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Lucy Worsley touches on the hard-boiled elements of murder with Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler before she concludes, 'All through writing this book I've been worried about being too flippant about murder.
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By the time hanging was abolished in 1964, the detective story was being replaced by the spy thriller. It appeared to be short chapters on famous Victorian murders but suddenly morphed into what the Victorian reader trends were regarding murders and the reporting thereof. If you are interested in Crime, both as fiction and as reality, especially in how it affects the public psyche, then you will certainly find a lot to appreciate here. I would imagine that murder would never have been an unreported crime, so what would the reason(s) be for such an increase? He tried Dorothy L Sayers with 'The Nine Tailors', which did not help the situation because he began his critique with 'One of the dullest books I have ever encountered in any field.
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PHOENIX — The novel Phoenix sepsis criteria, created by the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Pediatric Sepsis Definition Task Force, improved diagnosis of pediatric sepsis and septic shock compared with existing criteria from 2005, a retrospective cohort study showed.
Among nearly 173,000 kids with suspected infection in the first 24 hours of an emergency and inpatient encounter, the integer version of the four-organ model Phoenix Sepsis Score had area under the precision recall curves of 0.23 to 0.38 (95% CI range 0.20-0.39) and area under the receiver operating characteristic curves of 0.71 to 0.92 (95% CI range 0.70-0.92) to predict mortality in the validation sets, reported Mark Hall, MD, of Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
The four-organ system model includes criteria for respiratory (mechanical ventilation, Pa02:Fi02, and Sp02:Fi02 ratios), cardiovascular (mean arterial pressure, lactate level, and vasoactive medications), coagulation (platelet count, international normalized ratio, D-dimer, and fibrinogen), and neurologic (Glasgow Coma Scale and pupillary reaction) dysfunction.
The task force ultimately adopted “an infection with life-threatening organ dysfunction” as a conceptual definition for sepsis.
During the presentation, Hall explained that previous sepsis criteria were simply not enough for providers on several levels.
“The currently used sepsis definitions that we’ve heard about … were largely developed by consensus, were not data driven, were not developed with a broad resource availability in mind,” he said. “We think about sepsis as defined by these definitions, and it applies to many, many patients on the regular ward who do not have life-threatening disease.”
In their study, the task force members wrote that “new pediatric sepsis criteria should maximize identification of true-positive cases so that infected children with life-threatening organ dysfunction receive best-practice sepsis care, are appropriately enrolled in clinical studies, and are correctly represented in epidemiological surveillance.”
“Simultaneously, new criteria must minimize false-positive cases so that children are not misdiagnosed with sepsis,” they added. “This is important to reduce unnecessary use of antimicrobials and other treatments, optimize the efficiency of clinical studies, and avoid overcounting in surveillance.”
Using a Phoenix Sepsis Score of 2 points or higher for children with suspected infection as criteria for sepsis and sepsis plus 1 or more cardiovascular points as criteria for septic shock resulted in a higher positive predictive value and better or similar sensitivity compared with the 2005 International Pediatric Sepsis Consensus Conference (IPSCC) criteria across 10 health systems in five differently resourced countries.
For example, for the primary outcome of death at the higher-resource sites, the Phoenix sepsis criteria had a positive predictive value of 5.3% to 7.1% (with a baseline mortality of 0.6% to 0.7%) and a sensitivity of 69.2% to 84.4% compared with the IPSCC severe sepsis criteria, which had a positive predictive value of 3.6% to 4.8% and a sensitivity of 58.7% to 70.7%, in the development and external validation sets, respectively.
For those curious, the criteria were symbolically named in reference to the mythological phoenix, but also for the location of this year’s SCCM Congress where the criteria were unveiled.
Survey data also published in JAMA indicated that patients with a Phoenix score of 2 or higher had an in-hospital mortality rate of 7.1% in higher-resource settings and 28.5% in lower-resource settings, more than eight times that of those with suspected infection not meeting these criteria.
Patients experiencing organ dysfunction in at least one of the four organ systems had higher mortality.
Patients who were in septic shock as defined by the Phoenix criteria had in-hospital mortality rates of 10.8% in higher-resource settings and 33.5% in lower-resource settings.
However, in an accompanying editorial, Roberto Jabornisky, MD, PhD, of the National University of the Northeast in Corrientes, Argentina, and co-authors urged caution before taking up more widespread adoption of the Phoenix criteria.
“This important work introduces novel challenges for implementation, requiring substantial further investigation to ascertain whether these revised definitions result in improved patient care,” the editorialists wrote. “These criteria must be further validated in a prospective manner, in differently resourced and varied settings, particularly those with the highest disease burden.”
“Until then, it is essential to refrain from considering these criteria as an inflexible directive governing medical interventions for pediatric sepsis,” they continued. “No definition can fully substitute for the clinical judgment of an experienced, vigilant clinician caring for an unwell child.”
But presenter Enitan Carrol, MBChB, MD, of the University of Liverpool in England, noted that the Phoenix criteria can be somewhat malleable based on where they are applied, adding that “context is everything.”
“These criteria must be applicable across all global settings,” she said. “So they need to be sensitive enough — and we see that in the data presented — but also specific enough. It needs to be flexible enough, and we see the pragmatic approach that was taken with the development of the score, including the redundancy that’s built into the score, as well as a parsimonious approach, which allows for that flexibility and adaptability across global settings.”
Task force member Halden Scott, MD, of the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, echoed this sentiment during a Q&A session, noting that “these criteria are sufficient, but not necessary to require and benefit from sepsis treatment. There are many children outside of these criteria who should be treated … for early sepsis. We’ve never had a good name for that.”
In a second accompanying editorial, Hallie Prescott, MD, MSc, of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and co-authors described the organ dysfunction criteria as “both data driven and pragmatic.” While they said that there are still important factors to consider in the diagnosis of sepsis, such as further research using a full 8-organ system, the impacts of the new criteria will be felt globally.
“This sepsis definition is supported by a robust body of research, inclusive of diverse geographic and resource settings. These new definitions and shared conceptual understanding of pediatric sepsis will support improvements in the management, research, and outcomes of children with sepsis worldwide,” wrote Prescott and her fellow co-editorialists.
The multicenter retrospective cohort study included more than 3.6 million pediatric emergency and inpatient encounters from 2010 to 2019 across 10 health systems in the U.S., Colombia, Bangladesh, China, and Kenya, three of which were used as external validation sites. About 6% of patients experienced suspected infection within the first 24 hours. Of the patients suspected to have infection, 1.2% died.
Analysis showed that IPSCC criteria had area under the precision recall curves of 0.13 to 0.27 (95% CI range 0.13-0.28) and area under the receiver operating characteristic curves of 0.76 to 0.91 (95% CI range 0.74-0.92) to predict mortality in the validation sets.
The researchers acknowledged that “some of the organ dysfunction measures used in the modeling process may not have reflected actual organ dysfunction, but rather were due to iatrogenic effects or clinician therapeutic choices, such as a lower Glasgow Coma Scale score in a patient receiving sedation or initiation of vasoactive medications in a patient with minimal cardiovascular dysfunction.”
“Future work to determine the effects of these variables and clinician choices on the performance of the criteria is needed,” they wrote.
This work was supported by a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The Society of Critical Care Medicine provided support to the Pediatric Sepsis Definition Task Force for travel of members, coordination of meetings, and other logistical support.
Hall reported receipt of personal fees for serving as a data and safety monitoring board member from AbbVie and nonfinancial support from Partner Therapeutics and Sobi.
Carrol reported being a specialist committee member, scientific advisory board member, and/or panel/group member for the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Diagnostics Advisory Committee, the NICE Sepsis Guideline Development Group, BioFire Diagnostics, the NICE Quality Standards Committee for Sepsis, the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Pediatrics Guideline Panel, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine Paediatric Sepsis Definition Task Force and an investigator in UK National Institute for Health and Care Research-funded studies.
Scott and Jabornisky reported no conflicts of interest.
Prescott reported relationships with the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Adult Guidelines panel, the NIH, the CDC, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Veterans Affairs, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.
Source Reference: Sanchez-Pinto LN, et al “Development and validation of the Phoenix criteria for pediatric sepsis and septic shock” JAMA 2024; DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.0196.
Source Reference: Schlapbach LJ, et al “International consensus criteria for pediatric sepsis and septic shock” JAMA 2024; DOI: 10.1001/jama.2024.0179.
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Since coming out of lockdown, I’ve found myself second guessing things I say in social situations. I’m naturally extroverted and have never had social anxiety, so this comes as a strange and unwelcome feeling.
I’ve wondered if other people feel this way. Am I the only person at the table wondering if I’ve said something stupid? Are other people reading their texts multiple times to make sure they sound okay? Is anyone else finding themselves overthinking simple interactions?
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Working from home has been both freeing and draining. We no longer have to commute or wear pants every day, but we also don’t interact with colleagues, baristas or even shop owners as much as we used to. It’s changed our lives forever, but is it contributing to us overthinking our simple conversations?
What about the people not working in office jobs? The poor hospitality workers who had at least a year of not serving people. Do they feel strange behind the bar now? Do they wonder if they look funny shaking up that martini??
What about the masks? Where do I look when I can’t see if someone is smiling at me? Does that person want me to say hello? Is the bartender happy to see me? Have you ever made a joke they didn’t quite hear because of your mask and they’re like ‘what’ and you’re like ‘what’ and then you feel awkward getting another pint? It’s a strange new world, no wonder we feel weird.
Here’s an example of me second guessing myself over something rather silly:
I was chatting to a few friends in a group chat and one of them mentioned she is taking a magnesium powder supplement. I told her that’s cool and she should try liquid magnesium next time as it absorbs better. Then I started worrying if I sounded like an asshole. Did she think I was trying to top her story? Why did I tell her my magnesium is better than her magnesium? Do I sound like I’m out here trying to be a magnesium expert!?! Why did I say that, I don’t know anything about magnesium!!!
Later in the afternoon, after ruminating about the magnesium for hours, I sent a voice note in the group chat and mentioned I was (stupidly) worrying about my magnesium comment. I asked my friends if they second guess themselves more lately, or is it just me? Turns out I’m not alone.
They’ve been worrying about what they say too. Then I asked a different group of friends – worriers everywhere. It made me wonder if this is something we are all silently enduring in a post covid world.
After asking my friends about the dumb magnesium and if they’re also feeling weird, I feel better. Not because they are struggling too, but because I feel less alone. Less worried. Less second guessy.
Six tips that help in overthinking moments:
1. Think about the conversation from the other person’s point of view – do you really think they care about a little comment? People generally have lots going on and aren’t thinking about what you say as much as you.
2. Talk back to your negative thoughts as if your friend was saying them and you were responding. When I was worried about the magnesium, I was thinking “Oh my god you’re such a story topper!”. An appropriate response could be “Well you’re actually not, it was just some useful advice and story topping isn’t in your nature, so people wouldn’t think that of you”. See, much nicer.
3. Write down what you’re obsessing over. This is good for two reasons. Firstly, writing your thoughts slows your brain down as you can’t write as fast as you can think. Secondly, reading over them on paper can make you see how harsh you’re being to yourself! Obsessing over the conversation isn’t worth this stress.
4. When you’re with people, mention you feel a bit different when socialising since lockdown. I bet they have to! I told a work colleague I felt a bit nervous at a work a event and they felt the same. It was a well needed reminder to know it’s not just me.
5. Throw yourself in the deep end and go to as many social events as you can handle. Often repeating the behaviour we are most afraid of helps us. If you go to ten social events and they all turn out absolutely fine and you had a great time at each one, how do you think the 11th will feel? Fucking awesome and you’ll realise there is nothing to be afraid of because the other ten times were good!
5. Show yourself some bloody compassion! The past few years have no doubt impacted you and everyone around you. There’s no point adding a layer of shame or other emotion on top of feeling the way you do and beating yourself up over it.
I hope this has helped you in some way. If you’re worried about your magnesium conversations or something else trivial after a social interaction, I want you to know you’re not alone. I’ve felt this way many times. People don’t care about the magnesium and no one is worrying about what you say as much as you.
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- Consider including the following in a communication plan when you’re using course mentors:
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- Regular check in emails reminding learners that mentors are available for guidance
- Key takeaways posts with specific insights about a topic and how it relates to the mentee group specifically
- Key corrections - a template for reaching out to learners when they’re seeing a common misunderstanding or questions
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- Should they have engaged in their private mentee group workspace at a certain frequency?
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An archaeological survey of this farm was commissioned by Aileen Buchanan of the Scottish Agricultural College on behalf of the owner Mr Grant Soutar. The farm lies within the Cairngorm Straths ESA. This survey has been funded by Historic Scotland as part of its pilot Ancient Monument Survey Grant Scheme. The purpose of this survey was to supply information on the surviving archaeological remains and discuss the requirements necessary to protect this archaeology under the ESA scheme and the options for advanced management. An initial desk-based search was carried out in Highland Council Sites & Monuments Record at Clachnaharry and at Highland Council Archive in Inverness. This was followed by a field survey on 11th February where the whole farm was examined for archaeological features. As the ground was covered by snow at this time, a further visit was carried out on the 22nd February. All features noted were recorded and sketch plans and photographs were taken where appropriate. <1>
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Easter Achvockie Farm, Advie
Centred NJ 1481 3583 (677m by 1040m)
INVERNESS NAIRN BADENOCH AND STRATHSPEY
CROMDALE, INVERALLAN AND ADVIE
BADENOCH AND STRATHSPEY
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But they will also become more self-reliant because our tutors do not want your child to become dependent on them. They want to give your child the knowledge so that they can apply it and become a better student. Tests are not going anywhere and they are only going to be more important while also growing increasingly more challenging. In college, they are going to have to develop study habits that work for them so that they can be confident and get good grades. They will be able to use what they have learned from their study skills tutor and use it when they are in the college of their dreams. We have effective tutors who are going to be able to help your child in ways that are impossible in a group setting or in a standard classroom. Make sure your student is able to get the grade that they are capable of achieving on the math section by teaming them up with a high-grade math tutor.
I have a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from FAU and have many years of extensive experience tutoring students of all ages. I truly specialize in exam prep such as ACT and SAT. I believe in providing tutoring sessions in which I can incorporate concepts in a fun and concise manner. I have a broad conceptual understanding of mathematics at an advanced level. My mission is to help you succeed in your respective endeavors by preparing for your next big ... See more
I have years of tutoring experience both privately and within the academic setting for ongoing academic help and test preparation such as SAT/ACT or GRE preparation. I have also taught mathematics at the college level.
Mr. Michael Criste holds an MBA from UC Riverside, a BFA in English Composition from Cal State Fullerton, and a conservatory diploma in theater from Orange County School of the Arts.
Following college, Michael worked professionally with Actors' Equity Association for seven years, but then returned to school and earned his MBA. He went on to work with LPL Financial, Merrill Lynch, and the Association for Corporate Growth.
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I specialize in SAT/ACT preparation, while tutoring the current math class(es) as well. I also tutor all college classes from College Algebra to Calculus 3. Most students either maintain a good grade or make at least two letter grades improvement by the end of the quarter. For the SAT, the student and parent set a goal number (usually 700+ or to max out the score with 800), and we set a plan of study and tutoring to achieve ... See more
My name is Claudia Rios. I am a certified Math tutor/teacher with around 8 years of experience. I am very passionate about education. Expertise tutoring subjects such as Prealgebra, Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry, Statistics, Probabilities, Trigonometry, Precalculus, Calculus, Physics, Computers, Microsoft Excel, Spanish I, Spanish II, among others. In addition, I have tutored students for the PSAT, SAT and ACT examinations obtaining amazing accomplishments on their admissions for College. Also, I have experience on EOC, GED and CLEP ... See more
I have been tutoring for 9 years and have much experience working with children as young as Kindergarten and as old as college. I am great in communicating seemingly difficult to grasp subjects in a way that engages my students and lets them find their own process of working, so they will not always be dependent on a tutor. I keep the sessions fun, yet educational and really like to connect on a personal level with all my students. My ... See more
I graduated as a math student from UNT and I have also tutored math for students of all ages for three years, so I have seen and experienced firsthand how frustrating it is to have the teacher talking in cloud nine and I’m still below sea level. Come check me out and I will do everything within my power to help you.
My name is Sheba Naderzad, and I'm an undergraduate junior studying Applied & Computational Mathematics with a minor in Education & Society at the University of Southern California. I've been tutoring both privately and at Mathnasium Learning Center for over 4 years. I specialize in tutoring children of all ages, including those with learning disabilities, particularly ADHD. Teaching math is my all-time passion, and in the future, I plan to pursue my PhD in hope of becoming ... See more
I've taught math at a variety of levels for 20 years. I now teach math up through algebra 2 at a community college but previously directed a preschool, taught SAT math, taught a home schooled 5th grader, and tutored ESL students grades K-10th. As long as you're willing to try, my success rate is high!
Math is the number one subject that students struggle with in school. When you have a knowledgeable tutor working with your child, it will boost their morale and relieve stress toward taking the SAT Math portion. A professional tutor will provide the best materials that they have had the most success with to ensure they are prepping your student for the exam in the most efficient way possible. But this does not mean that your tutor will use the exact same methods on your child that they have for every other student they have worked with in the past. Your child will get their own, specialized lesson plan that is geared toward the success of your student.
Dealing with SAT math tutoring in a group session is not the best for all students. There is only a single teacher who has to deal with the problems of several other students. They all have their own questions and it is virtually impossible for the teacher to give all students the attention they need. For some students, this type of learning is great for them, but that might not be the case for your child. When this happens you know that “I need an SAT math tutor” who is going to be able to help your child in a plethora of ways. By giving your child a mock SAT math exam your tutor will be able to see what your child is struggling with on this portion of the exam. Then by asking your child what they felt comfortable with on the exam, they will be open a clear line of communication where your child is able to vocalize their issues. This time will also be used for our tutor to see what learning style is best for your student. Based on all of this information and the methods that the tutor has developed in the past the tutor will create a lesson program that is entirely for the success of your student. If your child does the work and focuses in the session there is no reason why they should not see their score increase.
This is just a minor obstacle that your student is going to have to overcome and it has been made easier with one of our tutors. When your child is able to work with a test preparation tutor they will start to develop their own routine that will help them throughout the rest of their education. This is a fantastic opportunity for them to not only increase their score but also to become a better student. Our tutors know that the SAT math section is not something that your child is looking forward to taking. This is especially true if they are not all that great at math. But when your child is able to work with one of our tutors they will start to see that this can be a bit enjoyable. That is because our tutors incorporate fun activities into the sessions that put this information in the forefront so that your child can pull from it later on.
Cramming is the absolute worst way for your child to learn and not something that we condone whatsoever. What we want is for your child to pick up good habits that can stick with them and be utilized. When you start to see your child using things that they have used from their HeyTutor tutor you are feeling the effects of the experience we offer. Our tutors go above and beyond to make sure that your child is in the absolute best shape to take on this exam and any other that they will inevitably have to take in the future. When your child works with one of our tutors they will increase their chances of getting the score they seek the first time. We know that your child does not have to take it multiple times and you do not want to pay for it. So we will put them in the position to do fantastic their first time around so that you can all let out of a sigh of relief and watch the acceptance letters start to pile in.
Make sure your child is able to get into the school of their dreams by working with an SAT tutor from HeyTutor. Our team of reps is waiting on your call so that they can start you on this fantastic journey. The SAT is stressful so finding a tutor should not have to be whatsoever and we truly believe that at HeyTutor. So reach out today and find an “SAT math tutor near me” so your student can get the score they seek and then the fun will begin. | <urn:uuid:01419512-b66d-4cf2-b952-cbea976ba71b> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://heytutor.com/tutors/sat-math/ | 2024-04-24T03:00:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.972584 | 3,513 |
Pick a unique problem to solve, then innovate (only) when you must
A few thoughts from Jim McKelvey's "The Innovation Stack"
Businesses should copy whenever they can and only innovate when they’re solving a problem that's so different—so outside of the walls of what's known and standard—that they have no other choice.
That’s the perspective of Jim McKelvey, cofounder of Square and author of The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time.
Aside from being one of the most readable business books I've seen in a while, I thought McKelvey’s concepts were different enough from standard talk of innovation and creativity to challenge frameworks and encourage fresh thinking.
So let’s go back to the idea that you solve a problem, copy where you can, and innovate only where necessary. Typically in that case, you solve one problem, which leads to another question that demands another innovation. Piece by piece these (by necessity, not just for change's sake) build into an innovation stack.
McKelvey’s thesis is that there are some businesses (like Square) that have stacked innovations that keep other competitors from being able to compete because they won't (or can't) create every separate innovation to fully replicate what makes the first business unique. He says that's what saved Square when Amazon went after their product. He compares it to stories of Bank of America, Southwest, and Ikea, showing similar progressions.
Here's an excerpt that summarizes this well:
You can have a great life copying other people who have great lives. Copying is such a supremely powerful tool that it bets the question: why would someone choose to do anything else? Given the safety and predictability of copying and making incremental improvements, why risk total failure by taking a transformative leap? But some do choose to leave that walled city. Are they crazy? What is their motivation?
For those who choose to leave, two types of motivation matter. The first type is the motivation we all know—let’s call this perseverance. Perseverance powers us to finish tasks, to get going and keep going. There are entire industries dedicated to perseverance. You can attend weeklong seminars to improve your perseverance. It is the key to success in most endeavors. We also call it work ethic, follow-through, grit, determination, or some other universally respected term.
The second type of motivation, however, applies only to entrepreneurs and artists and is rarely discussed—let’s call this audacity. Audacity is the reason you decide to leave the city and attempt something that has never been done. Audacity is generally frowned upon, or at best respected in hindsight if and when you succeed. We have no glowing nouns for people who reject our trusted ways.
Once you have the audacity to walk out of the walled city and try something entirely new, you shouldn’t have any problem with perseverance. If you quit, you die. Seminar over. Fear fuels your survival instinct, and you will leap from invention to invention that necessity will mother. The “decision” to innovate is easy to make, as there is little choice.
You don’t choose to do a dozen things to survive, you just choose to survive—and are forced to do a dozen things. So the real choice, then, is about whether to tackle a perfect problem or not. Ultimately, the decision to do something new comes down to a battle between the audacity you have to solve a perfect problem and your fear of failure. How much do you care verses how much does it cost. If you care enough, failure be damned.
I see a lot of potential overlap in what it means to build educational experiences that are unique because they're solving a specific problem.
Too often in higher ed (or any other industry), we get it backwards. The call is to innovate. That’s great, but what problem are we solving?
What if, rather than innovating for innovation’s sake, we worked to find the right problem? What if we moved out of the walled city into the unknown?
Sure, we’d copy great practices wherever we could. But since we’re working on a new problem, we’ll hit areas where no one has solved that problem before.
Then, innovation is the only possibility. Through those moves, over time, we develop something that’s completely different from anything else out there. That stack of innovations, built one problem at a time, creates a position that’s difficult for anyone else to copy (or surpass).
And better yet, it provides new learning opportunities and pathways for students and families.
How Successful Leaders Think (Roger Martin via Farnam Street)
'“A great leader’s first reaction is, hmm, say more. Tell me more. ... Because it has this super big knock-on effect. One, it causes your subordinates to all think that if you’ve got an interesting thought, I’m open to hearing it. I’m not going to just shut that down because it disagrees with me. Everybody is more inclined to think about things and think about things differently, and not be afraid of that”
The Muddled World of Self-Awareness (Scott Hogan)
I’m not suggesting that we give “applause and opinion” power over our lives. I am suggesting, however, that there’s a significant difference between delivery and delivering. Leaders without self-awareness fret about how they came across. A self-aware leader wonders, did I come across? Therein lies the riddle of modern self-awareness theory: to be successful at self-awareness a leader must lose their awareness of self by replacing the common question Was I interesting? with the better question Were those present impacted?
Authoritative mentors: Demanding and supportive is a powerful combination (Angela Duckworth)
Of all the blessings in life we have to be thankful for, it’s hard to beat the good fortune of having a supportive and demanding mentor—someone who cares about us unconditionally but, at the same time, asks us to do things we cannot yet do.
Well, it is possible. I call the meeting a ‘round-robin retro’ and it’s the most important meeting you aren’t regularly having with your team.
Part 1: ‘What went well?’
One-by-one, each person gives a single, specific, one-sentence answer to the question, ‘What went well?’ Once everyone in the room has done this, go around again . . . and again, until people have voiced everything that’s gone well.
Part 2: ‘What didn’t go well?’
You can follow exactly the same format for this question. Remember, the objective is to listen, not solve, and the facilitator’s role is to make the environment safe enough for everyone to share their grievances without the risk of being shot down.
Part 3: ‘What will we change?’
You won’t have time to solve everything in a 60-minute meeting. So instead, ask the team this: ‘Based on everything you’ve heard, what could we change next week that would most improve our team dynamic?’
Why Higher Ed Futures? (Add your voice)
In this newsletter, “futures” is intentionally plural. With any challenge, there is more than one way to move forward. A thriving educational system will require a network of focused, differentiated colleges and universities that meet the variety of student needs.
My hope here is to avoid binary thinking and create a community where people passionate about higher education can think, dream, and challenge assumptions together.
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Before I get started, I would like to give some background information about myself since I am new to the Echo and to Maryville College. I am a junior this year, studying English literature and writing/communications. I transferred this semester from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.
So far, the transition to MC has been a fine experience. As a commuting student, I travel an hour to and from my home in Corryton every day. If I’m not slaving away at school, you can most likely find me reading articles on Yahoo! News or writing poetry. I do my best to live a vegetarian, sustainable lifestyle. Politically, I consider myself a liberal feminist and religiously, a non-Islamic Sufi.
Those may seem like random details, but I include them because it is inevitable that each of those will influence this column at some point in its publication. For the most part, I will be focusing on gender issues and feminism, the difficulty of understanding which leading to its becoming such an ugly word.
In my experience, many individuals automatically think of women who hate men, don’t shave their legs and burn their bras when confronted with the concept of feminism.
Many even assume that the era of feminism has passed; that there is no need for the study and critique of feminine ideals or theory in the 21st century.
While I assure you that no feminist I have met dares go braless (the girls need support), and most of them are married to wonderful husbands or wives, I would like to inform you throughout this column that feminists are still alive and well. Additionally, I am one of them.
Even in a world in which women are largely free to choose the paths that they take in their lives, there are still gendered stereotypes and expected societal roles based on gender that women are fighting today to overcome. Although the wage gap in the U.S. has shrunk in the past 30 years, women are still paid less than men. Despite the fact that more women graduate with doctorates each year than men, there are very few powerful positions that women hold in business and government. Women continue to be exploited in television and movies. Their sexualization is everywhere, so much so that it can be difficult to recognize sometimes.
These facts are precisely why the concept of feminism must be a modern focus. Women remain in struggle for equality, so how can feminism remain overlooked?
That being said, working toward equality for women does not mean that women are better than men. Let it be known that you do not need to be a man-hater to love feminism. Being a feminist means nothing more than believing that both genders are equal to each other.
Do you believe that women should have the same rights as men in society?
Congratulations, you’re a feminist.
I will try throughout this column to educate my audience on the subject, as well as dispel long-held stigmas against feminists. I will talk about current women working to eradicate gender inequality; about their movements and what it means to confront gender issues in today’s world. It is my wish that, if you read this column with an open mind, you will begin to see feminists as real people who do not fit into the narrow categories in which traditionalism teaches you to cast them. I
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About every three days a fatal work zone crash involving a large truck occurs in the U.S. That totals 133 truck-involved fatal work zone crashes each year, according to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).
Overall, the past five years have seen 4,400 people killed and 200,000 people injured in work zone crashes, truck-involved or not, but the trucking figures from FHWA are daunting.
Out on the rural Interstates, fully 47% of fatal work zone crashes involve large trucks, and when those fatal crashes do occur, 49% of the time the truck driver hits something or someone right in front of them.
Highway work zones are dangerous for all highway travelers but are particularly difficult for trucks, with narrowed, shifting lanes, reduced speeds and last-second merging by other vehicles, challenging even the best and most experienced truck driver.
Here are some tips to make it safely through:
- Read the signs. Work zone signs tell you changes in the normal traffic pattern are ahead. Pay attention. FHWA says driver distraction is a factor in 30% of fatal truck-involved work zone crashes. Don’t add to that statistic.
- Keep your distance. Leave enough space between your truck and the vehicle ahead of you. Keep your eyes on the taillights ahead, but also keep a high visual horizon, meaning look well ahead of you for stopping traffic and traffic pattern changes. Be prepared to slow down or stop unexpectedly.
- Obey the reduced speed limit sign. Stopping is easier when you are traveling at or below the recommended work zone speed limit. You may feel capable of negotiating the traffic pattern at a higher speed than posted, but remember work zones can change and you must consider the abilities of other drivers around you. Be ready to slow or stop by keeping your speed in check.
- Merge safely and early. When lane changes are required, move into the open lane at your earliest, safe opportunity. But watch your “blind spots,” as other vehicles may speed up to get in front of you.
- Signal others what’s ahead. You sit up higher in the cab. When you see slowing or stopped traffic, turn on your flashers to signal traffic behind you.
- Watch out for workers. A highway work zone means workers and their machinery may enter your traffic lane. Often, there will be a “Flagger Ahead” sign telling you that traffic may be stopped or escorted. At any time, though, your complete attention is the best defense against a crash.
- Be patient. Highways require maintenance. A work zone is a sign of improvement – smoother pavement, safer routing, stronger bridges in the future. Take your time. That “End Road Work” sign in the distance is a “thank you” for being a safe and courteous truck driver. | <urn:uuid:a4093da2-f552-4682-949f-fec63c00f9bc> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://highwaydriverleasing.com/2022/03/21/7-tips-to-trucking-safely-in-road-construction-zones/ | 2024-04-24T03:09:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.94781 | 591 |
Hey there! I’ve got a confession to make: I’ve had my fair share of restless nights while camping. Tossing and turning on a bulky air mattress, struggling with inflation, and waking up to that dreaded deflation sound in the middle of the night—it’s enough to ruin anyone’s camping experience. But thankfully, I’ve also dived into the world of air mattress alternatives for camping, and today I’m excited to share my insights with you.
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Understanding the Limitations of Air Mattresses
Ah, air mattresses—the darlings of campers everywhere. But let’s face it, they come with their fair share of challenges. First, there’s the issue of size. Have you ever tried to squeeze an oversized air mattress into a small tent or RV? It’s like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole! And let’s not forget about the inflation dilemma. Like you’re in the middle of the wilderness with no electricity to power your trusty air pump. Cue the frustration. Oh, and did I mention air leaks? It’s a deflating experience in more ways than one. These challenges made me realize the need to check out alternative options.
The Benefits of Air Mattress Alternatives
Enter the world of air mattress alternatives, where comfort and convenience intertwine. Let me introduce you to a few game-changers. First up, we have cots—portable and elevated, they offer excellent support and eliminate the need for inflation altogether. Depending on which you choose, they can be a little heavy or very light, but all the ones I’ve seen are still smaller than air mattresses, and many or just as comfy.
Next, let’s talk about inflatable sleeping pads and foam sleeping pads. These lightweight wonders are a backpacker’s dream come true. Not only do they offer cushioning for a restful night’s sleep, but they also provide insulation to keep you warm during chilly nights under the stars. Say goodbye to lugging around heavy air mattresses and hello to a lighter backpacking experience.
But what about the humble blanket? Don’t underestimate its versatility. Layering blankets can add that extra touch of comfort to any sleeping arrangement. Whether you’re using a cot, sleeping pad, or even a hammock, blankets are a simple yet effective way to create a cozy sleeping environment.
For the more adventurous souls, hammocks provide a unique sleeping experience, gently swaying you into dreamland. Check out my other post to learn more about hammock camping.
Lastly, memory foam pads and mattress toppers bring the comfort of home to your camping adventures.
Trust me, these alternatives can be a breath of fresh air.
Recommended Air Mattress Alternatives
Now, I wouldn’t leave you hanging without some top-notch recommendations. If you’re looking for a reliable all-rounder, the Therm-a-Rest NeoLite XLite inflatable sleeping pad is a stellar choice. It’s lightweight, easy to pack, and provides excellent insulation. Yes, inflatable like an air mattress, however I have never had this pad leak or lose air overnight, and I’ve used it a lot! On the budget-friendly side, the Klymit Static V inflatable pad has been my trusted companion for years. It offers impressive comfort without breaking the bank. Both blow up in just a few breaths and I can personally vouch for the durability and performance of these alternatives—they’ve never let me down during my camping escapades.
If you’re considering cots as an alternative, the Coleman Trailhead II Cot and the Helinox Lite Cot are two great options. The Coleman Trailhead II Cot offers sturdy construction and quite a bit of space, providing a comfortable and elevated sleeping experience. It’s perfect for those who prefer the convenience of a cot without compromising on comfort. For the backpackers seeking a lightweight and compact cot, the Helinox Lite Cot is a standout choice. It combines portability with comfort, allowing you to rest off the ground without adding significant weight to your pack. It’s a game-changer for those who value a good night’s sleep while keeping their backpacks light.
Lastly, if you’re looking for a versatile and durable sleeping pad, consider the Exped FlexMat Sleeping Pad. This foam pad offers excellent insulation and cushioning, ensuring a comfortable sleep. It’s lightweight, easy to roll up, and provides reliable performance in various camping conditions.
I can personally vouch for the durability and reliability of these alternatives. They’ve accompanied me on countless camping escapades, from lakeside retreats to mountain hikes. These pads and cots have never let me down, and I’m confident they’ll meet and exceed your expectations too.
Tips and Considerations for Using Air Mattress Alternatives
So, you’re ready to give these alternatives a try? Awesome! I’m stoked that you’re up for taking your camping game to the next level. Now, let me share a few tips with you to ensure your camping experience is as comfortable as can be. Trust me, these nuggets of wisdom will make all the difference.
First things first, when it comes to choosing an alternative, make sure it suits your camping style and needs. Size, weight, and ease of setup are key factors to consider. Are you a backpacker, trying to shave off every ounce of weight? Then go for a lightweight inflatable sleeping pad or that compact cot I mentioned earlier—the Helinox Lite Cot. They’ll be your trusty companions, offering comfort without burdening your back. But if you’ve got a roomy tent or an RV, you can indulge in a larger cot or even a plush memory foam pad for a touch of luxury.
Now, here’s my golden rule: never skimp on quality. Invest in alternatives that have earned their stripes. Look for reliable products with rave reviews, ones that are built to withstand the ruggedness of the great outdoors. You want gear that won’t let you down when you’re snuggled up in the wilderness. Trust me, a good night’s sleep is priceless.
Ah, the art of layering—let’s talk about that! Whether it’s using blankets or combining different sleeping pads, layering allows you to customize your comfort like a pro. Get experimental! Try different combinations, mix and match to find your sweet spot. Maybe you’ll dig a foam sleeping pad as your base layer for insulation, topped with an inflatable pad for a cloud-like feel. Or a cot, snuggled under a cozy blanket for that extra touch of warmth and softness. The possibilities are endless, my friend, so let your creativity flow.
By following these tips, you’ll be well on your way to a camping experience that feels like a five-star hotel under the stars. Remember, it’s all about finding what floats your boat and creating a sleep setup that caters to your unique preferences.
Personal Reflections and Experiences
I’ll let you in on a little secret—I’ve bid farewell to air mattresses during my camping adventures. Instead, my family and I have embraced the wonders of sleeping pads. There are four of us, and fitting all those pads in the same tent is a breeze. No more unintentional midnight wrestling matches! Plus, we’ve discovered the joy of hammock camping. Swinging gently beneath the stars, cocooned in comfort—it’s an experience that words can’t quite capture. These alternatives have truly elevated our camping game, and I can’t wait for you to experience the same level of comfort and freedom.
As we reach the end of this exploration into air mattress alternatives, I hope you’ve found my personal insights helpful and inspiring. Say goodbye to cumbersome air mattresses and embrace the freedom and comfort that these alternatives offer. Remember, it’s all about finding what works best for you and your camping style. So go ahead, venture into the world of cots, sleeping pads, hammocks, and more. Your camping experience will never be the same again. Happy trails, my friends!
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Holy Blossom’s Connection to Mount Sinai Hospital
Most of us were upset to read about the large-scale protest that took place in front of Mount Sinai Hospital and the obscene slurs being shouted by some of the protesters. While all such protests should and do concern us, the one at this location may resonate more strongly with us as Holy Blossom has had a long-time connection with this hospital.
Mount Sinai Hospital was established in 1923 at 100 Yorkville Avenue and moved to University Avenue in 1953. Jule J. Allen, an important member of Temple who helped raise significant funds for our Bathurst Street building, also raised considerable money for the creation of the hospital. Later, Ben Sadowski, who later became President of Holy Blossom, worked tirelessly to see the relocation of the hospital to its University Avenue site.
Two of Mount Sinai’s earliest doctors contributed greatly to the Archives of the Temple. Dr. David Eisen served as Archivist at the Temple for many years. He graduated from the University of Toronto Medical School in 1922 and joined the staff of the Mount Sinai Hospital shortly after as Toronto’s first Jewish radiologist. His book, Diary of a Medical Student, chronicles not only his life but gives details of many other Jews who played important roles in Toronto’s medical professions.
Dr. A.I. Willinsky, in addition to being a doctor, was an amateur filmmaker and produced a short film called Our Dream Come True. It tells the story of the Temple’s move from Bond Street to our new home on Bathurst Street. As a doctor, he specialized in spinal anesthesia and was considered the most prominent of Mount Sinai’s original staff where he became chief of surgery.
Over the years, many other members of Holy Blossom served as doctors at the hospital or in other medical positions. Board Members, Foundation Chairs, Auxiliary Chairs, etc. were often members of our congregation and continue to be so. Heather Reisman, who along with her husband, Gerald Schwartz, has been a significant benefactor of both the hospital and of Holy Blossom has also been the target of obscene anti-Semitic slurs.
One of the members of our current Archives Committee, Ruth Ellen Greenwood, has shared these memories of her family’s connections to the hospital:
My Mom worked as a nurse at the original Mount Sinai on Yorkville. She graduated as a nurse from St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg and came to Toronto to accept the job at Mount Sinai. She told many stories about her experiences as a young Orthodox Jewish girl “in training” at St. Boniface, a strictly Catholic institution. Her family and the Jewish community in Winnipeg were very concerned about a young single Jewish woman travelling alone for three days on the train all the way to Toronto.
My Mom kept in touch with her friends and associates at Mount Sinai over the years. Fast forward to 1969 when, in labour, I arrived at Mount Sinai at 550 University Ave. Mom’s friend Marion Jacobs was now in charge of Labour and Delivery. I announced, ”Please tell Marion Jacobs that Janet Hershfield’s daughter is here.” Marion was very kind and reassuring to a very nervous young woman about to have her first baby. I went on to have three more children, all born at Mount Sinai. I even made it into the newer Mount Sinai at 600 University for the birth of our fourth son, David.
In the 70’s, my Mom worked as a volunteer in the Echogram Department (as it was called then.) I still have her smock that she wore, some pictures, her volunteer pin and some other items from her nursing career. I believe she worked under the supervision of Dr. Samuel Norris, a well-known ObGyn. His family are members of Holy Blossom, and I was friends with his daughter, Marsha. Dr. Abe Eisen and Dr. Abe Bernstein (also members of Holy Blossom) took over Dr. Norris’s practice, and Dr. Eisen delivered all four of our sons. These two doctors were fondly known as “the Bobbsey twins.”
Our family has very fond and deep ties to Mount Sinai Hospital. I can’t begin to describe my anguish and distress over the reports of the assault on Mount Sinai during yet another hateful demonstration.
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We suspect many of you reading this article have memories of your family’s connection to the hospital as well. We would love to hear from you. Send us your stories at [email protected].
Mount Sinai Hospital is indeed an institution of which the Jewish Community and Holy Blossom should be very proud.
If you have any items of archival interest that you wish to donate, please email us at [email protected].
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Rozanne McDonough knows first-hand the impact a fall can have on a person’s self-confidence. Luckily, after attending some physical exercise classes at the Mercy Health Wellness Centre, she is also well-versed in how exercise therapy can assist with mobility and independence.
Over the past few years, Rozanne has had multiple falls. The negative impact on her life was clear. with injuries ranging from cuts and bruises to shoulder dislocations. However, Rozanne’s confidence and independence began to suffer as well, with the fear of falling never far away.
When Rozanne injured her wrist after a fall in early 2016, her doctors suggested she attend some physical exercise at the Mercy Health Wellness Centre to strengthen her muscles and improve her overall balance.
Rozanne began attending the Wellness Centre in February 2016. She has not had a single fall since.
With my improved balance, I am able to walk more confidently now without the constant fear of falling.
After a series of classes, Rozanne’s self-confidence has improved and, no longer gripped with the fear of falling or injuring herself in public, she is getting out more often to meet with friends. The lovely friendships Rozanne has formed with other people at the Wellness Centre have only further boosted her self-confidence.
Rozanne is now out and about in the community, happily promoting the importance of physical exercise to both new and long-held friends.
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This is our review of the Best Side By Side Refrigerator Under 50000.
We have tested and compared all the Best Side By Side Refrigerator Under 50000 in the market. After that we have prepared this list to ensure you will get quality product.
We have written their benefits and drawbacks to help you in making right purchase.
Lets’ get started !
HOW WE TESTED
Over the course of 4 month-long testing period, we selected these Side By Side Refrigerator Under 50000 based on the different criteria.
Our picks are based on product warranty, features, durability and brand popularity below.
These Are Top And Best Side By Side Refrigerator Under 50000 In India 2024
- Lifelong LLSBSR505 Side By Side Refrigerator
- Midea MDRS619FGG28IND Side By Side Refrigerator
- Midea MRF5920WDSSF Side By Side Refrigerator
- AmazonBasics AB2019RF005 Side By Side Refrigerator
4. Lifelong LLSBSR505 Side By Side Refrigerator
In the position 4, comes the Lifelong LLSBSR505.
It has a capacity of 505 litres which is quite efficient due to different storage options. The refrigerator is equipped with an LED display panel through which it can be controlled like temperature. As a bonus, it is a quiet refrigerator. We found its noise levels not zero, but so low that you won’t be disturbed.
The inverter compressor provided better cooling with less power consumption, during our tests. It maintained the coolness effect for a much longer time. Also, its defrost avoids the frost formation inside the refrigerator. Designwise, it has unique pattern design along with a sturdy build. In its budget, we concluded it to be a good package, during our testing.
3. Midea MDRS619FGG28IND Side By Side Refrigerator
Within 50k budget, the next refrigerator comes from Midea, the Midea MDRS619FGG28IND.
Designwise, its colour makes it unique in looks from our entire list. The color name is black jazz. This refrigerator comes with 482 L of capacity enough for most of the needs. It has a heavy build making it more durable in long-term. It is equipped with Inverter Quatro Compressor, quite efficient one.
Through its digital display and touch panel, you can adjust the different settings of refrigerator according to your needs. The cabinets are of uniform and balanced design. Other features we loved in it are Active C Fresh, 90 degree accessible. So, you can go for this one, being hassl-free.
2. Midea MRF5920WDSSF Side By Side Refrigerator
The runner up of our list is Midea MRF5920WDSSF.
This refrigerator offers you 591 L capacity which is enough for most of the Indian families. This refrigerator may be a little over 50k budget but we ensure that you won’t regret once you buy it. Designwise, it looks attractive along with its water dispenser and digital display. In the display you can operate different operations of the refrigerator like that of changing cooling temperature, modes, lock/unlock. Moreover, it is a frost free refrigerator.
During our testing, it provided optimum cooling and retained it even during electricity cut up to 10 hours easily. Overall, it has a strong build with good space and latest technology for keeping the things inside it fresh for a longer time. You can give a look to it as it is just a little over 50k budget.
1. AmazonBasics AB2019RF005 Side By Side Refrigerator
Next we have listed AmazonBasics AB2019RF005.
This refrigerator is available in different colours and models in the same price range, so check and go for what you want the most. With the capacity of 564 L, it also comes with a water dispenser. It is actually a helpful thing in a refrigerator. Cooling is found to be true of our expectations from this refrigerator, during our testing.
On the front, you get to see the control panel (touch panel), for different tasks. It worked well without any glitch, in our tests. In the Holiday Mode, less power consumption but continuous tasks. Moreover, this one is frost free. The whole storage area is well planned and it fulfilled our different needs, during our tests. | <urn:uuid:dcc0b87f-1716-4711-b67a-42119ca3acc5> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://homeherald.in/reviews/best-side-by-side-refrigerator-under-50000/ | 2024-04-24T02:55:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.934357 | 931 |
The other day, I bought my daughter some winter outfits and everything sparkled. Glitter is in, apparently. You can’t get away from it.
Of course, my daughter loves it. The trouble is, the sparkles come off on anything her clothes touch. Not a whole lot. Just enough to leave me sparkling after I had her in my lap for a few minutes. But is that really trouble?
She leaves glitter on me, my five-year-old daughter. And oh, how I treasure it.
Ann Voskamp wrote that she gave birth to six children but each of them gave birth to her in return. Every time a woman becomes a mother, she becomes a new person. The world changes when your child comes into the world. You change. The child changes the mother.
And daughters especially have a way of leaving glitter on our clothes, on our hearts, on our hands.
Tonight a friend of mine is mourning the loss of her eight-year-old daughter, killed in a freak backyard accident a week ago. No more glitter. Deborah – that was her name – is now a memory. The mother is afraid to go back to her home and walk through her daughter’s room. She is staying with her own parents, unable to make herself look at her daughter’s glitter. Continue reading | <urn:uuid:f58a57d6-6a02-4e46-bf98-5b8fec3d064c> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://homeschoolways.com/category/deborah/ | 2024-04-24T04:02:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.984962 | 277 |
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Eighteen Carat White Gold Sapphire And Diamond Drop Earrings
A pair of 18ct white gold drop earrings comprising pear shape studs grain set with sixteen 1.7mm approx in diameter round faceted blue sapphires articulated to twelve four claw mounts set with twelve 1.7mm approx round brilliant cut diamonds and to the lower ends attached to two drop shaped mounts wholly pave set with two hundred and fifty-six round faceted blue sapphires ranging from 1.5mm - 1.7mm in diameter approx. Small disc style butterfly fittings are attached.
Total estimated weight of Diamonds 12 = 0.24ct graded as set G-H/SI
Total estimated weight of Sapphires 272 = 10.0ct
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It’s May, the month of prom, mother day, memorial day, graduation… and father day coming afterward. Don’t you wish to celebrate these events with a luxury dish at the comforting spot of home? Try this Lobster Thermidor, though it takes some work to perform, the result will be outstandingly delicious that note your unforgettable day.
I have heard of Lobster Thermidor before, in a few of Julia Child versions, or maybe seeing it in the commercial show. My first encounter with Lobster Thermidor is not the real dish itself, but actually it’s being the ultimate dish to be learned at cooking level 10 in the Sims 3. It’s interesting how a computer game can replicate the cooking procedure to that extend.
To be honest, I’ve never tried this dish before my first try at cooking it, but nonetheless, the result came out quite perfect. Really, how could you go wrong with fresh lobster, herb, and creamy bechamel? I’m not a drinker, but the scent of cognac that added when searing lobster meat is just heavenly.
After many trials and taste sampling the surrounding, I came to my favorite version of Lobster Thermidor. What I like about it is that it doesn’t use much of any seasoning at all: just the natural sweetness from the juicy succulent lobster meat plus the mild saltiness of the cheese. A couple of drops of fresh-squeezed lemon juice is all you need.
No spice is being used in this recipe, not even ground pepper. I saw a couple of recipes with peppercorn, black pepper, cayenne… Though they all good, I just feel their flavor might cover bits of the natural fresh scent of lobster, as well as the nutty sweetness of cognac being blended into. So for me, no spice is better actually.
Go light on the salt since lobster meat is naturally well-seasoned on its own. If you can’t, for some reason, work with live lobster, try the tails. If so, just follow the recipe closely, but on the few finals step, put them all in a baking pan. Same way for any extra sauce/lobster meat too. For the cheese, if you can’t find any french, try parmesan or asiago.
All these tastes so wonder, which make me think of a light-up candle dinner. So have this recipe ready, prepare them in batches beforehand and bake them right before your gather up party. Oh, and don’t forget to get your treasured bottle of Cognac out. What a day!
- 1 lobster ~ 1.4 lb
- 0.25 cup cognac
- 1 cup seafood stock
- 1 egg yolk
- 5 Tbsp butter unsalted
- 0.3 cup heavy cream
- 2 Tbsp shred Gruyère or similar high moisture cheese
- 0.5 pint mushroom sliced
- 1 lemon for juice
- 2 Tbsp flour
- 0.5 Tbsp powder mustard
- tarragon, parsley, thyme…
- green bean optional side
- salt to taste
- kitchen shear
- large crab/nut cracker for the claw
- metal pick or pointed paring knife
Steam & Handle Lobster
- Bring a pot/steamer with enough water to a boil. While waiting, prepare a bath of ice/cold water.
- Once boiling, quickly add the steaming rack/shelf and place lobster in. Cover with lid.
- Steam for 7-9 minutes or until the outer shelve turns red.
- Quickly transfer lobster to the icy bath to stop the cooking process and cool it down immediately
- Have a container ready to pour any gooey or juice coming out along the process.
- Use a strong shear to cut the lobster into halves along its length. You can do this easily by snipping the tail flap toward the body into two, then slip the pointed end of the shear into an open hole and start cutting the abdomen shell all the way up to its head.
- Once done, turn the lobster over and work your shear through the back shell. Carefully extract both sides of the shell out. Clean, pat dry, and set aside.
- For the claws, just twist/cut them off from the lobster. Bend and break them apart at their knuckles/joints. Use a cracker and pointed paring knife/picker to extract all the meat inside.
- Cut all the extracted lobster meat into half-inch chunks and add them to the lobster juice container above.
Mix the egg custard & sauce
- In a small saucepan over low/medium heat, melt 1 tablespoon butter and saute sliced mushroom and 1 teaspoon lemon juice until soft.
- Add 3/4 of seafood stock to the mushroom, bring to boil then simmer for 10-15 minutes to reduce into half
- Whisk 1 egg yolk with half a tablespoon powdered mustard and heavy cream.
- Mix remaining seafood stock with flour, stir well to make sure no residue.
- Make sure heat is on low/simmering. Pour the flour/stock mixture into saucepan while stirring.
- Slowly pour the egg/cream mixture in while whisking continuously.
- Keep whisking until the sauce become thick like custard. Remove saucepan from heat.
Saute the lobster
- Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat.
- Add all the lobster meat/juice into a sauce pan. Stir a couple of times to mix.
- Pour the cognac all over lobster meat. Bring to boil to vaporize all the alcohol.
- Sprinkle in some finely minced parsley, tarragon, and other herbs. Also, Spoon in the custard cream sauce.
- Stir well to combine and remove from heat source.
- Preheat oven to 425F.
- Arrange lobster shell onto baking tray/pan. Use foil wrapper to level the shells.
- Carefully spoon in the lobster meat/sauce mixture into each shell.
- Sprinkle some finely shred cheese on top.
- Bake/broil for 10 minutes or until the cheese is bubbling.
- Once done, carefully transfer to a serving plate.
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Due to the reformer-based design of the Club Pilates studio, which is a favorite of many, it uses fresh and contemporary techniques. It does, however, have a high cost and frequently comes with one. Pilates exercises will put your strength to the test and help you build the lean muscle you have always desired.
Club Pilates offers these types of classes. Club Pilates focuses on getting individuals of all fitness levels involved and making the reformer accessible, which will work your muscles hard and offer you an energizing workout.
So, if you are planning to join one of the Club Pilates classes and want to learn the prices, here’s everything you need to know!
What are the Different Club Pilates Prices?
The equipment, instructor, and location all have an impact on the cost of a club Pilates membership. In a few particular branches, the prices are slightly higher than they are across the board in Canada and the USA. To give Club Pilates a try before committing to a package, you are given a free introductory class. Here are the various Club Pilates packages and their prices.
A 4-Pack Membership is an ideal option for customers who wish to exercise once per week. It will help you develop and maintain a strong Pilates foundation. It is also suitable for those seeking to augment an existing training program. This package costs approximately $89; however, the price could vary significantly depending on the location.
Club Pilates becomes your go-to workout and the foundation of a reliable fitness regimen thanks to the 8-Pack Membership. Attending at least two courses per week enables members to get fantastic results more quickly than they would have imagined. It helps you to fully grasp the foundations of Pilates and gets you ready for the next level. The price you will pay for this package is typically around $149 to $159.
The Unlimited Membership is the ideal approach to achieving your fitness objectives if you want to exercise three times per week or more. You can easily maintain your fitness goals as you get unlimited access to your preferred Club Pilates facility. The unlimited membership price is around $199 per month. If you regularly attend classes, you can get them for a low price of $7 by choosing the unlimited membership.
If you don’t want to worry about paying dues every month, the annual membership is the ultimate option for you. It is a hassle-free way to have full access to your preferred Club Pilates studio without making monthly payments. You can easily stick with your Pilates routine for a full year with a pre-paid annual membership. The annual membership at Club Pilates would typically cost between $1,250 and $1,550.
A passport membership grants you access to every Club Pilates studio in the country. It is your pass to any class at any Club Pilates facility at any time. With this membership, you get complete access to the biggest studio network in the nation, whether you are traveling locally or across the country.
You may visit any Club Pilates facility nationwide with a passport membership. However, the US passport membership applies only to the US studios, and the Canada passport membership is valid only throughout Canada. The fee for the passport membership is the same as the standard pricing.
If you wish to take a single class to understand how Pilates works and to get a feel for the studio environment, Club Pilates offers drop-in classes at their locations. The price for this pack varies depending on the location you choose. The class usually lasts for about an hour and provides you with the necessary training for the day. It is typically around $25 to $35 per class.
The ideal approach to learning about Pilates and the studio is to take the Club Pilates Intro Class. You can take advantage of a full-body, 30-minute session with one of their excellent Instructors. This class is a wonderful introduction to their cutting-edge tools, facilities, exercises, and stellar personnel. What’s more, this class is free and included in all the packages mentioned above.
Is It Possible to Freeze Club Pilates Membership?
You may come across a situation where you won’t have the time or are unable to attend the classes after getting a Club Pilates membership. In such circumstances, you may want to freeze your Club Pilates membership to prevent losing your money and having to purchase another package. Club Pilates offers a convenient way to put your membership on hold until you get back to your routine.
However, you will have to pay a small amount, usually around $15, depending on the studio location, to freeze your membership. In addition, you can only freeze it for up to 3 months at a time. In certain situations, the fee could be waived as well.
What Is the Enrolment Fee at Club Pilates?
You may have to pay a small registration fee that varies for each studio, depending on the Club Pilates locations. A typical registration fee is $59 in addition to the price of the membership package you select. However, you need to contact your local studio for additional details on special deals and discounts. Many Club Pilates studios also provide incentives for new enrolling members.
Once you have paid for a membership package, you have committed to a 3-month contract. It takes three months for your body to transform once you start practicing Pilates consistently. So, Club Pilates needs a three-month commitment from you to provide the intended results with their sessions. If you wish to discontinue the classes, you will have to pay a $100 cancellation charge.
What is the Cost of Cancelling a Class at Club Pilates?
Club Pilates will charge you a small penalty fee if you cancel a session or don’t show up at all. The fee varies depending on the location of your studio and the package you chose. Typically, you will have to pay a $10 late cancellation fee if you miss your Club Pilates lesson by less than 12 hours.
However, if you don’t come to the class, you will be charged a no-show fee of $15, which may vary depending on the location. In addition, you will forfeit the class if you have purchased a class package if you cancel less than an hour before the start of the session, arrive more than five minutes late, or don’t attend the class.
What are the Various Levels Offered at Club Pilates?
Club Pilates offers four different levels of classes for its clients. These include the following:
It is a perfect beginning for those learning Pilates for the first time and seeking a safe and effective class environment.
This level adds more complicated moves and the usage of equipment to your practice routine. You will start experimenting with workouts that are more precise and active to achieve the desired results.
You will learn increasingly difficult exercises and how to use the equipment in this moderate to fast-paced session. It features quick changes and requires you to be agile.
If you have mastered the form and alignment of Pilates, the most advanced class level is a perfect choice for you since it tests accuracy and coordination.
Wherever you travel, you can bring your Pilates routine with you, with over 600 active studios and fresh ones occurring every day. There is no better way to experience the advantages of Pilates than wherever you are with packages suitable to your requirements. Booking your lessons in advance is strongly advised because they fill up quickly and are smaller. Additionally, certain instructors are more in demand than others. Hope you are now acquainted with the pricing structure of club pilates memberships. | <urn:uuid:80b65465-654c-4a32-a268-49b4853f6681> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://howmuchcost.org/club-pilates-prices/ | 2024-04-24T01:50:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.955985 | 1,558 |
Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine has focused investors’ minds on the Taiwan issue and the People’s Republic of China’s potential approach to it. We believe that the risk of war remains low.
The People’s Republic of China sees Taiwan as an integral part of its territory. This stance was shared by the Western allies post-WW2 and confirmed by the general global acceptance of the one-China policy over the last 40 years. Hence, it is reasonable to assume that the PRC would like at some point to reunite the governance of Taiwan under Beijing. Xi Jinping himself said in January 2019 that the political division across the Strait “cannot be passed on from generation to generation”. Some observers believe – rightly or wrongly – that the Chinese leader wants to resolve the Taiwanese issue before his rule ends.
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An inspiring book that presents the necessary steps to intensely pursue your dream career.
Learn from the experiences of several people who took the leap and never looked back. When Mike Lewis was twenty-four years old and worked for a prestigious consulting firm, he was not fulfilled. Earning well, having a promising career was good. But he felt empty and did not feel happy and fulfilled. He eagerly wanted to get out of there and pursue his dream. However, I had doubts:
Could you afford to throw this opportunity away? A career that so many dreamed of? Was he being ungrateful?
And if he jumped out of his job:
When was the right time to switch from a comfortable job to a career you had only dreamed of? How did other people make that leap? What did they feel and how did they solve the challenges that followed?
Mike sought the guidance of others who had made the leap, interviewing them, talking and asking all their questions. The apprenticeships he obtained – from a banker who started a brewery, from an executive who became a bishop, from a garbage collector who became a furniture designer, among many others – were so clear and inspiring that he wanted to share what he had learned . Many had the same fears, problems and obstacles. In fact, it was enough to learn from them! Mike wanted to share immediately, but first… he took his own leap and went to fulfill his dream of dropping everything and playing squash professionally.
The right book at the right time: When to Jump offers more than forty encouraging stories (from the founder of Bonobos, the author of The Big Short , the logo designer Carstache by Lyft, the creator of Humans of New York, and many more) and topics (including the ingenious Heel Curve) that will inspire, teach and reassure you.
“A vibrant and inspiring guide for those who want to make the leap from normal to extraordinary.” – TONY ROBBINS, author bestseller # 1 of The New York Times
“A simple and powerful message: be brave. Everyone should have these words on the wall: we only have one life! ” – THE DAILY MAIL
Cover: Soft Cover
Date of 1st edition : January 15, 2019
Dimensions : 16 x 23 cm
Number of pages : 368
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You may find oil mist
• When the vacuum pump is started after the maintenance is finished and new exhaust filter is just installed.
The observed oil mist comes from the gas inside the oil tank before maintenance. It will be exhausted in about one minute and it’s normal to find such oil mist. If the vacuum pump keeps generating oil mist after maintenance, you have to check
a. if the exhaust filter is properly installed;
b. if the sealing between the exhaust filter and pump body is correct.
In case it’s not an installation problem, you need to check the quality of seals of the pump and that of the new filter.
• When the vacuum pump operates a couple of days or weeks after the maintenance
The service life of an exhaust filter is 2000 hours or 3 months plus. Short working life is usually caused by exhaust filter or vacuum oil. If the surface of the filter is darkened or very dirty, the oil is the root cause. On the contrary, if it’s pretty clean, it means the filter element has quality problem.
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History Happened Here
Tracking the Mighty O&W
Fifty years ago, the New York Ontario & Western Railway ceased all operations. But in its heyday, Middletown was at the center of it all
by Jennifer Leba
photo courtesy of Ontario & Western Railway Historical Society, Inc.
The abandoned O&W railway station in Middletown is not much to look at these days. But Ronald Vassallo recalls how he loved exploring the partially abandoned building before a 2004 fire damaged the already decaying 1892 structure. “Once inside the doorway I can’t help but feel that I have transcended time and I immediately feel like I am in 1952,” he wrote about a 2000 visit. “I was immediately hit with the old familiar smell of old wood, dirt, paint and neglect. You don’t have to go far inside the old beast to catch the beauty of this beauty. Just looking up the stairwell one can catch an eyeful of design, form and craftsmanship.” Like countless other railroad enthusiasts, Vassallo, the webmaster of the Ontario & Western Railway Historical Society, is captivated by imagining the time when Middletown was the center of the thriving O&W Railway.
The New York & Oswego Midland Railroad, the O&W’s predecessor, was the grandiose vision of Dewitt C. Littlejohn, a dynamic politician who bore an uncanny resemblance to Abraham Lincoln. He envisioned a direct rail route northwest across New York State, serving virgin territory not reached by any existing line. Thus, in 1868 the “
The railroad flourished under new President Thomas P. Fowler. During these golden years, it firmly established itself as a tourist carrier to the resort hotels and camps in the “lower Catskill” mountains of Orange, Sullivan, and Delaware counties.
The road also hauled milk, dairy products, mail, and most importantly, anthracite coal from northeastern Pennsylvania. This was due to the railroad’s most-ambitious expansion program: the construction in 1889-90 of the 55-mile Scranton Division. Branch lines were also built to Kingston and Port Jervis.
But at the center of it all was the railroad’s Middletown hub. The O&W built and serviced most of their train cars in Middletown, huge piles of coal were stored there, and passengers hopped off the trains to eat at the famous Seeholzer’s restaurant at the Middletown station. (There was no food service on the O&W.)
This grand station was built in 1892 of local brick and Pennsylvania sandstone by noted Grand Central Terminal architect Bradford Lee Gilbert. The polished cherry counters and open fireplace at Seeholzer’s beckoned to thousands of travelers each day who had 10 minutes to grab a ready-made sandwich, down a beer, and polish off a piece of fruit — all for 20 cents.
Gentlemen could top off their meal by purchasing a Seeholzer O&W-brand cigar for five cents. In the busy season, selling 4,000 to 5,000 sandwiches and 1,000 quarts of milk a day was the norm. With the Erie Railroad also stopping downtown, Middletown was a hopping railroad center, offering hundreds of jobs to boost the local economy.
Although the coal business wavered in the 1920s, it remained strong into the early years of the Great Depression, permitting the O&W to continue paying dividends. Nonetheless, coal was losing ground to petroleum fuels, natural gas and electricity. O&W handled only about four percent of the anthracite shipped out of Pennsylvania, but in the early 1930s, this one commodity still accounted for over 50 percent of the railroad’s income.
The decline of coal was not O&W’s only dilemma. Economic activity as a whole in the U.S. was changing dramatically. Manufacturing activities were moving to the South, Southwest and West, and the resultant population shifts were altering the consumer markets and the rural economy. The decline in the importance of small towns and cities, the expansion of suburban industrial parks, and population shifts to metropolitan areas or to other parts of the country were severely felt by “rural roads” such as the O&W.
The milk and passenger business continued to drop off through the early 1950s, and the railroad was eventually forced into bankruptcy. On March 29, 1957, the final train pulled into the Middletown station, ending the O&W’s long and fabled run. It was the first Class I railroad to be abandoned, but certainly not the last.
And the old
But the railroad lives on through the work of the Ontario & Western Railway Historical Society. The group’s well-organized Web site houses dozens of articles and hundreds of photographs by members who obsessively track the most detailed history of the railroad and, like modern-day treasure hunters, chart the many remnants of the line which can be found throughout the region — if you know where to look.
There’s the single-track steel girder bridge, one of the line’s few surviving, right where I-84 meets up with Route 17; the stations at High Falls, Ellenville and Cottekill, which are all now private residences; a 1905 arch bridge near Cornwall; and paths that have been turned into rail trails. The list goes on and on.
“Could it be that just as one visits a cemetery and touches a tombstone to find some solace over human loss, we take pleasure from finding a still extant water column, roundhouse or concrete coaling tower, as a similar connection to the past?” one historical society member wrote on the Web site.
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Public schools are the very foundation of the American dream. Rich or poor, every American child is guaranteed an education, and with it the opportunity to move up in the world. With education leveling the playing field, any American kid can grow up to become, say, a rocket scientist, a business tycoon — even the president.
That being said, it’s also true that when it comes to education, one size does not fit all. Sometimes, despite the government’s promise to “leave no child behind,” students do indeed fall behind. Learning may be impeded by crowded classrooms, underfunded school budgets, or student disabilities. Parents may seek a learning environment that is more academically rigorous, more creative, or more attuned to their own philosophical or spiritual beliefs. For those unhappy with their local public schools, the good news is that there are many private alternatives here in the
Educating the Mind… and the Spirit
Mary Lou Giuliano says that she and her husband weren’t necessarily looking for a religious school when they began considering transferring their daughter Kacie to
Wanting a better educational environment, the Giulianos moved Kacie to Coleman in ninth grade, and they couldn’t be happier with their decision. “I want to stand on top of a mountain with a megaphone and tell other parents, ‘You don’t know what you’re missing!’ ” enthuses Giuliano. Referring to the Coleman motto, “Respect, Responsibility, and Religion,” she declares, “The respect is obvious as soon as you walk through the door.” The hallways are blessedly free of cursing, she marvels, and the rare serious infraction — say, smoking pot in the restroom — is met with immediate expulsion. “I like the fact that if there is a rule, it is enforced,” she concludes, adding that she’s also pleased with the academics and the feeling of community. “I feel like it’s one big, happy family.”
Kacie, a 16-year-old junior, agrees that the change has been overwhelmingly positive. She made new friends easily, and was quick to join the cross-country and softball teams, as well as the school newspaper. Coleman’s smaller size, she suggests, makes it easier for teachers to really get to know the students — and to help maintain an orderly atmosphere that’s conducive to learning. “It seems like there’s more freedom,” she comments, “but it’s under control. The school knows it can trust kids.”
Families like the Giulianos have helped Coleman raise their enrollment from 142 — the figure six years ago, when the school came perilously close to closing its doors for good — to its present, financially healthy total of 212. “We’ve been growing each year,” notes Principal John Traverse. He estimates that about 40 percent of the student body is Catholic, but is quick to add that “We accept students of all faiths. A lot of kids come here for the academics.” The school offers Regents diplomas, and all of its full-time staff members are
Intellectual curiosity, the give-and-take of ideas, respect for those around you — what more could a parent wish for their child’s education?
Preparing For College
At first glance, it may seem odd that Poughkeepsie Day School (PDS) is considered one of the region’s top college preparatory schools even though it doesn’t use grades. Instead, this
Head of School Josie Holford explains her institution’s unorthodox approach: “Students are best prepared for life and work in college when they have been expected to produce quality work over time, have been challenged as thinkers and doers, and have been expected to be responsible members of a community.” In her view, traditional testing, grading and schooling systems are incapable of identifying the skills that will be needed in the future. “We have to prepare students to live in a world we do not know and cannot predict; to work in professions that do not now exist; and work with others in a global context to solve problems of great complexity,” she asserts.
Dore Murphy, a member of the school’s class of 2004, believes that PDS prepared her well for
PDS, says Dore, prepares students to stand out in college by allowing them to develop their own voices and to interact freely with their teachers and peers. “There is a lot of importance placed on speaking in class and sharing your opinions with your fellow students,” she comments. “It seemed very natural for me to speak up in my classes at college as well as take advantage of the close relationships teachers are willing to have with students at Skidmore. PDS teaches you to be poised and respectful of your peers and educators while not being afraid to criticize others or debate issues that are important to you.”
The extracurricular activities offered by PDS also helped burnish Dore’s college application. In addition to serving as editor in chief of the school yearbook, she participated in Model Congress, was a peer counselor, and co-founded a knitting-for-the-homeless club. During her senior year, she worked as an intern for a documentary film company and a fashion magazine.
Last semester, Dore’s 16-year-old sister Olivia took a central studies course entitled “The Painted Word.” “Each week, we were given a problem that involved text-based painting,” she recalls. The class included a field trip to the
Diane Botnick, the mother of Dore and Olivia, explains why she and her husband enrolled their daughters at PDS after several years at the
Speaking of the school’s no-grade philosophy, Sandra Moore, director of development and communications at PDS, says, “Our not having grades — though requiring college admissions officers to work a little harder, carefully reading our well-designed and carefully prepared materials — has not hindered our kids’ admission to schools.” Typically, she says, “100 percent of our graduates each year go on to college, usually to selective, four-year institutions.” Recent grads have been accepted at such top-notch schools as Yale, Brown,
The Military Approach
At the New York Military Academy (NYMA) in
Headmaster Christopher G. Hennen observes that not everyone understands the true nature of a school like NYMA, which is one of 28 secondary school-level military academies in the nation. “As headmaster, I have encountered a number of myths and misconceptions about the military school experience,” he observes. “Often, such schools are viewed as being spartan, harsh reform schools for unruly kids. Nothing could be further from the truth. Because of their structure, their emphasis on discipline, leadership and character development, and their culture of achievement, military academies offer students an effective means of building a solid foundation for higher education and life beyond the classroom.”
Every NYMA student, notes Dr. Hennen, has a leadership role to play, a role that is nurtured by their participation in the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC). “They begin as squad members with no authority,” he explains. “Over time, they have opportunities to serve in leadership positions of increasing responsibility as members of the Corps of Cadets — opportunities for leadership development that cannot be replicated in the traditional classroom or even on the athletic field.”
Cadet Ian Emory, a junior, agrees that the school has helped him learn how to lead. He currently holds the rank of command sergeant-major, the highest ranking noncommissioned officer position in the corps. “The academy,” he says, “has given me more direction in showing me the right way to be a leader, and to go about my academics.” Next year, he plans to apply to the service academies, with the
“Emory,” says classmate Gina Knapp, a senior, “is the best sergeant-major that I’ve ever seen at the academy.” Knapp, who holds the rank of first captain of the Corps of Cadets, dreams of attending the U.S. Military Academy, and has already been accepted into the academy’s prep school. Peppering her conversation with “Yes, sir” and “No, ma’am,” she expresses amazement at a recent visit to the public high school in her
At NYMA, leadership is also built through a challenging regime of academics, sports, community service, and extracurricular activities like Boy Scouts, band, drill team and raiders (military skills competition). Both Knapp and Emory are multisport athletes, members of the National Honor Society, and members of Leo Club, a service organization whose projects have included highway clean-ups, fund-raising for victims of Hurricane Katrina, and toy distribution to needy children at Christmastime.
Ninety-seven percent of NYMA alumni wind up working in private-sector jobs, so it’s by no means certain that Emory and Knapp will be among the remaining three percent. But wherever they land, it’s likely that the character- and leadership-building education they received at NYMA will stand them in good stead.
Quaker philosophy shapes the school day at
In keeping with Oakwood’s embrace of community and equality, many school decisions are made by a committee process involving students as well as faculty. At a daily morning gathering know as Collection, a student “clerk,” or leader, facilitates the delivery of messages and announcements from members of the school community. There’s also a weekly Meeting for Worship, which involves students and faculty sitting in reflective silence for 40 minutes or so. During this time, explains Baily, “Anyone who wishes to rise and share a message may do so. Often, these messages are deeply felt and very compelling in nature, and they may express such themes as gratitude, concern, sadness, discovery, or joy.”
The problem, Connie believes, was not with the teachers, many of whom were quite good, but with the size of the middle school. “There are too many students in the school as a whole, and kids become anonymous targets to each other,” she believes. “I think it is a social phenomenon of this age group, that when too many adolescents are crowded together, they naturally create cliques and are cruel to anyone who does not fit in. I believe it is truly a natural, animal, instinctive phenomenon, and our society is seriously negligent for creating this disastrous environment.”
The Sullivans turned to home schooling when Sam was in eighth grade, supplementing Connie’s own instruction with a private Spanish tutor, courses at the local community college, and a few classes at a experimental private school for home schoolers. When scholarship and family money became available for Sam to attend Oakwood, however, the Sullivans jumped at the chance. Oakwood, Connie believes, provides the appropriate social environment for her child — a place where he can learn in an atmosphere free of social trauma, alongside kids his own age. “I believe social learning is equally important to academic learning,” she concludes. “I really don’t know if Quakerism has anything to do with the better atmosphere, but we feel close to this form of worship and are glad it’s a Quaker school.”
Although the percentage of Quaker students at Oakwood is relatively small (an estimated five to 10 percent), the school’s core values are eagerly embraced by the school’s non-Quaker population, says Baily. “Quakers are a very small group in the
Are there drawbacks to private schools? Certainly. Tuition is surely one of them. Many parents, frankly, cannot afford hefty tuition bills on top of their local school taxes. With three kids to put through college, the Giulianos resisted the pull of private school until their youngest child reached high school age. Though the $5,000 they pay for their daughter to attend
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What is the best grass seed for a new build garden?
There’s nothing quite like stepping into your new build home ready to make memories for a lifetime, and if you’re like most homeowners in the UK, you’ll be doing this when summer rolls around. Whilst you may find most of your snagging complete, one thing may be nagging you – your patchy new build garden!
Typically, most new builds are laid with new turf. Whilst this looks great for a number of weeks or months, it will eventually begin to deteriorate. This is because most new builds have clay soils that can present as wet and boggy in winter and dry and cracked in summer. Most turf that has been laid will not be able to withstand these conditions, leaving you with a less than impressive garden within months of moving in.
Signs your new build turf is failing
When fresh turf is laid, the lines of each roll will be visible, but over time, these should disappear as the turf knits in with the existing soil. Depending on when you move into your new build, you may find that this isn’t happening so easily due to the soil being extremely dry – therefore not creating seed-to-soil contact, or very wet and boggy – turning your lawn into a mud pit. In some cases, you may be able to easily lift up the turf. Below are some of the signs to look out for;
- Turf lines are visible
- Dead grass
What can I do to save my new build garden?
If your new build lawn looks a little worse for wear, don’t worry – it’s still salvageable! You can easily overseed and feed your lawn with the right products to get it looking its best again. Overseeding is a great way to revive and repair your existing grass without starting from scratch again.
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The best grass seed for your new build garden will be one that can withstand the clay soil conditions. Our New Build Dream Lawn grass seed contains specific grass seed species that can grow in your new build soils – if you don’t believe us, check out some of the transformations below!
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Step 2: Create a fine level seedbed
With weeds and moss removed, the slightly trickier part is now achieving a fine and level seedbed. Clay soils can be difficult to work with, but you can make clay soils work for you! One of the main reasons why seed fails to grow in clay soils (besides not being the right mix for your lawn) is that the soil is extremely compact.
To alleviate this, take a pitchfork and spike your soil to break it up, churning it over. This will make it easier to rake to level. Once you have raked your soil, you may find that some areas in your lawn dip or could use a top-up. We’d recommend using high-quality screened topsoil. Use the back of your rake to smooth out any lumps or bumps, and you have a fine-level seedbed!
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- Wait 10 days, then sow your seed.
- To overseed your lawn, sow New Build Dream Lawn at a rate of 35g per m2 using your hand or a seed spreader.
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I’ve got to write down how I do the realtime component of our time tracking because I think it’s not super obvious.
First of all, “diegetic time” means the time inside the game world, the time the characters experience. It’s the fourth day of the month of Rahat, in the year 1394.
I’ll use “IRL time” for time the players experience. The time on the kitchen clock next to the game table.
I have a piece of paper (I usually use a paper note book) and down along the left edge write diegetic time stamps.
Here is an example from our most recent diegetic day:
1050 (f) ; here I wrote an “f” in a circle since one char used a “frotz” spell (duration one hour). I crossed over the f when the hour was up and let the player know his spells had expired.
1352 @ 1932 ; here I wrote an at sign followed by the IRL time; I call this “syncing”, I’ll explain that below
1352 @ 1953 ;
1400 @ 2000 ; syncing is way easier at even-ish hours
1500 @ 2020
1500 @ 2040
1510 @ 2100
Diegetically, a lot of things take ten minutes, we call that length of time “one tick”.
The two most common things are:
And a short rest takes six ticks.
When time passes diegetically I make new time stamps in the left-most column.
IRL, time passes when they discuss plans or roleplay out their li’l in-character arguments, or when they are exploring “I am pulling the lever, what do I hear?”
And the time that passes is not the sum of diegetic+IRL, instead, it’s the longest of the two.
For example, if they talk for 23 minutes during two ticks, 23 minutes pass total. If they talk for 23 minutes during four ticks, 40 minutes pass total.
When I sync, I look at the last syncing to see how much time passed IRL and in game, and make a new one.
For example, let’s say I have a sync mark that says
1400 @ 1800
That means that at six PM here on Earth, it was two PM in the Crowded Sea.
If they do things for two ticks I’ll have:
1400 @ 1800
And if they’ve talked for 23 minutes and I wanna sync, I can note that it’d be 1423 which is more than the 1420 so I advance it to 1423 and I’d have this:
1400 @ 1800
1423 @ 1823
If they instead had done things corresponding to four ticks while talking for 23 minutes, I’d instead have this:
1400 @ 1800
1440 @ 1823
Sync when you are pausing the game and taking a fika break. Like in the longer example above, I have 1352 @ 1932 and 1352 @ 1953 because we froze the diegetic time in order to take a 21 minutes long IRL break.
Also sync when the situation or character knowledge significantly changes.
You don’t want to overly sync, that’s just punitive; like in the “23 minutes” examples above, let’s say they do two ticks while discussing plans and exploring 23 minutes and you decide to sync. Since you take the highest time, that means that 23 minutes passed. But let’s say they then do two more ticks in less than a minute. You sync again. You’d have charged them 23+20 = 43 minutes for something that maybe only should’ve been 40 minutes. (One way to get around this is to use common sense and determine when you should look at an earlier sync stamp rather than the most recent one.)
For a good example of when you shouldn’t overly sync, let’s say the characters have a short rest and the players talk for a tiny bit but you as a group quickly go “OK, no monsters disturbed your short rest, you get your rest” and then they walk somewhere 30 minutes away and you scratch three ticks and you go “OK, you’re there” and then they start discussing plans. Obviously if you were a mensch the characters would’ve been talking when they were walking or during the short rest! As opposed to walking in silence and then starting a yakfest at the front of the door.
That said, do sync when it seems very clear to the players that yes, this is the start of a new time period. At the start and end of short rests is usually pretty good.
If they rest or otherwise do downtime you don’t need to sit there in silence in real life and wait it out. Time doesn’t have to pass IRL whenever it passes diegetically.
Conversely, if you as DM are taking your time with reading some cumbersome description that would’ve been immediately clear to the characters experiencing it IRL, time shouldn’t pass diegetically just because that much time passes IRL.
Fighting is an example of that. In our system, one entire round of fighting (that is, all the characters combined) is just six seconds long. We play fast, a few seconds per turn, but with huge parties and hordes of pretties that’s still like a minute or so per round, ten times slower than the time that’s supposed to pass diegetically. We want to test out some real-time or speed elements to how we run fights but we haven’t quite nailed that down yet.
Syncing can help with time not passing just as well as it can help with time passing.
We do this to keep track of light and water and food and shoes. Shoes is really easy with this system: I have a separate column labeled “shoes” that is the time when their shoe power for the day is over, their “shoes off”–time, so to speak, and I advance it they rest since resting doesn’t wear on their soles.
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The media company disclosed an agreement with Universal Music Group (UMG), and a deal with Warner Music Group is expected shortly. Additional labels already are in negotiations as well.
AOL has begun encoding the videos and plans to put them up at www.aolmusic.com gradually as the technical work is completed, beginning this week.
America Online senior vp programing Bill Wilson said that AOL Music will create artist- and genre-based music video channels to maximize the entertainment value of the videos. It also will integrate them with AOL’s existing original music video programs, including AOL Music Sessions, exclusive in-studio performances and the AOL Music Live! concert series.
“We’ve only had current videos before. We’ve never had the deep catalog,” Wilson said. “As we go out and compete on the open Web and monetize that audience with advertising, we thought it was time to update our business model.”
Licensed access to this broad range of content will give AOL more editorial freedom to create new programing, playlists, thematic packages and other creative options, Wilson added.
The video channels will include advertising in different forms, most commonly banners and in-stream messages.
Wilson said that AOL Music receives more than 22 million individual visitors a month, citing comScore Media Metrix reports for March, which he said is an attractive target audience that he expects to increase with the continued addition of desirable new content.
UMG secured a pioneering video-on-demand (VOD) agreement for music videos when it entered a deal with Microsoft’s MSN Internet service last year.
“We are delighted that AOL recognizes that content creators should fairly share in the revenue generated from their work,” Universal Music Group chairman and CEO Doug Morris said. “It’s clear that there is huge consumer demand for music VOD products, and we are committed to delivering our artists’ videos and music to fans in as many new and innovative ways as possible.” | <urn:uuid:25a6602e-004f-4020-96bb-20237c177383> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://idobi.com/news/music-vids-get-free-rein-at-aol-music/ | 2024-04-24T03:33:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.947423 | 462 |
DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A BENCH TEST PROCEDURE FOR POST MORTEM TESTING OF RELIEF VALVES
By Jekel, T. B., Claas, M., and Reindl, D. T., Industrial Refrigeration Consortium, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The SRVcalc project is a twophase research initiative to develop a method and tool for determining whether relief valve replacement intervals can be extended or shortened depending on the conditions in which they are installed.
The first phase of the project included the development of a physical testing apparatus and test methodology to generate data on real-life relief valves that can feed into an appropriate statistical analysis.
The second phase of the project developed the appropriate statistical modeling using a technique known as “Weibull Analysis,” to predict the life performance of tested relief valves. Part of the second phase of the project was to develop and make available a software program, called SRVcalc, which can be used as a tool to complete Weibull Analysis for a set of data.
As discussed in the cover story of this issue of the Condenser, “Using Weibull Analysis to Predict Valve Replacement Intervals,” IIAR is preparing to release software to make the analysis tool available for wider use.
Reprinted in the following pages of this issue of the Condenser, is an account of the findings of the University of Wisconsin Madison’s Industrial Refrigeration Consortium concerning the first phase of the SRVcalc project, which were delivered at IIAR’s 2011 conference in San Diego.
The results of the project included a relief valve test rig design and corresponding test procedures suitable for data collection by post-mortem testing of relief valves.
In 2007, IIAR revised its recommended practice for replacing pressure relief valves on industrial ammonia refrigeration systems (Section 6.6.3 of Bulletin 110). In addition to the prescriptive five-year relief valve replacement interval, the revisions to Bulletin 110 added an alternative replacement method based on an evaluation of in-service relief valve life using appropriate testing and data analysis methods.This paper describes the results of a research project that aimed to validate guidelines for the post-mortem testing of relief valves. The purpose of the data collected by post-mortem testing is intended to support the alternative path to determine the service life of relief valves following their removal from the system prior to their disposal (i.e. post-mortem). The testing procedure and data gathering methods described in this paper are intended for relief valves that have not discharged during their in-service life. A test rig suitable for post-mortem testing of relief valves was designed, constructed, and proof-tested. The function of the experimental rig was established by testing a range of alternative relief valves that included high and low set pressures; high and low capacities; as well as both new and used relief valves. The draft test procedure was modified using the information gathered during the rig proof-test. The results of this project include a relief valve test rig design and corresponding test procedures suitable for data collection by postmortem testing of relief valves.
Pressure relief valves are engineered safety devices designed to automatically function and relieve vapor caused by overpressure as a means of preventing the catastrophic failure of vessels and other equipment. Paragraph UG-125 of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (Section VIII Div. 1) prescribes basic requirements for pressure relief protection applied to vessels and other equipment built in accordance with the Code (ASME 2010).
A number of factors are essential for successful safety relief systems. First, appropriate relief valve selections are required for given equipment and relief scenarios. ASHRAE (2010) and IIAR (2008) provide prescriptive pressure relief valve selection requirements for vessels and positive displacement compressors. For other equipment, design engineers need to prepare appropriate analyses to properly size relief devices for envisioned scenarios per UG-133 (ASME 2010).
The most common basis used for sizing of pressure relief valves for refrigerant-containing vessels assumes a radiant heat load from an external fire condition (Fenton and Richards, 2002). Reindl and Jekel (2009) present principles of relief device capacity determination for other types of equipment. Applied relief devices not only require sufficient capacity (vapor mass flow rate) but also they must have a set pressure no higher than the maximum allowable working pressure (MAWP) for the vessel or equipment they are protecting per UG-134 (ASME 2010). Suitably engineered relief valve inlet and outlet piping is another necessary condition for proper relief device operability. Reindl and Jekel (2006) provide guidance on the principles and practices for properly engineering safety relief systems. Finally, the relief devices themselves must remain operational while installed throughout their life.
A number of factors can, potentially, influence the life of a pressure relief valve but corrosion on the outlet portion of the relief device tends to dominate (Gross, et al. 2006). Section 9.4.9 of ASHRAE Standard 15 (ASHRAE 2010) requires that suitable materials be used for the construction of relief valves to resist corrosion or other chemical action that may be caused by refrigerant exposure.
9.4.9 The seats and discs of pressure-relief devices shall be constructed of suitable material to resist refrigerant corrosion or other chemical action caused by the refrigerant. Seats or discs of cast iron shall not be used. Seats and discs shall be limited in distortion, by pressure or other cause, to a set pressure change of not more than 5% in a span of five years.
In addition, suitable materials for seats and disks must be used such that their set pressure will not change by more than 5% in a span of five years. Traditionally, relief valves were recommended for replacement at least every five years (IIAR Bulletin 110, 1993). In part, Section 6.6.3 of Bulletin 110 stated:
At least every five years pressure relief valves (or cartridges) shall be removed and replaced with new or with overhauled and recalibrated valves (or cartridges).
In 1992, OSHA issued its Process Safety Management (PSM) standard (1910.119) and paragraph (j) of that standard obligated end-users of covered processes, such as ammonia refrigeration systems with more than 10,000 lb of refrigerant inventory, to perform inspections and tests to ensure the ongoing mechanical integrity of their systems and equipment. Specific requirements for inspections and tests are not prescriptively identified in the PSM standard; rather, the details of required tests are based on industry-recommended practices with modifications based on site-specific experience.
In 1997, OSHA issued a series of citations to the Armour Swift-Eckrich plant in Kansas City, MO as a result of deficiencies found in the facilities’ PSM program during an inspection. As part of a settlement following the OSHA inspection, Swift-Eckrich agreed to abate a number of items discovered during the inspection (OSHA 1997). A portion of the abatement action focused on various aspects of the pressure relief protection for its vessels and other equipment such as compressors. In these parts of the settlement, Swift-Eckrich agreed to address the ongoing function of pressure relief valves as a means of assuring their function as part of the facilities’ mechanical integrity program. The following are specific references to the PSM standard and associated activities that Swift-Eckrich agreed to:
Item 28: 1910.119(j)(4)(i)
c. The company agrees to perform inspection and testing on pressure relief valves.
Item 29: 1910.119(j)(4)(ii)
d. The company agrees that the Mechanical Integrity Program will include procedures for the inspection and testing of pressure relief valves and vent systems that follow good engineering practices. Good engineering practices for the testing and inspection of pressure relief valves and vent systems include:
3. A procedure that verifies replacement every five years is an adequate interval. To assure pressure relief valves are still operational when replaced, they must be visually inspected for corrosion or fouling when removed from service, pop tested in the “as received” condition by an authorized testing laboratory, and the testing and inspection or replacement interval reduced, if necessary.
Under item 28 within the agreement, Swift-Eckrich agreed to perform inspections and tests on their pressure relief valves. Under item 29, Swift-Eckrich agreed to develop procedures for the inspections and testing of pressure relief valves that follow good engineering practices. The good engineering practices identified included conducing visual inspection of pressure relief valves for corrosion or fouling as well as pop testing when removed from service. At the time of the settlement agreement, no Recognized as Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practice (RAGAGEP) was available to guide the performance-based service life for pressure relief valves.
In 2001, IIAR revised section 6.6.3 in Bulletin 110 to state:
When a component reliability program is in place to verify relief valve functionality and longevity by history, testing, disassembly and inspection, and periodic statistical review of these activities, relief valves may be replaced at any interval justified by the findings of such a program. In the absence of such a program, each relief valve shall be replaced at the frequency recommended by the relief valve manufacturer. In the absence of both a component reliability program and manufacturers’ recommendations, relief valves shall be replaced every five years if not indicated earlier at annual inspection.
The revision to IIAR Bulletin 110 gave end-users another option to the most common industry practice – the prescriptive replacement of pressure relief valves on a five-year interval. Although the revised IIAR Bulletin 110 guidance established a performance-based interval for replacement, less clear were the specific means for methods of test as part of data collection on relief valves removed from service for replacement as well as the statistical analysis methods to guide altering the interval for replacement.
In 2006, IIAR formed a task force to look consider further modifications to section 6.6.3 of Bulletin 110. The task force considered relief valve inspection and test criteria and benchmarked with related industries. The task force also took action to further revise section 6.6.3 of Bulletin 110. In 2007, IIAR approved revisions to section 6.6.3 of Bulletin 110 prepared by the task force. An excerpt of Section 6.6.3 as-revised states:
Pressure relief devices shall be replaced or recertified in accordance with one of these three options:
- Every five (5) years from the date of installation. IIAR originally recommended (in 1978) that pressure relief valves be replaced every five years from the date of installation. This recommendation represents good engineering practice considering the design and performance of pressure relief devices; or
- An alternative to the prescriptive replacement interval, i.e., five years, can be developed based on documented in-service relief valve life for specific applications using industry accepted good practices of relief valve evaluation; or
- The manufacturer’s recommendations on replacement frequency of pressure relief devices shall be followed.
Exception: Relief devices discharging into another part of the closedloop refrigeration system are not subject to the relief valve replacement practices.
The task force continued to develop procedures for post-mortem testing of pressure relief valves. This effort was eventually transferred to the IIAR Research Committee which facilitated in the drafting of testing procedures. At the end of 2008, the IIAR Research Committee completed its development of procedures for bench testing relief valves. The test procedure document included a description of the test equipment and procedures that should be followed for the post-mortem testing of pressure relief valves; however, the test rig documented and the associated testing procedures had not actually been validated by practice. In 2009, the IIAR Ammonia Refrigeration Foundation (ARF) funded this project to validate and revise, as needed, the test rig and corresponding procedures for post-mortem testing of pressure relief valves. This paper summarizes the results and findings of this project.
RELIEF VALVE TEST PROCEDURE
The original objective of the IIAR relief valve bench test procedure was to “to quantitatively determine the opening pressure and qualitatively verify operation (i.e. lift or flow) of a reclosing vapor relief valve after removal from service.” The procedure was intended for bench testing reclosing safety relief valves designed to discharge to atmosphere and the procedure allowed the use of compressed air (or nitrogen) as the test medium. The procedure was not intended to test:
- Non-reclosing relief devices(i.e. rupture discs),
- Internal relief valves( i.e valves with superimposed back-pressures greater than 1 atmosphere),
- Hydrostatic relief valves (i.e. liquid relief), or
- A test medium other tan compressed air or nitrogen (e.g. steam, refrigerant, or incompressible liquids).
Figure 1 shows a schematic of the pressure relief valve test rig as originally proposed. Because a sufficient source of high pressure air needed to test relief valves with high set pressures (e.g. 300 psig) is not readily available in most facilities, the test rig relied on the use of high pressure gas cylinders to supply air or nitrogen for testing. From high pressure compressed gas cylinders, the pressure is regulated down as it flows to an accumulator. The purpose of the accumulator is to buffer the pressure and flow of gas to the inlet of the relief valve being tested. Service valves are located throughout the test rig to allow isolation of the compressed gas cylinders and relief valves for change out. Pressure gauges are used to provide the operator of the test rig accurate information in order to document the relief valve start-to-leak and pop pressure.
Note that it is important to consider and check the capacity of the safety relief valve protecting the accumulator vessel relative to the capacity of the pressure regulator feeding gas from the cylinder into the vessel to prevent the possible over pressurization in the event of the regulator failing open.
The present research project intended to answer a number of questions related to the originally developed test rig and procedure including:
- Is a vessel or accumulator on the inlet of the test relief valve required? If so, is the recommended 12” x 48” adequate?
- What rate of pressure rise result in accurate opening pressure determination?
- Is the bubble method for start to leak reliable and repeatable?
- Is a pop test visible? If so, what safety precautions should be written into the procedure and integrated into the test stand?
- Should be a procedure to be alerted based on the rated capacity or set pressure of the valve tested?
- Can the equipment for the test be readily acquired at a reasonable cost?
The remainder of this paper describes the techniques used to validate the test method, observations and findings associated with testing a range of relief valves using the test rig, and conclusions.
TEST RIG DESIGN
The test rig design was modified from the one proposed in the original procedure drafted by the IIAR Research Committee in order to reduce the amount of piping, streamline the fabrication, and facilitate the changing of relief valves during sequences involving multiple valve tests. In addition to the cost benefits of streamlining the piping, there is an added benefit associated with the reduction of inlet pressure drop during the pop test of relief valves. The number of connections on the inlet piping for accommodating the vent and pressure gauges was also reduced from the original test rig concept design. The simplifications made to the inlet piping however requires that the pressure gauge be changed when testing valves with different pressure set points, but a higher value was placed on the simplification to the piping. Both ranges of pressure gauges could be incorporated easily if desired.
The accumulator vessel is rated in accordance with the ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel code (ASME 2007) with a Maximum Allowable Working Pressure (MAWP) of 500 psig and a standard Minimum Design Metal Temperature (MDMT) of -20°F. All accumulator vessel connection sizes were oversized to allow flexibility. A ¾ inch connection on the bottom of the vessel serves as a vent/drain; a 1-½ inch connection on the top is for the test relief valve connection; two 1 inch connections on the top of the of the vessel are needed for air inlet from the pressure source supply and for a relief valve to protect the accumulator; and ¾ inch connection allows for the installation of a dedicated pressure gauge (0-600 psig range) for the accumulator vessel itself.
Different inlet connection sizes of the relief valves are accommodated by using a Class 600 flange (ASME/ ANSI B16.5), fitting, and nipple for each size (½”, ¾”, 1, 1-¼”) shown in Figure 2. This arrangement allows the installation of varying sizes of relief valves without the complexity of an elaborate manifold. With a proper experimental plan, this arrangement can decrease the time associated with changing relief valves.
Ball valves are used throughout the test rig for isolation for two reasons. First, the quarter-turn ball valves provide quick actuation. Second, the valves are full area which minimizes gas pressure drop. All valves were pressure rated in excess of the 500 psig MAWP on the vessel. For the rig, 3-piece, carbon steel ball valves with threaded connections and a maximum pressure rating of 1,480 psi WOG were used in all cases except for the bleed valve on the test section which was a two-piece, brass ball valve with threaded connections rated at 600 psi WOG.
The pressure gauge was located on the experimental test section. Its installation at that location does not affect the reading since the pressure of interest is the valve starts-to-leak and/ or pops pressure, both of which are low flow conditions. As such, the pressure read off the gauge in this location is virtually identical to the relief device inlet pressure at the point of relief valve operation (i.e. either simmering or popping). The pressure gauge dedicated to the vessel is intended for monitoring the pressure in the accumulator vessel during periods where the test section itself may be isolated for relief valve change out.
Compressed air was chosen over nitrogen despite its lower price to avoid having to vent the outlet from the relief valve to an outdoor location for personnel safety. If nitrogen is used, or exhaust is required for other reasons, the vent piping should be adequately sized to insure that its presence does not affect the data. If nitrogen or another inert gas is used as the test medium indoors, an area monitor with low oxygen alarm set at 19.5% should be installed. The final proposed design is shown below in Figure 3 and a close-up of the test section is shown in Figure 4. A 3-D schematic of the test rig is shown in Figure 5 and a photo of the completed test rig is shown in Figure 6. The estimated cost of the rig is shown in Table 1. Note that fabrication with all screwed fittings and without the completely flanged test section and flanged inlet connection would lower the cost.
With a rig designed and constructed, the project moved on to the test method validation phase. To validate the proposed test method, pressure relief valves with a range of capacities and set pressures were tested. Table 2 shows the combination of valve capacities and set pressures considered during the process of validating the test procedure. A check mark indicates that at least one pressure relief valve with that combination of capacity and set pressure was tested.
The relief valves tested included a mix of new and used (post-mortem) valves. We chose used relief valves from a variety of locations throughout the plants that provided them for the project. Used valves tested came from locations that included machinery room, condenser (outdoors), compressor, oil pot, and low temperature recirculator. The range of locations allowed us to test the “condition report” requirements of the procedure in order to see if the form included within the test procedure adequately captured the necessary information. Ultimately, we tested nine (9) used relief valves and five (5) new relief valves. Most of the used relief valves were in the middle range shown in Table 2 while the newly manufactured relief valves were chosen to reach the bounds for capacity and set pressure in Table 1.
Since the purpose of the tests was to validate the method, no archival data on the tested relief valves was generated. The outcome of this effort was focused on determining whether the test rig was adequate in size and function, and that the test procedure is capable of providing data that can support downstream statistical analysis of relief valve mechanical integrity (service life).
The pressure relief valves were put through the originally proposed procedure to see if the set pressure could reliably be determined with the start-to-leak test. Once the start-to-leak was done, the outlet tubing assembly (relief valve outlet connection size to ¼” connection reducer, ¼” hose barb and ¼” plastic tubing) was removed and the relief valve was popped with no outlet piping.
RELIEF VALVE TEST OBSERVATIONS
The experimental rig, as-constructed, performed well over the entire range of relief valve capacities and set pressures tested. Even with the compressed air supply regulator fully open, the relief valve inlet pressure rise was slow enough to provide the test rig operator an ample opportunity for reading the pressure gauge accurately. An obvious possible upgrade to the test rig would be to integrate a pressure transducer and computer data acquisition program, but that addition is not necessary to obtain good accuracy.
Start-to-leak tests initially looked like a viable and preferred option for determining the opening pressure of relief valves being tested. However, as we tested more relief valves, we found that not all pressure relief valves exhibit a simmer characteristic. In cases where a relief valve exhibited flow during a simmer condition, the pressure drop experienced through the outlet fitting on the pressure relief device for start to leak testing (¼ inch hose barb and tubing) was large enough to keep the relief valve from opening. During testing of valves with no simmer characteristic and the start-to-leak equipment installed, relief valve chatter occurred. Chatter is the rapid opening and reclosing of the relief valve which is undesirable for obtaining test data. We found that after a relief valve experienced chattering, its opening pressure during subsequent pop testing was susceptible to drift. In thinking about the start-to-leak test after this observation, the following question was posed “what constitutes verification of the relief valve’s function?” It was agreed that the opening of the relief valve (i.e. lift) was what verified function and that the start-to-leak test provided no additional useful information. Therefore, recommended eliminating the start-to-leak pressure test from the original procedure in favor of pop-testing only.
In response to the previous determination that opening the relief valve verifies its function, we performed pop tests of the relief valves tested. To perform pop tests, requirements for securing the test rig were emphasized and the use of proper personal protective equipment (PPE) for both eye and ear protection during testing. While no direct measurement of pressure relief valve lift is done, actuation of the relief valve is easily determined by the flow through the relief valve. The rig performed very well during these tests. The accumulator vessel provided a buffer for both better control of the pressure rise while approaching the popping pressure as well as adequate air volume to fully open the relief valves over the entire range of capacity.
An unintended side benefit of using the pop test is that the method allowed estimates of the relief valve’s closing pressure, or blowdown pressure to be easily measured. When the relief valve recloses, the pressure on the gauge shows the closing pressure directly. This pressure is an estimate of the closing pressure unless the compressed air cylinder is isolated from the accumulator vessel, because there is still a small inlet flow into the accumulator vessel occurs otherwise. However, the makeup air flow is small compared to even the smallest relief valve tested. Some words of caution are required here. First, the blowdown pressure does not have an impact on the success or failure of the relief valve actuation (it just is additional information). Second, the observed blowdown pressure with no outlet piping will be much greater (i.e. lower closing pressure) than for a relief valve installed with vent piping. This is occurs because the pressure that builds up in the vent piping during flow provides an additional closing force on the relief valve resulting in closing at a higher inlet pressure. This operating characteristic was validated during the course of several experimental tests.
Multiple tests on single relief valve
Multiple tests on some relief valves were also performed. After the performing multiple tests on a given valve, the question was posed “is any additional information gathered?” The answer was always no. It was never the intent of data gathered by this testing procedure to provide justification for elimination of the recommendation to replace a relief valve after it lifts. Truly no experiment can adequately justify that change. The purpose of the pop test is to determine whether or not the relief valve would have actuated during an overpressure event prior to the relief valve’s removal from the system. Multiple pop openings on valves removed from service do not provide additional insight on this determination. In fact, one might pose the scenario, where the pop pressure observed during a subsequent test varies significantly from the first pop. Changing pop pressure during multiple pop tests, it does not indicate relief valve failure. It is our view that multiple pop tests provides no additional value for post-mortem functional testing and, as such, was eliminated from the original test procedure.
The purpose of the project was to test and propose changes to the draft Bench Procedure for Post-Mortem Testing of Safety Relief Valves developed by the IIAR Research Committee. The main deliverable was to provide recommendations for changes to the procedure, test rig, and data collection sheets. This paper provides an overview of the project and the findings that were the background for the changes proposed.
The test rig was re-designed and performed flawlessly throughout the range of pressure relief valves considered. The procedure was altered to streamline the test by elimination of the start-to-leak test and multiple pop tests.
As a final note, the purpose of this bench test is to determine at what pressure the removed relief valve would have actuated. The next step is to use this data to determine whether or not the relief valve passed or failed. It is not the purpose of this test to recertify the tested relief valve for continued service. In other words, if a relief valve is tested using the equipment and methods described herein, they should not be placed back into service unless a qualified facility re-certified the relief valve.
Ultimately, the data generated from this test procedure can be used with a statistical analysis to justify changing the service life of the pressure relief valves in similar service to insure safe operation (i.e. the relief valve will actuate, that is, open, as expected during its service life).
This project was funded with funding from the Ammonia Refrigeration Foundation (ARF) with generous donations of equipment and expertise by the following companies:
- Isotherm, Inc. for donating the vessel
- Rohde Brothers, Inc. for donating piping, fittings, and welding service
- Hansen Technologies for donating pressure relief valves
- Refrigerating Specialities, a division of Parker for donating pressure relief valves
- Kraft Foods, Inc. for donating relief valves for post-mortem testing
- Schoep’s Ice Cream for donating relief valves for post-mortem testing
Also thanks to the IIAR Research Committee for their oversight and guidance throughout this project.
- Table 1: Estimates test rig cost.
- Figure 1: Pressure relief valve bench test rig (as-originally proposed).
- Figure 2: Photos of the flanged relief valve inlet connections.
- Figure 3: Schematic of re-design of test rig section portion of the rig (dimensions shown are in inches).
- Figure 4: Schematic of the test section portion of the rig (dimensions shown are in inches).
- Figure 5: Parts list and 3-d schematic of test rig.
- Figure 6: Photo of the completed test rig.
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In recent years, broadband-defined software (SD-WAN) has spread across the sky, and for good reason. While it is still an emerging technology, it is quickly recognized by businesses as a more efficient and cost-effective way to increase WAN performance to meet cloud infrastructure needs.
The technology industry, which was once the newest and largest, will soon change, and SD-WAN will quickly become one of the latest innovations to prevent events and help deliver the benefits of the cloud. As companies become more aware of the benefits of SD-WAN, the adoption rate is expected to grow rapidly with IDC predicting a $ 6 billion worth of SD-WAN market worldwide. universe for 2020.
As companies move into the era of digital transformation, SD-WAN has become the next generation of networking solutions. From application performance and flexibility to network security and cost savings, organizations can take advantage of the benefits of SD-WAN and all it has to offer.
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SD-WAN doesn’t just cut costs, it provides simple, secure and robust enterprise-level WAN connectivity for companies with distributed branch locations that use cloud-based applications.
A key benefit of SD-WAN is that it allows organizations to focus on their IT business goals. This is done by connecting remote branch locations to a private network in a simpler, faster and more cost-effective way than traditional WANs, all without on-site IT support.
The beauty of SD-WAN is that it provides the security companies need within the Internet to trust Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications that create and use secure, always-on, global network connections. . Today and tomorrow. Unlike traditional solutions and MPLS, SD-WAN provides end-to-end encryption of data in transit as standard, making it more secure internally.
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The adoption of SD-WAN has seen significant growth in many different industries and large enterprises. As a general rule of thumb, the more a business is dependent on IT applications that require communication with the distribution company, people, and devices, the more likely it is to use SD-WAN.
Store and business organizations need secure communications to avoid disclosure of credit information at checkout.
It is also important for sales organizations to have good communications to support their employees during sensitive work. You will no doubt find that a member of staff apologizes for a late purchase, a problem that is often caused by a lack of communication. SD-WAN technology can give a business the security it needs to send and receive sales financial data and ensure that networks are always fast and efficient.
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The newest market research study by Future Market Insights on odour control system includes the global industry analysis for 2014–2018 and market forecast for 2019–2029. The study observes the odour control system market and offers detailed perceptions for the forecast period of 2019-2029. According to the analysis and study done in the report, the global odour control system market is anticipated to observe prominent progress, due to increasing adoption in the chemical industry.
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The odour control system market has a high potential to grow in regions such as Asia Pacific Excluding Japan (APEJ) and North America. Significant innovations with incorporation of advanced technologies meeting regulations are expected to emerge as a product differentiator in the odour control system market.
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Odour control systems play a crucial role in wastewater and solid waste treatment facilities. Individual odour control systems can be installed at various locations in a single wastewater treatment facilities, or a centralize system could be installed for low capacity plants. Increasing investment for the effective and efficient waste management, establishment of new plants and capacity increase of existing facilities, and also growing intolerance towards odours, are factors expected to increase the demand for odour control systems in near future.
The global odour control system report emphasizes on some of the principal industry players. Some of the key players include Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc., CECO Environmental., Anguil Environmental Systems, Inc., Evoqua Water Technologies LLC, Scotmas Limited, Ecolab Inc., Tholander Ablufttechnik GmbH,among others.
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As the waste generation has turned out as one of the major point of concern affecting water, land, air and scenic quality, several countries are now emphasizing to craft environmental regimes for proper balance between industrial development and environmental impact. Waste to energy initiatives are being undertaken with utmost importnace across the globe in order to reduce carbon emissions and conserve environment. ,
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Do rabbit snails reproduce asexually? Rabbit snails, also known as Tylomelania, are unique freshwater snails sought after by many aquarium enthusiasts for their attractive appearance and behavior. One common question that arises among hobbyists is whether rabbit snails reproduce asexually.
Asexual reproduction is a method of reproduction where an organism produces offspring without the need for a partner.
While some species of snails are capable of reproducing asexually, rabbit snails are not one of them.
Rabbit snails, like most other snails, breed sexually. This means they require both a male and a female to mate and produce offspring. The mating process of rabbit snails is fascinating to observe as they engage in a courtship ritual before copulating.
In this ultimate rabbit snail care guide, we will delve deeper into the reproductive habits of rabbit snails and explore the intricacies of their mating behavior.
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Can Elephant snails reproduce asexually? No, rabbit snails do not reproduce asexually. They are typically dioecious, meaning there are separate male and female snails.
Both sexes are needed for reproduction. This contrasts with other snail species that can breed as hermaphrodites (having both male and female reproductive organs).
In rabbit snails, the male will fertilize the eggs that the female has laid, and the eggs will then hatch into baby snails. The process of mating and reproducing is essential for the survival and propagation of rabbit snail populations.
Rabbit Snail Care Requirements
Rabbit Snail Care Requirements are essential to keep these slow-moving aquatic snails healthy and thriving in your community tank.
Rabbit snails are exciting and unique aquarium snails in different colors, such as yellow rabbit, orange rabbit snails, and Poso rabbit snails. They are known for their large size and distinctive appearance, making them a popular choice among snail enthusiasts.
When keeping rabbit snails, it is essential to provide the proper tank size and suitable water parameters. They prefer a freshwater tank with a soft substrate like Java moss or Buce plant, where they can burrow and search for food. Rabbit snails feed on decaying plant matter, algae wafers, and pellets, so it is crucial to provide a varied diet to ensure their nutritional needs are met.
Additionally, rabbit snails produce a large amount of biofilm that can help regulate the water quality in your tank. They are peaceful creatures that can coexist with other tank mates such as shrimp, mystery snails, Nerite snails, and small fish like guppies or bettas.
However, it is essential to watch out for potential predators like assassin snails or Loaches that may harm the rabbit snails. When it comes to breeding, rabbit snails are known to breed slowly, usually producing only one or two baby snails at a time.
If you want to expand your collection, watching for white eggs or orange Poso babies can be an exciting experience.
Recommended Tankmates for Gold Rabbit Snails (Rabbit Snail Tank Mates)
Gold Rabbit Snails are peaceful creatures that make great additions to a community tank. Here are some recommended tank mates for them:
- Other Snails (except Assassin Snails): Mystery Snails, Gold Inca Snails, Ivory Snails, Nerite Snails, Ramshorn Snails, Japanese Trapdoor Snails, and Malaysian Trumpet Snails. These snails will help keep your tank clean by eating algae and detritus.
- Freshwater Shrimp: Amano Shrimp, Ghost Shrimp, Red Cherry Shrimp, Wood Shrimp, and Viper Shrimp. Shrimp are also good scavengers and will help keep your tank clean. Just avoid fish that are known to eat shrimp, such as puffers and some cichlids.
- Small Peaceful Fish: Small Tetras, Rasboras, and Japanese Rice Fish. These fish are too small to bother your rabbit snails and will add color and movement to your tank.
- Bottom-dwellers: Corydoras and Otocinclus Catfish. These fish are peaceful scavengers that will help keep your tank clean. They will also help to stir up the substrate, which can help to prevent detritus buildup.
Things to Avoid:
- Aggressive Fish: Cichlids, Crayfish, Crabs, Goldfish, and Loaches. These fish can eat, injure, or kill your rabbit snails.
- Assassin Snails: These snails are predators that will eat other snails, including rabbit snails.
By following these guidelines, you can create a peaceful and thriving community tank for your gold rabbit snails.
Frequently Asked Questions about Rabbit Snail Breeding In Freshwater Aquariums (FAQs)
How long do rabbit snails reproduce asexually?
Rabbit snails actually don’t breed asexually! They require both a male and female for breeding. Their reproduction rate is also relatively slow, laying eggs every 4-6 weeks.
Do rabbit snails reproduce asexually in the wild?
Yes, rabbit snails are asexual reproducers in the wild. They lay eggs without a mate, creating genetically identical offspring. This allows them to thrive in stable environments without needing a partner.
How do rabbit snails give birth?
Rabbit snails are livebearers, meaning they give birth to live young instead of eggs. The female releases a small white sac containing one or two fully developed baby snails, ready to explore and feed!
Can snails reproduce asexually?
Some snail species can! These are typically hermaphrodites, meaning they have both male and female reproductive organs. They can fertilize their eggs for asexual reproduction.
Are rabbit snails hermaphroditic?
No, rabbit snails are not hermaphroditic. They are dioecious, meaning there are separate male and female rabbit snails. This means you’ll typically need both a male and female for breeding.
How long do rabbit snails stay pregnant?
Rabbit snails aren’t technically pregnant. They store sperm for months, laying clutches of 1-3 eggs every 4-6 weeks. The eggs hatch into live snails shortly after.
Where do rabbit snails lay eggs?
Rabbit snails are livebearers! They don’t lay eggs. Instead, they give birth to live, fully-developed baby snails.
Do rabbit snails store sperm?
Yes, rabbit snails (Tylomelania) are sequential hermaphrodites. This means a single snail can store sperm after mating and fertilize its eggs later, even without another snail present.
What do rabbit snails eat vegetables?
Rabbit snails enjoy vegetables as part of a balanced diet. Blanched spinach, zucchini, and lettuce are all good options. But remember, they’re also detritivores, so they love leftover fish food and algae wafers!
Do rabbit snails have babies?
Yes, rabbit snails generate sexually and lay eggs containing baby rabbit snails. Unlike some other snails, they only have one or two babies per egg sac.
Are rabbit snails good algae eaters?
Yes, rabbit snails are good algae eaters! They have a voracious appetite for soft algae and biofilm in your freshwater tank. However, supplement their diet with sinking fish food or blanched vegetables to keep them healthy.
How long will my aquarium snail live?
The life span of your aquarium snail depends on the species! Most live 2-5 years with good care. Mystery snails can reach 3-4 years, while some species live over 15 years!
How big are chocolate rabbit snails?
Chocolate rabbit snails pack a punch in the size department! These guys can grow up to 4 inches (10cm) in length, making them one of the larger freshwater snails for your aquarium.
Will rabbit snails eat Java fern?
Yes, rabbit snails might nibble on Java ferns. While algae and detritus are their main course, they can munch on healthy plants, too.
Rabbit snails, with their captivating spires and peaceful demeanor, are a prized addition to any freshwater tank. But beyond their aesthetics, these fascinating creatures offer a delightful balance between interesting behaviors and manageable population control.
Unlike their fast-breeding pond snail cousins, rabbit snails take a slower, more relaxed approach to family planning. They reproduce sexually, requiring both a male and a female to create offspring. This means you won’t face a surprise snail explosion taking over your aquarium.
So, if you’re looking for an elegant addition that keeps your tank clean and algae-free without overwhelming it with babies, the rabbit snail might be your perfect match. Just provide them with a healthy environment and calcium-rich food to keep their cone-shaped shells strong and shiny.
P.S. Wondering if you can get away with just one rabbit snail? While they’re not social butterflies, having a pair allows them to interact and potentially breed, creating a more natural dynamic in your tank. But even a single rabbit snail can be a delightful, low-maintenance friend for your underwater world. Now, back to the question: do rabbit snails reproduce asexually? The answer is no – so you can rest assured your snail population won’t grow out of control!
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The tech news is chockablock with antitrust rumblings and slow-motion happenings. Eagle-eyed press coverage, regulatory reports, and legal discovery have comprehensively documented the shady dealings of Apple and Google's app stores. Pressure for change has built to an unsustainable level. Something's gotta give.
This is the backdrop to the biggest app store story nobody is writing about: on pain of steep fines, gatekeepers are opening up to competing browsers. This, in turn, will enable competitors to replace app stores with directories of Progressive Web Apps. Capable browsers that expose web app installation and powerful features to developers can kickstart app portability, breaking open the mobile duopoly.
But you'd never know it reading Wired or The Verge.
With shockingly few exceptions, coverage of app store regulation assumes the answer to crummy, extractive native app stores is other native app stores. This unexamined framing shapes hundreds of pieces covering regulatory events, including by web-friendly authors. The tech press almost universally fails to mention the web as a substitute for native apps and fail to inform readers of its potential to disrupt app stores.
As Cory Doctorow observed:
"An app is just a web-page wrapped in enough IP to make it a crime to defend yourself against corporate predation."
The implication is clear: browsers unchained can do to mobile what the web did to desktop, where more than 70% of daily "jobs to be done" happen on the web.
Replacing mobile app stores will look different than the web's path to desktop centrality, but the enablers are waiting in the wings. It has gone largely unreported that Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) have been held back by Apple and Google denying competing browsers access to essential APIs.
Thankfully, regulators haven't been waiting on the press to explain the situation. Recent interventions into mobile ecosystems include requirements to repair browser choice, and the analysis backing those regulations takes into account the web's role as a potential competitor (e.g., Japan's JFTC (pdf)).
Regulators seem to understand that:
- App stores protect proprietary ecosystems through preferential discovery and capabilities.
- Stores then extract rents from developers dependent on commodity capabilities duopolists provide only through proprietary APIs.
- App portability threatens the proprietary agenda of app stores.
- The web can interrupt this model by bringing portability to apps and over-the-top discovery through search. This has yet to happen because...
- The duopolists, in different ways, have kneecapped competing browsers along with their own, keeping the web from contesting the role of app stores.
Apple and Google saw what the web did to desktop, and they've laid roadblocks to the competitive forces that would let history repeat on smartphones.
The Buried Lede #
The web's potential to disrupt mobile is evident to regulators, advocates, and developers. So why does the tech news fail to explain the situation?
Consider just one of the many antitrust events of recent months. It was covered by The Verge, Mac Rumors, Apple Insider, and more.
None of the linked articles note browser competition's potential to upend app stores. Browsers unshackled have the potential to free businesses from build-it-twice proprietary ecosystems, end rapacious app store taxes, pave the way for new OS entrants — all without the valid security concerns side-loading introduces.
Lest you think this an isolated incident, this article on the impact of the EU's DMA lacks any hint of the web's potential to unseat app stores. You can repeat this trick with any DMA story from the past year. Or spot-check coverage of the NTIA's February report.
Reporters are "covering" these stories in the lightest sense of the word. Barrels of virtual ink has been spilt documenting unfair app store terms, conditions, and competition. And yet.
Disruption Disrupted #
In an industry obsessed with "disruption," why is this David vs. Goliath story going untold? Some theories, in no particular order.
First, Mozilla isn't advocating for a web that can challenge native apps, and none of the other major browser vendors are telling the story either. Apple and Google have no interest in seeing their lucrative proprietary platforms supplanted, and Microsoft (your narrator's employer) famously lacks sustained mobile focus.
Next, it's hard to overlook that tech reporters live like wealthy people, iPhones and all. From that vantage point, it's often news that the web is significantly more capable on other OSes (never mind that they spend much of every day working in a desktop browser). It's hard to report on the potential of something you can't see for yourself.
Also, this might all be Greek. Reporters and editors aren't software engineers, so the potential of browser competition can remain understandably opaque. Stories that include mention of "alternative app stores" generally fail to mention that these stores may not be as safe, or that OS restrictions on features won't disappear just because of a different distribution mechanism, or that the security track records of the existing duopolist app stores are sketchy at best. Under these conditions, it's asking a lot to expect details-based discussion of alternatives, given the many technical wrinkles. Hopefully, someone can walk them through it.
Further, market contestability theory has only recently become a big part of the tech news beat. Regulators have been writing reports to convey their understanding of the market, and to shape effective legislation that will unchain the web, but smart folks unversed in both antitrust and browser minutiae might need help to pick up what regulators are putting down.
Lastly, it hasn't happened yet. Yes, Progressive Web Apps have been around for a few years, but they haven't had an impact on the iPhones that reporters and their circles almost universally carry. It's much easier to get folks to cover stories that directly affect them, and this is one that, so far, largely hasn't.
Green Shoots #
The seeds of web-based app store dislocation have already been sown, but the chicken-and-egg question at the heart of platform competition looms.
On the technology side, Apple has been enormously successful at denying essential capabilities to the web through a strategy of compelled monoculture combined with strategic foot-dragging.
As an example, the eight-year delay in implementing Push Notifications for the web kept many businesses from giving the web a second thought. If they couldn't re-engage users at the same rates as native apps, the web might as well not exist on phones. This logic has played out on a loop over the last decade, category-by-category, with gatekeepers preventing competing browsers from bringing capabilities to web apps that would let them supplant app stores[2:1] while simultaneously keeping them from being discovered through existing stores.
Proper browser choice could upend this situation, finally allowing the web to provide "table stakes" features in a compelling way. For the first time, developers could bring the modern web's full power to wealthy mobile users, enabling the "write once, test everywhere" vision, and cut out the app store middleman — all without sacrificing essential app features or undermining security.
Sunsetting the 30% tax requires a compelling alternative, and Apple's simultaneous underfunding of Safari and compelled adoption of its underpowered engine have interlocked to keep the web out of the game. No wonder Apple is massively funding lobbyists, lawyers, and astroturf groups to keep engine diversity at bay while belatedly battening the hatches.
On the business side, managers think about "mobile" as a category. Rather than digging into the texture of iOS, Android, and the differing web features available on each, businesses tend to bulk accept or reject the app store model. One sub-segment of "mobile" growing the ability to route around highway robbery Ts & Cs is tantalising, but not enough to change the game; the web, like other metaplatforms, is only a disruptive force when pervasive and capable.
A prohibition on store discovery for web apps has buttressed Apple's denial of essential features to browsers:
Google's answer to web apps in Play is a dog's breakfast, but it does at least exist for developers willing to put in the effort, or for teams savvy enough to reach for PWA Builder.
Recent developments also point to a competitive future for capable web apps.
First, browser engine choice should become a reality on iOS in the EU in 2024, thanks to the plain language of the DMA. Apple will, of course, attempt to delay the entry of competing browsers through as-yet-unknown strategies, but the clock is ticking. Once browsers can enable capable web apps with easier distribution, the logic of the app store loses a bit of its lustre.
Work is also underway to give competing browsers a chance to facilitate PWAs that can install other PWAs. Web App Stores would then become a real possibility through browsers that support them, and we should expect that regulatory and legislative interventions will facilitate this in the near future. Removed from the need to police security (browsers have that covered) and handle distribution (websites update themselves), PWA app stores like store.app can become honest-to-goodness app management surfaces that can safely facilitate discovery and sync.
It's no surprise that Apple and Google have kept private the APIs needed to make this better future possible. They built the necessary infrastructure for the web to disrupt native, then kept it to themselves. This potential has remained locked away within organisations politically hamstrung by native app store agendas. But all of that is about to change.
This begs the question: where's the coverage? This is the most exciting moment in more than 15 years for the web vs. native story, but the tech press is whiffing it.
A New Hope #
2024 will be packed to the gills with app store and browser news, from implementation of the DMA, to the UK's renewed push into mobile browsers and cloud gaming, to new legislation arriving in many jurisdictions, to the first attempts at shipping iOS ports of Blink and Gecko browsers. Each event is a chance to inform the public about the already-raging battle for the future of the phone.
It's still possible to reframe these events and provide better context. We need a fuller discussion about what it will mean for mobile OSes to have competing native app stores when the underlying OSes are foundationally insecure. There are also existing examples of ecosystems with this sort of choice (e.g., China), and more needs to be written about the implications for users and developers. Instead of nirvana, the insecure status quo of today's mobile OSes, combined with (even more) absentee app store purveyors, turns side-loading into an alternative form of lock-in, with a kicker of added insecurity for users. With such a foundation, the tech-buying public could understand why a browser's superior sandboxing, web search's better discovery, and frictionless links are better than dodgy curation side-deals and "beware of dog" sign security.
The more that folks understand the stakes, the more likely tech will genuinely change for the better. And isn't that what public interest journalism is for?
Antitrust is now a significant tech beat, and recent events frequently include browser choice angles because regulators keep writing regulations that will enhance it. This beat is only getting more intense, giving the tech press ample column inches to explain the status quo more deeply and and educate around the most important issues.
In just the last two months:
Google lost to Epic in a jury trial that determined Google's Play Store is an illegal monopoly.
Google lost all assumption of good faith as evidence from the Epic trial showed the Play team to be scoundrels, two-timers, and cretins who were willing to set shockingly unfair terms for anyone with enough market power to embarrass them. And that's before we get to the light attempted bribery.
Google's witness also blurted out a statistic that is both anodyne and damning: 36%. That's what Google pays Apple in search rev-share for default search placement in Safari. Normally, this would be a detail of a boring business deal. In context, however, it highlights Apple's decade-long suppression of iOS browser competition — combined with poverty-level funding of WebKit — which has skimmed tens of billions in profit per year from the web while starving browser development. This has deprived users, businesses, and web developers of safe (but critical) capabilities. It wasn't just Play that buggered the mobile web; Google was happy to outsource the dirty deed too.
In December, Apple declined to appeal to the UK's Supreme Court for reasons that remain opaque.
Perhaps Apple didn't appeal because, in November, the UK unexpectedly brought forward the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill. It looks set to become law early in the new year, standing up a regulator with real teeth who, one presumes, will not be predisposed to think well of Apple's delay of its predecessor's investigations.
Meanwhile, in the EU, Apple attempted to wriggle out of regulations that might bring about proper browser choice by arguing that Safari is actually three under-performing browsers. in a marketing trenchcoat.
On the other side of the planet, news just broke that Japan will bring forward legislation to target app store shenanigans. Given the JFTC's earlier findings about how interlocking layers of control have kept browsers from contesting app store prominence, we can expect some spicy legislative language around browsers.
Australia has also just agreed (in principle) to do the same, including language that acknowledges the role suppressing browser choice has had in preventing the web from competing with mobile native app ecosystems.
All but one of the 19 links above are from just the last 60 days, a period which includes a holiday break in the US and Europe. With the EU's DMA coming into force in March and the CMA back on the job, browser antitrust enforcement is only accelerating. It sure would be great if reporters could occasionally connect these dots. ↩︎
The stories of how Apple and Google have kept browsers from becoming real app stores differ greatly in their details, but the effects have been nearly identical: only their browsers could offer installation of web apps, and those browsers have done shockingly little to support web developers who want to depend on the browser as the platform.
The ways that Apple has undermined browser-based stores is relatively well known: no equivalent to PWA install or "Smart Banners" for the web, no way for sites to suppress promotion of native apps, no ability for competing browsers to trigger homescreen installation until just this year, etc. etc. The decade-long build of Apple's many and varied attacks on the web as a platform is a story that's both tired and under-told.
Google's malfeasance has gotten substantially less airtime, even among web developers – nevermind the tech press.
The story picks up in 2017, two years after the release of PWAs and Push Notifications in Chrome. At the time, the PWA install flow was something of a poorly practised parlour trick: installation used an unreliable homescreen shortcut API that failed on many devices with OEM-customised launchers. The shortcut API also came laden with baggage that prevented effective uninstall and cross-device sync.
To improve this situation, "WebAPKs" were developed. This new method of installation allows for deep integration with the OS, similar to the Application Identity Proxy feature that Windows lets browsers to provide for PWAs, with one notable exception: on Android, only Chrome gets to use the WebAPK system.
Without getting into the weeds, suffice to say many non-Chrome browsers requested access. Only Google could meaningfully provide this essential capability across the Android ecosystem. So important were WebAPKs that Samsung gave up begging and reverse engineered it for their browser on Samsung devices. This only worked on Samsung phones where Suwon's engineers could count on device services and system keys not available elsewhere. That hasn't helped other browsers, and it certainly isn't an answer to an ecosystem-level challenge.
Without WebAPK API access, competing browsers can't innovate on PWA install UI and can't meaningfully offer PWA app stores. Instead, the ecosystem has been left to limp along at the excruciating pace of Chrome's PWA UI development.
Sure, Chrome's PWA support has been a damn sight better than Safari's, but that's just damning with faith praise. Both Apple and Google have done their part to quietly engineer a decade of unchallenged native app dominance. Neither can be trusted as exclusive stewards of web competitiveness. Breaking the lock on the doors holding back real PWA installation competition will be a litmus test for the effectiveness of regulation now in-flight. ↩︎ ↩︎
Push Notifications were, without exaggeration, the single most requested mobile Safari feature in the eight years between Chromium browsers shipping and Apple's 2023 capitulation.
It's unedifying to recount all of the ways Apple prevented competing iOS browsers from implementing Push while publicly gaslighting developers who requested this business-critical feature. Over and over and over again. It's also unhelpful to fixate on the runarounds that Apple privately gave companies with enough clout to somehow find an Apple rep to harangue directly. So, let's call it water under the bridge. Apple shipped, so we're good, right?
I regret to inform you, dear reader, that it is not, in fact, "good".
Despite most of a decade to study up on the problem space, and nearly 15 years of of experience with Push, Apple's implementation is anything but complete.
The first few releases exposed APIs that hinted at important functionality that was broken or missing. Features as core as closing notifications, or updating text when new data comes in. The implementation of Push that Apple shipped could not allow a chat app to show only the latest message, or a summary. Instead, Apple's broken system leaves a stream of notifications in the tray for every message.
Many important features didn't work. Some still don't.. And the pathetic set of customisations provided for notifications are a sick, sad joke.
Web developers have once again been left to dig through the wreckage to understand just how badly Apple's cough "minimalist" cough implementation is compromised. And boy howdy, is it bad.
Apple's implementation might have passed surface-level tests (gotta drive up that score!), but it's unusable for serious products. It's possible to draw many possible conclusions from this terrible showing, but even the relative charity of Hanlon's Razor is damning.
Nothing about this would be worse than any other under-funded, trailing-edge browser over the past three decades (which is to say, a bloody huge problem), except for Apple's well-funded, aggressive, belligerent ongoing protest to every regulatory attempt to allow true browser choice for iPhone owners.
In the year 2024, you can have any iOS browser you like. You can even set them as default. They might even have APIs that look like they'll solve important product needs, but as long as they're forced to rely on Apple's shit-show implementation, the web can't ever be a competitive platform.
When Apple gets to define the web's potential, the winner will always be native, and through it, Apple's bottom line. ↩︎
The muting effect of Apple's abuse of monopoly over wealthy users to kneecap the web's capabilities is aided by the self-censorship of web developers. The values of the web are a mirror world to native, where developers are feted for adopting bleeding-edge APIs. On the web, features aren't "available" until 90+% of all users have access to them. Because iOS is at least 20% of the pie), web developers don't go near features Apple fails to support. Which is a lot.
caniuse.com's "Browser Score" is one way to understand the scale of the gap in features that Apple has forced on all iOS browsers. The Web Platform Tests dashboard highlights 'Browser Specific Failures', which only measure failures in tests for features the browser claims to support. Not only are iOS browsers held back by Apple's shockingly poor feature support, but the features that _are_ available are broken so often that many businesses feel no option but to retreat to native APIs that Apple doesn't break on a whim, forcing the logic of the app store on them if they want to reach valuable users. Apple's pocket veto over the web is no accident, and its abuse of that power is no bug.
Native app stores can only take an outsized cut if the web remains weak and developers stay dependent on proprietary APIs to access commodity capabilities. A prohibition on capable engines prevents feature parity, suppressing competition. A feature-poor, unreliable open web is essential to prevent the dam from breaking.
Why, then, have competing browser makers played along? Why aren't Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, and Opera on the ramparts, waving the flag of engine choice? Why do they silently lend their brands to Apple's campaign against the web? Why don't they rename their iOS browsers to "Chrome Lite" or "Firefox Lite" until genuine choice is possible? Why don't they ask users to write their representatives or sign petitions for effective browser choice? It's not like they shrink from it for other worthy causes.
I'm shocked by not surprised by the tardiness of browser bosses to seize the initiative. Instead of standing up to unfair terms, they've rolled over time and time again. It makes a perverse sort of sense.
More than 30 years have passed since we last saw effective tech regulation. The careers of those at the top have been forged under the unforgiving terms of late-stage, might-makes-right capitalism, rather than the logic of open markets and standards. Today's bosses didn't rise by sticking their necks above the parapets to argue virtue and principle. At best, they kept the open web dream alive by quietly nurturing the potential of open technology, hoping the situation would change.
Now it has, and yet they cower.
Organisations that value conflict aversion and "the web's lane is desktop" thinking get as much of it as they care to afford. ↩︎
Recall that Apple won an upset victory in March after litigating the meaning of the word "may" and arguing that the CMA wasn't wrong to find after multiple years of investigations that Apple were (to paraphrase) inveterate shitheels, but rather that the CMA waited too long (six months) to bring an action which might have had teeth.
Yes, you're reading that right; Apple's actual argument to the Competition Appeal Tribunal amounted to a mashup of rugged, free-market fundamentalist " but mah regulatory certainty!", performative fainting into strategically placed couches, and feigned ignorance about issues it knows it'll have to address in other jurisdictions.
Thankfully, the Court of Appeals was not to be taken for fools. Given the harsh (in British) language of the reversal, we can hope a chastened Competition Appeal Tribunal will roll over less readily in future. ↩︎
If you're getting the sense that legalistic hair-splitting is what Apple spends its billion-dollar-per-year legal budget on because it has neither the facts nor real benefits to society on its side, wait 'till you hear about some of the stuff it filed with Japan's Fair Trade Commission!
A clear strategy is being deployed. Apple:
- First claims there's no there there (pdf). When that fails...
- Claims competitors that it has expressly ham-strung are credible substitutes. When that fails...
- Claims security would suffer if reasonable competition were allowed. Rending of garments is performed while prophets of doom recycle the script that the sky will fall if competing browsers are allowed (which would, in turn, expand the web's capabilities). Many treatments of this script fill the inboxes of regulators worldwide. When those bodies investigate, e.g. the history of iOS's forced-web-monoculture insecurity, and inevitably reject these farcical arguments, Apple...
- Uses any and every procedural hurdle to prevent intervention in the market it has broken.
The modern administrative state indulges firms with "as much due process as money can buy", and Apple knows it, viciously contesting microscopic points. When bluster fails, huffingly implemented, legalistic, hair-splitting "fixes" are deployed on the slowest possible time scale. This strategy buys years of delay, and it's everywhere: browser and mail app defaults, payment alternatives, engine choice, and right-to-repair. Even charging cable standardisation took years longer than it should have thanks to stall tactics. This maximalist, joined-up legal and lobbying strategy works to exhaust regulators and bamboozle legislators. Delay favours the monopolist.
A firm that can transform the economy of an entire nation just by paying a bit of the tax it owes won't even notice a line item for lawyers to argue the most outlandish things at every opportunity. Apple (correctly) calculates that regulators are gun-shy about punishing them for delay tactics, so engagement with process is a is a win by default. Compelling $1600/hr white-shoe associates to make ludicrous, unsupportable claims is a de facto win when delay brings in billions. Regulators are too politically cowed and legally ham-strung to do more, and Apple plays process like a fiddle. ↩︎ | <urn:uuid:6fc7ed68-e3f0-4f42-be00-170a0c233111> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://infrequently.netlify.app/2024/01/the-web-is-the-app-store/ | 2024-04-24T02:12:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.947755 | 5,328 |
Melbourne’s retail and hospitality sectors are growing strongly, creating jobs, economic growth and a buzzing international city, according to the 2013-17 Melbourne Retail and Hospitality Strategy Year Two report.
The report, launched by Minister for Employment, Jacinta Allan, and the Mayor of Melbourne, Robert Doyle, showed Melbourne’s retail and hospitality sectors contributed $5.46 billion to the city’s economy, a 23 per cent increase since 2013, and employs more than 63,000 people. Melbourne’s CBD is home to more than 19,000 businesses and caters to 854,000 people on a typical weekday.
Doyle said retail and hospitality accounts for six per cent of Melbourne’s $90.6 billion economy.
“Everyone wants a piece of Melbourne; in the last year alone we have hosted more than 11 million visitors and our hotel occupancy rates remain high at 86 per cent,” he said.
Melbourne’s culinary sector is setting the pace with a 32.8 per cent increase on food expenditure this year.
Retail is booming, according to the report, and continues to attract investment from major global retail brands, including TAG Heuer, Coach and luxury fashion retailer Sandro and Maje.
More than 1200 new retail and hospitality establishments have opened since 2013, while the total floor space in these sectors has risen to nearly three million square metres.
“This report shows our food, hospitality and retail sectors are booming, which is good for jobs, the economy and Melbourne,” Allan said.
Recent data shows there are more than 1400 hotel rooms under construction in the municipality of Melbourne, and around 3265 have planning approval.
Chair of Council’s Economic Development Committee Councillor, Kevin Louey, said the latest figures are a testament to more than 85 actions being achieved in the second year of the strategy’s implementation.
“In the last year we have worked closely with the Victorian government, business and industry to put a strong focus on business development and innovation, positioning and activation, business diversity and sustainability,” Louey said.
“We also awarded almost $160,000 of small business grants towards innovative retail and hospitality enterprises as well as close to $500,000 to precinct associations to support our small traders. Retail and hospitality is at the very heart of our city and we are proud to provide direct support to our business community.”
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“While there may be some very small areas that have achieved herd immunity, no large region, and certainly no state, is even remotely close to this.”
Does the decrease in new cases from the summer peak mean that Americans are reaching herd immunity? Is that a desirable outcome?
The decrease in cases since the outbreaks of June and July appear to be due to rigorous attention to social distancing, masking, testing, isolation, contact tracing, and other ordinances and measures taken to reduce spread (not to mention fear of infection). These efforts are not perfect, but they seem to have reduced the spread of the virus in most areas.
There is no evidence of herd immunity. Obviously, in areas that have more previously infected individuals, there are fewer susceptible and that helps to reduce the height of future outbreaks. But the definition of herd immunity is quite specific: it is a level of immunity in the community that makes further outbreaks impossible. While there may be some very small areas (including, perhaps some prisons at a single point in time) that have achieved herd immunity, no large region, and certainly no state, is even remotely close to this. In order to achieve herd immunity through infection on this scale, we would need to accept tremendous morbidity and mortality; assume that we know enough about long-term harms of SARS-CoV2 infection; and assume that infection results in durable immunity—no new infection or new disease. I think it is a bad premise and a dangerous experiment to try.
How should we interpret the recent case of a 33-year-old man in Hong Kong who contracted COVID-19 for a second time? Does it mean that a vaccine won’t be effective?
The case from Hong Kong University is a first and we need to see more evidence before we assume it is representative. But it does appear that an individual was truly re-infected with the SARS-CoV2 virus, just a few months after an initial infection. The good news is that he did not have symptoms during this new infection. The bad implication is that he was seemingly capable of spreading this infection to others, thus making herd immunity not just unlikely but impossible. The entire notion of herd immunity, as mentioned above, is based on the idea that once you have been infected and have immunity, you can not be a source of new spread.
This case does not tell us enough about the effectiveness of a vaccine. We would certainly like to see a vaccine that not only protects against disease but infection itself. And we obviously need it to be durable (not just for a few weeks or months). Only time will tell how this will work out.
How far are we from having a vaccine and distributing it widely enough to make a difference?
We could have a vaccine today if we were to accept the risks and unproved efficacy of untested products. We have vaccines in various stages of testing, and manufacturing is not the limiting step. We hopefully will have a widely available, effective, safe vaccine, or more than one, in the early part of next year, and I would hope that they are broadly distributed enough to protect the herd ahead of the 2021 fall semester. | <urn:uuid:50d0a655-a1a4-49b4-b96b-b0dfd219cec0> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/three-questions-about-covid-19-infection-and-immunity | 2024-04-24T02:39:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.979257 | 650 |
Special features of the MTH organ
The Melbourne Town Hall pipe organ, and its virtual version, has a range of special features not usually found in other organs. The vast array of possibilities these features present can be a great aid to the organist / musician. In this blog post we will cover some of the more interesting, and perhaps unusual aspects and features.
Back to historic times - the 1929 Ventil button
As you probably already know the history of this grand organ, built by Hill, Norman and Beard in 1929, a significant restoration and extension effort was undertaken during the 2000-2001 reconstruction by the Schantz Organ Company - USA. In fact, 4181 new pipes were added to the existing 5411 bringing the organ close to double its original size, now having have 115 voices and 150 ranks. There is a small piston (button) on the console, labelled “1929 Ventil”, that instantly transforms the organ back to its original state by disabling stops added in the extension. Press the button, and the difference is clearly audible. This button works independent of saved registrations and crescendo settings, and can be enabled or disabled at any time during your performance. It can also immediately make your registration historic and you can check how it would have sounded in the previous state of the grand organ.
Divisions, keyboards and assignments
In view of the wide variety of control options provided by the MTH organ, a clear understanding of stops, ranks, divisions and keyboards is essential.
In this blog post we define a rank as a group of pipes with similar sonic properties; stops as the means (with drawstops, tabs, switches etc.) to activate a selection of ranks in part or as a whole as you play the organ; divisions as sets or groups of ranks and stops; and keyboards as physical playable interfaces that are or can be assigned to specific divisions (so we have, for example, the Choir division assigned to the lower or first keyboard, the Great division to the second keyboard, and so on).
Keyboards played by the hands are more commonly known as “manuals”, and that by the feet as a “pedalboard”. On many real organs, the division to keyboard assignment is hard-wired and fixed; for example, the first keyboard (or manual) is playing, and always plays the ranks of the Great division. On some newer organs this assignment or mapping can be done adaptively, for example, there is a button that swaps the manuals assigned to the first and second divisions. The MTH organ has this feature and it is replicated in the virtual organ, swapping Choir and Great divisions. This can be very useful when you play some German or French style organs, which have an opposite assignment on these manuals.
On the Melbourne Town Hall organ there are fixed division-to-keyboard assignments, and variable assignments which connect so-called floating divisions to one or more of the physical keyboards. Due to the fixed assignment the division and keyboard names are often used synonymously - hence Great division - Great manual, Swell division - Swell manual etc. In the virtual version, however, there is a clear difference between keyboard names and division names, as well as in their behaviour. In the virtual version, all divisions are floating but some of them are assigned, by default, to a given keyboard. This assignment can be changed in the Keyboards tab of the virtual organ. The Keyboards tab is most useful for organists having physical (MIDI console) interfaces with less than 4 manuals and pedal, for here they can conveniently and simply assign divisions to the available keyboards, and can also transfer their registrations and alter their settings easily when moving between different physical environments (i.e., between two different virtual organ consoles, one smaller and one with more keyboards).
It is worth noting that there is a difference between assigning multiple divisions to a single keyboard, and coupling them. Although the coupling function can also be technically realised by assigning two divisions to the same keyboard, couplers are still recommended to be used wherever possible - since this is the means most commonly employed in practice, and facilitates the transfer of registrations to another organ console.
Advanced coupling features
Although the physical pipe organ of the Melbourne Town Hall has a carefully selected and very versatile set of couplers, Inspired Acoustics decided to implement a full coupler matrix between all divisions in the virtual version. The full coupler matrix means (almost) anything can be coupled to (almost) anything in any way desired. The coupler matrix is seen under the 'Couplers' tab.
Coupler types and terms
Before going through the features, let us briefly cover the terms we use here to label couplers. First of all, couplers are defined in this organ between divisions. This means that regardless of the mapping of divisions to keyboards, the coupler between the Great and Swell divisions, for example, will always remain operating between Great and Swell divisions, regardless of whether keyboard 3 was assigned to Great and keyboard 1 to Swell, or any other assignment. This ensures your registration and coupler selections will always work the same way regardless of how your virtual organ console is set up.
So we have inter-divisional and intra-divisional couplers. Some may know these as inter-manual and intra-manual couplers, but since we work with couplers between divisions, as mentioned above, and not couplers between keyboards, we use the term divisional. In this context inter-manual couplers would work between physical keyboards, not logical divisions.
Let us cover the definitions then that apply to the MTH virtual organ.
Inter-divisional couplers are those that make a connection between different divisions, for example the ‘Swell to Great’ is an inter-divisional coupler.
Intra-divisional couplers are those that operate within a division; these are the 'Octave' and the 'Sub Octave' couplers. For example, a Great 'Sub Octave’ coupler affects the sounds of the Great division only, by adding notes an octave below those that are being played on the keyboard assigned to the Great division, and similarly for the 'Octave' coupler except that notes are added an octave above those played. The Unison Off could also be considered an intra-divisional coupler, the use of which is normally associated with that of sub and super octave couplers. It differs in application in that by default the coupler is On or active, and couples a division to an assigned keyboard at unison pitch. Activating Unison Off uncouples this unison connection of division to physical keyboard. In use it allows the sub or super octave coupled ranks within a division to sound without those ranks also sounding at unison pitch.
We call straight (divisional) couplers (or unison couplers) those couplers that implement a connection between two divisions without transposing or altering the polyphony of the sound.
Transposing couplers, on the other hand, couple divisions using an octave transposition (for example, Swell to Great Octave - the Swell division is coupled to the Great division but at an octave higher in pitch).
Couple alternators change the polyphony of the coupling mechanism, for example they couple only the single highest note (called the ‘Melody’ coupler) or only the single lowest note (called a ‘Bass’ coupler) when playing a chord. This can be useful to support a melody or bass voice when playing complex texture of music.
Reverse couplers are those that couple the pedal division to a division that is meant to be played on a keyboard. This coupler is useful in situations where a pedal board is not available, or for improvisations that needs extreme versatility.
Propagating couplers - neither the actual MTH organ nor the MTH virtual organ have so-called propagating couplers. That is, a coupler that couples through to another coupler such that if Division 3 was coupled to Division 2, and Division 2 is coupled to Division 1, then notes played on a keyboard assigned to Division 1 would play simultaneously Division 3, Division 2, and Division 1. On most organs, that is those without propagating couplers, the example coupling described above would result in only Divisions 1 and 2 being played from the assigned keyboard - Division 3 would not be played.
Now that we have the definitions in place, let us go briefly through how couplers actually work in practice in the Melbourne Town Hall virtual pipe organ.
The 'couplers' page is divided into rows and columns. Rows denote targets, while columns are for sources. For example, in the row of ‘to Swell’ all couplers will be coupling something to the Swell division. You can see various buttons and labels there.
- Spl: this is the abbreviation for ‘split’. Split coupling ...
- M and B are Melody and Bass couplers. They change the behaviour of the neighbouring associated couplers
- Octave and Sub Octave couplers are transposing couplers corresponding to the nearest straight coupler (e.g. Swell to Great) displayed on the page. They work independently of the straight coupler, so the ‘Octave’ near the Swell to Great coupler is a Swell to Great octave coupler, just its label is abbreviated.
- Unison Off turns off the sounds of a division sounding at normal pitch, that is the pitch defined by stop designations. This allows octave coupling (Sub and Octave) of stops to sound alone.
Floating and non-floating divisions
Although all the divisions in the virtual organ are floating, the real organ has some that are non-floating divisions only, these are the Pedal, Choir, Great, Swell and Solo divisions. The non-floating divisions are permanently assigned to specific keyboards (manuals and pedal board) on the real organ. By default the virtual organ mimics the non-floating division assignments of the real organ. These assignments can be seen under the Keyboards tab of the virtual organ.
The remaining floating divisions in the virtual organ (Orchestral, Bombarde, and Fanfare) may by default be unassigned to any divisional keyboard. They can be freely assigned using the 'couplers' screen, or from the Keyboard tab. The actual MTH organ has, by default, the Bombarde division coupled to the Solo division, but may be coupled to each or all of Choir, Great, Swell, and Solo divisions; and the Fanfare division is coupled by default to the Great division by operation of a foot piston; it too may be coupled to any other division. The Orchestral division is initially without coupling to any other division.
Floating divisions are coupled by assignment to a particular divisional keyboard or manual. Every function relating to a particular floating division is active and available when assigned to a division keyboard. It will be noted that the Orchestral division has sub and super octave coupling, and a Unison Off, all represented on the 'Centre' screen; all these functions apply when playing from the coupled keyboard, which in the case of the Orchestral division, can be any one or all of the assigned divisional keyboards.
Enclosure of divisions
There are three (3) principle shuttered chambers in the MTH organ. These contain the Swell division, Great (partial) and Choir divisions - a shared chamber, and Solo and Orchestral divisions - a shared chamber. A single set of shutters for each chamber allows expression of the Swell division alone, Great and Choir divisions combined, and Solo and Orchestral divisions combined. Each of the three sets of chamber shutters is assigned to its own single expression pedal, thus Swell, Great-Choir, and Solo-Orch expression pedals. Implementation in the virtual organ allows each division to be separately expressed, however mapping to mimic the real organ can be readily achieved using the Keyboards tab.
Great division special features
The Great division has ranks unenclosed, but unlike usual practice, also many ranks in an enclosed section and under expression. Those ranks enclosed can be separately transferred to and played with the Choir division as Reeds or Flues. When transferred, these ranks are no longer available to be played with the remaining unenclosed ranks of the Great division. The controls of this transfer are labelled "Enc Great Reeds to Choir" and "Enc Great Flues to Choir". The 'flues' include all enclosed ranks other than reeds. When these ranks are transferred to the Choir division they come under the influence of the Choir intra-divisional coupling - sub and super octave, and Unison Off; however they remain exposed to the Great divisional Tremulant, and Great division expression control.
Color coded couplers
You can notice that some of the couplers of the virtual pipe organ are either shining in yellow or in white light when enabled. In fact, every coupler that has a copy on the Center page has this option. The color codes work as follows: once a coupler has the Bass or Melody modifier enabled, the coupler will be yellow when turned on. This helps you immediately see that the coupler behaviour is altered. If neither Bass nor Melody is enabled, the coupler will shine in white color when engaged showing its original, unaltered behaviour.
Divisional cancel buttons
In the virtual version of the organ, you can find a divisional cancel switch embedded in the Label of each of the Divisions. This is available only in the 'Centre', and 'Left' and 'Right' screen displays (as well as in other large Inspired Acoustics virtual pipe organs, such as the PAB).
Human voice specialties
There is a certain stop in the Swell division of the organ, called the Vox Humana 8’ which has two special features not very often found in pipe organs.
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Experience with the core curricular elements for international emergency medicine fellowships
International Journal of Emergency Medicine volume 6, Article number: 10 (2013)
The number of international emergency medicine (IEM) fellowships available in the US has grown dramatically since the inception of subspecialty training in 1994 Bayram et al. (Acad Emerg Med 17:748–757, 2010). These fellowships vary according to their curricular structure, intensity of fellow exposure and requirements for program completion. The variety of fellowship structures may have negative connotations for graduates from its fellowships and reflect upon the translatability of their skill sets.
The recent article “Core Curricular Elements for International Emergency Medicine Fellowships” Alagappan and Holliman (Emerg Med Clin 23(1):1–10, 2005) was designed as a curricular development tool and enumerates seven foci within the broad field of IEM.
The authors of this article describe their experience using this curriculum development tool. Individual experiences in each of the seven categories described in the “Core Curricular Elements” article were identified and undertaken within the typical 2-year training period.
A curricular structure is described that integrates exposure to all seven areas along with the Master’s of Public Health (MPH) degree, the clinical component and the academic component thematic to existing fellowships. Benefits of this curriculum include increased exposure to multiple areas of IEM, potential for greater standardization and increased translatability of skill set. Disadvantages include superficial exposure to areas of IEM and potentially decreased travel time.
The result is a plausible curriculum where fellows would gain exposure to more areas of IEM than they may have otherwise while still earning their MPH, working clinical shifts and carrying out academic fellowship requirements. The authors conclude that this structure allows fellowships to continue drawing on their strengths, provides a more well-rounded fellowship experience and increases structure without requiring standardization.
In a 2010 article titled “Core Curricular Elements for International Emergency Medicine Fellowships,” Bayram et al. outlined curricular components for those designing fellowship curricula . The article describes seven different categories of experience that international emergency medicine (IEM) fellows tend to undertake and gives examples and scope of these experiences. We describe our experience applying these categories to curricular design for an IEM fellowship and prove the plausibility of such a design.
The field of IEM has emerged as a hybrid of emergency medicine (EM) and public health applied to a global scale . The fellowships are diverse in terms of the experiences they afford fellows, their connections and their scope of research . There is potential variability in the IEM fellowship experience both within and across fellowships. Fellows can have diverging experiences with varying lengths of time abroad, in situations of differing intensity and with variable amounts of actual hands-on involvement .
What then does it mean to be a graduate of an IEM fellowship? Does it guarantee a certain amount of experience in humanitarian relief or a level of familiarity with intra-organizational communication? Does it translate into practical knowledge of resource allocation in times of disaster or expertise in grant writing? In the current training system, it could mean all of these things. Many graduates will continue their careers in academic emergency medicine and oversee future fellows, residents and medical students who may not have the same academic interests. There is a theoretical advantage to designing training programs that expose fellows to as many aspects of the broad field of IEM as possible.
The core curricular elements article defines seven areas of IEM where experiences tend to be undertaken. We hypothesized that within a typical 2-year fellowship period, fellows could have at least one experience in each of the seven areas and earn a Master’s of Public Health (MPH) degree while carrying out the academic and clinical requirements of the fellowship program. We then combined this hypothesis with common features of existing IEM curricula to design a new curricular structure and set out to execute it.
The approach to an applied curricular structure
Initially, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) website was used to compile a list of existing IEM fellowships . The individual fellowship websites were then reviewed for content and fellowship structure. Many programs publish requirements of their curricula online and, from these, major fellowship features and a conclusion regarding the overall organization of fellowships were drawn. It was noted that both 1- and 2-year fellowship programs exist. Since we wanted to explore the plausibility of exposure to all seven areas while earning an MPH, we focused on the curricula of 2-year programs. While earning an MPH is not necessarily a requirement of IEM fellowships, we noted that most fellowships offer one as a part of the fellowship. We chose to require this. The fellowships tend to have two other major components: clinical and academic. Average workloads of each component were then determined and applied to the proposed curriculum. The themes of the fellowships were then woven into the new framework and integrated into the concept of equivalent experiences.
IEM domains and equivalent experiences
The seven areas described by the core curricular elements article are EM systems, humanitarian relief, disaster management, public health, travel and field medicine, program administration and academic skills. For the purpose of this curriculum, the seven fields were called “domains” of international emergency medicine. Within each domain, many separate experiences are available in the form of real-life scenarios, conferences, symposia, workshops or research. These various experiences were termed “equivalent experiences.” Therefore, there are many possible equivalent experiences within each domain (Table 1). Any fellowship program could make its own list of equivalent experiences for each domain and draw upon the pre-existing strengths and connections of that fellowship. Practically, this means that a fellow will be expected to carry out an experience in each domain not covered by the clinical, academic or MPH components of the fellowship.
Many fellowships did not publish their requirements or published them in the unit of “shifts,” which could mean any number of hours. Further, some fellowships have different arrangements with fellows where they may be called fellows or expected to act as an attending physician. As there is no unified definition of these terms, an industry average of 6–8 12-h shifts each month was used. These shifts were averaged over the course of 1 year, meaning the fellow had to work approximately 84 12-h shifts in 1 year. This arrangement was made to allow for travel.
The academic requirement for the proposed curriculum was also taken as a time average based on the requirements of existing fellowships. Nearly all fellowship websites state that the fellow will assume the responsibilities of an attending physician. This generally translates into teaching during clinical shifts, giving lectures, participating in grand rounds and mentoring responsibilities. Also, participation in journal clubs is a common requirement.
There were several academic requirements made for the proposed curriculum aside from teaching during clinical shift work. Firstly, the fellow is to arrange and present at a monthly journal club for all months the fellow is present. In addition to this, the fellow must lecture in an EM residency conference setting once per year and attend one internationally recognized conference per academic year. Also, the fellow is expected to mentor EM residents in IEM research and assist residents in IEM involvement should they pursue it.
MPH coursework is dictated by the associated school of public health. For this program, the school requires its MPH graduates to carry out a public health analysis (PHA), which is equivalent to a thesis. Also, students must complete a culminating experience, which is a hands-on, 200-h public health experience secured and carried out entirely by the student. For the purposes of the proposed curriculum, both the PHA and the culminating experience were required to have an IEM focus, agreed upon independently by the IEM fellowship director and the student’s mentor at the school of public health.
The structure for the new fellowship takes industry averages for its clinical, academic and MPH components. The integration of equivalent experiences derived from the core curricular elements categories is the feature of this curriculum that expands the fellowship scope and the experiences fellows will undertake. The overall structure requires that fellows be exposed to each of the seven areas and may use their MPH or academic components to meet some of these requirements. What areas are not covered through the MPH or academic components must be carried out through predetermined “equivalent experiences.”
As an illustration, if a fellow finished their MPH, wrote their thesis on global positioning systems in times of disaster, carried out their culminating experience in a travel medicine clinic and finished their academic requirement, they would have demonstrated exposure to four domains (public health, disaster medicine, travel and field medicine and academic skills). In this new proposed curriculum, they will still have to undertake an equivalent experience in EM systems, humanitarian relief and program administration in order to meet the curricular requirements.
The 2-year period described here began on 1 July 2010 and ended on 30 June 2012.
The clinical requirements of the fellowship were met. The author averaged 7.99 12-h shifts per month in the first year and 7.28 per month in the second year, carried out at an urban level-1 trauma center. The range of hours per month was between 0 and 14 shifts/month for the first year and 0 and 9.75 shifts/month during the second. The clinical requirement of averaging 6–8 12-h shifts each month was therefore satisfied.
The academic requirements of the fellowship were also met. Journal clubs were held regularly, and the author also provided both IEM and EM lectures at the rate of two total lectures/year along with annual attendance of national or international conferences. Also in the realm of academics, the author co-mentored two chief residents and a medical student on their IEM project regarding the ethics of humanitarian aid. This project was presented at the International Conference on Emergency Medicine in Dublin, Ireland, in June 2012 and will subsequently be submitted for publication.
The MPH portion has been satisfied through completion of the requisite coursework. The culminating experience was used to develop a lecture site and rotational experience for future fellows and current residents in Kakinada, India. The PHA describes this curriculum in detail (both a fall largely under the program administration domain). This left four domains (EM Systems, Humanitarian Relief, Disaster Management and Travel/Field Medicine) for the author to complete an equivalent experience during the 2-year period.
For the EM systems domain, the author became the international ambassador to Costa Rica for the American College of Emergency Physicians. This role requires the production of an annual report regarding the state of EM in that country as well as functioning as a liaison between EM physicians in that country and the US. The humanitarian relief domain was satisfied through two experiences: providing healthcare in clinics in and around Jinotega, Nicaragua, as well as through completing the Health Emergencies in Large Populations (HELP) course offered at Johns Hopkins University. Tulane University offers a certificate program through their Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy through which the author took a graduate level course and earned credits satisfying the disaster management requirement. Lastly, certification was earned in Advanced Wilderness Life Support (AWLS) through the Wilderness Medical Society to complete the travel and field medicine domain.
This curriculum has several benefits. Principally, this experience provides structure without requiring standardization. Any new fellowship implementing this structure could draw upon its connections and incorporate them into this framework. Similarly, an existing fellowship could adopt this structure and keep in place its connections and strengths. Given the broad range of what could constitute an equivalent experience, fellowships could retain their diversity while providing more structure to their fellows. This increased structure provides more exposure to more areas of IEM than previously required. As an example, exposure to the ACEP ambassadorship, HELP course, AWLS course or disaster leadership course might not have been gained through a different fellowship structure.
This structure also improves the translatability of the fellow’s skill set. Fellows graduating from this program would be more likely to graduate with certifications, conference or workshop attendance that they might not have otherwise received. This translates into a well-rounded educational experience that benefits not only the fellow, but the fellows, residents and medical students they will likely mentor one day. Further, this is beneficial from the perspective of future employers who may perceive graduates as having a broader range of skills that suits them for a variety of practice settings.
There are several potential disadvantages to this structure as well. Notably, that exposure and proficiency are two separate entities. Having a certification in wilderness medicine does not make one proficient in it and certainly cannot take the place of a wilderness medicine fellowship or an IEM fellowship where the fellow focuses primarily on medicine in austere environments. By the general nature of these programs, fellows will spend disproportionately more time in one or two domains than the others. Using this example, developing a lecture site is much more time consuming and intense than a 3-day AWLS course.
Another issue with this structure is that equivalent experiences are not necessarily equivalent. A 3-day disaster medicine course cannot really be equivalent to a 3-week HELP course in terms of intensity or scope. This would have to be addressed by fellowship directors a priori. Fellowships could make their equivalent experiences more equivalent by deciding upon a time commitment or CME minima beforehand.
Also, many experiences do not neatly fit into only one category. A fellow traveling to post-earthquake Haiti could easily and correctly argue that their experience covered humanitarian relief, disaster medicine, and travel and field medicine domain requirements Fellowship directors would have to categorize experiences with fellows beforehand as being in one domain or another to avoid any discrepancies after the experience has been carried out.
There is also the potential disadvantage of decreased travel time while fellows carry out equivalent experiences. Fellows who have different academic interests than the authors may have a different experience.
The authors demonstrate the plausibility of a curriculum for an IEM fellowship that provides increased structure for fellows. The benefit of this structure compared to existing fellowships will have to be demonstrated through the implementation of this fellowship, graduation of fellows and comparing their experiences to fellows of other curricula. Despite the potential disadvantages of this structure, the authors contend that increased structure and exposure to more areas of IEM will lead to an increased translatability of the fellow’s skill set and is a positive option for fellowship structure.
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The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
DB carried out the experiences mentioned in the manuscript and drafted the initial manuscript. DB conducted literature and online review of fellowship programs and developed the list of equivalent experiences. JA edited, reviewed and assisted with research supporting the manuscript. Both authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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To open a bank account with them, online banks ask new customers to present the RIB of a bank account they already hold, within another establishment. The goal: to ensure the identity of the customer.
Valid identity document, proof of address less than three months old, latest tax notice, etc. The documents required by online banks when opening a bank account vary from one establishment to another. the other. One of them nevertheless often remains essential: the bank identity statement (RIB) of another account opened in a third-party establishment. This necessity can prove problematic, particularly for first-time banker who do not yet have an account in a traditional bank.
Why do we have to provide a RIB to open an account?
Opening an account in an online bank is considered simple and quick. Generally, you just need to have a smartphone, tablet or PC, and fill out an online form. In a few clicks, after having provided all of your personal information (last name, first name, address, date of birth, etc.), provided a sample signature and all the supporting documents requested, the account is opened.
However, to fully benefit from his account and associated services, the future customer must generally make a first deposit from another account in his name, held within a third party establishment. The amount of this initial payment varies between 10 and 300 euros, depending on the establishment and/or the formula chosen. The goal? Ensure the identity of the customer. Indeed, as part of the fight against fraud, money laundering and the financing of terrorism, French banks have a legal obligation to verify a certain amount of information relating to their customers.
Open an account without an initial deposit: which online banks allow it?
Hello bank, Fortuneo accessible without RIB
So what should you do when you open your very first bank account? Good news, if you are a student and this is your first current account, a bank is accommodating. This is Hello bank. The online bank of the BNP Paribas group accepts that the first payment is made with the RIB of one of the parents, from an account domiciled in the European Union (EU). It simply requires proof to prove the parental relationship (family record book, birth certificate).
Two online banks also allow their customers not to provide RIB. Fortuneo does not require a first payment for its Fosfo offer. However, this possibility is restricted to subscription via the mobile application. The Crdit Mutuel Arka subsidiary simply asks you to take a selfie video and provide proof of identity (national identity card, passport, residence permit). The second bank not to require a RIB is Revolut. The mobile bank only requires a photo of a valid ID.
Fintechs are less careful when opening an account. You can therefore possibly turn to Helios or Nickel, to have an account without already having another current account.
On the other hand, everywhere else, no miracle. An IBAN for your first and last name is often necessary. Depending on the establishment, the other account must also be held in a banking establishment located in a country of the European Economic Area, Switzerland, the United Kingdom or the overseas departments.
If you are in a bind, know that having a deposit account is a right in France. Concretely, if a bank refuses to open it, it is possible to initiate an account entitlement procedure to benefit from a current account with basic banking services.
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While this question is a bit unclear at the moment I wanted to get a community view on embedded programming questions in general. Should they be generally on-topic? Off-topic?
As an active Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange user I say that the particular question would be completely on topic there and currently the OP would receive more professional answers over there. So in this particular case I support the redirection of the OP to EE.SE.
Also this question is not the best example or material for us to decide the on-topicness of Embedded Programming questions in general. It is unclear, I generally do not like such questions without the datasheet for example. Also there are some terms that are not obvious at first glance. It could be more coherent as well.
But we should certainly consider @Gilles suggestion. Personally I would not accept any question about any processor or microcontroller but banishing all of them has its drawback too.
Let's wait and see what kind of questions we will have in the upcoming weeks and make a decision when we have more material in the subject.
I think that this particular case is off-topic here as it refers to the firmware programming of the Intel Atom SoC - more or less a general purpose computer that is not limited to IoT use cases. The question does not address an IoT specific system and does not even explicitely states the use related to IoT.
This question is on-topic, since it's about designing a part of an IoT device.
Yes, the part in question could also be used outside of IoT, but that's irrelevant. Our job here is to know about IoT; we aren't to know whether a particular device is “specific to IoT”. That would be pretty meaningless anyway: if I take a component that's sold under some IoT brand (as good a test as any to assert that it does qualify as IoT), and I never connect it to any network, does it somehow lose its IoT status?
The right question is, is the question relevant to IoT? It certainly is: it's about programming firmware for an IoT device.
If this site is to cater for IoT professionals, this sort of topic is exactly what we need.
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Piracy and Floating Armouries in the Indian Ocean: Risk or a Solution?
23 Apr, 2014 · 4406
Riddhi K Shah asks whether floating armouries have themselves morphed into another source of anxiety confronting the international community
Rising trends in piracy in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Somalia, over the last few years have forced States to adopt innovative and collaborative approaches as effective counter-measures.The once tabooed private military security companies (PMSCs) are an attractive option today, which has triggered a huge demand for it. As of 2013, close to 140 security firms reportedly operated in the Northern Indian Ocean, the bulk of which were conceived in 2011.
The modus operandi is generally to place a team of four armed contractors on each ship for a specific length of the transit; these are generally passages that have been declared as High-Risk Areas (HRA). It is when these ships carrying armed PMSC contractors enter ports that the legal complications begin. Use and transport of arms are subject to international maritime conventions and treaties. Declaration of arms onboard before entry into territorial waters is mandated by several States, while a select few choose to completely debar weapons onboard any visiting vessel.
Regardless of the nation’s preference, carrying arms is accompanied by complex legalities and even high costs.To avoid this, floating armoury ships have sprouted across the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). Their use allows companies to embark their personnel onboard ships from ports, who then pick up their equipment including weapons and ammunition from these ships outside the country’s territorial waters.Their use however is not limited to merely those passing by. Armed contractors can even seek food and lodging on board these ships until their next deployment.
Floating armouries rather than being a pragmatic and simple solution to the problems of the security companies have themselves morphed into another source of anxiety confronting the international community. Their existence on the ‘fringes of legality’ and frequent use of open registers coupled with a dearth of objective information has created reservations and even outright suspicion in States over these entities. Moreover, the active use of old ships to store large caches of weapons has sparked fears that they may be vulnerable to the very malefactors that they are intended to guard against – pirates.
India, after two harrowing incidents near its coastline, both of which involved States or private companies hiring out personnel for anti-piracy operations, perhaps has far more cause for concern. In 2009, the high-risk zone was shifted from 65 degrees to 78 degrees – all the way to the coast of Tamil Nadu. This development has two serious implications. First, it has resulted in merchant ships sailing closer to Indian shores, sometimes even in the territorial waters, as a safeguard against pirates. Many of them tend to carry armed guards on board, who like in the EnricaLexie case may mistake Indian fishermen for pirates or may conduct a rendezvous with floating armouries in Indian waters.
Second, given the strategic environment, the possibilities to which such arms-laden ships can be put to are countless. For India, after the traumatic event of the 26/11 attack on Mumbai, unregulated and unaccounted vessels with a large stockpile of arms on board form a very threatening picture.
At the risk of playing the devil’s advocate, it must be acknowledged that if planned well, floating armouries have the potential to cater to the security needs of PMSCs, which have been very effective in providing security to vessels sailing through the High Risk Area. With checks and balances in place, the governments could look at floating armouries with less concern, eventually helping make a case for their legality.
For floating armouries to be effective:
• Vessels being put to this particular use must be subjected to a rigorous and specialised inspection by a certified regime. Floating armoury vessels should undergo verification under the compliance rules and standards as set out by the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS).
• Since the use of open registries and dual registration has been a cause of concern, the registration procedures must be carefully monitored for such vessels. They must not be allowed to register with any State other than those deemed internationally respectable.
• Monitoring will also have to be undertaken of the size, construction and design of the floating armouries in order to ensure that they do not fall into the wrong hands.
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Encirclement of the Arctic Circle: The Russian Military Buildup
23 Sep, 2016 · 5135
Adarsh Vijay assesses Russia’s growing ambitions in the Arctic Circle and how these will play out in the current geopolitical scenario
The equations of geopolitical rivalry in the Arctic region are undergoing a paradigm shift with the ongoing military buildup by Russia. The Arctic has been accorded due importance as per the revised doctrine of the Russian Navy and Moscow is eyeing a permanent presence in the region to reclaim its historical dominance in the Arctic. Russia’s ongoing attempts in this direction have become a cause for friction among the other stakeholders in the North Pole. The pressing issues that need to be addressed are: Why is Russia heading to the Arctic? How do the other players view the Kremlin’s move? Is the strategy restricted to regional implications or does it go beyond them?
What’s in the Arctic?
Russia is one of the eight countries, along with the US, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland, to have territory in the Arctic Circle. They are also the members of the Arctic Council, which was formed in 1996 as per the Ottawa Declaration. The oil and mineral resources under the seabed and the strategic importance of the region has so far guided the Kremlin’s policy in the Arctic. The race for the control of oceanic resources necessitates a strong military backing to guard the maritime interests in the northern waters. Moscow had already established the 45th Air Force and Air Defense Army for its Northern Fleet by the end of 2015. However, the present military outreach that gained momentum in the far north is a response to the increasing defense modernisation by the US and the Scandinavian countries in the recent past. The Kremlin seeks to have a strong foothold in the North Pole with a permanent military base name Arktichesky Trilistnik (Arctic Trefoil), which was set up in 2015. The base, which can house approximately 150 military personnel, is situated at the 80th parallel. They have also built another base named Northern Shamrock on the Kotelny Island in the East Siberian Sea at the 75th parallel. Besides the construction of new military infrastructures, the reopening of the various abandoned air strips and bases across the Franz Josef Land, New Siberian Islands, Novaya Zemlya and Severnaya Zemlya archipelagos is also underway.
Arctic: A Grand Strategy
What makes the Arctic region strategically important for Russia is primarily its geographical proximity to the North American continent. It ensures Moscow within a short-distance and an early strike capacity against the West and this strengthens its nuclear deterrence at large. The Kremlin is also enjoying better operational autonomy in the High North as compared to the fleets stationed at the Black and Baltic Seas as the maneuver of the Northern Fleet is undisturbed by the NATO members. Russia is currently focusing on the deployment of nuclear-powered icebreakers, additional submarines, patrol vessels, military aircrafts, anti-aircraft systems and intends to conduct unannounced military exercises in the Arctic Ocean. The secondary factor that pushes the Russians to the Arctic waters is the promising oil and mineral resources. Due to climate change there is expected to be a continuing retreat of ice from the ocean, which would make the seabed mining viable and cost-effective in due course.
Norway, a NATO member and a neighbor of Russia in the north-western border, is cautious of Russian advancements in the Arctic sphere. Besides Norway, other members of the Arctic Council also perceive Russia’s activities in the North Pole as a threat. Washington's reaction was predominantly naval oriented in terms of the dispatch of submarines and icebreakers across the Arctic. An exclusive stealth-aircraft fleet is also under process for the High North in order to meet the challenges of the prevailing geopolitical conundrum.
The Road Ahead
The Kremlin intends to take the Arctic policy forward as a global strategy. The regional repercussions, as projected by Russia, are just a cover to hide the grand reverberations that are yet to unfold. Hence, an analysis of Moscow’s actions in the Arctic is just the tip of the iceberg. The High North is a significant element of Russia’s foreign and security complex, which is being built upon the Cold War legacy. Russia’s traditional need for superiority in the international system with immense control over natural resources, supported by an unparalleled military supremacy, lies behind the whole game. Thus, the Arctic Circle is a great catalyst for Moscow to alter and tilt the balance of power in its favor. Nevertheless, the escalating US presence in the Arctic acts as a deterrent against the Russian aggressions and neither does Russia seem interested in engaging in a direct confrontation in the near future. Though cooperation in place of competition is an option that can be explored, however, pragmatism is far more distant than dreams. The emerging trends in the Arctic are highly unpredictable which make a strategic forecast difficult, if not impossible. However, the only optimism that remains at the core of the dynamics in the region is the sustaining self-restraint in terms of abstinence from an armed rivalry at present. | <urn:uuid:006d0185-b8f6-4e95-9702-fe5e8dc32cf0> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://ipcs.org/comm_select.php?articleNo=5135 | 2024-04-24T03:44:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.95644 | 1,047 |
“Patents with ‘blockchain’ in the claims first appeared in 2016, when there were only three…. At the beginning of November in 2021, the total number of blockchain patents was 2,660.”
Blockchain’s history begins in 1991, when Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta published a paper describing a cryptographically secured chain of blocks. It took another 18 years before a developer who called himself Satoshi Nakamoto released a white paper that established the model for a blockchain and then, a year later, implemented the first blockchain as a public ledger for transactions using bitcoin.
The engine that runs the bitcoin ledger that Nakamoto designed is called the blockchain; the original and largest blockchain is the one that still orchestrates bitcoin transactions today. Blockchain technology was separated from currency in 2014, and that advance opened the door for using blockchain for applications beyond currency. The standout example is the Ethereum blockchain system, which introduced computer programs in a blockchain format, representing financial instruments such as bonds. These became known as smart contracts.
For readers who want more information, Bernard Marr wrote a 2018 article, “A Very Brief History of Blockchain that Everyone Should Read,” in an issue of Forbes. And Wikipedia has a long and detailed article on blockchain.
Patents for Blockchain
U.S. patents for Blockchain started making an appearance in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) data in 2017, which is after patents for Deep Learning began to appear, but as of the end of Q3, the number of patents with Blockchain in the claims has surpassed the number of patents with Deep Learning in the claims.
When I began to search the USPTO database for “blockchain” in a patent’s claims, I was surprised to find over 2,400 patents. When I searched the USPTO database for three variations on the term “deep learning,” the total was almost 2,300. I realized that I had to go year-by-year in order to see whether blockchain was “emerging” as a technology.
A Blockchain Bar Chart
Starting from 1991 and ending with November 2, 2021,I created the patent bar chart shown below for blockchain.
Not surprisingly, there were zero patents with “blockchain” in a patent’s claims from 1991 to 2015. Patents with “blockchain” in the claims first appeared in 2016, when there were only three.
In 2017, the number was 17. Then the number of “blockchain” patents began to take off. In 2018, the number zoomed to 82.
In 2019, the pace almost quadrupled, and ended with 319.
In 2020, the number zoomed even higher, and almost tripled the previous year’s number, reaching 943.
At the beginning of November in 2021 (i.e., November 2, 2021), there were another 1,296 patents—which is 432 times more than the three patents on record in 2016, and a grand total of 2,660. That total surpassed the all-time total for deep learning (2,379 on November 2).
Blockchain is growing so fast, I won’t predict a total for blockchain at the end of 2021.
Here’s the Bar Chart for blockchain as of November 2:
Another interesting question I wanted to explore is how many patents have both blockchain and “deep Learning” in the claims? I combined the blockchain search with the “deep learning” variations, again without caring about the Issue Date, and the result was all of the patents where both emerging technologies were used in the claims. There were only 11 such patents:
The blockchain bar chart was surprising.
On September 28, 2016, in a Fortune Magazine article, “Why Deep Learning Is Suddenly Changing Your Life,” Roger Parloff quoted former Stanford computer science professor Andrew Ng to the effect that, just as electricity changed everything during the Industrial Revolution, so would deep learning change everything now. Later, professor Ng noted that deep learning had been “overhyped.”
The patent data now shows that, if anything, blockchain has been underhyped and is compatible with deep learning. And if the combination of deep learning and blockchain sparks your imagination, and yet another combination — of any two or three emerging technologies — occurs to you, please let me know in the comments.
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I decided to make this a blog entry, as opposed to remaining in commentary on my main page:
Assalamalikum wa rahmatulahi wa barakatu, My response: Perhaps you can find a scholarly opinion on spending idle time online on blogs, which can be nothing but idle talk and distract you from higher acts of ‘ibada like reciting Qur’an, making sunnah prayers, performing dhikr, or giving charity or volunteering. Muslims love to find blame in others who may have different levels of practice. If I felt compelled to wear hijab because of what other musims, whether scholars or not, that would be committing shirk. I dont wear hijab in pictures because that would be misrepresenting myself and quite insincere. I don’t wear hijab in the pictures because I have chosen not to wear hijab in daily life outside of the masjid or prayers. I also believe there is no compulsion in religion. But there are societies that impose hijab, meaning that women who are forced receive no reward for intending to please Allah by wearing hijab. Rather than comply to the law of the land or to social pressure due to culture. I don’t argue matters of religion, but I see it like this, to me my way and to you yours. Thanks for your concern…. Last year I read Michael Cook’s book on Forbidding the wrong. Very interesting read. Book provides evidence to show that modern Muslims are more preoccupied with telling other Muslims what to do, as opposed to earlier texts on forbidding the wrong. While it is clear that we should command the good and forbid the wrong, it was never really clear how or who had the authority to forbid the wrong. But clearly, some communities give their members a permit allowing them to tell anyone else how much they suck. Apparently, me not wearing hijab is a evil. It is the most obvious evil that can quickly be eradicated, as opposed to “honor” killings, banditry, kidnapping, drug running, killing of civilians, corruption, bribery, rape, harrassment, defamation, assault, prostitution, forced marriages, and false testimony. Those will take a lot of work. It is less difficult to cover up a woman’s sexuality, now that is a real social evil that is destabilizing. Compared to the threat of a collapsing order due women in public spaces uncovered, the other drama we are faced with must be small cookies. ~ by Margari Aziza Hill on August 21, 2007. http://azizaizmargari.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/on-pictures-hijab-and-forbidding-evil/ |
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This course examines the production and consumption of energy from a systems perspective. Students will examine sustainability by studying global and regional environmental impacts, economics, energy efficiency, consumption patterns and energy policy. The course begins by introducing the physics of energy and energy accounting methods, followed by the current energy system that encompasses resource extraction, conversion processes and end-uses. Responses to current challenges such as declining fossil fuels and climate change are then explored, including unconventional fossil fuels, carbon sequestration, emerging technologies (e.g., renewable sources: biomass, wind, and photovoltaics; fuel cells) and end-use efficiency/conservation.
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You probably know that the Internet of Things, IoT, is a new digital network and as the name suggests, this is a global network for digital devices. Think of it as a World Wide Web for devices, which will be powered by 5G (thanks to Elon Musk) that offers 10x data transfer speeds and the network will be managed by AI.
So, how will the IoT affect your life?
Here is a glimpse into the near future.
Domestic Bliss –
Home management is taken to the next level; you can tell the climate control to start with a voice command, even though you are an hour’s drive away. The dinner will be ready as you pull into your driveway and if there’s heavy traffic, your food won’t be spoiled, while your humanoid housekeeper will prepare a refreshing drink by your favorite chair. If you’re at work and suddenly remember you left the light on in the bedroom, you can turn it off virtually, via a mobile app. The smart home will be everything you wished for and, all utilities and systems are managed by AI and you can get an instant report at any time of day or night, wherever you happen to be.
Driverless Vehicles –
DVs will be the norm a decade from now, with all autonomous vehicles managed by AI using the IoT. In theory, traffic accidents will be a thing of the past, yet that remains to be seen. If the controller does not allow vehicles to be closer than a specified distance, then there’s no way an accident can occur and while people will be a little apprehensive at the start, we will soon trust automated vehicles with our lives. While on the topic of hi-tech, check out www.itauthorities.com, a leading Florida-based managed IT services provider that can take your business to the next level.
Drone Deliveries –
Amazon is already using drones to make deliveries in some US States and you can expect to see them where you live in the not-too-distant future. The system is simple enough, a mother truck with 6 drones on the roof and when they are loaded with the goods, the operator sends them all off to their delivery destinations and at the same time, the recipient receives a notification. Drone technology will reach the point where we dump our cars for these flying taxis, which takes mass transit to a new level.
Global Trading –
The IoT will host all forms of global commerce, using super-fast speeds and state-of-the-art encryption; markets will be global and commodities bought and sold, while the system is managed by AI. If you run your own business, here are a few tips for effective online advertising.
Air Traffic Control –
While we already have a very effective air traffic control system in place, the IoT will integrate regions of the world and over a period of time, humans will be taken out of the loop, leaving AI to direct all air traffic. If that bothers you, the fact that your flight captain is also a computer might come as a shock. If the truth is known, we have had the tech to have pilotless aircraft for some time, however, paying passengers are not happy without a human pilot in the cockpit and this will change eventually.
High Tech Equipment –
The next generation of tech equipment will be able to repair itself and the IoT will enable a machine to run a diagnostic program to find. Industrial equipment will no longer need to be offline and the future of the manufacturing sector is purely robotic. Complex equipment will constantly relay data to the HQ, which is managed by AI and managers will always know the state of essential machinery and equipment.
The IoT will revolutionize healthcare, allowing patient data to be instantly streamed to the medical professional; it is predicted that people will receive a warning prior to a heart attack! Telehealth saw us through the pandemic and it is set to become a major part of our lives, helping doctors to deliver their services, while AI can already accurately diagnose cancer spots on a chest X-Ray. Even when a patient is at home, the medical professional can monitor their vital signs, thanks to the IoT, and should there be a need for a doctor visit, he or she will be there before you know it!
The Internet of Things is going to be a game-changer in so many respects and powered by 5G, this global network of digital devices will become the go-to platform for a wide range of new equipment. We often think about how life was before the Internet and in a few years, we will be wondering how we ever managed without the IoT. | <urn:uuid:a3be1f08-d8fe-4f6d-9e13-4773f4a07cfa> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://itsmyownway.com/are-you-ready-for-the-internet-of-things/ | 2024-04-24T03:49:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.957266 | 946 |
It’s been a while since we have featured a guest stylist here at It’s Only Fashion, but after I ran into Maeve Byron at the Mahrathon this weekend, I had to ask her to volunteer. She said she liked the blog, so of course, I wanted to feature her. Besides, she was a generous supporter of the Mahrathon – which raised 322,000 lindens for Heifer International. Yay!
According to Maeve, “I guess my style puts comfort as the main priority. Although fashion blogs like A Passion For Virtual Fashion, Juicybomb and of course It’s Only Fashion have inspired me, I don’t really jump on cutting edge style; I prefer a more classic look…maybe it’s an age thing. I like to look smart, tasteful, cute and approachable.”
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The Empire of Gold: 3 (Daevabad Trilogy)
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Back in Daevabad, Dara is questioning himself about the actions that he has taken and starts to struggle with conscience about his past and what he could have done differently.
I’ve seen a decent amount of buzz for it online, but in my opinion these books should be making greater waves.In the end, we have a broken phalanx of characters who try to rise from the ashes and learn from the past, but despite their manifest good intentions they are nonetheless human and flawed.
Forget healing, my specialty should be having my life destroyed and then being forced to rebuild from nothing.Today I am reviewing one of my most anticipated reads for 2020 and the final installment in the Daevabad trilogy – The Empire of Gold.
Nahri and Ali finally open up to each other, tell the whole truth, and – who’d have thought – it turns out they make a really good team. Banu Manizheh and Dara are left with their bleak kingdom, tortured and filled with blood, their peoples’ magic mysteriously gone. We see hope, but also the inevitability of backsliding and a long lasting culture of mistrust and power playing. Chakraborty is much taken with the ancient Islamic travel journals that are an important piece of Islamic culture.After a brutal conquest stripped the city of its magic, Nahid leader Banu Manizheh and her resurrected commander, Dara, must try to repair their fraying alliance and stabilize a fractious, warring people. Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from Harper Voyager and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
Meanwhile, Dara explores his new form and its meanings, trying to come to terms with the destiny that has been crafted for him since he was a young man and how all that idealism and all those promises have resulted in monstrosities, culminating in an unsteady alliance with the Ifrit.Empire of Gold is the pitch perfect conclusion to the expansive fantasy trilogy that has captured my heart and mind over the past few years. On the one hand, it’s nice to be reminded of prior events, to ease one’s way back into this world of djinn and politics and strange magic, on the other hand, it makes for somewhat slow reading during the first ahlf of this book. Among other awards and nominations which will be added here soon, the Daevabad Trilogy was nominated for a Hugo Award, a 2021 Best Series finalist. This means I may earn a commission should you chose to sign up for a program or make a purchase using my link. When Nahri realizes what has happened to him, why he’s done some of the things he’s done to Daevabad…your heart shatters alongside hers.
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My Vampire System: Book 1
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However, he was well disciplined and kept up his Qi-exercise training every day, hoping to improve his body.
Everything about the novel had been good I mean it's ok u come to know how mc struggled using his prowess to come out of many situations honestly u will enjoy . After getting infused with Werewolf DNA and when he fully transforms into a werewolf, his face transforms and he has grown teeth.
He has joined Quinn's side after Zero has taken in Erin even after what has happened in the past with Leo. Next time we see Chris is when Pure has kept an online match-up with all of the world leaders and their factions. Quinn then tries to talk Chris out of fighting Ray, Chris says that he is not a good person and Quinn disagrees.
Some chose to share their knowledge to the rest of the world in hopes of winning the war, while others kept their abilities to themselves. He became one of the strongest God Slayer in the Universe after traveling to Zeathun, also known as the red space. Chris would analyse everything Quinn had done in each fight, telling him what he should have done differently or what he could have improved on. Quinn when seeing Chris thought that if the two of them were to fight he did not know who would win.Everybody seems satisfied with the ending (have only seen positive comment on last chapter) so I'd say its worth the time. He fights with high concentration and control by understanding his opponents during the battle and tries to reveal their trump cards, then finishing in one certain blow.
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A well-functioning team is important for any organization, and effort software can help synchronize workers from around the world. These websites involve features just like file sharing, video conferencing, and project supervision programs to help in a specific work environment. They will help clubs work together to resolve problems, promote resources, and projects with fewer learning curves.
Collaboration equipment are often grouped into communication-centric and task-management programs, according to their actual features. The latter usually focus on streamlined work flow and task completion, in contrast to simply facilitating teamwork. These features can include task project and monitoring, a repository for completed tasks, vpnforandroid or built-in project managing apps offering real-time posts to stakeholders and personnel.
The key benefit of collaboration application is that it brings all the different areas of teamwork under a single roof, reducing miscommunication and redundant efforts. The moment every employee is on the same page, concluding projects is more straightforward.
Among the best collaboration equipment also help lessen stress by giving an avenue for workers to obtain support when needed. For instance, a few collaborative systems offer committed channels for workers to tone of voice issues or questions in a private and private setting. They can then get immediate reactions from a trusted source, which usually eliminates the need for an employee to get help right from a coworker outside of the training.
The right collaborative tools also help improve work processes and help to make information readily available, improving productivity and promoting liability. They can exchange a variety of antique communication methods and conserve businesses time, money, and resources. For instance , instead of mailing out a mass email asking for opinions on a report, managers may upload the document to Slack and tag employees who need to give their input. | <urn:uuid:b2934faa-77c5-4f23-badf-9aebf3c083b1> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://ivfcare.in/the-key-benefits-of-effort-software/ | 2024-04-24T02:07:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.94721 | 352 |
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Hear what a buyer and a seller have to say about working with me. With 7 years of experience as a realtor in the Outer Banks, I look forward to helping you navigate the buying or selling process too!
Working with Jane was a joy. She is a great listener and knows the market! She goes out of her way to help you find the best house within your price range. Even after closing, Jane was helping us with our new adventure of renting houses. Jane goes out of her way to make you feel comfortable with buying a new house. We have worked with other agents in the past but we feel like Jane is part of our family now!
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COP28, the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, was held in late 2023. With near certainty that 2023 will have the highest temperatures in recorded history, interest in addressing the issue of global warming only continues to rise.
Like a World Expo
COP28 had over 70,000 registered participants. When I first participated in the negotiation process nearly 15 years ago, COPs were mainly viewed as a forum for intergovernmental negotiations. I never imagined back then that COPs would come to involve such a diverse range of stakeholders.
The venue for COP28 was Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the site of the 2020 World Expo. In fact, the multitude of pavilions and exhibits was much like the World Expo. The sight of local elementary school students touring the exhibits was charming. And for the first time, there was dedicated exhibition space for startups, a significant achievement. Ten companies from Japan participated, attracting high interest.
However, do we really need to hold an event on this scale every year? Gathering tens of thousands of people in a city in the desert to discuss the environment in air-conditioned venues felt quite surreal. I do not doubt others share my sentiment.
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Japanese Sword Guards, Tsuba 4. All for same price. These are antique Japanese sword guards, called Tsuba, that I have collected from Japanese dealers and other sources over the years. All of these Tsuba came off Japanese swords. All shows signs of use and age. 2 are Katana size and the others came off Wakazashi. The top right Tsuba is made of copper and has applied gold to the rim, see pictures. Shows age use and wear. The lower right is made of iron and has copper shims from prior mounting. It also has been altered long ago to accommodate a side implement, Kozuka? It is in reasonably good condition. I do not know the motif. The top left is made of copper with gold applied to the figures and flowers. This Tsuba displays a bull carrying a child lead by a man. This Tsuba came of a small Wakazashi and the raised areas that show wear due to use from the Samurai age in which it was made. The lower left is made of iron and the motif, a frog and bamboo near a stream. It is in good condition and though it came on a Wakazashi I bought , it does not appear to have been mounted to it. This Tsuba also appears to be cast not traditionally made. It came from Japan so I think it is a mirror makers Tsuba made for lower class of Samurai and others allowed to carry a Wakazashi but who could not afford better. Please see pictures for condition and size. US buyers only please. None of these are special but a decent price for the beginning collector. Thank you for looking and good luck. The item “Japanese Sword Guards, Tsuba 4″ is in sale since Friday, March 5, 2021. This item is in the category “Antiques\Asian Antiques\Japan\Tsuba”. The seller is “cwh3″ and is located in Binghamton, New York. This item can be shipped to United States.
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- Age: 1850-1899
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Sick care is a self-perpetuating model designed for health decline, not optimization and improving outcomes.
The system is imploding slowly because many have started to see it for the sham that it is.
A growing number of physicians are trying to detach from this model and get into a practice that would productively help their patients in a real way, but it’s not an easy transition to make.
There are mindset shifts, fears that need to be confronted and factors that militate against them.
What are the steps these doctors can take to move away from a bad system?
How does fear block their progress?
In this episode, I’m joined by influential attorney and healthcare entrepreneur, Paul Genet to discuss the shortcomings of sick care and how we can architect something better.
Fear is the mother of all human limitations.
It is energy, you can transform it into something useful.
Three Things You’ll Learn in This Episode
- The switch from sick care to optimization is also a shift from insurance to cash pay. This requires turning a doctor into an entrepreneur, which is a huge mindset shift because it’s about producing results.
- In the optimization space, doctors need to actually make their patients well. In the sick care system, wellness doesn’t matter because it’s all about managing and medicating instead of raising the level of health of the patient.
- The eradication of sick care starts with building a new system of optimization healthcare where the intention is wellness, not sickness management.
Paul is an influential attorney in the medical space, and the founder and CEO of Genetics Health.
He is licensed in state and federal courts in Florida and is certified by the Supreme Court of Florida as a circuit court mediator.
Paul focuses his practice on healthcare issues.
Throughout his career as a Florida attorney, he has successfully litigated and resolved numerous million-dollar and multimillion-dollar cases.
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Homemade Cauliflower Crust
If you can’t tell from the pictures Mr. Greyson and I are loving all things fall. We are trying to hit up as many fun fall activities as possible and someone has been learning all about pumpkins at school! We can either blame today on the desire for all things fall or blame the baby but I woke up and all I wanted to do was bake? I love to cook but baking and I have a weird relationship so needless to say, I was surprised. Grey and I headed off to the store and loaded up with everything we’d need to make some delicious homemade cookies. While we were checking out I was day dreaming of all things food and remembered I never shared my all time favorite cauliflower crust recipe with you all! Whoops! It is SUPER easy, healthy and versatile. I use it as a crust for pizzas, breakfast casseroles and taco dips. So many uses.
Also, side note, I linked all details of out outfits below. These maternity overalls are everything! =)
Once you have your crust you are free to pick any pizza topping of your liking! Add the ingredients and then cook an additional 10min. If you wanting to use the crust for my meatless taco pizza (which I eat cold) cook the crust all the way, let cool, and then add the taco dip onto the top! Yuuuuuum =)
Enjoy your cauliflower crust and per usual make sure to share your final results with me!
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Jumpsuits / JNBY Slim Fit Drop Shoulder Sleeveless Jumpsuit（Black Friday Flash Sale)
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Although the fashion industry will continue to update clothing items one after another, there is a piece of clothing that has been loved by women for many years, and that is the "romper" with many advantages. Acetate twisted cavalry slanted fabric, light and elegant, good air permeability, comfortable to wear, slightly dropped shoulder details, can well modify the shoulder shape, and the elastic design of the trousers also makes the neutral and monotonous workwear jumpsuit become younger.
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COVID-19 is something that we are all going to have to face together. Our primary concern is the health and safety of Ontarians.
We hope you are staying safe and healthy.
Thank you to all the province’s essential services workers and those on the front-line. You step up everyday to ensure individuals, families and seniors have what they need to stay safe and healthy.
Thank you to everyone else who is staying home and practicing physical distancing.
It is important to listen to the advice of Public Health experts:
- Wash hands frequently
- Avoiding touching eyes, nose and mouth
- Avoid contact with people who are sick
- Practice social-distancing
- Stay home if you’re not feeling well
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Telehealth Ontario: 1-866-797-0000 or
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As people gradually begin returning to work, the Ontario government continues preparing for the next phase of restarting the provincial economy through the implementation of its Framework for Reopening our Province. At the same time, the government has been supporting struggling business owners directly impacted by COVID-19 by providing tax deferrals and commercial rent relief, and by removing regulatory roadblocks.
Today, Premier Doug Ford, Rod Phillips, Minister of Finance, and Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, highlighted the ongoing preparations for reopening the economy, including the work of the Ontario Jobs and Recovery Committee.
Over the past week, the government has begun easing restrictions on workplaces that can operate safely by following public health and safety guidelines. Today, garden centres and nurseries will be able to open for in-store payment and purchases. Hardware stores and safety supply stores will be permitted to open for in-store payment and purchases as soon as 12:01 a.m. on Saturday. On Monday at 12:01 a.m., non-essential retail stores with a street entrance can begin offering curbside pickup and delivery.
These actions come as the province continues to face the unprecedented economic situation created by the COVID-19 outbreak. Today, Statistics Canada released its monthly job numbers, which showed a 689,200 decrease in employment in Ontario.
The province is also providing $241 million of a total $900 million to the new Ontario-Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance Program (OCECRA), with contributions from the federal government, to deliver relief to small businesses and ensure they are ready to reopen their doors when the emergency measures are lifted.
Ontario’s Action Plan: Responding to COVID-19 also includes $10 billion in support for people and businesses to improve cash flows by providing a five-month penalty and interest-free period to make payments for the majority of provincially administered taxes, deferring the upcoming quarterly municipal remittance of education property tax, and providing up to $1.9 billion in financial relief by allowing employers to defer Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) payments for up to six months.
In order to make life easier for businesses faced with the unique challenges created by the global outbreak, the Ontario government has launched the COVID-19: Tackling the Barriers online portal. Businesses working to retool their operations to produce health-related products, or those struggling to operate in this new environment of physical distancing, can submit any potential roadblocks and suggest possible solutions through the website.
The governments of Canada and Ontario are investing $2.25 million in provincially licensed meat processing plants to better protect employees and ensure the continued supply of healthy products for consumers during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Through the Canadian Agricultural Partnership (the Partnership), the first stream of the Agri-food Workplace Protection Program will provide funding to implement COVID-19 health and safety measures in provincially licensed meat plants, including purchasing additional personal protective equipment, redesigning workstations, supporting employees who require mandatory isolation, and work-site mobility and transportation.
The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) will begin accepting applications on May 12, 2020 and will expedite the approval process to get the necessary support to the agri-food sector faster. Eligible applications will be received and assessed on a continuous basis, while funding is available.
Today’s announcement follows previous actions taken by the federal and provincial government to support the agri-food sector. Those commitments include $1 million to help Ontario farmers, food processors and other agri-food supply chain partners address labour shortages, as well as $2.5 million to improve e-business opportunities for Ontario’s agri-food sector.
Since June 2018, both the federal and provincial governments have committed support to approximately 2,500 projects through the Partnership to help eligible Ontario farmers, processors, businesses and sector organizations innovate and grow.
Lisa MacLeod, Minister of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture Industries, issued a statement in response to Ontario permitting professional sport training facilities to reopen:
“Our top priority remains the health and safety of all Ontarians. As we prepare for a safe and gradual reopening of the economy, we have been working closely with public health experts and our professional sport teams to prepare for a return to play when it is safe to do so.
I am pleased to announce that beginning today in Ontario, professional sport training facilities will be permitted to reopen, provided their respective sports leagues have established health and safety protocols in response to COVID-19.
While it is imperative to do everything we can to stop the spread of COVID-19, we need to carefully and cautiously begin to reopen the economy. This is a critical sector for Ontario as sport represents more than $12.6 billion to Ontario’s economy and thousands of jobs across the province.
We are pleased to see professional sports teams take a leading role in producing new rigorous protocols to keep their athletes safe, while allowing them to train in a voluntary and individualized manner.
We look forward to seeing our athletes return to play in the not-too-distant future.”
“On May 8, 1945, Canadians flooded the streets to cheer and celebrate as the Allied Forces liberated Europe from the brutal tyranny of the Nazi regime. During World War II, Canada played a pivotal role in securing this important victory, from its troops bravely storming the beaches of Normandy on D-Day to freeing the Netherlands from Nazi occupation.
For many, the victory was bittersweet. While more than one million Canadians served during the Second World War, over 45,000 soldiers made the ultimate sacrifice.
While we cannot mark this important milestone together in person, we stand united in recognizing the heroism and bravery of those who fought to defend our freedoms and protect our way of life. As Canadians, we can take inspiration from the legacy of those who blazed the trail before us. By sticking together, we can overcome any obstacle, especially during these extraordinary and difficult times.
I want to take a moment to thank our men and women in uniform, both our veterans and those who are actively serving today, for keeping our country safe and free.
On this day and every day, we honour these Canadian heroes who gave everything in the service of their country. For their sacrifice, we will never forget.”
Emergency Support Fund for Cultural, Heritage and Sport Organizations: next steps to support the industry impacted by the global COVID-19 pandemic
Culture, heritage and sport organizations play an essential role in Canadian society. They are a vital part of the social fabric of our communities. They generate solidarity, promote social integration and tolerance, and are a source of civic pride. They are also major drivers of the Canadian economy, contributing three percent of Canada’s Gross Domestic Product.
The Minister of Canadian Heritage, the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, today shared further details regarding the Government of Canada’s April 17 announcement of temporary relief measures to support the culture, heritage and sport sectors as they manage the challenges and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and plan for the future. A total of up to $500 million has been set aside to help alleviate the financial pressures of affected organizations.
Starting today, partner organizations will be contacted so that funds can begin to flow to cultural and sport organizations. Canadian Heritage is working closely with its partners – in particular, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Canada Media Fund, FACTOR, Musicaction, and Telefilm Canada – to distribute the funds as quickly as possible using existing channels.
The distribution of funding will include:
- Up to $326.8 million to be administered by Canadian Heritage and divided among select departmental programs and Portfolio agencies as well as key delivery organizations. Specifically:
- $198.3 million will be provided to the beneficiaries of arts and culture funding via existing programs as well as other organizations with demonstrated needs;
- $72 million will be provided to the sport sector;
- $53 million will be provided to the heritage sector via the emergency component of the Museums Assistance Program; and,
- $55 million to be distributed by the Canada Council for the Arts;
- $3.5 million will be provided for COVID-related projects under the Digital Citizen Initiative.
- $115.8 million to support the Canadian audiovisual sector, to be distributed by the Canada Media Fund ($88.8 million) and Telefilm Canada ($27 million).
The use of the remaining funds will be assessed based on needs.
Canada’s culture, heritage and sport organizations are creative and resilient. This targeted funding will help organizations maintain operations while continuing to support artists and athletes, and retain jobs. Many organizations in the culture, heritage, and sport sectors face barriers to accessing the already announced Government of Canada measures due to factors such as the cyclical nature of revenues, high rates of self-employment and contract work, and barriers to accessing credit.
The Emergency Support Fund for Cultural, Heritage and Sport Organizations is designed to complement other Government of Canada measures to help Canadian workers and employers impacted by COVID-19, including the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS), the Business Credit Availability Program (BCAP), and the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance (CECRA) for Small Businesses.
Today, I ‘d like to take a moment to recognize the local health care worker who died as a result of COVID-19, while working to protect the health of others. The family, friends and colleagues of the worker are in our thoughts. It is very difficult to lose a member of the health care community, and we are devasted by this loss on top of the loss of so many residents.
Long-term care homes
OPH continues to be concerned for our residents in long-term care during this pandemic. It is important for the population, and especially those with loved ones in long-term care homes, to know that most long-term care homes in Ottawa have no outbreaks and zero cases of COVID-19. For those homes that do have outbreaks, hospitals have been paired up with the homes facing the greatest pressure and the situation has improved in the operation of these homes. We continue to see deaths from infections that started with transmission in the past.
Managing risk while easing restrictions
This week marked the start of easing some of the COVID-related community restrictions, such as the reopening of some parks and businesses, and more announcements are being made by the province frequently. Although more public spaces are available, the community remains extremely vulnerable to a resurgence of disease. Most people are not immune to COVID-19 and the vast majority of the population remains susceptible.
Therefore, we must continue to practice physical distancing as some measures are being relaxed – that message does not change. And, I am encouraged that the motivation of the people of Ottawa to protect others around them will not change.
We are in the fortunate position in that we are able to observe what other countries are doing with regards to relaxation of restrictions and we will continue to monitor how the situations develop as they reopen their businesses, schools and outdoor spaces.
We are in a time where people need to, and they want to, return to the activities they love. OPH recognizes the burden that COVID-19 has created and the impacts on the direct health of Ottawa’s residents. And, we are concerned about the indirect harms COVID19 has caused — stress and anxiety, loss of employment, food insecurity, exposure to violence, delayed access to medical and dental services and reduced social support — as these have big influences on health and wellbeing.
OPH is working with provincial, municipal and community partners to support a progressive relaxing of restrictions that will minimize the risk of spreading COVID-19 in the community. If we increase our interaction with others too much too soon, the level of infection will rise and we risk overburdening our health care system – something we have avoided so far, thanks to your actions. We need to continue to keep this virus pinned down and at a manageable level within the community, and I would like to also see a further decline in hospitalizations to show we are reaching lower levels of virus in the community.
What is important is that the actions of everyone in the city will be what determines our future.
What you have done so far, and what we do today will impact our future. The people of Ottawa have done such a good job at protecting themselves and others by following the physical distancing measures. Keeping two metres between each other is what will continue to protect us. We need to continue physical distancing moving forward as we resume other activities.
During this period, wearing of cloth masks in the community when you cannot maintain a physical distance of two metres will be important to reduce transmission from individuals that do not have symptoms and may not realize they are ill. As well as, continued community testing of people with COVID19-like symptoms will be essential, along with testing to control outbreaks. OPH will continue to work with health care sector partners to ensure testing capacity.
Please continue to visit our website www.OttawaPublicHealth.ca/Coronavirus for updated content about where to purchase a mask, how to wear a mask and updated physical distancing information.
Ontario has created a new self-assessment tool
If you think you have 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms or have been in close contact with someone who has it, use this self-assessment to help determine if you need to seek further care. Visit here.
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Business analysts are professionals who help organizations improve their operations, processes, and outcomes by analyzing data and identifying areas for improvement. They work across industries, including finance, healthcare, retail, and IT, and they can have various job titles, such as business systems analyst, data analyst, or product manager. The responsibilities of a business analyst vary depending on the organization, industry, and project scope. However, there are some common responsibilities that are essential to the role.
Business Analyst Job Roles
Analyzing business needs and opportunities: Business analysts work with stakeholders from different departments and levels of the organization to identify business needs and opportunities for improvement. They may conduct interviews, workshops, surveys, and data analysis to understand the current state of the business and its goals and objectives. Based on their analysis, they develop recommendations for how the organization can improve its operations and outcomes.
Defining business requirements: Based on the business needs and opportunities identified, business analysts define the business requirements for the initiatives they are working on. They may create functional and non-functional requirements documents, use cases, and user stories to capture the needs and expectations of the stakeholders. They work with stakeholders to prioritize the requirements and ensure they are aligned with the overall business strategy.
Creating project plans and schedules: Business analysts create project plans and schedules to outline the scope, timeline, budget, and resources of their initiatives. They may use project management tools and techniques to manage the project risks, issues, and dependencies. They collaborate with the project team, including developers, designers, and testers, to ensure that the project is progressing as planned.
Facilitating communication and collaboration: Business analysts facilitate communication and collaboration between stakeholders to ensure that their initiatives align with the overall business strategy and meet their needs. They may act as a liaison between business and IT teams and translate the business requirements into technical specifications. They work closely with project managers to ensure that the project team is working efficiently and effectively.
Testing and validating solutions: Business analysts test and validate the solutions they have developed to ensure that they meet the business requirements and deliver the expected outcomes. They may conduct user acceptance testing, functional testing, and performance testing to ensure that the solutions are effective and efficient. They work with the project team to ensure that the solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
Monitoring and reporting on outcomes: Business analysts monitor and report on the outcomes of their initiatives to ensure that they deliver the expected business benefits. They may track metrics, such as ROI, customer satisfaction, and process efficiency, and make adjustments to their plans as needed. They work with stakeholders to communicate the progress and outcomes of the initiatives and identify areas for improvement.
Continuous improvement: Business analysts are responsible for continuously improving the business processes and outcomes. They may conduct post-implementation reviews and gather feedback from stakeholders to identify areas for improvement and refine their initiatives accordingly. They stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices to ensure that the organization is adopting the latest technologies and methodologies.
What You Need To Know About A Business Analyst Career Path
In conclusion, the responsibilities of a business analyst involve analyzing business needs, defining requirements, creating project plans, facilitating communication and collaboration, testing and validating solutions, monitoring and reporting on outcomes, and continuously improving the business processes and outcomes. Business analysts play a critical role in helping organizations achieve their goals and objectives by improving their operations and outcomes. They are analytical, strategic, and collaborative professionals who can drive positive change within the organization.
Considering A Business Analyst Career Path?
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Romance novels have heroines and heroes, so I suppose it makes sense they have the power to save us. Right?
We’ve all been there. Life is sailing along, then one day we hit a rock and we’re fighting against getting swallowed up by ten foot waves. We do what we have to, and at the end of the day, we turn to that great escape read to help us forget the pain and difficulties. Even if for a little while. Since you’ve found your way here, I’m guessing you might understand what I’m talking about. You know, bookworm to bookworm. We all could use a little book therapy now and again, and romance is the most optimistic, hope-filled genre I know.
That’s why I’m happy to announce that your summer #JolyseBarnettGiveaway is here! If you’re game for a chance to WIN TWO ROMANCE NOVELS this week, you’ve come to the right place. To enter, simply write a comment after reading this short post. (Psst. Writing can be a lonely pursuit at times, and I really do love to hear from readers, so please don’t be shy.)
To show my appreciation for your precious summer minutes, there will be TWO weekly winners selected from the comment entries left between now and Wednesday, July 12th. Winners will be announced on my July 13th blog.
For a THIRD chance to be one of my weekly winners through the month of July, visit my Jolyse Barnett Facebook Page after you leave a comment here.
But first, a little catch-up…
“We have a situation here.”
That statement pretty much sums up the first half of 2017 for my family. Since the majority of issues involved my children, I’ll keep the details low key. I can, however, share the wonderful news that both have bounced back. Once again, my children are healthy and happy.
Escape into Reading
During our family’s struggles this winter, I kept writing–even if it was only a little each day. I love my character and stories. (If I’m a new author to you, feel free to read a sample or two on my Jolyse Barnett Books page.) When I was just too exhausted to create, I escaped into other people’s stories. In all, I’ve read almost fifty novels since January! Not only did I read many terrific contemporary romances, but I also discovered a handful of new-to-me authors of commercial, women’s, and literary fiction. When you check back next Thursday for the list of winners from this week’s entries, stick around for a minute to read the list of my favorites. Feel free to share your recommended recent reads then, too.
Take the Good with the Bad
With the arrival of Spring came a long-awaited family vacation. So much fun! We loved all ten incredible, relaxing days together on our Western Caribbean cruise.
Recharged, I returned home all fired up, and I worked diligently to finish my work-in-progress. Since then, things have been looking up, highlights including our son’s Senior prom and high school graduation.
Now that summer is here, I’m home full-time and loving everything about my new writing office. Four projects in progress…
I hope you’ve enjoyed your journey through the first half of 2017. If not, I hope that you’ve found solace and hope in great romance reads. Go, bookworms!
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The popularity and effectiveness of Botox is unquestionable. On an annual basis in the United States alone, about three million Botox treatments are administered. The question that you might be asking is whether or not the treatment is right for you.
First, what are your expectations? Do you expect Botox to take you from being a 40-year-old individual and make you look like you are 20? If so, your expectations are unrealistic, and these treatments might not give you the results that you want.
This treatment is specifically designed to treat dynamic wrinkles. Dynamic wrinkles are the wrinkles that are created when you make facial movements. Botox will not give you results similar to a facelift. It will rejuvenate your face, it will remove dynamic wrinkles, and it will give you a younger appearance, but it is important to have realistic expectations for what the treatment can and cannot do in order to enjoy the results.
At our office near Boston Botox is offered, however, it does not affect everyone in the same way. Multiple factors come into play when it comes to the kind of results you can expect from the treatment. The results you get may be better or they may be less drastic than what other people who use the treatment get. However, this does not mean that Botox is not doing its job; it just means that there are certain factors that influence how great your results may be.
The results of this treatment are temporary, so you will need to come to our office near Boston, for follow-up treatments in order to maintain your results. Since the treatments themselves are simple and convenient, most people are happy visiting our office a couple of times a year for ongoing benefits.
The simple fact that Botox is used by millions of people on an annual basis makes it clear that it is a product worth investigating. Botox has been shown to be an effective way to reduce or remove dynamic wrinkles. It can make your skin look more relaxed and youthful. This simple, non-surgical treatment can give you a more attractive, youthful, and relaxed appearance.
Talk to our team of Boston plastic surgeons at the office of Joseph A. Russo, MD to find out for sure whether or not Botox is right for you. We strive to provide one of the best treatments with Botox Boston has to offer, so contact us today to schedule a consultation for Botox!
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Capturing the Joy of a First Birthday – Photoshoot in Birmingham, MI – Your Premier Michigan Family Photographer
At Josh Aaron Photography, we believe that capturing the special moments of a child’s first birthday is an unforgettable experience for the whole family. Recently, we had the pleasure of photographing a first birthday in the scenic and picturesque city of Birmingham, MI. Our team of experienced photographers knows how to create the perfect backdrop for your family’s memories.
We arrived at a beautiful location in Birmingham, MI with plenty of trees, rocks, and a stream, creating the perfect backdrop for capturing some amazing shots. The little boy was full of energy and excitement, and his parents had dressed him in an adorable outfit. As we started taking photos, he became even more animated, constantly laughing and making silly faces.
One of the highlights of the shoot was when he discovered the stream. He was fascinated by the water and spent several minutes splashing around, completely lost in the moment. We were able to capture some amazing shots of him in the water, with his face lit up with pure joy.
Throughout the shoot, the little boy’s parents were beaming with pride and joy, watching their son have so much fun. It was clear that this was a special moment for their family, and our team was honored to be able to capture it for them.
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Low Supply, Millennials and Vacation Markets Are Defining the Housing Market in the U.S. and Beyond
High demand and a lack of supply were hallmarks of the year, especially with mortgage rates at or near historic lows, according to The Agency’s annual Red Paper, released Friday. Buyers continued to be drawn to larger homes with outdoor space, pools and other recreational amenities, and many returned to cities to be closer to their jobs or because they missed the action of urban hubs.
In addition, vacation markets and resort-style residences in locations such as Hawaii and Mexico saw ramped-up interest, as buyers looked to invest in a retreat that can also be a revenue stream.
Millennials accounted for more than half of all home loan applications, according to the report, while affluent individuals snapped up bigger, more remote properties.
“Ultra-luxury markets saw the greatest movement among local buyers, while international investors began to return by year’s end,” the report said.
Covid-19 also brought tech to the forefront, a trend that is here to stay.
“The pandemic-induced market conditions of the last two years have swelled innovation, bringing consumer-facing technology to the forefront of the industry,” Rainy Hake Austin, president of The Agency, said in a statement, adding that that includes non-fungible tokens (NFTs), cryptocurrency, proptech, and data platforms that aid in the ease transactions.
Design-wise, buyers priorities shifted from the open floor plan to more traditional layouts with “individualized spaces for work, study, fitness and entertainment,” the report said.
The Agency also checked in with 48 markets where it has offices, from California to the Caribbean.
Buyers across the Golden State migrated to bigger properties in less dense areas, some of them leaving the state altogether, according the report. Some San Francisco residents, for example, moved to areas such as the North and East Bays, as well as Napa and Sonoma counties. Still, the city saw robust sales, with single-family home and condo transactions up 33% and 40%, respectively, compared to 2020, when the pandemic all but shutdown trading in March and April.
In Los Angeles, sales of single-family homes were up 32% year over year, with the median price rising 24%, the data showed. Condo sales more than doubled compared to 2020. There were 20 sales of residences priced at $50 million or more in the city.
Many Californians, now able to work from anywhere, fled to states with lower costs of living. Las Vegas was a big beneficiary in the reshuffle, in part because of Nevada’s low taxes. More than 80% of Las Vegas buyers in 2021 were California-based, and homes in the seven-figure range have been receiving multiple offers.
“Overall, the number of single-family home sales and the median price both rose 19% year over year, while the condo market saw a substantial 127% rise in sales transactions,” according to the report.
South Florida, which also has no income tax, has also seen an influx of buyers from California, as well as the Northeast and Midwest.
The Caribbean has also emerged as a hotspot for real estate.
Take Turks & Caicos, where sales of single-family homes surged 167% annually last year and the median price rose 51%, the data showed. Many of the residences are now owner occupied for much of the year, and rented out for the remaining months.
Inflation and rising interest rates are expected to slow the market this year. Price growth is likely to fall to the single-digit range and demand will continue to outstrip supply as new construction lags because of supply chain and rising material costs.
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A full-term male neonate from a first pregnancy of two clinical non-consanguineous parents was born at 40 weeks of gestation with cesarean section. He was admitted at 2 hours of life to our III level Neonatal Intensive Care Unit due to generalized hypotonia, presenting at birth. Cerebral ultrasound showed a temporal bilateral aspecific alteration of the parenchimal echogenicity, whereas a magnetic resonance imaging/venography revealed an extensive cerebral sinus thrombus. Extensive diagnostic studies for prothrombotic disorders showed negative results, even if there was an alterated haemostatic screening. Persistency of hypotonia led us to investigate Prader-Willi syndrome among others. Methylation analysis confirmed the diagnosis. This is the third report associating cerebral venous thrombosis and Prader-Willi syndrome, confirming sinus thrombosis as a possible presentation of this syndrome. A review of the literature is provided in order to disclose possible similarities and differences in Prader-Willi syndrome patients with cerebral sinovenus thrombosis. | <urn:uuid:31ad9629-f030-4d0f-aba9-6ca7d71e1056> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://jpnim.com/index.php/jpnim/article/view/020113 | 2024-04-24T02:52:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.906153 | 229 |
J Street Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami issued the following statement after reports of yesterday’s shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum:
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With God’s help, Rosh Hashanah 5782 will feel in so many ways like a rebirthing of hope after so much despair. The possibilities for repair within our torn relationships in both the US and Israel/Palestine can at least be visualized now with the changes of political leadership.
Yet at the turning of this year, we are ever more aware of both the fragility within our lives as well as the hope for tikkun halev and tikkun haolam that frame our experience of the Days of Awe. For me, the choice of the Torah reading on the first day of Rosh HaShanah and the Isaiah passage on the true purpose of fasting on Yom Kippur always inspire reflection on the double tikkun we seek.
Wise teachers among us will discern how to apply Isaiah’s insistence upon concern for the vulnerable to the challenges of inequality and structural racism. But what new perspective can we glean from the continuing heartache of family conflict that plagues our people, foreshadowed by the Biblical account in Genesis 20.
Whose children have the primary right to the land of Canaan, the descendants of Sarah, the resident alien Ivriah/boundary crosser from the fertile crescent, or those of Hagar, the enslaved Egyptian? Do those descendants have to separate and partition their lives in order for both to thrive, as our Biblical text seems to derive from Sarah’s demand with support from the Holy One? Or in its contemporary version, the “Two-State Solution?”
Could we aspire to a different framework that goes beyond the rhetoric of partition or divorce (in the metaphorical language of Amos Oz)? Whatever the feasibility of two separate states, could we look for an eventual solution that echoes the reunion of Isaac and Ishmael who spend much of their lives living together in harmony with Haggar (and according to the midrash) in the family of Ibrahim/Abraham and the freedwoman newly renamed Keturah.
Both realism and the demands of justice force us to consider other models, such as confederations. Knowing that we have one land and two peoples, should we look to other versions of self-determination for each people such as those envisaged by the Eretz L’kulam movement in Israel/Palestine? The pure pragmatism of the demographic argument does not reflect the best values of our people. We ought to strive for a higher standard. In this vein, we might look to the insights from three great theologians of the past 100 years – Emanuel Levinas, Martin Buber, and Rabbi Art Green.
I don’t think we have adequately probed the meaning of a phrase from God’s prediction of Ishmael’s fate in Genesis 16:12וְעַל־פְּנֵ֥י כׇל־אֶחָ֖יו יִשְׁכֹּֽן ׃ “He will dwell in the face of/ his kin.” The actual and literal face of the other makes ultimate demands upon us, Levinas teaches. In the context of a roadmap for relationships with the Palestinians, the distinguished scholar Paul Mendes-Flohr* wrote recently, “This path… is illuminated by acknowledging, as Emmanuel Levinas beseeches us, the face of the other … in the fullness of her existential reality. To see the face of the other requires the courage and ethical resolve to discard the lens of ideology, fear, and a single absorption in one’s own story and woe.”
Mendes-Flohr also points to an article published shortly after the founding of the State of Israel in May 1948 in which Martin Buber held that the founding of the modern state ”confronts Judaism with the gravest crisis in its history.” For, “[E]ven should the spiritual wealth of the People of Israel residing in its own land greatly increase, it does not necessarily follow that from this wealth will flower new life for Judaism. For if we properly comprehend the uniqueness of Judaism, then it has but one content and purpose … The Lord expects that Israel should live a life of justice before itself and the world… the people of Israel are called upon not only to build just institutions but even more demandingly, just relations between itself and other peoples.”
Rabbi Green commented recently on Parshat Shelach L’cha: “They [Joshua and Caleb] said to the whole community of Israel: “the land which we passed through to spy out is a very, very good land,”
ויאמרו…הארץ אשר עברנו בה לתור אותה טובה הארץ מאד מאד
Green continues, “The midrash of our generation needs to read ‘very, very’ in this verse to mean that it is good enough to hold both us and those who dwell there already. We do not accept the alternatives of ‘slaughter them, be slaughtered, or go back to Egypt.’ A ‘very, very good land’ is one that can be shared…We need to declare, clearly and openly, that we have grown beyond the ethos of ethnic cleansing, conquest, and slaughter that characterized our people’s vision more than two thousand years ago. As victims of genocide, we read such passages in order to remind ourselves to stand up in witness against them.”
*See his remarkable essay, “Cri de Coeur: Lachrymose Reflections on Israeli-Palestinian Relations” by distinguished Emeritus Professor Paul Mendes-Flohr published June 1, 2021, in Tikkun magazine for references to Buber and Levinas.
Rabbi Gerry Serotta is Executive Director Emeritus of the Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington, and previously served as founding Executive Director of Clergy Beyond Borders. He was a university chaplain and Hillel Rabbi for 28 years and for twelve years served congregations in Maryland. Rabbi Serotta was also the Founding Chair of both Rabbis for Human Rights, North America (now T’ruah, the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights) and of New Jewish Agenda, a national progressive organization. | <urn:uuid:5505d647-8a8f-456c-97ef-5455013b384c> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://jstreet.org/two-way-street-for-rosh-hashana-facing-embracing-other/ | 2024-04-24T03:11:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00768.warc.gz | en | 0.930143 | 1,358 |
Group Pro-Roller Physiotherapy Sessions
Conducted as a group class over Zoom.us, includes instructions on how to use the Foam Roller as your myofascial release therapy session. Learn how to use it in between your massages. You are going to need to have a foam roller to use during the session. If you need recommendations, please check out these options: OPTP PRO-Roller Soft Density Foam Roller – Durable Roller for Massage, Stretching, Fitness, Yoga and Pilates
4 Ways to Use a Foam Roller for Full-Body Relief
You know that feeling you get after a massage? Your body is better aligned, your muscles are looser, your mind is clearer? You can get that same feeling on your own with a foam roller.
1. Roll Your Spine
Sit on one end of the roller with knees bent, feet flat on the floor. Slowly lie back on the roller so it’s under your hips, spine, and the back of your head. Rest your forearms on the ground. Gently rock side to side, for 30 seconds, keeping your spine on the roller.
Reach your arms up to the ceiling. Keeping your arms straight, let the weight of your arms sink your shoulder blades around the roller. From this position, move your arms in a scissor-like motion (as your right arm moves up by your ear, your left swings down by your hip) in front of your body. Switch arms for one rep. Keep your core engaged and don’t let your ribs lift up. Do 3 reps.
2. Stretch Your Spine and Chest
Sit on the floor with your knees bent and your feet flat. Lie back and rest your shoulder blades on the roller, holding your head with your hands, elbows wide to the side. Tuck your pelvis so the top of the pelvis and the bottom of the rib cage are heavy. Take a deep breath. As you exhale, keep your tuck and extend your ribs over the roller, moving only your upper back. Take 2 deep breaths. As you exhale, slowly side bend to the right, drawing your right elbow toward your right hip. Take 2 deep breaths. Repeat on the other side.
3. Roll Your Hamstrings
Lie on the floor face-up with the roller under your upper thighs. Straighten your legs, keeping them relaxed. Slowly drag your legs together and apart like you’re doing jumping jacks. Do 5 reps. Straighten and relax your legs again, taking 2 deep breaths. Move the roller halfway down your thighs and repeat the technique. Then move it just above your knees and repeat.
4. Roll Your Hips and Stretch Your Hip Flexors
Lie on the floor face-up with the roller under your hips (make sure that the roller isn’t in your lower back). Bring your knees in toward your chest so they are over your belly button. Keeping your knees together, slowly rock them to the right and to the left. Pause on the right side (about 1 o’clock) and make small circles with your knees. Make 3 clockwise and 3 counter-clockwise circles. Hold the position and take 2 deep breaths, then switch sides.
Return to center and interlace your hands over your left shin. Keeping your right knee bent, slowly lower the right foot to the floor, just under your knee. Make sure the right knee stays over your right foot. Press the right foot into the floor as you tuck your pelvis. This will stretch your hip flexors and the fronts of your thighs. Hold for 3 breaths. Switch sides and repeat.
How this works
1. Go to my Calendar and schedule a session. (The calendar will be for my Foam Roller Teleconsulting Session.)
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Quick, get ready cause we’re heading out – the top three trending hangouts for 2017.
We have made it! 2017 has arrived and we’re rolling up our sleeves and starting to get our hands dirty with the happenings of new year life. Here at JJ we don’t do resolutions. Rather, we invite a little more of what we loved and enjoyed doing the previous year, which means turning up the volume on the fun and feel-good stuff, and stamping out the not-so amazing stuff.
Now, you will be pleased to know that I’m not going to bang on about green smoothie bars, vegan or paleo cafes or shopping at your local growers market (although I should mention that we absolutely LOVE all those places and frequent them, often). I’m here to talk about the places where all the cool kids will be hanging this year. I’m almost certain my list will not come as a surprise to you, but heck, I bet you will be like f$*k yeah, let’s go there, now!
We’re not talking any old kind of butcher with a sharp knife, white apron and a cool-room. No no, we have welcomed a new kind of butcher into our lives this year. You see, as we begin to care more and more about where our produce comes from, what we can do to support sustainable farms, we have inevitably lead the way for a new kind of experience at the butcher shop. No longer do we pop in and out in a hurry. We now desire to get to know our butcher and listen to them carefully as they share their knowledge of the best cut of beef for slow cooking or how to create killer pork crackle. Better still, how great is it browsing through all those gourmet pantry foods that you just can’t seem to find in any mainstream grocery store!
So, our pick for the most outstanding butcher’s for 2017 are:
Feather and Bone (Sydney)
Cannings Free Range Butchers (Melbourne)
Victor Churchill (Sydney)
Boys, sharp razors, cool tunes and killer hairstyles….. need I say more? Well, what I do need to say is that you MUST (as in it’s non-negotiable) check out the following three shops.
Uncle Rocco’s Barber Shop – Uncle Rocco’s is, well, the mens hangout to beat all mens hangouts (I reckon men leave this joint more manly every time they visit).
The Barbershop – And then there’s The Barbershop, where you can get your hair pimped and then float on upstairs to the bar to sip on the finest gin in the world…. Who’s thirsty?!
The only yellow beverage to rival the turmeric latte in 2017 is…….CRAFT BEER. Yep! And it’s time to get serious about what you drink. At JJ, we love a good beer, and we are always looking to try a new brew, dive in and learn more about the fermentation process and discover what beer to pair with food. We find that the best way to do this is to go straight to the source! Here’s a list of the breweries we’ll be visiting in 2017!
Colonial Brewing Co (Margaret River, WA and Port Melbourne, VIC)
Stomping Ground Brewing Co. (Collingwood, VIC)
Pirate Life Brewing (Hindmarsh, SA)
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La Gaîté Lyrique – 3 bis rue papin, PARIS
WEDNESDAY 13TH OF FEBRUARY > SUNDAY 07TH OF APRIL 2013
Arrrgh! Monstres de Mode is the first international fashion exhibition of monstrous, radical or grotesque creations inspired by the ‘character design’ phenomenon. The exhibition presents 58 fashion designers and artists with over 80 costumes and installations as one entity, one piece of art.
The most distinctive feature of the exhibition is that the mannequins are not placed on podiums or inside glass windows. They are close to the Gaîté lyrique’s visitors, on the same level and not as if they are keeping a distance. People stand next to these monsters and really compare themselves to them. How different are these monsters from us? How much more comfortable do the monsters seem to feel within their bodies and looks, when compared to us?
Arrrgh! Monstres de mode is not just about fashion and clothing as an applied art or a communication tool. Arrrgh ! Monstres de mode is about fashion as a visual art form. Focusing on the expression of the self and the relationship of the individual within the world. The creations by henrik Vibskov and Charlie Le Mindu place the viewer right into the centre of their world.
Characters are abstract and reduced figures with a strong anthropomorphic appeal and bold graphical silhouette. In ancient Greek, the word ‘character’ – χαρακτήρ – denotes a ‘point – σημείο – created by engraving on any kind of solid substance’. It also has the meaning of ‘bearing a distinctive, facial trait, or having a particular way of thinking and acting’. The word ‘character’ originates from the same root as the verb χαράσσω – to engrave, which also means ‘to design’.
The Contemporary Characters phenomenon first appeared in the USA at the beginning of the 20th Century and boomed intensively in Japan the following decades. Their original purpose was for advertising and product promotion. From the ’90s onwards, Contemporary Characters have flooded cultural and artistic production on a global scale; they now appear in many forms of artistic production – from street art and video games, to vinyl toys, animation and cinema, object and product design, graphic design, artists’ sketchbooks and fashion, questioning the established norms of aesthetics.
In the contemporary fashion field, the human body is constantly mutated and transformed into an unknown, bizarre and many times monstrous figure. Designers and artists experiment, give atypical shapes to textiles, create odd forms and extreme volumes, cover and mask the face, and dress the human body by creating hybrid creatures with supernatural shapes, vibrant colours and surprising abstract elements. These experimental creations become parallel worlds, proposing and bringing to surface different realities.
What lies hidden behind a person or an identity? And what makes up identity in a globalised secularised society in which we see ourselves both as a citizen of the world and as a member of a local community? Besides our real lives we now also lead virtual, digital lives on Internet. We are not just human beings but we create and develop our very own avatar. And who do we become when we look within ourselves and give our fears and fantasies free rein? These are the issues and uncertainties addressed by designers, artists and ATOPOS CVC in the exhibition Arrrgh! Monstres de Mode.
Monsters in Fashion is based on an original idea from Vassilis Zidianakis, in association with Angelos Tsourapas. Scenography by Stamos Fafalios.
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DUBAI, April 21 (Reuters) – Saudi and Iranian officials plan further direct talks this month though no date has been set, Middle East officials and sources said, with the aim of easing tensions between the arch-rivals in a significant move for regional stability.
Sunni Muslim power Saudi Arabia and Shi’ite Iran are locked in a rivalry that has played out in proxy conflicts across the region, including in Yemen. Riyadh has also blamed Tehran for a 2019 attack on Saudi oil facilities, a charge Tehran denied.
Neither Riyadh nor Tehran, who cut diplomatic ties in 2016, have publicly confirmed or denied a first meeting in Iraq earlier this month though Iran‘s envoy to Baghdad has welcomed Iraqi mediation to mend ties with Gulf states.
The talks come as the United States pursues diplomacy in Vienna to revive world powers’ 2015 nuclear accord with Iran, which Washington abandoned three years ago and Riyadh had opposed for not tackling Tehran’s ballistic missiles programme and wider regional behaviour.
“The April meeting was a very constructive meeting during which many issues, mainly the Yemen crisis, and Iran‘s nuclear deal were discussed,” said an official in the Middle East.
The official and two regional sources said further talks could happen before the end of the month but the timing depended on progress in Vienna negotiations. A foreign diplomat in Riyadh said a second meeting is expected in late April or early May.
The talks, which proceeded after the Iraqi prime minister visited Riyadh, are being led by Saudi intelligence chief Khalid Humaidan and Saeed Iravani, the deputy secretary of Iran‘s Supreme National Security Council, informed sources have said.
FOCUS ON YEMEN
The main focus, three of the sources including the diplomat said, has been on Yemen, where a coalition led by Saudi Arabia is battling the Iran-aligned Houthi group that has ramped up drone and missile attacks on Saudi Arabia.
The regional official said the Iranian side promised to use Tehran’s influence to halt Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia and in return requested that Riyadh support the nuclear talks, an account confirmed by another source familiar with the matter.
The Saudi government media office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
President Joe Biden has made ending the six-year Yemen war a priority. U.S. special envoy Tim Lenderking said on Wednesday that Washington would welcome Iran playing a constructive role in Yemen but “we have not seen any indication of that”.
Two other regional sources said the meeting also discussed Lebanon, where Riyadh has been alarmed at the expanding influence of the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement.
“I don’t think they’re likely to strike a deal at the moment,” the diplomat said, adding the aim was likely more to prevent any action that causes tensions to ignite.
The Vienna talks aim to bring Washington and Tehran back into full compliance with the nuclear deal. In retaliation for sanctions reimposed since 2018 by then-president Donald Trump, Iran has breached key nuclear restrictions mandated by the pact.
The remaining parties to the deal, the United States and Iran said on Tuesday there has been progress but both Washington and Tehran said a long road remains ahead.
Riyadh, which along with its allies has asked for expanded talks that include Gulf states, has called on Iran to engage in the talks and for the international community to reach a stronger nuclear deal with longer duration.
A Saudi foreign ministry official had said that any deal in Vienna should be a starting point leading to broader talks that could be facilitated by confidence-building measures.
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Having reliable high-speed internet service and a secure, high-quality wifi network in your store are key components to having a great experience with Bindo. Here are some tips for setting up your store's wifi network.
1. Do not use public wifi or the wi-fi network of a 3rd party
Reliable internet service is critical to the smooth operation of Bindo. Public internet services often dynamically block certain traffic and are therefore unfit for use with Bindo. 3rd party internet services, such as wifi from the store next to yours, are equally unreliable and your use of someone else's internet likely violates their terms of service. Use a wi-fi network and internet service that you control and is in use only for Bindo.
2. Purchase a quality wi-fi router
With wi-fi routers, you get what you pay for. The wi-fi router that came from your internet service provider or a cheap wi-fi router designed for home use is probably not robust enough for your store.
We recommend the Apple Airport Extreme router. It's robust, reliable and be can configured directly from your iPad using Apple's free AirPort Utility app.
Note for Time Warner customers: If Time Warner is your internet service provider, be aware that there are known issues with the Time Warner Ubee modem/router. You must use a separate wi-fi router if you have a Ubee modem/router from Time Warner.
3. Do not use a hub or a switch in place of a router
Bindo requires the receipt printer (which plugs into your router) to have a unique IP address. If you use a hub or a switch designed to share a single IP with multiple devices, you will experience issues with printing receipts and opening the cash drawer.
4. Use as few routers as possible
Plug your wi-fi router directly into the modem from your internet service provider. Chaining routers together will lead to degraded performance and unpredictable behavior on your network.
5. Keep your wi-fi router up-to-date
Make sure your router has the latest firmware available.
If you're using the Apple Airport Extreme, opening the AirPort Utility will notify you when there are updates available for your router.
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At the end of Colossians, we stumble upon a Bible mystery, one that still hasn’t been solved to this day: Give my greetings to the brothers at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house. And when this …
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Are space heaters safe? Space heaters are beneficial for many reasons. They can keep you warm when your home isn’t producing enough heat. However, they also come with many safety risks that you should be aware of when operating them. Space heaters can cause house fires if proper precautions are not taken. Continue reading to find out how you can operate them in a safe, but efficient way.
Tips for Using a Space Heater Safely
If you would like to know how to use space heater models, here are some tips you can follow to ensure your and your household’s safety.
- Always ensure that the space heater is never put on a table. If you place it on a table, make sure the surface is non-combustible. For the most part, space heaters are meant to operate on the floor.
- If you have kids and pets, avoid placing a space heater near them or directly in their room. Maintain a three-foot distance from your kids and pets.
- When a space heater is in use, it should also be kept away from furniture, beds, and window curtains. Remember, three feet is the desired distance.
- Never use your space heater close to gas cans, paint, matches, or anything that is considered flammable. If you are using it in the garage, be sure it is kept far from these things.
- Never leave a space heater running while sleeping or unattended.
- If you are not using the space heater, keep it unplugged. Every so often, you should inspect the space heater plug for damage. If you do happen to notice any type of damage to the cord, avoid using it.
- To avoid overuse of an outlet, never share any other device with that of a space heater. This is a great fire risk.
- Ensure that your fire alarms are operating effectively with working batteries. You should check them once a month.
When purchasing a space heater for the first time, you should always ensure that it contains important safety features. You want to confirm that the space heater has the appropriate certification attached to it. A good space heater has good safety features to turn off the device. For example, in the event your space heater gets too hot, there should be a feature that automatically turns off the heater. Additionally, you’ll want to make sure it features an option in the event the space heater gets knocked over.
Don’t forget to check for a space heater with a hefty cord that is long enough. This can keep your space heater from getting too hot. Remember, never plug a space heater into a power strip.
There are resources you can use to help you determine the safest space heater to purchase. Out of all of the space heaters available on the market today, 49 models received high regard for their safety in preventing fires. Make sure you look for a space heater that has excellent or good ratings.
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Introduction to Flipped Learning Course
This is a fully online course which will introduce you the to four pillars of Flipped Learning. The participants will be expected to contribute their reflections on Flipped Learning in writing and through video as well as commenting with the other participants in the class. Anyone can participate here and you will get out of this what you put in.
Course start date is Monday June 15th and will run for 8 weeks (approximately), see the Schedule menu for more. We will start with a week zero and you can join in (or drop out) anytime you want.
We expect the course to run over a period of six to eight weeks and require a total time commitment of 30 to 40 hours total over the entire course. This course is a combination of asynchronous and synchronous. You control your time to post the assignments (written and video) but we will also be holding weekly video chat sessions using Google Hangouts Online (GHO). Participation in the weekly GHO is optional but highly encouraged.
Credit for Course
I am offering this open course in my own time, if you would like credit for this course towards professional development I can do my best to provide an email about your participation.
History of this Course
Some of you may have taken the course on Flipped Learning which I gave for faculty (Tecnológico de Monterrey - RZO) in the summer 2014 or the Fall 2014 session (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara). I plan to offer this course again system wide for the Tecnológico de Monterrey and also open the course/seminar to anyone that wants to participate. There are two goals for the course:
- offer an introduction to Flipped Learning.
- Give people an experience in a Connected Course #CCourses
I would like to do this as a Connected Course which means each “student” controls their own content on a blog platform (I am flexible which each student uses) and I aggregate all of their posts/submissions to assignments on a central hub.
I am doing this right now for my undergradate level introductory courses in computer programming (TC1014 and TC1017) this semester (see http://kenbauer.withknown.com/2014/saying-goodbye-to-my-lms and http://blog.kenbauer.me/2015/01/11/a-new-hope/ )
Experience outside Tecnológico de Monterrey
There is a community of educators doing these types of courses. See the DS106 site for an excellent example: http://ds106.us/
The community of educators working on this from a pedagogical perspective as well as an implementation (ie: plumbing) perspective are also working together here: http://connectedcourses.net/
How to Join Us
If interested, comment here or email me at kenbauer at gmail dot com
Still ready to express your interest?
The pages for the course are not ready yet but I have a form for those that are interested in the course
Two requests from us:
- Fill out the simple form on this page.
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