lost in the woods or he could even get bitten by a rattlesnake.
Comprehension Check (Page 93)
Question 1: How did Jody bring the fawn back home?
Answer: Jody tried his best not to scare the fawn away. He first stroked its neck and he wrapped his hands around it. Then, he picked up the little fawn and walked through the forest. He did this to protect its face from the sharp vines. When he became tired, Jody stopped by on his way home and took some rest. Suddenly, he remembered something that his father said: if a fawn would be carried for a while before being taken away from its mother, it would follow you after it had been carried for some time too. He put the fawn down for a while. The little deer refused to follow him at first, but he carried it on his arms and it slowly followed him. When they reached home, the fawn was too tired to climb the stairs on its own. So Jody picked up the little deer on his arms and took it inside his house.
Question 2: Jody was filled with emotion after he found the fawn. Can you find at least three words or phrases which show how he felt?
Answer: Jody’s mind was full of emotions when he saw the fawn. When he stroked the neck, it made him feel delirious. The fawn looked up at him and Jody felt very happy. Finally, when Jody brought the deer home to Penny, it seemed that his eyes were as bright as the deer’s.
Question 3: How did the deer drink milk from the gourd?
Answer: Jody poured milk into a small gourd and kept it in front of the fawn. The deer smelled the milk but couldn’t figure out how to drink from it. So Jody was careful not to spill any on the floor as he slowly gave the deer some. And after awhile, it started drinking from his hand as he dipped his fingers in the milk and put them into its mouth.
Question 4: Why didn’t the fawn follow Jody up the steps as he had thought it would?
Answer: As the fawn is a wild animal, it does not know how to go up stairs in a house. So when it went inside Jody’s house, it could not follow him up the stairs or drink the milk in his gourd. The fawn did not know what to do when it was in an unfamiliar situation.
Working with the text (Page 93)
Question 1: Why did Penny Baxter allow Jody to go find the fawn and raise it?
Answer: Penny Baxter let Jody find a fawn and take it home with him because he felt guilty for taking away the mother of the fawn. It was used to cure his snake bite. Penny agreed when Jody asked if they could raise the deer who had been taken from its mother without its fault.
Question 2: What did Doc Wilson mean when he said, “Nothing in the world ever comes quite free”?
Answer: Penny killed the doe to save himself but he felt bad. There was a fawn that was going to starve. Penny wanted the fawn to be taken care of so he said yes when Jody asked if they could take it home. When this happened, Doc Wilson said that Penny and Jody were both right because nothing is free in life!
Question 3: How did Jody look after the fawn, after he accepted the responsibility for doing this?
Answer: Jody took good care of the fawn. When he found it, he would gently stroke its neck and wrap his hands on its neck. He carried the little deer when they left the forest. He let it come with him up to his home and carried it up the stairs to his house. When the deer first tried to drink milk from the gourd, it didn’t know what to do. But then he started drinking when Jody dipped his fingers in the milk and put them into the fawn’s mouth.
Question 4: How does Jody’s mother react when she hears that he is going to bring the fawn home? Why does she react in this way?
Answer: Jody’s mother was surprised when she heard that Jody wanted to bring home the young deer. But then she knew that the doe that saved Penny’s life was this little deer’s mother. And then she said that they couldn’t get a wild animal at home.
Working with language (Page 93-95)
Question 1: Look at these pairs of sentences.
Penny said to Jody, “Will you be back before dinner?”
Penny asked Jody if he would be back before dinner.
“How are you feeling, Pa?” asked Jody.
Jody asked his father how he was feeling.
Here are some questions in direct speech. Put them into reported speech.
(i) Penny said, “Do you really want it son?”
(ii) Mill-wheel said, “Will he ride back with me?”
(iii) He said to Mill-wheel, “Do you think the fawn is still there?”
(iv) He asked Mill-wheel, “Will you help me find him?”
(v) He said, “Was it up here that Pa got bitten by the snake?”
(i) Penny asked his son if he really wanted the fawn.
(ii) Mill-wheel asked if Jody would ride back with him.
(iii) Jody asked Mill-wheel if he thought the fawn was still there.
(iv) Jody asked Mill-wheel if he would help him find the fawn.
(v) Jody asked Mill-wheel if it was up there that Pa got bitten by the snake.
Question 2: Look at these two sentences.
He tumbled backward.
It turned its head.
The first sentence has an intransitive verb, a verb without an object.
The second sentence has a transitive verb. It has a direct object. We can ask: “What did it turn?” You can answer: “Its head. It turned its head.”
Say whether the verb in each sentence below transitive or intransitive. Ask yourself a ‘what’ question about the verb, as in the example above. (For some verbs, the object is a person, so ask the question ‘who’ instead of ‘what’).
(i) Jody then went to the kitchen.
(ii) The fawn wobbled after him.
(iii) You found him.
(iv) He picked it up.
(v) He dipped his fingers in the milk.
(vi) It bleated frantically and butted him.
(vii) The fawn sucked his fingers.
(viii) He lowered his fingers slowly into the milk.
(ix) It stamped its small hoofs impatiently.
(x) He held his fingers below the level of the milk.
(xi) The fawn followed him.
(xii) He walked all day.
(xiii) He stroked its sides.
(xiv) The fawn lifted its nose.
(xv) Its legs hung limply.
(i) Jody then went to the kitchen. – Intransitive
(ii) The fawn wobbled after him. – Intransitive
(iii) You found him. – Transitive
(iv) He picked it up. – Transitive
(v) He dipped his fingers in the milk. – Transitive
(vi) It bleated frantically and butted him. – Intransitive, Transitive
(vii) The fawn sucked his fingers. – Transitive
(viii) He lowered his fingers slowly into the milk. – Transitive
(ix) It stamped its small hoofs impatiently. – Transitive
(x) He held his fingers below the level of the milk. – Transitive
(xi) The fawn followed him. – Transitive
(xii) He walked all day. – Intransitive
(xiii) He stroked its sides. – Transitive
(xiv) The fawn lifted its nose. – Transitive
(xv) Its legs hung limply. – Intransitive
Question 3: Here are some words from the lesson. Working in groups, arrange them in the order in which they would appear in the dictionary. Write down some idioms and phrasal verbs connected to these words. Use the dictionary for more idioms and phrasal verbs.
Answer: The words would appear in the following sequential order when arranged properly:
Some idioms and phrasal verbs connected to these words are listed below:
Clearing: clearing out, clearing the air, clearing off.
Close: a close shave, a close thing, a close call.
Draw: draw a blank, draw a line, draw interest.
Light: a light heart, bring to light, a guiding light.
Make: make a last-ditch effort, make a pass, make up your mind.
Parted: part with, parting of the ways, part and parcel.
Pick: pick out, pick at, take your pick.
Scrawny: scrawny thin, scrawny neck, scrawny persona.
Sweet: sweet tooth, sweet sixteen, sweet-speaking.
Wonder: little wonder, a nine days’ wonder, do wonders.
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Supposedly actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson has “reportedly been offered a license to kill and succeed Daniel Craig as the new James Bond.”
I have not followed his career. As various trips around the sun have determined, I have become like my father. I sit on the porch and yell at kids to get off my lawn and complain about the lack of quality movies like those I grew up with. Don’t get me started on music!
However, I did see him in the movie “Bullet Train” with Brad Pitt. He was good… very good. I was a fan of Daniel Craig and can easily see Mr. Taylor-Johnson taking on that role. This isn’t a big leap. So if he truly got the role, BRAVO. The empire is in good hands.
What has caught my attention and truly bugs me is people criticizing his marriage. As Salon wrote “despite their 12-year marriage and the birth of two daughters, their 23-year age gap continues to be tabloid fodder, with online speculation centered on allegations of Aaron being groomed. This endless rumor mill, including gossip about cheating, has prompted the actor to address the fascination with his relationship.”
People, focus on your own relationships. Seriously. They’ve been married for 12 years and have two kids. He’s baffled by the attention, and rightfully so. I’m trying to think of a good retort that isn’t ‘FU’ to these busybodies on his behalf. So, after searching for an appropriate PG term, I’ll just quote America’s great poet, Bart Simpson: ‘Eat my shorts.’ Literally to you busybodies, ‘literally eat my shorts,’ or as they say in the South, ‘kiss my grits.’
Leave this family alone.
PS – By the way, Idris Elba or Henry Cavill would have been great as well.
Why Does Haiti Matter?
There are many reasons why the dystopian nightmare in Haiti matters. Let me just point out one reason: proximity.
Haiti is 689 miles from Miami — thanks Google!
Haiti is 1,406 miles from Washington, DC.
Phoenix, where Sam Stone and I tape BreakingBattelgrounds.vote, is 2,301 miles from Washington, DC.
Proximity matters. While you may believe that Ukraine isn’t our problem and consider it a NATO or European Union issue due to its distance, Haiti is in our backyard. Approximately 90% of Port-au-Prince is controlled by gangs.
There are 9,000 police officers in Haiti (probably overestimated) and 200 gangs. Let’s give each gang 100 members each. That is 20,000 gang members vs 9,000 cops.
Folks, if you’re a Haitian parent, you’re either going to or seriously considering high tailing it out of Haiti. So if they want to escape this true hellhole, they can either take the path to Miami by sea, or if they can get out of Haiti via flight or boat to South America or the Northern Triangle and come across the Texas, Arizona, or California border. I do not know if you have seen the news, but our Southern Border is a sieve (conservative description). No, it is frankly a fire hose, contrary to what Biden’s Delusion Team tries to sell the press and voters. This Haitian crisis does not make the Southern Border crisis any better – it will make it worse. And in Arizona, we can tell you affirmatively, the border situation is bad. Very, very bad.
There are approximately 11 million people in Haiti. That is a lot of folks thinking about coming to America because they do not see other options.
Haiti matters. Get up to speed on it.
And probably time to reconsider making the Monroe Doctrine part of our foreign policy and national security.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says the worst is yet to come for the spike in coronavirus cases in New York City.
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Blown-in fiberglass insulation, or loose-fill insulation, is composed of pulled-apart bits of fiberglass.
It is blown or sprayed into place with pneumatic equipment and is ideal for use in hard-to-reach areas, such as attics. It can also be used to fill wall cavities and installed over existing insulation.
Fiberglass is blown into attics, nonconforming spaces, and hard-to-reach areas, like corners, edges, and around framing. When applied to the recommended thickness and specifications, you can be assured that your home is energy efficient with minimal heat loss.
Unlike other insulations, it won’t settle, decay, or provide food for animals or microbes. It’s effective for the life of your home.
How Does Blown Fiberglass Insulation Work?
Blown fiberglass insulation insulates hard-to-reach spaces and fills gaps with ease.
It slows down the loss of your home’s natural comfort by greatly reducing the flow of moisture, heat, and sound through its walls, reducing reliance on artificial means of comfort like heating and air conditioning units.
Blown fiberglass insulation is especially prudent for attics since its R-value of 3.4 per inch helps keep your home naturally insulated from the top down. It also fights fungus and mold growth since the glass itself is moisture-resistant.
Fiberglass Is Also Delivery-Efficient
Since fiberglass insulation is blown into the spaces it needs to fill, attics and other areas of your home with little headroom become easier to insulate.
This makes our job easier, but it also makes your life as a homeowner more convenient: you won’t have to worry about small gaps and hard-to-reach places being improperly insulated.
You can also apply fiberglass insulation over existing insulation, removing the need to spend more money on insulation removal.
Applications for Blown Fiberglass Insulation
Attics: Can be installed up to R-70 over 1⁄2″(13mm) ceiling drywall without exceeding ceiling weight limits.
Nonconforming spaces: Insulation sprays out of the hose several feet, filling in large areas and small gaps quickly and completely.
Walls: Holes are drilled and filled with blown fiberglass, then plugged and patched.
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CHAELES HAERTLING AND 440 SEVEN HILLS DRIVE: THE CONLIN HOUSE
Charles Haertling designed homes reflecting an eclectic mix of different architectural styles and philosophies, incorporating elements of modernism and organic architecture, and drawing the outdoors in. Haertling often made efforts to harmoniously integrate his buildings with their physical environments and The Conlin House is a true reflection of this philosophy. You can check out our exlusive listing of the home here here.
Built in 1967 by famed architect Charles Haertling, “The Conlin House” is just 5 minutes from Boulder nestled peacefully and privately among towering pines and large granite outcroppings in the coveted Seven Hills of Sunshine Canyon.
Notes On Conlin House Design by Joel Haertling:
“The Conlin residence is located just west of Boulder in the foothills. The house appears to point upward from below, due in part to a very high balcony on the front. The foundation is a pedestal, incorporating drastic overhangs that create a hovering effect. A model illustrates the cantilevered design. A different model photograph also shows the top of house.
Giant wood beams uphold the towering cathedral ceilings in this glass tiered multi-level home. The spiral staircase at the center of the home organically connects all levels and offers a delightful juxtaposition to the prevailing geometric lines seen throughout. While peering out the three storied windows at beautiful blue skies, soaring pine trees, granite boulders, and the city of Boulder below, one feels to inhabit their very own luxurious tree house. A large deck built right into the mountainside provides outdoor living space and a chance to unwind in a private hot tub with views.
The tiered design of the home allows spectacular natural light to flow and permits a feeling of grandeur and openness. Each tier is open to the one below and thoughtful design features like glass panel railings and a climbing wall from the first tier to the third help to visually and physically connect the spaces.
Past stewards of this historical home have made thoughtful and respectful updates over the years. In 1983 a lovely earth-sheltered adobe sunroom was built just below and totally out of view from the main house. The cozy guest house boasts built-in seating, a private deck with views, a wood burning fireplace, and spectacular overhead atrium windows which allow stargazing from bed.
In 1988 an earth covered 2-car garage with ample storage was added to the property. In 2015 an interior remodel brought Haertling’s design up-to-date while honoring his initial vision and leaving behind era-specific details like the beautiful original wood burning stove and custom light fixtures.
The main level consists of a mudroom area, laundry room with LG appliances, the spectacular and sprawling sun-filled living room with sweeping views, a wood burning fireplace, separate seating area with two story windows and built-in shelving, a large wet bar area, and an updated ¾ bathroom.
The second level features a spacious lofted dining area that capitalizes on views through glass panelled railings. The kitchen which features a quartz island and a full wall of windows opens to a large deck and private hot tub surrounded by towering granite boulders. A full bathroom, two bedrooms, and ample storage for either kitchen supplies or linens also occupy the second level. One bedroom features a lofted playspace with custom-built ladders and a play swing which can easily be removed. The other bedroom provides spectacular views through two walls of floor to ceiling windows. Both bedrooms have closets with built-in shelving.
The third level serves as an all encompassing primary suite. The primary bedroom features a wall of windows overlooking granite boulders protruding from the mountainside, a built-in platform bed, cork floors, skylights, and storage closet. Relax under the luxury rain shower while bathing in the sunlight that streams through the skylights in the updated primary bathroom. Situated just steps from the bedroom and bathroom is a separate walk-in his and hers closet. Also on this level is a spacious office with vaulted ceilings, two walls of floor to ceiling windows overlooking Boulder, and lofted access to the lower levels by the climbing wall, which starts on the first tier.
This home offers the privacy and peace of mountain living just moments from Boulder. The thoughtful and integrative design, one-of-a-kind architectural details, and historical narrative behind this spectacular home offers a unique and coveted opportunity.
440 Seven Hills Timeline
- Built 1967
- Sold in 1974
- Sold in 1979
- Adobe sunroom built in 1983
- Changed hands in same family in 1984
- Garge built in 1988
- Sold in 1990
- Sold in 2015
- Renovations in 2015
The Original Owners
→ Charles Haertling built 440 Seven Hills for James E. Conlin & Sharon Conlin in 1967.
→ James and Charles likely met while they were both working for the University of Colorado.
→ In 1974 the Conlins sold the home to travel the world. They eventually settled down in New Zealand where they lived for a year.
→ In 1977 the Conlins moved back to Colorado and opened the Lickskillet Cafe in Gold Hill. Sharon still lives in Gold Hill today.
Each commission Haertling received involved in-depth interviews with the client to determine their particular needs. The personality of the client factored in greatly in the final resulting design. Even the children in families had their input in the process.
“The building has my signature, but if I kept my clients at arms length, all my buildings would look the same.”
Haertling also wanted his work to contribute to the fabric of the city and to enhance the image and spirit of Boulder. To this end he strove to make the work progressive, innovative and exciting, representing the artistic and ruggedly individualistic nature of the community, and reflecting the physical environment, both earth and sky.
Other Famous Haertling Homes In Boulder
Charles Haertling in front of “The Aspen Leaf House,” his final work. The home features a flared copper roof, and offers a stunning view of the surrounding mountains and hills. 52 Boulder View Ln, Boulder, Colorado.
The Brenton House which is sometimes referred to as the “Mushroom House” was actually was inspired by the organic shape of barnacles and was built at 3752 Wonderland Hill, Boulder, CO
During his Navy years Haertling spent a lot of time chipping barnacles from ships’ hulls. A barnacle is a crustacean that attaches itself to a submerged object and then forms a hard curvilinear encrustation around itself. In the late 1960s the barnacle form was to be the inspiration for a house he designed for Dr. Stanley Brenton and his family. A sketch shows the barnacle influence.
The Brentons selected a beautiful site in Wonderland Hills subdivision directly above a lake with views of the mountains and sunset to the west, downtown Boulder and high noon to the south, and the plains and sunrise to the east. For two years they worked with Haertling on a design, often sitting on the site with the Brentons and talking about family, life, art and music.
This home became well-known thanks to Woody Allen briefly featuring it in the 1973 sci-fi spoof Sleeper.
You can read more about the Brenton House here.
The former Boulder Eye Clinic at 2401 North Broadway. Haertling’s original plan was based on the shape of the eye with the entry naturally at the cornea and suites of offices and exam rooms along each side.
Further Reading On Charles Haertling
- Joel Haertling’s Website on His Father’s Work
- Curbed.com Article by Patrick Sisson
- BizWest Article on Haertling Homes in Boulder
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Fort Collins, Greeley and Colorado Springs will outpace metro Denver in upcoming growth.
El Paso County, home to Colorado Springs, will gain 410,163 residents, a 58.6 percent increase that pushes its share of the state population from 12.8 percent to 13.1 percent by 2050.
Over the next 15 years, Denver and El Paso counties are expected to swap bragging rights for the state’s most populated, until El Paso finally pulls ahead of Denver, Cindy DeGroen, the state’s projections demographer, told the annual demography summit Friday in Brighton.
To the degree that communities with jobs fail to provide housing that lines up with the wages those jobs pay, people will commute.
“High housing costs put people in a pinch,” said Chris Akers, the chief economist with the demography office. “If earnings are the same, people may look at lower-cost areas.”
Outside the Front Range, the Western Slope’s share of the state population will rise from 10.3 percent to 11.1 percent of the total. But pretty much every other area, including the central mountain resorts, the Eastern Plains and the San Luis Valley, will lose share.
The Western Slope’s increased share will result from the addition of 378,697 people, which translates to a 67.2 percent gain in population.
Archuleta, Dolores, La Plata, Montezuma and San Juan counties in the state’s southwest corner, will see the strongest population gains on the Western Slope through 2050, at 78.1 percent, followed by a 70.9 percent gain in Delta, Montrose, Gunnison, San Miguel, Ouray and Hinsdale counties.
About a third of Colorado counties have lost population since 2010 and a third are now experiencing more deaths than births, DeGroen said. Looking forward, large swaths of southeastern Colorado are expected to lose population through 2050.
Those include Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero, and Prowers counties, as well as Huerfano and Las Animas counties near the New Mexico border.
Over time, the state’s average rate of population growth will drop from roughly 1.6 percent a year through 2030 to a much slower 0.8 percent pace between 2045 and 2050.
Births minus deaths, or the natural rate of population, will fall to 1970 levels as a big demographic bulge of older adults dies off. Between 2030 and 2050, Jefferson County will see more residents die than are born each year, DeGroen said.
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