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Governments were forced to adopt better policies because labor and capital had significant ability to cross borders in search of less oppression.
But that began to change several hundred years ago. Europe experienced the enlightenment and industrial revolution while the empires of Asia languished.
What accounts for this dramatic shift?
I’m not going to pretend there’s a single explanation, but part of the answer is that Europe benefited from decentralization and jurisdictional competition. More specifically, governments were forced to adopt better policies because labor and capital had significant ability to cross borders in search of less oppression.
I’m certainly a big fan of making governments compete with each other, but even I didn’t realize how jurisdictional rivalry gave us modernity.
But you don’t have to believe me. This topic was discussed by Professor Roland Vaubel at last week’s Mont Pelerin Society meeting. Here are some excerpts from one of Professor Vaubel’s papers on the topic.
…competition among the public institutions of different countries can benefit from an international competitive order which preserves peace and prevents governments from colluding with each other at the expense of third parties, notably their citizens.
This post will have lots of additional excerpts, but if you’re not as excited by the issue as I am, just take a moment to review this table from Vaubel’s paper (click it for a larger image). You will see that the intellectual history of this issue is enormous, and the common theme is that big, centralized states hinder development.
Remember that this table merely looks at the classical thinkers on the issue. The paper also includes modern thinkers, some of who are quoted below. And I also have a postscript that shows how many Nobel Prize-winning economists see jurisdictional competition as a tool for restraining excessive government.
But let’s see what insights we can find from the great thinkers of history, starting with this passage from Charles Montesquieu that Vaubel cites in his paper.
In Europe, the natural divisions form many medium-sized states in which the government of laws is not incompatible with the maintenance of the state; on the other hand, they are so favourable to this that without laws this state falls into decadence and becomes inferior to all the others. This is what has formed a genius for liberty, which makes it very difficult to subjugate each part and to put it under a foreign force other than by laws and by what is useful to its commerce… princes have had to govern themselves more wisely than they themselves would have thought, for it turned out that great acts of authority were so clumsy that experience itself has made known that only goodness of government brings prosperity.
In other words, the mobility of capital among jurisdictions limits government interference.
The father of economics, Adam Smith, made a very similar point. Here’s a passage from the Wealth of Nations that Vaubel includes in his paper.
The … proprietor of stock is properly a citizen of the world and is not necessarily attached to any particular country. He would be apt to abandon the country in which he is exposed to a vexatious inquisition in order to be assessed a burdensome tax and would remove his stock to some country where he could either carry on his business or enjoy his fortune at ease. A tax that tended to drive away stock from a particular country would so far tend to dry up every source of revenue both to the sovereign and society … The nations, accordingly, who have attempted to tax the revenue arising from stock, instead of any severe inquisition … have been obliged to content themselves with some very loose and, therefore, more or less arbitrary estimation. The abuses which sometimes creep into the local and provincial administration of a local or provincial revenue, however enormous so ever they may appear, are in reality, however, almost always very trifling in comparison with those which commonly take place in the administration and expenditure of the revenue of a great empire.
Jacques Turgot (Bastiat was not the only great French economist) looked at the new nation of the United States and saw the benefits of jurisdictional competition.
The asylum which (the American people) opens to the oppressed of all nations must console the earth. The ease with which it will now be possible to take advantage of this situation, and thus to escape from the consequences of a bad government, will oblige the European governments to be just and enlightened
And Immanuel Kant observed.
…civil liberty cannot now be easily assailed without inflicting such damage as will be felt in all trades and industries and especially in commerce; and this would entail a diminution of the powers of the state in external relations. This liberty, moreover, gradually advances further. But if the citizen is hindered in seeking his prosperity in any way suitable to himself that is consistent with the liberty of others, the activity of business is checked generally; and thereby the powers of the whole state are again weakened.
Kant expanded on this notion in another publication.
…peace is created and guaranteed by an equilibrium of forces and a most vigorous rivalry. Thus, nature wisely separates the nations.
Professor Vaubel remarked that, “In other words, Kant prefers interjurisdictional anarchy to centralised despotism.”
Lord Acton also noted the dangers of centralization.
…the distribution of power among several states is the best check on democracy. By multiplying centres of government and discussion it promotes the diffusion of political knowledge and the maintenance of healthy and independent opinion. It is the protectorate of minorities and the consecration of self-government. …It is bad to be oppressed by a minority but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
Max Weber wrote.
The competitive struggle (among the European nation states) created the largest opportunities for modern western capitalism. The separate states had to compete for mobile capital, which dictated to them the conditions under which it would assist them to power.
Weber’s comments are significant from a terminological perspective. As Vaubel noted in his paper, “This is the first time that we find the economic term “competition” rather than jealousy (Hume) or rivalry (Kant) or emulation (Gibbon) in this literature.”
From Eric Jones.
…how did Europeans escape crippling exploitation by their rulers? … The rulers of the relatively small European states learned that by supplying the services of order and adjudication they could attract and retain the most and best-paying constituents …European kings were never as absolute as they wished. The power dispersed among the great proprietors was a check on them, as was the rising power of the market.
Harold Berman of Harvard wrote.
In the Western legal tradition diverse jurisdictions and diverse legal systems coexist and compete within the same community. … The pluralism of Western law was a source of legal sophistication and of legal growth. It was also a source of freedom.
Brian Tierny noted that rivalry between church and state also helped advance liberty.
In the Middle Ages there was never just one hierarchy of government exercising absolute authority but always two – church and state to use the language of a later age – often contending with one another, each limiting the other’s power” (1995, p. 66). “Since, in the conflicts between church and state, each side always sought to limit the power of the other, the situation encouraged theories of resistance to tyranny and constitutional limitations on government.
Here are some additional quotes from more modern academics, all taken directly from Professor Vaubel’s paper.
- “In the West, the absence of an empire removed the crucial bureaucratic block on the development of market forces; merchants persecuted in one place could always go with their capital elsewhere” (John A. Hall 1985, p. 102).
- “The paradox is that competition between states, economic and political rivalry, and international tension are the best guarantees of continuing progress … The very tension which presents the greatest threat to our survival assures that, if we survive at all, some states, in order to compete better, will be obliged to encourage intellectual freedom and progress” (Daniel Chirot 1986, p. 296).
- “Competition among the political leaders of the newly emerging nation states … was an important factor in overcoming the inherited distaste of the rural military aristocracy for the new merchant class. Had the merchants been dealing with a political monopoly, they might not have been able to purchase the required freedom of action at a price compatible with the development of trade” (Nathan Rosenberg, L.E. Birdzell 1986, pp. 136ff.).
- “The political and social consequences of this decentralized, largely unsupervised growth of commerce … and markets were of the greatest significance. In the first place, there was no way in which such economic developments could be fully suppressed … There existed no uniform authority in Europe which could effectively halt this or that commercial development; no central government whose change in priorities could cause the rise and fall of a particular industry; no systematic and universal plundering of businessmen and entrepreneurs by tax gatherers … In Europe there were always some princes and local lords willing to tolerate merchants and their ways even when others plundered and expelled them” (Paul Kennedy 1987, pp. 19f.).
- “The availability of alternative nation states for production meant that labour expelled from one nation could find other nations in which to locate, and the possibilities opened for capital mobility could operate as a deterrent to widespread political confiscations” (Stanley L. Engerman 1988, p. 14).
- “Western technological creativity rested on two foundations: a materialistic pragmatism based on the belief that the manipulation of nature in the service of economic welfare was acceptable, indeed, commendable behavior, and the continuous competition between political units for political and economic hegemony” (Joel Mokyr 1990, p. 302).
- “The various European societies complemented one another, and their internal competition gave (Europe) a dynamism that China lacked” (Mokyr 2003, p. 18).
- “Ironically, then, Europe’s great good fortune lay in the fall of Rome and the weakness and division that ensued … The Roman dream of unity, authority, and order (the pax Romana) remained, indeed has persisted to the present. After all, one has usually seen fragmentation as a great misfortune, as a recipe for conflict … And yet, … fragmentation was the strongest brake on wilful, oppressive behaviour. Political rivalry and the right of exit made all the difference” ( David S. Landes 1998, pp. 37f.).
For those interested in the topic, Vaubel’s entire paper is worth reading. But if you don’t have time, just remember that national sovereignty should be celebrated. Not because national governments are good, but because competition between governments is the best protector of liberty and civilization.
I favor tax competition, financial privacy, and fiscal sovereignty because these institutions lead to better tax policy. But Vaubel teaches us that promotion of better tax policy is just the tip of the iceberg.
P.S. Since this post is designed to show the intellectual case for jurisdictional rivalry, here are some quotes from a number of Nobel Prize-winning economists.
Competition among communities offers not obstacles but opportunities to various communities to choose the type and scale of government functions they wish.
…competition among nations tends to produce a race to the top rather than to the bottom by limiting the ability of powerful and voracious groups and politicians in each nation to impose their will at the expense of the interests of the vast majority of their populations.
…tax competition among separate units…is an objective to be sought in its own right.
Competition among national governments in the public services they provide and in the taxes they impose is every bit as productive as competition among individuals or enterprises in the goods and services they offer for sale and the prices at which they offer them.
With apologies to Adam Smith, it’s fair to say that politicians of like mind seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise taxes. This is why international bureaucracies should not be allowed to create tax cartels, which benefit governments at the expense of the people.
[I]t’s kind of a shame that there seems to be developing a kind of tendency for Western Europe to envelope Eastern Europe and require of Eastern Europe that they adopt the same economic institutions and regulations and everything. …We want to have some role models… If all these countries to the East are brought in and homogenized with the Western European members then that opportunity will be lost.
…international competition provided a powerful incentive for other countries to adapt their institutional structures to provide equal incentives for economic growth and the spread of the ‘industrial revolution.’
…while it has always been characteristic of those favouring an increase in governmental powers to support maximum concentration of powers, those mainly concerned with individual liberty have generally advocated decentralisation.
[Tax competition] is a very good thing. …Competition in all forms of government policy is important. That is really the great strength of globalization …tending to force change on the part of the countries that have higher tax and also regulatory and other policies than some of the more innovative countries. …The way to get revenue is doing all you can to encourage growth and wealth creation and then that gives you more income to tax at the lower rate down the road.
In other words, it’s not just me making these arguments.
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Cleary reiterates offshore corporations’ arguments against inshore cod fishery
St. John’s – Today, FISHNL’s Ryan Cleary called into question whether there should be an inshore northern cod fishery. Cleary’s comments (both on VOCM Openline and in a news release) suggest that the cod biomass is not strong enough to warrant a fishery. His ill-informed opinion flies in the face of scientific evidence, backed up by harvesters’ knowledge, which supports an inshore stewardship fishery.
“Cleary’s comments again demonstrate a complete lack of understanding of the fishery,” said Keith Sullivan, President of the Fish, Food and Allied Workers Union (FFAW-Unifor). “This is the exact argument the corporate offshore sector is using in an attempt to push inshore harvesters out of the fishery and get a bigger share of the pie for themselves.”
The current northern cod management plan does not allow for any fishing by offshore corporations. Since FFAW won improvements to the fishery including a longer season with more opportunities for inshore harvesters, offshore corporations have heavily lobbied the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, questioning fisheries science in an attempt to stop the inshore northern cod fishery.
“Harvesters are pleased with the first steps being taken on the road to a new commercial northern cod fishery,” continued Sullivan. “These statements show how disconnected Cleary is from northern cod harvesters who had a very successful season and they expose his lack of knowledge and experience with the fishing industry.” | <urn:uuid:f47bfd2d-0eb2-4dd1-afca-85f7b000ba3b> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://ffaw.ca/cleary-reiterates-offshore-corporations-arguments-inshore-cod-fishery/ | 2024-04-22T22:10:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.945032 | 360 |
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Finds neither betrayed me at that time I lied to him that I had aborted the baby and he was very angry and sad so he broke up with kitty kat sexual pill me I made how to make penis look bigger in pictures Regen Cbd Gummies it myself I have no complaints qian zang sighed in this situation she.
Tasted the feeling of being loved she was greedy for qiao zhanchen s tenderness how to make penis look bigger in pictures but nostalgia is nostalgia and we have to face reality after all just when she was about to answer a gust of wind blew su ruoxing only weighed.
More than ninety kilograms and was suddenly blown to the point of collapse by the wind qian zang quickly stretched out his arms to hug her and continued to persuade her professor su just be obedient and go back to my.
Shadow approached qiao zhanchen couldn t hear what qian zang and su ruoxing were talking about only saw them chattering and now they were still hugging each other he not caring to catch his breath he rushed forward and.
Suppressed the urge to punch and said coldly uncle qian I solemnly introduce to you that this is the wife I am revive ed pills currently marrying su ruoxing as he spoke he lowered his eyes to look at the woman in his arms and ordered in.
The man s wet body qiao zhanchen why are you here I thought she thought that qiao zhanchen could no how to make penis look bigger in pictures longer care about her if I don t come my wife will be kidnapped how to make penis look bigger in pictures qiao zhanchen picked up the blanket and wiped the woman s.
Which was beyond her cognition the qiao zhanchen in the video is so strange isn t it a typical scumbag to talk sweetly to a woman who has only met once the bodyguards finally arrived qiao zhanchen stuffed su ruoxing into the.
After a while qiao zhanchen was holding a bowl of ginger tea was delivered and su ruoxing insisted on drinking it before taking a bath su ruoxing was not used to seeing qiao zhanchen busy hearing that a man has done.
You don t have to wait for me su ruoxing said and entered the room of the three little darlings without looking back qiao zhanchen s eyebrows were furrowed is the woman going to coldly beat him after he took a shower he.
Pushed open the door to the children s bedroom look in through a crack in the door under the orange light su ruoxing was seen nestling beside the children holding a fairy tale book and telling fairy tales in a soft voice.
Fairy tales are too naive so su ruoxing seldom tells bedtime stories to children but the little ones like to hear the voice of mommy and they still listen to it mommy fairy tales are all lies you must not take them.
Old daughter is worried su ruoxing patiently explained to the children the reason why fairy tales can be widely circulated is because the endings in fairy tales are always happy the harder it is to achieve in reality the.
Su ruoxing was about to turn off the lights and lie down when the door was pushed open qiao zhanchen stood at 25mg cbd gummies for sleep the door against the light his face hidden in the dark light dark and unclear aqiu he didn t speak but sneezed su.
Ruoxing thought to herself he had already made ginger tea for her why didn t he drink a bowl of it to ward off the cold qiao zhanchen didn t answer and said hiss again seemingly casually revealing the scars on penguin cbd gummies his arms.
This was when he was escaping today and was scratched by Hempbombs Cbd Gummies how to make penis look bigger in pictures the steel bars on the foundation on his white forearm there was a trail of blood scratches su ruoxing hurriedly approached him why didn t you tell me earlier when you.
Were hurt how did you get hurt qiao zhanchen still didn t speak but sighed su ruoxing looked at him in surprise he had never seen him sigh before why did he suddenly slump today unexpectedly the Family Health Bureau how to make penis look bigger in pictures how to make penis look bigger in pictures bodyguard hiding outside.
The door poked his head in and explained young mistress today the young master insists on picking you up personally home but encountered a landslide on the road fortunately the young master ran fast and was able to escape.
Colder so he wanted to suppress his romantic affair in this playful way without even an explanation after all she couldn t help but ask qiao zhanchen how do you plan to deal with wu xuerong s matter qiao zhanchen never.
Mentioned wu xuerong s matter because he was afraid that su ruoxing would be too shocked severe mood swings he couldn t bear to break her heart but the two always have to face real problems the paternity test report is out.
Qiao zhanchen said in the afternoon apart from being busy doing the paternity test the other thing was to use the video provided by wu xuerong for technical analysis he didn t hide anything and reported everything to su.
After all there is still a trace of hope in her heart hoping that the video is fake now all hope is completely shattered from Family Health Bureau how to make penis look bigger in pictures time to time unsightly scenes of qiao zhanchen and wu xuerong would appear in her mind and she.
Her five fingers hanging by her side nowadays I m sorry three the word is meaningless su ruoxing raised her eyes and looked at the stern faced man what then professor qiao is going to wait for me to initiate divorce qiao.
Ruoxing looked at qiao zhanchen s vow and her expression became trance in the past she really wanted to hear a nice word from his mouth but his mouth seemed to be frozen and his tongue was poisonous every time he opened.
Never be together can give up easily we want to give children a complete family and let them have a happy childhood you believe me I will be able to solve this matter satisfactorily and I will never let you down in the.
Honey every word can speak to her heart and every sentence is what she loves to hear most it is said that men are visual animals but it turns out that women are auditory animals and they like to be dazzled by sweet words.
On qiao zhanchen s arm she hugged a thin quilt and lay down on the sofa go to sleep I m very tired qiao zhan chen had no choice but to hug the woman to the how to make penis look bigger in pictures bed how can I let my wife sleep on the sofa my wife sleeps on the.
Quietly got up and came to the how to make penis look bigger in pictures sofa qiao zhanchen s legs and feet were too long so he lay on the sofa my hair was up my hands and feet had nowhere to rest and I looked very uncomfortable seeing his blanket slipping to the.
Well without you su ruoxing looked back and found that his eyes were still closed like a familiar the sleeping boy is talking in his sleep su ruoxing s heart was full of mixed feelings at the moment but she was filled with.
Comfortable for her petite frame huh where to go qiao zhanchen continued to murmur go to bed and follow me okay after su ruoxing repeated this several times she finally coaxed qiao zhanchen who was in a daze to follow her.
Wife and I bringing a baby I want to be a qualified dad qiao zhanchen pulled su how to make penis look bigger in pictures ruoxing into the bathroom and waited for her to wash up she twisted the hot towels and even picked up a comb to help her comb her hair professor.
T behave like this not to mention this is a special period su ruoxingying s little face is as white as jade it turned green and white and then became angry she roared like a lion from hedong qiao zhanchen how long will.
Face as a result su ruoxing could no longer get angry at him except yelling at him if she criticized him a few Family Health Bureau how to make penis look bigger in pictures more times she would feel that she had wronged him and wronged him qiao zhanchen helps the woman get dressed.
Finally he did not forget to praise it looks good when my wife puts on her sportswear she looks as youthful and energetic as a high school student su ruoxing said she was really sweet why hadn t I discovered before that.
He still had potential in this area since she had washed up and was dressed neatly there was no reason to stay in the bathroom su ruoxing was about to walk out when she saw qiao zhanchen take vita lab cbd gummies off your apron immediately.
Suit as you wear as a couple su ruoxing took a closer look and he really made a sports suit of the same style and color as hers it turned out that qiao zhanchen was wronged su ruoxing apologized then put it on quickly and.
Want don t suppress yourself I can dedicate myself to you at any time who wants you to dedicate me su ruoxing finally understood the lesson the dog man s body was full of dark cells she walked straight out of the bedroom.
And how to make penis look bigger in pictures prepared to have breakfast with the children unexpectedly the children were all gathered around the restaurant su ruoxing asked curiously dabao and erbao little xingchen what happened today why are you so active in.
Looking at the sumptuous breakfast on the table su ruoxing looked at dumbfounded no wonder qiao zhanchen was wearing an apron it turned out that he had come to the kitchen early to have a hard time however he had never.
Indeed the life she dreamed of man is obedient to her shun considerate and caring if the child is smart obedient lively and healthy the family will be very happy if they live a normal life of food rice firewood and salt.
Four hours qiao zhanchen finished breakfast with the woman and child playing ball swimming and building lego with the little ones the family of five enjoyed themselves happily but su ruoxing always felt that something was.
Different today by the way where s the mother in law normally qian qinyin would come out and boss her around to wash the dishes to mop the floor to dry the clothes in short if you don t order her spectrum cbd gummies near me you can t reflect her.
Status as a mother in law I sent someone to take mom to the club to enjoy herself qiao a trace of unnaturalness flashed across zhan chen s expression su ruoxing was strange it s windy and rainy and mother in law is going.
Is unreliable you still have time to have an abortion while the baby is still young wu xuerong listened to every word don t go in wu mushi are you still my sister su ruoxing gave you some ecstasy soup let your elbows lean.
Seriously sister you have to believe that I m an exception professor qiao really likes me even su ruoxing didn t have a chance to listen to his promise to me besides I have professor qiao s child in my belly son can he.
Drinks before how to make penis look bigger in pictures not to mention it wasn t just once for us wu mushi thought about it how to make penis look bigger in pictures Regen Cbd Gummies and said the first time may be considered an accident or caused by drugs but the second and third times are always voluntary right she had no.
Choice but to pretend to be an infernal person and quietly sent a message to su ruoxing to remind her ruoxing I m really sorry my sister how to make penis look bigger in pictures is going to the clubhouse to try to curry favor with your mother in law I can t.
Into a ball wu xuerong was heading to the club right now trying to please her mother in law qian qinyin but her .
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Broken up and the children will definitely not be happy what s more if she saw the picture of qiao zhanchen and wu xuerong s family enjoying themselves she would have an urge to want to die qiao zhanchen found that su.
Ruoxing was in a daze and hugged her from behind but he before he could ask su ruoxing hurriedly broke away from his arms as if being pricked by a hedgehog even su ruoxing herself was stunned and then her eyes turned red it.
Sent away mother in law for me today have you ever thought that mother in law will think that you have forgotten your mother after marrying a daughter in law and will hate me even more oh qiao zhanchen slender touched the.
His hand and stroked the woman s long hair lovingly if you really want me to sleep on the street I will admit it this is your own I said so su ruoxing safe sex pills for couples finally smiled again sure enough money is what can give a woman the.
Mom take a look okay I ll come right away qiao zhanchen hung up the phone and hurried out su ruoxing mom is not feeling well I ll go and see when su ruoxing heard about qian qinyin s physical condition she also became.
Qian qinyin grandma is it okay to beat your legs like this grandma your skin is so tight what brand of skin care products do you use grandma your waist is so thin and your figure is better than our girls in their.
Twenties please female sex pills gas station teach me the secret although qian qinyin usually pointed fingers at su ruoxing and always wanted to be superior to su ruoxing she never thought of supporting her son to find other women but now seeing wu.
Daughter in law she would either dress up and run out to play all day long or she would open how to make penis look bigger in pictures her mouth like a lion and let me when her son bought her this bag or that bag did she earn a penny herself the one in my family is.
Want a daughter in law who is obedient and capable why is it so difficult yes they say that after marrying a wife you forget your mother if we don t choose someone we like daughter in law won t you be mad to death when you.
Getting more and more pleasing to the eye and that su ruoxing isn t that the kind of strong woman they say few mother in laws like their daughter in law in good families she is a strong woman among them a rich lady said.
Afraid that I wouldn t feel comfortable wearing them so I asked the club staff for spare shoes su ruoxing shook her wet trousers in front pure canada cbd gummies Just Cbd Gummies of the club there was stagnant water and she and qiao zhanchen rushed over in order to.
Went to help the woman find shoes at this moment another son of mrs kuo arrived mom are you okay I ve asked the family doctor to rush here the rich lady was very pleasantly cbd gummies for ed at cvs surprised I didn t expect my son to be the most.
Filial son qian qinyin s face suddenly turned bad just now she was confident that her son was definitely the most filial son but she was slapped in the face so quickly wu xuerong was not stupid either he saw qian qinyin s.
How can you make fun of your mother in law s life when qian qinyin heard this his emotions were immediately suppressed pick it up sure enough best cbd sex gummies in her son s heart she was not as good as su ruoxing there is nothing wrong with.
Marrying a daughter in law and forgetting your mother it just so happened that he was the first to arrive the rich son also wanted to make his mother look good mom father was worried about the heavy wind and rain so he.
Ruoxing laughed angrily and rudely said wu xuerong you live by the seaside right it s so wide I m here and everyone hasn t said anything yet but you have a big opinion wu xuerong wanted to take the lead where am I su.
Ruoxing didn t give her a chance to reply he stole the words from her and continued to taunt wu xuerong you you must be good at cooking I see you are quite good at adding fuel how much thc is in cbd gummy bears and vinegar you really hope that the mother in.
Mother in how to make penis look bigger in pictures law is short but they are called other people s mother in law I really don t think of myself as an outsider su ruoxing youhow can I have it wu xue rong was so bullied that he retreated steadily he only had the.
Ruoxing was slightly surprised it was true that she could meet acquaintances wherever she went this lady was also from an interest group she took the opportunity to look at the blood vessels behind kuotai s ears her black.
Will definitely devote my heart and soul to professor su and I will never let such a beautiful hand like professor su do any housework su ruoxing quickly explained I have already get married before she finished speaking.
Will take a step first and the wives will come out for tea next time me too my grandson is waiting I hug I also say goodbye first the rich ladies didn t want to offend su ruoxing so they found excuses to get up and leave.
Wu xuerong s complexion became gloomy and she was so angry that she was so angry she tried every means to please qian qinyin with her pregnancy but su ruoxing didn t do anything and was arrested she restored the situation.
Su ruoxing ignored wu xuerong and walked up to qian qinyin mother in law where are you not dog cbd gummies for calming comfortable let me help you diagnose it forget it it s all old problems qian qinyin also became more talkative is the longevity.
Pill they say really so effective can it really make you look younger the effect is good now qiao s has put it into production I will ask professor qiao to bring a pill to my mother in law to try tomorrow did you make the.
Medicine yes the ancestor of our su family pass on the secret recipe only then did qian qinyin realize that she had really underestimated su ruoxing no wonder her son was so devoted to her at this moment qiao zhanchen.
Police arrived so as not to damage the scene of the crime we are doctors and we hope to go in and see if the injured still have a chance for treatment speaking qiao zhanchen handed out his business card to prove his.
Heart he was no longer alive the face is familiar it should be the secretary of the father in law su ruoxing stepped forward knelt down to take the pulse of the deceased there is no pulse and there is only a wound in the.
Heart by visual inspection qiao zhanchen stretched out his fingertips and opened his mouth the patient s eyelids the pupils were dilated but there was still body temperature indicating that the death occurred no more than.
Su ruoxing wanted to take a closer look but was stopped by qiao zhanchen since the person can t be saved let s go out and wait for the police to come this matter involves the qiao family and father as family members it is.
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Taking notes no one can leave here without permission su ruoxing s eyelids jumping non stop a bad premonition hit my heart she was really worried about her secretary s death it will be related to qiao chengwang although qiao.
Chengwang is only fifty years old it seems that his kangaroo cbd gummies 5000 mg troubles have nothing to do with age it is easy to think that this is a murder case of a wealthy family professor qiao the child in the deceased s stomach will not belong.
Strange qian qinyin is at this age and has met many men how could she be easily confused by qiao chengwang s sweet words could this be the legendary love brain su ruoxing handed qian qinyin a Keoni Cbd Gummies pure canada cbd gummies glass of water and said kindly.
Weapon was not how to make penis look bigger in pictures taken away by the murderer just check the fingerprints and check the surveillance to know who the murderer is who I ve asked for the how to make penis look bigger in pictures best room and we ll sleep here tonight it can only be the after su ruoxing.
And the three little babies video said good night they washed up and went to bed seeing that su ruoxing was preoccupied qiao zhanchen hugged her into his arms baby are you still worried my dad is not even in the club and.
The secretary s visit to the club may not necessarily have anything to do with him herbal cbd gummies su ruoxing shook his head what I am most worried about is not my father in law but whether my uno cbd gummies 500mg father in law s playful gene will be passed on.
To dabao and erbao qiao zhanchen couldn t help but laugh I haven t even inherited my father s gene for love and dabao and erbao won t inherit it from generation to generation su ruoxing pushed him away her eyes were red.
Professor qiao even has an illegitimate child isn t that enough do you have to hug left and right and at the same time follow very multiple women deal with each other is it called a playboy professor qiao ask yourself.
Love brain and she actually believes in the sweet words of men only now do I realize that I am a genius the most ridiculous love brain below my husband is about to have a family outside of home so why on earth should i.
Believe a man s lies seeing that su ruoxing s emotions became Family Health Bureau how to make penis look bigger in pictures agitated qiao zhanchen felt a little joy in his heart this shows that she cares about him before her even in the face of huge family changes she was calm and.
Cleanliness addiction how to make penis look bigger in pictures and I have no feeling for wu xuerong hugging each other is really not my style besides I am a doctor and I don t even need a condom how could I be so brainless in short I have asked someone to.
Investigate that hotel sooner or later the truth will come to light you mean even if the video is true there is still something fishy in it a glimmer of hope ignited in su ruoxing s heart qiao zhanchen said this and she.
For qiao zhanchen su ruoxing was feeling anxious and the police officer said professor su is ms qian qinyin in the room my mother in law po su ruoxing s eyes widened in surprise guys why are you looking for my mother in.
Prison at the end of his life mom don t worry I will ask the lawyer to bail you out as soon as possible you will be fine qiao zhanchen personally accompanied qian qinyin to the police station and su ruoxing also followed.
Someone in advance since my mother was such a careful person how could she leave a dagger with her own bloody fingerprints on the weapon on the corpse she could have taken away the murder weapon we will examine the physical.
Evidence again but there are still witnesses the surveillance in the aisle happened to be broken we have no surveillance reference but a waiter said that he saw mrs qiao enter the room of the deceased su ruoxing and qiao.
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Will give her two slaps the restlessness of being a secretary delusional attempt to climb a branch and become a phoenix although there are no loopholes in qian qinyin s words the disadvantage is that there is no evidence.
She had stabbed her fatal moreover for people who are used to using the right hand the strength of the left hand will be weak it is not easy to stab the heart with a knife even someone like me who has trained in acupuncture.
Made it impossible for her to put something accurately into a small hole not to mention such a difficult way of killing with a single knife the police were reminded by qiao zhanchen and su ruoxing simulated the murder scene.
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Thanks to you this time I can escape from prison su ruoxing didn t expect to be blessed by misfortune this unruly mother in law he really worshiped her as a bodhisattva from then on as soon as she returned home her mother.
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Know what kind of playboy qiao chengwang was over the years lu yaning has been holding back simply because she couldn t bear to part with her status as mrs qiao and the qiao family s huge property place therefore lu yaning.
Hypocritical and sinister woman he is still in the probationary period this time about his illegitimate child she didn t make a big fuss but he really felt that she couldn t do without him so he dragged her up qiao.
S suppressed sobs came from how to make penis look bigger in pictures the cannabis cbd gummies phone again chenchen something happened xuanxuan qiao zhanchen s eyes darkened isn t xuanxuan playing outside with lu chengji what happened su ruoxing also listened carefully wanting to know.
Not be able to return for a while nor would he be able to be a groom in fact it was qiao chixuan who made trouble best cbd gummy for ed on purpose in order to make su ruoxing make a fool of herself at the wedding how can a wedding without a groom.
End in embarrassment qiao chixuan was so happy for her prank at first but she was dumbfounded in the end su ruoxing s wedding was not only held as usual but also turned her brother zhan chen into a groom qiao chixuan was so.
Remorseful but she has let herself go during the time on the deserted island she and lu chengji had many relationships and there was no turning back after crying on the phone lu yaning finally told the unspeakable news.
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Law of qiao s family we held a grand wedding for xuanxuan su ruoxing observed qiao zhanchen s expression and felt relieved he was not jealous at all he was really happy for qiao chixuan and said it shows that he is very.
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A human life and he will not suggest abortion auntie don t urgent I ll hurry back to qiao s old house right now our family will sit down and discuss liberty cbd gummies shark tank slowly and we will definitely find a solution for xuanxuan seeing qiao.
Back tonight qiao zhan chen fondly rubbed her head don t worry I ll discuss the solution so that auntie can feel at ease I promise you no matter how late it is I will come back but su ruoxing s eyelids were still twitching.
Endlessly the bad premonition always lingers in my mind but she had no reason to prevent qiao zhanchen from returning to qiao s house so she could only silently send him out she didn t notice that a thin how to make penis look bigger in pictures the figure sneaked in.
Mom I don t understand why do you say that lu chengji is Boost Cbd Gummies how to make penis look bigger in pictures dead he is alive and kicking lu chengji must die what mom you won t even kill lu chengji do you qiao chixuan stared in disbelief eyeball the secretary who seduced.
Ruoxing and qiao zhanchen he rescued qian qinyin and qian qinyin didn t feel any grievance at all thinking of this lu yaning s teeth itch with hatred how could qian qinyin be so lucky every time she hated qiao chixuan as.
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the worst I can do is beat the baby in my belly and prevent him from having a baby children must not be hit lu yaning scolded angrily you don t want to abort.
Ridicule lu yaning poured herself a glass of red wine and shook it slowly xuanxuan this is your only chance to turn around and become mrs qiao you can t drop the chain at a critical moment qiao chixuan shook her head in.
Possible qiao chixuan couldn t help complaining to lu yaning I how to make penis look bigger in pictures originally thought about aborting the child and repairing the hymen now if you confess everything to brother zhan chen how can I have the face to see brother.
Gracefully you just came back today so you don t know what happened at home lu yaning told qiao chixuan that wu xuerong was pregnant with qiao zhanchen s child qiao chixuan stood up in shock and almost jumped to the waist.
Impossible mom wu xuerong is lying brother zhanchen I don t know her at all and she is not as beautiful as me brother zhan chen has such a good relationship with me and he has never touched me how could he have a child with.
Else do we have to believe this it is the nature of a man even chenchen is unavoidable show you their videos lu yaning showed qiao chixuan the indecent video of wu xuerong and qiao zhanchen having sex on the bed she secretly.
Paid a lot of money to buy wu xuerong s servant and stole it from wu xuerong s cell phone qiao chixuan watched the video and she couldn t stop crying come down brother zhan chen why how to make penis look bigger in pictures why would you rather like wu xuerong than.
Three children who are bound together and we have tried so many ways but have not been able to separate them but it s different now they were easily separated by wu xuerong we can t deal with su ruoxing how can we not deal.
Betrayed by qiao cheng and I had to endure the humiliation and bear the burden of going to the police station to testify how to make penis look bigger in pictures for him and rescue him from the police station as for you you are so miserable that you are pregnant.
Happen and you will completely lose hope in life in short it will be as miserable as you want what you want to create is a a sympathetic and affectionate setting qiao chixuan how to make penis look bigger in pictures nodded repeatedly this is easy to handle I m the.
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Will be back soon I will go over and reunite with you I won t let you be alone she deliberately waited for a while and then sent a message brother zhanchen I m sorry I was crying so hard just now I sent you the wrong.
Message don t mind me she quickly received a reply from qiao zhanchen xuanxuan my condolences and my condolences take care of yourself I ll be home soon qiao chixuan was very happy when she received qiao zhanchen s reply.
Mom this trick of being miserable is really effective in fact brother zhanchen replied to my message in seconds he never replied to me so quickly before only lu chengji always responded quickly royal caribbean cbd gummies qiao chixuan said the smile.
On her face froze and she suddenly became nervous mom please let lu chengji go he can t die it s late he should be on huangquan road now qiao zhanchen rushed to qiao s house and went straight to qiao chixuan s place room.
Just in time lu yaning came out of the room wiping away tears auntie how is xuanxuan he just received a call from lu yaning saying that qiao chixuan committed suicide by swallowing pills she s fine fortunately I didn t.
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Hollywood, here we come! That’s the only way to begin the Mystery Case Files: 13th Skull review after witnessing the tremendously exciting video intro to the game. In a clip worthy of any Hollywood movie trailer, a father reads his daughter a bedtime story that details the history of the spooky old mansion to which the family recently moved.
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Cameroon Gender and Environment Watch (CAMGEW)
CAMGEW works to see social and environmental justice put at the centre of development. It works with all age groups. It works to see that the social welfare of children in Cameroon is improved, especially the girls who in many communities are deprived of opportunities to grow up to be future leaders.
It sees it necessary also to work to improve the lives of children in many rural and urban areas who lack the means to go to school and to meet their needs. It does this by trying to meet their basic needs, instilling in them the spirit of positive thinking and encouraging them to strive for excellence.
It seeks also to build the capacity of women especially those in the rural areas where most women are poor farmers. These women lack the agricultural skills and inputs to increase farm yields. They also lack crop storage techniques and facilities. This means they are unable to gain an income sufficient to meet their basic needs and pay for the education of their children. They need to be empowered to be economic and social leaders. Many of them are bread winners of their families. CAMGEW also works to provide women and children with basic needs like water, food, education, energy and shelter.
It works with children, youths and the old to create environmental awareness. and works with children through environmental education to instil in them the spirit to grow up to live in harmony with nature. It educates children about ecology e.g. rivers and lakes; marine ecosystems like the Atlantic ocean; land ecosystems like natural forests, botanical gardens, Zoos; pollution and waste management; gardening and tree nurseries.
It fights poaching, the bushmeat trade, illegal wildlife trade, deforestation, bushfires and climate change by trying to bring about a positive behavioural change in people involved in activities that are environmentally unfriendly. To bring this change CAMGEW carries out sensitisation, lobbying and advocacy at various levels of the society (policy makers, private sector, civil society and grass root populations).
CAMGEW encourages organic farming by improving on soil fertility with organic matter and encourages household organic waste sorting for use in farms to increase crop yields and also as a means of managing household waste. Agroforestry is another way CAMGEW promotes ecofarming. This was a traditional method used to improve the soil. It promotes integrated organic farming, horticulture (flower, vegetable and fruit farming) and apiculture (bee farming).
To discourage the use of plastic papers which are known to be non-biodegradable and to reduce the aesthetics of our environment, CAMGEW promotes the use of bags and baskets made from locally available materials like bamboo, jute, rattan etc that are biodegradable. These bags and baskets have been used in the past when plastics were not yet common. CAMGEW is building a campaign to see how biodegradable materials could be used for packaging instead of plastics.
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It promotes decentralised and diverse energy systems like small hyro, solar, wind and biogas systems exploited from the available natural energy sources like river fall, sun, wind and animal waste or plant matter respectively. It also engages in a campaign to reduce dependency on environmentally unfriendly energy sources like fossil fuels.
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Two very different characters share the same goal, to win the Grand Prix.
The 2013 film, Rush, recounted the rivalry between these two Gladiators. But Freddie Hunt, James’ son, has insisted the rivalry depicted an intense unsavoury and was overplayed and that Lauda remained friends with his father until he died in 1993.
The 1976 season was one of the most dramatic in F1’s history. Lauda, leading Hunt in the championship, miraculously only missed two races after nearly losing his life in a fiery crash in Germany.
Hunt would beat Lauda by a solitary point to claim his first and only title.
James Hunt was a well-spoken, good-looking, charismatic and charming man who appeared to live on the edge of danger. On the other hand, Niki Lauda was a driver of great precision, and by the 1976 season, he was considered the quickest driver on the grid.
James Simon Wallis Hunt drove for Hesketh Racing, owned by the flamboyant Lord Hesketh, a playboy with a reputation for partying and a somewhat laissez-faire attitude, criticised heavily by the Establishment but the perfect environment for James Hunt.
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The frail-looking, buck-toothed Austrian, sometimes known as ‘the Rat’, Andreas Nikolaus ‘Niki’ Lauda, drove for Scuderia Ferrari and was seriously injured in a crash at the 1976 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring during which his Ferrari 312T2 burst into flames. He came close to death after inhaling hot toxic fumes and suffering severe burns; he not only survived but recovered sufficiently to race again just six weeks later at the Italian Grand Prix.
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Have you ever wondered how Mother Earth catches fish? Do you think she casts a net or uses a fishing rod? You will be surprised to know that Mother Earth has her own unique and innovative way of catching fish.
In fact, researchers have discovered that humpback whales use bubbles as “nets” to catch their prey. These intelligent creatures swim in circles around schools of small fish while releasing bubbles from their blowholes. The bubbles rise up to the surface and form a ring-shaped net structure, trapping the school of fish inside. This makes it easier for the whale to dive down and scoop up its meal without expending too much energy.
“It’s very striking, ” says biologist David Cade. “They’re not just randomly blowing bubbles; they’re using them in this selective manner. “
This discovery is not only fascinating but also serves as a reminder that nature has incredible ways of adapting and thriving. As humans continue to damage our environment with overfishing and pollution, we must remember to protect these natural habitats and ecosystems that sustain us all.
The next time you see a humpback whale breaching out at sea, take a moment to appreciate its ingenuity and connection with its surroundings – after all, it’s one of many remarkable accomplishments by Mother Nature.
Mother Earth’s Fishing Techniques
For centuries, Mother Earth has relied on various fishing techniques to catch fish. One of the most ancient and effective methods that she uses is spearfishing. As a skilled hunter, Mother Earth expertly throws her spear at just the right moment to capture her prey.
In addition to spearfishing, another technique that Mother Earth employs is net fishing. She carefully places nets into the water, cleverly hiding them in areas where fish frequent. Once the fish swim into these traps, they become entangled, making for an easy catch for Mother Earth.
Another way Mother Earth catches fish is through hand gathering. While this technique may seem simple, it requires immense patience and dexterity as Mother Earth skillfully picks out individual fish from streams or tide pools with her bare hands.
“Mother Earth’s wisdom teaches us to always respect nature and only take what we need. “
Nature provides abundant resources for all living creatures but utilizing those resources responsibly is key to ensure balance in our ecosystems. Hence, preserving natural habitats and wisely using its resources are critical steps towards a sustainable future for all life forms on earth.
For thousands of years, Mother Earth has provided endless resources for mankind to survive and thrive. Among these bounties are freshwater streams and rivers which teem with fish that sustains the lives of millions across the world. Aquatic life provides a significant source of protein in people’s diets as well.
The ancient peoples were adept at using primitive techniques to catch fish efficiently. One such technique is known as ‘Weir Fishing’. Here, wicker baskets or traps called Wattle fences were placed perpendicular to river currents in shallow water.
Ancient Egyptians used nets made from reeds and papyrus stalks woven into an elegantly designed structure capable of catching large quantities of fish when lowered onto slow-moving waters.
Bows and arrows could also be employed by skilled archers who would aim at passing schools of fish from overhang above deeper pools on rocky shores during low tide – These methods remind us of how resourceful yet inventive our ancestors must have been in finding ways to feed themselves while respecting nature’s delicate balance due to fishing only what was needed.
In conclusion, it is safe to say that throughout history, different societies all over the earth developed innovative solutions aimed towards fulfilling their myriad needs. They invariably used locally available materials like twigs, stones among others but always respected the heartiness inherent within Mother Nature’s landscape – coming up with lasting solutions reflective of Inventions should stand the test-of-time rather than causing harm unknowingly!
Mother Earth has been using various techniques to catch fish for centuries. However, modern technology and innovative fishing methods have revolutionized the process of catching fish.One such technique is a fish finder that uses sonar to locate fish under water. This device helps fishermen identify areas with high concentrations of fish, leading to higher chances of catching large quantities of fish.
An electric reel is another modern-day tool used in commercial fishing. The system assists in reeling in heavy or deep-water catches with ease, saving time and energy required by conventional rod-and-reel techniques.
The use of bottom trawling nets helps capture wide varieties of species across ocean beds quickly. The netting stretches far behind ships at varying depths, gathering everything from small crustaceans to larger reef dwelling marine life forms like tuna.
Fishermen also now use drones equipped with advanced technologies such as cameras collection data on the behavior patterns and migration habits of fisheries both near shorelines and deeper waters beyond castable range
.“We understand how important it is to protect our underwater ecosystem, ” says marine biologist Megan Patterson “While these new tools are changing the face of fishing both commercial and recreational we must be cautious not allow them become indiscriminate destroyers”In conclusion, Mother Earth surely never thought about these kinds of techniques while she herself was going out there into the sea but today’s reality proves concerns regarding sustainability when utilizing technology means which can pose serious threats over long-term survival rates if continuously taken advantage without careful consideration first.
The Tools Used for Fishing
Fishing has been a vital part of human life since ancient times. Many early civilizations relied on fishing as their main source of food. Today, fishing is still an important activity providing livelihoods and recreation to many people around the world. Let’s explore some common tools used for fishing.
One of the oldest methods used by humans to catch fish is spearfishing. It involves using a long pointed stick or spear with sharp metal tips, which can be thrown at fish in shallow waters or underwater while diving.
Another popular method that uses nets, also known as gillnets or seine nets. Gillnets are fine meshed and hung vertically to trap fish by their gills when they swim through them, whereas seine nets are stretched horizontally between two boats to encircle schools of fish and pull them onto the boat’s deck.
In additiont, fishermen often use different types of bait depending on the type of fish they want to catch – worms, insects, small fishes – anything works! A hook attached inside bait attracts fish which tries to eat it but gets hooked in turn.
“Fishing provides not only nourishment but also relaxation and enjoyment. ”
Besides these traditional methods, newer technologies like sonar systems and electrofishing have made fishing easier and efficient. However, environmental concerns must always be taken into account when using modern techniques so that the balance of aquatic life remains unaffected.
To conclude, there are several ways Mother Earth uses to catch fish such as spearfishing, using nets (gillnets or sein) & different baits (worms, insects etc. ). Nowadays advanced strategies like Sonar system & electrofishing came up due to technological advancements; however utmost care should be given while utilizing new forms so that it does not harm aquatic life.
Mother Earth has always been a great provider, constantly providing us with the resources we need to survive. One way in which she does this is by catching fish for us to eat. But how exactly does Mother Earth catch these fish? Nets have been used for centuries as an effective method for fishing.One type of net that has been used for generations by Indigenous communities across North America is the dipnet. This simple yet effective tool consists of a long pole with a basket-like attachment at the end made from natural fibers like cedar bark or willow branches. The dipnet is submerged in water while being held steady and when a fish swims into it, the net is raised quickly out of the water, trapping the fish inside.
Fishing nets can also be deployed on a larger scale, such as gillnets and seine nets. Gillnets are suspended vertically in the water using floats and weights, creating a barrier that catches fish by entangling them in their mesh. Seine nets, on the other hand, consist of a large net that is dragged through shallow waters catching any fish in its path.
In all ways possible, Mother Earth provides – so much so that even her rocks were once soft enough to catch wildlife!
Overfishing has led to depleted populations of many species making it more important than ever before to use sustainable fishing methods whenever possible. By utilizing traditional techniques like dipnets and minimizing our impact on aquatic ecosystems we can work towards preserving both ocean habitats and the life they contain – just as Mother Earth intended!
In summary, nets are an integral part of fishing equipment used by humans since ancient times because of their effectiveness in catching various kinds of fishes easily. Despite technological advancements, traditional methods like dip-nets hold value among indigenous cultures today too due to their eco-friendly nature ensuring prolonged sustainability over time.Traps
Mother Earth has devised ingenious ways of catching fish without causing harm to the environment. One such way is by using traps.Traps are designed in a way that they lure fish into them and then hold them captive until they can be caught. There are several types of traps that Mother Earth uses to catch fish.
The first type of trap is the fyke net. A fyke net consists of a series of hoops joined together and held up with poles or floats. The opening at one end allows fish to swim inside, where they become trapped. The fyke nets are usually placed in shallow water near shorelines or along river channels.
Another popular trap used by Mother Earth is the crab pot. Crab pots are typically made from wire mesh and have one or two entry points for crabs to crawl inside. Once the crab crawls into the pot, it becomes stuck as it cannot turn around due to its large claws.
“Using traps not only helps fishermen conserve stocks but also protects habitats. ”
Bamboo fish traps are also very effective in some parts of the world. These consist of a bamboo basket with an entrance small enough so that only certain types of fish can enter easily. The tapering shape makes escape more difficult once the larger-bodied fishes got inside.
In conclusion, Mother Earth has various means through which she catches fish while preserving our ecosystems and being mindful of marine & aquatic life populations. Traps help maintain sustainability while protecting our natural resources. ”
The Importance of Timing
Timing is crucial in many aspects of life, including the natural world. Evidence of this can be found when observing how Mother Earth catches fish.
In some oceans and rivers, high tides bring waves of fish to shallow waters, making it easier for predators such as bears or otters to catch them. On the other hand, low tides expose rocks and tide pools where crustaceans and smaller fish take refuge from their own predators.
Mother Nature also times seasonal changes with the spawning patterns of certain types of fish. For example, salmon migrate upstream during specific months to lay their eggs in fresh water before dying. This provides food not only for other animals but also helps fertilize nearby vegetation essential for a healthy ecosystem.
“The timing of nature’s cycles impacts all living creatures. “
Human activities that affect these natural rhythms also have consequences. Overfishing or creating dams on river systems can disrupt an entire ecosystem causing negative ramifications that ripple throughout various species along the food chain.
In conclusion, understanding and respecting Mother Nature’s timing is important not just for survival but for maintaining balance within ecosystems which has far-reaching effects beyond what we might initially realize.
One of the ways that Mother Earth catches fish is through the natural changes in seasons. Different species of fish thrive in different temperatures and environments, so by changing her environment seasonally, she can catch a variety of fish.
In the springtime, when the waters begin to warm up after winter, she may target trout or salmon as they migrate upstream. As summer arrives and water temperatures continue to rise, she may switch to fishing for bass or catfish, which are more active in warmer conditions.
In the autumn months, cooler temperatures bring about the spawning season for many types of fish such as salmon. During this time, Mother Earth’s goal may be to conserve populations instead of catching them. She will work with conservationists and fishermen alike to carefully monitor land use practices such as agricultural runoff and protect population levels during peak breeding times.
“Mother Nature doesn’t hurry but everything is accomplished. “
Finally, as winter approaches and ice formations begin taking hold over some bodies of water; things get really interesting because when the ice begins forming on lakes it becomes possible for people around the world who love ice fishing by spearfishing – another way Mother Earth uses its natural resources for food production purposes!
The seasonal changes provide an opportunity for sustainability within nature while supporting local ecosystems without disrupting balance overall through big business hydro-farms or industrialized methods – these methods cause harm ultimately not helping Mother Earth itself! By following how mother earth catches these fishes we too can ensure that we maintain sustainable living habits even out here amidst society far away from our roots being thankful towards mother nature itself.
The tides play a crucial role in how Mother Earth catch fishes. As the tide goes up and down, it creates a continual change in water level that helps to move fish towards or away from certain areas, including shallow waters where they can be caught.One of the most significant influences on tidal movements is the moon’s gravitational pull on our planet. When the moon rotates around Earth, it exerts a gravitational force that pulls on both land and oceans.
In addition to its impact on fishing activity, tides are also essential for maintaining healthy marine ecosystems. The frequent changes in water levels help circulate nutrients necessary for many fish species while keeping their habitats healthier and more balanced overall.
Many fishermen depend heavily on understanding tidal patterns when trying to get better catches. They keep track of high tide mark times because predatory fish such as basses generally come closer during these periods. Understanding currents related with changing tides aids them in choosing ideal spots for larger catches.
It is evident that mother earth uses the natural cycle of tides not just to maintain balance in oceanic life but also to aid her children who need fresh seafood.In conclusion, tidal patterns play an important part in determining how we catch fish and help preserve aquatic life by ensuring everything remains correctly balanced throughout each ecosystem within our ocean systems. Ultimately this bountiful harvest stems straight from homely practices reigning supreme over advanced technology giving food security through traditional means easy access out at sea!
The Role of Bait
When it comes to catching fish, bait plays an essential role in the process. Mother Earth provides a variety of natural baits for fishing enthusiasts to use.Some popular types of bait used by anglers include worms, minnows, and shrimp. Worms are particularly effective when fishing for species like bass and trout, while smaller fish like crappie tend to prefer minnows as their primary food source.
Another type of bait that is commonly found in nature is insects. Depending on the season and location, fishermen might choose to use live or artificial flies when targeting certain species such as salmon or trout.
“There’s no doubt about it- using the right bait can make all the difference between a successful day on the water and coming home empty-handed. “
In addition to natural baits, synthetic lures have become increasingly popular among anglers over recent years. These colorful and detailed imitations are designed to mimic specific prey items and can be highly effective at triggering strikes from fish.
Ultimately, regardless of whether you’re using natural bait or an artificial lure, there is no denying the importance of selecting something that will appeal to your targeted fish species’ eating habits and preferences. The more time you spend observing how these creatures behave in their native habitats- both above and below the waterline -the better equipped you’ll become at knowing which presentation techniques are most likely to entice them into taking that fatal bite!Natural Bait
When it comes to catching fish, Mother Earth has been doing it for thousands of years before humans ever picked up a fishing rod. How does she do it? By using natural bait.One of the most commonly used baits in nature is worms. Fish are naturally drawn to them because they resemble small insects that make up a significant portion of their diet. Worms can be found under rocks and leaves or by digging through soil.
Insects and other arthropods also make excellent baits. Crickets, grasshoppers, and beetles are all popular choices when trying to catch freshwater fish such as bass or sunfish. Similarly, saltwater anglers often use shrimp or squid to attract larger species like tuna or marlin.
Some fish rely on scent more than sight to find food, making various types of organisms good options for baiting hooks. For instance, some fishermen swear by cheese and bread as catfish baits since these foods produce strong scents (although this may not sound very appetizing for us).
“The trick with natural bait is selecting what works best for the place you’re fishing. Do your research ahead of time so you’ll have an idea about which type will provide better results. “Mother Nature knows precisely how each creature behaves and what its favorite snack is—something that proves useful when fishing without fancy lures or tools. So try experimenting with different kinds of organic bait next time you go fishing- who knows what you might reel-in!
When it comes to fishing, many people think of using live bait. However, Mother Earth also uses artificial bait to catch fish. Artificial bait refers to a range of manufactured lures that imitate the movement and appearance of natural prey.
This type of bait is commonly used in sportfishing because it allows anglers to target specific species or sizes of fish while minimizing harm to the environment by reducing the need for catching live baits. Additionally, artificial lures can be reused multiple times and come in various shapes, colors, and sizes depending on the conditions of where you are fishing.
The effectiveness of different types of artificial bait varies depending on factors such as location, water temperature, light levels, and the type of fish being targeted. Some common examples include jigs, crankbaits, spoons, spinnerbaits, plastic worms/fish and more!
“To effectively use artificial baits when fishing one must try different methods until they find what works best for them”
Using artificial bait eliminates some environmental concerns compared with using live prey as bait since nothing critical would die if lost from a hook or during transportation back home. We have been able to eliminate unethical sourcing practices – specifically purchasing minnows or earthworms without knowing where they were caught & stored… which could potentially transplant non-native species into local lakes& rivers anywhere around America’
.In conclusion, If you’re searching for successful angling techniques hoping to improve your chances next time you go out there — give artificially-made lures a shot! They just might surprise how much faster this technique generally leadsto better results than traditional approaches.
The Different Types of Fish Caught
Fishing is an age-old practice that has been relied on for centuries as a source of nutrition and commerce. Methods have evolved from catching fish by hand, using nets or with rudimentary tools to now more advanced technology like boats, sonar systems, and lures.
Mother Earth uses various methods to catch fish in the wild including:
- Pole fishing: This method involves a single line attached to a pole. It’s commonly used when targeting small Game like Trouts, Bluegills or Catfishes
- Fly-fishing: Fly fishing differs from other types of angling because it requires flies made out of natural animal hair/fur added with feathers usually tied onto hooks.
- Gillnetting: A gill net is hung vertically so that it catches fish by their gills. Then they get entangled into the fiber webbing making them difficult escape.
- Trolling: This method pulls small soft bait with hook behind through water while moving allowing multiple fishes caught at once without much effort.
“Fish are one of our most renewable resources. We must protect and conserve the ocean habitats they live in. “- Robert Ballard –
Catching fish serves not only as nourishment but also provides economic benefits globally, contributing towards fisheries being one of mother’s natures oldest industries.
With sustainable practices and regulations in place across the world, we can continue catching different species of fish whilst preserving marine life protecting future generations’ food supplies.Freshwater Fish
How Does Mother Earth Use To Catch Fish? She uses a variety of methods, including fishing with nets or traps, using spears, and even hand-catching. In many cultures around the world, fishing is an important part of traditional life and cuisine.
Fishing with nets is one of the most common ways to catch freshwater fish. A net can be cast out into the water and then pulled in after a period of time, catching any fish that have swum into it. This method requires some skill and experience to ensure that the net is properly placed and there are no gaps for fish to escape through.
Another popular way to catch freshwater fish is using a trap. These can take various forms but generally involve placing bait inside a container that will allow fish to enter but not exit easily. After waiting for some time, the trap can be lifted up from the water and emptied of its contents.
Spearfishing is also practiced by many people who live near bodies of freshwater. This involves using a sharp-tipped spear to impale fish while diving beneath the surface of the water. It takes practice to master this technique but it allows fishermen to target specific species or sizes of fish.
“For people living close to rivers or lakes where freshwater fish reside, these traditional methods are essential for maintaining their livelihoods as well as contributing valuable resources for their food. “
Mother Earth has been using various fishing techniques to catch fish for thousands of years. When it comes to saltwater fishing, the methods used may vary depending on the location and type of fish being caught.
One traditional method commonly used by indigenous people is spearfishing. This involves hunting fish with sharpened sticks or other pointed objects while diving underwater beneath the surface of the sea. Another technique that was widely used in ancient times is netting, where large nets are cast over shoals of fish or around coral reefs to trap them.
There are also modern-day methods which have replaced more ancient ones such as trolling and longlining methods. Trolling involves trailing lures behind a moving vessel whilst Longlining uses baited hooks attached to lines that can be up to 50 miles long placed at varying depths across the ocean floor. The use of sonar technology enables fishermen locate schools of specific types if fish under water before casting their jigs into them.
The sustainability of these practices continue to come under debate due increasing concerns related global warming, overfishing resulting from excessive harvests and contamination through pollution- hence new technologies aimed at reducing bycatch limits and returning juvenile undersized species unharmed back into nature i. e tag-and-release programs
In conclusion, there exist numerous traditional and modern ways through which humans search out, capture salt-water fishes throughout our oceans however sustainable advancements must be adopted so we don’t irreversibly damage marine ecosystems
.The Impact of Human Activity on Fishing
Fishing has been one of the primary sources of food for humans since ancient times. However, with industrialization and increasing human population, fishing practices have evolved drastically leading to a significant impact on the environment.
Overfishing is one such activity that affects Mother Earth’s ability to catch fish as it depletes marine resources faster than they can reproduce. It leads to an imbalance in the ecosystem and negatively impacts other species’ survival.
Pollution caused by human activities such as oil spills, chemical run-offs from factories and agricultural farms also pose a severe threat to aquatic organisms like fishes. Oftentimes, these pollutants cause harmful diseases or even death among fish populations.
“Our oceans are slowly turning into plastic… after overfishing them” – Sylvia Earle
In addition, irresponsible fishing practices like trawling (dragging heavy nets along the ocean floor) damages seafloor habitats meant for nurturing juvenile sea creatures. Dynamite or cyanide-based fishing techniques commonly used in developing countries kill not only targeted fish but destroy coral reefs which serve as homes for various species.
In conclusion, sustainable fishing requires responsible management plans and policies that protect both marine life and habitats while fulfilling thousands of communities around the world’s protein needs who rely on fisheries for their livelihoods.
Overfishing refers to the practice of catching more fish than what can be naturally replenished. This results in a decline in fish populations and can have detrimental effects on marine ecosystems as well as the economy.
For centuries, humans have relied on fishing for food and income. Originally, fishing was done using traditional methods such as handline or cast-netting along with some other basic tools that were crafted by our ancestors to catch fish from their natural habitats. However, over time we developed advanced techniques like trawling (dragging nets through the water) and purse seining (using large nets to capture entire schools of fish at once).
Mother Earth has her own ways of harvesting fish without causing damage to animal populations. For example, bears widely utilize salmon runs during migration periods by feeding solely or predominantly on fishes which are easy targets compared to hunting land animals. Mother Earth doesn’t need sophisticated technologies to sustainably harvest seafood; she uses simple but effective methods available in nature, respecting ecological balances between species that depend on one another.
“It is imperative that both local communities and commercial fisheries adopt sustainable fishing practices before it’s too late. “
If humans continue to exploit marine resources without considering their long-term impacts, we will ultimately destroy these precious ecosystems beyond repair, leaving many marine species facing extinction.
Pollution refers to any harmful substance or material that is introduced into the environment. This includes air, water and land pollution caused by human activities such as industrialization, urbanization, and transportation.
Air pollution can be caused by various things like smoke from factories, exhaust fumes from vehicles in heavy traffic areas, burning of fossil fuels among other things which all lead to increased levels of carbon emissions. Water Pollution on the other hand is commonly marked by agricultural run offs of fertilizers leading to high nutrient loads and chemical residues such as oil products released from ships containing chemicals affecting aquatic wildlife ecosystems directly off where they discharge with impacts being widespread along coastlines and further inland
The impact of pollution goes beyond environmental damage alone – over time it can cause serious health implications for individuals living in affected regions across the globe.
Cleanup programs need to play a big part if we are to save our planet from an impending disaster. Recycling materials used daily also go a long way towards reducing waste produced especially plastics which make up about 14% of our litter which degrades at very slow rates causing greater harm through ingestion hazards posed even penetrating down below soil surfaces contaminating underground fresh sources too.
In summary addressing types typesof ways mother enjoys catching fish include netting, spearing lining etc all these need ot be done responsibly so that oyur children’s children underwater ecosystem will continue flourish harmoniuosly with their lives. Let us commit ourselves reduce minimize unnecessary usage hence lessen impact pollutions contributing planetary degradation sustainability needs urgent attention worldwide action =let Mother Eath rest catch her breath
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the traditional ways Mother Earth used to catch fish?
Mother Earth used a variety of traditional methods to catch fish, depending on the location and available resources. Some common techniques include using nets or traps made from natural materials like twine, bark, or grasses. Other methods include spearfishing, using hooks made from bone or wood, and using woven baskets to scoop fish out of water. Each method required patience, skill, and knowledge of the local environment to be successful.
How did indigenous people rely on the natural environment to catch fish?
Indigenous people relied heavily on the natural environment to catch fish. They used their knowledge of the local ecosystem, including water currents, tides, and seasonal patterns, to determine when and where fish would be most abundant. They also harvested and used natural materials like reeds, bark, and twine to create fishing tools and equipment. This close connection to the environment allowed indigenous people to sustainably harvest fish while minimizing impact on the ecosystem.
What kinds of fishing techniques did Mother Earth use before modern technology?
Before modern technology, Mother Earth used a variety of fishing techniques that were passed down through generations of indigenous communities. These included using nets, traps, hooks, and spears made from natural materials. Mother Earth also used traditional knowledge of the local environment to predict fish movements and behaviors. For example, indigenous people in coastal regions often used tidal pools or rocky outcroppings to trap fish during low tide. These techniques allowed for sustainable and efficient fishing without the use of modern equipment.
How important was fishing to the sustainability and survival of indigenous communities?
Fishing was crucial to the sustainability and survival of indigenous communities. Fish provided a reliable source of protein and other essential nutrients, and fishing also played an important cultural and spiritual role. Indigenous communities had deep respect for the environment and for the fish they harvested, and they developed sustainable fishing practices that allowed them to maintain healthy fish populations for generations. Fishing was an integral part of indigenous life, and it remains an important tradition and way of life for many communities around the world.
What can we learn from the traditional fishing methods used by Mother Earth?
We can learn a lot from the traditional fishing methods used by Mother Earth. These methods were developed over centuries of trial and error and were based on a deep understanding of the natural environment. They prioritize sustainability and minimize harm to the ecosystem, which is more important than ever as we face global environmental challenges. By studying and respecting these traditional methods, we can learn how to live in harmony with the environment and develop sustainable practices that prioritize the health of our planet and its inhabitants. | <urn:uuid:9bae204c-b34e-479c-b75a-8c5a117c3ca4> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://fishyfeatures.com/mother-earths-surprising-way-of-catching-fish-will-leave-you-astonished/ | 2024-04-22T23:17:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.947737 | 6,256 |
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January 7th, 2019
Frankfurt Kurnit Law Firm Promotes New Advertising Law Partner
January 7, 2019, New York, NY - Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, PC has elected Hannah Taylor as a partner effective January 1, 2019. Ms. Taylor is now a partner in the firm’s Advertising, Marketing & Public Relations Group based in our New York office.
A rising star in the advertising and marketing law community, Ms. Taylor has been named to Law 360’s “Top Attorneys Under 40” list, The Legal 500’s “Next Generation,” and Super Lawyers’ “Rising Stars.”
“Hannah Taylor brings incredible skill and expertise to our advertising practice,” said Frankfurt Kurnit Managing Partner Jeffrey A. Greenbaum. “We are delighted she has become a partner in our firm.”
Ms. Taylor represents advertisers and advertising agencies in a wide variety of industries including beauty, entertainment, fashion, music, design, retail, art, textiles, consumer products, food and beverage, and transportation. She is a sought-after public speaker who has presented at conferences such as the Association of National Advertisers and Brand Activation Association annual marketing law conferences, as well as at Social Media Week and South by Southwest. She is also the Editor of the American Bar Association’s Consumer Protection Law Developments Update, 2017-19. Read her full bio here.
About Frankfurt Kurnit
Long recognized as a leading media, entertainment, and advertising law firm, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein + Selz, PC, provides the highest quality legal services to clients in a wide range of industries and disciplines. With more than 80 lawyers, the firm now represents a diverse group of clients, from Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, charitable organizations, and law firms to celebrities, artists, and individuals working in many fields. In addition to working with clients on transactional and litigation-related entertainment, advertising, and intellectual property matters, Frankfurt Kurnit has leading practices in commercial litigation, white collar criminal defense, corporate and tax law, charitable organizations, trusts and estates, privacy and data security, legal ethics, and real estate. By combining deep industry knowledge across a diverse group of lawyers and practice groups, Frankfurt Kurnit brings a unique, client-focused approach to helping clients achieve their goals, whether resolving a dispute, getting the deal done, or just planning for the future.
Other Press Releases
Frankfurt Kurnit Partners with the Entertainment Software Rating Board’s Privacy Certified Program
Frankfurt Kurnit is pleased to announce that its Interactive Entertainment and Data Strategy, Privacy & Security Groups are partnering with the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) to enhance cooperation between ESRB’s Privacy Certified program and the firm. ESRB Privacy Certified assists companies in the video game and toy industries in implementing and maintaining lawful, transparent, and responsible data collection and privacy policies, as well as practices for the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information and data. In 2001, the Federal Trade Commission approved ESRB Privacy Certified to serve as one of six Safe Harbor programs, overseeing its members’ compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Read more.
April 1 2024
Frankfurt Kurnit Advises Medstar in Sale of Forensic Files True Crime Television Catalog
Content Partners, LLC, a leading independent owner of major studio-distributed films and television shows, has acquired from Medstar Television 400 Forensic Files episodes, and international distribution rights to Forensic Files II. Created by Paul Dowling, the President and CEO of Frankfurt Kurnit client Medstar Television, Forensic Files is a pioneer of true crime television. The series aired from 1996—2011 on TLC, and is currently on CNN-owned HLN network, streamed on digital platforms by FilmRise, and distributed to television outlets around the world. Read more.
March 19 2024
Frankfurt Kurnit Client Northwell Health Gets Big Win in Battle with NYU Langone Health System
In a battle between two of the largest healthcare systems in the New York metropolitan area, a New York federal court on March 1st handed an early win to Frankfurt Kurnit client Northwell Health. NYU Langone Health System (“NYU Langone”) sued Northwell Health alleging false advertising and trade dress infringement (i.e., infringement of the overall design and appearance of NYU Langone’s advertisements)—under state and federal law. Read more.
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The Missing Salmon Alliance is the lead partner bringing ‘Salmon School’ to the heart of COP26
Salmon need cold, clean water. Be bold for salmon. Be bold on climate.
The art installation, Salmon School, is a community engagement project by the internationally renowned artist Joseph Rossano. Salmon School takes to the global stage at COP26 to communicate the message that, with the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, iconic wild salmon are on a path to extinction.
Salmon School brings together a community of artists, scientists, educators and environmental groups from all over the world, all contributing to the project’s artistic vision – salmon represent the global health of our rivers, oceans and ultimately our relationship with the natural world that sustains all human activity.
Alongside Salmon School, the Clyde River Foundation has worked with 26 primary schools along the length of the Clyde. They have learned about the remarkable story of the return of the salmon to the Clyde and contributed to our knowledge and understanding of these remarkable fish by collecting eDNA samples from the river. These will form part of a global database project being run by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.
The installation, comprising of more than 300 salmon-like forms created from hand-blown molten glass, is a compelling tribute to a fish that holds great importance to Glasgow and is an indicator of the health of our rivers and oceans. Wild Atlantic salmon populations are in rapid decline; wild Atlantic salmon stocks have plummeted by 80% in 25 years, and if the current trend continues wild salmon will be extinct in many areas of the world within the next 30 years.
Speaking about the project, Joseph Rossano said “As wild salmon are threatened, so are we. It is a humbling experience to see SCHOOL featured in such a significant global setting, but the movement to save Atlantic and Pacific salmon is so much bigger than any single sculpture or event. SCHOOL is inspired by the plight of wild salmon and steelhead of the Upper Skagit River. It’s inspired by the cleanup and restoration of the River Clyde in Glasgow, where salmon have returned. And it’s inspired by similar people and communities everywhere who are facing climate change through the lens of salmon.”
He continues, “I think delegates at COP26 care about salmon because any pathogen that can impact salmon, any poison that can be dissolved in salt or freshwater that can impact them, impacts the food chain, impacts us. We’re learning that global climate change is a function of death by 1000 cuts. It’s common terminology in salmon conservation and it will become common terminology in human conservation too so if there’s a canary in a coal mine it would be hard to argue that it isn’t the salmon.”
The giant salmon shoal, suspended in awe-inspiring formation, will coalesce at COP26 after collecting individual stories from a wide range of communities on how climate change has devastated this once prolific species. The installation also presents a beacon of hope because proven management strategies can turn the tide for a species with iconic status in cultures across our planet. The River Clyde is a resounding success story for salmon and local communities working together to save our salmon. Glasgow bears a salmon on its coat of arms and the installation will be a fitting tribute to a fish that has been instrumental in the city’s prosperity.
Salmon School directly addresses four goals of COP26:
- Carbon Net Zero – Cold, clean water is critical for wild salmon survival and is vanishing due to rising global temperatures, pollution, deforestation and damming – all caused by humans.
- Adapt to protect communities and natural habitat. Salmon communities have identified that large scale adaption measures are needed to help the survival of the species and themselves.
- Finance – Significant investment is needed and the financial model needs to change to ensure funding and investment is not destroying the very environments salmon and humans need to survive.
- Working together – The International organisations are collaborating for the first time to save our wild salmon
Placing wild salmon at the forefront of the climate change debate, MSA hopes this will provide a range of measures that will reduce or eliminate the impact climate change is having. Displayed in a prominent position at COP26, the installation will connect delegates with specific initiatives around the world, educating young people, and energising leaders to take decisive action to save the salmon and prevent climate change. | <urn:uuid:75a82d92-e9f1-4b7b-b7d6-86dd12cc3ec5> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://fms.scot/the-missing-salmon-alliance-leads-a-global-coalition-to-bring-the-art-installation-salmon-school-to-the-heart-of-the-cop26-summit-in-glasgow/ | 2024-04-22T22:53:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.931847 | 905 |
Thinking Out Loud is a monthly column about politics and the world around us through a critical lens.
The 3 to 5 million person Women’s March on Saturday January 21 was a sea of pink … and white. Pink because of the knit “pussy” hats that took to the streets, worn, for the most part, by white women.
After all, some researchers said that more than 1 in 100 Americans attended the Women’s March, making it one of — if not the — biggest congregations of people in the United States’ history. While this is a fabulous and historic feat, another number looms in the shadows: About 52 percent of white women voted for Donald J. Trump. So in this sea of pink-embellished white, how many of the marchers knew someone that voted for Trump? Or even voted for Trump themselves?
Statistics overwhelmingly show that it was white America that elected President Trump, and yet racial issues, and how they intersect with gender, were largely absent from many of the conversations and protest art at the women’s marches. The protest art largely consisted of a biology-centered feminism that assumed all pussies are pink. From the massive touting of pink “pussy” hats to the pictures on posters of vulvas and ovaries, there wasn’t a lot of intersection around issues other than myopic feminism. There was little inclusion of women who do not have or weren’t born with female parts.
One sign held high and proud by a person perched above the crowd read “Suffragette City.” Did this protester know about the racism rampant within the suffragette movement? Have they ever taken the online quiz that challenges one to distinguish KKK quotes from suffragette quotes realizing what a hard task it is? Did the marchers wonder about the collaboration between the organizers and the police force — a force that has historically been oppressive to people of color? Did they stop and question why policemen were showing off their very own pussy hats? Did the marchers that held up bedazzled, glittery vulvas consider what trans women, femmes, or non-binary individuals might feel in the equation of feminism to a body part they don’t have and may not feel connected to?
Even though Janet Mock, a trans woman-writer-activist-revolutionary of color, was a speaker for the Washington, D.C. Women’s March, one of the populations she advocates so strongly for — sex workers — was taken out of the march’s “Unity Principles.” The statement had been changed from claiming to “stand in solidarity with sex workers’ rights movements” to “all those exploited for sex and labor” until outcry came to the attention of Janet Mock and she made sure sex-work inclusivity was returned to the platform. So the question arises as to what kind of woman the Women’s March represents.
There was a valiant effort by the original white organizers of the march to include and uplift women with intersecting identities to help organize the march going forward. While this inclusion was an important step for the Women’s March, it can be perceived as just that; a step, and not a fundamental change. In the end, many of the women that showed up to this march may have used this moment as a box to check off their bucket list. There’s an image of a poster circulating the internet that sums up an important question: “Will all these nice white ladies show up to the next Black Lives Matter protest?”
On the other hand, there is the argument from people like Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, who poses the challenge to people who think the Women’s March wasn’t radical enough to “do something about it”. She wrote that criticizing from the sidelines, on social media and elsewhere, doesn’t help anyone. Taylor celebrates the fact that the march included those that lean more liberal as opposed to progressive, arguing that the movement to resist Trump must be a mass movement as opposed to a homogeneously progressive movement. In order to have an effective movement, she wrote, “We need to open up our organizations, planning meetings, marches and much more to them” — “them” being the newcomers to the movement.
So what should these white, liberal newcomers be taught rather than merely criticized for not doing? Who should do the teaching? What will they do if prompted in the right direction? Will they continue organizing in a way that follows the leadership of those most impacted by this administration — women of color, poor women, refugee women, women with disabilities, immigrant women, undocumented women, women of the LGBTQ+ community and non-binary individuals? Will they stand with Native resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline? Will they fight the ripping apart of families resulting from deportations and detentions? Will they intervene when Islamophobic legislation is in the process of being passed? Will they protest the funneling of American tax-payer money to the bombing and occupation of the Middle East? Will they challenge the prison-industrial complex and police brutality when people of color are disproportionately targeted by the police?
Hopefully most of these women will not leave the world of dissent after accomplishing their selfie photo-op. As Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef said, “A revolution is not an event. It’s a process. And it takes time.” The question is whether the marchers, a majority of whom were white women, will dedicate the time and critical, intersectional thinking it takes to contribute to a revolution.
As legendary activist Angela Davis said at the Women’s March, “The next 1,459 days of the Trump administration will be 1,459 days of resistance.”
Several sentiments reflected a disdain for the white women who merely showed up at this moment in history when their rights were under immediate attack, while being absent from movements for more vulnerable communities in the past.
Will most of the marchers contribute to the resistance for the next 1,459 days it might take to bring about meaningful change for all people? Will most of the marchers allow those with more intersecting oppressions take the lead in our collective liberation? There are 1,459 days to find out. | <urn:uuid:aaad2793-978d-47ba-9330-0db5247ef5e3> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://fnewsmagazine.com/2017/02/thinking-out-loud-the-womens-march/ | 2024-04-22T21:18:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.966353 | 1,306 |
Indigenous American Textiles
Ancient indigenous civilizations from America are represented in the FAR collection by a group of 33 textile artefacts from Peru, belonging to the Nazca, Huari, Chimù, Ica Chinca, Chancay and Inca cultures. The fragments are examples of canvas weave and tapestry technique, made primarily of cotton (warp) and camel wool (weft). The dating ranges from 200 AD to 1532, when the Inca empire ended.
These finds record the material culture of indigenous Americans and provide tangible evidence of their unique aesthetic and spatial canons. The decorative elements are arranged very differently from Western compositional patterns; for example, if you rotate the fabric, the stylised image of a sea bird transforms into the depiction of a manta ray. | <urn:uuid:b2932080-7e0d-4309-9507-d70be1cffffa> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://fondazioneratti.org/textile-collection/1 | 2024-04-22T22:12:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.905261 | 163 |
Easter Bunnies Burrata Salad
- 2024-02-28, 13:14
Prep Time: 20 min.
You must try this delicious Easter Bunnies Burrata Salad for the best Easter recipe. Made with fresh, creamy burrata cheese and delightfully sweet grape tomatoes, this classic combination portraying a momma and baby Easter bunny is almost too cute to eat.
It’s the perfect make-ahead side dish to serve at all your Easter and Springtime lunches and a healthy way to balance out the chocolate we all love. You only need a few cookie cutters, and you will be well on your way to sharing this adorable Easter platter.
Cover the salad with clingfilm and store it in the fridge if you make it in advance. Wait to drizzle with olive oil, balsamic glaze, and flaky sea salt and pepper till right before you’re ready to serve. Feel free to add prosciutto, avocado, and pesto, or you could even toast some baguette slices till they are crispy for a flavorful appetizer.
What you need
1. Place four burrata on a platter, two on top of the other.
2. Slice the mozzarella.
3. Use the large petal-shaped cutter to make the momma bunny’s ears.
4. Cut the inside of the ears using ham and the medium petal-shaped cutter.
5. Repeat for the baby bunny, using the medium and small petal-shaped cutters.
6. Halve a kalamata olive and cut out the eyes and noses with a metal straw. You can trim off some of the olives so they are flat.
7. Arrange the eyes and noses on the burrata faces.
8. Halve a bocconcini to make the tail (or use more fresh mozzarella and a small round cookie cutter).
9. Top with basil leaves, olive oil, and balsamic glaze.
10. Sprinkle with sea salt and pepper.
I’ve linked the petal-shaped cookie cutters and metal straws in my Shop.
I bought two different types of burrata for this (one was larger than the three others) - hence it became a momma and baby bunny, but you could keep them all the same size, too. | <urn:uuid:57eca920-2095-4d97-a2f7-f50b420e6d40> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://food-bites.com/recipe/easter-bunnies-burrata-salad | 2024-04-22T21:28:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.881412 | 501 |
Impakt IQ, A Leading Enterprise Compliance ESG Benchmark, Intelligence & Scoring Tool Proudly Announces Errol Schweizer as Partner and Lead for CPG Industry
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, September 20, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — Errol Schweizer Joins Impakt IQ as Partner and Lead for CPG Industry
Impakt IQ, A Leading Enterprise Compliance ESG Benchmark, Intelligence & Scoring Tool Aligned With The World’s Leading ESG Standards, Proudly Announces Errol Schweizer as Partner and Lead for CPG Industry
Impakt IQ (IIQ), a leading provider of investor grade ESG assessments, business intelligence and ESG scoring solutions, proudly announces the appointment of Errol Schweizer as a partner and CPG Industry lead.
“Errol is a recognized leader in the CPG industry with a deep understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities companies in the sector face when it comes to managing their ESG performance,” said IIQ Founder, Elisa Turner. “We are excited to have him on board as we continue to expand our reach and impact in the CPG industry.”
“I am thrilled to be joining the Impakt IQ team,” said Schweizer. “The company has built an impressive platform that is helping to change the way companies think about and manage their ESG performance. I look forward to working with the IIQ team to help even more companies in the CPG industry leverage the platform to drive improved ESG performance.”
Errol Schweizer’s appointment marks an exciting milestone for Impakt IQ. The company looks forward to his expertise in leading the CPG industry to meet the evolving ESG landscape and economy. With a proven track record in companies, tools, developing business opportunities and assisting companies in complying with regulations and international standards Errol brings invaluable expertise to Impakt IQ.
With over 25 years of experience in the CPG and retail industry’s. He is a global thought leader with a proven track record for identifying, implementing and advising businesses on global trends and their financial and reputation impacts all through a lens of what today are ESG related issues. Errol worked for Whole Foods for over 14 years. His team grew sales to over U.S. $5 Billion. He has developed plant-based, Organic, Non-GMO and regenerative supply chains and product standards.
Errol was recognized with a Retail Game-Changer award from Supermarket News, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Hemp Industries Association. Since 2016, he has been a Board Member, Co-Founder and Advisor to over two dozen food retail and CPG enterprises. He is active in regional food policy, is the Host of The Checkout Podcast and writes for Forbes and Salon.
About Impakt IQ: Impakt IQ is a leading provider of investor grade ESG frameworks, business intelligence, and ESG scoring solutions – the 1st Step in enabling companies move toward translating their sustainability initiatives into a consistent, verifiable global language alongside their business impacts. The company empowers organizations to navigate the complexities of ESG compliance and measurement, fostering transparency, and driving sustainable business practices. We Make Understanding, Managing And Communicating Your ESG And Impact Practices Simple, Dynamic – And Investor Grade. | <urn:uuid:fe8d70ff-d57c-4d6e-947c-fd34943322e0> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://foodindustryexecutive.com/2023/10/impakt-iq-a-leading-esg-benchmark-intelligence-tool-announces-errol-schweizer-as-partner-and-lead-for-cpg-industry/ | 2024-04-22T23:25:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.924344 | 696 |
- Shandong Loyal Industrial Co.,Ltd.
- Industrial Microwave Oven Food Extruder Machine Biscuit Making Machine
How to use Spaghetti Straws Making Machine？
2020-09-02 14:17:15Pasta Straws Making Device is identified by a one-of-a-kind strategy, rational arrangement, highly automated, and secure efficiency. Our company has actually improved the assembly line efficiency using market research and our very own modern technology. It makes the operator run the equipment quickly and also makes the craft more excellent.
This is a virtual production food device for every person taking on the food occupation.
Pasta Straws Extruder is characterized by a one-of-a-kind technique, logical configuration, high automatic, and secure performance. Our business has actually enhanced the production line efficiency through market research and our very own modern technology. It makes the operator run the devices conveniently and also makes the craft extra perfect. This is a vital production food tool for every person handling the food profession. | <urn:uuid:d4a7e04f-2fb3-44c9-bdf2-887d16bd7c32> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://foodmachiney.com/how-to-use-spaghetti-straws-making-machine/ | 2024-04-22T21:28:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.926226 | 215 |
Some time ago, I found myself looking for information on how to shine a stained concrete floor and I didn’t have a very good time gathering information. I made a lot of mistakes, and I had to start testing one by one until I found the right product.
I was supposed to use a simple product to shine a stained floor, but there are so many different products and so little information from real people who have experienced it, that I got very confused.
I ended up buying a lot of products and trying a lot of different techniques to make an acid-stained concrete floor shine, so if you are looking for information I think I can help you with experience and information gathering.
I made a lot of mistakes, both in application and product choice, here are 4 things that I used to make a stained concrete floor shine.
Tips, things to avoid, mistakes I made, and how to choose the best product to suit your needs.
The first product I used to shine an acid-stained concrete floor was a floor sealer, I did this on the recommendation of a person who had worked with this product before.
The floor sealer I used, is easy to use, a water-based product so its performance is very good, it is very easy to apply, and as far as I could see it can be used on both floors and horizontal surfaces such as brick and stone walls.
It should be noted that the floor sealer comes in different presentations in relation to the finish you want to give; with gloss, matte and I think semi-gloss, you should look at choosing the sealer with gloss if you want to get a maximum shine on your concrete floor.
Another thing that surprised me, and of which I was a little scared by ignorance, is that the floor sealer I bought had a white color, like a milky appearance.
That had me a little worried because in my mind I thought that what was used to give shine to the acid-stained concrete floor was a totally transparent substance because what I wanted was to highlight the color of the stain.
It turns out that the floor sealer has that whitish color, but when it dries it makes it totally transparent, adding shine (in case you choose the sealer with shine) and highlighting the color of the floor.
This product is called a “sealer” because it supposedly contains many silicon microparticles that penetrate the surface of the concrete, sealing and protecting it from stains and other types of surface defects.
The good thing about the floor sealer: it is very easy to use because of its watery consistency, it is easy to find in any store, it adheres easily to the floor, it gives shine and highlights the color of the stained floor.
The downside of floor sealer: The first few days the shine was spectacular, after a couple of days the shine is practically lost and only the color is highlighted, I was not at all satisfied with the maintenance of the shine in this product.
2- Floor wax
After the “bad experience” with the loss of shine due to the sealer, I decided to look for another product that I can use together with the sealer and that will revive the shine of the floor.
I must say, that after using some sealer or product on the floor, it is a bad idea to use another product on top of it because usually, these products need to adhere to the concrete in some way.
But since the sealer I used was water-based and penetrated the pores of the stained concrete floor pretty well, I figured I should just revive the shine somehow.
So I went back to the hardware store and bought a floor wax, the best quality I could find and high gloss.
It should be noted that there are several types of floor waxes, there are special waxes for wood floors, other emulsified waxes are ideal for rubber and tile floors, while there is one that is ideal for high traffic floors.
In my case, I used two coats of waxes on the floor, waiting for the first coat to dry, the application was not so easy, maybe because I made it more complicated than it should be using a polishing machine…yes, I definitely made it more complicated.
The good thing about floor wax: It is an inexpensive and easily accessible product that can be found in any hardware store.
The downside of the floor wax: the shine was not as spectacular as the sealer, and it also wears off after a few days, it is a product that requires maintenance from time to time.
3- Clear epoxy sealant (High Gloss)
After having tried two products that lost their shine after a few days, I decided to get a much stronger product that is high gloss and won’t fade over the days.
Actually, the obsession with the shine of the floor was not on my part, but with the owner of the work, he wanted to have a very shiny floor and to be noticed.
Researching in some local stores I find the clear epoxy sealer, and when I say clear, is because I came across many floor epoxies at the hardware store but they contained color, I didn’t want epoxy with color, I just wanted something clear and very glossy.
This product comes with two separate components, the normal epoxy, and in another smaller container a catalyst that must be mixed just before the job is done.
The application of the epoxy already requires a person with a little more technical knowledge than the sealer or wax, so I had to call my trusted painter who has experience.
It is very important to know that applying the epoxy requires a posterior preparation of the floor, this product is very delicate and for the work to be well done the floor must not have any stain, dust, dirt, or concrete remains.
But most importantly, if the floor does not have an “anchoring surface” the epoxy will not work well and after a few days, white spots will appear on the floor.
With anchoring surface I mean that the floor should not be very smooth or very polished, it should have certain porosity so that the epoxy can “grab” well, the epoxy is as if it were a plastic layer that does not have so much power of penetration to the floor.
And while the product is quite strong and provides the acid-stained concrete floor with a long-lasting shine, things can go very wrong if the floor is not properly prepared prior to the application of the epoxy.
To give the concrete floor an anchoring surface, it should be washed with a mixture of water and hydrochloric acid and left for a couple of hours.
This will help the floor create small, unnoticeable voids so that the epoxy application can hold well to the surface of the concrete floor.
The good thing about using clear epoxy sealer: the epoxy gave me the expected results in terms of a long-lasting, permanent shine, it’s a very durable finish.
The downside of using clear epoxy sealer: the possible appearance of white spots due to moisture and lack of anchorage on the floor could damage an entire job, epoxy requires skilled labor.
4-Concrete floor varnish
In the end, I found this product in a hardware store called concrete floor varnish, it is very similar to the clear epoxy, with the difference that the concrete floor varnish does not have a catalyst.
You must be very careful not to use varnish for wood floors, you must make sure that the varnish is specifically for concrete floors.
This product was the best I could use, it gives a great shine, it is very easy to apply, much easier than the epoxy, the consistency of the varnish is a little less dense than the epoxy, so it does not create a plastic film on top of the floor.
It adheres very well to the surface of the floor, and in the work I did, there were no white spots, the gloss remained the same from the first day of installation until several months later.
The good thing about the concrete floor varnish: the best product I could use to shine an acid-stained concrete floor.
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Real touch flower arrangement in vase
Real touch flower arrangement in vase. Contemporary real touch red rose buds arrangement in a silver metal goblet. Artificial premium real touch rose table decoration. Extra realistic blooms are design to be natural in appearance and touch. Simple and stunning centerpiece will provide a beautiful top table arrangement for your venue, wedding or private property. Our beautifully crafted artificial flowers will create romantic and enticing ambience in your home or office. Available in red and white rose buds.
AmbienceDecoJM bespoke artificial table decoration will look beautiful and last for years around. Custom Real touch rose arrangement and all our table decoration are bespoke or ordered upon request.( Before buying check rose arrangement measurements please) We specialize in floral arrangements using real touch, lifelike and high quality artificial flowers. Email us a photo, color scheme etc and we will design something perfect and personalized just for you. If you cannot find Real touch flower arrangement in vase you looking for, do not hesitate to contact us please . Free UK delivery.
Approx high 8in ~ 20cm
Approx width 8in ~ 20cm
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Life is full of choices. Do you buy the new long-wheelbase Defender or the classic Discovery? Decisions, decisions! The old “pros and cons” list might seem a bit trite, but often it’s the best way forward.
Choosing the right type of crane for your specific project is crucial to ensure efficiency, safety, and cost-effectiveness.
In this simple guide, we’ll explore the key differences (and honest pros and cons) between two popular types of cranes: All Terrain crane vs Mobile Truck crane, to help you make an informed decision on which crane is best suited for your project’s needs.
Understanding the All Terrain crane
Design and mobility
All Terrain cranes are specifically designed for off-road applications. They come equipped with large, robust, and heavily treaded tires, allowing them to navigate challenging terrains, such as construction sites, gravel roads, or uneven ground. This design makes them highly mobile in outdoor environments.
All Terrain cranes are known for their impressive lifting capacities. They can handle substantial loads, making them suitable for heavy-duty tasks. These cranes can have a lifting capacity ranging from 30 to 150 tons, depending on the model.
All Terrain cranes feature a telescopic boom, which can be extended to reach significant heights. This makes them suitable for tasks that require both reach and lifting power, such as setting up steel structures, HVAC installations, and lifting materials to elevated areas.
Despite their heavy-duty capabilities,All Terrain cranes are surprisingly agile. They can rotate 360 degrees and have excellent manoeuvrability in tight spaces, making them ideal for construction sites with limited room to operate.
To maintain stability while lifting heavy loads, All Terrain cranes come equipped with a counterweight system that can be adjusted as needed. This ensures that the crane remains steady during operations.
The Mobile Truck crane: A versatile option
On-road and off-road use
Mobile cranes are highly versatile machines, as they can be driven on both roads and off-road terrains. They offer a degree of mobility that makes them suitable for various construction scenarios.
Varied lifting capacities
Mobile Truck cranes come in various sizes and lifting capacities, ranging from smaller models with lifting capacities of 8 tons to larger units capable of hoisting up to 100 tons. This wide range of options makes mobile cranes adaptable to a variety of projects.
Mobile Truck cranes typically come in two main boom configurations: telescopic and lattice booms. Telescopic booms are ideal for reaching higher elevations, while lattice booms provide exceptional strength and versatility for lifting heavy and oversized loads.
One of the key advantages of Mobile Truck cranes is their quick setup time. They can be deployed rapidly, making them suitable for time-sensitive projects.
Outriggers for stability
To ensure stability during lifting, mobile cranes are equipped with outriggers that extend to provide a solid foundation. These outriggers can be adjusted according to the terrain, enhancing the crane’s stability.
Which Crane is best for your project? An All Terrain crane vs Mobile Truck crane
Now that you’re aware of the primary differences between All Terrain cranes and Mobile Truck cranes, the question remains: which one is the best fit for your project? The answer depends on various factors:
Consider your terrain and environment. If your project takes place in a rough, uneven, or off-road environment, an All Terrain crane is the superior choice. It is specially designed for these conditions and can handle heavy lifting on challenging terrain.
Also look at the space you have to work with. If your project site is characterised by limited space or restricted access, All Terrain cranes excel due to their ability to navigate tight spots.
Think about the height and reach requirements of your project. If your tasks involve working at considerable heights, a crane with a telescopic boom, whether All Terrain or Mobile Truck, may be the best choice.
Evaluate the weight of the loads you need to lift. If your project requires the lifting of extremely heavy loads, you may need a mobile crane, which offers a broader range of lifting capacities.
Often, whether we like it or not, time constraints and budget come into our decision making on various aspects of a project, crane hire is no exception. For short-term or rapidly changing projects, a Mobile Truck crane’s quick setup and versatility may be more advantageous. All Terrain cranes are well-suited for more extended projects with demanding terrain.
All Terrain crane vs Mobile Truck crane?
Your choice between these two cranes will depend on the terrain of your site, the space you have to work with, as well as the height and reach requirements and weight of the loads in question. Ultimately, this is also underpinned by your time and budget constraints.
If you are still not sure which crane would suit your requirements, learn more about our contract lift service. We can help you determine the crane that is best and provide a team of operators to help you perform a successful lifting operation. | <urn:uuid:616aa268-13fd-4663-85a4-53483d9ae1d1> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://fortislift.co.uk/all-terrain-crane-vs-mobile-truck-crane/ | 2024-04-22T23:11:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.934181 | 1,066 |
Can you turn the sound off on the Millennium Falcon UCS kit?
Hello! My name is Chris and I just purchased the Millennium Falcon UCS kit. I'm still building the falcon and won't be doing the light and sound install for another 1-2 weeks. But I did read the manual ahead of time to see about sound volume (I have roommates), and I noted that you can adjust it on the main control board.
Is it possible to turn the sound off entirely? Does the knob on the control board go completely off when turned down? Or would I need to unplug the speakers? I know I'm going to love the sound and enjoy adding my own, but there are times I'd like to light it up quietly. Thanks!
Hello, and thank you very much for purchasing the Falcon Light and Sound Kit! Yes, the dial on the main controller does go "all the way down," so you can turn that down to fully disable sound playback on your Falcon. Hopefully this helps keep the peace with your roommates while also letting the awesomeness of the Falcon shine!
Thank you again for being a customer-- we hope you love your kit! | <urn:uuid:de6291ea-9da0-4b6f-bd46-7f27f69c6485> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://forum.brickstuff.com/t/p8yxc3k/can-you-turn-the-sound-off-on-the-millennium-falcon-ucs-kit | 2024-04-22T21:49:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.960364 | 240 |
NEVER LIGHT CANDLE in AIR-CONDITIONED ROOM
For those who sleep in the air-conditioned room ........... A friend of mine has passed away recently, Please read the mail below and be careful.
Heard of a bad news regarding Charleine, who studied in MSMKL with some of us. She passed away last weekend due to carbon monoxide poisoning.
It happened when she lighted an aromatheraputic candle for the night in a room with air-conditioning on and all windows closed.
Due to lack of oxygen in the room, the burning of the candle cannot fully oxidized & thus forming dangerous carbon monoxide.
Carbon monoxide will prevent oxygen exchange in the lungs, resulting the person dozing off to state of unconsciousness & eventually death in less than 1 hour, depending on the room size.
this info is to make you aware of such danger when lighting aroma theraputic candles in any unventilated rooms...
Prevention is better than cure... | <urn:uuid:621adaa7-f544-49a2-b2ef-6579e0ef6138> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://forum.daffodilvarsity.edu.bd/index.php/topic,19402.msg158672.html?PHPSESSID=bd49f2d095eed0d66d01590cf9b1d3cf | 2024-04-22T23:22:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.921098 | 213 |
Hi guys just finished my Celestial Universe Database project and struggling to push it to git from the CodeAlly virtual Environment, can anyone share some insight?
what steps have you followed?
I’ve tried using the source control tab and commiting from there, it asks for authentication by username and password but, the log says that remote support for authentication was removed in 2021?
Can’t find any other steps as described here:
Dump has been saved though.
" Important: After you pass all the project tests, save a dump of your database into a universe.sql
file so you can complete step 2. There will be instructions how to do that within the virtual machine."
you need to copy manually the file, you can’t do it from inside codeally
How do I go about doing that? I tried downloading the .sql but download doesn’t even start?
I managed to get a solution and got it pushed.
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The wiki entry for Dictionaries states:
Dictionary names start with a alphabetic character, followed by any number of alphanumeric, space or underscores. Dictionary names are case insensitive.
Key names can be anything, although leading and trailing white space is stripped off. Key names are case insensitive.
I'm trying to use a key name that contains a forward slash, e.g. this/name, but it seems that only the first part "this" is actually being used by KM.
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This is what's happening. The brain/addiction finds reason why it's ok to look at that, look at this, some pics might be ok, stuff like that. It's tricky, because you can't filter out what's really ok. So long term P will crawl up between your thoughts of what's ok and what's not. If possible stop it, even though i know that with stopping the fighting begins. You can decide then which of both is of more value for you?So for some reason (my brain argues) the 'normal' stuff is okay now. Part of me thinks this is ridiculous. | <urn:uuid:02de3f97-60fd-4cdb-834b-6e3c2c8332c9> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://forum.rebootnation.org/index.php?threads/19611/page-4 | 2024-04-22T22:24:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.979204 | 126 |
Where to begin…After over a week of trying to get Comodo Backup to work, I have finally figured out the problem. It simply will NOT perform a scheduled backup over a network.
I have Comodo Backup installed on a client computer, trying to backup from a server. I have a folder shared on the server with all my backups in it. I can access this folder just fine manually. But every single time Comodo Backup tries to perform the backup nothing happens. I read the log file and it says, “Error - Source folder does not exist !”.
But here is the funny thing, if I open Comodo Backup manually, it performs the backup just fine…
I tried backing up some local files with the scheduler just to see if it would work. And it DID?!?!
I worked on this issue for some days and one time, in a moment of rare insipiration, I said “Is it possible that I sleep so hard?”.
First of all, running a backup manually and running it as schedule event is drastically different. If you run manually, you are logged in to Windows (probably with an administrator account). I you run a backup when user is logged off (and Comodo closed), you run backup as system services (the software run in background but doesn’t need a user logged in). A service run under a user control, and you have to select which user has to use.
Comodo Backup doesn’t ask you which user has to control his system service, like, for example, NTBackup; Comodo Backup run the service as Local User, so it can’t access to network (Local User can’t).
Go to services control panel and enter in the properties of “ComodoBackupService”. Set an user with administration credentials as account for run the service. Now Comodo Backup can access to network resources in schedule mode (when running as service and user logged off).
Hope can help.
Good thinking, Sciagu! I’m glad you don’t sleep too hard… ;D
Does that help you out, jminnie?
Excellent suggestion Sciagu! I am not currently at the system with Comodo Backup on it, but as soon as I can, I will give it a shot.
Thank You for your reply!!
Hi Sciagu, I tried exactly what you suggested. But now the service does not start with windows. I tried every single credential, but nothing. Am I missing something?
Hm, is that working with a domain user who has right to both computers?
I think you miss something because this is the exact procedure.
Let’s check the service properties and take care about the way you enter the Windows account name. You need to input in this way:
Are you under a domain? Or singles computers?
The used account needs to be exactly the same (same password) on all two pcs.
Also check that the service is in “automatic” start mode.
For testing purposes, try use local Administrator account, but set the same password EXACTLY as the Administrator’s password on other pc.
Let me know more infos.
I am not on a domain. I have the correct information entered (PCNAME\accountname), but it still does not work. And the service is set to Automatically start. The only time I can get the service to autostart with windows is when it is set to (LocalService), which I believe is where Comodo Backup set it to in the first place. I do not have a password set for this account, so I left the field blank. Though I did notice something strange. When I went back into the “General” Tab and clicked “Stop” then “Start”, a message popped up saying something along the lines of “Account information is incorrect”. But everything is correct…I am so tired of playing with this, it has been a couple of weeks now of trying everything under the sun. I think I may retire Comodo Backup for now and hope that the development team corrects this in a future revision.
Thank you to everybody for your suggestions. (:WAV)
It doesn’t seems a Comodo bug.
If Windows says something about right user/password, is the service/account that has a problem.
It’s sounds really like that user you enter is not valid, so he can’t startup the service.
Are any of the pathes related to user only settings (ex. mapped drive) or you use backslashes (ex. \192.168.123.123\share)?
Hi… All of you
I have problem same as [ at ] TS. I have tried some methods from the users in this forum, but still no luck.
I think it’s really the BIG ISSUE/BUG for the ver 220.127.116.11. The old one ver 18.104.22.168 is OK for all with regarding this schedule issue.
The problem on automatically scheduling (type: User/Service Backup) is:
- Source folder is local drive >>> OK
- Source folder is network map drive >>> NOT WORKING
BUT no problem on manually run for all.
So what… next…??? I use back to old one 22.214.171.124 (V)
Still hope the good news from comodo team to release next new version. (L)
I have had quite a bit of experience with Comodo Backup but using a network drive as a source with the schedule is something I have not tried. Let me work on it a bit and I will see what I can figure out. If someone else has had experience with this they may get back to you before I do.
Now it’s working :BNC
Network map drive is still not working (still got homework for comodo dev team). For network source folder is only now accept full path network, just scroll down to ‘My Network Places’ & go to network sharefolder (eg: \RemotePC or Server\foldershare\subfolderblabla\etc). I just remember one of the member in this forum said that must use network full path.
Therefore i do not need to install the old one 126.96.36.199.
Here is the link that i read before.
Thx to above link members advice & also jjasper.
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A curiousity question, regarding
Security → Advanced / Advanced Attack Detection → Configure / Miscellaneous, the checkbox for ‘Monitor Other NDIS protocols’
on my machine, this checkbox is not marked. I presume this to mean, that if I was running IPX or some such that had its own stack drivers, that CFP will not monitor that traffic.
So, my question, does CFP alert to the existence of such a separate driver?
The though being, that if I wanted to bypass a firewall, would be to register or otherwise install my own stack driver and push traffic in raw form. I could claim it to be IPX or Netbeui or some private experimental whatever, and have it push classic IPv4 packets around any installed firewall.
For 2.4, I think the answer is no; it will not alert to the existence of such a separate driver. This seems related to the discussion in this thread (between Stem and Egemen primarily):
Sorry, you’ll have to read thru several pages that you may not find relevant. Based on Egemen’s posts, v3 will have a better grip on it than 2.4.
Hope that helps,
does it cover ndis? mac level?
LM, thank you… Very interesting thread to read. It did answer my curiousity question.
Great, I’m glad it helped, grue155!
Mike, see if the thread I linked helps answer your questions. There is some advanced discussion there about that sort of thing; you may also find some helpful info in there. Don’t know if it’ll answer your question or not, but it might be worth the time. I know you have some other threads where you are exploring your questions about MAC address and IP Spoofing; we’ll let those continue where they are…
Folks, since the question has been answered, I will close this thread. grue155; should you find you need it reopened, just PM a Moderator (please include a link back here) and we’ll be glad to do so. | <urn:uuid:f1f59181-704f-4216-8ad4-097f8c9761fb> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://forums.comodo.com/t/bypassing-the-ip-stack-closed/214268 | 2024-04-22T22:09:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.940779 | 443 |
Opera Crashing when I start up upon updating to V80.
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Hi there, I recently updated to v80 and my browser is crashing every time I start it up, it's sometimes even getting to blue screen my device. What happens is when I load it up I'm greeted with a white screen for a while, then the speed dial bit, but I cannot interact here, opera shows some of the tabs with a loading icon, but they do not move. After a while opera either closes/crash. Sometimes it crashes giving this error code "0x00012d" other times it will bleu screen my pc or just crash. I tried reading the crash report, but I have no idea how to read a .dmp file.
I think what caused it was perhaps me turning off snooze background tabs. I'm not sure though as the effect was not immediate (happened about a day after I turned it off). If this was the case, is there anyway to change the settings in the files and then try to relaunch? As I just cannot interact with the browser when open at all.
Like I said above, that's possibly one of the causes, but it might not be. Everything was working fine prior to v80 .
I've currently been trying to fix this for a day now and am thoroughly pissed off to say the least!
Thanks in advance
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Being someone who's not a regular at this forum, I've been paying attention to Strip Search and wanted to publicly ask about the scheduling decision that PATV made for the show. Finding no better place for it I picked the Strip Search forum and commented on the latest episode.
And now some.... (guess I'll follow the forum rules here)... silly goose has downvoted my comment and my profile is now marked with said downvote.
First of, what is the purpose of allowing users to downvote other people's comments and have them be permanently displayed on your profile? Does collecting downvotes carry negative implications like forum bans or some similar punishments?
I'm still trying wrap my head around the reason behind the downvote since I wasn't exactly bashing the show, merely wishing that there were more episodes per week, so that each "day" on the show correlated with a whole week (that way the elimination episode could be consistently at the end of every week). Looking through the thread where I got my mark, I notice that this same individual has downvoted other posts for very little reason. One guy states that he wish that the show would do more drawing challenges instead of interview/twitter/business related challenges. That got downvoted. Couple of people agreed with him. Those got downvoted. Same guy behind all downvotes.
And finally, where does this power of downvote come from? Looking at other people's forum posts, I see the option of agreeing with post or saying it's awesome but those are my only options. So I can't downvote posts but this guy can, which he exercises religiously? How come? Also, people seem to be able to upvote posts, which I also can't do. And what's the difference between upvoting, agreeing with or finding posts awesome? Aren't all of those in essence the same thing; that you liked someone's post?
I don't know, the knowledge of there being a downvote system in place leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It's too easy to abuse and usually ends up with people who have downvoted each others post in the past to form some petty rivalry, where they compete in looking up and downvoting all of each others posts, regardless of content. I've seen other forums that used to have the option of up and downvoting a post, remove the downvoting option, because it was more trouble then it was worth. If someone is posting something that's genuinely deserving of "Not Cool!" reaction, that's what the flag button is for and the moderators can decide if the user is stepping out of line.
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Hello Private Alpha Testers,
Due to unforeseen issues, we have had to disable the Save Point Device and persistence options across devices in UEFN for the Public Beta release. Unfortunately, any devices using persistence related settings will fail to save data between sessions. Devices will still remain available in the content browser, though understand that persistence options will not work and attempting to use them could cause issues with your project. This includes the following devices:
- Save Point Device
We recognize that this is suboptimal news and may have a negative impact on the projects you have been developing for the UEFN Public Beta release. We encourage you to shift your focus to projects that will not rely on these features while we work to address the issues at hand. | <urn:uuid:e6c91f9a-3cd4-4b30-8b50-4c6a82051591> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/uefn-persistence-announcement/709423 | 2024-04-22T21:58:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.938588 | 151 |
When you play poker, your hand plays a vital role in the outcome of the game. Higher hand rankings have better odds of winning. The ranks of poker hands are High Card, Pair, Three of a Kind, Straight Flush, Full House, and Four of a Kind. The best poker hand is the royal flush, which requires an Ace to form the highest possible hand. Here are some tips to help you become an expert in this game. Here are a few poker strategies that will help you succeed:
a. Choose a reliable online poker website. A good online poker site is free and has a wide selection of games to choose from. Look for one with no admin or kemahiran. If you don’t like the idea of paying for games, try out IDN POKER, which was founded in 2010.
o Use an online poker client. If you are playing on your desktop, IDNPoker has an HTML5 client. This means you don’t have to download anything to play. The interface is fully translated into English. The lobby is simple, yet effective. You can choose from cash games, high-stakes games, or tournaments. You can also choose to hide full tables. However, you can only play one table per account. To multi-table, you’ll need to use a different browser or account.
b. Choose the right online poker server. There are several online poker sites that support this game. Make sure to choose one with a good reputation. If you’re new to online poker, consider checking out IDN Poker. It’s the best server around for poker. It has an extensive list of games, including popular variations of poker. You’ll find plenty of new friends to play with on IDN Poker. Its popularity and reliability are the reason behind the website’s success.
c. Choose an online poker network with a high quality software. IDNPoker has been operating since 2010 and boasts the third largest traffic in the world. Founded in Cambodia, the site has grown to become a popular poker network across Asia, particularly in China, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia. It is certified by BMM Compliance Singapore Pte Ltd. The network monitors players to ensure they are not engaging in illegal activities. The site also offers a full English-language client.
d. Make sure you’re comfortable playing with a variety of people. Playing poker online can be intimidating if you don’t know what to expect. Learn the ins and outs of playing poker. You may be surprised at how quickly you can win! You can find many different games online to try, and you can play them with friends or in a competitive tournament. And if you’re new to poker, this might be a good choice!
c. Check out the payment options. Poker sites generally have payment options that make it easier for players to fund their accounts. You can even deposit funds to your poker account via a digital wallet if you’d like to play for real money. Just make sure to check out the payment methods for the online poker sites before you play. You’ll also find that online poker sites tend to have smaller costs than real-life card rooms. For example, live poker table expenses are much higher than the expenses of online poker rooms. | <urn:uuid:86e2f344-38fd-4eda-bf27-79d644b894a4> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://fotosnaturalezayviajes.com/index.php/2022/04/28/idnpoker-3-tips-to-succeed-in-online-poker/ | 2024-04-22T22:57:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.950001 | 685 |
Graduates participate through virtual avatars in response to the new coronavirus
Twelve high school graduates participated in the graduation as 3D avatars, from the beginning of the ceremony to receiving their diplomas in a virtual replication of the school campus conceived and managed by Paul Fradale, Secondary School Principal, created by fellow Aoba students and teachers led by Lisa de Pierres, MYP Coordinator, and supported by Vincent Favard and Pim Willems of the ICT Team. The graduation was broadcast in real time through the video hosting platform “Vimeo” by the ICT Team and filmed virtually by Julian Pederson from Marketing.
As many events were being cancelled in response to the new coronavirus infection preventive measures, a “Virtual Graduation” was held in an online venue created by a team of fifty G4 - G11 students in just over two weeks, in hopes of making the Aoba graduates’ departure a meaningful and memorable one. The virtual space was created using “Minecraft”, a virtual world-building game; Aoba’s physical gymnasium, school buildings, and grounds where the graduates spent their school career, were reproduced along with their Avatars.
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When the graduation ceremony began, “Pomp and Circumstance” played while the students‘ avatars in A-JIS’ school-coloured maroon caps and gowns conducted a procession onto the stage from the gym entrance.
After the students took their places on the virtual risers, Mr. Iwao Shibata, Board Chair, shared his recorded congratulatory speech, which was followed by messages of encouragement from current students and teachers recorded at home. The graduating students expressed their appreciation by having their avatars jump up and down in the virtual space.
Next, a slideshow built by the Student Council comprising photos and Tik Tok montages from the graduates’ childhoods to the present was shown. After that, the graduates in full attire appeared in the live stream and expressed their appreciation for their memories of the time at Aoba, their peers, their families and the teachers.
Mr. Ken Sell, Head of School, then appeared in a video message encouraging the graduates to "find and praise the strength of the people around them", concluding with the observation that it is “very important for all of us to find similarities and treat each other with respect and to live in peace.” The graduates then shared a recorded song/video they performed and produced with Mr. Phillip Smiler, a Senior School Coordinator.
At the end of the graduation ceremony, a diploma was awarded to each graduate in the virtual space. When the graduates were called by Mr. Fradale, they operated their own avatars and moved to Mr. Sell’s avatar, receiving their diplomas. The other avatars watched as their fellows received the certificate, turning and moving their faces. They concluded with tossing their caps in the air and setting off individual fireworks.
After the hour-long ceremony the graduates left the gymnasium and moved to the virtual school grounds where the "AOBA CLASS OF 2020" sign was placed, and large-scale virtual fireworks were launched to celebrate the graduates.
The Aoba graduates commented, "I am very grateful to the teachers and students who have achieved this virtual graduation ceremony." "It was a better and more unique experience than I had imagined. It would be nice to introduce this type of graduation ceremony more and more in schools facing similar situations.”
This virtual graduation ceremony arose from Aoba's Core Values that promote innovation, problem-solving, and positive leadership.
When the school was faced with a situation where normal graduation ceremonies were not possible to hold due to the spread of the new coronavirus, the teachers and students took action together in order to hold a memorable graduation ceremony. As a result, Aoba was able to hold an innovative and warm graduation ceremony that will be remembered for life by our graduates.
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Being exposed to bilingualism does not only imply the ability to speak more than two languages, but it also encourages students to develop understanding and appreciation for cultural differences. It is a communicative and multicultural approach to let students feel more motivated and involved in their learning and, consequently, enhanced to their academic profile and built up by their social skills.
In line with the above mentioned, we have become a bilingual school and high school since this school year. Due to it, the new curriculum sets out as follows:
– Subjects taught in English for all 3- to 18-year-old learners, to ensure them cover the same bilingual education.
– Preparation to take English International certificates to verify knowledge and accurate use of the language.
– Permanent training to teachers of English and CLIL subjects to make use of the language as a tool for effective learning in the classroom.
We are really sure that incorporating bilingualism in our classrooms will enrich our students with academic and personal experiences to shape global citizens who will be able to make a more peaceful, sustainable and fairer world.
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Former Tuskegee Airman Robert Williams. He was with the Army Air Corps "Fighting 99th" the first squadron of Black fighter pilots in World War II. Now, after 45 years of trying he's gotten a studio interested in making a movie about the squadron. The new HBO movie, "The Tuskegee Airmen," stars Laurence Fishburne; Williams is the co-executive producer. The film debuts August 26th. | <urn:uuid:5c77f006-a54e-4b5a-bb8e-8aaf3d2c4958> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://freshairarchive.org/guests/robert-w-williams-1921-or | 2024-04-22T21:37:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.93934 | 92 |
Guru Maharaji has revealed how suspected land grabbers had injured four of his followers when they invaded his community on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
He said in a press conference, that the land was being used for farming and alleged the police for aiding the suspected land grabbers.
“We have gotten two favourable judgments on this land and we have been using the land for farming until we saw these hoodlums invade the land.
“It is a pity that some people still engage in such heinous crimes in this country where government preaches rule of law and anti-corruption every day,” he said.
Maharaj Ji said that the suspected land grabbers attacked and wounded his followers who had approached them over encroachment on the land.
He said that he had already petitioned the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 11 and the Commissioner of Police in Oyo State for the enforcement of the judgment.
“We wrote the police for the enforcement of the judgment and we petitioned Assistant Inspector General of Police office in Osogbo.
“Despite all these, they bribed their way for policemen to have led them here and gave them protection, definitely, something is wrong somewhere.
“My followers were beaten and injured while trying to stop the hoodlums, they are even threatening the life of my lawyer,” he said.
Maharaj Ji begged President Muhammadu Buhari, Gov. Seyi Makinde, Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi and Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Adetunji, to intervene.
“We can not accept injustice. We don’t want to fight them because we believe in the rule of law and we are law-abiding citizens.
”I don’t want to fight them because we should give what belongs to Ceaser to Ceaser.
“This is what we have done now just to make sure that my mission on earth is accomplished, that is why I am holistic in whatever I am doing,” he said.
Maharaj Ji said that he was ready to lead efforts to ensure hoodlums and landgrabbers were arrested, prosecuted and jailed.
SP Gbenga Fadeyi, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, however, said that he was not aware of any petition on the matter.
Fadeyi said that petitions were usually sent to the Commissioner of Police and that if there was any petition on the issue, the plaintiff should follow it up.
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The exposition ’20 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY has come to an end. For all who visited, worked on it and the press, thank you for making it a big succes! For those who could not come, here a text from Liesbeth Decan and lot’s of expo pictures by Cedric Etienne:
From 9 December 2016 until 20 January 2017, Frieke Janssens celebrated “20 Years of Photography” at the Ingrid Deuss Gallery. One wall with an impressive cloud of small images presents an overview of her work since she graduated as a photographer. The exhibition also includes a number of prints from the period in which she studied photography, first at evening classes in Bruges, then at the Sint-Lukas School of Arts in Brussels.
Remarkably, these early works already reveal some of the basic elements, which Frieke Janssens will later develop in the course of her professional career. Take, for example, the image showing a multiple exposure of a dancer, reminiscent of the early “motion pictures” of Etienne-Jules Marey or Eadweard Muybridge. It is a study of the movements of a human body — a theme which Janssens will also engage with in her later work with a particularly a sharp eye. In her work, figures are carefully cast and directed, and every one of their gestures is meticulously precise.
The staging of people in a certain setting is an aspect of her work that originated during her study period at Sint-Lukas. Her final project consisted of four different images, each of them depicting a different group of people, defined by a distinct style of clothing, posing in a matching décor. One of them is exhibited at the Ingrid Deuss Gallery and shows three young people and a dog, seated in typical Art Deco chairs in the Brussels jazz bar Archiduc. Their poise and gaze at the camera reveal their self-confidence, which probably arises in part from the confirmation they give each other through their similar appearances. Their poise and gaze also tell us that we, the viewers, do not belong in their universe.
Janssens refers to August Sander as a source of inspiration for this work. The well-defined pose of the figures and their direct gazing into the lens are indeed reminiscent of Sander’s famous People of the Twentieth Century. In addition, Janssens’ categorization of people by means of their lifestyle and looks recalls the way Sander labeled and grouped his figures by profession or social status. Here, Frieke Janssens seems to suggest that, even in times in which classifying people is generally considered “incorrect”, we still tend to pigeon-hole people. As in much of her later work, her beautifully stylized images will often embody a deeper reflection on certain aspects of our society.
The precise staging as well as the use of color that appears in the graduation photos led Janssens’ work into the realm of the photographic tableau — a photographic style that became popular in the 1980s, characterized by typically pictorial elements. Her first assignment — a campaign for the Flemish classical radio station Klara — includes a static portrait of a woman (we recognize her from the Archiduc group portrait), holding a parrot against a wallpapered background. As is often the case in Janssens’ photography, the potential sense of stiffness is broken by a funny twist, which also subtly subverts the painterly tradition the picture refers to. In the photo, the parrot’s beak is tied with a rope to keep the animal quiet while its owner is listening to music.
The lady with the parrot embodies the origin of Frieke Janssens’ emblematic imagery, which is characterized by an accurate staging of people and/or animals, in a rather sober, attractive setting, with often humoristic, sometimes surreal undertones. The humoristic, or at least surprising, effect is often generated by combining two elements that normally do not belong together. The image presented in Smoking Kids, for example, is shocking (and shockingly amusing) because it connects the idea of the innocent child with a harmful adult habit such as cigarette smoking. The same goes for Animalcoholics, an impressive panoramic tableau depicting the interior of a bar, replete with a lavatory filled with animals posing in a drunken state. Again, her particular humoristic approach makes us think about social issues, such as smoking and alcohol abuse.
In other works, the combination of two incongruous elements adds a surrealist layer to the pictures. Take, for example, the man engaging in a friendly hug with a tiger; the girl with tears in rainbow colors; the woman in hunting outfit proudly posing with her prey, a naked man; or, the series of bust sculptures that represent living individuals instead of marble figures. Humans take the place of animals, and vice versa; lifeless things become animated. Unexpected elements like these undermine the proper reading of the image, and give them an eerie effect. If at first we are attracted by the beauty of the image, the iconographic twist creates a certain sense of unease. What makes Frieke Jannsens’ images interesting is that they manage to simultaneously seduce and frighten. They play with the duality of the dream state, in which reality and fiction intermingle.
On the occasion of “20 Years of Photography” Frieke Janssens conducted a few interviews with photographers she feels an affinity with, such as Karel Fonteyne, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Athos Burez, Rankin and Bjorn Tagemose. Just like Janssens, they combine a commercial practice with artistic work. Out of curiosity for the way in which these photographers deal with this division in their work, the interviews mainly focused on this theme. However, for the visitor of the Ingrid Deuss Gallery, who will be confronted with no less than 161 pictures on one of the walls of the gallery — neatly finished miniature versions of photographs Jannsens created in the course of her career — the dichotomy between autonomous or commissioned work is less important. For if there is one thing that the wall reveals, then it is the fact that Janssens’ commissioned work differs neither in style nor in approach from her autonomous work. In every picture, we recognize her signature, which is characterized by technical perfection, pictorial references, and a playful duality between reality and fiction. | <urn:uuid:746ab1a0-6c7e-46eb-ad13-e794d38b24df> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://frieke.com/expo/theexpo20yearofphotography/ | 2024-04-22T22:47:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.957071 | 1,363 |
Bruce (age 5) will be cycling 25 miles on his own bike from Hoylake to Mickle Trafford this Saturday 16th with his Dad
He is raising funds for a Multi-use Games Area at his school, Frodsham Manor House
Starting at Hoylake Lifeboat Station at 8am on Saturday 16th, he will ride to West Kirby on the Wirral Way to Heswall and on to Neston. An early Lunch will be at Net’s Cafe at around 11.30am, depending on headwinds, rain showers and energy levels.
After lunch he will ride the NCR 568 to Deeside onto the Chester Greenway (NCR 5) through Blacon, Chester and Newton. All being well they should arrive at Meadow Lea Cafe in Mickle Trafford between 2.30 and 3.30pm. | <urn:uuid:4c92eae0-f579-42dc-a085-25e4f2924fd6> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://frodsham.gov.uk/2018/06/bruce-age-5-cycling-25-miles-raising-money-for-his-school/ | 2024-04-22T21:27:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.96435 | 175 |
Learn how we wrote & designed a high-converting landing page that achieved a whopping 60% conversion rate for an award-winning social entrepreneur & mentor.
The newsletter signup page Sabine wrote and designed for multi award-winning social entrepreneur and mentor Nyasha Gwatidzo achieved a whopping 60% conversion rate. That’s 12x the conversion rate of the average landing page.
The goal was not to get as many sign-ups as possible — but instead, to ensure a perfect fit between Nyasha and her list. With the right subscribers, the list would be far more engaged and more receptive to the idea of booking Nyasha for mentoring.
While a conversion rate of 60% is certainly not a typical result, the steps Sabine took to create this high-converting landing page are still a great guide to writing websites that convert well.
REALLY Getting to Know the Ideal Subscriber
A lot of low-converting websites and landing pages are written quickly, in a scattergun approach: the same page is supposed to work for “everybody”.
Many entrepreneurs also invite all sorts of people to subscribe to their newsletter… and worry about the content of those emails later.
And we get it — we’re all busy and want to get our message out there, fast.
But that approach risks leaving website visitors feeling lukewarm. One-size-fits-all doesn’t exist in copywriting.
All our writing follows the Rule of One (not the Sith doctrine — the copywriting rule!). We write each piece for one distinct type of reader, exploring one big idea, making one offer.
With this in mind, Sabine decided to start with a thorough understanding of the value Nyasha could add through her emails — and her ideal audience.
Creating the Launch Pad
The Launch Pad is essentially a detailed briefing document that contains every bit of information about our client, their ideal audience and the content they want to share.
For Nyasha’s landing page, Sabine compiled it from a range of sources including interviews with former mentees, website and MailChimp analytics, conversations with Nyasha and existing content (Facebook Lives, blog posts and LinkedIn activity). This allowed her to take a deep dive into who we were going to attract: not just their demographics (global female social entrepreneurs who’ve been in business for at least 2 years) but also — and most importantly — their psychographics.
From that research, we knew that her ideal audience loved Oprah Winfrey, tried to live mindfully and worked extremely hard to make money for their mission… often while making big personal sacrifices.
Plotting the newsletter
Nyasha Gwatidzo mentors social entrepreneurs.
This means she operates in an increasingly crowded market, which is dominated by coaches and mentors offering their ‘blueprints’, ‘templates’ and ‘proven 5-step plans’.
In researching her audience, Sabine found a perfect match between their disillusionment with people selling ways to ‘make money on autopilot’ and Nyasha’s unique approach. She doesn’t teach a generic course: instead, she engages directly with her mentees in order to help them discover the strategies that best suit them.
Her newsletter was therefore going to show off this special way of working.
We were going to combine mindset work (what gets in the way of following your calling?) with Nyasha’s inspirational story (allowing her to generate a cumulative $130 million turnover and over $25 million EBIT since 1987) and practical, easy-to-apply tips to make every day feel that little bit lighter.
With this background, it was much easier to write a landing page that resonated with the right people, and gave them enough details to intrigue them.
Writing the landing page
Often, clients choose to work on the web design first, sometimes even relying on proven templates that later guide the flow of the text.
We prefer a copy-first approach: once we know the conversation that will take place on the page, a skilled web designer or developer can really work their magic to enhance that experience for the user. It’s rarely useful to squeeze the messaging into a pre-defined container.
Identifying people’s stage of awareness
Matching visitors’ stages of awareness is the most important thing to get right on landing pages. Will they be completely unaware of the things a mentor could help them with? Will they be pain aware — knowing they have a problem, but unsure how to solve it? Or will they be aware of the powers of mentorship?
Nyasha was going to use LinkedIn articles to invite people to the landing page, so we knew they’d be aware of who she is and what kinds of problems she can help with. Sabine knew that she’d have to write just enough to explain Nyasha’s unique approach.
Writing the headline
The headline had to match people’s expectations based on what they had just read about Nyasha. It also had to get their attention and draw them in:
Following the principle of ‘tell them what you’re gonna tell them’, this headline gives just enough information to tell people they’ve come to the right place — while leaving all the juicy bits open… intriguing the reader enough to start reading the rest of the page.
Writing the body of the page
First of all, Sabine wanted to show that Nyasha understands the pain of her reader. She used the first two paragraphs to draw attention to the dichotomy between the high dreams these hard-working social entrepreneurs set out with, and their current reality.
Growing your company’s impact should be an exciting time for you. After years of honing your skills, inspiring others for your mission and working through weekends… You DESERVE to be heading up an organisation that’s famous and loved. You deserve to be able to invest more money into making the world a better place. All while operating as the confident, serene social entrepreneur with customers who are EQUALLY as excited and committed to bringing your vision to life. But for many social entrepreneurs, it didn’t quite work out that way: They wear more hats than ever. Cancel more girls’ nights out and family movie nights than ever… And suffer through more isolation, burnout, and frustration than they should ever endure… As they try to come to terms with the fact that dreadful things continue to happen to the communities they toil to transform.
In her interviews, Sabine had learned about some of their specific pain points and the language they used to describe those. Now was the time to mirror that language and use those specifics to show how close Nyasha is to their reality.
This part culminated in the revelation that “The only thing you’ll ever learn from other people’s ‘blueprints’ is what worked for them (not you)” — and an explanation of how Nyasha’s approach is different.
If you’re ready to face the truth, here’s why:
The only thing you’ll ever learn from other people’s ‘blueprints’ is what worked for them (not you)
The internet is full of tactics like growth hacking, ‘proven’ blueprints and people glorifying ‘the hustle’.
Yes, they can take you to the point where you can see *decent* changes for a while — but they come at the expense of no longer listening to your inner wisdom…
And instead, following someone else’s templates.
What if we treated “scaling impact” not as a box-ticking exercise with a one-size-fits-all methodology…
But as an expression of your individual entrepreneurial DNA, currently a dormant seed…
…ready to take shape and bear fruit as soon as we give it the space, nurture and light it requires?
Headspace to scale your social enterprise is my invitation to discover that seed.
Writing the call to action
Since GDPR had hit our inboxes earlier that year, we were all a bit less in love with the idea of getting yet another newsletter. So Sabine decided to call these emails a “journey of discovery” rather than a plain old newsletter — highlighting the benefit of engaging with these emails. This wording also conveys a sense of discovery which adds to the appeal of signing up.
Sabine then listed all the good stuff Nyasha’s newsletter would cover:
Join me on a journey of discovery to find what works for YOU
Sign up to my Discovery Emails & find out:
– What gets in the way of following your calling.
– How to set better goals that help you realise your vision.
– The ideas at the foundation of my own successful social enterprises — generating a cumulative $130 million turnover and over $25 million EBIT since 1987. (None of which is the result of following someone else’s blueprints.)
– Things you can do right now to make every day feel that little bit lighter.I’ll help you apply these thoughts and ideas to your personal situation and your dream of how you want to make the world a happier place.
Just above the form itself, a headline and one line of copy explained clearly how to sign up and added information about how their personal details wold be processed. This allowed us to keep the sign-up form simple and sleek, as readers would have all the information they needed to make an informed decision about signing up:
To get my emails, simply fill in your details & click the big button below:
First Name, Last Name, Email Address
CTA: Embark on your Email Discovery
Designing the landing page
As we had no expert web designer on the project team, Sabine built the page in Nyasha’s Leadpages account. Using free stock photos, she drew attention and added a bit of emotional oomph to crucial parts of the page.
It was important to her that readers could scan the page quickly, scroll to the signup field and join the newsletter even if they didn’t want to read all the detail.
One way Sabine achieved this was by placing Nyasha’s portrait right next to the benefits of signing up. Photos slow visitors down; they’re more likely to read text to the left of an image.
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The terrorist attacks in Bangalore and Ahmedabad form part of a jehadist campaign that has its roots in communal hatred.
in New DelhiWE are closed for the summer, says the little girl at the gates of the Shah Waliullah Madrassa. You need to come back in two weeks time. She goes back to balancing herself on the seminarys balustrade, with all the seriousness of a gymnast training for the horizontal bars.
Politics is not welcome at the Lal Masjid seminary in Ahmedabads Kalupur area. Its students learn the six principles of Islam as enunciated by Mohammad Illyas, the founder of the Tablighi Jamaat, and are exhorted to give up frivolities such as television and cinema. But it was here that the first seeds of the jehadist movement in Gujarat were planted. It flowered into Julys terror bombings.
Ever since last months bombings in Ahmedabad and Bangalore one of dozens of plots led by young Indian jehadists who say they are fighting to avenge the 2002 communal pogrom in Gujarat the media have not tired themselves of informing us that jehadist terrorism has taken a dramatic new turn. Instead of Pakistan-based terrorists, it is claimed, a new generation of Indian jehadists is spearheading the attacks.
In fact, the claim is nonsensical: not one single Islamist urban terror cell since the 1993 serial bombings of Mumbai which, as now, were carried out to avenge a communal massacre has not involved a preponderance of Indian nationals. But the claim does show how little Islamist terror groups, and the politics that has driven their growth, are understood in India.
One afternoon in March 2002, Feroze Abdul Latif Ghaswala watched 40 victims of the anti-Muslim communal pogrom being buried near his aunts home in Ahmedabad. Back home in Mumbai, the automobile mechanic saw a printout of a Lashkar-e-Taiba pamphlet, with a picture of riot victim Qutbuddin Ansari begging for his life. Do you think he should have a gun? it asked.
He did. In September 2003, Ghaswala volunteered for training in Pakistan with a group led by Rahil Abdul Rehman Sheikh, the architect of the Mumbai serial bombing in 2006. When the Delhi Police caught up with him in the summer of 2006, Ghaswala, along with computer engineer Ali Mohammad Cheepa, had just received a consignment of military-grade explosives from the Lashkar for a major bombing in Ahmedabad.
Ghaswala was typical of the dozens of young men from Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Karnataka who trained with the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Harkat ul-Jihad-e-Islami in the wake of the 2002 massacres.
No one knows just how many made the journey, but police and intelligence experts estimate their number to be over 200. In Hyderabad, for instance, organised crime networks facilitated the training of figures such as Mohammad Shahid Bilal and Mohammad Amzad, who are thought to have executed a series of bombings in the city last year. Bangalore saw Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) activists such as Peedical Abdul Shibly set up front organisations to talent-spot for recruitment. Maharashtra, too, saw intense recruitment through the jehadists within SIMI.
In Gujarat, the little seminary squeezed into a packed lane off the Kalupur clock-tower was where the story began. Maulana Sufiyan Patangia, who ran the seminary, often travelled to Saudi Arabia, seeking support for his students. After the Gujarat earthquake on January 26, 2001, the cleric put these networks into use to raise funds for relief work. It was his first foray into the secular world.
Al Qaedas bombing of New York and Washington, D.C., gave Patangia a new cause. In the wake of the United States-led war on the Taliban, Patangia declared that Islam was in danger. He set up a study group, the Idara-e-Fadlullah-ul-Muslimeen (IFM), to educate his earthquake-relief volunteers. IFM members monitored events in Afghanistan on the Internet and listened to tapes of Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Mohammad Masood Azhars speeches.
Patangia used to be jokingly called Mullah Omar after the Taliban leader. His second-in-command, Suhail Khan, adopted Osama bin Laden-style headgear, acquiring the nickname Chhota Osama, or Little Osama, in the process. In February 2002, when the communal pogrom in Gujarat began, Patangia was in Saudi Arabia on his annual pilgrimage. He turned to South Asian Islamists there for help to defend his community and to exact revenge. Abdul Bari, a one-time Hyderabad resident who is among the Lashkar-e-Taibas top financiers, put up Rs.3,75,000. Two Saudi-based Jaish-e-Mohammad fundraisers of Hyderabad origin, Farhatullah Ghauri and Abdul Rehman, threw in another Rs.5,00,000.
Most important, though, Patangia made contact with Rasool Khan Parti nicknamed with the Ahmedabad argot for contractor because of his work for top Gujarat mafioso Abdul Latif Sheikh and his Pakistan-based boss, Dawood Ibrahim Kaksar. In May 2002, Rasool Khan and his brother Idris Khan met Patangia in Mumbai to discuss just how vengeance could be extracted.
Late in May 2002, five bombs went off on buses in Ahmedabad, injuring 26 people. It was the first act of violence by Gujarat-based jehadists. In December, Khan arranged for eight of Patangias volunteers to travel to Pakistan for training. Along with other groups of young people from Hyderabad, Mumbai and Bangalore, the Ahmedabad jehadists flew to Pakistan through Dhaka, Kathmandu, Dubai and Bangkok.
Soon, the vengeance they sought was delivered. Gujarats Home Minister Haren Pandya had led some of the most murderous mobs in Ahmedabad during the pogrom. Just 13 months later, he was dead shot, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) detectives later determined, by a hit team directed by Patangia. Nine of the 12 assassins received life terms last year.
Despite the CBIs successes, plans for large-scale reprisal attacks in Gujarat continued apace. Lashkar-e-Taiba and Maharashtra-based SIMI operatives took the lead helped by a steady flow of new recruits.
In June 2004, the Lashkar-e-Taiba despatched two Pakistani nationals from Jammu and Kashmir to execute a fidayeen attack in Gujarat. Jishan Johar, a resident of Gujranwala in Pakistan, and Amjad Ali Rana, who hailed form Sargodha, were killed in a controversial encounter in Ahmedabad along with SIMI activist Javed Sheikh and his friend, Ishrat Jehan Raza.
Maharashtra-based SIMI bomb-maker Zulfikar Fayyaz Kagzi built a sophisticated suitcase-bomb, which was planted on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad express train in February 2006. An error in the timer circuit led the bomb to explode 12 hours after its scheduled detonation time, by which time cleaning staff had deposited the suitcase in an empty corner of the Ahmedabad railway station. And in May 2006, the Intelligence Bureau (I.B.) prevented a potentially catastrophic bombing in Gujarat, penetrating an Aurangabad-based SIMI unit, which was in an advanced stage of preparation for serial bomb strikes.
Despite these anti-terrorism successes, though, the campaign went on. Jehadists in several States, many of whom had trained together, collaborated fluidly across State lines, pooling resources, cadre and most important ideas. It is still unclear if the jehadist groups that carried out the attacks in Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Surat had any degree of operational coordination, but this much is certain: the perpetrators would have known each other and their objectives.
Some commentators appear profoundly surprised at the rise of such a large-scale jehadist project in India. It has, for the most part, been cast as an import from Pakistan or West Asia. In fact, jehadism has long been a well-established part of the spectrum of Muslim political responses to political and economic crisis a marginal one, but important none the less.
It is interesting to consider the Shah Waliullah seminary itself named after one of the most influential theologians of South Asian Islam. Shah Waliullah Muhaddith Dehlavi lived from 1703 to 1762, the period when, after the death of Aurangzeb, Mughal power went into decline. Revered across a broad spectrum of Muslim sectarian opinion, Waliullah is seen as having laid the foundations of an intellectual renaissance, emphasising education, social reform, and purification of the religion.
However, as the historian Ayesha Jalal has shown, Waliullah also pushed for the sharpening of the boundaries between Hindus and Muslims, and between orthodoxy and heresy. His identification of Mughal rule with the power of Islam led him to write to Muslim rulers and notables calling for a jehad against the rising Jat and Maratha powers, as well as measures against Hindus and followers of the Shia faith. He even wrote to the Afghan warlord Ahmad Shah Abdali, calling on him to invade India.
For the most part jehadists saw themselves as responding to existential threats just as they do today. Stephen F. Dale, for example, has pointed to the use of the notions of jehad and shahadat (martyrdom) to protect what he calls a cultural-ideological Islamic frontier along the Malabar coast.
In response to the destruction of the Muslim mercantile monopoly of the India-Arabia spice trade by Portuguese traders in the 16th century, the historian Zayn al-Din al-Mabari compiled the Tuhfat al-Mujahiden fi Bad Ahwal al-Purtukaliyyin (History of the Mujahideen), hoping to inspire the faithful to undertake a jehad against the worshippers of the Cross. Al-Mabari recorded the evils which the Portuguese inflicted upon the Muslims of Malabar as well as a brief account of the laws and religious merit of the jehad. Well into the 18th century, East India Company records describe fidayeen suicide-squad attacks along the Malabar coast, on occasion targeting religious congregations.
During the great rebellion of 1857, Indian insurgents fighting imperial British troops included among their ranks self-described jehadis, including at least one regiment of suicide ghazis, who vowed to fight until they met death at the hands of the infidel. While it would, perhaps, be misleading to read this form of jehadi resistance in the context of our times, the fact remains that the presence of the ghazis, or Islamic warriors, caused Hindu-Muslim communal friction of a kind that is startlingly modern.
All through the freedom movement, too, there were small jehadist offshoots that flourished under the great umbrella of the anti-colonial mass movement. What we are seeing today, it would appear, is a wholly predictable consequence of the murderous communalisation of Indias civic life.
Has the vengeance that jehadists like these sought been delivered? Not quite. Minutes before the bombing, the Indian Mujahideen a Lashkar-SIMI front organisation, which also took responsibility for earlier bombings in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh sent out a manifesto explaining just what it now seeks.
According to the manifesto, the Indian Mujahideen is raising the illustrious banner of Jihad against the Hindus and all those who fight and resist us, and here we begin our revenge with the help and Permission of Allah a terrifying revenge of our blood, our lives and our honour that will Insha-Allah terminate your survival on this land.
The manifesto calls on Hindus to realise that the falsehood of your 33 crore dirty mud idols and the blasphemy of your deaf, dumb mute and naked idols of ram, krishna and hanuman [sic .; capitalisation as in original throughout] are not at all going to save your necks from being slaughtered by our hands. It demands that Hindus change their attitudes, lest another Ghauri shakes your foundations, and lest another Ghaznavi massacres you, proving your blood to be the cheapest of all mankind.
No great effort is needed to locate the intellectual genesis of this body of ideas: it draws heavily on long-standing Lashkar-e-Taiba polemic. Indeed, the manifestos plea that the Lashkar-e-Taiba not take responsibility for the attacks is something of a give-away, since the terror group has never owned up to actions targeting civilians.
In 2003, for instance, the Lashkar argued on its website that violence against Muslims in India was an outcome of the core character of Hindus, who have no compassion in their religion. It was the duty of Muslims to wage jehad against Hindu oppressors, and it was the Hindu who is a terrorist.
Lashkar chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed also said that the Hindu is a mean enemy and the proper way to deal with him is the one adopted by our forefathers [who] crushed them by force. Saeed made clear just as the Indian Mujahideen has that the objective of the jehad was extending Muslim control over what it saw as Muslim land. At a rally in November 1999, he promised he would not rest until the whole of India is dissolved into Pakistan. All those who participated in this project were promised huge places in Paradise.
SIMI, like the Indian Mujahideen, also invoked medieval conquerors in its literature. In the wake of the demolition of the Babri Masjid, SIMI called for Muslims to avenge the act by following in the steps of the 11th century conqueror Mahmud Ghaznavi. SIMI posters appealed to God to send another Ghaznavi and thus avenge the attacks on Muslims and their mosques by attacking temples.
Local religious influences are evident. In its manifesto, the Indian Mujahideen describes itself as terrorist, an apparently odd usage. However, it suggests that the author followed the neoconservative television evangelist Zakir Naik as several past Mumbai-based Lashkar operatives such as Rahil Sheikh and Feroze Deshmukh did.
In a controversial speech on Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, Naik proclaimed that if he is fighting the enemies of Islam, I am for him. If he is terrorising America the terrorist the biggest terrorist I am with him.
Every Muslim should be a terrorist, Naik concluded. The thing is, if he is terrorising a terrorist, he is following Islam.
Most Indian Muslims would dispute the proposition: it is not for nothing, after all, that the Indian Mujahideen manifesto devotes considerable space to railing against clerics who oppose its jehadism. But the fact remains that some numbers of young Muslims angered by discrimination, enraged by pogroms see jehadism as the sole option available to them. As scholar Ashutosh Varshney points out, the roots of this tragedy lie in the breakdown of inter-communal institutions: in a creeping religious apartheid that enveloped several major cities in the second half of the last century, decades before the pogrom.
In the weeks to come, police and intelligence investigators will have to find the perpetrators of the bombings. Politicians, however, have a far more important task: to ensure that justice and equity are placed centre stage in Indias civic life. No other way exists to bring down the intellectual infrastructure of hate, on which the jehadist campaign rests. | <urn:uuid:3af4f717-1e48-4bc8-a164-f325bc27940a> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/article30197306.ece | 2024-04-22T22:15:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.9608 | 3,305 |
It’s been a good time to be a racing fan in recent months. If you need proof of it, look at any of the races that took place on Memorial Day Sunday.
Fans of most popular forms of motorsport have been given cause for optimism lately.
Formula 1 has exploded in popularity with the rise of “Drive to Survive” on Netflix, improved social media presence in the Liberty Media era and the success of genuine mainstream celebrity Lewis Hamilton. The series has finally hit big in the United States with the Miami Grand Prix, has a Las Vegas trip coming next year and seemingly packs out the stands wherever it goes. F1 delivered the most dramatic championship battle in years last season and has provided enjoyable racing with its new car — save for porpoising concerns, anyways.
NASCAR’s Next Gen car has been a general success so far. While there are some fair concerns over flat tracks and dirty air, the cars have provided strong races at intermediate tracks that previously floundered. The sport has made strides for inclusion and diversity while also finding success with recent schedule shakeups like the Busch Light Clash at the Coliseum and trips to road courses including Circuit of the Americas and Road America.
The NTT IndyCar Series only had 33 entrants for the Indy 500, but the standard field at other races has seen an increase in car counts. Arrivals of popular drivers from elsewhere like Supercars star Scott McLaughlin, F1 veteran Romain Grosjean and seven-time NASCAR Cup champ Jimmie Johnson has added extra intrigue, particularly this year with them all running the Indianapolis 500. The sport has also found young stars in Alex Palou, Colton Herta and Pato O’Ward, among others.
Dirt tracks have seen strong attendances and large purses. Sports car racing seems poised for a renaissance with IMSA and the FIA finding common ground. Car counts are up in tours like the ARCA Menards Series. Even asphalt late model racing, which has seemingly been stuck in a rut, has a promising new national series with the SRL National Tour that could grow into something special.
This has been a spring worth celebrating for most racing series, and there was no better occasion to celebrate than the so-called Greatest Day in Motorsports last Sunday (May 29).
Long considered a “Motorsports Christmas” of sorts, the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend has historically been packed with major races. F1’s Monaco Grand Prix arrives in the morning, IndyCar’s historic Indianapolis 500 follows in the early afternoon and NASCAR wraps it all up with the sport’s greatest test of endurance, the Coca-Cola 600.
For the past two years, this beloved holiday for racing fans has been scuppered by circumstance. The COVID-19 pandemic had just taken hold in 2020, leaving only the Coca-Cola 600 on the weekend. F1’s only competition at Monaco happened in the F1 video game. The Indianapolis 500 was pushed off to August, but neither it or NASCAR’s crown jewel featured any fans.
The 2021 season brought something a bit closer to normalcy, but things were still atypical. Monaco was held on a different weekend due to a calendar-based scheduling quirk. Indianapolis returned to its rightful May slot, but featured a limited crowd capacity of 135,000.
That meant Sunday was the first ‘normal’ Greatest Day in Motorsports since 2019 — a year that feels like a lifetime ago.
Fans were ready to celebrate the occasion.
In a day of post-pandemic joy, spectators packed into all three venues. Monaco was bursting with people. The Indy 500 had its best attendance since the 100th Running of the race in 2016. Charlotte Motor Speedway announced a sellout and had an infield filled with more campers than the track’s seen in years.
Regardless of which track you were watching, the general atmosphere was positive heading into the weekend. Fans showed up en masse and were ready to be entertained. The tracks and series just needed to do their part to make the weekend memorable. Thankfully each race proved up to the task.
If any series was going to provide a letdown, it figured to the F1. Monaco is a prestigious event and features the most intense qualifying session of the year, but the race has been processional in recent years due to the larger modern cars struggling to race side-by-side on the tight street circuit.
That wasn’t the case this year — at least not entirely. A mixture of changing weather conditions and evolving tire strategies made for an intriguing wet-to-dry race. Even Sergio Perez and Red Bull utilizing strategy to upset hometown favorite Charles Leclerc and Ferrari could sour the mood of what proved to be a memorable race.
Indy has been the strongest of the three races in recent years and lived up to its end of the bargain again in 2022. There were numerous comers and goers over the race. The only dominant one, Scott Dixon, threw his race away with a speeding penalty. Just when it seemed that his teammate Marcus Ericsson would drive off in the closing laps, a caution for Jimmie Johnson brought out a yellow flag that, with the help of an ensuing red flag from race control, brought the field together for a two-lap sprint.
In another era, that red flag may have sullied the race for the IndyCar faithful. But modern audiences are more open to sacrificing a bit of legitimacy for the sake of an entertaining finish. They got what they wanted on Sunday, with Ericsson narrowly fending off O’Ward after they dove into turn 1 side-by-side before a caution flew seconds later.
The Coca-Cola 600 is a crown jewel race, but it was admittedly prone to being a snoozer during the Gen 6 era. That’s changed this year with the arrival of the Next Gen car. Intermediate tracks (save for Texas Motor Speedway) have provided some of the best races of the year thus far.
Charlotte was no exception to that rule. NASCAR’s challenging new cars yielded a race with 64 green flag passes for the lead and well over a dozen cautions. The race ran long — a record 619.5 miles and well over the five-hour mark due to double overtime — but most fans didn’t mind. A high quantity of racing isn’t insufferable when the quality’s as high as it was on Sunday.
Each chapter of Sunday’s prestigious day of racing delivered. Collectively, they made for an experience that sits among the best days in modern motorsports history.
The stands were packed. The racing was great. The mood was good.
In a time where racing seems to be on the rise, everything came together to create a near-perfect day for fans all across the world.
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A graduate of Ball State, Aaron rejoins Frontstretch for his second season in 2016 following a successful year that included covering seven races and starting the popular "Two-Headed Monster" column in 2015. Now in his third year of covering motorsports, Aaron serves as an Assistant Editor for Frontstretch while also contributing to other popular sites including Speed51 and The Apex. He encourages you to come say hi when you see him at the track.
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You might someday find yourself working within the overall vision of someone else – like an editor, an art director or, in this case, a director of photography – when shooting on assignment for publications as big as Sports Illustrated. Limited time with your subject and being asked for simple lighting against a simple background isn’t uncommon in this industry. So how would you go about getting the type of photographs your employer wants plus creating a dramatically lit and colored set for yourself?
It's an audacious maneuver and seemingly impossible under these constraints, but Alexis Cuarezma explains how he dared to capture two completely different images of former Stanford linebacker Shayne Skov every time he pressed his camera's shutter button.
What has been the best unexpected early birthday present you’ve ever gotten?? For me, last July it was getting a call from Brad Smith, the Director of Photographer [sic] at Sports Illustrated to shoot an assignment. There’s no way in the world I would turn this down or not be available. Then he started to tell me what he was looking for visually. He told me to keep the lighting simply and straight forward with the grey seamless, and that they would cut out Shayne and replace the background in post. I knew exactly in my mind how he wanted the image lit and what he was looking for. As soon as he told me this, it became bitter/sweet for me. Yes, it’s a dream to get an assignment from Sports Illustrated, and it would be a nice tear sheet to have, but regardless where it’s published I wouldn’t be proud to have an image lit like that. I LOVE lighting dramatic, I LOVE light fall off, I LOVE using real finicky lighting setups that aren’t simple to light and are dark & dramatic. I also know that for assignments like this, time is precious. So what did I do with this amazing opportunity & first assignment for SI??
I didn’t listen to what I was told! At least on the keeping it simple part.
Alexis went to work designing the look that his boss requested and a vastly different one more suited to his style. When it came down to choosing how to control everything, he decided to make use of Pocket Wizard transceivers: one MultiMax as his trigger and four Plus IIIs to bang off his lights. The MultiMax was key, though. It has an advanced feature called the SpeedCycler that allows for sequential triggering of up to four light units. Also, both the Plus III and MultiMax transceivers allow for quad-zone triggering that you can set in groups lettered A through D.
What he now had was the ability to separate the two looks into different lettered groups and to fire them off one after another by simply holding down his camera's shutter button. The Canon 1D Mark IV that he used shoots up to ten frames per second. That's one image every 100 milliseconds! This made getting expressions within successive photos practically identical as opposed to what a camera with a slower FPS rate could capture.
Here's a great view of how his setup was arranged.
Did you notice that he used six lights but only had four Plus III receivers to operate them? It took me a few minutes to figure out what he did. He used Dynalite flash heads and power packs. Each power pack can control up to four heads, so he plugged two of them into each pack, and then only needed two Plus III receivers for four of his lights. Pretty smart!
Alexis also chose a wireless tether with the iUSBport Camera Wireless Transmitter so he could share the photos he was taking through his iPad.
All this extra work and stress was completely worth it in the end because I was able to make images for myself in the style I like and also do what was expected of me. I strongly believe that whenever you’re shooting regardless if it’s a paid assignment or personal shoot that you should always shoot and do something for yourself whenever possible. Do something that makes you proud. If you’re just following directions or only doing what’s expected of you or what you’re being told to do then you’re just doing a job and going through the motions. And what’s the point in that?
I love what Alexis did. Providing a client what they want as well as giving them added value in an option they didn't even expect is a great way to do business. Sports Illustrated must have thought so too, because they chose to use the images from his custom, edgier lighting for the story they ran.
Be sure to check out his behind the scenes video where he explains the shoot even further.
Have you ever done any complex lighting like this before?
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Are hotel prices stopping you from traveling this summer to the big cities? Looking to make a few extra bucks on during your summer vacation? Airbnb, a startup founded in 2008 by Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk, can help you out. While the startup began in a San Francisco apartment, after its recent announcement of raising 112 million dollars from investors, it may be outgrowing that label. According to Jenna Wortham from the New York Times, Airbnb lets people rent out their extra rooms online to travelers looking for a place to stay. Airbnb handles up to 10,000 guests a night and offers a diverse selection of rooms, ranging from a villa to even a treehouse. Renters can set their own prices and Airbnb makes money by putting a surcharge on the rate. The locations of available rooms have expanded greatly, as rooms have popped up across the United States and in more exotic places like Greece and Fiji.
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It is with great sadness to hear and relay the news that original Jamiroquai keyboard player Toby Smith died on 11th April 2017. He was an original member of the band until 2002 when he left to spend more time with his family. He set up a recording studio at his home, started producing cider with some friends, built up a love (and garage) of classic cars and was a keen horse rider. This is a very sad day for all Jamiroquai fans. Much love to his wife, children and the rest of his family.
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Walmart has officially announced its intention to acquire TV manufacturer Vizio for USD 2.3 billion. One of the key assets that Walmart will receive is the SmartCast operating system, which will open up new opportunities for the company in the advertising sector.
Vizio claims to have more than 500 direct partnerships with advertisers through its Vizio Platform Plus business, as well as more than 18 million active accounts on its Smart TV operating system, which will be a significant asset for Walmart.
Walmart already has its own Onn TV brand, but the acquisition of Vizio will help the company compete with affordable smart TVs from Amazon and Roku. It also strengthens Walmart's role in the advertising market, especially after last year's collaboration with Innovid and Roku.
The deal is still pending regulatory approval and can be terminated within 45 days if Vizio receives a "better offer". Vizio CEO, William Wang, said that the decision is the perfect next step for the company, combining their resources and abilities to drive innovation and create more value for customers.
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This article gives you information about Walk Master Coins Generator. Could it be said that you are tired of gathering money in the Walk Master game and looking for its changed adaptation with everything opened? In the event that indeed, you would adore this Walk Master Mod Apk. Presently, get prepared to encounter the new walk learning process with many lovely creatures like cows, pigs, goats, and others.
Walk Master is a most difficult single-player reproduction game where you need to gather the exceptional characters and make them master in walking by standard practice. The game offers heaps of astonishing elements like wonderful characters, dazzling areas, testing levels, instinctive controls, and numerous others.
Walk Master Coins Generator – How To Get Walk Master Free Coins and Money
At the point when you are in the Characters interface you will find in the bottom right corner a button which shows a “+30 coins” symbol. Tap on that to rapidly watch an advertisement and gain 30 free coins! It’s really valuable and they will add up rapidly, so it’s certainly worth watching an advertisement at whatever point you have the choice.
Change your personality
There are many characters that you can play in the game, one more clever than the last. You will actually want to play as a toilet bowl called Mr. Bowl, as a flamingo, a doggo, a life sized model and significantly more.
There are two sorts of characters that you can play: Gold characters and Challenge characters.
Walk Master (MOD, Unlimited Coins)
Walk Master (MOD, Unlimited Coins) – interesting arcade simulator in which you need to become familiar with the expertise of walking as entertaining characters, and you should finish this cycle utilizing braces, skis and different gadgets.
Such a recognizable cycle by and by will end up being very troublesome, in light of the fact that you will likewise need to make walks in troublesome areas, both normal and man-made beginning. What’s more, different assignments and preliminaries will be sitting tight for you. To work with the advancement of the game, designers have added the capacity of setting controls and characters.
The straightforward control instrument, however is it truly simple to master
When you join the game, you will see a picture of a goat with two sticks attached to leg. Your undertaking is to take it through the backwoods to observe the family being hijacked. The control system is very straightforward, remembering just the sliding activities for the screen to move.
However, when the player is out of equilibrium, the player should consistently slide so the goat moves, if not it will fall and the stage closes right away. Albeit this control component is very straightforward, it centers around inventiveness and exactness to guarantee balance. Assuming the player misses the lines that are too lengthy or too short, they will fall.
There are two game modes for players to browse including Marathon, where the person should walk far to score. Obviously, you want to run beyond what many would consider possible in light of the fact that the street appears to perpetually towards the finish of the woods. The further you go into the woodland, the more obstructions and risks will show up! Be cautious, to have a dubious mishap.
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WoW recently announced that players are able to acquire Rumble Minis, which can be used to attack enemies and defend your character.
In World of Warcraft, you can be the hero you want to be. Will you become an inventive Gnome Warlock? Or perhaps fight as a hulking Tauren Warrior? The choice is entirely yours to make!
The game’s developer, Blizzard, regularly released new items and features to the game for players to enjoy to ensure that the game does not become monotonous.
On Tuesday, 3 October 2023, Blizzard revealed that players can dive into joyful chaos as Warcraft Rumble pops into Azeroth.
Allegedly, WoW gamers cannot get enough of the mysterious new machine which leaves joyful chaos in its wake.
The Warcraft Rumble Machines beckon eager collectors to expand their growing toy collections. WoW zones and cities will become alive with miniature-sized adventure when the machine pops onto the scene.
This offers players a unique way to collect their own Warcraft Rumble Miniatures in Dragonflight.
According to the announcement, the Rumble Machines can be found in the 4 Major Dragonflight Zones.
You can therefore explore The Waking Shores, Ohn’ahran Plains, The Azure Span and Thaldraszus to find the machines. You can also encounter the Rumble Machines in Orgrimmar, Stormwind and Valdrakken.
It is advised that you keep an eye on your in-game mailbox, as an important message will arrive shortly.
This message will instruct you to find Mizzan and when you interact with the NPC, you will be able to accept the Rumble Minis quest.
Players then have to seek out the Warcraft Rumble Machines to collect Rumble Minis. Currently, there are nearly 70 minis that you can collect as you progress in WoW.
Warcraft Rumble Miniatures
There are different Warcraft Rumble Miniatures that you can procure in WoW, and each mini has a specific trait and faction.
The following table lists some of the minis that you can procure:
Warcraft Rumble Miniature Name | Description |
Abomination | This tanky mass of flesh will hook ranged enemies. |
Earth Elemental | You can use this heavily armored avalanche anywhere to assume the tank role for your troops. |
Firehammer | She flings fiery hammers at foes. |
Defias Bandits | Although they are weak on their own, they can sneak up on enemies to stun them. |
Darkspear Troll | This headhunter deals massive damage with savage spear throws. |
How to collect Warcraft Rumble Miniatures
The objective is to gather Rumble Coins from varying locations across Azeroth. Once you have collected Rumble Coins, you can deposit the coins into the Warcraft Rumble Machines.
Each coin translates to an adorable Rumble Mini that will become part of your toy collection.
Blizzard also introduced Foils and if you collect them, you can customize your miniature to your liking.
At the moment of writing this, there are 14 Foils in the Dragon Isles’ main zones, Valdrakken, Stormwind and Orgrimmar.
How to use Warcraft Rumble Miniatures
The Rumble Minis are essentially game pieces that you send out to attack and defend while playing the game.
As previously explained, there are different types of minis that you can acquire, and each of them have unique talents, roles and traits.
One mini will assume the leader role, while the others will be considered troops. Leaders are usually the build-defining mini of the army on which you need to select your troops.
We therefore recommend that you know your mini’s traits, type and abilities when you are building your miniature army.
Having a good understanding of each mini will help you counter effectively and plan your attacks in the most effective way possible.
Furthermore, it can be beneficial to know which types of minis you would like to unlock and upgrade before obtaining them.
Similarly to other events in WoW, there are certain achievements that you can complete by collecting the Warcraft Rumble Miniatures.
Some of the achievements that you can complete are outlined below:
Achievement | How to complete |
Whelp Egg’s Newer Look | You have to upgrade Whelp Egg twice |
Get ‘em All! | To complete this achievement, you have to collect seven Minis |
New Looks! | Players must upgrade all seven Minis once to complete this achievement |
Sneed’s New Look | You have to upgrade Sneed once to complete this achievement |
Stonehoof Tauren’s Newer Look | Players must upgrade Stonehoof Tauren twice |
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DEHRADUN, 25 Sep: Doon University organised its first Alumni Meet, on a virtual platform, wherein alumni from across the country as well as from abroad participated in the event. Professor Dangwal inaugurated the programme and said that the alumni are the heritage of the University who take the legacy of the University forward. She further added that our current students are going to benefit greatly from the success that our alumni have achieved in a very short span. The feedback from alumni will prove to be extremely beneficial for the University. The Vice Chancellor of Doon University Professor Surekha Dangwal asserted that an institution evolves with the growth of its students; it is the students who contribute to the formation of an institution. Therefore, it is imperative for the students to be connected to their past and roots for their personal as well as society’s holistic growth. Doon University, in its short period of existence, has grown manifold and achieved greatly. The University owes it to its alumni and its former administrative officials for these achievements. Professor HC Purohit Chairperson of DUAA emphasized that the objectives of education can be met only when it can bring about qualitative changes to Mala Shikha. She informed that the Alumni Cell at Doon University was formed in 2012 and it was reconstituted in 2016. Subsequently, it was registered in 2017 under the Society Registration Act where it was named as Doon University Alumni association (DUAA). the life of the most maginalized one in the society and in this manner, the needy ones can benefit from the traditional as well as advanced form of education. When a scholar moves beyond the personal goals then s/he can contribute significantly to the process of nation-building. A constant dialogue with our alumni is extremely relevant today as the University can take their inputs from time to time for the students to benefit from this interaction so that they may look upto the alumni as their role-models.
The Registrar of Doon University, Dr. M. S. Mandrawal in his address appreciated that the alumni have made a name for themselves as well as for Doon University in India and abroad. He mentioned that due to the pandemic the first Alumni Meet has been organised virtually, however, the University plans to organise an Alumni Meet in physical mode soon so that a large number of alumni participate and share their experience on campus and reconnect with their Alma Mater.
The programme was successfully coordinated by Dr.Mala Shikha. She informed that the Alumni Cell at Doon University was formed in 2012 and it was reconstituted in 2016. Subsequently, it was registered in 2017 under the Society Registration Act where it was named as Doon University Alumni association (DUAA). The former students of Doon University also shared their experience and thoughts during the Alumni Meet. Ravi Kala, an alumnus from School of Environment and Natural Resource proposed that the Alumni Association can identify small goals and can work towards them collectively. Webinars, workshops, and placement drives can be organised with support from the alumni. Ayush, Suchandan Natua, Ayushi, Satyam Negi, Kuldeep, Somya Sundriyal and Bhumika Chandola and many other distinguished alumni from Doon University participated in the programme. Faculty of Doon University Professor Harsh Dobhal, Dr. Archana Sharma, Dr. Rashi Mishra, Dr. Sudhanshu Joshi and Dr. Rajesh Bhatt attended the event. | <urn:uuid:8baeb5c7-fe13-432d-96c4-c5418d53cf20> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://garhwalpost.in/our-alumni-our-heritage-professor-surekha-dangwal/ | 2024-04-22T22:11:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.976511 | 731 |
Like so many people, my need for Western Union began with a stupid mistake.
I arrived at the airport in Santiago, Chile, mid-February after an exhausting overnight flight from Medellin, Colombia. It was early in the morning, and perhaps because of my mental and physical fatigue, I left my debit card in the ATM.
Thankfully, I at least remembered to cram the Chilean pesos into my wallet, so I wasn’t completely without money. But that was my last piece of plastic. I’d lost my other card a year earlier and couldn’t get a replacement from the U.S. (I’d been living and working remotely in South America for several years.)
At this point, I had only one option for getting money: international wire transfers. I had used Western Union many times in the past, both to send money to friends in need or to receive emergency cash from my parents or my girlfriend.
So initially, I felt confident I’d be able to navigate the situation. I spent a few days in Santiago, spending as few precious pesos as possible. My next stop took me to Puerto Natales, where I planned to hike in Torres del Paine National Park.
I already had a place to stay with an old friend who had permanently moved there just before the pandemic and opened a Tex-Mex restaurant called El Tejano Tacos. (It’s really good, by the way.) They helped me immensely, but I didn’t want to create an additional burden of sending them money remotely in exchange for cash, though that’s what eventually had to happen.
Why? Because Western Union stole the money I was supposed to receive.
Let me explain.
The Money Request
My girlfriend sent me $500 via Western Union in Medellin to the tiny office in Puerto Natales at my request. This little building is mainly known to locals as Chilexpress, a courier service similar to UPS. But it also functions as a Western Union. All you need is the tracking number, right?
My girlfriend sent me a photo of the Western Union receipt with the tracking number, which I could use along with my passport to verify my identity and pick up my money. If you’ve done this before, then you know the drill.
But then things got weird.
The first day after the money was sent, the two Chilean women working at the office told me the transaction was still pending — something I’d never experienced with Western Union. It’s always been available almost immediately. I returned the next day, when they told me the transaction was now ready, but they didn’t have cash on hand yet. I’d have to come back in the afternoon.
A few hours later, I came back to finally — I hoped — pick up my money. But now there was a new problem. The transaction didn’t exist anymore, and the middle-aged Chilena working there refused to help me. (All of these interactions were in Spanish, by the way.)
I then called Western Union Chile, which told me their system showed I’d already been paid. After several hours on the phone with company representatives from the U.S. and Chile, they only advised me to return to the office.
I did that the following day. But the same woman (now increasingly difficult) told me she could do nothing, and I’d have to take up the issue with Western Union Colombia. I asked how that would work when the system showed I had already been paid in Puerto Natales. She simply shrugged it off and waited for me to leave.
The Help Requests
Since I had a flight back to Colombia, I didn’t have more time to spend in a fruitless fight in a small town at the bottom of South America. And sure enough, my attempt to resolve the situation in Colombia went nowhere. As I feared, they said they couldn’t help me because the system showed I’d been paid.
So, who ended up with my $500? Western Union? The workers at the Puerto Natales office? I don’t know — I only know that I never received it.
I spent hours on the phone with Western Union customer service, but it went nowhere. Everyone I spoke to at Western Union passed the responsibility on to another department, leading me in a never-ending circle between representatives in the U.S., Colombia, and Chile.
Whether they know it or not, they stole my money, and somebody other than me gets to keep it. As a journalist still working in 2024, $500 is a big chunk of change for me, and it hurts to lose it, whether that’s the result of indifference or incompetence.
Moreover, I had to cancel the rest of my trip. I had planned on continuing on to Argentina, but without the ability to get help from friends — or Western Union — I decided that the smart thing was to end the trip and regroup before I got myself into a worse situation.
Once back home in the States, I tried again to ask for help, but customer service told me they couldn’t open an investigation. That had to happen directly through company representatives in Colombia (which, again, makes no sense when the problem happened with the pickup in Chile).
Fast-forward 2 weeks, and I call Western Union again. But now, I’m calling to get a comment for the story I’m writing — this story. I first tried the Media Relations extension, which doesn’t work.
So, I waded back through customer service until finally speaking with someone at Western Union’s corporate headquarters in Denver. This very pleasant person finally started an official investigation into what happened — after my explanation that I was a journalist publishing a story about not receiving the money from a wire transfer.
I have yet to receive an official response for this story, though I got an email apology: “We appreciate your business and are truly sorry for the experience you had while using our services.”
Alternatives to Western Union
I had always felt that Western Union was a reliable way to save someone’s ass when the unexpected happens while traveling. Now I know better. As is my style, I should have immediately relied on my friends’ help instead of trying to deal with my problems all alone.
Since I still had my phone, I could transfer money electronically to my friends in Puerto Natales and get cash directly from them. Even if you don’t know someone in your travel destination, I can imagine making that work with a helpful hotel owner or perhaps another traveler.
Realistically, we have many choices today such as Zelle, Venmo, PayPal, and more. In the future, I’ll be trying one of those methods first.
Even without a phone, you could likely achieve the same solution by using a computer, like the front desk of your hotel or hostel. We now have alternatives to companies like Western Union, and I wish I had explored those options first. I wanted to remain independent and avoid asking for help. But that meant putting my money into the hands of an international company that seems apathetic (at best) about accountability.
To be fair, I’ve used Western Union many times in the past to both send and receive money. But losing a decent chunk of cash without any ability to recover it isn’t an easy thing to forget.
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I'm thrilled to return to blogging after a crazy few months working on my web app for YouTube videos: Hive Video. The Beta is live so head on over and you can create free highlight reels from YouTube videos.
Hive Video is the simple alternative to video editing. Whether you're looking to highlight the best parts of a tutorial, put together the best moments of various videos (e.g., sports), or just create a kid-friendly playlist without comments, ads, or recommended videos--it's easy, free, and doesn't require any install.
Once you've created your highlight reel or mashup of YouTube videos, you can quickly share the results with a public view URL. Send it via social media, email, or whatever, it's just plain easy.
Check it out! I'd appreciate any feedback.
My GitHub heat map for 2017 tells the story pretty clearly--I started the project in April.
This new project is under the umbrella of my software startup: Second Marker.
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Spicy Lemon Chicken Wings
Discard the wing tips or make stock with them.
Use a mixture of herbs for the best flavor, I just used parsley and cilantro because they are readily available at the grocery store.
- 3 lb Chicken Wings, split at the joint
- Juice of one lemon, zest if before juicing, and add to marinade for stronger lemon flavor!
- 2 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 3 Cloves minced garlic
- 1 tbsp Franks Hot Sauce, use more if you like it really spicy!
- 1/2 cup Minced fresh herbs. Parsley, cilantro, lemon balm, dill, mint
Mix all the ingredients in a large bowl.
Use a bowl big enough to hold all the wings. Set aside until the wings are done.
Best made fresh, right before you cook the wings. If making for a party, it's ok to make it a couple hours ahead. Keep at room temperature as you don't want to put the hot wings in ice cold marinade!
Season the wings with salt and pepper. Air Fry the wings until crispy and cooked through, about 20 minutes. Turn half-way through cooking to ensure even crispiness.
To Bake: 30-45 minutes in the oven on a rack or on the grill. Depends on the size of the wings, flip and cook long enough to achieve optimum crispiness!
Once cooked, toss wings in marinade/dressing until coated. Must do this when they are piping hot as the heat from the wings partially cooks the garlic and brings out the herbal flavors.
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“Marijuana Harvest,” co-authored by San Francisco Chronicle Cannabis Editor and former Cannabis Now Senior Editor David Downs, is the latest offering in a long legacy of cultivation books released by Rosenthal. And although the “guru of ganja” has been publicly pushing for homegrown backyard cannabis since the late ’70s, arrives at an optimal time when more Americans than ever before have the ability to grow and cultivate marijuana for medical and personal use. The book offers techniques design to increase the quality and yield of homegrown flowers and pulls from years of research, controlled experiments and interviews with cannabis cultivators on what has worked so far.
“Marijuana Harvest” is designed to teach marijuana growers of all scales “how to avoid making costly mistakes, identify problems and solve them quickly” and is full of options to jump in on the fun of developing the science around the world’s favorite flower with further personal innovation.
Cannabis Now Magazine)
Anyone with any clout in the cannabis industry recognizes the name, Ed Rosenthal. Now, right in time for harvest season, he brings us a new book explaining exactly how the best farmers do it. From the ins-and-outs of chopping down stalks to the extraction methods many growers use, they truly cover the entire spectrum of what happens to cannabis flowers once they’re fully developed. With his new book,Marijuana Harvest Rosenthal once again collaborates with David Downs, Cannabis Editor for the San Francisco Chronicle.
It was a delightful read as it was equally informative as it was visually pleasing, we would definitely recommend this to anyone interested in cannabis cultivation. Getting the most out of our bud doesn’t stop with the growth cycle, flowers must be treated with care until the moment they’re sold over the counter. Thankfully, Rosenthal and Downs have made this book available just in time to show us just how important harvest can be.
Terpenes and Testing Magazine)
Ed Rosenthal is the world’s leading expert on the cultivation of marijuana. In his more than 40 years as the guru of ganja,” he has written and edited more than a dozen books about marijuana cultivation and social policy that cumulatively have sold over two million copies. His Ask Ed” marijuana advice column ran in High Timesfor several decades and still appears internationally. Beyond the garden, Rosenthal views marijuana law as a crucial social issue and has been active in promoting and developing policies of civil regulation. He lives in Oakland, CA.
David Downs is an award-winning journalist covering arts, technology, and criminal justice for publications includingWIRED, Rolling Stone, The Onion, and The New York Times. Downs was a fellow at Northwestern University's Academy for Alternative Journalism in 2004, and he earned a degree in English literature from University of California at Santa Barbara in 2002. He has received and shared numerous professional honors, including a 2010 Knight-Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism. He produces and hosts the podcast The Hash. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and son. | <urn:uuid:6994ccf4-38bd-4764-8b41-52c0c4e40bd3> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://gethempifiedstore.com.au/products/mj-harvest | 2024-04-22T22:37:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.96161 | 624 |
Grandma’s Confusion About Front-Facing Camera Is TOO FUNNY!
Technology is changing fast. For this grandmother, she is not a huge fan of front-facing cameras!
During this video, you will see a 103-year old grandmother see herself on a front-facing camera for the first time. Her look of confusion is priceless. The commentary is even better!
You have to see this adorable video.
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ALTBalaji’s psycho-thriller Bekaaboo 2 is full of luring characters to keep the audience entertained. Anaysha’s (played by Subha Rajput) introduction clearly shows she is being tracked down by an angry Kiyan for revenge but has her friend Kashti played by Priya Banerjee by her side. She seems to have a thing for the gorgeous dancer, Shaurya played by Ankit Gupta. All this while, Kiyan seems to be lurking in the shadows waiting for the perfect moment to strike.
“Anaysha and Kashti are supposedly best friends. Anaysha is a bestselling author who cannot seem to handle her fame. When fame gets to her, she unconsciously puts herself on a path to self-destruction, not realizing it the whole time. Thus her life is in danger time and time again. A very challenging role, but I had a ton of fun doing it”- Subha Rajput.
“It is always a wonderful experience to play a high-spirited, wild, can’t-be-shackled woman. Any actor will tell you the same. Kashti’s free spirit and her impulsiveness make her quite harmless as compared to some of the other characters in the story of Bekaaboo 2. She, however, is a classic example of how working on instincts can be a disaster” – Priya Banerjee
The series is a complete psycho-revenge saga, filled with twists and turns to keep the series forever interesting. Anaysha and Kashti are on Kiyan’s revenge radar. They have to constantly live in fear of what is going to happen to them at the hands of Kiyan. Kiyan teams up with an unlikely partner to avenge the death of his career. The story is just too good to be missed.
The other amazing actors making the show whole are Taher Shabbir, Poulomi Das, Taha Shah Badussha, Smaran Sahu, Trishna Mukherjee, and various others.
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PHONG NHA NATIONAL PARK – Hang Tien Cave Discovery 1D
One day is enough to experience Hang Tien, one of the biggest caves in the area. Trek through the jungle, enjoy a natural swimming pool and enter through the spectacular entrance. This tour is for travellers who are short on time or don’t want to sleep in the jungle – but still want to explore a massive cave.
- Itinerary Details
- We will provide during this trip
- What’s excluded?
- You will need to bring
- Useful information
Tan Hoa – Hang Tien 1
07:30 – 08:00 Pick up and one-hour drive on Day 1 to the Oxalis Adventure office in Tan Hoa, located 70km from Phong Nha. Briefing and tour preparations are here.
The trek starts off with a steep uphill section, leading into the jungle. Some rocky sections at the top, and then a similarly steep descent before the trail levels off and you enter the valley. Turning west the trail is a large jumble of rocks to pick your way over, with the help and direction of the guide and safety team. The huge entrance is at the head of the valley. Enjoy some snacks before starting the cave exploration. As you enter the cave you will appreciate the full size of the passage. Plants and algae cover many of the calcite formations. Further into the cave you will see many unusual cave features such as a ceiling dome, and multiple layers of rock, giving the walls a stripy appearance.
Tan Hoa – Phong Nha
Retrace the journey back to the entrance down the rocky valley and stop for lunch and a swim in the beautiful natural spring. Refreshed, it’s then time for the big hill back up and down to the road for the pickup and return to the office for a shower. Transfer to Phong Nha arriving at around 19:00.
- Caving & safety gear: caving helmet, caving headlight, gloves
- Basic canvas trekking boots (only if you do not have your own pair) sizes 36 – 46
- Water and picnic lunch
- Professional English-speaking tour guide and safety assistants
- Porter to prepare meals and pump water
- Shared dry box for phones and small cameras (limited availability for larger cameras)
- Water filter and purifier (used only by guide and porters)
- Eco-friendly compost toilet using western toilet seat at lunch site
- First Aid Kit and Medical Rescue Equipment (application by guides and porters only)
- Dry box is prepared in case of high-water level
- Secure Storage Facility at Oxalis Headquarters to store any luggage you will not be taking on the trek
- Tips and personal expenses
- Travel insurance
- All not indicated in our itinerary
- 1 long (easy to dry) pants and 1 long sleeved shirt to wear during the trek (quick dry)
- 1 pair of trekking boots/shoes – difficult terrain, good footwear necessary
- 1 change of clothes for after the tour
- 1 pair of calf-length densely woven socks (not ankle socks!)
- Personal items: mosquito repellent, sunglasses, hat, camera
Specific food requests
Please let us know if you have specific eating restrictions, allergic for certain things or if you are vegetarian, we can take that into account during the trips.
Adventure Level 3 – moderate
- 1-day tour
- Moderate trekking
- 6km of trekking including 1.5km of caving
- Total elevation gain: 350m
- Swimming in caves (Wild Tu Lan 50-150m)
- There will be some rocky terrain, steep hills and a 10m ladder climb with a safety rope, operated by the safety team.
Especially for the north and central Vietnam;
In the period between November and April, the weather is variable, from sunny to cold and rainy. It is advisable during this period to bring some rain gear with some warmer clothes. In the period from April to November, it is good to pack a hat with a wide brim, sunscreen (at least SPF15) and a reliable insect repellent. A thin rain poncho is useful all year round.
The south of Vietnam is generally a lot warmer all year round, so warm clothing is not really necessary.
Get Up And Go Vietnam does everything to make your trip an unforgettable experience. Unfortunately, we have no control over weather conditions. Our apologies for that!
What do I need to know?
During the period March to November it will good to pack your swimming gear, a towel, a wide-brimmed hat, sunscreen (at least SPF15), a reliable insect repellent, toiletries, a camera and lots of batteries. Warm clothing for the cooler months of November to March is advised. How much luggage can I take? Your vehicle has limited space so please keep your luggage to a maximum of 15kgs in a backpack or soft over-night bag and include a small day pack to hand carry for easy access to camera, sunscreen, water etc. Inhibitions can be left in the luggage storage rooms at your hotel with your other unwanted baggage.
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Welcome to bitsygirlgifts.com, your go-to online store for the finest selection of jewellery, fashion, and children's clothing. Our business is dedicated to providing you with not only the trendiest and high-quality products but also a seamless shopping experience. In this article, we'll delve into why bitsygirlgifts.com should be your ultimate destination for purchasing jewellery.
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"It's been an amazing experience overall working w/ Subhi and his team. We found our dream home. And Already referred him to close contacts which closed on their dream homes as well. Thank you for your professional services. Make sure you choose the Gharbieh and Associates for any real estate needs!"
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The leadership of the Movement for Change has issued a statement refuting claims of collaboration between its leader, Alan Kyerematen, and the National Democratic Congress (NDC). The movement asserts that the existing duopoly of the NPP and NDC does not adequately represent the interests of Ghana and is detrimental to the country's progress.
According to the statement, both the NPP and NDC, in their current forms, are seen as obstacles to Ghana's advancement and no longer embody the ideals of progress and prosperity cherished by the Ghanaian people. As an alternative, the movement advocates for a new leadership represented by Alan Kyerematen, whom they believe can steer the country towards economic prosperity.
The Movement for Change calls upon all Ghanaians to support Alan Kyerematen's candidacy for President in the 2024 election, emphasizing his commitment to national unity and transformation. They aim to engage every Ghanaian citizen in forging a new path towards development and prosperity for the nation. | <urn:uuid:f67bc2b5-5b47-459d-b57f-a5fe6286acca> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://ghstandard.com/movement-for-change-denies-collaboration-with-ndc-and-npp/27293/ | 2024-04-22T23:37:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.960816 | 197 |
Christmas Family Mini Photography Sessions
are for up to 20 minutes. With (5) hi-resolution
digital files for $365.00+HST
I would love to answer any questions you might have!
The Sessions Available
To book your session, click on your preferred coordinating Christmas Family Photos session and select your time. The details for the session are on the book here link. For weekday appointments or any questions, please feel free to email me.
Check out my Instagram and Facebook pages for more photos from previous year's sessions.
I wish you a wonderful Holiday Season! I look forward to seeing you all!
Are you looking to capture the enchantment of Christmas with your loved ones? Look no further than Gibson Photography! Based in Burlington, Ontario. I am an award-winning Christmas family photographer dedicated to creating unforgettable memories for you and your family. With a range of options available for your photography session, you're sure to find the perfect fit.
Join me for Red Truck sessions, available day and night against the backdrop of a nearby tree farm. Or opt for a VW bus for your Christmas Family Photos to add a touch of whimsy to your portraits. For a more rustic feel, our outdoor Christmas Cabin nestled in the woods will create a cozy and magical setting.
If you want an even more unique experience, explore my one-of-a-kind custom-designed Christmas sets. Conveniently located at my in-home studio, these sets blend indoor and outdoor setups for the perfect holiday atmosphere in Burlington, Ontario.
Make this Christmas memorable with cherished Christmas family photos that you'll treasure for years. Contact Gibson Photography today to book your session and embark on an unforgettable journey capturing the joy and spirit of the holiday season.
I've put together a wonderful free community for all you caffeine-loving moms out there! No matter where you are in your life journey – planning, expecting, parenting young or grown children – if you're around the Greater Toronto Area, you're warmly welcomed.
2220 MELISSA CRESCENT, BURLINGTON, ON L7P 4J7
PHONE: (905) 319-0330 / EMAIL: [email protected]
Gibson Photography is an award-winning Burlington, Ontario Family & Motherhood Photographer serving Burlington, Halton, Hamilton, Toronto, Oakville, Cambridge, Mississauga, Milton, Stoney Creek, Niagara Falls & all across the Greater Toronto Area with over 12 years of full-time experience. I also provide photography services for corporate headshots, children's portraits, maternity, and first birthday cake smashes. | <urn:uuid:26d09a7d-47eb-4aae-a51d-b0b54fa8f303> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://gibsonphoto.ca/christmas-family-photos-toronto-burlington/ | 2024-04-22T23:28:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.898071 | 541 |
Cottar’s 1920s Camp
The award-winning Cottar’s 1920s Camp has its own 7 608 acre private conservancy and is situated one kilometre from the famous ‘seventh’ natural wonder of the world, the Masai Mara in Kenya and the Tanzania Serengeti game reserve. Owned and managed by the oldest established and continuing safari family in Africa it extends an era of luxury and quality and returns to the original spirit and essence of ‘safari’. The 1920s Camp provides the romance of safari under cream canvas tents, the style of the bygone era of the twenties, while at the same time supplying the amenities required by today’s modern world travellers and professional guides whose qualifications are some of the highest in Africa. Offering an abundance of wildlife, a guarantee of privacy, and the highest standards of professional guiding in a luxurious and authentic safari environment. The camp has nine tents in total (one unique honeymoon tent, four double tents and four family suites), all with en suite bathrooms. The family tents have living rooms with fireplaces. The entire camp is situated to ensure that tents are private and quiet whether for honeymooners or families with young children. The camp has two main mess tent areas for fine dining, drinking, reading and relaxing, and an amazing pool and spa where guests can relax after a game drive. Guests can also enjoy a safari bath or safari shower, a genuinely unique way of bathing specifically set up in the savannah. The location of the camp provides easy access for day and night game drives to the Masai Mara game reserve and the conservancy, game walks, and cultural interactions with the Maasai community. Cottar’s 1920s Safari Camp offers discerning travellers authentic and unique lifetime safari experiences. | <urn:uuid:51fbba32-b57b-4120-ad77-b60b7a322f21> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://giltedge.travel/accommodation/cottars-1920s-camp/ | 2024-04-22T23:28:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.9266 | 375 |
Here’s a beautiful account from Farah and Shamel who created a wedding registry exslusively for GiveLight.
1. How did you first hear about GiveLight?
We first heard about GiveLight Foundation from a friend at MIT who had been volunteering for the organization. We learned about the amazing work GiveLight Foundation has been doing to support children across the world. Shamel also volunteered for Skype lessons to teach mathematics for sometime and really enjoyed the experience.
2. What inspired you to support our work in such a personal way?
GiveLight foundation’s growth has been well reflected by their smiling children who have been achieving academic and personal success – we are inspired by all the good GiveLight is doing and would like to see it grow and support every orphan unable to support themselves.
3. How did your family and friends react to the idea?
Our family and friends welcomed the idea. Our parents have always encouraged us to give back to the community and what better way then to support the next generation. We sincerely thank our friends and family for making it to New Jersey on our big day and for their generous contribution towards a cause we strongly support.
4. Did you have a goal as to how much you were hoping to raise?
Honestly, the thought of a “goal” never crossed our mind as we were setting up our wedding website. It was rather the sense of awareness that we wanted to bring forward with this effort. While we are so busy taking so much in life for granted there are those who are not sure if they have enough for their next meal.
5. How did you feel when you know that so many orphans benefited from your generosity?
We are grateful to God for giving us the opportunity to be able to influence and support the lives of so many children. We hope we can keep supporting GiveLight in the future.
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Size: 14.85cm x 10.5cm
The regal stance, the penetrating gaze, the stillness of poise and posture that make the Grey Heron so identifiable are all beautifully captured by Sr Michelle Michelle in this photographic image of one of our native birds.
Having been left completely blank inside, these make ideal cards for sending a personal message on any occasion.
Read about the photographer, Sr. Michelle Miller, here on our blog.
These cards are sold with white envelopes.
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According to Shareaholic’s “Social Media Traffic Report,” the web’s top eight social platforms – including Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Google+, LinkedIn, and YouTube – drove 31.24% of overall traffic in December 2014, up from 22.71% just one year earlier.
So what does that mean for your business? If you’re not actively participating in social media marketing, you’re missing out on a major share of your potential website traffic.
Shareaholic’s data comes from the program’s network of “300,000+ websites reaching a global audience of more than 400 million unique monthly visitors.” Simply put, their data – and the implications of their conclusions in general – represent a huge amount of traffic.
If the number of social media referral visitors your site is currently capturing is underperforming, taking the steps below can easily improve your traffic by 300% – if not much more.
Step #1 – Document Your Presence
Before you can evaluate how your social media marketing campaigns are performing, you need to thoroughly document where you are and why. Use a spreadsheet to record the following information:
- The platforms you have a presence on
- The URL of your profile
- Who has access to these accounts
- How many fans or followers you have
- When you last updated your profile
- What types of content you share
- How engaged your followers are
- Whether you’re running paid promotions on the same network
This might sound like a simple process, but remember to also include profiles you’ve abandoned, as well as those that employees or other followers may have set up in your name. One outcome from your audit may be to have these extraneous profiles shut down in order to create a more cohesive presence online.
Step #2 – Understand Your Space
Now that you know what your social footprint looks like, it’s time to look at what your competitors are up to. Repeat the process above for both your top five competitors and the top five thought leaders in your industry.
You may not be able to answer all of the questions – for example, it may be difficult to tell where your competitors are running paid ads – but gather as much information as you can. Your goal here should be seeing how others in your space are succeeding to help you jumpstart your own social media marketing efforts.
Step #3 – Identify Key Metrics
As you evaluate both your presence and the profiles of others in your industry, a plan for your future social media campaigns should be taking shape in your head. But before you jump into campaign strategy, take a second to think about the metrics you’ll use to determine whether or not your future efforts are successful.
The specific metrics you’ll want to track will depend on how social media fits into your overall marketing mix, but could include any of the following:
- Website referral traffic
- New followers
- Leads generated (or sales made)
- Follower engagement (as measured by shares, likes, retweets, comments, etc.)
- Blog engagement
- Brand awareness
- Brand mentions
- Brand sentiment
If you’re new to social media metrics tracking, don’t overwhelm yourself by monitoring all of these and more. Pick the 2-3 that are most important for your organization, then identify the tools needed to track their progress. Metrics, like new followers captured or engagement rates, are easy to track, while others like leads generated or sales made will require more complex tools and strategies.
Step #4 – Set Goals
Once you’ve chosen your target metrics, your next step should be to set the goals you’ll use to determine whether or not your efforts are on track. There are a few different strategies you can use to set them:
Set Goals Based on Past Performance
One of the easiest ways to set your social media marketing goals is to base them off of how your campaigns have performed in the past. As an example, suppose that your last campaign generated 25% more referral traffic for your website. If you have even higher hopes for your next campaign, you could set a goal of increasing your new website visitors by 30%.
Set Goals Based on Competitors’ Performance
Alternatively, look to your competitors’ performance to set your benchmarks. Say your top competitor has 25,000 Facebook followers, while your page has only attracted 20,000. Your goal, then, could be to earn at least 5,000 more followers throughout the course of your next campaign (or multiple subsequent campaigns).
Set Goals Based on ROI
Another option is to set your social media marketing goals based on the ROI you hope to achieve. This is especially relevant when paying for ads, but the costs of your unpaid social networking activities in terms of time and overhead shouldn’t go unaccounted for either. An example of this type of goal would be driving an extra $5.00 in revenue for every $1.00 spent on paid social ads.
In addition to Google Analytics and analytics from your social accounts, there are also a ton of other tools that can and should be used to track goals and progress. For example, one of my favorite new tools for measuring how followers are interacting and engaging with content on my website isFilament.io.
These are just a few of the different ways you can create social media marketing goals; not a comprehensive list. Consider the types of metrics you’ve chosen, as well as what your organization needs to get out of your campaigns to consider them successful, as you build your goals.
Step #5 – Repeat Your Audit Regularly
Don’t just write your goals down and forget about them. Make them a central part of your campaign activities. Review them regularly to ensure your progress is on track, and complete the entire audit process periodically (at least quarterly) to see if goals are being met or if changes need to be made.
In addition to tracking progress using analytics from your social accounts, you should also be using other tools to measure and track success on your website itself. Google Analytics is a must-have in order to do this, but there are a lot of other great tools that can also help paint a complete picture.
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Nigel Goode, co-founder of leading aviation and transport design consultancy PriestmanGoode, speaks to Globetrender about why optimism and innovation in travel are vital during times of crisis. He also discusses the ‘humbling experience’ of space flight and the future of aircraft interiors.
When and why did you launch PriestmanGoode?
Paul Priestman and myself partnered in the late eighties to form PriestmanGoode. We had met while at the Central School of Arts (now Central Saint Martin’s). Paul had set up his own studio upon finishing his degree at the Royal College of Art, and I had built my career working for a number of leading design companies.
We both had a similar view on the importance of design for positive impact. We initially focused more on consumer products for companies like Belling, taking very much a user-centric approach to design, and creating products that not only were more intuitive to use, but were more efficient to manufacture and set our clients apart from their competitors. That approach remains at the heart of our work today.
Following work on many consumer products, we began working with Virgin in the late nineties, designing the Virgin Pendolino train, as well as the first fully lie-flat seat for Virgin Atlantic. That was the start of our work in transport, an area we’ve since specialised in working for countless airlines, airframe manufacturers and suppliers.
What have you learnt about innovation in all your years of being a designer?
Innovation is the lifeblood of what we do. Without innovation, without the drive to make things better and more efficient and to really push the envelope, design is just styling and has limited longevity.
For me, the focus isn’t just about products, it’s about innovating across all aspects of a company, across a whole brand. That’s why PriestmanGoode’s team encompasses such a broad range of expertise: design, strategy, branding, customer experience and visualisation.
We work with our clients across their entire business – for airlines, that means we’re not just designing the cabin interiors, but all brand touch-points throughout the journey, including digital products, airport lounges, check in services etc, as well as brand identities and liveries. This holistic approach means we’re able to create consistent brand visions that really set our clients apart from their competitors.
I think it’s also important that you lead the way as a company; practice what you preach so to speak. PriestmanGoode has always been agile as a business, and quick to identity new opportunities. This is why we’ve grown from a design consultancy to a multi-disciplinary design agency with varied expertise.
We also made the transition to becoming an employee-owned company a few years ago. We wanted to empower our team and enable everyone to share in our success. It’s been a really positive move, and has created a culture where everyone feels more invested in the success of the company.
How do you come up with new ways of thinking and problem solving?
Well firstly, we have an extraordinarily talented team of designers who come from all over the world. This cultural diversity means we bring a range of perspectives to every project, and a range of expertise as well.
Beyond that, it’s about turning things on their head and not following the status quo. One of our strengths has always been to take learnings from one industry to see how we can apply them to solve problems in other industries.
We’ve become well-known for our expertise in designing small spaces, from aircraft interiors and trains, to hotel rooms and co-living spaces. And all our design is insight-driven. We’re perpetually looking at the world around us and seeing what challenges need to be address from mobility for the elderly to congestion in cities.
Why is innovation critical to moving forward, especially in times of crisis?
Companies that don’t innovate, don’t move forward. Innovation, and the ability to be agile as a business is key in times of crisis. We’re already seeing how companies large and small are adapting to current challenges to keep their businesses afloat, and while many of these changes have been very quick to happen, I think we will see long-term impact and perhaps a change in focus for many companies.
There have been many conversations around the fact that companies that focus on ESG (environmental, social and governance) have so far fared best in this crisis, and I think this will drive a long term shift towards more conscious consumerism.
What are the most innovative travel-related projects you have worked on in the last couple of years?
There are too many to name all of them. But some highlights include working with United Airlines and Aegean to create complete brand visions across the whole passenger journey; Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, with whom we’ve designed a passenger capsule for this new form of transport; QSuite with Qatar Airways, which allows four passengers travelling in business class to sit and socialise together, and the first double bed in a business class cabin; and OBB Nightjet, the new sleeper trains for OBB Austrian Federal Railways – I think this is a really interesting time for night train travel, in Europe in particular.
As we come out of this crisis and people start travelling again, we’ll see much more of this, as consumers look for more environmentally friendly alternatives to short-haul travel. And we’re also working on commercial space travel, following some of our earlier work in that arena [they designed the World View capsule, pictured below]. We should have more news on this soon, so watch this space.
What do you predict for the future of space tourism?
Space tourism is such an exclusive area. It’s going to develop as a super luxury experience, as the ultimate in pure adventure, but I think there’s going to be an almost philosophical aspect to it. There’s something about space travel that is very much about a humbling experience, looking at the wonders of the earth and our place in the universe.
What do you predict for the future of aircraft interior design?
There has been a lot of technological advancement in the performance of narrow-body aircraft, traditionally used for shorter routes (across Europe or domestic in the US for instance). These developments will allow these aircraft to fly long-range, so we’ll have smaller cabins on longer routes, and this is going to be a big driver for the design of cabin interiors.
The current Covid-19 pandemic is also going to accelerate some changes that were in the pipeline already. Sustainability has been gaining momentum in the industry, and consumers are going to be looking at airlines to respond quicker now that we have been able to witness very quickly the impact that reductions in air travel have made on the environment. We’re also going to see an increase in the development of new materials and finishes with anti-bacterial properties.
In terms of the different classes, I think there’s going to be more development in premium economy – particularly on narrow-body aircraft – and less business class travel. Business meetings will continue to happen digitally, as online technology has changed the perception of what essential business travel really means, and this will certainly have an impact on the industry, at least in the next 12-18 months.
What role will sustainability play in aviation going forward? How have you been contributing to this?
As I’ve mentioned, there was momentum building around this discussion in the industry already. For the first time, large aviation conferences around the world were including sustainability as part of their mainstream programmes, signalling a shift in the industry view. Many companies have individually signed up to support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, and what we need now is cross-industry collaboration.
While three months ago, these changes would’ve very much been part of a long-term plan, I think the current circumstances will move everything at a much quicker pace, as consumers look to large companies for leadership in more conscious travel and sustainable behaviour.
What do you predict for the future of co-living? Tell us a bit about the work you have done in this space
The sharing economy has changed attitudes towards ownership, particularly in younger generations, so we’re seeing a rise in co-living projects in large cities around the world. We’re working on a vast project in India (20,000 beds across three sites) with Embassy Group.
The new co-living community, Olive, offers purpose-built, contemporary living in a market where there is very little choice. We’ve used our experience of designing across other sectors to create a space that gives users the privacy they need when they want it, and all the facilities of a luxury hotel. This project is really going to raise the bar of co-living for young people.
Why is optimism important when it comes to solving problems?
Problems are something that nobody really wants, but they’re a great catalyst for innovation.
Design for me is fundamentally about optimism, as it’s about taking something and seeing how you can improve it, how you can make it more efficient, more user-friendly, less wasteful, how can you change behaviour through design.
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- Most importantly, CMS does not finalize its proposal to prohibit TPMOs from distributing beneficiary contact information. Notably, CMS states that it is not even addressing or discussing this proposal in the final rule. This is excellent news.
- The final rule was published in the Federal Register on April 12, 2023.
- As we expected, the final rules are effective for marketing plans for Contract Year 2024.
- As we also expected, CMS finalized most of its proposals either without modification or with just minor tweaks to the language.
- CMS did, however, modify some of its proposals, and some modifications are helpful and provide more flexibility.
On Wednesday April 12, CMS published the Federal Register that included 2024 Policy and Technical Changes for the Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug programs.
Below are some of the most impactful changes/clarifications that will affect you as an agent:
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According to the North Carolina Department of Commerce, the state gained 24,224 new jobs through business and industry and $10.1 billion in new private investment in 2021. These announcements were new economic development records for North Carolina.
Under Golden LEAF’s recently adopted strategic plan, the Board of Directors has prioritized increasing job creation and economic investment in rural, economically distressed, and tobacco-dependent communities.
Golden LEAF funds economic development projects that focus on creating and retaining jobs, attracting new business to North Carolina, expanding industries and training new workers. Primarily, these projects are meant to create, expand, or improve business activity in tobacco-dependent, economically distressed or rural communities. Golden LEAF partners with the North Carolina Department of Commerce, the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina, and local governments to provide gap funding for public infrastructure or workforce training necessary to enable job creation.
In order to measure the success of a job creation and economic investment project, Golden LEAF tracks outcomes such as investment in publicly owned infrastructure; investment in privately owned property, plant, and equipment; new, full-time jobs created; average annual wage of new, full-time jobs directly tied to the new industry; and business start-ups. Golden LEAF also tracks narrative outcomes including jobs retained that were at risk without Golden LEAF support, comparison to county wages, and job creation in identified job sectors.
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The Golden LEAF Board of Directors awarded $2.2 million to Rockingham County for the construction of a 500,000-gallon, elevated water tank to provide sufficient water pressure for a new manufacturing facility of the Ontex Group, a Belgian manufacturer of personal hygiene products. The company is located in South Rockingham Corporate Park, along I-73 and US 65. The water tank will provide service to other businesses and residences in the area. Rockingham County contributed $30,000 toward the water tank project. To date, the water tank associated with this project has been constructed, and Ontex’s facility is complete.
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The Golden LEAF Board of Directors awarded $522,987 to Vance County to purchase equipment to be leased to Mako Medical Laboratories, a medical testing company that was expanding to a new location in Henderson, N.C. Mako Medical has been named the fastest growing privately held business by the Triangle Business Journal for two consecutive years. The company had considered expanding to other states including Ohio, Louisiana, West Virginia, and South Carolina. Mako Medical anticipated creating 153 new jobs by 2021. To date, the company has reported the creation of 290 full-time jobs, paying an average of $47,208.79, exceeding expectations. In addition, Mako Medical reports employment of more than 500 contracted employees at their Vance County site.
The Golden LEAF Board of Directors awarded $200,000 to Martin County to support the extension of a county-owned rail spur into the county-owned Martin Regional Business Park in Everetts. The rail spur was extended to serve Weitron, Inc. and five other sites in the park. Weitron, Inc., a worldwide distributor of refrigerants for automotive, residential, commercial, and industrial air conditioning, and cold storage applications. The facility produces refrigerant for use in a variety of applications, receiving raw product via rail and packaging and distributing it at the site.
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If you play a random assortment of golf balls, you're giving up strokes. Simple as that. Even if you play a single model from a specific brand, it may not be the best ball for your game.
This is an easy problem to correct thanks to the science of ball fitting. Like club or putter fitting, ball fitting is a step-by-step process to determine what characteristics will maximize your driving, iron play and short game.
Ball fitting may be conducted while actually hitting shots under the watchful eyes of a launch monitor and technician, or by filling out a simple questionnaire. Here's how Bridgestone does it:
- You'll choose a ball and hit several shots with the driver.
- The pro will analyze data from the monitor and confirm that you are playing the right ball, or recommend a different one.
- You'll then hit shots with the recommended ball, compare stats with shots hit using the first ball, then select the one with the best results.
- Your average score range and driver distance.
- The area of the game that's most important to you (distance/accuracy or short game control).
- Your usual shot shape and trajectory (and whether you want to change it).
- Spin preference (more/less/same as your current ball).
Once finished, Bridgestone will suggest one of its current models.
All About Custom Fitting for Golf Ball
When you think about the equipment you use to play golf, you think first and foremost about your clubs. You might also think about your shoes, your bag, your cart, and maybe even your clothes. However, somewhere in that mix, the golf ball needs to have its place as well. In fact, it could be argued that the ball is the single most important piece of equipment you have in your possession when you step onto the first tee. With the right ball in hand, you will have the opportunity to hit a number of great shots throughout the day – and you might be able to walk away with a good score when all is said and done.
Unfortunately, many golfers fail to put as much effort into picking out the right ball as they put into picking out the right driver. Despite the major importance of the ball you play, many golfers will simply pick up a cheap dozen in the pro shop before they get started. To say the least, this is a mistake. If you are at all serious about your game, you will put some significant time and effort into finding the right ball. And, once you do find the right ball, you will stick with that model for as long as possible.
In this article, we are going to cover a number of topics related to finding the right golf ball. As you can tell from the title, custom fitting is going to play a role in this process. It will take a bit of time to find the right ball, and you may have to invest some money in the process as well. However, when you are finished and you have identified a ball which is a great fit for your needs, your game will be better off as a whole. And, since many manufacturers produce the same golf ball models year after year, you should be able to stick with your choice for the foreseeable future. Unless something dramatically changes in your game, or the ball you pick goes off the market, you won't need to repeat the custom fitting process anytime soon.
Before we get too far into the topic of finding the right golf ball, it should be stated clearly that simply spending a lot of money is not the right answer. Some golfers, instead of going through a ball fitting process, just decide to buy the most expensive box on the shelf. After all, an expensive ball has to be better than a cheap one, right? Well, not necessarily. Sure, the high-end golf balls are quality products, but that doesn't mean they are right for your game. Each golfer is unique, and you need to match up a ball to your unique skill set in order to perform at the highest level possible. It may be that you need an expensive ball, or it may work out that you can play better with a mid-level model. Only by going through the ball fitting process will you know for sure.
The Importance of Ball Fitting
If you stop to think about it for a second, it makes perfect sense that the golf ball would be a critical piece of your equipment setup. After all, the ball is the object you are trying to send toward the target with each swing, so it needs to be able to hold up its end of the bargain. Even the best driver or putter in the world isn't going to do much good if it is paired with a lousy golf ball.
To help you gain a better understanding of why ball fitting is so important, we have created the list below. Once you review this list, we hope you will have all the motivation you need to get to work on finding the perfect golf ball.
- Create the perfect trajectory. One of the biggest jobs the golf ball has in your game is to provide you with a great trajectory. Based on the dynamics of your swing, you need to find a ball which is going to fly at an appropriate height, carry a significant distance, and come down in a controlled manner. If you use a ball which flies too high, you are going to struggle to play in windy conditions, and you might not have much control over your distances. On the other hand, if you use a ball which flies too low, your shots will have a short carry distance and they will take big bounces after they land. Finding the happy medium should be the goal of every golfer. To get there, you need to find the golf ball that provides the right blend of characteristics for your swing.
- Offer feel around the greens. Using the right golf is not just about hitting great full shots. You also need to play well on and around the greens, so the ball you pick has to hit the mark in this category as well. Feel is a subjective thing, as one player may love the feel of a certain ball while another player hates it. Some golfers like golf balls with a firm feel, and others prefer a softer cover. Whatever you happen to like with regard to the short game, make sure the ball you pick matches with your tastes (while still meeting your full swing needs).
- Bring the ball to a stop. Many golfers think that when it comes to spin, more is always better. That is absolutely not the case. Sure, there are some occasions where you want to have a ton of spin on the ball, but other times you would be better off with a rather low spin rate. Having the ability to add or remove spin on your shots largely comes down to what kind of ball you use (and your skill, of course). A good golf ball, and one which is well suited to your game, will allow you to hit a variety of shots based on the situation at hand. Also, you should be thinking about picking a ball which can spin at a rate that is appropriate for the course conditions you usually encounter. For example, those who frequently play on dry golf courses will need a high spin rate to stop the ball. Those who play on soft courses, on the other hand, can usually get by with a firmer ball that offers less stopping power.
- Fit in your budget. This is a point that needs to be made, even though it doesn't actually have anything to do with your on-course performance. When picking a golf ball to use round after round, you have to be sure that the ball in question is going to fit within your budget. As an amateur golfer who plays this game for fun, you have probably decided how much money you are willing to invest on the links. If you find that a given ball matches with your swing, but costs more than you want to spend, you may need to keep looking. Fortunately, there are a variety of golf balls on the market at a variety of price points, so you should be able to find something you like in a price range you can afford.
Ball fitting is important. It isn't as important as things like your swing technique or your mental approach to the game, but it is certainly just as important as club fitting. By having the right ball in your bag when you head out for a round of golf, you will be able to produce a variety of shots based on the demands of the course. As an added benefit of ball fitting, your game should grow stronger and stronger over time if you stick with the same model. If you have been putting off custom ball fitting up until this point, do so no longer. Take this step right away and your game will be better for the effort.
A Couple Options
Thanks to a long list of technological advancements in recent years, there are now a couple of useful options for golf ball fitting. In days gone by, that would not have been the case. Previously, golfers had just one choice – trial and error. You would pick out a golf ball in the shop, try it on the course, and go from there. Eventually you may work your way to a golf ball which was well suited to your game, but it could take a while. Not only would this be a time-consuming process, but it would also be expensive as you would need to buy a number of different models before finding the right one.
The days of trial and error are over, or at least they should be. There is no reason to go about this process in that manner when you have better options available. The two primary options for custom ball fitting are listed below.
- In-person ball fitting. If you would like to use the best technology the game has to offer in order to find the right golf ball, an in-person ball fitting is the way to go. This process is going to be completed at a local golf facility with the help of a professional. To start, you will be asked to hit a number of shots while a launch monitor tracks your swing. Once that data has been collected, the computer will provide information which can be used by the pro in order to make golf ball recommendations. Your spin rate is a big part of the equation here, as is swing speed, angle of attack, and other factors. With the combination of the launch monitor and the experienced eye of a professional, you should have no trouble at all finding the perfect golf ball when using this plan.
- Online ball fitter. Should you decide that you don't want to take the time to go through an in-person ball fitting, you may use an online ball fitting form to help narrow down your choices. This option will not be as precise, but it can still do a good job of helping you find an appropriate ball. By answering a few simple questions about your game, such as your average driving distance and your average score, the website you use will make recommendations for your consideration. From that point, it will be up to you to select one of the suggested models in order to try it out for yourself.
Above, we mentioned that trial and error golf ball fitting is a thing of the past. That is true, but only to a point. You are actually going to still want to do a little testing on the course, but only after one of the fitting options above has been employed. For example, let's say that you went through an in-person ball fitting and you found that there were three different ball models which would meet your needs. How do you pick a winner? Testing on the course. Buy a sleeve of each of the three contenders and try them out for yourself. Most likely, you will enjoy the feel of one of the golf balls better than the others, making your final decision rather easy in the end.
It has never been easier to change golf equipment than it is today. If you have a bad day on the greens, for example, you could order a new putter online as soon as you get home after the round. In fact, if you were really frustrated, you could even order a new putter on your phone – before the round is even over. This kind of convenience is a nice luxury to have, but it can also be a problem. If you find yourself frequently changing equipment from round to round, you may be doing your game more harm than good.
This discussion is important in this article because it relates both to the golf ball and the rest of your gear in general. Many golfers never do settle on a specific type of ball, instead just playing whatever is on sale or whatever they find in the woods. Unfortunately, constantly switching from golf ball to golf all is going to make it hard to develop any consistency in your game. You will never know exactly how the ball is going to respond to your swings, so you won't be able to plan your shots with any sense of confidence. If you are willing to take some time to pick out the right ball for your game, however, and then you stick with that ball over the long run, you will develop great trust in what that ball can do.
Just as you want to be able to trust your golf ball, you need to have trust in the rest of your equipment as well. As mentioned above, one of the common places for golfers to make a change is with the putter. This is usually a bad idea. Even if you are putting poorly, you are far more likely to find the solution in working on your technique rather than switching out clubs. Most likely, something has gone wrong in your stroke, which is why you are missing so many putts at the moment. Instead of spending money on a new club, spend time on the practice green and work hard on the basics of your technique. Once your stroke gets back in line, you will probably see that the ball will begin to find its way into the bottom of the cup far more frequently.
Another club you should trust for as long as possible is your driver. This is a club you will frequently use 10 times or more during a single round, meaning you want to have a strong bond with this one as well. You won't be able to keep your driver for as long as your putter, since the face of the driver will wear out at some point, but you could get a couple seasons or more from one driver, depending on how often you play. Again here, you don't want to toss your driver out of the bag just because you have a bad day off the tee. Remember all of the good shots you have hit with the club and look to fix your technique rather than just buying a new stick.
In the long run, you are better off trusting the equipment you have placed in your bag, even if you start to struggle on the course. However, there will come a time when you want to look for new gear. This is the case when you are sure you are making good swings and you still aren't getting the results you expect. A club fitting is a great way to confirm your concerns about a given club – take it with you to a fitting session and see how it is performing. If it does need to be replaced, you can use the data from the club fitting to find a new option to add to the bag. Whether you are talking about golf balls or golf clubs, using the help of a fitting session with a local pro is always a wise choice.
Adapting to a New Ball
The whole point of a custom fitting process is to find a golf ball that you can use for many rounds to come. Once you get to the point of having picked out a new ball, it will be time to put that ball into play on the course. Unfortunately, the first couple rounds might not go quite as smoothly as you would hope. There will be a period of adjustment to work through before you can start posting the kinds of scores you have in mind.
To make sure that adjustment period goes as smoothly as possible, consider the tips below.
- Spend plenty of time on the short game. It is when you are on and around the greens that you will have the most work to do in terms of making an adjustment. Each golf ball has its own unique feel, so your new ball is almost certainly to feel different than your old ball when chipping and putting. Make it a point to spend as much time as possible on your putting and chipping practice prior to your first round. If you can establish a good feel for the short game shots you need to play, the transition to a new ball will be completed much faster.
- Take note of your yardages. There is a good chance that your yardages are going to change rather significantly once you put a new ball in play. During the first few rounds you play with the new ball, consider keeping a notebook where you can write down all of your yardages as the round unfolds. After tracking your distances for a handful of rounds, you should have a good idea of how far the ball is traveling and you can adjust your club selections accordingly.
- Watch the ball fly. Sometimes, the best thing you can do to get used to your new ball is simply to watch it fly. Pay attention to how the ball moves through the air, and note any patterns that develop. It should take too long before you are able to predict how the ball is going to fly before you even hit the shot. Once you get to that point, you will be in great shape to shoot some of the best scores of your life.
To be the best golfer you can be, it is important to pay attention to every little detail in your game. By going through a custom ball fitting process – ideally one which is completed in person – you can find the right ball to help you elevate your game to a new level. Trust the information you receive during your ball fitting, and give yourself some time to adapt to the new ball before you expect great results. Good luck! | <urn:uuid:93530747-5941-4825-bd48-7c41ef58f9da> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://golf-info-guide.com/golf-tips/equipment-choices/custom-fitting-for-golf-ball-selection/ | 2024-04-22T22:58:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.972089 | 3,682 |
When Mizuno sets out to update their legendary muscleback irons, they make changes in small, incremental steps, in order to preserve the time-tested design. The new Pro 221 Iron, which replaces the outgoing MP-20, has evolved to be more playable through refinements in shape and weight placement. Mizuno bevelled the irons to deliver the appearance of a shorter face profile and narrower topline, without eliminating the always-important upper blade mass. The Pro 221 is Grain Flow Forged in Japan from 1025E Pure Select mild carbon steel, then plated in soft copper and Nickel Chrome, the original layering from Mizuno's iconic TN87 blade. Mizuno returned to the soft copper underlay in 2019 after tour professionals unanimously preffered the feel during testing. | <urn:uuid:8730a1c0-4398-4ffa-b109-82f811fa7cb0> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://golfdirectnow.com/products/mizuno-pro-221-iron-set-8-pc-steel-shaft | 2024-04-22T23:08:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.886298 | 161 |
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In celebration of The Vision & Art Project’s 10th anniversary, a special benefit exhibition will be held at the National Arts Club in New York. What Was Once Familiar: The Vision & Art Project’s Tenth Anniversary Benefit Exhibition will be on view from March 20 until April 26, 2024, with a cocktail reception to be held on Thursday April 4, 6-8pm.
This exhibition brings together 52 works by artists who have experienced macular degeneration, a common disease of the retina that results in central vision loss. The artists included are: Lennart Anderson (1928–2015), Robert Birmelin (1933–), Serge Hollerbach (1923–2021), Dahlov Ipcar (1917–2017), Robert Andrew Parker (1927–2023), Phillip Perkis (1935–), Tim Prentice (1930–), Thomas Sgouros (1927–2012), Hedda Sterne (1910–2011), William Thon (1906–2000) and Erika Marie York (1990–). Spanning from 1965–2021, these works range in genre, including figurative, abstract, still life, portraiture, and landscape. Various media are represented, including oil, watercolor, charcoal, photography, mixed media, and sculpture. Viewed together, the collection explores the breadth of the work undertaken by artists who experience vision loss. The curation encourages the consideration of art created pre- and post-macular degeneration, revealing the myriad ways that the artists’ practices transform over time. For example, they altered their approaches, varying their techniques and the media they employed. The exhibition maps how artists’ changing visions shape their experiences of the world, and how this translates into the evolution of their visual expressions.
What Was Once Familiar—and the Vision & Art Project more broadly—focuses on the under-discussed issue of vision loss in artists. Macular degeneration is very common—around three in ten people over the age of 65 will experience the condition. However, the focus of this exhibition is not only on the works created by artists once they are affected by vision loss. Instead, the Vision & Art Project brings together art made throughout the careers of these artists, emphasizing the evolution of their practice over time. Its aim is to combine art history, research, education, and advocacy.
Co-curator A’Dora Phillips, Director of the Vision and Art Project, remarks “We’re thrilled to be partnering with many of the artists, gallerists, and estates we’ve worked with over the past ten years, many of whom have contributed their work to this exhibition. The art here attests to the remarkable capacity artists have to adapt to vision loss. Drawing attention to this has been one of the key aims of The Vision and Art Project. This exhibition is also a celebration of its success in educating the public and encouraging artists at what can be a difficult time in their careers.”
Most of the works in the exhibition, along with an additional 16 that will not be on view, will be sold through an online viewing room. Proceeds from the sales go towards supporting AMDF and artists with vision loss who have contributed work to the show.
The exhibition is further accompanied by an 80-page color catalog, featuring a preface by A’Dora Phillips, an introduction by Alice Mattison—an author who has written about her own vision loss—and 69 reproductions. It will be available for purchase at the National Arts Club during the exhibition, as well as through the online viewing room.
What Was Once Familiar, The Vision & Art Project’s Tenth Anniversary Benefit Exhibition will be one view from March 20 to April 26, 2024 at The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, NYC. A Cocktail Reception will be held on Thursday, April 4th from 6-8pm.
About The Vision and Art Project
Since 2013, the Vision & Art Project, an initiative of The American Macular Degeneration Foundation (AMDF), has given greater visibility to the overlooked influence of macular degeneration on historical and contemporary artists. Its mission is to raise awareness about the prevalence of macular degeneration among artists—and, by extension, in the population at large. It seeks to help ensure the legacy of individual artists at what can be a challenging time in their lives, sheds light on a hidden side of art history, and inspires a deeper respect for our profound capacity as humans to adapt and change.
About The American Macular Degeneration Foundation
The American Macular Degeneration Foundation (AMDF) is a nonprofit organization committed to the prevention, treatment, and cure of macular degeneration. Their mission is to offer support and hope to the individuals affected by macular degeneration, as well as educating the public, raising funds, and supporting scientific research into the disease. Founder and President Chip Goehring started AMDF following his own diagnosis of macular degeneration, and his personal interest in the experience of artists with this disease led to his decision to support this exhibition. AMDF sponsors and provides grants to a number of initiatives related to macular degeneration. For instance, AMDF recently sponsored the BBC film, Eye of the Storm, about the Scottish artist James Morrison and his effort to paint with vision loss, to make it available to American audiences on PBS stations across the United States beginning February 2024. | <urn:uuid:0ceec17a-eb49-4f4d-a921-50fcb4ba40aa> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://gothamtogo.com/the-vision-art-projects-tenth-anniversary-benefit-exhibition-what-was-once-familiar-at-the-national-arts-club/ | 2024-04-22T21:44:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.952623 | 1,122 |
EventStorming Workshop - Build a Vivid Big Picture
EventStorming Workshop unites agile modelling techniques and the cutting-edge event-driven approach with a uniquely engaging format, leading to a rapid and deep exploration of the problem space and establishing a collaborative approach between key participants.
The result is a clear tangible model, built extremely quickly with the active contribution of all involved roles. Friction points that often lead to wrong implementations are exposed early and natural, clean modelling options are highlighted.
EventStorming as a discovery tool. Quick kick-off: where are we and where we want to go. Real world Big Picture EventStorming, mastering complexity and unknowns in large scale modelling. Managing conflicts, highlighting risk, and the problems really worth solving. The facilitator’s toolbox revealed. Improving our process exploring motivations of different actors. The Change agent’s perspective: why it’s going to be hard even when improvement is obvious, and how to deal with stalemates. Everything’s connected: Lean Kanban, complexity and organization limits. Working with startups vs. working with established companies. EventStorming as a platform for problem solving. ModelStorming: modelling everything without a clue (and yet deliver).
Domain Exploration Short introduction to problem domain. Domain Events: collaborative modelling starting from the key system events. Structure: adding some order into the emerging flow. Key Actions: discovery of user initiated commands, of key roles and external systems involved. Bounded Context Subdomains: natural domain boundaries are identified, and strategies for partitioning the model into independent models and components are visualised and discussed.
Key process Design Conceptual CQRS: the continuous flow of human and system decisions. Aggregates: finding aggregates and transaction boundaries. Processes and reactive logic: injection complexity and flexibility into the whole process. Strategies for the read model: push pull data management, different technologies for the read side. Test strategies for key aggregates: managing emerging acceptance tests for key scenarioz. Q A: topic marketplace about the hottest topics. No critical question will be left unanswered.
At the end of the workshop, you’ll have an accurate model about your problem domain, and quite a few strategies about how to model key areas and how to effectively manage the whole system, without falling into the common pitfalls from data-driven architectures. | <urn:uuid:780ff7f1-75b3-4153-88e7-4435f08ba3ab> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://gotoams.nl/2018/masterclasses/91/eventstorming-workshop-build-a-vivid-big-picture | 2024-04-22T22:30:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.899999 | 483 |
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Founded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on August 19, 1929, as Turkey's first arboretum (living tree museum), Atatürk Arboretum is among the important touristic attractions of local and foreign tourists.
Atatürk Arboretum is a huge living tree museum spread over 296 hectares in the southeast of the Belgrad Forest. It houses an incredible number of tree varieties. Atatürk Arboretum was built as a botanical garden, so it is almost impossible to see such a variety of trees together under normal conditions.
In 1949, the proposal to build such an arboretum was put forward by Hayrettin Kayacık, a professor of the Faculty of Forestry of Istanbul University. Although the arboretum was planned to be approximately 38 hectares, the result was larger than that as it covers approximately 296 hectares.
Camille Guinet, the botanical garden supervisor of the Sorbonne University between 1959 and 1961, worked on the paths and plans inside the arboretum. However, due to financial problems, the construction of this tree park took much longer than expected. The Arboretum was opened on July 12, 1982, on the 100th anniversary of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's birth.
Although financially dependent on the Ministry of Forestry, the Istanbul University Faculty of Forestry is also in cooperation with the Ministry of Forestry Administration. One of the main purposes of the Arboretum is to provide an environment for the research and examination of students and faculty members of the Faculty of Forestry of Istanbul University, as well as forest engineers, scientists, and the Ministry of Forestry.
In addition, there are three artificial lakes in Atatürk Arboretum.
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The Object Manager contains a hierarchical list of the objects in a Grapher plot window. The objects can be selected, arranged, and renamed in the Object Manager or with ribbon commands. Changes made in the Object Manager are reflected in the plot window, and vice versa.
Check the View | Display | Object Manager command to show or uncheck the command to hide the Object Manager. A check mark indicates the manager is visible. No check mark indicates the manager is hidden. You can also show or access the Object Manager by pressing ALT+F11.
Each item in the Object Manager list consists of an icon indicating the object type, a text label for the object, and a visibility check box. A check mark indicates that the object is visible. An empty box indicates that the object is not visible. Click the check box to change the visibility of the item. Invisible objects do not appear in the plot window or on printed output.
To change the visibility for multiple selected objects, right-click in the Object Manager and click Toggle Visibility. Visible selected objects will be hidden, and hidden selected objects will become visible.
If an object contains sub-objects, a or displays to the left of the object name. Click the or icon to expand or collapse the list. For example, a graph object contains a plot, e.g., line/scatter, plus at least two axes. To expand the tree, click on the icon, select the item and press the plus key (+) on the numeric keypad, or press the right arrow key on your keyboard. To collapse a branch of the tree, click on the icon, select the item and press the minus key (-) on the numeric keypad, or press the left arrow key.
Click on the object name to select an object and display its properties in the Property Manager. The plot window updates to show the selected object with a selection bounding box and the status bar displays the name of the selected object. To select multiple objects, hold down the CTRL key and click on each object. To select multiple adjacent objects at the same level in the tree, click on the first object's name, hold down the SHIFT key, and then click on the last object's name.
Select the object and then click again on the selected object (two slow clicks) to edit the object name. You must allow enough time between the two clicks so the action is not interpreted as a double-click. Enter the new name into the box. Alternatively, right-click on an object name and click Rename Object, select an object and click the Home | Selection | Rename command, or select an object and press F2. Enter a name in the Rename Object dialog and click OK to rename the object.
To change the display order of the objects with the mouse, select an object and drag it to a new position in the list above or below an object at the same level in the tree. The cursor changes to a black right arrow if the object can be moved to the cursor location or a red circle with a diagonal line if the object cannot be moved to the indicated location. For example, a line/scatter plot can be moved anywhere within its graph object or into another graph object, but not into a group object. Objects can also be arranged using the Layout | Move commands: To Front, To Back, Forward, and Backward.
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Resumes for Every Generation
This past week I attended a presentation about Baby Boomers, Generation X-ers, and Millennials learning to communicate and work well together in the professional world. The speaker provided great tips for understanding each generation and how to effectively use their strengths to the best advantage. While the presentation focused on helping everyone work well together, I couldn’t help but think about the ramifications of what she was saying for those out in the job market today.
Let’s start with Baby Boomers, those born between 1946-1964. Baby Boomers have generally been in the workplace for several decades and possess knowledge and experience. Writing a resume for a Boomer often entails trying to pare the candidate’s experience down to only the most important elements. However, Boomers also need to be particularly careful to include on their resumes any technological competencies they possess. For those in the position of competing with Millennials when they apply for jobs, it’s particularly important to show that they can work quickly and efficiently.
Generation X defines those who were born between 1965 and 1979. Gen X-ers are in their 30s and 40s and often have significant work experience. A Gen X-er preparing his resume should pay particular attention to quantifying his achievements with numbers and statistics. Many members of this generation have managed others or have been responsible for various financial results; so putting a number to those results helps to truly define you as a candidate.
Millennials are those who were born between 1980 and 2010. Employers generally assume that Millennials grasp technology or will be able to learn new software programs quickly. However, Millennials too often lack the all-important “soft skills” of intelligent and effective communication and socially acceptable personal presentation that some employers still value so much. Therefore, for those who are in their 20s and are trying to enter into or move around in the workforce, it’s particularly important that both your resume and your interview reflect your ability to communicate personably and effectively.
With one in 10 Americans currently looking for full-time work, all three generations are competing against one another for available jobs. It’s helpful to understand the assumptions a member of another generation might make about you as a candidate so that you can present your resume and yourself in a way that speaks to those concerns.
Jessica Holbrook Hernandez is an expert resume writer, career and personal branding strategist, author, speaker and President/CEO of Great Resumes Fast. She creates high-impact, best-in-class, resumes and cover letters that transform job searches into interviews and ultimately job offers. For more information about professional resume writing or to read more career and job search related articles visit http://www.greatresumesfast.com or call 1.800.991.5187.
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What started as a side hustle (before that was even a word!) helping friends of friends with their resumes has now grown into a company that serves hundreds of happy clients a year. But the personal touch? I’ve kept that.
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Oregon State University Student Sustainability Initiative
Status: Ongoing (Initiated in 2006)
Source File: http://recycle.oregonstate.edu/ssi/
Creating a sustainable community at OSU through opportunity, education, and action.
- Reduce the ecological footprint of the OSU community.
- Connect people with people and people with ideas.
- Identify best practices through collaboration and research.
- Manage student funds responsibly.
Implement these objectives through:
- Volunteer opportunities
- Community events
- Experiential learning
- Strategic investments
At the SSI we work to comply with our mission statement through the financing of internships, grants, activities, projects, and work parties. Recently, the SSI has helped fund interns to work on the restoration of Oak Creek and the renovation of the Student Sustainability Center, as well as supported the Green Roof Project, composting on campus, a slew of energy efficiency studies, and infrastructure improvements such as the implication of occupancy sensors for lights. For more information see current projects.
During April 2003 student Justin Fleming submitted a proposal decision package to the Student Incidental Fees Committee (SIFC), with intentions of greatly advancing recycling and waste reduction efforts at OSU. After considerable debate in both the Graduate and Undergraduate Senates, the fee proposal went to mediation, where it was eventually approved at $1.85 per student, per term. In February 2006 Justin developed a student advisory board to help manage both the budget and the growing list of sustainability related projects. The newly named Student Sustainability Initiative (SSI) is currently working with Justin on several projects developed to reduce the ecological footprint of OSU and advance sustainability awareness. In April 2007 Oregon State students voted to increase student fees by $8.50 per student per term to fund 100% renewable energy for the university. SSI will be the group in charge of overseeing the offsets as part of our larger budget. | <urn:uuid:a72b9529-d6e5-440f-87d7-7f370b196c8a> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Oregon_State_University_Student_Sustainability_Initiative | 2024-04-22T22:16:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.953743 | 400 |
If you’re anxious about your next dental visit, read on. Over 15% of Americans avoid visiting the dentist out of fear–mostly because they don’t know what kind of practices and procedures their dentist will use. Unfortunately, this can be detrimental to oral health–over 50% of individuals skipped the dentist visit in 2009 according to the CDC. This can lead to cavities, gum disease, and even tooth loss. To mentally prepare yourself for your next dental visit, read the following tips so that you are ready to go and excited for healthy teeth.
Communicate with us. As dentists, we are receptive to your concerns and fears. Even questions are good for reducing anxiety and can help you alleviate the fear of the unknown. Many patients do not realize that their dentist is looking out for their best interests and wants to make you happy. If you have any questions or concerns let us know so we can make sure to get you the answers you need. Many older people find themselves terrified of the dentist because of procedures performed in childhood when the technology was less advanced. Talk to us about what your next dental visit will feel like and if you should be prepared for any procedures.
Understand gestures. If you are worried about having your mouth full during the procedure or appointment and fear your dentist will not know what is wrong you can come up with a series of gestures with us so we know what means stop. For example, holding up a hand can be a cue that you are feeling uncomfortable and we can make the appropriate adjustments. Your dental visit is all about how comfortable you are.
Learn about the medication. Even though anesthesia in the past was often ineffective and left patients feeling their procedures, the chemical painkillers today are strong enough for you to be fully conscious and not notice when someone is working on your teeth. Ask about the nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, that makes dental visits more fun and less painful. These painkillers can also help to calm jumpy nerves.
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Authorcast #21 - Charles Shiro Inouye February 23 2016
Environmental decline, political gridlock, war and rumors of war, decadence, and immorality. The End of the World, Plan B traces the idea of the end, or destruction, of the world through a number of spiritual traditions. It shows that our present understanding of the “end game” has been distorted by a modern emphasis and demand on justice as the ultimate good. As an alternative to this self-destructive approach, Charles Shirō Inouye shows that in these traditions, justice is not the isolated end in itself that we ought strive for; rather it is taught in tandem with its balancing companion: compassion. Plan B is a hopeful alternative to our fears about how things are going.
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Join us this Saturday, February 27th at Writ & Vision in Provo for a special panel discussion on Mormonism and Eastern thought featuring Charles Shirō Inouye, James M. McLachlan, and Charles Randall Paul. The event begins at 6pm and is free to the public.
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The discussion on ‘ Economic Development’ as a national goal, must demonstrate a perspective strongly rooted in modern science. However, the goals of today suggest that our appreciation of the scientific method of evaluation is a little short. Nevertheless, it is hoped that Sri Lanka’s contribution at the Rio + 20 and at other international conventions thatdiscuss the common future of mankind can propose something innovative rather than the mediocre dribble of the past. Having been party to these processes, the probability of a repetition of past mediocrity is great. Thus in the interest of the profile of this nation and in the interest of a benign future for our children, the following reasoning is advanced. One hopes that the Sri Lankan delegates to the various international conventions this year will raise the need to ‘value photosynthetic biomass’ at all plenary sessions as a national contribution.
Life on Earth learnt how to maintain gas and material flows, optimum for the evolution and sustainability of biodiversity. Carbon Dioxide, although essential to the process of life, was often introduced into the atmosphere by volcanic processes at disruptive levels, throughout geologic history. But the gas has not concentrated in the atmosphere, because it was sequestered by living things and put away out of circulation from the biosphere of living carbon, so that the environment was stable for life. This store of carbon was fossilized and has been slowly accumulating over the last few hundred million years and has acted as the storage of excess carbon.
In our rush to create the new petroleum and coal driven economy, this very simple and fundamental fact has been ignored. Carbon that cycles through living systems represents a fixed proportion of the planetary carbon, one part solid, like the carbohydrates in trees and one part gas, as in atmospheric Carbon Dioxide gas. If excess Carbon Dioxide enters the atmosphere through tectonic processes such as volcanism, photosynthetic activity removes this excess carbon dioxide from the biosphere and that excess is deposited as fossils to enter the lithosphere (rocks), never to interact with the biosphere again. This deposition is translated into vast quantities of fossilized carbon that has been removed from the biotic/atmospheric cycles. Unlike the biotic cycles of Carbon that stay deposited for tens of thousands of years. The fossil pools have deposition lifetimes of tens or hundreds of millions of years.
There have been fluctuations of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere in the past but equilibrium was gained and balance was restored. All this was long before humans.
The first human driven change that affected the local and regional climates was the massive loss of the global forest stock with the advent of colonization. This loss represents a debt to every nation that lost its forests as well as a debt to planetary atmospheric equilibrium. This debt can be settled by re-establishing the sequestered stocks of carbon that were lost by reforestation. But once this debt is settled there will be no more room on this planet to plant more trees to sequester the fossil carbon that is currently being released so irresponsibly.
Fossil carbon is the principal driver of climate change. As a substance that is over at least twenty million or more years older than the timber of the forests that were lost, it represents a material with a far higher carbon cost than a forest. It is also a fact that the levels of Carbon Dioxide, a major atmospheric gas are increasing in the atmosphere. This increase is linked to the destabilization of the climate, the burning of the fossil stock of Carbon being the principal driver of change. It is now very clear that the stability of planetary climate cycles are in jeopardy and a very large contributory factor to this crisis is the profligate activities of modern human society. It is the same activity that fuels the current vision of ‘Economic Development’ in Sri Lanka. The entire infrastructural investment, be it stadia, complexes or towers, require enormous amounts of energy for their operation. As our sustainable energy production is abysmally low, we will have to provide fossil energy to maintain this infrastructure, an activity patently destructive of the global climate equilibrium.
Another area of concern is that the system of agriculture that our farmers have been lured into. Through this type of agriculture they have been made addicts to fossil fuel energy for motive power and fertilizers. Not only do we loose vast sums of money and add to a decline in health, both human and environmental; we also have this nation adding yet another burden to the planets climate stability. In short we are ‘bankrupt’ as an independent, agricultural nation, also very cynical if we ever claim to be ‘green’ on any international stage.
On the wider picture, it is common knowledge, that there is a value difference between fossil derived Carbon Dioxide and biologically cycling Carbon Dioxide, but this fact has been ignored by the so-called ‘scientists’ who run the IPCC. Any high school child will know this fact, but it is ignored by the ‘climate scientists’ who claim to know best. Whatever their motives, the value differential of these cycles, biotic and fossil, must be recognized. Biotic carbon operates on time frames of tens or hundreds of thousands of years and fossil carbon in tens or hundreds of millions years. Further, fossil carbon never interacts with the living or biotic cycle. Fossil carbon entering the biotic cycle is the fundamental reason as to why there is an accelerating climate change effect. However, the growing of trees to compensate for fossil carbon and paying the same price as for biotic carbon is unfair and tantamount to ‘carbon laundering’. There is no way to equate the carbon from oil and coal with the carbon from a forest. One has a space in the biotic cycle the other does not. Carbon that cycles through living systems represents a fixed proportion of the planetary carbon thus there is no space in the atmosphere for fossil derived Carbon Dioxide.
Carbon Dioxide is extracted from the atmosphere by plants and converted into a solid form. This process has been hailed as a tool by which the problem of increasing gaseous Carbon can be addressed. ‘Plant trees which soak up the carbon dioxide’ the reasoning goes ‘and you can contribute to reducing the atmospheric burden of that gas’. Living woody biomass has been the first and logical candidate to be used as a potential tool in sequestering atmospheric carbon and has been featured largely in ‘Carbon capture’ projects. Although the volume of living biomass has now been measured on most global models of carbon cycling and this measure is being used in the evaluation of carbon stocks, there is a an urgent need to address the fundamental differences between the components of living biomass, photosynthetic biomass and respiring biomass.
Photosynthetic biomass performs the act of primary production, the initial step in the manifestation of life. The biomass so termed has the ability to increase in mass through the absorption of solar or other electromagnetic radiation while releasing oxygen and water vapour into the atmosphere. Respiring biomass is that component of living biomass that uses the output of photosynthesis to make the complicated biological patterns of life; it consumes oxygen to power its functions, and does not have photosynthetic functions itself. This distinction would seem to be fundamentally important when assessing the value of biomass that is being addressed. It is only this photosynthetic biomass which powers carbon sequestration, carbohydrate production, oxygen generation and water transformation, i.e. all actions essential for the sustainability of the life support system of the planet.
Yet currently, it is only one product of this photosynthetic biomass, as sequestered carbon, usually represented by wood/timber, that is recognized as having commercial value in the carbon market for mitigating climate change. The ephemeral part, the leaves, are generally ignored, yet the photosynthetic biomass in terrestrial ecosystems are largely composed of leaves, this component needs a value placed on it for its ‘environmental services’
It is not difficult to place value on photosynthetic biomass today. Initial computations are based on the current values of the carbon market are currently in excess of 125 billion dollars, assuming that the global market would pay at least a similar amount to maintain our life support system, the 93.1 billion tons of photosynthetic Carbon currently in stock would be roughly worth about 1.35 dollars per kilogram.
It is this biomass that has to grow in order to sequester the lost biotic Carbon. With such growth we will see more Oxygen, Carbon sequestering and water cleansing, throughout the planet. Much of the biomass to be gained is in degraded ecosystems around the planet, these areas are also home to the worlds rural poor, but what these degraded ecosystems do have, is great growth potential for generating photosynthetic biomass. If the restoration of these degraded ecosystems to achieve optimal photosynthetic biomass loads becomes a global goal, the amazing magic of photosynthesis could indeed help change our current dire course, create a new paradigm of growth and make the planet more benign for our children.
Instead of flogging the dead horse of fossil energy based growth as ‘Economic Development’, will we have the commonsense to appreciate the value of photosynthetic biomass and become the first country in the world to propose setting such a value? The realization of which will enrich not only our rural population but rural people the world over ! | <urn:uuid:9f74f915-9676-4528-98f9-e354179fc7a5> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://groundviews.org/2012/02/15/can-sri-lanka-propose-a-new-growth-paradigm/ | 2024-04-22T22:07:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.956977 | 1,908 |
Hi everyone! It’s February!! What the heck?
We have a very exciting opportunity that is coming to the region in a couple of weeks and we, along with our friends at Community Farm Alliance, have been busy as bees planning, planning, planning and trying to get the word out! So without further ado…
On February 23 and 24, Hindman Settlement School will play host to the first (not sure if it will be annual yet?) Eastern Kentucky Farmer Conference. While the final agenda is still in the planning stages, there is going to be something for everyone, tailoring to many different production plans, enterprises, skill levels, and practices. Workshop topics include organic growing, social media marketing, season extension, micro-processing, production planning, food safety & value added, fruit trees, low and high tunnels, and LOTS more!
Sort of sweetening the deal on this conference is that attendees also have the option of attending the Better Process Control School before the conference. Normally valued at more than $200, this conference is offering the training at a subsidized rate of only $60! This subsidized training, combined with the breadth of workshops offered, means that you will not be able to find an opportunity quite like this!
There’s one little catch though: You HAVE to register! And soon! Very soon! The deadline is February 10th (That’s a week from today!), and if you need lodging you have to be registered by this date! Refunds cannot be guaranteed after this date. There are also day-of registrations available as well, if you do not need lodging. All right, I think you get the picture!
Price of registration includes the 2-day conference and breakfast and lunch both days and dinner on Thursday.
One last thing: Scholarships ARE available for the conference on a limited basis. If you are in need of financial assistance, please contact Jann Knappage at [email protected].
I said it before but I’ll say it again: believe us when we say that you really will not be able to find an opportunity quite like this! We are really excited to be partnering with so many wonderful organizations, farmers, growers, community leaders, and facilitators of small-scale agriculture- all right here in the region. It’s going to be an informative, engaging, hands-on, interactive, something-for-everyone weekend! More than that, it will be an opportunity to learn from the best of the best, featuring our friends and colleagues at:
- Community Farm Alliance
- Kentucky Center for Agriculture and Rural Development
- Kentucky State University
- Hindman Settlement School
- Kentucky Association of Food Banks
- Old Homeplace Farm
- Cedar Creek Farm
- and many more!
Only a few of us from HQ will be there at Hindman, but please be sure to stop by and say hello! I personally can’t wait to see pictures and hear stories about the wonderful educational opportunities and benefits that farmers will receive.
Have a great weekend, everyone! For all you Grow Appalachia folks, I’ll see y’all next week (Gathering!!!), and for the rest of you readers, enjoy a nap this weekend, write a letter to a friend or family member, curl up with a good book, or cook an awesome meal! Or all of the above!
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