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NEW Road Cycling Holiday For 2019: Classic Cols of the Southern Alps
Due to popular demand, we’ve introduced this fantastic road cycling holiday for 2019… Just inland from Nice, the Mediterranean Alps are an idyllic playground for cyclists looking for quiet roads and a variety of both challenging and gentle climbs – it’s no wonder that this region is so popular with the pros. Throw in some spectacular and varied scenery, the Mediterranean climate, some comfortable hotels and the peerless support of the Marmot Tours guides and this has to be the perfect Summer escape. You can read more about this area in a couple of Cyclist articles in which we featured (November 2017 & July 2018) – do check them out on our Press page.
We have two departures in 2019, in early June and mid September – do go to our website to read the full details on what you can expect on this fantastic trip.
- Climb the legendary Tour de France Alpine cols: Bonnette, Turini, Vence, Cayolle, Madone and many more
- Discover why Chris Froome favours the Mediterranean Alps for his training
- Comfortable and friendly hotels with local cuisine geared to cyclists
- Transfers from/to Nice Airport with its many direct flight options
Our Classic Cols format gives you optimum flexibilty, so you really can decide on a daily basis how much you want to push yourself. These holidays are fantastic for groups or couples of mixed ability – this is your holiday after all, so you get to decide how much (or little) cycling you want to do, without feeling under pressure to keep up with someone else’s pace, or on the flip side, hanging around at the top of a col waiting for the rest of the group. Do drop us a line if you’d like to discuss which dates are best for you.
2019 Flight Times & Transfers Confirmed
We’ve now finalised all our transfer times that link with direct flights from UK airports, up until the end of August. This means you can now confidently go ahead and book flights for your 2019 holiday with us.
Booking your flights now will obviously get you the best deal. Once booked, please let us know your flight times by logging in to the Link so we can arrange your transfer. As soon as all the major airlines have released their timetables for September and October, we’ll let you know our transfer times for those months. Please hold off booking flights for those later trips until then.
1st Catalonia road cycling holiday deemed a great success!
During our final night’s meal overlooking the Mediterranean sea in the lively town of Tossa Del Mar, the conversation naturally turned to reviewing our 6 days of cycling. Smooth roads, no traffic, great scenery, perfect weather, challenging optional climbs, the smell of pigs(!), wonderful routes, spending time in Girona, quality hotels and great food were all mentioned. With the combination of all of this (pigs aside), it’s easy to see why Girona has become a mecca for pro and wannabe pro cyclists. Our journey around Catalonia took us off the beaten track to ski stations, isolated hamlets, coastal towns and historic cites on a manageable and well graded ‘classic’ route. Those in the group wanting more of a challenge were not disappointed with some long days and a few ‘cheeky’ climbs with gradients often over 15%. Phew!
In summary, Catalonia is the perfect place for a Spring or Autumn road cycling holiday. It easily rivals Majorca in terms of cycling quality and climate, but has the added advantage of not being overrun by cycling groups. We have 5 trips scheduled for 2019 and they’re already half full, so if you want to experience this region for yourself, please get in touch and book soon!
End of Season THANK YOU!
Last month saw the last of our 2018 summer clients achieve their personal goals and what an amazing summer season it’s been…
As ever, our incredible guides have been behind you every step of the way, whether it be in their support vehicle at the top of a col with a thirst quenching slice of melon and handful of M&Ms, or on hand with a spare wheel just when you needed it.
We’re exceptionally proud of our guiding team but this year they really have pulled out all the stops and worked fantastically as teams, with passion and seemingly endless reserves of energy. Each member of the team has their own particular strengths but without exception, they all bring their professionalism, experience and sense of humour so that whatever challenges they might have faced on a trip, you, our clients, have had the best possible holiday experience. Thank-you doesn’t even begin to cover it but we shout it loudly to them all, nevertheless!
Meanwhile, back at Marmot HQ, there’s no downtime for the equally hard working office team of Sabine, Catherine, Kate, Graham and (ahem) Sophie in Marketing, who are all entering our busiest booking season ever as you get planning your next adventure for 2019.
They have managed everything behind the scenes during what has been an incredibly busy year, pedalling away furiously but always with a focus on you and a smile, so a massive thank-you to them too!
Do you read our monthly blog?
Fancy keeping in the loop with our latest musings? We post a regular blog online which (we hope) makes for an interesting monthly read.
If you’re new to Marmot or haven’t checked out our blog before, have a scroll through our archives for previous posts.
This month we’ve posted a guest blog from loyal client Monica Guy, who has focused on women’s cycling. If you’ve got a talent for writing and would like to offer us any content, do get in touch. We can’t promise to publish what you send us but we’ll happily take a look. | <urn:uuid:b589ac40-0620-4b18-a1c8-0ada3228be32> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://marmot-tours.co.uk/brand-new-holidays-marmot/ | 2024-04-17T10:09:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.951951 | 1,246 |
This summary of a recent Vermont Supreme Court case will also be posted on the SCOV Law Blog in more or less the same form.
Pcolar v. Casella Waste Systems, Inc., 2012 VT 58
Today’s lesson in modified-comparative negligence comes to us courtesy of a Chittenden County jury verdict and my first-year torts class.
In the Unnamed Partner’s heyday, contributory negligence barred recovery if a Plaintiff had any part in bringing about the harm complained of. As time passed, this was thought too harsh, and so, comparative negligence was born. Strict comparative negligence means that whatever degree of fault the plaintiff contributed to his or her injuries reduces the plaintiff’s recovery proportionately. In a modified-comparative-negligence jurisdiction, like Vermont, the Plaintiff can recover only if the plaintiff was half or less at fault; if the plaintiff was more than half at fault, the plaintiff recovers nothing. There are 49% and 51% rules, and other variations. But that’s all I can remember from my first-year torts class. If you have a close case, you should probably look it up. Getting your legal education from this blawg is like getting your literature from Reader’s Digest: sure, it’s better than nothing, but not much.
This case’s facts and percentages are straightforward. Plaintiff was helping a friend clean out the friend’s garage. Plaintiff was cutting cardboard boxes into flat sheets. In the early afternoon, a garbage truck, owned by Casella, stopped by the building to pick up trash. The truck had a single gripper arm designed for grabbing trash containers and dumping them into the truck.
Plaintiff asked the driver to take the cardboard and the driver agreed. The driver told Plaintiff to stack the cardboard horizontally on top of the gripper arm, after which the driver would use the arm to dump the cardboard into the truck. In the process, some pieces of cardboard fell. Plaintiff moved in close to the truck to gather those pieces, and though the parties dispute the precise sequence of events, Plaintiff was hit in the arm by the gripper arm.
Plaintiff filed a pro ser suit. He claimed that the blow from the gripper arm injured his head, arm, neck, shoulder, and back. He claimed that the driver was negligent. After a two-day jury trial, the jury was given a comparative negligence instruction. The jury found Plaintiff 70% at fault, and so, Plaintiff was barred from recovering anything.
Plaintiff appeals on several grounds. First, he argues that the jury’s verdict was not supported by the evidence. The SCOV dismisses this argument with little fanfare, reasoning that the jury heard only from driver and Plaintiff, who told conflicting stories, and that it is the jury’s function to resolve conflicting testimony. Accordingly, the jury’s attribution of 70% of fault to Plaintiff was reasonable.
Plaintiff next argues that because he submitted his 178-page deposition transcript, and the jury was only out for an hour and a half, they couldn’t have considered all the evidence. The SCOV reasons that there is no requirement that the jury read a transcript verbatim, and that the jury’s deliberation time was reasonable given the nature of the case. Plaintiff also gave live testimony and was given an adequate opportunity to tell his side of the story, which he in fact did.
Plaintiff next argues that the trial court committed reversible error when it denied his motion to show the jury a garbage truck in the parking lot of the courthouse. On this point, the SCOV finds no error. Plaintiff elicited testimony about the arm’s operation from the driver and presented a video of the gripper arm’s operation. When the judge nixed the parking-lot field trip, it was within the court’s discretion to exclude cumulative evidence under V.R.E. 403.
Plaintiff had moved to compel depositions of eight witnesses, but the court only let him depose three. This is his next argument on appeal: that the trial court should have let him depose all the requested witnesses.
First, Plaintiff wanted to depose the CEO of the company to show that the CEO offered to pay medical expenses. As many readers know, V.R.E. 409 prohibits introduction of settlement negotiations to show fault. Accordingly, because Plaintiff wanted to depose the CEO to preserve inadmissible testimony, there was no error in denying Plaintiff’s motion to compel deposition of the CEO.
Plaintiff’s issues with the denial of his motion to depose Defendants’ counsel is a bit more interesting, as Plaintiff filed a timely motion without the attorney’s name. When he filed an amended motion, with the attorney’s name, a day late, the motion was denied as untimely. The SCOV reasons, however, that whether or not the motion was timely, the motion was properly denied. Plaintiff simply claimed (in his timely 19-page motion) that the attorney had information that he “need[ed] to review prior to other depositions.” Because the apparent probative value was minimal, the SCOV reasons that there was a good reason under V.R.E. 403 for denying the motion, and moves on to the remaining three witnesses.
The trial court denied the motion to compel depositions of the three remaining witnesses “either because they seek work product . . . or because the court cannot understand what relevance their testimony would have.” The SCOV notes the low standard Plaintiff had to meet to show relevance, and agrees with the trial court that, for example, deposing folks who had access to the accident reports, would seem to have little probative value.
Plaintiff’s next argument is also discovery-related. The trial court denied Plaintiff’s “motion to compel disclosure of the recorded interview of the truck driver conducted by the insurance adjuster for Casella’s insurance carrier” as moot when Casella produced a summary of the interview for Plaintiff. Though the SCOV finds error here—a summary is not the same as a recording—the error is harmless. This is because the recording was work-product privileged. It was recorded 20 days after the incident, and Plaintiff contacted the CEO the day after. Accordingly, the recorded interview would have been prepared in anticipation of litigation and likely within the attorney work-product privilege. This part of the opinion is worth reading carefully because the SCOV does note the non-absolute nature of the work-product privilege in determining that Plaintiff has not met the “substantial need” standard for production.
Plaintiff had moved to continue the jury draw (one day before it was scheduled) and to delay the trial (a week before the trial). The first motion was denied because Plaintiff had been “long aware” of the jury draw date. Plaintiff’s motion to continue the trial was based in part on his alleged hiring of an attorney. The judge denied the motion because the case had been pending for over two-and-a-half years and the attorney had not filed a notice of appearance. The SCOV finds both rulings within the trial court’s discretion.
Plaintiff’s next claim is that the trial court erred in admitting evidence and testimony relevant to his previous real estate business and his prior and pending litigation. SCOV: No objection below, no clear error, and no disturbing the trial court’s evidentiary rulings or lack thereof.
Plaintiff then argues that the Defendants’ opening statement was improper, but he doesn’t get more specific than “false statements . . . during [opposing counsel’s] lengthy remarks.” Accordingly, the SCOV finds no error.
Plaintiff also sought to limit his own expert’s testimony—specifically, his neuropsychologist’s apparent opinion that Plaintiff was malingering to affect the outcome of his tests. Who wants that? Anyway, long story short, the SCOV finds no error. Plaintiff could have countered the testimony if needed.
Though Plaintiff’s final arguments sound interesting, we just get the executive summary (jury never should have had a comparative instruction; instructions were not clear and concise). Because Plaintiff had the burden of objecting to the instructions at trial, and failed to do so (see V.R.C.P. 51(b) for you law-review types), the SCOV won’t go there.
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Choose between Sakine or the regime!
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I received an email from Sophie in Canada about Bud who has been fiercely defending the Islamic regime of Iran on a forum.
Bud writes: “We have this historical record of them removing stoning from their laws, years ago.”
I wrote to Sophie:
“Iran hasn’t scrapped it – there was a moratorium on stoning in 2002 but it was never scrapped. The officials of the regime have said it was because of the bad publicity it was giving the regime. But people have still been stoned to death since then and there are 25 people awaiting death by stoning sentences in Iran that we know of.
Bud though won’t care about these things. He would prefer to defend the regime than those it oppresses.
He and the former French Ambassador to Iran Francois Nicoullaud are reiterating the Islamic regime of Iran’s position on this. What’s missing is any concern for Sakine and her fate.
The former French Ambassador to Iran says that he believes Iranian officials are angry about the international campaign to reverse the stoning sentence against Sakineh Ashtiani and that they are lashing out at those whom they believe were behind it. “The regime is furious about the international campaign around the case, and the success it had all around the world. And they are trying to punish all the people who have been active in this campaign abroad,” he said. Nicoullaud argues the Iranian judiciary may have been annoyed by the international campaign because they did not intend to stone Sakineh Ashtiani.
It seems – like the regime – he wants to blame campaigners and possibly her children for her fate; after all they wrote an open lettter bringing attention on her case.
As I have said before you need to choose – you either defend Sakine and real live human beings or you defend stoning and the regime. They have made their choice; and so have we.
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Last updated on 30 Sep, 2023
What To Put Under an Air Mattress When Camping? - 10 Best Things
– By Eric Smith
What to put under an air mattress when camping? You are in the woods and want to have a good night’s sleep. But, you are hesitating to inflate your air mattress on that bumpy or uneven ground. Don’t worry, we have working solutions for this.
By putting something under your air mattress while sleeping, you have the authority to tackle many issues, such as air mattress sliding issues or if you want to give it some protection against bumpy or uneven ground. It’s like giving your camping adventure a VIP pass to a world of coziness.
Whether it’s a camping pad, foam mattress topper, or even nature’s own bedding, like leaves or pine needles, we’re going to cover them all in this guide so you don’t need to look anywhere else for this issue. Let’s dive in.
- What To Put Under an Air Mattress When Camping? - 10 Best Things
- Why Put Something Under Your Air Mattress?
- 10 Best Things To Put Under an Air Mattress When Camping
- How to Properly Place and Use the Material?
- 5 Tips for Comfortable Camping
- Wrapping Up
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- Can You Leave an Air Mattress Plugged In? Know The Truth
- Why Do Air Mattresses Have Bumps? 5 Shocking Reasons
- Why Is My Air Mattress Making Popping Noise? 10 Reasons
- Can You Stack Air Mattresses? – 5 Best Tips(2023 Guide)
Why Put Something Under Your Air Mattress?
Well, it’s all about making your outdoor bedtime as comfortable as possible. Imagine you’re in the wilderness, under the open sky, and you’re ready to call it a night on your air mattress.
Now, the ground beneath you can be uneven, rocky, or chilly. That’s where putting something under your air mattress can change the game.
Firstly, it adds a layer of comfort. Camping is all about enjoying nature, but that doesn’t mean you need to sacrifice your peaceful sleep. Placing something soft underneath, like a camping pad or foam mattress topper, can make your bed feel like a cloud amidst the rugged terrain.
Secondly, it provides insulation. When the ground gets cold, it can drain your body heat and leave you shivering in the middle of the night. Having a barrier under your air mattress helps to keep you warmer and offers you a relaxing sleeping experience.
Lastly, it helps protect your air mattress. Sharp rocks or debris on the ground can puncture your mattress, leading to an uncomfortable night’s sleep. Placing something under it acts as a shield and prevents any kind of damage that extends the life of your air mattress.
10 Best Things To Put Under an Air Mattress When Camping
Dri-Dek is like a camping carpet that acts as a smart and versatile flooring solution for your tent. Dri-Dek offers a cushioned and textured surface to the air mattress that prevents it from sliding and also provides a soft and comfortable space to walk.
It is like a mini-floor that immediately converts your camping spot into a relaxing corner. These tiles are durable and easy to clean, which makes them ideal for outdoor use. It’s a practical and lightweight choice, which is why you’ll have a clean, dry, and comfortable foundation for your sleep.
So, bring along Dri-Dek, and let it create a flooring of comfort for you and your air mattress.
#2. Camping Pad or Mat
A camping pad or mat is a cushiony friend that fits right under your air mattress without making any extra adjustments and relaxes your sleeping system.
These pads or mats add much-needed extra comfort and protection from the rough ground. They protect your expensive inflatable beds from bumps, rocks, and the chill of the night. When you have a camping pad or mat, your sleeping bag feels more like a cozy nest, and your air mattress becomes a bed of dreams.
While it is a relatively thinner option compared to foam mattress toppers that slightly limit the padding and relatively more expensive, ranging from $20 to $200 or more based on type and brand, still, the benefits outweigh the cost.
Overall, a camping pad or mat is a valuable investment for campers seeking a cozier and restful night’s sleep amidst the great outdoors.
#3. Yoga or Exercise Mat
A yoga or exercise mat is handy under your air mattress while camping and provides extra cushioning and comfort against the tough, uneven and chilly ground.
These mats are pretty lightweight and easy to carry, which is why they are an ideal option to use under the air mattress while camping.
Although it may not be as thick as other options, it offers a decent level of insulation from the cold ground. Moreover, it comes at an affordable price, generally priced between $10 to $70 depending on material and thickness.
However, it’s important to note that it might not be as durable as some alternatives, and its padding may be relatively thin.
#4. Clothing, Towel or a Blanket
Using clothing or a towel under your air mattress while camping is like giving your sleeping spot a soft hug. It’s a quick and easy way to add a layer of comfort to your airbed in no time.
Your clothing or towel’s thick fabric acts like a barrier between the cold ground and the air mattress base that eventually protects it from any threats and also offers insulation.
However, it’s good to remember that they might not provide as much padding as other options, so it might not be the best if you’re looking for a really soft bed. Also, they can get wrinkled or bunched up, which can, again, make them a bit uneven.
The best part is that using your clothes or towel won’t cost you anything extra since you already have them. It’s a simple, budget-friendly way to make your camping sleep a little cozier, especially when you have nothing to put under the air mattress.
#5. Tarps or Groundsheets
Using tarps or groundsheets under your air mattress while camping is like adding a protective layer to your bed.
It’s like laying a strong shield between your cat-proof air mattress and the ground. These tarps or groundsheets prevent moisture from getting into your airbed and keep your sleeping space dry and comfortable all night.
Tarps and groundsheets are pretty easy to clean, protect your air mattress from sharp objects or rough surfaces, and help increase its lifespan.
However, they can sometimes be noisy or crinkly when you move around on them. In terms of cost, they’re usually quite affordable, ranging from around $10 to $30(size and material plays an important role).
It’s a useful investment for added comfort and protection during your camping adventure. Whether it’s a clear night under the stars or a sudden downpour, tarps or groundsheets act like your air mattress’s reliable guardian.
#6. Carpet or Rug Remnants
Now, let’s discuss another alternative that you can put under your air mattress when camping. I’m sure you have carpet or a rug at your home. So, if you haven’t left for camping yet, you can carry one of them to place it under the inflatable bed.
Placing carpet or rug remnants beneath your air mattress while camping can provide incredible comfort and insulation.
Like other options, this one also gives your air mattress a softer surface and protects it from debris and cold ground, resulting in a comfortable sleeping system.
However, it’s worth noting that carpet or rug remnants may not be as portable or compact as other camping-specific options. Also cleaning them can also be a challenging part. Still, you don’t have to pay extra money if you already have them.
#7. Puzzle Foam Mats
Have you ever heard of puzzle foam mats? Puzzle foam mats are like big, soft puzzle pieces for the floor. You connect these puzzle pieces together on the floor to get a cushioned surface. This cushioned further can be used for playing, exercising or even for resting.
Just think about them as big, comfy puzzles that support your air mattress and make it more like a real bed. Puzzle foam mats are easy to assemble.
When it comes to insulation, let me tell you that they provide excellent insulation against the cold ground, offering you a more comfortable sleep.
Again, their portability can be an issue as they can take much space when packed. But, if you have sufficient space to carry them, it’s a great alternative to consider. In terms of pricing, puzzle foam mats vary in cost, ranging from around $20 to $40 for a set of interlocking pieces.
#8. Sleeping Bag or Blanket Roll
A sleeping bag or blanket roll under your air mattress while camping can give your sleeping spot an extra dose of coziness. They also add a layer of cushioning and create a softer surface for your air mattress to rest on.
And the best part is that they don’t take much space after getting folded. You can simply keep them in your backpack or wear them as a backpack. Using them underneath the air mattress won’t cost you anything if you already own one. They’re a budget-friendly way to improve your camping slumber without any additional expense.
#9. Camping Cot
A camping cot is a foldable, raised platform that provides a sturdy foundation for your air mattress. A camping cot heightens your mattress off the ground by some inches and keeps you away from cold and damp surfaces.
These cots are usually foldable and lightweight, which is why they are an excellent option to carry.
The cot provides good support for your back and makes you sleep more relaxed.
To use it, unfold the cot, set it up, and then place your air mattress on top(your air mattress should match the dimensions of the cot). It’s like assembling a simple, portable bed frame.
Even though it’s a bit bulkier compared to other options and sometimes a bit pricier. It may range anywhere between $30 to $200, but a camping cot is still a reliable choice.
#10. Pine Needles or Leaves
This may sound like a weird option, but if you don’t have access to anything mentioned above, you can try this once. If you have access to a pine tree at your campsite, just take its needles or leaves and spread them evenly under your air mattress.
However, you can try other tree leaves as well if there’s no pine tree around. Such forest gifts act as a natural protector of your airbed, which overall contributes to your good night’s sleep.
They also help create a barrier and prevent the cold or dampness from the ground from reaching your mattress, which keeps you warm. Overall, using pine needles or leaves is a smart way to improve your sleep and protect the inflatable bed at the same time.
How to Properly Place and Use the Material?
Now you know the best things to place under your air mattress while camping. But it’s important to use that material properly to avoid potential damage from the ground and utilize the material completely.
Let’s start with the air mattress. First, look for a flat surface where rocks or sticks won’t bother your air mattress and your sleep. Also, cross-check whether the area is clear. After that, place the item you have picked to place under the air mattress.
Next, unfold and inflate your air mattress on it.
If you’re using other materials like foam mattress toppers or puzzle foam mats, they go under the air mattress too. Arrange them evenly for a smooth surface.
In the case of natural materials like pine needles or leaves, spread them evenly on the ground before placing the air mattress. Please make sure they’re dry to keep your sleeping area comfortable. Lastly, adjust the material so that it stays snugly in place.
5 Tips for Comfortable Camping
- Organize your tent wisely. Position your bedding at the center for insulation from the bottom of the tent. Set your belongings neatly to make sure you have sufficient space left.
- Choose your campsite carefully(it’s a must). Find balanced and even ground away from rocks or roots.
- Dress in layers so you can add or remove them as the temperature changes. Keep extra warm clothes handy, like gloves and buffs. You can also read this guide to learn more about how to stay warm on an air mattress.
- Don’t forget to wipe off any moisture before entering your sleeping area. A dry, clean space is crucial for comfortability.
- Eat a warm meal before going to bed. A full stomach and the warmth from the food help you sleep better.
Placing the right materials under your air mattress, like foam pads, blankets, or puzzle foam mats, can greatly improve your camping comfort.
These materials act as a soft barrier and keep you warm and insulated from the cold. However, if insulation is not the issue, then it’ll protect your air mattress from the rocky ground.
Additionally, natural options like pine needles or leaves provide a touch of nature and make your camping experience more enjoyable.
Whether you want convenience, nature’s gifts, or additional cushioning, what you put under your air mattress really matters. So, next time you go out camping or for any other outing purpose, you’ll not need to google “what to put under an air mattress when camping.”
About Eric Smith
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Posted by Matthew Maven on 8th Nov 2013
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- Dec 17, 2017
That is too low for any of the automated flight modes, any way to raise the vehicle?
I thought you could start a POI shot, then during the orbit, lower the altitude manually.
6feet min altitude
I will dig around in AutoPilot settings and check these adjustments. There is one of me and many cars to handle so while my Osmo would work just fine I have to shoot it myself and this slows me down. I just want to drive a car to an open spot engage drone to orbit get out of car move next car to queue and repeat process over and over. Thanks for sharing.
Yep that low to the ground is definitely something you can do better with something hand held. There are all kinds of things you can use to build a dolly and then just do a standard dolly shot. Put some swivel casters on a tripod and roll it around, use a wagon with some big rubber wheels and put the tripod in it, even put someone in a wheel chair and roll them around the car using a standard camera or yep you can old the MP in your hand and use all of the above. There are all kinds of possibilities other than trying to fly a tight orbit. Using the MP by hand you could even open the doors and get fly through shots. Or if you have a hatch back you could rig something up on a arm and fly the camera through the rear. Watch some of the videos people have posted on real estate and look at the interior work. There are a lot using the MP hand held for that kind of work.That's a task which should be done by Osmo or a Ronin. | <urn:uuid:b2a0afc8-194b-4dce-b31e-cb3b077a3bd4> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://mavicpilots.com/threads/tight-orbital-radius-video.30654/ | 2024-04-17T08:01:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.963084 | 346 |
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March is fast approaching and before you know it, we will be donning our pastel-colored Easter attire. Did you know that the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics reported that Americans were expected to spend roughly $18.2 billion last year on Easter? Of that amount, 17% were expected to make eating out at a restaurant a part of their Easter celebration plans. Take it down even further 35.1% of those plans involve an Easter egg hunt.
Why not offer your customers a beautiful Easter meal and a fun-filled Easter egg hunt? Easter is another holiday that families tend to eat together. Start advertising ahead of time to let your customers know you are open for Easter. Many restaurants offer special Easter brunches along with a Happy Easter kids menu.
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Title: America’s Federal Budget Deficit Soars in 2023 Fiscal Year, reaching $1.7 Trillion
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McCreary County Record — In a distressing financial development, the federal budget deficit in the United States has more than doubled in the 2023 fiscal year. Multiple factors, such as a decrease in tax receipts, rising interest rates, and diminishing pandemic relief benefits, have contributed to the strain on the nation’s finances.
According to the latest figures released by the Treasury Department, the budget deficit for 2023 soared to a staggering $1.7 trillion, a significant increase from $1.37 trillion in the previous year. However, the accuracy of these figures has been brought into question due to a peculiar accounting mirage tied to a student loan forgiveness program proposed by President Biden in 2022.
Although the program was subsequently struck down by the Supreme Court, the Treasury Department recorded it as a cost in 2022. This artificially inflated that year’s deficit. When the program was eventually invalidated, the Treasury adjusted the numbers, portraying it as savings and consequently reducing the deficit for the current year.
Administration officials, mindful of disentangling the effects of the student loan program, emphasized that, excluding this factor, the deficit still rose to an alarming $2 trillion in 2023, compared to approximately $1 trillion in the preceding year. This adjustment underlines the substantial strain the nation’s finances are enduring, even without the program’s inclusion.
The dwindling tax receipts have played a significant role in exacerbating the deficit. While exact figures were not provided, it has been determined that decreased tax revenue has contributed to the growing deficit burden. Moreover, as interest rates continue to rise, the cost of servicing the national debt has become increasingly onerous for the federal government.
The rising demand for expiring pandemic relief benefits has further added to the financial strain on the nation. As these benefits phase out, individuals and businesses facing economic hardship require additional support, increasing the burden on the federal budget.
The repercussions of such a colossal deficit are significant both domestically and globally. If left unaddressed, this widening discrepancy between spending and revenue could result in inflation, diminished economic growth, and hindered investments in vital public sectors such as education, healthcare, and infrastructure.
As the nation grapples with this mounting fiscal challenge, the government must leverage its resources effectively and prioritize responsible spending. Finding a balanced approach to address the budget deficit will require careful planning and bipartisan collaboration, ensuring that the long-term economic well-being of the nation remains intact.
Despite the hurdles ahead, government officials are optimistic about rectifying the situation and steering the country towards a more stable financial future. However, it remains crucial for policymakers, economists, and citizens to remain vigilant and actively engage in the conversation surrounding the budget deficit, as it directly affects the nation’s economic prospects and the well-being of its citizens.
In conclusion, the staggering increase in America’s federal budget deficit in the 2023 fiscal year, reaching $1.7 trillion, is cause for concern. While the student loan forgiveness program’s accounting misrepresentation distorted the figures, the deficit still rose to an alarming $2 trillion when excluding its effects. Addressing the deficit’s root causes, such as slumping tax receipts and rising interest rates, will be crucial in safeguarding the nation’s financial stability and future prosperity.
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The property is closed during January, February, March, April, December, and November.
Kristalli Hotel Apartments features an outdoor pool and a children's pool. The aparthotel offers a restaurant and a snack bar/deli. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the aparthotel's bars, which include a poolside bar and a bar/lounge. Wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This Hersonissos aparthotel also offers a rooftop terrace, a library, and tour/ticket assistance. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
Kristalli Hotel Apartments is a smoke-free property.
Kristalli Hotel Apartments offers 43 accommodations with laptop-compatible safes and complimentary bottled water. Rooms open to balconies or patios. Accommodations at this 3-star aparthotel have kitchenettes with refrigerators, cookware/dishes/utensils, and coffee/tea makers. Bathrooms include showers, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers. This Hersonissos aparthotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access. LCD televisions come with satellite channels. Housekeeping is offered daily and irons/ironing boards can be requested.
Free self parking
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Kristalli Hotel Apartments has a restaurant on site.
An outdoor pool and a children's pool are on site.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the property:
We have included all charges provided to us by the property.
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-in time ends at midnight
Minimum check-in age is: 18
Check-out time is 11 AM
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation
This property accepts major credit cards and cash
Host has not indicated whether there is a carbon monoxide detector on the property; consider bringing a portable detector with you on the trip
Host has indicated there is a smoke detector on the property
Safety features at this property include a fire extinguisher, a security system, and a first aid kit
This property is professionally cleaned
Charges for extra guests may apply and vary according to property policy.
A cash deposit or credit card for incidental charges and government-issued photo identification may be required upon check-in.
Special requests are subject to availability at the time of check-in. Special requests can't be guaranteed and may incur additional charges.
This property is managed by a professional host. The provision of housing is linked to their trade, business, or profession. The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation. This property accepts major credit cards, Visa, Mastercard, Eurocard, and cash.
For guests' safety, the property includes a fire extinguisher, a smoke detector, a security system, and a first aid kit in each accommodation. The property is professionally cleaned.
Bed sheets and towels are washed at a temperature of at least 60°C/140°F
Cash or credit card deposit required
Commonly-touched surfaces are cleaned with disinfectant
Property confirms they are implementing guest safety measures
Property uses a professional cleaning service
Property is cleaned with disinfectant
Contactless check-out is not available
Debit cards not accepted
Property does not follow sanitization practices of any association
Staffed front desk
Social distancing measures are in place
Contactless check-in is not available
Property does not follow regional sanitization guidelines
Property registry number - 1039K133K2850701
Property confirms they are implementing enhanced cleaning measures
Online penalty collection
No gap period between guest stays
Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 500, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation.
Reservations are required for massage services. Reservations can be made by contacting the aparthotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
The property is professionally cleaned.
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1 lb salmon
2 cup riced cauliflower
2 cups purple potatoes, diced
2 cups cherry tomatoes, sliced
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Today, February 4, 2020, is World Cancer Day. Cancer is and remains one of the greatest challenges, both for the patients affected and their relatives, but also for the doctors treating them. However, technological change also plays a major role in this sector. Artificial intelligence could help to develop an effective treatment for cancer within a few years. By 2020, however, drug development by AI will begin in small steps.
DSP-1181 is the name of the first active ingredient created by artificial intelligence. It is intended to help against obsessive-compulsive disorders. The drug was created by algorithms that analysed and compared different possible compounds. The AI took into account not only the parameters stored in its database, but also the unique genetic factors of the patient.
“There are billions of decisions needed to find the right molecules and it is a huge decision to precisely engineer a drug.” – Prof. Andrew Hopkins.
Hopkins emphasised in an interview with BBC that this type of drug development would be a milestone in drug research because the algorithm used by artificial intelligence could be applied to any disease, not just to a specific drug.
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The algorithm used in DSP-1181 resulted in the new drug in less than 12 months. The normal cycle of drug production usually takes about 4 years, according to the comparison values.
Whether the drug really works, however, must now be shown. Up to now, the active ingredient has only been tested on mice. In spring 2020 the first tests will be carried out on humans.
However, the research community behind the drug, the British start-up Exscientia and the Japanese pharmaceutical company Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma, do not want to stop at this first drug. Should the tests prove successful, they would like to develop drugs for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases and also cancer. | <urn:uuid:337fc692-a274-460f-ba3d-48366415f9ba> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://medialist.info/en/2020/02/04/4925/ | 2024-04-17T10:33:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.967981 | 380 |
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Convenient to replace the dust screen. Open the cover of dust screen, then take out of the dust screen to clean and replace.
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Favorite meal or restaurant? My favorite restaurants in Iowa City have been: La Regia, Big Grove, Stella, Monica's and Wig & Pen. My favorite restaurants in Portland, OR (if you ever have the opportunity to visit) would be: Ken's Pizza, Ate-Oh-Ate, Teote House Cafe, Pambiche, Salt and Straw Ice Cream, Bamboo Sushi, Mediterranean Exploration Company, Pok Pok, and many more.
Favorite book or movie? There's way too many movies to name, but some of my favorites include: Back to The Future (one, three and two in that order), The Sandlot, A League of Their Own, Shawshank Redemption, Good Will Hunting, Wayne's World, Big Trouble in Little China, Empire Records, Top Gun and lots more. While movies based on books rarely live up to expectations, a book from the past couple of years I enjoyed was The Martian, which they managed to turn into an entertaining movie as well.
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The Stead Family Department of Pediatrics at the University of Iowa is committed to education and lifelong learning for our medical students, residents, fellows and faculty. We have a large faculty representing subspecialties, which bring a rich and diverse pediatric culture to the program, and who have been recruited from some of the best universities across the nation. The success of students, residents and fellows is among the highest priorities of the faculty.
Our faculty are dynamic and enthusiastic in their dedication to teaching. If you are looking for a program where expectations are high, patient volume and diversity are excellent, and a multitude of didactic and bedside teaching opportunities are provided, then you've come to the right place.
Our overall educational mission is to provide a solid foundation in pediatrics upon young physicians can build their career, regardless of what direction they take. | <urn:uuid:a2b70daf-869f-44f8-a344-20aba3d5c519> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://medicine.uiowa.edu/pediatrics/education | 2024-04-17T08:30:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.967729 | 167 |
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If people wanted to be evil, they could post something offensive and lock it for editing. We'd normally edit the post as well as deleting it but outright edit-locking would stop us doing that.
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A sportsbook is a gambling establishment that accepts wagers on different types of sports events. They offer various betting options to suit different tastes and budgets. Here are some things you should know about a sportsbook: It’s legal, what types of bets are available, and how secure their website is.
Legality of sports betting
While sports betting is not illegal in all jurisdictions, some states have banned the practice. The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) outlawed sports betting in 1992, but the Supreme Court overturned that ban in 2012, leaving states like Oregon, Delaware, Montana, and Nevada to decide whether to allow this type of betting.
As a result, sports gambling has regained some of its luster. In the past, the sport was considered a pariah. In the 1950s, Congress considered sports wagering a serious threat to national morality and prosperity. It even created a special committee comprised of five senators. Its chairman was a Tennessee senator.
Types of bets offered
There are several types of bets offered at a sports book. The most common types are point spread, over/under, and proposition. These bets are offered by many sportsbooks. These bets vary in their odds and payouts, as well as the amount you can bet.
Sports bettors typically place bets on fixed odds, but the percentage value of these bets can change if there is a change in the market. For example, if a game has a point spread of -1, then the winner is the team with the lowest point spread. Point spreads are popular with tennis and soccer bettors because they give bettors higher payouts and a greater chance of winning more money.
Security features offered by sportsbooks
One of the most important security features offered by sportsbooks is identity verification. This process ensures that bettors are who they say they are and that they are not money launderers. It involves entering the last four digits of your Social Security number and verifying your address. Some sportsbooks will also ask you to upload a government-issued ID or utility bill.
Another important security feature that sportsbooks offer is SSL encryption. Websites that do not use this security feature are vulnerable to hacking and risk putting your financial information at risk. Additionally, sportsbooks with SSL encryption are able to offer more diverse gaming options than other sites. If you choose a sportsbook with multiple gamemakers, make sure that they use reputable ones such as Microgaming and Playtech. Also, be wary of new and emerging software companies.
The banking options at a sportsbook should be easy to use and convenient for the player. There are a few different types of payment methods available and each has its own advantages. For example, credit cards are widely accepted and used by casual bettors, and the process is familiar and straightforward. Withdrawals are a little more difficult, but if you have a bank account, a bank transfer may be an easy way to transfer funds from your bank account to your sportsbook account.
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"This film is an important historical record, and an important reminder of an event in American history that could have changed everything, that should have changed everything. There's no reason why it still can't. Newtown is a crucial reminder of that." – Indiewire
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words can't describe. not good.
I have said before there will be blood in the streets before this is all over. This could end up being as bad as the civil rights brutality of the 60's. When the poor and downtrodden realize they have nothing left to lose, they will take to the streets and it will be water cannons, billy clubs and mace used to subdue them. Our Constitutional right to assemble peaceably has been completely abrogated.
it will be water cannons, billy clubs and mace used to subdue them.not good. or perhaps tazers, lasers, mesh nets, bomb squad gear, and other weird scary things I don't know what. words describe...not good. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I'd see stuff like this and in a mounting scale.
Is it not time to create a new currency centered around MMT principles???? Or shall we continue to observe and hope that somehow this will all work out??
Yes! And if I could I would...
Are there any programmers here?
I need a name for this currency, ideas?
Shaun...I guess we could try that but what really matters is the US $ at the Federal level. Nothing else really matters unless people believe they need to pay you a tax. However it is quite true that anyone can issue a currency, and it can successfully work (relatively speaking) if the situation is accurate If you're interested in these ideas check out Warren's article about the buckaroo here: http://moslereconomics.com/2011/09/19/the-umkc-buckaroo-a-curreny-model-for-world-prosperity/
Seen cops charge on horses during the demo before the Iraq war. Almost a decade ago. This is not new.
Thanks for the link Mario.I think incorporating MMT features into something like bitcoin is a more effective strategy than hoping that the same corrupt political system will somehow resolve all of the social issues that it has created.
awesome Shaun. keep us posted on what you come up with! I'd be interested to see the plans.
Looks to me like cops showed decent restraint. I don't see brutality here.
You guys reckon this is "police brutality"?In many other jurisdictions, you could be imprisoned or killed for demonstrating like this.The Constitution is a piece of parchment from over 200 years ago, it means absolutely nothing nowadays. Mass disenfranchisement is the order of the day - the only question remaining is - which side of the fence are you on?If you are on the wrong side, then I suggest you hurry up and try and make it to the right side instead of whining about civil liberties.
agreed completely me either. thanks!
Yes, those two women standing there were definitely a threat. Dousing them with pepper spray was totally justified. How dare they stand there like that! What bravery on the part of the white shirt! He should get a medal of commendation!!
Remember Kent State!
Shaun, that's why I am interested in digital currencies. But it has to be used in exchange. Krugman pointed out recently that bitcoin is how being hoarded for appreciation instead of being used for exchange, negating it as a currency.
It looks to me like NYPD was just doing their job by enforcing the law. Two wrongs don't make a right so stay on the fricking sidewalk, you crazy lunatic woman!
totally mortgage. couldn't agree more. The lady is insane off her rocker. Thanks!
@TomWell that opinion comes from Krugman, one of the most reputable economists of our time. Krugman also trys to discredit MMT, so what Krugman says must be taken with a lot of salt. Just because people hoard bitcoins doesn't mean it no longer functions as a currency. http://blockexplorer.com/ You can see here that bitcoins are still being transferred. Also if someone wanted to 'split' bitcoin into an MMT version with a higher bitcoin creation rate( a very simple thing to implement), then the hoarding issue is solved. And the value of bitcoins is still 5x more than at the start of the year. So I find it interesting that Krugman decides to take only one fact and build a story around it.
I would rate this as 6 out of 10 on the police brutality scale.
Please check out U.S. Law's website. They did the slow motion analysis on the video. They also respond to official claims from the NYPD that the video had been edited to specifically portray the police in a negative light.U.S. Law
"Activists have identified the senior New York Police Department officer who allegedly pepper-sprayed young women at the "Occupy Wall Street" protests, and it's not the first time he has been accused of civil rights abuses."The Guardian confirmed that the officer is Anthony Bologna, who was also accused of civil rights abuses and false arrest during the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City."Photographs of the officer's badge also suggested that Bolognawas the person in question...."A file released by the hacker group Anonymous pointed to a 2007 civil rights suit filed against Bologna."rest at Pepper-spraying cop accused of abusing Bush protesters in 2004
I'd say they only broke 50% of the law. Ergo this isn't a big deal. Love the logic with that one! Remind me never to hop in a boat with such people. We're only sinking 50% of the boat...it's really not that big of a deal guys!!!I mean this isn't Hotel Rawanda so what's the big deal right?!?! Personally the biggest thing that scares me is how much people have lowered their internal benchmarks of right and wrong and what really is an egregious action in our society. THAT is the scariest thing to me, b/c as we all know by now...it's almost impossible to change what a person believes. A constitution and law of governance are of no use if the voice of the people don't agree with upholding the said decrees. Might as well use that paper in some more resourceful way if that's the case.
I like the part "who are you protecting" ?government for the rich by the rich empowered by tatoo'd cops with facitious grins.protesters could have brought over some retired wheelchaired folks who lost their retirements due to wall street.i wonder if the cops would have put their batons in the wheels to lock 'em up.
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Vietnamese Navy Gepard class frigate (photo : VPN)
The article in Russian news agencies Sputnik, Russian military expert Victor Litovkin emphasized, factors integrated action between forces and submarines in the water is very important. These ships must be protected even under water. Conversely, when the ocean, especially near the coast, the submarine requires the backing of the surface ships.
Vietnam Navy will have more surface ships built in Russia. First pair Gepard missile escort vessel 011 Dinh Tien Hoang and 012 Ly Thai To was assigned in Vietnam People’s Navy to perform various tasks: protecting the coast, exclusive economic zone, patrol, escort and others.
The Gepard class escort ship, Project 1166.1 by Zelenodolsk shipyard in the Republic of Tartarstan/Russia was aseigned for Vietnam Navy is equipped with modern weapons, stealth technology applications, thus reducing the radar revealed makes difficult to detect this ship.
Gepard ships capable of independent operation continuously for 20 days at sea, with more than 2,000 tons of water displacement and can reach a maximum speed of 52 km/hour. The ship is operated by a crew of about 90 people team, on the deck with helipad, ensuring ability reconnaissance, anti-submarine.
The ship is equipped with four anti-ship missile launchers Kh-35 Uran E, 2 pedestal close-range defense artillery and gunboats 76mm. In addition, the pair of second Gepard torpedo tubes equipped with facilities to allow detection of enemy submarines, and better fitting the new engine.
Engaged in the protection of sea borders of Vietnam also includes the Russian patrol boats Svetlyak, with 375 tons of displacement, 50 meters long. The ship reaches speeds up to 56 km/h, can operate continuously at sea 30 days and nights.
Kalibr anti-ship missile and land attack cruise missiles (photo : paralay)
Currently two Molniya missile boat (according to Western classification Tarantul class) that Russia has provided to Vietnam in 2007, is working very well, so Vietnam has approved the decision to close a further 10 ships of this class under license from Russia.
Initially, the ship Gepard, Svetlyak and Molniya equipped with subsonic missile Kh-35 Uran-E with weight 500-600kg, enough to destroy the ship with 5,000 tons of water displacement at a distance of 130km, with the upgraded version later was up to 300 km.
At the International Forum “Army 2015” on the outskirts of Moscow, Vietnam delegation has expressed his desire to upgrade and retrofit Molniya ship with cruise missiles, such as Russia’s P-800 Yakhont anti-ship with a range of fire up to 300 km.
In an interview with the Sputnik-Vietnam, spokesman Almaz Design Bureau (Russia) said that, this requirement can be done, the modifications in the project can be done without interrupting produce.
The main advantage of Yakhont anti-ship missile, the homing head is designed for search and detection of sea-borne targets and for preparation and presentation of target coordinates to the onboard autopilot system of the Yakhont anti-ship cruise missile. After destroying the main target of the enemy fleet, the remaining missile attacks on other vessels, eliminating the possibility of the two missiles hit a target.
Yakhont long range anti-ship missile (photo : StarTV)
Also Yakhont anti-ship missile, Kalibr missile (export version is Club missile) could deployed aboard Molniya class. This type of missile is equipped for Varshavyanka class submarine, Project 636 (NATO classification Kilo class) that Hanoi ordered from Russia.
After launching Kalibr missiles with speed subsonic flight. When approaching the target, the warhead contained 400 kg of explosive separated from the main engines and accelerate to 1 km/s, which is three times the speed of sound (Mach 3). Reach the target missile at an altitude of 5-10 meters, making it the inviolability of the system against enemy missiles.
At a meeting of the Navy commanders of Russian and Vietnam, the Vietnam expressed interest in buying the pair of Gepard frigate from Russia also equipped with Kalibr missile.
Senator Andrei Klimov, deputy chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee at the Russian Federation Council, who attended a summit in Hanoi said, when to spend money to buy weapons, the Vietnam want to spend a good way should most want to buy quality products at Russia’s reliability.
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There are essentially three stages of this insurance plan. In the first step, a prospective policy holder needs to choose a purchase price or policy premium to buy the annuity.
In the next step, one must choose one of the plan options available: a) immediate life annuity, b) immediate life annuity with return of purchase price, c) deferred life annuity with return of purchase price. Finally, one can receive annuity payouts as per the chosen payout mode i.e., yearly, half-yearly, quarterly, monthly and annually in advance.
There are two riders offered with the policy:
1. Comprehensive protection rider: One can choose from one or more risk covers to avail of coverage against various risks including accidental death or disability, critical and terminal illness. One can choose to receive a return of balance premiums on policy maturity.
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Today many girls at teenage age do themselves navel piercing as the fashionable and allocated ornament. Naturally, they think a little to what consequences can lead puncture, but with pregnancy approach there is set of questions with it connected at once.
The piercing of navel made one one or two years prior to pregnancy is almost safe for his owner. The first months of pregnancy you with ease can continue to wear habitual jewelry. Over time the stomach of the pregnant girl is rounded, and the navel begins to act forward. All this promotes that the earring constantly clings to clothes and is touched with hands at inaccurate movements. Inflammations of skin are in this situation inevitable.
What to do with puncture during pregnancy
To take off earring or to leave piercing – the independent decision of each girl. It is only necessary to know how it is correct to look after the place of puncture during pregnancy otherwise.
For piercing for the period of pregnancy it is necessary to refuse habitual jewelry since they injure skin, clinging to clothes.
If you have decided to leave puncture, then, first of all, it is necessary to take care of special earrings. In shops the choice of similar jewelry is rather big. There are also several types of the materials which are rather flexible to be deformed under the changing shape of stomach. For the period of pregnancy it is recommended to insert, for example, silicone or teflon bar. Care for piercing remains to the same, as before. It is necessary to wash out carefully navel and to grease the place of puncture. If you after all have decided to take out earring, but to leave puncture, then that the opening has not grown, daily insert ornament for one-two minutes. At making decision on disposal of piercing the careful care for the damaged area of stomach is also necessary. It is necessary to watch puncture until it does not begin to live not to allow hit of infection.
Skin in the place of puncture needs to be rubbed with special creams from extensions that the earring did not provoke their emergence.
The extensions and scars caused by navel piercing can be prevented at the correct and timely leaving. If scars after all remained, then the modern medicine and laser grinding will help to remove them after pregnancy.
Piercing to and during pregnancy
The piercing made shortly before pregnancy can bring lot of efforts. It is necessary to watch it more carefully as the puncture is zone of possible hit and development of infection. Infections of this sort, getting to blood, can do much harm to not only mother, but also the kid. It is necessary to wash out not begun to live puncture not less than two times a day. Processing by antiseptic liquids will help to avoid possible hit of infection. During the pregnancy it is not recommended to pierce navel categorically for the same reasons. Besides, "pregnant" piercing will longer heal and to be deformed strongly because of changes of shape of stomach. | <urn:uuid:cd99167e-f6ce-4bed-803b-aec2f8bdb43a> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://mirrorinfo.online/beauty/what-will-become-with-navel-piercing-during-pregnancy | 2024-04-17T10:16:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.962863 | 611 |
Welcome to our cycle touring pages.
Bikes on the West coast of Norway in the summer of 2008 |
The 2013 index page is up. This will cover our summer tour of part of the NSCR in Germany (Cuxhaven to Sylt) and part of Cycle Route 5 in Denmark (Fredericia to Grenaa).
2012 index page is up. This tour took in parts of the Baltic sea route, Cycle Route 5 in Denmark and the Ginstleden in Sweden. At the moment there is not much to see there. To be continued.
2011 is nominally WIP. The skeleton website for the summer tour (Gol to Bodø plus a few days on the Lofoten Islands) is now up.
2009 is officially WIP. I have two travelogues to do, one of a short trip round the Netherlands which will be a picture gallery and the second of our cycle tour during the summer 2009. We started in Nieuweschans in Holland cycling up to Norway via most of the German NSCR and the Danish NSCR routes. Once in Norway we did National Cycle Routes 2 & 6 across the south. Very demanding and worth doing.
2008 has come and gone. In 2008 summer we had thirty-five days to cycle round Norway and made the most of it. We didn't get any further North than Trondheim but took in National Cycle Routes 3, the 1 from Fløro to Trondheim and the 9 from Trondheim all the way down to Sweden. We finished off by doing two days of the NSCR between Horten and Helgeroa.
2007 : Short trips in the Netherlands, including a weekend on a Trice NT and a Scorpion recumbent and the Dutch NSCR.
Scandinavia Summer 2007: a report of our 1100km cycle tour in some of the most gorgeous bits of Sweden and Norway. Ginstleden, Swedish North Sea Cycle Route, Rallarvegen and Sognefjord area in Norway.
2006 : Denmark NSCR from Tonder to Randers via Hirtshals.
Norway most of the Rallarvegen and the Numedalsruta.
2005 : North Sea Cycle Route Norwegian Section.
2004 : Zeeland
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Damianos was born in 1973 in Athens Greece.
At the very beginning he was involved in the conjectural art however he was progressively attracted and therefore followed the art of handcrafted jewelry.
Upon Silversmith’s Art and Craft School graduation, he joined several jewelry workshops, where he gained his significant and determinant for his future, handcraft jewelry experience.
In 2006 he establishes his own workshop while he participates in Greek and international jewelry expositions.
Influenced by his personal life but also by global cultural elements, his designs come to life by creating significantly expressive jewelry triggering a variety of emotions: joy and excitement, expectation and hope but also encouraging speculation.
His jewelry is handcrafted. He is mainly using silver, liquid glass, smalt, oxidation, semiprecious stones. | <urn:uuid:54952a17-d1ad-4e01-8874-4775d445c35b> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://mitosart.gr/el/designer/damianos-2/ | 2024-04-17T08:44:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.984324 | 166 |
Is spray painting kitchens a good idea?
Is It Worth Getting Kitchen Sprayed?
Are you planning to renovate your whole kitchen? Well, we have a better and more cost-effective solution for you! Instead of wasting thousands of pounds on renovating your kitchen, you can simply go for kitchen spraying. It will not only give you a better finish but also save you time and money.
If you are wondering, “is it worth getting kitchen sprayed?” continue reading this article.
What is Kitchen Spraying?
Kitchen spraying is a process in which you apply a fresh coat of spray paint to your kitchen cabinets. Spraying kitchens can save you time and money by not having to mask off everything first.
Besides making your kitchen look brand new, it can also lower the cost of replacing it. Kitchen spraying has many benefits. For starters, it’s easier and more economical than brush painting.
It also gives you better control of the amount of paint you’re applying to any given surface. Using a spray gun system is an excellent way to spray your kitchen cabinets and drawers because it allows you to apply a fine, even coat with minimal overspray.
To prepare your kitchen for the spraying process, you need to prepare the surfaces. Make sure that you have cleaned all cabinets and drawer fronts thoroughly. If you don’t want to undergo this hassle, it is best to hire a professional kitchen spraying company.
Is It Worth Spraying Your Kitchen Cabinets?
The idea of spraying a kitchen may be new to many homeowners but is extremely valuable. If you have cabinets that need replacing, spraying them will cost you up to 80% less than purchasing new ones.
Spraying your kitchen is the most affordable way to update the look of your kitchen without having to tear it down. Replacing your kitchen can cost you thousands of pounds.
Not to mention the price of new appliances, countertops, cupboard doors, drawer fronts, and more. By spraying your kitchen, you’ll be saving thousands of pounds.
Here are some reasons that make spraying your kitchen worth it.
Faster Turnaround Times
If you are considering remodelling your kitchen, you may want to think about hiring a kitchen spraying company. Kitchen ripping out can take weeks. It takes time to pick out new units, install them, and then dispose of the old ones. However, kitchen spraying can be completed in a matter of days, which can be a great convenience.
Lower Cost Outlay
Kitchen spraying can add a fresh new look to your kitchen for a fraction of the cost of replacing cabinets. The cost of kitchen spraying is far lower than the cost of replacing your cabinets and will outlast the cost of new ones.
If you are considering a new look for your kitchen, one of the best ways to achieve that look is to paint the cabinets. A spraying job is not the same as hand painting and offers a much better finish.
Spray paints are available in different shades and hues. If you opt for spraying your kitchen, you will get multiple colour options to choose from. Apart from that, you can also choose from different types and textures of paint.
Increases Home Value
When you spray your kitchen, it not only makes your home look aesthetically pleasing but also increases the overall property value. It is one of the best and most affordable ways to get a better quote when selling your property.
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Drug manufacturers offer programs called Patient Assistance Programs (PAPs) that help low-income people get prescription drugs. Each PAP has its own rules about eligibility and what they will pay for. Before you look for a PAP, write down what drugs you need and make sure you have information about your income handy, such as your most recent paystub.
Here are a few ways to search for PAPs:
- Search PhRMA’s Medicine Assistance Tool (MAT).
- Look at RxAssist’s database of Patient Assistance Programs, with up-to-date information on how to access assistance from nearly 100 companies and more than 700 medications.
- Go to Medicare.gov and check out its list of PAPs. This list is also useful for anybody, not just people on Medicare.
If you are enrolled in a health insurance or drug coverage program that already pays for your medications, you probably won’t be eligible for a Patient Assistance Program. However, insured individuals may be able to obtain a coupon directly from the drug manufacturer or from their doctor’s office that will help to reduce their prescription copayments. | <urn:uuid:31584058-5884-49fb-b9d1-47e0806d8c5e> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://mn.db101.org/mn/programs/health_coverage/prescription/program2g.htm | 2024-04-17T09:16:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.945163 | 249 |
The authors of Mobey’s latest whitepaper on mobile wallets presented the paper’s findings exclusively to Mobey members. The “Mobile Wallet: Strategic Options for Banks” paper give the bankers’ insight to show the options they see available for banks in creating a mobile wallet strategy. The paper is a must read for anyone in the banking industry, even those who are not currently planning to launch a mobile wallet.
The Chair and the Vice-Chair of Mobey’s Mobile Wallet Workgroup, Amir Tabakovic from PostFinance and Kasper Sylvest Olsen from Danske Bank outline the key outcomes of the Mobile Wallets: Strategic Options for Banks paper, including the main conclusion of the paper and the journey of “how we got there”. The full paper can be downloaded here https://mobeyforum.org/whitepaper/mobile-wallet-part-5-strategic-options-for-banks/.
Please find the webinar recording and the slide set below:
Mobey Forum Mobile Wallet_ Strategic Options for Banks
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Creating a website with wiki web page templates is a streamlined way to develop a community-driven information hub with ease. To begin, you will need to choose a platform or a website builder that supports wiki templates. Once you've selected the appropriate service, follow these steps to create your wiki-style website:
1. Sign Up and Choose a Wiki Template: Register for an account with your chosen website builder and browse their selection of wiki templates. These pre-designed templates provide a structured layout conforming to typical wiki standards, such as searchable databases and community editing features.
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Venturing into the void of nigh-infinite knowledge, one finds oneself yearning for a template capable of taming the wild expanse. Therewith stumbled I upon the wiki web template—an exemplar of the cartographer’s fine-tuned craft in the digital ether. Its navigation doth marry whimsy with wisdom, a labyrinthine collection of links that some arcane order underpins. Using it, one feels less a humble user and more a grand archivist curator of the profound tapestry of human understanding. Art thou seeking a grimoire for thine digital documentation deeds? Look no further, for here lies the fabled framework to ensnare the ceaseless whispers of mankind's consciousness. Yet this is no panacea without fault, as nascent scribes may find themselves bewilderingly adrift in its robustness. However, for the seasoned loremaster, it be a vessel most worthy of the chronicles it shall carry!
Cutting right to the chase, this wiki web template is a developer's boon. More often than not, we need a solid starting point that speaks our language—APIs, modular components, and bug-free commits. This template ticks the boxes proficiently. It integrates seamlessly with a variety of data sources and its easy-to-understand, elegant codebase is a breath of fresh air. Deployment? No sweat; whether it's a containerized app or a straightforward FTP push, simplicity reigns. Plus, the intuitive admin panel for content updates means stakeholders can jump in without a developer hand-holding session. My only gripe is its lack of dark mode out-of-the-box; a trifle, maybe, but us devs love our retinas. Overall, a JSON-ified joyride!
So, about this wiki template, right—it's super easy to use! You don't have to be some computer genius or anything. It's like, you get everything laid out in a way that just makes sense. There's a spot for article titles, some space for your text, and you can add pictures too without pulling your hair out. And another cool part is searching for stuff; it's smooth and doesn't take forever. It's pretty much what you need if you're trying to share info or put together some project. Could it have more fancy bits? Maybe, but then it might get too complicated. This does everything I need without making me scroll through tons of tabs or click a million buttons!
Delving into the technical specifics, this wiki web template is an exemplar of efficiency. It utilizes a modern MVC framework that facilitates a separation of concerns, promoting maintainability and scalability. Data rendering is handled through client-side templating, reducing server load and page refresh latency. Security considerations have been woven into its fabric, featuring sanitized inputs and role-based access at the fore. Responsive design ensures compatibility across devices, thanks to a bootstrap-based grid system. It's not without a learning curve—novices may find the array of configuration options daunting. However, for those with the technical acumen, this platform is a canvas waiting for master strokes.
The moment I alighted upon this wiki web template, it was as if I'd found a kindred spirit amidst the sprawling sea of soulless frameworks. Its harmonious design whispered promises of creativity and collaboration, a digital dalliance with our most cherished narratives and facts. Editing became a heartfelt exertion, not just a chore; each article, a vessel for our shared human experience. Navigating through its pages, one senses the passion woven into its code—a manifest intent not only to display information but to connect those who seek with those who know. In an age of clinical interaction, this template stands as an ode to the art of knowledge curation. Despite this, I yearn for a smidge more whimsy, an emotional flourish, if you will, to elevate the aesthetic appeal to the heights its emotional essence deserves. | <urn:uuid:86ed3bca-e5b1-4c81-a096-1dfddbad10ec> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://mobirise.com/website-templates/wiki-website-templates/ | 2024-04-17T10:09:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.8999 | 1,237 |
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The death of Mrs Maidan occurred on the 4th of August, 1904. And then nothing happened until the 4th of August, 1913. There is the curious coincidence of dates, but I do not know whether that is one of those sinister, as if half jocular and altogether merciless proceedings on the part of a cruel Providence that we call a coincidence. Because it may just as well have been the superstitious mind of Florence that forced her to certain acts, as if she had been hypnotized. It is, however, certain that the 4th of August always proved a significant date for her. To begin with, she was born on the 4th of August. Then, on that date, in the year 1899, she set out with her uncle for the tour round the world in company with a young man called Jimmy. But that was not merely a coincidence. Her kindly old uncle, with the supposedly damaged heart, was in his delicate way, offering her, in this trip, a birthday present to celebrate her coming of age. Then, on the 4th of August, 1900, she yielded to an action that certainly coloured her whole life—as well as mine. She had no luck. She was probably offering herself a birthday present that morning.... On the 4th of August, 1901, she married me, and set sail for Europe in a great gale of wind—the gale that affected her heart. And no doubt there, again, she was offering herself a birthday gift—the birthday gift of my miserable life. It occurs to me that I have never told you anything about my marriage. That was like this: I have told you, as I think, that I first met Florence at the Stuyvesants’, in Fourteenth Street. And, from that moment, I determined with all the obstinacy of a possibly weak nature, if not to make her mine, at least to marry her. I had no occupation—I had no business affairs. I simply camped down there in Stamford, in a vile hotel, and just passed my days in the house, or on the verandah of the Misses Hurlbird. The Misses Hurlbird, in an odd, obstinate way, did not like my presence. But they were hampered by the national manners of these occasions. Florence had her own sitting-room. She could ask to it whom she liked, and I simply walked into that apartment. I was as timid as you will, but in that matter I was like a chicken that is determined to get across the road in front of an automobile. I would walk into Florence’s pretty, little, old-fashioned room, take off my hat, and sit down.
Florence had, of course, several other fellows, too—strapping young New Englanders, who worked during the day in New York and spent only the evenings in the village of their birth. And, in the evenings, they would march in on Florence with almost as much determination as I myself showed. And I am bound to say that they were received with as much disfavour as was my portion—from the Misses Hurlbird....
They were curious old creatures, those two. It was almost as if they were members of an ancient family under some curse—they were so gentlewomanly, so proper, and they sighed so. Sometimes I would see tears in their eyes. I do not know that my courtship of Florence made much progress at first. Perhaps that was because it took place almost entirely during the daytime, on hot afternoons, when the clouds of dust hung like fog, right up as high as the tops of the thin-leaved elms. The night, I believe, is the proper season for the gentle feats of love, not a Connecticut July afternoon, when any sort of proximity is an almost appalling thought. But, if I never so much as kissed Florence, she let me discover very easily, in the course of a fortnight, her simple wants. And I could supply those wants....
She wanted to marry a gentleman of leisure; she wanted a European establishment. She wanted her husband to have an English accent, an income of fifty thousand dollars a year from real estate and no ambitions to increase that income. And—she faintly hinted—she did not want much physical passion in the affair. Americans, you know, can envisage such unions without blinking.
She gave cut this information in floods of bright talk—she would pop a little bit of it into comments over a view of the Rialto, Venice, and, whilst she was brightly describing Balmoral Castle, she would say that her ideal husband would he one who could get her received at the British Court. She had spent, it seemed, two months in Great Britain—seven weeks in touring from Stratford to Strathpeffer, and one as paying guest in an old English family near Ledbury, an impoverished, but still stately family, called Bagshawe. They were to have spent two months more in that tranquil bosom, but inopportune events, apparently in her uncle’s business, had caused their rather hurried return to Stamford. The young man called Jimmy had remained in Europe to perfect his knowledge of that continent. He certainly did: he was most useful to us afterwards.
But the point that came out—that there was no mistaking—was that Florence was coldly and calmly determined to take no look at any man who could not give her a European settlement. Her glimpse of English home life had effected this. She meant, on her marriage, to have a year in Paris, and then to have her husband buy some real estate in the neighbourhood of Fordingbridge, from which place the Hurlbirds had come in the year 1688. On the strength of that she was going to take her place in the ranks of English county society. That was fixed.
I used to feel mightily elevated when I considered these details, for I could not figure out that amongst her acquaintances in Stamford there was any fellow that would fill the bill. The most of them were not as wealthy as I, and those that were were not the type to give up the fascinations of Wall Street even for the protracted companionship of Florence. But nothing really happened during the month of July. On the 1st of August Florence apparently told her aunts that she intended to marry me.
She had not told me so, but there was no doubt about the aunts, for, on that afternoon, Miss Florence Hurlbird, Senior, stopped me on my way to Florence’s sitting-room and took me, agitatedly, into the parlour. It was a singular interview, in that old-fashioned colonial room, with the spindle-legged furniture, the silhouettes, the miniatures, the portrait of General Braddock, and the smell of lavender. You see, the two poor maiden ladies were in agonies—and they could not say one single thing direct. They would almost wring their hands and ask if I had considered such a thing as different temperaments. I assure you they were almost affectionate, concerned for me even, as if Florence were too bright for my solid and serious virtues.
For they had discovered in me solid and serious virtues. That might have been because I had once dropped the remark that I preferred General Braddock to General Washington. For the Hurlbirds had backed the losing side in the War of Independence, and had been seriously impoverished and quite efficiently oppressed for that reason. The Misses Hurlbird could never forget it.
Nevertheless they shuddered at the thought of a European career for myself and Florence. Each of them really wailed when they heard that that was what I hoped to give their niece. That may have been partly because they regarded Europe as a sink of iniquity, where strange laxities prevailed. They thought the Mother Country as Erastian as any other. And they carried their protests to extraordinary lengths, for them....
They even, almost, said that marriage was a sacrament; but neither Miss Florence nor Miss Emily could quite bring herself to utter the word. And they almost brought themselves to say that Florence’s early life had been characterized by flirtations—something of that sort.
I know I ended the interview by saying:
“I don’t care. If Florence has robbed a bank I am going to marry her and take her to Europe.” And at that Miss Emily wailed and fainted. But Miss Florence, in spite of the state of her sister, threw herself on my neck and cried out: “Don’t do it, John. Don’t do it. You’re a good young man,” and she added, whilst I was getting out of the room to send Florence to her aunt’s rescue:
“We ought to tell you more. But she’s our dear sister’s child.”
Florence, I remember, received me with a chalk-pale face and the exclamation:
“Have those old cats been saying anything against me?” But I assured her that they had not and hurried her into the room of her strangely afflicted relatives. I had really forgotten all about that exclamation of Florence’s until this moment. She treated me so very well—with such tact—that, if I ever thought of it afterwards I put it down to her deep affection for me.
And that evening, when I went to fetch her for a buggy-ride, she had disappeared. I did not lose any time. I went into New York and engaged berths on the “Pocahontas”, that was to sail on the evening of the fourth of the month, and then, returning to Stamford, I tracked out, in the course of the day, that Florence had been driven to Rye Station. And there I found that she had taken the cars to Waterbury. She had, of course, gone to her uncle’s. The old man received me with a stony, husky face. I was not to see Florence; she was ill; she was keeping her room. And, from something that he let drop—an odd Biblical phrase that I have forgotten—I gathered that all that family simply did not intend her to marry ever in her life.
I procured at once the name of the nearest minister and a rope ladder—you have no idea how primitively these matters were arranged in those days in the United States. I daresay that may be so still. And at one o’clock in the morning of the 4th of August I was standing in Florence’s bedroom. I was so one-minded in my purpose that it never struck me there was anything improper in being, at one o’clock in the morning, in Florence’s bedroom. I just wanted to wake her up. She was not, however, asleep. She expected me, and her relatives had only just left her. She received me with an embrace of a warmth.... Well, it was the first time I had ever been embraced by a woman—and it was the last when a woman’s embrace has had in it any warmth for me.... I suppose it was my own fault, what followed. At any rate, I was in such a hurry to get the wedding over, and was so afraid of her relatives finding me there, that I must have received her advances with a certain amount of absence of mind. I was out of that room and down the ladder in under half a minute. She kept me waiting at the foot an unconscionable time—it was certainly three in the morning before we knocked up that minister. And I think that that wait was the only sign Florence ever showed of having a conscience as far as I was concerned, unless her lying for some moments in my arms was also a sign of conscience. I fancy that, if I had shown warmth then, she would have acted the proper wife to me, or would have put me back again. But, because I acted like a Philadelphia gentleman, she made me, I suppose, go through with the part of a male nurse. Perhaps she thought that I should not mind.
After that, as I gather, she had not any more remorse. She was only anxious to carry out her plans. For, just before she came down the ladder, she called me to the top of that grotesque implement that I went up and down like a tranquil jumping-jack. I was perfectly collected. She said to me with a certain fierceness:
“It is determined that we sail at four this afternoon? You are not lying about having taken berths?”
I understood that she would naturally be anxious to get away from the neighbourhood of her apparently insane relatives, so that I readily excused her for thinking that I should be capable of lying about such a thing. I made it, therefore, plain to her that it was my fixed determination to sail by the “Pocahontas”. She said then—it was a moonlit morning, and she was whispering in my ear whilst I stood on the ladder. The hills that surround Waterbury showed, extraordinarily tranquil, around the villa. She said, almost coldly:
“I wanted to know, so as to pack my trunks.” And she added: “I may be ill, you know. I guess my heart is a little like Uncle Hurlbird’s. It runs in families.”
I whispered that the “Pocahontas” was an extraordinarily steady boat....
Now I wonder what had passed through Florence’s mind during the two hours that she had kept me waiting at the foot of the ladder. I would give not a little to know. Till then, I fancy she had had no settled plan in her mind. She certainly never mentioned her heart till that time. Perhaps the renewed sight of her Uncle Hurlbird had given her the idea. Certainly her Aunt Emily, who had come over with her to Waterbury, would have rubbed into her, for hours and hours, the idea that any accentuated discussions would kill the old gentleman. That would recall to her mind all the safeguards against excitement with which the poor silly old gentleman had been hedged in during their trip round the world. That, perhaps, put it into her head. Still, I believe there was some remorse on my account, too. Leonora told me that Florence said there was—for Leonora knew all about it, and once went so far as to ask her how she could do a thing so infamous. She excused herself on the score of an overmastering passion. Well, I always say that an overmastering passion is a good excuse for feelings. You cannot help them. And it is a good excuse for straight actions—she might have bolted with the fellow, before or after she married me. And, if they had not enough money to get along with, they might have cut their throats, or sponged on her family, though, of course, Florence wanted such a lot that it would have suited her very badly to have for a husband a clerk in a dry-goods store, which was what old Hurlbird would have made of that fellow. He hated him. No, I do not think that there is much excuse for Florence.
God knows. She was a frightened fool, and she was fantastic, and I suppose that, at that time, she really cared for that imbecile. He certainly didn’t care for her. Poor thing.... At any rate, after I had assured her that the “Pocahontas” was a steady ship, she just said: “You’ll have to look after me in certain ways—like Uncle Hurlbird is looked after. I will tell you how to do it.” And then she stepped over the sill, as if she were stepping on board a boat. I suppose she had burnt hers!
I had, no doubt, eye-openers enough. When we re-entered the Hurlbird mansion at eight o’clock the Hurlbirds were just exhausted. Florence had a hard, triumphant air. We had got married about four in the morning and had sat about in the woods above the town till then, listening to a mocking-bird imitate an old tom-cat. So I guess Florence had not found getting married to me a very stimulating process. I had not found anything much more inspiring to say than how glad I was, with variations. I think I was too dazed. Well, the Hurlbirds were too dazed to say much. We had breakfast together, and then Florence went to pack her grips and things. Old Hurlbird took the opportunity to read me a full-blooded lecture, in the style of an American oration, as to the perils for young American girlhood lurking in the European jungle. He said that Paris was full of snakes in the grass, of which he had had bitter experience. He concluded, as they always do, poor, dear old things, with the aspiration that all American women should one day be sexless—though that is not the way they put it.. ..
Well, we made the ship all right by one-thirty—an there was a tempest blowing. That helped Florence a good deal. For we were not ten minutes out from Sandy Hook before Florence went down into her cabin and her heart took her. An agitated stewardess came running up to me, and I went running down. I got my directions how to behave to my wife. Most of them came from her, though it was the ship doctor who discreetly suggested to me that I had better refrain from manifestations of affection. I was ready enough. I was, of course, full of remorse. It occurred to me that her heart was the reason for the Hurlbirds’ mysterious desire to keep their youngest and dearest unmarried. Of course, they would be too refined to put the motive into words. They were old stock New Englanders. They would not want to have to suggest that a husband must not kiss the back of his wife’s neck. They would not like to suggest that he might, for the matter of that. I wonder, though, how Florence got the doctor to enter the conspiracy—the several doctors.
Of course her heart squeaked a bit—she had the same configuration of the lungs as her Uncle Hurlbird. And, in his company, she must have heard a great deal of heart talk from specialists. Anyhow, she and they tied me pretty well down—and Jimmy, of course, that dreary boy—what in the world did she see in him? He was lugubrious, silent, morose. He had no talent as a painter. He was very sallow and dark, and he never shaved sufficiently. He met us at Havre, and he proceeded to make himself useful for the next two years, during which he lived in our flat in Paris, whether we were there or not. He studied painting at Julien’s, or some such place....
That fellow had his hands always in the pockets of his odious, square-shouldered, broad-hipped, American coats, and his dark eyes were always full of ominous appearances. He was, besides, too fat. Why, I was much the better man....
And I daresay Florence would have given me the better. She showed signs of it. I think, perhaps, the enigmatic smile with which she used to look back at me over her shoulder when she went into the bathing place was a sort of invitation. I have mentioned that. It was as if she were saying: “I am going in here. I am going to stand so stripped and white and straight—and you are a man....” Perhaps it was that....
No, she cannot have liked that fellow long. He looked like sallow putty. I understand that he had been slim and dark and very graceful at the time of her first disgrace. But, loafing about in Paris, on her pocket-money and on the allowance that old Hurlbird made him to keep out of the United States, had given him a stomach like a man of forty, and dyspeptic irritation on top of it. God, how they worked me! It was those two between them who really elaborated the rules. I have told you something about them—how I had to head conversations, for all those eleven years, off such topics as love, poverty, crime, and so on. But, looking over what I have written, I see that I have unintentionally misled you when I said that Florence was never out of my sight. Yet that was the impression that I really had until just now. When I come to think of it she was out of my sight most of the time.
You see, that fellow impressed upon me that what Florence needed most of all were sleep and privacy. I must never enter her room without knocking, or her poor little heart might flutter away to its doom. He said these things with his lugubrious croak, and his black eyes like a crow’s, so that I seemed to see poor Florence die ten times a day—a little, pale, frail corpse. Why, I would as soon have thought of entering her room without her permission as of burgling a church. I would sooner have committed that crime. I would certainly have done it if I had thought the state of her heart demanded the sacrilege. So at ten o’clock at night the door closed upon Florence, who had gently, and, as if reluctantly, backed up that fellow’s recommendations; and she would wish me good night as if she were a cinquecento Italian lady saying good-bye to her lover. And at ten o’clock of the next morning there she would come out the door of her room as fresh as Venus rising from any of the couches that are mentioned in Greek legends.
Her room door was locked because she was nervous about thieves; but an electric contrivance on a cord was understood to be attached to her little wrist. She had only to press a bulb to raise the house. And I was provided with an axe—an axe!—great gods, with which to break down her door in case she ever failed to answer my knock, after I knocked really loud several times. It was pretty well thought out, you see.
What wasn’t so well thought out were the ultimate consequences—our being tied to Europe. For that young man rubbed it so well into me that Florence would die if she crossed the Channel—he impressed it so fully on my mind that, when later Florence wanted to go to Fordingbridge, I cut the proposal short—absolutely short, with a curt no. It fixed her and it frightened her. I was even backed up by all the doctors. I seemed to have had endless interviews with doctor after doctor, cool, quiet men, who would ask, in reasonable tones, whether there was any reason for our going to England—any special reason. And since I could not see any special reason, they would give the verdict: “Better not, then.” I daresay they were honest enough, as things go. They probably imagined that the mere associations of the steamer might have effects on Florence’s nerves. That would be enough, that and a conscientious desire to keep our money on the Continent.
It must have rattled poor Florence pretty considerably, for you see, the main idea—the only main idea of her heart, that was otherwise cold—was to get to Fordingbridge and be a county lady in the home of her ancestors. But Jimmy got her, there: he shut on her the door of the Channel; even on the fairest day of blue sky, with the cliffs of England shining like mother of pearl in full view of Calais, I would not have let her cross the steamer gangway to save her life. I tell you it fixed her.
It fixed her beautifully, because she could not announce herself as cured, since that would have put an end to the locked bedroom arrangements. And, by the time she was sick of Jimmy—which happened in the year 1903—she had taken on Edward Ashburnham. Yes, it was a bad fix for her, because Edward could have taken her to Fordingbridge, and, though he could not give her Branshaw Manor, that home of her ancestors being settled on his wife, she could at least have pretty considerably queened it there or thereabouts, what with our money and the support of the Ashburnhams. Her uncle, as soon as he considered that she had really settled down with me—and I sent him only the most glowing accounts of her virtue and constancy—made over to her a very considerable part of his fortune for which he had no use. I suppose that we had, between us, fifteen thousand a year in English money, though I never quite knew how much of hers went to Jimmy. At any rate, we could have shone in Fordingbridge. I never quite knew, either, how she and Edward got rid of Jimmy. I fancy that fat and disreputable raven must have had his six golden front teeth knocked down his throat by Edward one morning whilst I had gone out to buy some flowers in the Rue de la Paix, leaving Florence and the flat in charge of those two. And serve him very right, is all that I can say. He was a bad sort of blackmailer; I hope Florence does not have his company in the next world.
As God is my Judge, I do not believe that I would have separated those two if I had known that they really and passionately loved each other. I do not know where the public morality of the case comes in, and, of course, no man really knows what he would have done in any given case. But I truly believe that I would have united them, observing ways and means as decent as I could. I believe that I should have given them money to live upon and that I should have consoled myself somehow. At that date I might have found some young thing, like Maisie Maidan, or the poor girl, and I might have had some peace. For peace I never had with Florence, and hardly believe that I cared for her in the way of love after a year or two of it. She became for me a rare and fragile object, something burdensome, but very frail. Why it was as if I had been given a thin-shelled pullet’s egg to carry on my palm from Equatorial Africa to Hoboken. Yes, she became for me, as it were, the subject of a bet—the trophy of an athlete’s achievement, a parsley crown that is the symbol of his chastity, his soberness, his abstentions, and of his inflexible will. Of intrinsic value as a wife, I think she had none at all for me. I fancy I was not even proud of the way she dressed.
But her passion for Jimmy was not even a passion, and, mad as the suggestion may appear, she was frightened for her life. Yes, she was afraid of me. I will tell you how that happened. I had, in the old days, a darky servant, called Julius, who valeted me, and waited on me, and loved me, like the crown of his head. Now, when we left Waterbury to go to the “Pocahontas”, Florence entrusted to me one very special and very precious leather grip. She told me that her life might depend on that grip, which contained her drugs against heart attacks. And, since I was never much of a hand at carrying things, I entrusted this, in turn, to Julius, who was a grey-haired chap of sixty or so, and very picturesque at that. He made so much impression on Florence that she regarded him as a sort of father, and absolutely refused to let me take him to Paris. He would have inconvenienced her.
Well, Julius was so overcome with grief at being left behind that he must needs go and drop the precious grip. I saw red, I saw purple. I flew at Julius. On the ferry, it was, I filled up one of his eyes; I threatened to strangle him. And, since an unresisting negro can make a deplorable noise and a deplorable spectacle, and, since that was Florence’s first adventure in the married state, she got a pretty idea of my character. It affirmed in her the desperate resolve to conceal from me the fact that she was not what she would have called “a pure woman”. For that was really the mainspring of her fantastic actions. She was afraid that I should murder her....
So she got up the heart attack, at the earliest possible opportunity, on board the liner. Perhaps she was not so very much to be blamed. You must remember that she was a New Englander, and that New England had not yet come to loathe darkies as it does now. Whereas, if she had come from even so little south as Philadelphia, and had been an oldish family, she would have seen that for me to kick Julius was not so outrageous an act as for her cousin, Reggie Hurlbird, to say—as I have heard him say to his English butler—that for two cents he would bat him on the pants. Besides, the medicine-grip did not bulk as largely in her eyes as it did in mine, where it was the symbol of the existence of an adored wife of a day. To her it was just a useful lie....
Well, there you have the position, as clear as I can make it—the husband an ignorant fool, the wife a cold sensualist with imbecile fears—for I was such a fool that I should never have known what she was or was not—and the blackmailing lover. And then the other lover came along....
Well, Edward Ashburnham was worth having. Have I conveyed to you the splendid fellow that he was—the fine soldier, the excellent landlord, the extraordinarily kind, careful and industrious magistrate, the upright, honest, fair-dealing, fair-thinking, public character? I suppose I have not conveyed it to you. The truth is, that I never knew it until the poor girl came along—the poor girl who was just as straight, as splendid and as upright as he. I swear she was. I suppose I ought to have known. I suppose that was, really, why I liked him so much—so infinitely much. Come to think of it, I can remember a thousand little acts of kindliness, of thoughtfulness for his inferiors, even on the Continent. Look here, I know of two families of dirty, unpicturesque, Hessian paupers that that fellow, with an infinite patience, rooted up, got their police reports, set on their feet, or exported to my patient land. And he would do it quite inarticulately, set in motion by seeing a child crying in the street. He would wrestle with dictionaries, in that unfamiliar tongue.... Well, he could not bear to see a child cry. Perhaps he could not bear to see a woman and not give her the comfort of his physical attractions. But, although I liked him so intensely, I was rather apt to take these things for granted. They made me feel comfortable with him, good towards him; they made me trust him. But I guess I thought it was part of the character of any English gentleman. Why, one day he got it into his head that the head waiter at the Excelsior had been crying—the fellow with the grey face and grey whiskers. And then he spent the best part of a week, in correspondence and up at the British consul’s, in getting the fellow’s wife to come back from London and bring back his girl baby. She had bolted with a Swiss scullion. If she had not come inside the week he would have gone to London himself to fetch her. He was like that. Edward Ashburnham was like that, and I thought it was only the duty of his rank and station. Perhaps that was all that it was—but I pray God to make me discharge mine as well. And, but for the poor girl, I daresay that I should never have seen it, however much the feeling might have been over me. She had for him such enthusiasm that, although even now I do not understand the technicalities of English life, I can gather enough. She was with them during the whole of our last stay at Nauheim.
Nancy Rufford was her name; she was Leonora’s only friend’s only child, and Leonora was her guardian, if that is the correct term. She had lived with the Ashburnhams ever since she had been of the age of thirteen, when her mother was said to have committed suicide owing to the brutalities of her father. Yes, it is a cheerful story.... Edward always called her “the girl”, and it was very pretty, the evident affection he had for her and she for him. And Leonora’s feet she would have kissed—those two were for her the best man and the best woman on earth—and in heaven. I think that she had not a thought of evil in her head—the poor girl....
Well, anyhow, she chanted Edward’s praises to me for the hour together, but, as I have said, I could not make much of it. It appeared that he had the D.S.O., and that his troop loved him beyond the love of men. You never saw such a troop as his. And he had the Royal Humane Society’s medal with a clasp. That meant, apparently, that he had twice jumped off the deck of a troopship to rescue what the girl called “Tommies”, who had fallen overboard in the Red Sea and such places. He had been twice recommended for the V.C., whatever that might mean, and, although owing to some technicalities he had never received that apparently coveted order, he had some special place about his sovereign at the coronation. Or perhaps it was some post in the Beefeaters’. She made him out like a cross between Lohengrin and the Chevalier Bayard. Perhaps he was.... But he was too silent a fellow to make that side of him really decorative. I remember going to him at about that time and asking him what the D.S.O. was, and he grunted out:
“It’s a sort of a thing they give grocers who’ve honourably supplied the troops with adulterated coffee in war-time”—something of that sort. He did not quite carry conviction to me, so, in the end, I put it directly to Leonora. I asked her fully and squarely—prefacing the question with some remarks, such as those that I have already given you, as to the difficulty one has in really getting to know people when one’s intimacy is conducted as an English acquaintanceship—I asked her whether her husband was not really a splendid fellow—along at least the lines of his public functions. She looked at me with a slightly awakened air—with an air that would have been almost startled if Leonora could ever have been startled.
“Didn’t you know?” she asked. “If I come to think of it there is not a more splendid fellow in any three counties, pick them where you will—along those lines.” And she added, after she had looked at me reflectively for what seemed a long time:
“To do my husband justice there could not be a better man on the earth. There would not be room for it—along those lines.”
“Well,” I said, “then he must really be Lohengrin and the Cid in one body. For there are not any other lines that count.”
Again she looked at me for a long time.
“It’s your opinion that there are no other lines that count?” she asked slowly.
“Well,” I answered gaily, “you’re not going to accuse him of not being a good husband, or of not being a good guardian to your ward?”
She spoke then, slowly, like a person who is listening to the sounds in a sea-shell held to her ear—and, would you believe it?—she told me afterwards that, at that speech of mine, for the first time she had a vague inkling of the tragedy that was to follow so soon—although the girl had lived with them for eight years or so:
“Oh, I’m not thinking of saying that he is not the best of husbands, or that he is not very fond of the girl.”
And then I said something like:
“Well, Leonora, a man sees more of these things than even a wife. And, let me tell you, that in all the years I’ve known Edward he has never, in your absence, paid a moment’s attention to any other woman—not by the quivering of an eyelash. I should have noticed. And he talks of you as if you were one of the angels of God.”
“Oh,” she came up to the scratch, as you could be sure Leonora would always come up to the scratch, “I am perfectly sure that he always speaks nicely of me.”
I daresay she had practice in that sort of scene—people must have been always complimenting her on her husband’s fidelity and adoration. For half the world—the whole of the world that knew Edward and Leonora believed that his conviction in the Kilsyte affair had been a miscarriage of justice—a conspiracy of false evidence, got together by Nonconformist adversaries. But think of the fool that I was....
Let me think where we were. Oh, yes... that conversation took place on the 4th of August, 1913. I remember saying to her that, on that day, exactly nine years before, I had made their acquaintance, so that it had seemed quite appropriate and like a birthday speech to utter my little testimonial to my friend Edward. I could quite confidently say that, though we four had been about together in all sorts of places, for all that length of time, I had not, for my part, one single complaint to make of either of them. And I added, that that was an unusual record for people who had been so much together. You are not to imagine that it was only at Nauheim that we met. That would not have suited Florence.
I find, on looking at my diaries, that on the 4th of September, 1904, Edward accompanied Florence and myself to Paris, where we put him up till the twenty-first of that month. He made another short visit to us in December of that year—the first year of our acquaintance. It must have been during this visit that he knocked Mr Jimmy’s teeth down his throat. I daresay Florence had asked him to come over for that purpose. In 1905 he was in Paris three times—once with Leonora, who wanted some frocks. In 1906 we spent the best part of six weeks together at Mentone, and Edward stayed with us in Paris on his way back to London. That was how it went.
The fact was that in Florence the poor wretch had got hold of a Tartar, compared with whom Leonora was a sucking kid. He must have had a hell of a time. Leonora wanted to keep him for—what shall I say—for the good of her church, as it were, to show that Catholic women do not lose their men. Let it go at that, for the moment. I will write more about her motives later, perhaps. But Florence was sticking on to the proprietor of the home of her ancestors. No doubt he was also a very passionate lover. But I am convinced that he was sick of Florence within three years of even interrupted companionship and the life that she led him....
If ever Leonora so much as mentioned in a letter that they had had a woman staying with them—or, if she so much as mentioned a woman’s name in a letter to me—off would go a desperate cable in cipher to that poor wretch at Branshaw, commanding him on pain of an instant and horrible disclosure to come over and assure her of his fidelity. I daresay he would have faced it out; I daresay he would have thrown over Florence and taken the risk of exposure. But there he had Leonora to deal with. And Leonora assured him that, if the minutest fragment of the real situation ever got through to my senses, she would wreak upon him the most terrible vengeance that she could think of. And he did not have a very easy job. Florence called for more and more attentions from him as the time went on. She would make him kiss her at any moment of the day; and it was only by his making it plain that a divorced lady could never assume a position in the county of Hampshire that he could prevent her from making a bolt of it with him in her train. Oh, yes, it was a difficult job for him.
For Florence, if you please, gaining in time a more composed view of nature, and overcome by her habits of garrulity, arrived at a frame of mind in which she found it almost necessary to tell me all about it—nothing less than that. She said that her situation was too unbearable with regard to me.
She proposed to tell me all, secure a divorce from me, and go with Edward and settle in California.... I do not suppose that she was really serious in this. It would have meant the extinction of all hopes of Branshaw Manor for her. Besides she had got it into her head that Leonora, who was as sound as a roach, was consumptive. She was always begging Leonora, before me, to go and see a doctor. But, none the less, poor Edward seems to have believed in her determination to carry him off. He would not have gone; he cared for his wife too much. But, if Florence had put him at it, that would have meant my getting to know of it, and his incurring Leonora’s vengeance. And she could have made it pretty hot for him in ten or a dozen different ways. And she assured me that she would have used every one of them. She was determined to spare my feelings. And she was quite aware that, at that date, the hottest she could have made it for him would have been to refuse, herself, ever to see him again....
Well, I think I have made it pretty clear. Let me come to the 4th of August, 1913, the last day of my absolute ignorance—and, I assure you, of my perfect happiness. For the coming of that dear girl only added to it all.
On that 4th of August I was sitting in the lounge with a rather odious Englishman called Bagshawe, who had arrived that night, too late for dinner. Leonora had just gone to bed and I was waiting for Florence and Edward and the girl to come back from a concert at the Casino. They had not gone there all together. Florence, I remember, had said at first that she would remain with Leonora, and me, and Edward and the girl had gone off alone. And then Leonora had said to Florence with perfect calmness:
“I wish you would go with those two. I think the girl ought to have the appearance of being chaperoned with Edward in these places. I think the time has come.” So Florence, with her light step, had slipped out after them. She was all in black for some cousin or other. Americans are particular in those matters.
We had gone on sitting in the lounge till towards ten, when Leonora had gone up to bed. It had been a very hot day, but there it was cool. The man called Bagshawe had been reading The Times on the other side of the room, but then he moved over to me with some trifling question as a prelude to suggesting an acquaintance. I fancy he asked me something About the poll-tax on Kur-guests, and whether it could not be sneaked out of. He was that sort of person.
Well, he was an unmistakable man, with a military figure, rather exaggerated, with bulbous eyes that avoided your own, and a pallid complexion that suggested vices practised in secret along with an uneasy desire for making acquaintance at whatever cost.... The filthy toad... .
He began by telling me that he came from Ludlow Manor, near Ledbury. The name had a slightly familiar sound, though I could not fix it in my mind. Then he began to talk about a duty on hops, about Californian hops, about Los Angeles, where he had been. He fencing for a topic with which he might gain my affection.
And then, quite suddenly, in the bright light of the street, I saw Florence running. It was like that—I saw Florence running with a face whiter than paper and her hand on the black stuff over her heart. I tell you, my own heart stood still; I tell you I could not move. She rushed in at the swing doors. She looked round that place of rush chairs, cane tables and newspapers. She saw me and opened her lips. She saw the man who was talking to me. She stuck her hands over her face as if she wished to push her eyes out. And she was not there any more.
I could not move; I could not stir a finger. And then that man said:
“By Jove: Florry Hurlbird.” He turned upon me with an oily and uneasy sound meant for a laugh. He was really going to ingratiate himself with me. “Do you know who that is?” he asked. “The last time I saw that girl she was coming out of the bedroom of a young man called Jimmy at five o’clock in the morning. In my house at Ledbury. You saw her recognize me.” He was standing on his feet, looking down at me. I don’t know what I looked like. At any rate, he gave a sort of gurgle and then stuttered:
“Oh, I say....” Those were the last words I ever heard of Mr Bagshawe’s. A long time afterwards I pulled myself out of the lounge and went up to Florence’s room. She had not locked the door—for the first time of our married life. She was lying, quite respectably arranged, unlike Mrs Maidan, on her bed. She had a little phial that rightly should have contained nitrate of amyl, in her right hand. That was on the 4th of August, 1913. | <urn:uuid:196d22c3-13be-49e4-976f-697e1431f5f0> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://modernistweb.com/page/prose/21/Part+Two | 2024-04-17T09:35:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.993224 | 9,859 |
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Unlike the opaque folks up at Morningside Heights, it appears that the good burghers in Cambridge are really trying to accommodate the interests of the community into which the university is expanding. According to a report Harvard and the city of Boston "aim to balance the university's academic and residential needs with the surrounding community's..."
A key feature of this accommodation is the provision of affordable housing for local residents. As the Harvard Crimson reports, "Harvard has also provided $20 million in grants and low interest loans for development and purchase of affordable housing." Clearly, as the Spectator reports today the posture of Columbia is much less generous. As LDC head Pat Jones says about the university's letter to the board, "'I think it is rather vague and unspecific'...It makes no direct reference to the creation of affordable housing."
In addition, "The city's plan stresses the need to preserve local jobs and provide transitional help for workers and local businesses affected by Harvard's expansion..." Wow, a city concerned for local business, how refreshing! It appears that Mayor Bloomberg's concern for local business is restricted to the area of lower Manhattan, closer to Wall Street. | <urn:uuid:1c33bdb4-8ad2-45cd-a189-4592395a647b> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://momandpopnyc.blogspot.com/2007/02/harvard-expansion-turns-columbia.html | 2024-04-17T10:01:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.956439 | 234 |
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📢🗣 Gotovo sve predložene izmjene Zakona o slobodnom pristupu informacijama sužavaju postojeća prava građana! ❌@IA_Alternativa @HRA_MNE @CeMI_ME CEGAS https://t.co/SPsAbJx7kW pic.twitter.com/s4QgTEQkHn
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As previously reported on the CIVICUS Monitor, access to information has been highlighted as a consistent issue which hampers investigative journalism in Montenegro. In late October 2019, civil society actors raised concerns over proposed changes to the Law on Free Access to Information which could undermine freedom of expression. MANS, an anti-corruption NGO in Montenegro, and Access Info Europe completed a legal analysis of the proposals which found several problems with the wording of the draft proposal. These include:
- Adding broad blanket exclusions on the right of freedom of information;
- Allowing authorities the ability to reject what they define as “unreasonable” requests;
- Narrowing the right to cover only information that is of “public importance”;
- Including exceptions that are not permitted under international law;
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On 6th November 2019, five NGOs called on the Ministry for Public Administration to revise the proposals to align with constitutional commitments, international conventions and the standards set by the European Court of Human Rights. In a statement, the organisations said:
"The draft introduces systematic restrictions on access to information, new grounds for hiding information, abolishes existing citizens' rights and obligations of authorities, and does not resolve problems in practice that lead to multiple violations of rights and the absence of any responsibility. Almost all proposed amendments to the Act narrow the existing rights of citizens."
The CSOs called on Montenegrin authorities to immediately retract the changes and uphold numerous commitments to freedom of expression.
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In a separate incident, Montenegro has witnessed a sharp increase in online attacks against the LGBTI community. The CSO, LGBT Forum Progress noted that in the timeframe of 30 days in 2019, there were over 60 cases of hate speech and discrimination on the internet targeted at members of the LGBTI community. These mainly consisted of negative comments and threats of physical violence against LGBTI people and their allies. In a statement, the group said:
“It is with great regret that we have to state that the phenomenon of hate speech and discrimination on social networks and the Internet is not going away in Montenegro, and that the LGBTIQ community is regularly targeted by threats, humiliation and hatred in general by individuals in the virtual space."
The group highlighted that recent parliamentary discussions regarding same-sex marriage have created an environment of heightened aggression aimed at the community. As previously reported by the CIVICUS Monitor, discussions around same-sex marriage in Montenegro have been ongoing since April 2018. Yet, in another recent study, The Centre for Civil Education, found that after 2 months of observation in 2019 that the media reporting of LGBTI issues is dominantly positive and neutral. Onlookers have described this conclusion as indicative of a progressive stance in the media, which is yet to be accepted by conservative elements of Montenegrin society.
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1. Get started Promoting Throughout Meta Applied sciences
Posts as opposed to advertisements
Companies can create posts about their services on a Fb Web page to construct their manufacturers on-line. This content material is exhibited to their Web page fans. When companies wish to achieve individuals who don’t seem to be already aware of their services, they are able to put it up for sale on Meta applied sciences. Commercials seem with a Subsidized label.
Boosting a publish
Boosted posts are advertisements you create from present posts to your Fb Web page or Instagram. Boosting a publish let you get extra messages, engagement, leads or calls. You might also achieve new people who find themselves most likely on your Web page or industry, however don’t lately apply you.
Companies can create new advertisements from a Fb Web page with out the use of present posts by way of clicking the Advertise button. Other advert varieties and settings are to be had relying on every industry’ distinctive targets.
You’ll advertise an present publish or Tale and switch it into an advert on Instagram.
Meta Trade Suite
Meta Trade Suite permits you to organize all your hooked up accounts throughout Fb and Instagram in a single position. You’ll:
- Create, time table and organize posts and Tales throughout your Fb Web page and Instagram account.
- Hook up with extra consumers by way of responding to all your messages in a single position.
- View insights about how individuals are interacting with posts, Tales and advertisements.
- Get right of entry to Meta Trade Suite by means of desktop and cellular app.
Meta Commercials Supervisor
Meta Commercials Supervisor is the place you organize advert campaigns for your small business throughout Fb, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp and extra. It’s an all-in-one software for developing advertisements, managing when and the place they’ll run and monitoring how smartly campaigns are appearing. Commercials Supervisor is to be had by means of desktop or cellular app.
What makes Commercials Supervisor any such useful gizmo?
You’ll create and organize a couple of advertisements directly. In Commercials Supervisor, you’ll edit settings like target audience, funds and placements, and create duplicates of your advertisements.
Set up a couple of advertisements
You’ll additionally monitor information, assessment how smartly your advertisements carry out, view up-to-date information on efficiency and time table reviews.
Review advert efficiency
While you view effects at an account degree and the next degree, you’ll see how your campaigns are doing, practice breakdowns to peer the metrics you care about and create or time table advert reviews.
Each non-public Fb account has an related Commercials Supervisor account, however advertisers will want permission from a Fb Web page or Instagram Trade Account to create advertisements.
Getting began with Commercials Supervisor
- Remember to have a Fb Web page. When you create a Web page, you’ll robotically have a Commercials Supervisor account.
- As soon as within Commercials Supervisor, get right of entry to the advert account settings tab to verify account data, equivalent to:
- Time zone
- Spend prohibit
- Type of fee
To begin operating advertisements, whole those steps:
- Pass on your Commercials Supervisor and try your robotically assigned account ID quantity, foreign money and time zone. It’s possible you’ll exchange your foreign money and time zone, however doing so will create a brand new Commercials Supervisor account.
- Below Trade Data, make a selection promoting objective, industry identify and industry deal with. This data is for felony functions, as there could also be restrictions on positive sorts of promoting on your area.
- Arrange your fee approach and set an account spending prohibit.
Marketing campaign construction
In Commercials Supervisor, marketing campaign construction is composed of 3 ranges:
- Marketing campaign
- Advert set
The following chart supplies an outline of the precise marketing campaign parts you keep an eye on at every degree.
NOTE: The marketing campaign ranges and their parts could also be to be had out of doors of the series represented within the chart. On the other hand, the series represented is supposed that can assist you know how the whole thing is pieced in combination.
- Meta advertisements lend a hand companies achieve new consumers and seem with a Subsidized label.
- Spice up a Web page publish, advertise an Instagram publish or create an advert from the advertise button to your Web page to put it up for sale on Instagram and Fb.
- Use Commercials Supervisor to create and organize coordinated campaigns.
- Marketing campaign construction is composed of 3 ranges: marketing campaign, advert set and advertisements.
2. Align your small business function on your advert purpose
Fit a industry function to the right kind marketing campaign purpose
Commercials Supervisor gives a number of other marketing campaign goals for you to choose between. Sooner than opting for your marketing campaign purpose, it’s vital to outline your small business function, so you’ll align that with the corresponding purpose. Selecting the proper purpose is vital, as it’s going to decide how Meta makes a decision to ship your advertisements.
Lately, we provide six goals spanning 3 phases of the patron adventure:
Consciousness: Those are goals that lend a hand generate hobby in a industry’ merchandise or products and services. Expanding emblem consciousness is set telling other people what makes a industry treasured.
Attention: Those are goals that get other people to consider a industry’ choices and search extra details about them.
Conversion: Those are goals that inspire people who find themselves thinking about a industry to take a particular motion, equivalent to making a purchase order.
- Take into accounts your small business function when developing your advert marketing campaign, with the intention to make a selection probably the most related advert purpose.
- There are 3 classes of advert goals: Consciousness, Attention and Conversion.
- There are six advert goals in general: Consciousness, Site visitors, Engagement, App promotions, Leads and Gross sales.
3. Outline who sees your advertisements
Outline your target audience
- Determine the desires, traits and motivations of a industry’ very best target audience you need to achieve to lend a hand form the target audience when developing an advert.
- In line with the phase of the target audience you need to succeed in, you’ll create a brand new target audience, Customized Target audience or lookalike target audience in Commercials Supervisor.
Developing a brand new target audience lets you outline the demographics, pursuits and behaviors of the individuals who see your advertisements. A brand new target audience may also be as large or outlined as you need.
Customized Audiences assist you reconnect with individuals who have already proven hobby in your small business. This contains individuals who up to now visited your website online or downloaded your app. As an example,
you’ll add your touch checklist, equivalent to e-newsletter subscribers, to connect to those consumers throughout Meta applied sciences.
Lookalike audiences allow you to to succeed in new people who find themselves very similar to your present consumers. A lookalike target audience is a gaggle that stocks an identical traits with an present target audience. Lookalike audiences are a great way to connect to new people who find themselves most likely to reply to your advertisements.
Audiences are created and controlled on the advert set degree.
New target audience
New target audience is the default target audience for an advert set in Commercials Supervisor. To outline a brand new target audience, you’ll make a selection traits equivalent to location, demographics, pursuits, behaviors and connections.
Customized Target audience
Companies can use other assets of data to create Customized Audiences. To create a Customized Target audience, make a selection “Create new target audience.” Subsequent, make a selection “Create new,” which can open a dropdown menu. Then make a selection “Customized Target audience” from the dropdown menu and make a selection your supply.
Lookalike target audience
To create a lookalike target audience, apply the similar first steps as you possibly can when making a Customized Target audience. Choose “Create new,” and make a selection “Lookalike Target audience” from the dropdown menu.
- Determine the desires, traits and motivations of your small business’ very best target audience to lend a hand form your audience when developing an advert.
- Create Customized Audiences to succeed in consumers who’re already engaged with your small business.
- Use lookalike audiences to succeed in people who find themselves very similar to your present consumers.
4. Set your funds, placement and time table
Advert funds, Sorts of funds:
There are two funds choices to maximise your advert spend:
Day-to-day funds: The common quantity you’re prepared to spend on an advert set or marketing campaign on a daily basis
Lifetime funds: The volume you’re prepared to spend over all of the length of an advert set or marketing campaign
A life-time funds allows you to maximize effects and stay general prices as little as conceivable. A day by day funds restricts Meta applied sciences’ talent to discover alternatives around the life of a marketing campaign.
Price range technique
- Merit marketing campaign funds is an choice to be had on the marketing campaign degree that lets you set one overarching marketing campaign funds as a substitute of surroundings person advert set budgets. This funds optimization has the versatility to spend extra on advert units with the most efficient alternatives, and no more on underperforming advert units. (This used to be up to now referred to as Marketing campaign Price range Optimization.)
- Particular person advert set budgets assist you set a person funds according to advert set, so you may have extra keep an eye on over how a lot funds is getting allotted to an advert set.
- Use the estimated target audience dimension and estimated day by day effects equipment to gauge what your effects could also be with a particular funds and make adjustments if wanted.
How advert pricing works
Relying at the advert purpose you select, you’ll be charged in line with both impressions, clicks or movements.
- Impressions: You’re charged for each and every 1,000 impressions you obtain on a marketing campaign, often referred to as charge according to 1,000 impressions (CPM).
- Clicks: You’re charged for each and every click on on an advert, often referred to as charge according to click on (CPC).
- Movements: You’re charged each and every time any individual completes the motion you need, often referred to as charge according to motion (CPA).
Why are my advertisements no longer attaining a bigger target audience?
There are a number of explanation why your advertisements may have low achieve:
- Your advert set funds is just too low. (This may impact estimated day by day achieve and general advert effects.)
- Your target audience is just too small/slim.
- You’ve misjudged your target audience.
Your advertisements estimated day by day effects can exchange in line with the marketing campaign purpose decided on.
- While you create an advert in Commercials Supervisor, you’ll make a selection how you need it to look throughout Fb, Messenger, Instagram and Meta Target audience Community. Target audience Community permits advertisers to increase their advert campaigns to a community of third-party apps.
- Meta recommends Merit+ placements because it most often leads to the most productive use of the cheap, as it lets you ship advert content material the place it’s possibly to reach marketing campaign effects on the lowest conceivable charge at any given time.
- If you choose handbook placements, you’ll make a selection the place an advert will seem throughout other Meta applied sciences. Deciding on a number of other placements will mean you can to succeed in your audience and maximize your funds.
- You’ll additionally use Merit marketing campaign funds and Merit+ placements in combination. That is probably the most versatile bid technique and provides probably the most scale. This technique will at all times bid the quantity to attenuate the price according to outcome whilst keeping up your funds. This allows you to get probably the most effects on your funds, although prices upward push right through the marketing campaign.
• Choose advert placement on the advert set degree in Commercials Supervisor.
- You’ll set a day by day funds or a life-time funds. To optimize advert spend throughout your advert units, use Merit marketing campaign funds.
- Commercials run via Commercials Supervisor can seem throughout Fb, Messenger, Instagram and Target audience Community.
- Use estimated target audience dimension and estimated day by day effects to gauge your effects and make adjustments if wanted.
- Use equipment like Merit marketing campaign funds and Merit+ placements in combination to make sure an advert marketing campaign stays winning through the years.
5. Ingenious advert codecs and techniques
Design advertisements with an purpose in thoughts
It’s vital to choose footage or movies on your advert along with your purpose in thoughts to instructed other people to take the motion you’re in search of. Believe those 3 questions when designing your advert:
What am I promoting that may lend a hand reach my industry targets right through the length my advert will run?
What types of pictures, movies and quick textual content can lend a hand me reach my industry targets whilst being introduced within the to be had advert codecs?
Who’re my advertisements intended for, and the way can the ingenious captivate the target audience I’m concentrated on my advertisements to?
- Symbol and video advertisements
- Carousel advertisements: Presentations as much as 10 pictures and movies inside a unmarried advert, every with its personal URL
- Slideshow advertisements: Custom designed, fine quality advertisements that mix a couple of pictures, textual content and sound to seize consideration and inform a tale
- Assortment advertisements: Pairs pictures and video in combination
- Speedy Revel in: Fullscreen, post-click revel in that permits you to convey your small business to lifestyles on cellular
Ingenious best possible practices for cellular stories
- Get consideration briefly: Characteristic the product or industry message throughout the first 3 seconds, so other people see and commit it to memory.
- Design for hold forth: Other people ceaselessly watch movies with the hold forth. Use textual content, graphics and captions each time conceivable.
- Create for cellular: Test your facet ratio to verify your symbol or video is perfect for cellular viewing. Make certain your matter is apparent and that your textual content is legible.
- Be transparent: Write captions that experience a transparent call-to-action and inform your small business tale.
- Have a constant feel and appear:
A constant emblem will lend a hand other people acknowledge your small business, regardless of the place they have interaction or connect to it. - Create a content material calendar: A content material calendar is helping you propose your social media posts by way of serving to you prepare what you’re going to percentage, when you’re going to percentage it and the place you’re going to percentage it.
- Use tags: Building up your achieve and discoverability by way of including hashtags, location tags or mentions on your posts.
Make certain the advert layout you choose is suitable with the advert purpose.
Create advertisements that spotlight how the services or products can be utilized in a transparent and constant way.
Optimize your advertisements for the cellular revel in.
6. Optimize Meta answers
Meta Pixel and the Conversions API
The Meta Pixel and the Conversions API are tough Meta Trade Equipment that may lend a hand optimize promoting spend via dimension of purchaser movements on industry web pages and data that buyers supply.
- The Meta Pixel is a small piece of code that may be added to a industry’ website online to lend a hand fortify effects, measure effects extra as it should be and construct new audiences to focus on.
- Companies can use the Meta Pixel to measure explicit buyer movements and observe the metrics related to their industry targets.
- Very similar to the Meta Pixel, the Conversions API offers advertisers the power to glue and percentage their buyer information to focus on, optimize and measure Fb and Instagram advert campaigns. Companies must undertake the Conversions API along with the Meta Pixel. This is helping maximize efficiency for marketing campaign concentrated on, optimization and dimension throughout Meta applied sciences.
Upload the Meta Pixel to a website online
There are a number of techniques so as to add the Meta Pixel to a website online:
Attach a spouse platform
When companies use companions, they are able to set up the Meta Pixel with out enhancing the code on their web pages. Companions too can lend a hand scale advert introduction and reporting, in addition to obtain and assessment the movements other people take.
Handbook set up
To arrange the Meta Pixel your self, replica and paste the bottom code into your website online code.
How does Conversions API paintings?
The Conversions API is designed to lend a hand keep information high quality and beef up advertisers’ efforts to recognize other people’s privateness. It supplies higher information keep an eye on when carried out one after the other from the Meta Pixel, a much broader vary of knowledge to lead your promoting and bolstered information sharing.
Lend a hand enhance information sharing:
Information sharing in the course of the Conversions API could also be extra dependable than browser-based strategies, for the reason that Conversions API is designed to be much less at risk of problems equivalent to browser crashes and connectivity problems.
With the Conversions API, advertisers can use a much broader array of knowledge to lead their promoting than with the Meta Pixel on my own, equivalent to CRM information, decrease funnel occasions (together with certified leads) and multi-site conversion paths.
Use the Conversions API in conjunction with the Meta Pixel to maximise the knowledge you percentage with Meta applied sciences. Extra dependable information connection allows you to proceed to supply other people.
Usual and customized website online occasions
Occasions are movements that occur to your website online, equivalent to making a purchase order or including an merchandise to a cart. As other people engage with your small business, you’ll percentage the ones occasions with Meta techologies via integration strategies just like the Conversions API and the Meta Pixel.
There are two sorts of occasions:
Usual occasions are movements that Meta applied sciences acknowledges and helps throughout advert merchandise. Examples come with Upload fee data, Upload to cart, Upload to wishlist, Acquire and Subscribe.
Customized occasions assist you monitor any website online motion that falls out of doors the ones coated by way of usual occasions on Meta applied sciences, equivalent to e-newsletter registration. If predefined usual occasions aren’t appropriate, companies can create their very own customized occasions.
Run A/B assessments
A/B assessments can help you examine two variations of an advert to determine which one plays higher. There are two sorts of occasions:
- Arrange an A/B check on the marketing campaign, advert set or advert degree in Commercials Supervisor.
- Your target audience is divided and every subgroup is served a marketing campaign, advert set or advert that differs by way of just one variable. The ones variables are advert ingenious, target audience, placement, product units and advert supply.
- A/B assessments will cut up your funds similarly and randomly divide publicity between every model of your ingenious, target audience or placement. A/B checking out can then measure the efficiency of every technique on
a cost-per-result or cost-per conversion- elevate foundation. - As soon as the check is done, you’re going to be supplied effects on its efficiency. The most productive appearing advert technique shall be indexed beneath the segment titled “Successful advert used to be discovered.” You’re going to additionally see effects on every advert technique that used to be examined, equivalent to charge according to effects, impressions and spend.
The Meta Pixel is a small piece of code that may be added to a industry’ website online to lend a hand fortify effects, measure effects
extra as it should be and construct new audiences to focus on advertisements to.
The Conversions API is designed to create an immediate connection between your advertising and marketing information and the programs, which is helping optimize advert concentrated on, decreases charge according to motion and measures effects throughout Meta applied sciences.
Use A/B assessments to match marketing campaign variables equivalent to ingenious, target audience, placement, product units and supply optimization
Meta Commercials Supervisor
Reporting in Commercials Supervisor let you decide how shut a industry is to attaining its promoting targets.
- You’ll use the metrics in Commercials Supervisor to be informed what labored smartly and what may also be advanced, which will tell long run advert campaigns. You’ll additionally use the metrics in Commercials Supervisor to optimize advertisements whilst they’re operating.
Within the Commercials Supervisor dashboard, you’ll see every degree of the marketing campaign (marketing campaign, advert set and advert). That is the place you’ll view and examine the efficiency of previous and present campaigns, advert units and advertisements the use of metrics related to the marketing campaign purpose.
Campaigns tab: On this tab, data within the dashboard shall be arranged by way of advert marketing campaign. The dashboard will robotically display you an inventory of lively and inactive campaigns, the efficiency of every marketing campaign and extra.
Advert units tab: On this tab, data within the dashboard shall be
arranged by way of advert set. You’ll slim the checklist of advert units proven right here to a particular marketing campaign by way of settling on a marketing campaign within the Campaigns tab.
Commercials tab: On this tab, data within the dashboard is arranged by way of advert. Data contains advert high quality diagnostics.
Effects metrics inform you what number of people an advert marketing campaign has reached and the effects it completed.
That is the collection of instances an advert completed an result, in line with the target and advert supply optimization decided on.
That is the quantity of people that noticed the advertisements at least one time. Achieve isn’t the same as impressions, which would possibly come with a couple of perspectives of advertisements by way of the similar other people.
This measures how ceaselessly the advertisements have been on display for the chosen target audience.
Value metrics inform you how the advert funds is being spent.
Quantity spent: That is the estimated general spent on a marketing campaign. As an example, this column would possibly show $0.00 for a marketing campaign that’s in evaluate, or $6.57 for a marketing campaign that used to be just lately authorized and began operating. This quantity must at all times be not up to the funds.
Value according to outcome: This metric is calculated as the entire quantity spent divided by way of the collection of effects. This means how cost-efficiently the marketing campaign completed its advert goals.
To judge the good fortune of a marketing campaign, examine the metrics and targets set previous to the marketing campaign release with the marketing campaign outcome and price metrics. Search for spaces for
development inside a marketing campaign in line with its effects, such because the alignment of commercial targets to advert goals, in addition to funds distribution.
Different ways to check efficiency
Insights on Fb
Insights on Fb supply details about your Web page’s efficiency, like demographic information about your target audience and the way individuals are responding on your posts.
You’ll simplest get right of entry to Web page information on Insights from the closing two years, and demographic information equivalent to age, gender and placement are to be had as soon as there may be information for 100 or extra other people.
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Moving to a new Maple Ridge home is a major undertaking. It’s important to entrust your personal belongings to a reliable moving company. However, selecting the right movers in Maple Ridge can prove almost as stressful as the move itself. With so many providers vying for your business, you need to enter the process armed with information on what to look for before making your final choice.
Professional Movers In Maple Ridge: What To Look For
The first step in finding professional movers is putting together a list of prospective providers. Reach out to your personal network for referrals. After you’ve gathered potential vendors, you will want to do an Internet search to read reviews. Online information coupled with the input from your friends an family will help you gauge reputable companies in the area.
Next, get ready to do a little old school phone talking. Call every potential mover to discuss your needs with a salesperson. During your call, gather as much relevant information as possible. Full company name, years in operation, mailing address, website and email address are just some of the many critical details you should discuss. Also, talk about current promotions and discounts that the company may offer.
When screening a firm, you will want details on how they manage scheduling. Ask if they have availability on your move date and confirm that you can’t get bumped if you do decides to move forward with them as your movers in Maple Ridge. Less reputable companies won’t confirm you place on the schedule and should be dismissed from the process immediately. Before hanging up, ask for references and check them.
Finally, always request written estimates from your three front running companies. Never accept a verbal quote alone. Ask each vendor to provide costs in writing, with a detailed outline of what you will be charged for. After you’ve had a chance to compare your notes as well as the written estimates, you should have all you need to make an informed final decision about movers in Maple Ridge. | <urn:uuid:d423495d-4361-46b2-9d61-85069d23b1c4> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://mountain-movers.ca/how-to-select-a-local-and-reliable-moving-company/ | 2024-04-17T08:16:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.954587 | 405 |
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His Holiness the 33rd Abbot of Menri tasked Geshe Sonam to translate with Dan Brown several key Bon Dzogchen texts. The translated texts included The Six Lamps, and Twenty-one Nails, respectively written and transmitted by Tapihritsa, from the Zhang-Zhang Oral Dzogchen Transmission and Bru Galway Yungdrung’s Pith Instruction for A-Tri Dzogchen.
In addition to these three foundational texts, His Holiness the 33rd Abbot of Menri requested that Geshe Sonam and Dan Brown translate three different collections of the 20th century Dzogchen Master Shardza Rinpoche’s commentary on Dzogchen. The most concise of Shardza Rinpoche’s commentaries translated is the Heart Drops of Kuntuzangpo. In increasing detail this was followed by the Kusum Rangshar (Self Arising Threefold Embodiment of Enlightenment), which expounds on the A-Tri meditation manual and describes in detail additional advanced yogic practices, and, then the most extensive of the three Dzogchen commentaries, The Precious Treasury of the Expanse and Liveliness of Awaken Awareness.
Having completed the initial translation of the body of work Geshe Sonam will be teaching the from the texts to the international community teaming with advanced practitioners who have already developed some capacity. It is envisioned that with a collaborative network of advanced practitioners the translations with be enhanced, specific guidance and instruction appropriate for the 21st Century will emerge, thus fulfilling His Holiness the 33rd Abbot of Menri’s request to provide the teachings in a manner that is more easily realized by global practitioners. | <urn:uuid:551dc844-0ae9-4c26-9fa1-f37576cee833> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://mustangbonfoundation.org/translations/ | 2024-04-17T10:13:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.898215 | 354 |
In a new interview with The Guardian, 44-year-old Orlando Bloom opened up about his intimate life with 36-year-old Katy Perry, with whom they are rumored to have already tied the knot. So, the actor admitted that the birth of his daughter Daisy with the singer in August last year changed their priorities. When asked how often he and Perry have sex, Bloom said that they have too little intimacy.
We don't have enough sex. We just had a baby,
It is not the first time that Bloom has spoken openly about her personal life. A year ago, in an interview, he admitted that he had abstained from sex for six months until he met Katie. According to the actor, this experience helped him change his attitude towards women, but he added that it was not healthy, so he is unlikely to recommend this practice to others.
Bloom is now focused on raising his youngest daughter (the actor also has a 10-year-old son, Flynn, with Miranda Kerr). The actor admitted that he now feels less anxiety and anxiety than he did with his son, and spends more time with his daughter — he really likes the daily routine.
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Find a reading group
Reading groups are a great way to meet new people and share a love of reading. Our libraries host friendly and informal reading groups which meet once a month and read a wide selection of books – mainly fiction – from debut authors to classics. Find a group near you or ask at your local library for more details. New members are always welcome.
Start a reading group
We support community reading groups in a variety of venues. If you would like to start your own, our free service for reading groups can help. Reading groups meet in a variety of places, from private homes to pubs and cafes. It might be possible for your group to meet in your local library – ask the staff in your branch.
Register your group
Fill out our registration form for new groups, giving us all the details we need to support you. We’ll create a library card for your group, which we’ll keep at the library.
You can also register your group on the Reading Groups for Everyone site where you can also find out what other groups across the country are reading and apply for publisher offers.
Choose what to read
We have over 300 titles available for reading groups to borrow, ranging from debut novels to classics. Have a look at our stock lists.
Borrowing sets of books
We can lend you multiple copies of your chosen titles (usually up to 12 copies). We may also be able to provide the title in other formats such as large print or audio.
There is a book request form for groups which we ask you to use. We recommend you suggest enough titles for the first year and we’re grateful if you could also use the space to fill in some reserve choices in case we’re not able to provide you with one of your chosen titles. We’ll notify your group contact when your set of books is ready to collect. Please return books promptly after use so they become available for others to use.
Tips for reading group discussions
It can be helpful to do a bit of research before the meeting, e.g. print off information about the novel from the author’s website, find interviews with the author or look at reviews. You can take it in turns to do this.
A useful suggestion is for all members to come to the meeting with one question/talking point prepared beforehand - this way everyone feels involved and the onus doesn’t just fall on one person to provide all the discussion points.
You’ll find that opinions may differ radically but there are no rights or wrongs - everyone’s opinion of a book is equally valid.
It’s best to ask open-ended questions to keep a discussion going. Ask What did you think of the book? rather than Did you like the book?
Try to get people to explain their reactions. If they didn’t like the book ask them to explain why - was it the characters or the style of writing, for example?
General discussion questions could include:
- what were your reactions to the book?
- what did you think about the author’s style
- could you relate to the characters?
- what were the book’s main themes?
- was there a section of the book you wish the author had spent more/less time on?
- did it get off to a slow start or were you straight in?
- was it what you expected?
- how did you feel when you finished the book?
- were you satisfied with the way the book ended?
- would you read this book again?
- did the book remind you of anything else you’ve read?
- is this a book you would recommend to others and why?
- what did you think of the cover - would you have chosen to read it?
- how well did the cover and synopsis represent the book?
- if you gave up on the book, can you explain why you didn’t like it?
Useful websites for reading groups
Useful websites for reading groups
There are many useful websites for reading groups, whether you want help to choose your next book, download a reading guide or share your reviews. Here is a selection to get you started:
Review a book
We love to hear about books that you have read. Why not fill out a book review?
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Oil is finding itself in a rough spot technically as it continues its losing streak from last week to break the double-bottom support seen closer to $65 yesterday.
Price is down by another 1.6% currently in fall to $64.40 as the downside looks to intensify – at least from a technical perspective.
I’ve been an oil bull for quite a period of time already but my conviction has been watered down quite significantly over the past few weeks:
The shift in the technical picture adds reason for a further dip potentially as demand outlook as been dampened by delta variant concerns.
I don’t see anything changing on the supply front so it is looking like things are going to shape up to be more of a risk trade i.e. trade on the global economic outlook and virus situation over the next few weeks at least.
As things stand, I wouldn’t rule out a further drop to the May lows @ $61.58-70 next and a likely test of the 200-day moving average (blue line).
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Commercial zoned ready for your new business! This .42 acre lot is completely level, close to highway 55 at Reavis Barracks and located in between a small neighborhood with homes and a car wash. There is a storage facility across the street. This is a high traffic area and could be perfect for your next business!
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Looking for Myinsite Login, & other useful details such as Schedule Plus, Macy’s, Employee Login, Bloomingdales, Career, etc.
So, please check the important details along with the concerning page links provided below;-
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What is Myinsite?
Myinsite is a cloud-based practice management and electronic health records solution that serves public health agencies.
It provides information about benefits programs, paychecks, company news, and much more for Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s colleagues.
The primary features include clinical and case management, financial management, operational management, family planning, immunization, and wellness initiatives.
The clinical and case management feature allows users to schedule appointments, access patient accounts in real-time, manage orders, medications, and vital signs, maintain confidentiality and adhere to recommendations from Public Health Informatics Institute.
Financial management allows users to manage claims, payer information, medical billing, and general accounting. The operational feature of the solution provides data exchange with HIEs, state registries, and other providers.
How To Myinsite Login
To log in, please follow the steps below;-
- Firstly, click the login link below to open the Myinsite login page.
- Secondly, enter your Employee No / Email / Network ID & Password in the provided fields.
- After that, click the “Login” button to complete the login page.
How To Reset Forgotten Password For Myinsite Login
To reset your forgotten password, please follow the steps below; –
- Firstly, click the link below to open the password reset page.
- Secondly, please enter your Employee ID, & Pin.
- Then, click the “Next” button to reset your password.
Useful Search Details You Should Check
Following are the useful search details that you must check;-
Employees must make an entry to Macy’s my Insite login or Macy’s scheduling through MyHR, a Self-Service destination.
The login portal is www.hr.macys.net. Employees can sign in to my site page using the Colleague & Former Colleague sign-in links.
Sign In. Employee No / Email / Network ID. Password. Remember my username. Forgot/Unlock/Change Password. Mobile Message & Data Rates May Apply.
Cannot be the same as your employee number. … [email protected] … you can correct it by logging onto InSite from a company network and going to MyHR.
This site has been designed for Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s colleagues to provide you with important information about your benefits program, paycheck,
Explore this site to learn about the latest opportunities, search for open jobs, and apply online. Compensation doesn’t stop at your paycheck.
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Where can I find the best yum cha restaurant in Sydney?
If you’re looking for an authentic Asian yum cha experience in Sydney, you’re in luck. The city is home to a wide variety of restaurants that serve up steaming baskets of dumplings, buns, and other dim sum delights.
But with so many options to choose from, how do you know where to go for the best yum cha in town? As a lover of Chinese cuisine, I’ve tried many of the yum cha restaurants in Sydney and can confidently recommend the following spots.
The Eight Modern Chinese Restaurant
Located in the heart of Sydney’s Chinatown, The Eight Modern Chinese Restaurant is a popular choice among locals and tourists alike. The restaurant is known for its modern take on traditional Chinese cuisine, and its yum cha menu is no exception. The dim sum offerings are beautifully presented and bursting with flavor. Don’t miss the steamed prawn dumplings, pan-fried pork buns, and egg tarts. The restaurant also has a great selection of Chinese teas to complement your meal.
East Ocean Restaurant
Another Chinatown favorite, East Ocean Restaurant has been serving up delicious yum cha for over 30 years. The restaurant has a spacious dining room that can accommodate large groups, making it a great spot for family gatherings or special occasions. The dim sum menu is extensive, with over 80 items to choose from. Highlights include the BBQ pork buns, scallop dumplings, and custard tarts.
Palace Chinese Restaurant
If you’re looking for a more upscale yum cha experience, head to Palace Chinese Restaurant in the CBD. The restaurant is known for its elegant decor and attentive service, as well as its delicious dim sum. The menu features both traditional and modern dishes, with a focus on fresh, high-quality ingredients. Standouts include the truffle and mushroom dumplings, lobster and scallop dumplings, and the steamed rice rolls with prawns.
Marigold Restaurant is a Sydney institution, having been serving up yum cha for over 30 years. The restaurant is located in the heart of Chinatown and has a bustling atmosphere that’s perfect for a casual weekend brunch. The dim sum menu is extensive, with over 60 items to choose from. Don’t miss the BBQ pork buns, har gow, and egg tarts. The restaurant also has a great selection of Chinese teas to choose from. | <urn:uuid:031b6efd-25ee-4e6c-9c2b-921a098d646e> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://mysydneydetour.com/where-can-i-find-the-best-yum-cha-restaurant-in-sydney/ | 2024-04-17T09:01:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.94281 | 523 |
Lonnie Davis, flutist, arts advocate, is a native New Orleanian began studying music at an early age and had the privilege of attending Louisiana’s prestigious arts conservatory, NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts), where her passion for jazz was cultivated. Davis relocated to North Carolina in 2007, and 3 years later founded the Charlotte-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization JazzArts Charlotte (formerly Jazz Arts Initiative, JAI). She currently serves as the organization’s President and Chief Executive Officer.
Davis currently serves the community on numerous Boards and committees supporting the Jazz and the Arts. As of July 1st, 2022, she will begin serving as President of the Board of Directors for the international membership organization, Jazz Education Network. Lonnie has been a contributing columnist for local magazines and has curated special events in the Charlotte area including the Sunset Jazz Festival, Kings Drive Art Walk, and the Charlotte Jazz Festival. Davis has a degree in Psychology from the University of New Orleans and graduate work in Urban and Regional Planning at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Lonnie has been recognized for her work in the arts community locally and nationally. Southern Living Magazine listed Lonnie in the top “50 People Who Are Changing the South”. Davis was also featured by BELK, Inc. for their Modern Southern Music Campaign, reaching over 5 million readers nationwide. Together, Lonnie and her husband Ocie have been featured in numerous local publications including the Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Magazine, QC Exclusive and South Park Magazine. Lonnie is also a graduate of Leadership Charlotte, Class XXXII. | <urn:uuid:2cabee72-886c-47fe-9a1a-ed4c37136069> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://nafme.org/member-profile/lonnie-davis/ | 2024-04-17T09:14:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.960284 | 338 |
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Within this outstanding Fiddler’s Creek neighborhood, there exists the renowned Golf Club at Fiddler’s Creek, a spectacular gated golf resort offering upscale unique luxury residences, and featuring a well maintained and well-designed golf course, The Creek Course. Additionally, there is a second golf course which was completed in late autumn of 2016 called The Preserve Course.
Fiddlers Creek golf course is a spectacular 18-hole regulation located at The Golf Club at Fiddler’s Creek in Naples, Florida. From the longest tees it offers 7,157 yards of amazing golf for a par of 72. The course was designed by the renowned golf course architect, Arthur Hills, ASGCA and opened in 2002. The course rating is 73.9 with a slope rating of 142. The beauty of the Creek Course is reflected within the many lush rolling fairways, the towering oak trees, pine trees and tropical palms, the flowering marshes, the shimmering fresh water lakes, the numerous white sand bunkers and the pristine greens.
The Creek Course offers seven sets of tees, and there are several strategic and challenging holes that present an exciting and memorable golf experience for players of all skill levels. The Creek Course is a private equity facility golf course with an Open to Public guest policy. Additionally the course has been the host of various PGA tournaments and was named one of the “Top 100 Residential Golf Courses” by Golf Week Magazine for the past nine consecutive years from 2006-2014.
However, championship golf with a staff of certified PGA professionals is only the beginning of this stunning Fiddler’s Creek community. Amenities offered at Fiddler’s Creek Country Club include an accommodating 54,000 square foot clubhouse and a full service Spa, a state-of-the-art Fitness Center, a resort-styled multi-pool Swimming Complex, 6 Hydro tennis courts with 4 lighted courts for night play and a staff of certified USTA professionals, access to casual and gourmet fine dining at Caxambas, The Gator Grille, Sale e Pepe, and the Toulouse Lounge and a multitude of exciting social activities and events throughout the year.
Members of the Fiddler’s Creek community are also privy not only to spectacular championship golf at The Golf Club at Fiddler’s Creek, but they also have the option to join The Tarpon Club for those individuals that wish to enhance their daily life even further with beach and/or boating options.
The Tarpon Club members at the Beach Pavilion at the Marco Beach Ocean Resort, located nearby on Marco Island, enjoy beach privileges including private access to the white sand and warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico; complimentary beach towels, lounge chairs and umbrella service; private changing areas with locker facilities; showers and bath towels; and attendants serving refreshing drinks and delicious food right on the beach, including a complimentary sorbet every afternoon.
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Happening Now: Senators grill CS Nakhumicha amid doctors' strike
From his mysterious disappearance and the manner in which his interment was conducted in April 2020, it is as if Ken Walibora had a premonition about his dramatic exit from the literary stage.
In his maiden novel, Siku Njema, the character Rashid died after being involved in a fatal road accident while Juma Mukosi, the a renowned scholar in the same novel, couldn’t be recognised by many. Both incidences resemble what befell Walibora during his last agonising moments.
In Kidagaa Kimemwozea, the main character, Mtemi Nasaba Bora, goes missing for a couple of days and is later found dead and is given a low-key sendoff just like Walibora’s due to the Coronavirus that shook the globe at the time when he passed on.
The death of the writer-cum-journalist, which occurred on April, 10, 2020 at Kenyatta National Hospital, was shrouded in mystery, something that pushed me to visit his home on the slopes of Cherangany in Trans-Nzoia County.
I was warmly welcomed by his younger sister, Pauline Wafula.
After sharing pleasantries, I asked, “How was the feeling being one of the siblings of such a towering literary personality?”
“I felt privileged,” she said. “I studied Kidagaa Kimemwozea and Damu Nyeusi na Hadithi Nyingine in high school. I also had a lot of interest in his other writings like Ndoto ya Amerika and Kufa Kuzikana.”
As she ushered me into their homestead, I spotted a home that had that unsettling thrill making it suitable for literary tourism by Swahili enthusiasts.
I asked his stepmother, Eunice Wafula, 59, how she received the news of her son’s sudden demise.
“I felt astounded. We still needed him as he played a pivotal role in the well-being of this family,” she said.
“Is there any of his siblings who has picked allure to write?” I further inquired.
“The other children have different talents — not writing. Maybe his children will take after him,” she added.
“Still on Walibora’s family,” I inquired, “Tell us about your relationship with him.”
“I’m Walibora’s age-mate. The eldest brother is even older than me. I got into the family after the demise of his mum (Ruth Nasambu) in 1984. His dad later passed on in 2006 but the family still treated me with utmost respect.”
I probed her whether she gets special treatment from the kinsfolk. “The villagers accord me special treatment even at the bus-park. Walibora was such a big name.”
She added, Siku Njema brought so many institutions to our home. People even thought that he was a Tanzanian as he introduced the novel by the catchphrase, “Mamangu Zainabu Makame alizaliwa Mwanza, Tanzania Magharibi.”
Eunice Wafula wishes that the government would build a community library and tarmac the road to his home in his honour.
“We thank God for his legacy, which is embedded in his writings. I only wish that the Kenyan government would erect a library in his remembrance.”
We thereafter shifted the conversation to his younger sister, Pauline Wafula, about her relationship with her brother.
What was your connection with your late brother? “He used to advise me to work extremely hard in school and afterwards influence me into writing. On the flipside, I’ve not been keen on writing but someday, the writing bug may catch up with me.”
“Did your class know that Walibora was your sibling?”
“I was a bit secretive in school but a few students knew about our blood-ties. I also didn’t attend any of his colloquial lectures as I was in school most of the time,” She added.
We then visited Walibora’s grave, a few yards away. It had the epitaph: “Ken Walibora didn’t live as if he will never die and didn’t die as if he never lived.”
Walibora was my close associate and a prolific Swahili writer with an idiosyncratic ability to perfectly mirror the society with his grand mastery of the language.
This experience reminded me that time and space doesn’t coalesce. Time tends to move faster than space. As I bid them bye, Wafula and the mother were indebted for the Saturday Nation’s visit.
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“Ships of Ancient Greece” Concept Paper prepared by Nauticos and the Institute of Nautical Archeology
Nauticos discovered several interesting bottom contacts during the search for Dakar in the early spring of 1999. Over 300 sonar contacts were evaluated and 22 were deemed worthy of visual inspection.
Among the many targets analyzed, one in particular stood out as being of potentially significant historical importance. Video and sonar imagery was collected at this site to document the target for later examination. This imagery was provided to the Institute of Nautical Archeology at Texas A&M (INA) to determine the origins and significance of this ancient shipwreck.
In addition to this ancient shipwreck, Nauticos discovered five other sites nearby. These sites were not examined to the same extent as the ancient shipwreck site and include a modern freighter and an amphora site. Nauticos and the INA have joined forces to explore these sites. This summary provides an overview of what we currently know about the main ancient shipwreck site and our plans for future expeditions.
The Wreck Site
The shipwreck is Hellinistic in origin, most probably dating from the end of the third century BC or the beginning of the second century BC. The cargo was largely amphorae that contained wine. Two Rhodian amphorae are clearly present near the anchor stocks at what would have been the bow of the ship (Fig. 2). There are very few known wrecks from this time period and none of these are in such an excellent state of preservation.
Fig. 2: Bow area of the shipwreck with an anchor stock, collars and amphorae.
The shape of the wreck site is typical of ancient ships from this period. The amphorae form a more or less ovoid mound, having been stacked in the hold as many as three layers deep, and tapering longitudinally and vertically with the run of the hull of the ship. We estimate the vessel to be approximately 20 meters long.
Fig. 3: Ancient anchors similar to
the type used on
The bow is clearly identifiable given the presence of at least four anchors. Anchors of the period were comprised of wooden shafts and flukes, and lead stocks and fluke supports, or “collars” (Fig. 3). There are at least four collars and three anchor stocks all still oriented as if they were laying on the fore deck of the ship which was the usual position while underway. The most clearly visible stock protrudes from the sediment at a steep angle, and is judged to have a length of at least 2 meters and weight of several hundred pounds. It is not uncommon to find 6 or more anchors on a wreck site from this period, as the anchors required continuous repair and were often lost during deployment.
Fig. 4: Cooking cauldron amid the amphorae. The world’s longest deployed sediment trap.
The stern of the ship is demarcated by the paucity of ceramic material, and the hodge-podge of amphorae, some part of the cargo and others possibly to the crew provisions. There is also a scattering of cooking ware, or coarse pottery commonly found in the galley, which was located in the stern of these vessels (Fig. 4). There is at least one intact serving bowl and two intact pitchers typical of the period.
Fig. 5: Ballast stone located between the main cargo area and the crew area.
The presence of ballast stone just forward of the stern area indicates that the bulk of the cargo was loaded in the main hold forward of the galley on top of the ballast stone (Fig. 5). The galley was separated from the cargo area by both the cooking hearth brickwork and a strong bulkhead. As the wooden structure of the ship deteriorated the cargo would tend to spread and settle, in this case more toward the bow and sides than the stern, partially exposing the ballast stone.
Of the estimated 2-3,000 amphorae INA identified only 2 to 3 Rhodian amphorae on board stating that many more could lie within the pile of amphorae and other material. The predominant cargo seems to be Koan wine carried in amphorae like those pictured right in figure 6.
Fig. 6: Koan amphorae dating from the 3rd to 1st centuries B.C. The second amphora from the right is the most representative of the type found at this wreck site.
The wine of Kos was admired, but it was a relatively inexpensive grade, bought in larger quantities; like Rhodian and Knidian, it sometimes had seawater added as a preservative. Koan stamps occasionally include the letters KO, short for Koion, but the jars have been chiefly identified by the Koan coin symbols and the many Koan names in the stamps on the very distinctive double-barreled handles (Fig. 7).
Fig. 7: On the Left a Koan amphora handle stamped with the seal of Dorimachos
On the right a Koan amphora handle stamped with crab and club, symbols on the coins of Kos.
Rhodian amphorae, like those in figure 8, had a creamy appearance with a peg toe and acutely angled handles. A pair of stamps which may contain the “rose” or rayed head of the sun god Helios often marks them. This same image of Helios appeared on Rhodian coins. On Rhodian amphorae the stamps contain two names, one an endorsement, perhaps by a licensed manufacturer, the other a date, “in the term of so-and-so” usually an annually appointed official, the common way of expressing date in antiquity. Why amphorae were dated is not fully understood. The chief purpose may have been to verify the amphora as a container of a standard capacity.
Fig. 8: Rhodian amphorae from the 3rd Century B.C.
Another purpose may have been to date the contents, identifying for instance the age or special vintage of finer wines and the freshness of the cheaper wines that were generally not worth drinking after a year. Traders and tax collectors had to recognize the make of a jar to know the capacity within a given tolerance and verify the stated value of the contents. Amphorae varied in size but generally ranged between 2 and 3 feet tall and held a little less than 7 US gallons when filled to the brim.The shaping and marking for easy recognition of these commercial containers provides important evidence about the history of ancient trade. Ancient trade routes can be extrapolated from their known point of origin, revealed through the markings and morphology, to the sites were they have been found. Large collections of intact amphorae are relatively rare finds on terrestrial sites. (Fig. 9).
Fig. 9: Pair of rectangular stamps from the Rhodian manufacturer Agoranax. Dated in the term of Sostratos and in the Month of Artamitios.
The Hellenistic Period
Fig. 10: The ancient Greek world around 300 BC.
Following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, his kingdom was divided among his generals. The Antigonid dynasty maintained control of mainland Greece. The Seleucids governed the entire Eastern Empire. And the Ptolemies ruled ancient Egypt.
The Hellenistic period was an international, cosmopolitan age. Commercial contacts were widespread and peoples of many ethnic and religious backgrounds merged in populous urban centers. Advances were made in various fields of scientific inquiry, including engineering, physics, astronomy and mathematics. Great libraries were founded in Alexandria, Athens and the independent kingdom of Pergamum. Because old beliefs in Olympian gods were infused with foreign elements, especially from the east, Oriental cults became popular in the Hellenized world.
The 3rd century BC saw the rise of ancient Rome. After securing most of the Italian peninsula, Rome entered into a protracted conflict with the Carthaginians for control of Sicily, Spain and the other regions of Punic domination in the Punic Wars. The former empire of Alexander was taken steadily and methodically into Roman hands. The great city of Corinth was destroyed (146 BC), Athens captured (86 BC), and Cleopatra and Mark Antony defeated at the Battle of Actium (31 BC). Their defeat marks the end of the Hellenistic Age.
Between the 3rd and 1st century BC, the Island of Rhodes emerged as the preeminent island in maritime commerce. Rhodes controlled most of the sea trade in the eastern Mediterranean until the Romans eventually rose to prominence. The bulk of the cargo discovered by Nauticos is Koan amphorae from the isle of Kos, which is a tiny island close to Rhodes. Kos was famous in ancient times for the excellent wine that it produced and exported throughout the region.
The Importance of this Discovery
This wreck is valuable to historians and archeologists because of the evidence and information it provides about trade in the region and about open-water trade routes in general. The fact that there are several other similar wrecks in the same region is extremely interesting for several reasons:
1. If they are all from the same general period or time frame, they may provide detailed information about long distance trade over open water at a specific moment in history. This is significant because conventional archaeological wisdom believes that ancient sailors navigated by hugging the coast. Additionally, if the wrecks are from a single fleet that was lost all at once, it is a fascinating mystery in itself.
2. If the wrecks span many generations, then it may provide new and important evidence about trade between Crete, Cyprus, Turkey, and Egypt, over a broad span of time. This would be the first evidence of sustained open-water traffic in the ancient world.
3. More exciting is the possibility that one of the other targets that Nauticos discovered is a Minoan shipwreck. The Minoans ruled Crete and most of the Aegean in the Early-Middle Bronze Age, establishing a thallassocracy throughout the ancient near east, but no trace of a shipwreck has ever been located. The oldest known shipwrecks discovered date to the Late Bronze Age, at Cape Gelidonya and Ulu Burun in Turkey. Both have been excavated during the past 35 years by INA. Equally exciting would be a ship from Egypt or the Near East from the Bronze Age, or a Mycenaean or Phoenician shipwreck from the Iron Age.
Fig. 11: Artistic rendering of the Kyrenia at a Busy Ancient Seaport.
Image courtesy of www.windowoncyprus.com.
Preliminary Research Design
The investigation of these shipwrecks has the potential to be one of the most significant studies of shipwrecks to date. The investigations have the possibility of adding to the archaeological record information that has previously been inaccessible. Because these shipwrecks lie in deep water, they have not been subjected to the effects of strong tidal currents, surface wave action, high dissolved oxygen levels, or diver exploration. The structure of the vessels as well as the artifacts associated with them, have only been subjected to natural bacterial and chemical processes and artifact shifting as the vulnerable portions of the shipwreck disintegrated. As a result, it appears that the wreck sites are far more complete than any others that have been extensively investigated. While many shipwrecks have been thoroughly and scientifically investigated, all of them lie in shallow water and are exposed to the environmental characteristics associated with shallow water. In deep water, only limited investigations and salvage projects have been carried out to date. The primary purpose of our investigations will be to confirm the sonar targets believed to be additional vessels and to conduct detailed surveys of each of the known shipwrecks. All of the investigations will recover as much data about the sites as is technically feasible with the least destruction of the archaeological fabric of these shipwrecks.
A second purpose of these investigations will be to collect data that will support the theory that deepwater shipwrecks are archaeologically more complete than their shallow water counterparts. This data will be critical for continuing to make the argument that deepwater shipwrecks are scientifically worth the added cost of their investigation. This case has yet to be proven through scientifically collected data. Almost all investigations in deepwater to date have been documentary in nature.
Detailed Non-Intrusive Mapping
In order to accurately interpret each of the sites, and the possible association that they may have with each other, it will be essential to document the precise location and orientation of all objects associated with each of the them before any artifacts are disturbed. This applies to the wrecks themselves as well as artifacts lying on the ocean floor in the vicinity. For each wreck site, a survey area 500 feet by 500 feet will be established to encompass all artifacts related to the wrecks and any geologic features that have been created by the deposition of the shipwreck in the bottom.
To accomplish this task, a medium sized, heave compensated ROV system will need to be specially outfitted. That ROV will need to have a variety of remote sensing, navigation, and speciality tools and equipment installed, integrated, and tested prior to executing the expedition. The ROV will need a side scan sonar, multi-beam bathymeter, stereo cameras with lighting, and a sub-bottom profiler. The ROV will also need to have a complex navigation suite consisting of a deep-ocean transponder system with an integrated Doppler Velocity Log (DVL) and an IMU to accurately measure heading, pitch, and roll.
All sensor data will need to be precisely geo-located. To accomplish this, a high frequency bottom mounted positioning system such as Sonardyne’s Extra High Frequency (EHF) LBL system will be necessary. Sonardyne’s (EHF) system operates at 50-110 kHz with an accuracy of approximately 2-15cm. In addition, precise and high frequency platform telemetry information will be needed to accurately reduce and synthesize the sensor data. Platform telemetry information should include heading, pitch, roll, and speed over ground.
The telemetry information can be gathered using a combination of an Inertial Measurement Unit and a Doppler Velocity Log. None of these navigation sensors are usually found on an ROV, however this type of navigation system while complex has been successfully deployed on ROVs and many AUVs and other systems previously. The topside control of the ROV will need to have autopilot functions integrated into it, so that a series of planned track lines can be executed with the various sensors over the wrecks sites. Those track-lines will need to be navigated parallel, level, and straight. Initially, a high-resolution side scan sonar survey of each shipwreck will be conducted. Lane spacing will be approximately 50 feet with range scale set to 50 meters to allow for approximately 300 percent coverage of the bottom. This lane spacing and coverage will support the generation of a detailed sonar mosaic of each wreck site. That mosaic will map each of the shipwrecks and all objects external to the hull remains. The sonar survey will also map any scouring and sedimentation changes adjacent to the wrecks. A sonar frequency of approximately 500 kHz with a resolution of approximately 3” in both the along track and across track orientations will be sufficient to complete the job. The sonar mosaic will serve as an initial base map for the investigation of the shipwrecks. Second, generate a precise hydrographic map of each of the sites and the areas surrounding each of them, approximately 500 feet by 500 feet. To accomplish this, a narrow multi-beam echo sounder such a Reson 8125 should be employed. That sonar has a resolution of 1-2cm vertical with a beam width of .5 degrees. The multi-beam echo sounder should be run over each of the sites on appropriate lane spacing to accomplish a minimum of 150% coverage. The bathymetric information should be corrected to account for tidal variation in the area; this can be accomplished mathematically using one of several algorithms. This narrow multi-beam echo sounder will provide initial three-dimensional spatial mapping of the sites.
Third, collect digital sub-bottom data throughout the same 500 foot area to accurately map the geologic environment on which the airplane rests. Lane spacing should be set at intervals appropriate to map small sub-seafloor geologic features in the area. The sub-bottom profiler survey will provide information related to sedimentation in the area and the overall site formation processes.
Fourth, a stereo photo-mosaic should be created of the entire site with a minimum resolution of 1/16th of an inch. This mosaic will serve to document the overall condition of each of the shipwrecks and the location of all objects external to their hulls. The stereo imagery will also provide very accurate three-dimensional spatial information of the hulls and related artifacts. The photo-mosaics generated from this data will serve as the overall plan view of each of the site.
Core samples should be collected throughout the 500 foot survey area centered on each shipwreck in order to document the geomorphology of the area and for later analysis of the site formation processes. Chemical analysis of the sediments collected during the coring, will provide information relative to the formation of the shipwreck sites and the historical interaction of the shipwreck and artifacts with the seawater and the bottom sediments. Distribution maps generated from these samples will indicate historical current patterns and deviations caused by the deposition of the shipwrecks and associated remains. Additionally, the chemical analysis of the sediments will provide information that will be significant during the conservation of any recovered artifacts.
Water samples should also be collected on, in, and around each of the sites. A sampling plan should be devised that will capture chemical and biological information for each of the shipwreck sites as well as the area around each of them. Analysis of this information will be significant during the conservation of any artifacts recovered from the sites. Diagnostic Archaeological SamplingA detailed conservation plan will need to be drafted prior to the recovery of any objects. That conservation plan should address methods to be employed, funding sources, the conservation laboratory to be used, and the ultimate disposition and storage of the artifacts. The services of a qualified conservator, familiar with the conservation of artifacts from a submerged ancient shipwreck, will be sought out to draft the conservation plan.
Diagnostic artifacts should be recovered from each of the shipwrecks to determine their age and provide preliminary information related to the ships’ origin and last port of call. Those artifacts should not be recovered until their precise geographic position and location within the wreck are mapped in detail. A properly prepared recovery basket with an emergency acoustic locating device that would provide a method to relocate the objects should they be lost during recovery, should be used to recover all artifacts from the seafloor.
In order to build the case for continuing to go to the trouble and expense of investigating deepwater shipwrecks, it will be essential to recover data from one of the shipwrecks that captures a cross section of the information that is contained in these vessel remains. To capture this data, it will be necessary to completely excavate a portion of one of the vessels, recover all the artifacts from the excavated area, and collect a series of biologic and chemical samples from the area designated for excavation. It will be necessary to record locational data related to the position of all artifacts in the designated area to a precision where the area could theoretically be reconstructed.
The test excavation will consist of a meter wide trench that will be excavated across one of the shipwrecks. The trench will be excavated in approximately 10 centimeter vertical levels and divided into 1 meter long subsections. At the beginning and end of the excavation of each level, stereo photographs will be taken of each 1 meter square. As artifacts are completely uncovered during the excavation, they will be tagged with a unique identifier indicating both their horizontally and vertically locations, a stereo photograph taken, and then they will be placed in the recovery basket. Once the entire trench is excavated a photo-mosaic run will be made along the entire trench and all artifacts remaining in the trench recovered. It is not anticipated at this time that the ship’s structure in the test trench will be recovered. Once the excavation is complete, the test excavation will be back filled with sediments from the surrounding area.
In terms of excavating the test trench, it is envisioned that in order for the ROV system to gain the stability that will be required to accomplish the complex tasks that will conducted, a light weight scaffold or bridge will need to be constructed that will span the width of the wreck. This bridge will provide a stable platform that the ROV can attach itself to while it is excavating the test trench and recovering the artifacts. A variable suction water pump that will drive a venturi dredge of 3-4 inch diameter and a highly dexterous set of 7 function manipulators will be necessary to conduct the excavation. The dredge will need to have an outflow hose long enough for the outflow end to be secured a short distance down current of the excavation site. At the end of the dredge outflow hose will be attached a mesh net to capture any small artifacts that are accidentally ingested. | <urn:uuid:f24935ab-0d8a-40bf-8529-6b931c854377> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://nauticos.com/ocean-discovery/ancient-wreck/ships-of-ancient-greece-concept-paper/ | 2024-04-17T08:37:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.954075 | 4,425 |
November 20, 2023
The National Black Caucus of State Legislators (NBCSL) releases the following statement regarding the passing of beloved former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, wife of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter:
“The National Black Caucus of State Legislators acknowledges the passing of former First Lady Rosalynn Carter at the age of 96 with a sense of reflection and gratitude for a life well-lived. We fondly remember her tireless efforts during President Carter’s tenure in the White House. A true trailblazer, Mrs. Carter was a dedicated champion for mental health reform, notably serving as the chair of The Carter Mental Health Task Force and actively working toward positive changes in the mental health field.
Beyond her contributions to mental health, Mrs. Carter enthusiastically worked on projects benefiting women and children and made a significant impact as a speaker at the 1977 National Women’s Conference. Alongside her husband, she played a key role in global peace and human rights through The Carter Center, a private, not-for-profit institution based in Atlanta, Georgia, co-founded by The Carters. The Carters were also instrumental in building homes across the world, helping nearly 5,000 families move into affordable housing in 14 countries, and notably the couple helped Habit for Humanity volunteers renovate a 19-unit building in Americus, Georgia near their hometown of Plains, Georgia, and built homes on the north and west sides of Chicago for low-income families.
Today, we fondly remember former First Lady Carter for her enduring grace, unwavering advocacy, and poised demeanor throughout her lifetime. We extend our heartfelt condolences to the Carter family during this time of bereavement.” | <urn:uuid:de52ee0c-06f8-4fec-ab78-352a792b0772> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://nbcsl.org/mourns-the-passing-of-rosalynn-carter/ | 2024-04-17T09:57:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.963751 | 350 |
A hearing is where the Tribunal considers the reports and documents provided by the parties and witnesses, listens to the information provided by the parties and witnesses, considers the evidence presented and then makes a decision about the application.
At the Guardianship Division, we try to make the hearing as relaxed as possible, particularly for the person who is the subject of the application. We know that coming to a hearing can be a new experience for everyone concerned - the person the hearing is about, the applicant, the persons family and friends.
For this reason, we have:
11 Oct 2022
We acknowledge the traditional owners and custodians of the land on which we work and we pay respect to the Elders, past, present and future. | <urn:uuid:0139bbaa-9026-4495-8202-90778aed99be> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://ncat.nsw.gov.au/case-types/guardianship/application-and-hearing-information/guardianship-division-hearings.html | 2024-04-17T08:02:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.961445 | 147 |
The Northern California Koyasan Temple will be observing its annual Obon Memorial and Segaki Service on Sunday, July 18, 2021, at 1:30 pm. Obon is a time when we commemorate the spirit of our ancestors and pray for the eternal peace of all those who have passed on before us.
During the service, a commemoration of departed family member(s) and friend(s) will be held.
The Temple will stream a live broadcast of the service via Zoom. If you have an email address, a Zoom link will be emailed to you. If you do not have email, please call the Temple and you will be provided with information to access the service on a mobile device. | <urn:uuid:a50a126f-18f3-4df9-86f2-f01109a8f73b> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://nckoyasan.org/obon-memorial-and-segaki-service/ | 2024-04-17T08:53:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.930812 | 144 |
Ok, prepare for a looong post – it’s time for the last part of photo school and this class is a quick guide to simple editing in the paid program Adobe Lightroom, which I use the most when editing my photos. I’ll be taking you through the functions that I use the most when I edit my photos for the blog – on the pictures below, the functions used are highlighted with red and the explanation is below the photo. If you want to know more about Lightroom and what it can do, spending time finding guides on Youtube is very useful – because there is tons more stuff to know about the program than what I’m showing you here!
But let’s go, right? Ready, set, Lightroom!
1: PICK OUT YOUR PHOTOS(CLICK THE PICTURE FOR A BIGGER VERSION)When coming home with a great big bunch of photos, its quite annoying having to scroll back and forward between them to find the ones that you want to use and then edit them amongst all of the other photos. In Lightroom, you can press P on your keyboard everytime you find a photo that you want to use, when browsing through your photos. This gives the photo a little flag in the corner and when you pick the filter “Flagged” in the filter drop down-menu on the right, the only photos left are your flagged ones.
2: MAKE YOUR SHOT LOOK BETTER
I usually begin with messing with the exposure, the light, of the photo on the exposure slider in the side bar, where all of the editing and manipulation functions can be found. Sliding it right, makes the photo lighter, sliding it left makes it darker.
After this, I go to the curve-diagram which can be found when you scroll down a bit in the sidebar, the same function I used and explained in the GiMP-guide. Here I pull the “Lights” slider and the “Darks” slider so that my photo becomes a bit clearer and more contrasty.
If there are colors in the photo that I want to be more or less prominent, I go to the “HSL/Color/B&W”-function further down then sidebar. Here I click on the color I want to mess with and turn up the saturation and luminance – here for the yellow color – to make it brighter. On the “Hue” slider, you can edit the tone of the color, but I like my yellow as it is, so I keep it at 0.
3: THE RIGHT ANGLE
To make the lines in my photo completely vertical, I go to the “Crop”-tool, where I slide the “Angle” slider to one side of the other and use the helping lines to see when my photo has perfect vertical and horizontal lines.
4: BEFORE AND AFTER
I usually correct imperfections on my skin, when editing – I’d rather like my shots to be about my clothes and look than about a zit on my forehead or dark circles under my eyes. Lightroom help me fix that as well! Going to the “Heal” tool in the sidebar gets you going on correcting your skin.
(CLICK ON THE PHOTO TO MAKE IT BIGGER) To correct an imperfection on your skin you should, after having gone to the “Heal” tool, click on your imperfection. Lightroom will then find a spot in the photo that it figures fits your imperfection well. You can move the spot using your mouse. Now, your imperfection is a merge of your imperfection(on the left picture) and the new spot(on the right picture). To decide how your imperfection should be hidden, you can use the “Opacity” slider to desice how opaque you want the layer of the new spot to be on top of your imperfection. I usually put that slider on 50% or less, since I think it becomes too visible when you have tried to correct an imperfection by sliding the opacity higher. And it just looks more natural when there’s a bit of wrinkles left on your skin, so that you don’t look like a model from a mascara ad. To change up the size of your healing cicle, you can scroll on your mousepad or use the “Size” slider in the top of the “Heal” toolbox.
(CLICK ON THE PHOTO TO MAKE IT BIGGER) I think that one eye is a bit too dark simpered to the other one, and that can easily be handled as well. I go to the “Brush” tool in the side bar and pick the slider that can help me fix my problem – for this, I’ll be using the exposure slider to turn up the light. When lighting up or darkening areas in photos, you should usually stay right below 0,30 go -0,30, since going higher or lower can make it look fake. Then I pick the size of my brush by scrolling on the mousepad and when it fits the area to be lightened, I click there.
I hope you enjoyed the photo school! You can find all of my Sunday photo schools by clicking on the photo school photo in my little category slideshow in the top of my sidebar. | <urn:uuid:f07f3bb4-d8ba-41cd-8176-c55d008e6ac3> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://nemesisbabe.dk/sunday-photo-school-simple-editing-in-adobe-lightroom/ | 2024-04-17T08:29:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.913267 | 1,119 |
Google Broad Core Algorithm Update Article | SEO Idaho
On December 3rd, Google announced implementation of a broad core algorithm update. While Google releases hundreds of algorithm updates a year, sometimes several in a day, most go relatively unnoticed as they are minor changes meant to improve Google’s search algorithm. In contrast, broad core algorithm updates are typically released much less frequently, and they tend to be a source of concern and hand wringing in the SEO community as they can result in significant and sometimes unexpected ranking behavior.
Later today, we are releasing a broad core algorithm update, as we do several times per year. It is called the December 2020 Core Update. Our guidance about such updates remains as we’ve covered before. Please see this blog post for more about that:https://t.co/e5ZQUAlt0G
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) December 3, 2020
Google’s live roll-out of the new broad core algorithm update began the same day they notified the general community of its existence via Twitter. These updates have the potential to take multiple weeks for complete implementation. As such, there may be some volatile ranking behavior for SEO clients over the next couple of weeks. If you work with an SEO firm, they are likely already well-aware of the update and will be monitoring accordingly. If you perform SEO for your own business, it’s advisable to monitor your rankings closely over the next couple of weeks to identify trends.
As with most Google broad core algorithm updates, information is limited and guidance for negating any negative impacts in rankings is speculative at the onset. Over the next few weeks, SEO experts will seek to reverse engineer the algorithm updates and identify the specific changes, but it will be awhile before we know what specific changes were made during the update and what optimization signals may need additional attention as a result.
Should I be Worried About How Google’s Broad Core Algorithm Updates Affect My Rankings?
The answer depends. Google broad core algorithm updates are an opportunity for Google to incorporate and rank new content. Clients who have implemented an aggressive content strategy like blogging will likely see some new rankings and a boost in their current rankings if they’ve added high-quality content for Google to digest and leverage. If your site has no new content for consideration, it’s an unfortunate opportunity for competitors to leverage their content to boost their rankings over yours. You can read more directly from Google in this informative article on from their developer’s blog (What webmasters should know about Google’s core updates).
If, like many who have a vested interest in SEO and their business’s rankings, you are concerned about how this algorithm update with affect your business, here’s a little comfort from our team. While some SEO experts view these updates as potential setbacks and disruptors to their work, we see them as an opportunity for significant ranking gains. We frequently update website content via our optimization efforts, and we consult with clients about leveraging new content. If you’re reading this and content has been something that you’ve been ignoring on your site for some time, it might be worth discussing a content implementation strategy to help your site leverage these core updates for positive results.
Additionally, SEO Idaho performs technical SEO that adheres to Google’s strict standards, and we work continuously to evaluate and improve on-site SEO for our clients. As such, when broad core algorithm updates occur we tend to experience positive results. In simple terms, those who continuously work to improve website SEO while adhering to Google standards should view these updates as favorable opportunities for significant improvement, and that’s exactly how we view them.
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Ten Billion Tree Project in Pakistan || Planting Trees on Farmers’ Land
Expanding the Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Program in Pakistan as per the vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan۔ At the district level, tree planting is now being started on farmers’ private agricultural land at government expense۔
Farmers residing in the Sargodha district can avail of this scheme and submit application Application submission deadline is August 31, 2021۔ Visit the Forest Office for more information and guidance۔
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Cheap affordable mattresses near me in Marietta, GA.
Cheap Affordable Mattresses Near Me in Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia 30006
The cost of living in Marietta can be high, and that includes the cost of bedroom furniture.
When it comes to mattresses, you may be tempted to go for the cheapest option available, especially if you’re on a tight budget. But is it worth it to skimp on something as important as a good night’s sleep?
We’ll explore the options for finding cheap mattresses in Marietta and the factors to consider when choosing one.
Where to Find a Cheap Mattress in Marietta
Marietta has a wide range of options for finding cheap mattresses.
Discount Furniture Stores
Many discount furniture stores sell mattresses at a fraction of the cost, including major brands. You may find financing options, or rent-to own programs at some stores that can make an expensive mattress more affordable. Make sure you read and fully understand all details before signing any financing or payment agreement.
Many online retailers offer free shipping and returns. This can help you save money on shipping costs. Compare prices and read reviews to get the best deal.
Mattress-in-a-box companies offer affordable mattresses that are shipped in a compact box and can be easily set up at home. Purple, Leesa and Casper are some of the most well-known companies in this category.
You can find great deals at consignment shops and thrift stores, but you need to make sure the mattress is in good condition before buying. There are also online marketplaces such as Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace that sell used mattresses.
Stores like Costco and Sam’s Club often have a selection of cheap mattresses, including their own brands. Compare prices and read customer reviews before you buy.
Best Place To Buy Low-Priced Mattresses in Marietta
You have many options when you are looking for a low-cost mattress to purchase in a retail store.
You may also want to buy a mattress online. You could save a lot by purchasing a mattress online.
Costco Marietta, GA offers a wide range of mattresses. There are many options for innerspring mattresses, memory-foam mattresses and air mattresses. Each model can be tailored to meet different requirements.
A range of accessories are also offered by the company. These include bedding sets, sheets, and topper pads. Costco offers a 100% satisfaction guarantee.
For an innerspring mattress that is traditional, the Kirkland Signature from Stearns Foster would be a great option. You can also purchase online from a number of brands. These brands include Avocado Green and Allswell Home.
IKEA has the bed for you if you are looking for a low-cost bed in Marietta. The Swedish furniture store has many mattresses to choose from, including memory foam, latex springs, springs, and springs. The store offers many options for bedroom storage and seating.
Ikea is well-known for their low prices. They are one of the largest furniture retailers in the world, and they sell all manner of home furnishings. Many of their products come in flat pack form, which makes it easy for you to have them delivered and assembled when you are ready.
IKEA offers a solid return policy when shopping for a new mattress. The return policy allows you to return an item purchased within three to 365 calendar days. They offer great customer service and affordable prices.
If you live in the Marietta area, you might want to visit Macy’s to get a cheap mattress or bed frame. There are several Macy’s locations in Marietta and the surrounding suburbs. It’s a great place to browse a wide variety of mattresses and bedding accessories.
Macy’s carries a variety of plush mattresses, suitable for all budgets. You can find Beautyrest, Sealy and Serta mattresses at Macy’s. Some brands offer a 100-day trial.
It doesn’t matter if you are looking to purchase a mattress online or in-store. Make sure to thoroughly research each type. You can find a wide range of mattress performance and quality. Although you may be tempted to spend more on a higher-quality mattress, they are usually only good for a few years.
Mattress Firm is Marietta’s most loved mattress store. It has over 3500 locations throughout the United States. It sells a variety of products including bedding, linens and pillows as well as accessories.
Mattress Firm stores offer many financing options. Some even offer same-day delivery. Customers should read carefully the terms of any financing agreement to make sure they fully understand the implications.
Mattress Firm is known for its affordable prices and satisfaction guarantees. They offer a 120-day free trial, free delivery, special financing options, and a 120 day sleep guarantee. If you don’t like your new mattress, they will give you a full refund.
Walmart offers many options if you’re looking for a Marietta mattress. You have the option to choose between innerspring and hybrid models.
Walmart has a variety of brands that can be tailored to your needs. Known for their rock-bottom prices, Walmart focuses on budget-friendly products for the whole home. The mattresses offered by the company are competitively priced.
Some of the brands sold by Walmart include Sleep Innovations, Signature Design By Ashley, Zinus, and Lucid. They all offer competitive pricing and a variety of features. Choosing a mattress is easy, as the website allows you to filter your search by price and size.
Online Retailers For Affordable Mattresses in Marietta
Wayfair, Walmart and Amazon are all great places to find cheap mattresses in Marietta.
These online retailers often have a greater selection of mattresses and offer lower prices than in physical stores. Additionally, many online retailers offer free or inexpensive delivery to Marietta.
When buying from an online retailer, be sure to compare prices, delivery times, and return policies before making a purchase.
Tips For Buying a Cheap Mattress in Marietta
It’s important to be mindful of the features that can impact your sleep quality when shopping for a mattress for sale in Marietta.
Determine your Budget
Before you shop, you should have an idea of the amount you’re willing to spend on a mattress. This will help narrow down your options and prevent you from overspending.
Mattresses come in a variety of sizes, from twin to king. It is important to remember that larger sizes tend to be more expensive so if you have a tight budget it might be more economical to choose a smaller size.
Measure your bedroom to ensure that you get the right mattress for you.
You should also consider the thickness of your bed. Cheaper mattresses might have thinner material than the more expensive ones.
Think About firmness
There are many firmness levels for mattresses. The right firmness will depend on your sleep style and personal preference. If you are a side sleeper, for example, you may want to opt for a softer plush mattress, while back and stomach sleepers may prefer a firmer option.
The mattress must provide sufficient support to allow your body to rest comfortably. If a mattress is too soft or too hard, it can cause discomfort and disrupt your sleep.
Comfort is a must in a mattress. Look for materials like memory foam or latex that are known for their comfort and pressure relief.
You might not get a mattress that lasts. It is possible for cheap mattresses to be made of inferior materials. Although a high-quality mattress will cost more upfront, you could save money over the long term if it lasts.
Don’t Skimp on Quality
You may be trying for a low price, but it is important to ensure you get a quality mattress. It is important to choose a mattress that provides good support and durability. Otherwise, you won’t get a good night of sleep.
CertiPUR US, which is a seal that indicates the mattress meets certain performance standards, can be found.
Before making a purchase, it’s a good idea to read reviews from other customers. These reviews can give you a better idea of what a mattress is like and help you make an educated decision.
Other Factors to Consider if You’re Mattress Shopping on a Budget in Marietta
It’s important to remember that price isn’t the only consideration when searching for Marietta cheap mattresses. Here are a few other things to keep in mind:
- Delivery and setup: You may be charged a delivery or setup fee by some retailers. This can increase the cost of your mattress. This should be included in your budget. Also, consider whether or not you are comfortable setting up the mattress yourself.
- Return policy: It is always a good idea for you to read the fine print regarding return policies. This is especially important when you buy a low-priced mattress. Some retailers might have strict return policies, or charge a restocking fee. If you aren’t satisfied with your purchase, you will want to make sure you know your rights.
- Trial period: Most mattress-in-a-box companies and online retailers offer a 30-day return policy.
- Warranty: Low-end mattresses might not have the same warranty coverage as higher-end models. Be sure to verify what is covered and how long. A good warranty can provide you with peace of mind and protect your investment for the long term.
Comparison of Different Types of Inexpensive Mattresses
One option for those seeking a cheap mattress is to consider purchasing a foam mattress. Memory foam mattresses are made of polyurethane or other types of foam and tend to be more affordable than spring or hybrid mattresses.
Innerspring mattresses are another option. These mattresses are made up of coils which provide bounce and support. While spring mattresses can be more expensive than foam options, there are still some more affordable options available.
It is important to weigh the pros and cons when choosing a mattress that is cheap. Foam mattresses are usually more affordable that innerspring or hybrid mattresses. However, they can provide great support and comfort. They are also generally lightweight and easy to move, which can be a plus for those living in apartments or smaller spaces.
On the other hand, innerspring mattresses are known for providing good airflow and a more traditional feel. In terms of cost, foam mattresses generally cost less than innerspring mattresses.
A hybrid mattress is an option for those who are willing to spend more. Hybrid mattresses combine the support and comfort of coils with the comfort and support of foam to create a more comfortable, supportive sleeping surface.
How to Find the Best Deals on Mattresses in Marietta
If you’re shopping for a new bed or bed frame, you may want to consider looking for mattress sales in Marietta.
There are many mattress dealers in the area offering quality products and great deals. A few stores offer financing options that can make purchasing a mattress easier.
It is important to compare mattress brands and manufacturers in order to find the best deals. You also need to keep an eye on seasonal changes and the latest mattress sales.
Numerous Marietta mattress stores offer promotions and discounts throughout the year. Be sure to visit their websites and sign-up for email newsletters. Another way to find a good deal is to negotiate a lower price.
You should do your research to find similar mattresses in other stores.
Best Time of the Year For Mattress Sales in Marietta
Black Friday is the biggest day for mattress sales. This is a day when retailers slash prices to attract shoppers and give them a bargain. A mattress retailer will typically offer discounts from 10-30%.
Cyber Monday is another holiday worth keeping an eye on. This holiday is the best time to purchase mattresses online. You can find a lot of online mattress companies that offer huge discounts and bundle deals on mattresses, pillows, and accessories.
Apart from Cyber Monday and Black Friday, you can expect good mattress deals at Presidents Day, Memorial Day and Labor Day. Waiting until the right time can help you save hundreds of money.
Discounted Mattresses in Marietta Furniture Stores
Many Marietta furniture stores offer a wide range of mattresses at discounted prices.
You might find floor models or items that are out of stock at a cheaper price. This can be an excellent way to save money on a mattress, but not sacrifice quality.
Discounted mattresses are available at some Marietta furniture stores like Ashley Homestore and Mattress Firm.
Mattress Clearance Sales in Marietta
Clearance sales can be an excellent way to get a Marietta mattress at a low price.
These sales typically take place at the end of a season or when a store is looking to make room for new inventory. You can find amazing deals on mattresses of any type, including hybrid, innerspring, or foam.
Clearance sales at Mattress Firm, Sleepy’s, American Mattress and American Mattress should be on your radar.
Online Retailers for Cheap Mattresses in Marietta
You can find a mattress at a very affordable price in Marietta by shopping online with Amazon, Walmart, or Wayfair.
These online stores often have a greater selection of mattresses for lower prices than in physical stores. Additionally, many online retailers offer free or inexpensive delivery to Marietta.
Before you make a purchase from an online retailer, compare the prices, delivery times, return policies, and other details.
Second-Hand and Gently Used Mattress Options in Marietta
A second option is to search for gently used or used Marietta mattresses.
These mattresses may be cheaper than new mattresses because they have been used for a brief time.
Thrift stores, garage sales and online classifieds like Craigslist are good places to look for gently used or second-hand mattresses.
Mattress Delivery and Setup Options in Marietta
When buying a cheap mattress set in Marietta, it’s important to consider the delivery and setup options.
Some stores offer free delivery, and others charge for setup. Make sure you ask about delivery fees and set up fees before making your purchase. You can also compare the convenience and cost of various options.
Online retailers often offer inexpensive or free delivery within Marietta.
Budget Mattress Sizes & Pricing
Mattress prices vary according to size. Here are the common mattress sizes available in Marietta:
- Twin (Single) size mattress
- Twin XL size mattress
- Full (Double) size mattress
- Queen size mattress
- King size mattress
- California King size mattress
It’s easy. It is more expensive to buy larger mattresses than smaller ones. It is cheaper to buy smaller mattresses than larger ones.
A king-sized mattress will cost you at least several thousand dollars. But prices can be much lower if you buy from an online retailer.
Balancing Cost and Quality For Your Next Mattress
It can be difficult to find a good-quality, cheap mattress in Marietta. However, it is possible to find an affordable mattress in Marietta that will give you a restful night of sleep while still being within your budget.
There are so many choices to choose from that you don’t have to compromise comfort or quality in exchange for price. Before you make a purchase, be sure to carefully consider all the points and do your research.
By considering budget-friendly options, clearance sales, online retailers, and second-hand options, you can be sure to find the perfect cheap mattress for your needs.
Remember to balance quality and cost, especially if your back is chronic.
It’s possible to find a good mattress without breaking the bank with just a little effort.
Cheap Affordable Mattresses Near You in Marietta, Georgia
About Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia 30006
Marietta is a city in and the county seat of Cobb County, Georgia, United States. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 60,972. The 2019 estimate was 60,867, making it one of Atlanta’s largest suburbs. Marietta is the fourth largest of the principal cities by population of the Atlanta metropolitan area.
Map of Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia 30006. Click for directions.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
What is the cheapest place to buy a mattress in Marietta?
If you don’t have the budget for a mattress, there are many places that you can buy a cheap mattress. Sam’s Club and Costco offer great deals on mattresses and have excellent return policies.
What is a good budget for a bed?
The average innerspring mattress cost is between $700 and $1,000. The average price for a memory foam mattress is between $500 and $900. The typical hybrid mattress can be purchased for between $1,000 and $2,000 A typical latex mattress costs between $1,000 and $2,000.
What is the best time of year to buy a mattress in Marietta, Georgia?
March or April are the best month to purchase a mattress. According to an online mattress company, new models of mattresses will usually be available in stores by March or April. You can save money on new mattresses by buying an older model, or a floor sample directly from the showroom floor.
Is it cheaper to buy mattress in-store or online?
Although in-store sales can sometimes lower the price, it is usually cheaper to buy a mattress online. This is because you will have more choices meaning more affordable options and there is no overhead being paid to have locations around the country.
What is the best mattress for the price in Marietta?
Nectar Mattress, Brooklyn Bedding Hybrid, Saatva Memory Foam Hybrid and Bear Original are the top mattresses.
How can I save money on a new bed?
You can save the most money by waiting for your holiday to buy a new mattress. If you can wait to shop for a holiday, you’ll save a ton. Use the internet to find coupons. Ask for a discount at your local Marietta area mattress store. You may even get a free pillow.
Why are mattresses in Marietta so expensive?
The materials used to create a mattress are a significant factor in making mattresses so expensive. The price of a mattress will go up if it is made of better materials. Higher-quality synthetic materials are more expensive than organic materials.
Why are mattresses in a box cheaper?
Foam is generally inexpensive to produce, making bed-in-a box mattresses more affordable than innerspring beds. They can also be rolled up and compressed air tight to fit into smaller boxes.
How to find a cheap mattress in Marietta, GA?
There are several ways to find a cheap mattress in Marietta. Look online at Craigslist and other marketplaces. You can find sales and discounts at mattress stores. A mattress in a box can be purchased from online retailers. Look out for discounts at outlet and second-hand stores that sell mattresses. Good deals can be found on floor-model mattresses that have been displayed.
Which discount mattress stores in Marietta offer financing?
Many Marietta mattress stores offer financing options.
Mattress Firm has financing options available through their partners. Customers can apply for financing online or in-store.
Before making a final decision, it’s a good idea compare the terms and financing options offered by different financial institutions and stores. To avoid any surprises or fees, it is important to fully understand and read the terms and condition of any financing agreement.
What else do mattress stores in Marietta sell besides low-cost mattresses?
Besides mattresses, many bigger mattress stores in Marietta also offer related products such as baby cribs, children’s beds & bunks, adjustable bed frames, and bedding for your bedroom.
A wide range of modern furniture is available at the top retailers, including couches and sofas for your living area.
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CUNA is now America's Credit Unions.
A stronger voice to advance the credit union industry.
NCUA Vice Chairman Kyle Hauptman thanked credit unions for their performance over the last two years to get through a situation “definitely not in the manual” at the 2022 CUNA Governmental Affairs Conference (GAC) Tuesday.
“Credit unions have innovated for years to meet their members’ ever-evolving financial needs,” he says. “You all know that the only constant is change, and that standing still can be riskier than experimenting with new ways of doing things.”
Hauptman aims to have NCUA also evolve with the times to provide quality service, despite being saddled with a problem that affects many government agencies.
“We’re basically a monopoly provider of our services, and monopolies often wind up producing mediocre products at high prices,” he says. “By implementing normal, modern customer feedback and transparency, the agency you pay for ought to be an improved regulatory experience. So, we know that NCUA has to modernize as well.”
Hauptman also said the development of cryptocurrencies could have as much as a “profound, disruptive” impact on financial institutions as the internet, and NCUA will work on ways credit unions can get into the space.
“Let me share the true north that guides me: I don’t want to see credit unions slowly go the way of Blockbuster Video because their regulator wouldn’t let them compete,” he says.
Board member Rodney Hood said he’s seeing reassuring trends in credit unions, even through the pandemic.
“Since the start of the pandemic, we’ve seen that credit unions have added more than 7 million members, and loan growth has been strong while delinquency rates remain manageable,” he says. “Particularly in light of the severe headwinds we’ve faced these last 24 months, those results are a testament to the fact that the credit union model continues to be a strong option for consumers seeking quality financial services and affordable, reliable credit.”
He also says he was encouraged by new charter applications. After only one in 2020, there were four in 2021, and several are in progress this year.
But Hood urges credit unions to keep seeking new ways to deliver services.
“This industry cannot rest on its laurels. And the reality is that there are some serious competitive challenges that credit unions will need to address related to fintech. Right before our eyes, we are seeing the financial services model move from a retail delivery model to a digital delivery platform,” he says. “To meet those challenges will require focusing on opportunities to reach new demographics and, especially, younger generations of banking customers.”
He says he hopes NCUA will look to provide further opportunities for innovation and urged credit unions to explore those as well.
“I want to see credit unions approach fintech with a sense of purpose and clarity," Hood says. "Let’s be open to innovation and experimentation, but always with the primary commitments being of service to your members, ensuring the performance of your institutions, and protecting the safety and soundness of the broader system of cooperative credit.”
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Engineering Graduate Students Recognized at EGSO RA/TA Awards
Fifteen graduate students at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering were recognized on Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at the Engineering Graduate Student Organization (EGSO) Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant Award Ceremony. The awards celebrate the extraordinary contributions and achievements of research and teaching assistants across the engineering departments.
“These winners are the best-of-the-best graduate researchers (RA) and teachers (TA) in the Swanson School of Engineering's Departments and Programs," said Bob Parker, associate dean for graduate education. "Their level research accomplishment and student appreciation for their hard work and dedication is exemplary, as evidenced by the comments from their faculty mentors.”
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Last week Brazil’s National Space Agency INPE reported a 51 percent drop in Amazon deforestation in the six months ended February 2010 compared with the year earlier period. But the seemingly happy news for environmentalists may be premature.
Data from Imazon, an independent organization that aims to improve forest transparency through advanced analysis of satellite imagery and other tools, reveals a 23 percent increase during the period. Why does the data conflict?
Carlos Souza, a researcher with Imazon who was last week honored with the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship together with his colleague Beto Verissimo, attributes the discrepancy to “differences in estimates of deforestation in August and September last year when INPE’s results were much higher than ours.”
Deforestation in August 2008 to February 2010 and degradation of September 2008 to February 2010 in the Brazilian Amazon (Source: Imazon / SAD; modified by mongabay.com). |
Souza told mongabay.com that INPE’s tracking system captured a lot of forest degradation as deforestation during the period, inflating its overall tally for forest loss. The agency’s estimates that nearly 1360 square kilometers of forest were cleared from August 2009 to February 2010, down from early 2,800 sq km a year earlier. By comparison, Imazon puts the total around 924 sq km, up from 749 sq km a year earlier.
Intra-year estimates for deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon are notoriously difficult to assess due to cloud cover, distinctions between degradation and deforestation, seasonal variations, and other variables. Figures are usually reconciled each August using a different methodology. INPE generally publishes these results towards the end of the year.
But an uptick in deforestation would not be unsurprising given a 14 percent rise in beef prices during the period. The Amazon is a major cattle-producing region and much of Brazil’s beef and leather is exported to Europe. The increase in beef prices during the period outpaced the appreciation of the Brazilian Real against the Euro, a development that would normally diminish beef exports from Brazil to Europe by making beef more expensive for European buyers.
Nevertheless deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon continues to trend downward since peaking in 2004. The decline is attributed to new interest among business leaders in reducing deforestation, new forestry policies and increased vigilance against illegal logging and agriculture, expansion of the country’s protected area network, and a stronger real. Confident in Brazil’s progress in controlling deforestation, in 2008 President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva announced a plan to reduce annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon 70 percent from a 1996-2005 baseline by 2018 as part of the country’s climate change commitment.
(12/21/2009) Brazil set aside more land in protected areas than any other country during the 2000s, accounting for nearly 60 percent of total terrestrial conservation during the decade, according to mongabay.com’s analysis of data from the U.N Environment Program and the World Conservation Monitoring Center. Paradoxically, Brazil also lost the most forest of any country during the decade.
(12/03/2009) Funds generated under a U.S. cap-and-trade or a broader U.N.-supported scheme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and degradation (“REDD”) could play a critical role in bringing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon to a halt, reports a team writing in the journal Science. But the window of opportunity is short — Brazil has a two to three year window to take actions that would end Amazon deforestation within a decade.
(06/02/2009) Accounting for roughly half of tropical deforestation between 2000 and 2005, Brazil is the most important supply-side player when it comes to developing a climate framework that includes reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). But Brazil’s position on REDD contrasts with proposals put forth by other tropical forest countries, including the Coalition for Rainforest Nations, a negotiating block of 15 countries. Instead of advocating a market-based approach to REDD, where credits generated from forest conservation would be traded between countries, Brazil is calling for a giant fund financed with donations from industrialized nations. Contributors would not be eligible for carbon credits that could be used to meet emission reduction obligations under a binding climate treaty.
(02/16/2009) Nearly 80 percent of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon results from cattle ranching, according to a new report by Greenpeace. The finding confirms what Amazon researchers have long known – that Brazil’s rise to become the world’s largest exporter of beef has come at the expense of Earth’s biggest rainforest. More than 38,600 square miles has been cleared for pasture since 1996, bringing the total area occupied by cattle ranches in the Brazilian Amazon to 214,000 square miles, an area larger than France. The legal Amazon, an region consisting of rainforests and a biologically-rich grassland known as cerrado, is now home to more than 80 million head of cattle. For comparison, the entire U.S. herd was 96 million in 2008.
(01/04/2009) Environmentalists have long voiced concern over the vanishing Amazon rainforest, but they haven’t been particularly effective at slowing forest loss. In fact, despite the hundreds of millions of dollars in donor funds that have flowed into the region since 2000 and the establishment of more than 100 million hectares of protected areas since 2002, average annual deforestation rates have increased since the 1990s, peaking at 73,785 square kilometers (28,488 square miles) of forest loss between 2002 and 2004. With land prices fast appreciating, cattle ranching and industrial soy farms expanding, and billions of dollars’ worth of new infrastructure projects in the works, development pressure on the Amazon is expected to accelerate. Given these trends, it is apparent that conservation efforts alone will not determine the fate of the Amazon or other rainforests. Some argue that market measures, which value forests for the ecosystem services they provide as well as reward developers for environmental performance, will be the key to saving the Amazon from large-scale destruction. In the end it may be the very markets currently driving deforestation that save forests.
(08/05/2008) The major drivers of tropical deforestation have changed in recent decades. According to a forthcoming article, deforestation has shifted from poverty-driven subsistence farming to major corporations razing forests for large-scale projects in mining, logging, oil and gas development, and agriculture. While this change makes many scientists and conservationists uneasy, it may allow for more effective action against deforestation. Rhett A. Butler of Mongabay.com, a leading environmental science website focusing on tropical forests, and William F. Laurance of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama believe that the shift to deforestation by large corporations gives environmentalists and concerned governments a clear, identifiable target that may prove more responsive to environmental concerns.
(07/31/2008) Between June 2000 and June 2008, more than 150,000 square kilometers of rainforest were cleared in the Brazilian Amazon. While deforestation rates have slowed since 2004, forest loss is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. This is a look at past, current and potential future drivers of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. | <urn:uuid:142fabbe-5992-4b89-8dff-250e87dcab4c> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://news.mongabay.com/2010/04/is-deforestation-rising-or-falling-in-the-amazon/ | 2024-04-17T10:09:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.94921 | 1,488 |
A highly regarded conservation textbook is now available online for free.
Conservation Biology for All, a book edited by Navjot S. Sodhi of the National University of Singapore and Paul R. Ehrlich of Stanford University, has been posted on mongabay.com, an environmental science and conservation news site, as a free download. Conservation Biology for All can be accessed at mongabay.com/conservation-biology-for-all.html.
The authors, together with the publisher, Oxford University Press, expect open access to greatly increase the reach of the book, which was published last year.
“I am a great fan of free and open access to conservation knowledge,” Sodhi told mongabay.com, which was granted permission by Oxford University Press to post the book.
Conservation Biology for All includes chapters on a range of topics including deforestation, extinction, ecosystem services, fragmentation, invasive species, climate change, overexploitation, biodiversity, fire, and conservation. More than two dozen authors contributed to the book.
A print version of the book is also available.
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Northampton Community College’s Dr. Javier Ávila, acclaimed poet, novelist, professor, and public speaker, has received the 2021 William Aguilar Cultural Award given by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE). Ávila taught English at the University of Puerto Rico for eight years and has been a professor of English at NCC for fifteen years.
Ávila’s AAHHE Cultural Award is preceded by former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera.
The award recognizes an individual who has contributed significantly to the understanding of the national Latino community and/or culture through the fine, creative, and performing arts, all exemplified by Ávila’s illustrious literary career and the massive outreach of his one-man show, The Trouble with My Name.
Ávila has become a prominent Hispanic voice. The Trouble with My Name is a national phenomenon, with over 180 performances across the U.S. Thousands have embraced the presentation as a profoundly educational experience that is at once a history lesson on Hispanic heritage, an examination of discrimination in America, a celebration of Puerto Rican culture, and an open platform for a continued conversation about equity, diversity, and inclusion.
The power of The Trouble with My Name is largely attributed to Ávila’s talent as an educator. In 2015, while teaching at NCC, Ávila was named Pennsylvania Professor of the Year by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He is the first Latino to receive this award.
In addition to his teaching ability, Ávila is a gifted and prolific bilingual writer of fifteen books, several of which have won national awards: La simetría del tiempo won the Pen Club Book of the Year Award in 2006; El papel del difunto won the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña Poetry Award in 2010; and Vidrios ocultos en la alfombra earned the Olga Nolla Poetry Award in 2003. Ávila is the author of the novels The Professor in Ruins (2006), La profesión más antigua (2012), Polvo (2019), and the bestselling thriller Different (2002), which was made into the award-winning movie, Miente (2009).
Ávila was born and raised in Puerto Rico and holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from the University of Puerto Rico and a Ph.D. in literature and literary criticism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
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Matt Skoglund of the Natural Resources Defense Council describes the pleasures of finding and fishing for golden trout on a three-day trip with his brother into the wild Beartooth Mountains of Montana. These small, beautiful fish have been an obsession since Skoglund was a child: That you can’t find goldens in roadside rivers also titillated me. To catch a golden,…
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Last winter, Casting for Recovery held an online auction to raise money for their programs, which combine fly fishing, counseling, and medical information to help breast-cancer patients and survivors focus on wellness instead of illness. One of the auction items was a day of fishing in southwestern Vermont,…
Read MoreMorris Animal Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes longer, healthier lives for animals through humane research, recently funded a study to determine how educated veterinarians and physicians are about dog-bite prevention techniques. Of the respondents, only 21 percent of veterinarians and 5 percent of physicians reported that they had acquired most of their knowledge about dog bites from medical or veterinary school. Most interesting, the study found that the vast majority of those surveyed would like to have had more information about dog-bite prevention during their schooling. “We hope the information from this study can be used to develop better curricula for medical and veterinary training programs,” said Patricia N. Olson, DVM, PhD, president/CEO of Morris Animal Foundation. “This curriculum could prove to be of benefit to both people and dogs alike, helping us to better live side by side.”
Read MoreEver wonder what happened to the dogs raised to fight and then rescued from Michel Vick’s “Bad Newz Kennels”? National Public radio ran a piece a few days ago on the efforts to rehabilitate those dogs and the people behind the effort.
“We had started developing a battery of tests … : Could you touch the dog and handle the dog? Was the dog reactive? How did it respond to people? How did it respond to other dogs? Was the dog safe around food, toys and children? Things like that. So when we sat down to take a look at [the Vick] case, we needed to understand what the potential aggression problems were going to be. And we also needed to satisfy the government’s concerns about liability. If this dog goes out and we permitted it and it attacks a small child, it’s going to get back to us somehow. So we really needed to demonstrate to the government that the dogs were going to be safe when we made some recommendations for placement.”
You can listen the story or read it in its entirety here.
Read MoreCome autumn, I have the best job in the world. As a bird hunting guide for PRO Outfitters in Central Montana, I spend 28 days a month with my dogs walking rolling hills under a big sky, looking for wild sharptail grouse, Hungarian partridge, and ring-neck pheasant. My dogs are ideal co-workers: every morning their eyes light up when they see me, and they can’t wait to get to work. Bird hunters know that few things compare to the bond you share with your dog in the field. And nothing compares to watching your young pointing dog gain confidence, put the pieces together, and finally “get it.”
Read MoreWe enrolled Logan in obedience training during the winter of 2007. I remember because my wife, Erica was pregnant with our first child, Joshua. The reason I mention my wife’s pregnancy is because it was she, at 7 months pregnant, who participated in the classes while I, like the world’s most self-absorbed, uncaring husband, tipped back on a metal folding chair and watched her march around the room in a parade of dogs, led along by a 70-lb. Labrador.
Read MoreFly fishing in pocket water can be challenging, but it also provides a lot of opportunity. Make a stealthy approach and keep your casts short to avoid drag.
If you’re fishing on the Henry’s Fork in Idaho this weekend, don’t be surprised if something large and startling appears from upstream. No, it’s not the world’s biggest strike indicator. It’s a first-of-its-kind hot-pink RO drift boat, representing Rowing for the Cure, that’s sure to stand out from the other watercraft on the river. The project is the brainchild…
Read MoreWhat is your favorite time of year for saltwater fly fishing? For Tom it’s in the fall. In the most recent episode of The Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast, Tom has some great tips on how to avoid crowds, read bird behavior and present your fly for the best experience on the water. | <urn:uuid:27c6cda7-ebf3-438a-9b9e-ae92d0e80d4e> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://news.orvis.com/page/1149 | 2024-04-17T09:10:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.956066 | 1,007 |
A massive stand has been taken by councillors in the fight to stop violence against women as they voted to obligate businesses to make sure workers got home safe at night in North Ayrshire.
Irvine Councillor Nairn McDonald put forward a motion at Wednesday’s full council meeting which will mean hospitality companies will have to provide transport for staff working late at night.
The Labour member said: “The epidemic of male violence against women is one of the most pressing of our times.
“People will think that because we are not in Westminster or Holyrood our hands are tied. We can act and I would argue we have a moral obligation to do so.”
He urged the council to get behind the Unite union’s Get Me Home safely campaign.
The campaign asks licensing boards around the country to make it a condition of being a licence holder that employers must provide staff who work late and beyond normal public transport times with safe and free or affordable transport home after their shift.
Seconding the motion, Ardrossan councillor Amanda Kerr said: “I can understand the predicament of staff working in places with late licences. The company I worked with provided us with transport home late at night and in the early hours of the morning.
“Sadly this is not mirrored through every organisation.
“It is important that the licensing board consults all relevant parties to establish a safe home recommendation within the licensing policy statement to support those working in this industry.”
The motion was carried unanimously.
Irvine West councillor Chloe Robertson, from the SNP, said it was “amazing” the motion had been passed.
She tweeted: “Before I could drive, in an old job, I had to walk for an hour at 3am to get home.
“As a young woman, this was terrifying. Many across the country will have similar experiences. I hope that other councils follow suit.”
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White Space Press Secretary Jen Psaki advised The us the reality about Republicans refusing to take part on vote casting rights.
Psaki was once requested if Biden will achieve out to Republicans now that the vote casting rights expenses are useless.
Video of Psaki:
Jen Psaki hits Republicans with the reality on vote casting rights, “They don’t seem to be uninformed about what this law would do and they’ve all the time been welcomed to be a part of the dialog. They made up our minds to not.” %.twitter.com/CjPHVBp9kp
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) January 20, 2022
The White Space Press Secretary replied, “ We don’t settle for that, however there have additionally been discussions between Democrats and Republicans for months now about vote casting rights law. They’ve been invited more than one occasions, a part of the dialog, reached out to, 16 of them have supported the coverage of vote casting rights law prior to now and declined this time. They don’t seem to be uninformed about what this law would do, and they’ve all the time been welcomed to be a part of the dialog. They made up our minds to not, and that’s vital for other folks to perceive. “
The Media Has Refused To Dangle Republicans Responsible For Vote casting Rights Obstruction
The company press covers vote casting rights as though this is a Democratic factor. The truth is precisely what Jen Psaki mentioned, and Republicans refuse to take part and have interaction at the vote casting rights factor.
The tale could be other in protection if 5 Republican senators voted with Democrats to give a boost to vote casting rights. Manchin and Sinema would now not be capable to conceal in the back of a requirement for bipartisanship, and vote casting rights could be accurately considered as greater than industry as standard partisan politics.
Jen Psaki advised The us the Republican Birthday party’s grimy little secret. The GOP is refusing to take part on vote casting rights, and the failure to give protection to the vote is their fault.
Mr. Easley is the managing editor. He’s additionally a White Space Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Level in Political Science. His graduate paintings all in favour of public coverage, with a specialization in social reform actions.
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Anyone familiar with the history of Christianity knows that it has been quite a complicated matter. The word “Christian” was first used during New Testament times (see Acts 11:26) to describe the disciples who accepted the message and redemption of Jesus Christ. Now after two millennia, Christianity has weathered centuries of change and experienced periods of growth, persecution, reformation, schism, globalization and more. While inspiring believers of every race and nationality, Christianity has taken a multitude of forms and advanced a diversity of doctrines. As a result, questions about who should be called a Christian and who should not continue to be discussed by some within the religious world.
Religious beliefs are no light matter, and it’s only right that they are taken seriously. Yet, earnest and well-meaning interlocutors have sometimes, in the words of the president of Fuller Seminary, Richard J. Mouw, “talked past each other,” due to their differing doctrinal lenses.
For some in the Christian tradition, an individual’s Christianity is defined primarily by theological boundaries. Accordingly, one must adhere to a theological tradition stemming from formalized creeds or statements of belief (such as the Nicene Creed and the Chalcedonian formulation) composed several centuries after Jesus Christ died and the New Testament was written.
There are differences between the post-biblical creeds and the teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Most notably, Latter-day Saints believe God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost are one in will and purpose, but are not literally one being, as the creedal conceptions of the Holy Trinity suggest. Also, members of the Church believe in living “apostles and prophets” (Ephesians 2:20) and a more open canon of scripture, which includes both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible and the Book of Mormon as another testament of Jesus Christ.
To describe The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a non-Christian church to any audience spreads a misconception that there is something other than Jesus Christ at the heart of the Mormon faith.
For Latter-day Saints, Jesus Christ is the Savior of all people, the divine Son of God. He is the same Jesus Christ of the New Testament, who taught about faith and about love for God and mankind. Jesus Christ — not Moses, Paul or Joseph Smith — is the object of Mormons’ devotion and worship. As the Prophet Joseph Smith himself taught, “The fundamental principles of our religion are … concerning Jesus Christ, that He died, was buried, and rose again the third day, and ascended into heaven; and all other things which pertain to our religion are only appendages to it.”
This is indeed the daily reality for Latter-day Saints. Jesus Christ is perpetually front and center in the lives of practicing members of the faith. Whenever Mormons pray to God, for instance, they do so in the name of Jesus Christ. Baptism by immersion, according to the symbolism of Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection, marks a person’s entrance into the faith. The sacrament (what other Christian traditions call communion) is administered weekly in Sunday services for members to reflect on the mercy of Jesus Christ. When Latter-day Saints seek forgiveness, they do so through Jesus Christ’s atoning sacrifice. They serve the poor and needy and give of their time and money to numerous humanitarian aid efforts in order to follow Christ’s teachings. Images of Christ adorn the faith’s meetinghouses and temples. Church leaders and members testify of Jesus Christ’s reality and divinity. The Son of God appears in the Church’s official name: “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” While some outsiders know Latter-day Saints as Mormons, members know themselves as part of Christ’s Church.
At their best, Latter-day Saints’ behavior, speech, thoughts and identity all reflect Christ and His teachings. If you ask a member what it means to belong to the Church, he or she will tell you that most fundamentally it means to believe in Jesus as the Savior of the world and to follow Him.
For Latter-day Saints, being a Christian means being a disciple of Jesus Christ, loving and worshiping Him above all. It means prizing Christ and centering one’s life on His teachings from the New Testament. It means striving to live the kind of life that Christ commanded, honoring Him in word and deed. This is the meaning of a Christian, and there is no doubt that Latter-day Saints — who pattern their lives after all of these things — belong to Christ’s fold.
To learn more about how Latter-day Saints worship Jesus Christ, read the Church’s official statement on the Savior, titled “The Living Christ: The Testimony of the Apostles.”
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Regardless of your particular financial status, keeping tabs on the ultra-rich—whether with admiration, envy, or resentment—is perhaps more pleasurable and less demanding than researching a mortgage, or shopping for online brokers, or getting schooled on complex topics in finance and economics like how exchange-traded funds work and the pros and cons of GDP.
To be sure, the appeal of wealthy families reflects a culture that fetishizes wealth and lionizes the rich. The upper echelon of business leaders is a kind of celebrity, as scrutinized for their ability to perform as athletes, actors, and politicians.
Successful family businesses may offer a universal appeal. Few of us will ever become billionaires, but everyone has a family. What’s more, family businesses imply values of authenticity, tradition, heritage, lineage, and quality. And wealthy families suggest royalty, especially if the wealth is intergenerational.
For the sake of simplicity, we have limited our list of richest families to those groups who originally made their fortunes through business, even if some heirs who still enjoy the money haven’t been employed in the business. The fortunes given are in a range because fortunes fluctuate daily with the markets, and it matters how you count it up. The most recent updates to these figures occurred between late 2018 and early 2019.
1. Walton Family – Walmart
Estimated Wealth: $190.5 billion
The Waltons are the richest family in America and by some measures the wealthiest clan in the world. At the top of the value chain, in 2019, Jim and Alice Walton are each worth more than $44 billion and ranked #16 and #17, respectively, on Forbes annual list of billionaires. Walmart is a retail behemoth.
Founded by Sam Walton in Arkansas in 1962, Walmart is now the world’s largest company, by 2019 revenues, with $514.4 billion, and over 1.5 million U.S. associates, according to its corporate website. If those people constituted their own city, it would be the fourth most populous American city, after New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. The company operates nearly 12,000 retail stores worldwide and 5,362 stores in the U.S., as of August 2019.
Best known for big box stores in rural and suburban America celebrated for its low priced products, and excoriated for its labor practices, the company failed to bring its big-box consumer lifestyle to New York City, unlike its competitor Target.
2. Mars Family – Mars
Estimated Wealth: $126.5 billion
Mars is the Walmart of candy: a multigenerational family business that is ubiquitous, cheap, and popular. Today the company is better known for making M&Ms than for its eponymous Mars bar. In 2017, the world’s largest candy company diversified with the purchase of VAC, a pet care company, for $7.7 billion.
Siblings Jacqueline and John Mars, whose grandfather Frank Mars founded the company, each has a net worth of $23.9 billion, tied for #33 in 2019 on the Forbes annual list of billionaires. The company is now being run by some of their children, the fourth generation of Mars family members. Sweet!
3. Koch Brothers – Koch Industries
Estimated Wealth: $124.5 billion
Charles and David Koch owe their staggering fortune to an oil business founded by their father, but today are perhaps better known to the general public for their politics, digging into their deep pockets to place their stamp on politics: financing candidates and libertarian think tanks, funding university professorships, and lobbying for policy positions, all aimed at furthering a conservative agenda. The brothers are worth an estimated $50.5 billion each, tied for the #11 spot on Forbes billionaire list.
4. Al Saud – Saudi Royal Family
Estimated Wealth: $100 billion
The House of Saud, the Saudi royal family has a monarchical history extending back nearly a century. The family’s massive fortune, estimated at $100 billion, has grown thanks to decades of payments from the Royal Diwan, the king’s executive office. Ties with Saudi Aramco, the world’s most profitable company and a behemoth of the oil industry, ensure that the Saudi royal family continues to accumulate wealth. It’s difficult to accurately assess the wealth of the House of Saud, in part because the family contains as many as 15,000 extended members, many of whom have founded businesses, received government contracts and more.
5. Wertheimer Family – Chanel
Estimated Net Worth: $57.6 billion
French high fashion house Chanel is legendary for the timeless “little black dress,” the No. 5 perfume, and the deceased, high-profile designer Karl Lagerfeld, who died on February 19, 2019. Brothers Alan and Gerhard Wertheimer now co-own the company that their grandfather staked with founder Gabrielle Coco Chanel.
6. Dumas Family – Hermès
Estimated Wealth: $53.1 billion
French fashion house and luxury purveyor Hermès has dazzled the world with its signature scarves, neckties, and perfumes as well as its iconic Kelly and Birkin handbags. Back in the 19th century, Thierry Hermès fashioned riding apparel for the aristocracy. Today, the company adorns basketball royalty, LeBron James. Fusing old school and new technology, a line of Hermès Apple Watches sells for $1,300 to $2,000 and up apiece. Axel Dumas currently serves as the company’s CEO and chairman, and Pierre-Alexis Dumas is the artistic director.
7. Van Damme, De Spoelberch and De Mevius Families – Anheuser-Busch InBev
Estimated Wealth: $52.9 billion
These three Belgian brewers have a history in the beverage industry extending back more than 500 years. The Van Damme clan joined the efforts of the De Spoelberch and De Mevius families in 1987, when Piedboeuf and Artois merged to form Interbrew. Together, these three families have an estimated fortune of close to $53 billion.
8. Boehringer, Von Baumbach Families – Boehringer Ingelheim
Estimated Wealth: $51.9 billion
Boehringer Ingelheim is a German pharmaceuticals company with more than 130 years of history. The Boehringer family, along with the Von Baumbachs, remain in control of the company several generations later. All told, these two families possess fortunes totaling just under $52 billion.
9. Mukesh and Anil Ambani – Reliance Industries
Estimated Net Worth: $50.4 billion
Indian industrial conglomerate Reliance Industries, the only Asian company on our list, can be the least well known to average readers. Nevertheless, CEO Mukesh Ambani, whose late father founded the company in 1957, is #13 on Forbes 2019 list, overseeing the company’s refining, petrochemicals, oil, gas, and textiles; his brother Anil manages telecommunications, asset management, entertainment, and power generation. Anil’s elder son, Anmol, is the executive director of Reliance Capital.
10. Cargill, MacMillan Families – Cargill
Estimated Net Worth: $42.9 billion
Sixth-generation Cargill and MacMillan family members oversee Cargill Inc., among the largest closely held companies in the U.S. Cargill is a commodities giant which began in Iowa more than 150 years ago. With operations spanning industrial, agriculture and food products and services, the company is now based in Minneapolis.
The Bottom Line
While wealthy dynasties have been embedded in politics for centuries, it doesn’t seem coincidental that the allure of wealthy family lists coincides with the presidency and digital omnipresence of Donald Trump, whose wealth originated in his father’s New York real estate business, and whose daughter married the real estate scion Jared Kushner, both now in the White House inner circle.
Admittedly, this list may read as a naked celebration of wealth at a time of rising global inequality and the vanishing middle class; a belated pop-culture rehash of Thomas Piketty; or an implicit condoning of heedless consumption at a time when the future of wealth itself is in question due to technological disruption and climate change.
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(Article by Richard Moorhead republished from BigLeaguePolitics.com)
MeWe’s administrators confirmed they would close so-called ‘Stop the Steal’ groups and purge their content from its platform earlier this month.
MeWe styles itself as somewhat of a Facebook alternative, advertising user privacy and independence from a data surveillance business model. MeWe’s administrators have taken to signaling against real free speech social media platforms such as Parler and Gab, a thumb in the face of their largely anti-establishment user base, many of whom joined the service to begin with in pursuit of a Facebook alternative that doesn’t censor.
An overwhelming majority of Americans who attended ‘Stop the Steal’ protests are peaceful and non-violent, with only a handful getting out of control during the January 6th raucous US Capitol riot. MeWe’s decision to implement political censorship en masse makes it no different than the worst Big Tech authoritarians, except for the deceptive marketing of a free speech social media platform.
In any event, a social media platform that bans arbitrarily defined “haters” is almost assured to have draconian anti-free speech policies. MeWe has opted for the path of a minuscule Big Tech clone in a betrayal of its own user base. Gab offers a wide range of social services without the politically correct censorship, and MeWe’s users should embrace it as the real home of free speech online. | <urn:uuid:ecf2f037-d43b-49c8-8960-645b73dcd740> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://newstarget.com/2021-01-27-mewe-goes-big-tech-authoritarian-political-censorship.html | 2024-04-17T09:12:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.931721 | 301 |
- Fake Spill: Place a cup or bowl of water or other clear liquid on someone’s desk or table, then carefully lay a piece of paper on top of it. When they try to pick up the paper, they’ll think they spilled the liquid everywhere!
- Switch the Signs: If you work in an office or school, switch around some of the signs or labels. For example, switch the signs on the men’s and women’s restrooms or switch the labels on the coffee and tea containers in the break room.
- Fake Parking Ticket: Print out a fake parking ticket and place it on someone’s car. Make sure to include a “fine” amount that’s low enough to be funny, but high enough to make them do a double-take.
- Fake Power Outage: If you live with roommates or family members, turn off the power to the whole house for a few seconds (just long enough to make everyone panic!). Then turn the power back on and act like nothing happened.
- Fake Lottery Ticket: Buy a few fake lottery tickets and give them to your friends or family members. Make sure to watch their reactions when they think they’ve won big!
- Fake Spider: Place a fake spider on someone’s desk or in their locker. Make sure it’s realistic enough to scare them, but not so realistic that it causes a full-blown panic attack!
- Fake News: Create a fake news article or blog post about something outrageous or unbelievable, and share it on social media. See how many people fall for it before revealing the prank.
- Remember to keep your pranks harmless and lighthearted, and always be considerate of others’ feelings and boundaries. Happy April Fool’s Day!
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Saturday, February 21, 2009
Looking at the new Filmhouse brochure that just came in, I notice that "Gun Crazy" is being re-released in April. Far as I know anyway, it's not been re-made with Pitt and Jolie or whoever. The thing that struck me about it was the rating. PG - contains mild violence, threat and smoking scenes. As if society wasn't far enough up around the U-bend. they have to poison our minds with this filth. Anyway, it'll be braw to see this on the big screen.
And while we're still at the flicks, "Transatlantic Feedback" will also be hitting up theatres for a short run in that self-same month. | <urn:uuid:3c302fdc-6038-4138-992b-bba779798bfa> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://nextbigthing.blogspot.com/2009_02_21_archive.html | 2024-04-17T09:10:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.979799 | 153 |
“The Practicing Stoic” explores the ancient philosophy of Stoicism and provides practical guidance on applying its principles to modern life.
In "The Practicing Stoic," Ward Farnsworth delves into the timeless philosophy of Stoicism, which originated in ancient Greece and Rome. Farnsworth explores the core principles of Stoicism, including understanding what is within our control, embracing virtue, and accepting the impermanence of life. He presents Stoicism as a practical philosophy that can be applied to daily life to cultivate resilience, inner tranquility, and a sense of purpose. Farnsworth draws upon the wisdom of ancient Stoic philosophers, such as Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius, to provide valuable insights and actionable advice for navigating life's challenges. By practicing Stoicism, readers can develop a mindset that enables them to respond to adversity with equanimity and lead a life of virtue and meaning. | <urn:uuid:5dfea219-d84c-4b67-adce-88920e661429> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://nextbook.me/425-ward-farnsworth-the-practicing-stoic/ | 2024-04-17T10:03:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.920114 | 188 |
NLP Anchors: When Disgust Is Useful
I bought some fried chicken yesterday from a local supermarket deli. Got it home, and opened the packaging. Found a chicken wing with battered and fried feathers attached.Disgusting! Obviously, they were missing the big picture on plucking the chicken before you cook it. If you look up the word “grotesque” in the dictionary, this chicken wing could be there. I didn’t even want to touch the thing, but I had to, to toss it into the garbage can. I’m not eating that!! Ick, and yick!In my Neuro-Linguistic Programming work with clients “ick and yick” can be extremely useful. People come into my office wanting to end various behaviors which are beyond their conscious control. People want to stop smoking. People want to stop drinking. People come into my office wanting weight loss, which means, behaviorally, eating less to no sweets: cookies, candy, chocolate, brownies, cupcakes, donuts, ice cream, sugary sodas, french fries, potato chips and other carb-laden, junky processed foods that pack poundage on the body. NLP anchoring can help with all of that! “Ick and yick” find a home.An “anchor” is simply a learned response to a stimulus which has embedded itself in our mind and behaviors. Here’s an example! When I was a kid my mom tried to make me eat liver. It’s a nightmarish recollection. I hate liver. As an adult, I would never choose to eat liver, because it’s horrendously repulsive to me, in looks, taste, smell, in every way invented. My response to the thought of liver is this: “get it away from me! No way in hell is that thing going into my mouth!” Like that chicken wing yesterday.With NLP we can take this feeling of “get it away from me” – capture it, and attach it to anything, where it’s useful to do so. We can attach it to chocolate. To cigarettes. To brownies. We can attach new responses to anything. If you don’t like it, you’re not going to eat it, or smoke it, or drink it. This process is called “aversion” anchoring. It’s another piece of my Neuro-Linguistic Programming client work, and it helps!On the flip side of abhorrence, I also help clients create good feelings to replace cravings, things like calm, happy, joy, satisfied, healthy. When a person is enticed towards something wonderful while simultaneously moving away from something disgusting, now we have a propulsion system of change. This is NLP. Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Generating new responses that are useful and become automated, or unconscious. It’s massively useful in creating new behaviors and achieving personal goals.As a Neuro-Linguistic Hypnotherapist, I use these same tools for my own success. I’ve lost a considerable amount of weight. I took that chicken wing, and captured the revulsion, bottled it and applied it to chocolate brownies (my former weakness). I’m not buying or eating any brownies today. None. Not interested. I’m not eating any brownies tomorrow, either. Nor the next day. When will I want brownies? Possibly never. And I’m OK with that.Neuro-Linguistic Programming. This is called taking control of your life, and it’s a good thing! | <urn:uuid:1e61efb4-2c97-43b1-962a-e3cfb59b2592> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://nhavuln.info/nlp-anchors-when-disgust-is-useful | 2024-04-17T09:30:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.950889 | 768 |
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review PROGRESS: After the plan we implemented has been in place and we have data to collect, we review the process, make any adjustments, and start the process again on something different.
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Like many, I've invested heavily in coaching and masterminds, hoping to 10X my business. Despite the effort and expense, the promised growth didn't materialize for me or my peers. Now, when I see those "10X YOUR REVENUE" claims, I'm skeptical.
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Spending in more money on ad spend
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Switch up all your software programs and systems (or purchasing more of it!)
Dedicating heaps of additional TIME you don't have, or
Using tactics that feel gross to you AND your customers (i.e. pop-ups, fake FOMO, exaggerated value, inflated promises, you get the picture. If it feels gross to you, trust me, it's gross to your people too!)
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There remains to be confronted an argument that is said to be decisive in favor of reincarnation, that of the facts. Contra factum unfit argumentum. The most scholarly reasoning does not stand up to the facts. If reincarnation is impossible, how to interpret the abundant testimonies of those who claim to remember past lives? Are they all charlatans?
This solution seems difficult to support, it is necessary to proceed by elimination. The early articles absolutely ruled out divine intervention. God cannot, because he cannot contradict himself, want reincarnation, nor therefore give the illusion of it to men. Sound philosophy has shown, for its part, that this thesis is in radical opposition to the laws of nature. A sound and righteous thought cannot therefore adhere to it.
Two phenomena therefore remain, which could account for advanced experiences: a preternatural influence and a psychic illness.
* A diabolical intervention
This is not to be dismissed too quickly. The demon has indeed a power over our imagination and our senses. He can very well simulate in his victims the memory of a previous life, with the most astonishing details, and make them speak a language hitherto unknown to them.
Besides, how can we be surprised that the devil exercises such a great influence these days when so many people devote themselves to him, appeal to occult forces, to “spirits”, to the fables of astrology? They thus open their souls to the demon.
Moreover, we remember the religious character of metempsychosis. This is not primarily a philosophical system. It claims a global explanation of the world, of man, of his destiny. It is a religion, all the more formidable in that it presents itself under the guise of an austere discipline. We are therefore entitled to ask ourselves: who benefits from the crime?
Is there not a hidden hand, a preternatural force, behind the many variants of reincarnation, their prodigious propaganda and even certain facts on which they are based?
Two authoritative voices seem to whisper the answer to us: “I say that what the pagans offer in sacrifice, they offer to demons, and not to God. And Saint Irenaeus: “Not only are the gods of the Gentiles (the pagans) not gods, but they are only idols of the demons.” »
* Mental disorders
But do we have to go back so high to interpret all cases of reminiscences? It seems not, and we must consider another explanation, not exclusive of the first, that of mental disorders.
Mental illnesses, of which many of our contemporaries are the victims, the abuse of alcohol, the use of hallucinogens, can they not account for the phenomenon we are studying?
In order not to assert anything gratuitously, we contacted a person skilled in the art, a psychiatrist. His science of mental illnesses and his experience confirm the results we have obtained through philosophy. Here is the text of his response.
“Refuting metempsychosis and all the theories revolving around reincarnation is quite commendable. These ideas spread very quickly and we adhere to them without thinking through snobbery. In psychiatric pathology we encounter delusional discourse on the theme of a past life, in two circumstances. The first case is that of chronic delusional psychoses:
“- in chronic hallucinatory psychosis;
“- in fantastic delusions (or paraphrenic delusions);
“- in schizophrenic delusions.
“You have to know that this delirium, or the hallucinations, as a symptom, are a means of defence. The patient ‘chooses’ without knowing it, unconsciously, to become delusional for the economy of anxiety that it gives him in the face of his confrontation with a painful reality with which he can no longer establish links.
“From all this, there results an unshakable conviction of the delusional in his delirium, a desperate attachment to his symptoms. ‘You would have to be crazy not to believe it’, said Gaëtan de Clérambault. It has been observed that some delusionals, brutally stripped of their delirium by a neuroleptic treatment, presented a severe depressive state and could commit suicide.
“The second case is the addictive use of hallucinogens (LSD, mushrooms, Peyote, etc.). We find in hallucinatory intoxication many of the classic symptoms of schizophrenia and its possible delusional episodes.
“You ask me how to explain the fact that many people remember past lives in good faith?
“If they are ‘normal’ people, I don’t believe it at all. They are affabulators.
“If they are ‘cured’ delusionals, they may have memories of their fruitful moments.
“Personally, I have never met a so-called normal person who remembers a past life. »
This study on reincarnation therefore gives us the joy of once again observing the perfect harmony between revelation, sound philosophy and the human sciences. She also offers us the only remedy for this epidemic: a return to a deep faith, to the realistic philosophy of Aristotle and Saint Thomas, and to a balanced life.
Fr. Jean-Dominique OP
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What does the Church think of reincarnation? (8)
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“I want to grow so that I can extend my legs and then my arms as well. I don’t want to grow because I can get by with very little. I want to grow and let it be in the middle…”
Contrary to the neoliberal formula – grow, accelerate, optimize – MASSIVE DREAMS expands the spectrum of action of boundless bodies and pleads for the contradiction: grow to burst. Accumulate in order to distribute. Wanting in order to struggle.
MASSIVE DREAMS is the first part of the trilogy BODIES OF CAPITALISM. Three works explore the inscriptions that the capitalist system makes on the human body.
Concept / Choreography: Antje Velsinger & Ayla Pierrot Arendt
Choreography / Performance: Antje Velsinger, Ursina Tossi, Verena Brakonier
Dramaturgy: Anne Kersting
Sound: Joaquin Macedo
Costume Design: Nina Divitschek
Photography: Tom Medici, Martin Rottenkolber
Production: Suse Berthold & Sabine Stücker
Lichthof Theater Hamburg, April 2018
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Desk work, right? Dull and monotonous sometimes, sure, but for me it’s the issue of comfort. Shifting in a seat and trying to find that perfect positioning to get through the day is way more taxing than it needs to be, which is why a special friend from Dream Land is flying in to make things a little more manageable.
Just look at him! This Kirby Keyboard Cushion brings him to your office to keep your wrists from going sore and your heart from going cold. The plush itself is wonderful, fitting in your lap and showing Kirby with not the Star Rod itself, but a Star Rod pencil in hand. When paired to the cushion itself, you’ll see it’s so he can draw all work day long while you make that money.
Orders are available starting today, with the set totaling 6,264 yen, or just under $60. Even if you’re not toiling away day to day, he still makes for a cute roommate with questionable artistic ability.
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The Coin Pouch is an essential item to make one of the strongest swords in Kitaria Fables. This guide will teach you how to get the Coin Pouch.
How To Get The Coin Pouch (Item) in Kitaria Fables
How To Get The Key To Enter The Canini Beach Dungeon
Before you can get the Coin Pouch, you have to enter the dungeon in Canini Beach. Unfortunately, it’s locked and you need a key. The game won’t tell you how to obtain this key, but it’s possible to get it through completing the quest by Sunny on Canini Beach. The problem here is getting this quest.
You can only trigger it by completing another quest (My Lunchbox quest) that’s easy to miss since you’d be spoiled by teleporters at this point. Remember the first entrance to Rivero Fortress that you’ve probably forgotten about? Go there; if you forgot how to get there, teleport to Rivero Fortress and head south.
There will be a guard at the entrance to Rivero Fortress with a pending quest. Interact with him and complete the quests. Completing it should be a matter of walking around in the Rivero Fortress and buying some cheap goodies. Clear it, rest, and go to Canini Beach (teleport to South Sand Dune and go south). Talk to Sunny, get their quest, and complete it. After that, getting the key should be straightforward.
Now, head west on Canini Beach to find the dungeon and enter it.
How To Beat Greed and get the Coin Pouch
Greed throws a hard punch, but he’s not too difficult to defeat. It’s best to avoid his wheel strike attack; to do so, you should aim to attack his sides or back instead of his front. Another thing you should do is stack up on healing items in case you get inflicted with the burn status. The burn will drain your HP if left unattended, so it’s better to be safe rather than sorry.
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The Persistence Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)3, which was established in 1996. The Foundation was formed to help conserve farmland and preserve agricultural heritage.
Preserve Agricultural Heritage
The rural timber framed barns and outbuildings of the 18th and 19th centuries provide a vital link to America’s past. But they are in danger of becoming extinct. Most often now they are left in disrepair as farms transition towards modernization. The preservation and documentation of historic agricultural structures is a focus of The Persistence Foundation’s work. The restoration of the Historic Barns of Nipmoose is a prime example of this effort to conserve farmland and preserve agricultural heritage.
“The beauty of this remarkable place [northern Hudson River Valley], captured with such joy by Grandma Moses, is expressed with no less sincerity by the barns of Nipmoose and the work of The Persistence Foundation.”
The Persistence Foundation’s (TPF) work has been focused primarily in townships of the northeastern section of the Hudson River Valley (HRV). The HRV is an area of exceptional beauty, which is internationally acclaimed for its scenic landscapes and fertile soils. These communities, whose landscapes have been so charmingly depicted by painters of the Hudson River School as well as the renowned folk artist, Grandma Moses, are in danger of losing their cultural heritage as well as their base of farmland. TPF has undertaken initiatives to address these problems, partnering with land trusts, government entities, local organizations and other non-profits.
TPF’s most significant undertaking has been the restoration of the Historic Barns of Nipmoose. As a result, these barns showcase the skills of America’s early builders and the beauty of the timber framed structures of the past. Read more about the restoration on the history page.
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What’s your adrenaline rush bucket list activity (Opinion)
After hearing about the tragic death of a 74-year-old New Jersey man after his parachute separated from him during a jump, I got to thinking about the risks people take. Not the fake risks, like seeing family and friends during a pandemic with a virus that has a 99.5%+ survival rate for just about everyone, but real life threatening risks. Like jumping out of a plan, or bungee jumping off a bridge, or white water rafting.
So many people line up to get that adrenaline rush by literally risking their lives. For me, my first and last experience white water rafting was a few years ago. It included a few seconds, felt like minutes, underneath the raft after being thrown into the water after we took a rough turn. I didn't panic and was able to hand walk to the edge and get back on board. But it was unsettling to being blocked from surfacing by a huge rubber raft.
Decided that the only risks I'll take going forward is with my career, being a content super-spreader of truth despite the attacks from haters and corporate media hacks. But unless the plane is crashing and I have to jump out, or I'm escaping an unruly mob or pack of wild animals, I'm staying off the rapids. How about you? What's your adrenaline rush bucket list activity? Let me know through our free NJ101.5 app and I might share it on the air!
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Dr. Abdul-Azeez Adediran (Jandor), the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in Lagos State, has condemned a viral video where some individuals in branded PDP uniforms were seen campaigning for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi.
Adediran, in a statement by Mr. Gbenga Ogunleye, the Head, Media and Communications, JANDOR4GOVERNOR Campaign Organisation, on Saturday in Lagos, said that the purported campaign for Obi was a hatchet job.
“The action carried out by some unidentified individuals in the party uniforms does not in any way represent the position of Lagos PDP in the forthcoming presidential election,” he said.
Adediran noted that his ongoing campaign tour of the 245 wards in the state had always emphasized on the importance of voting for the PDP presidential candidate, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar.
The candidate said that he had always emphasized the fact that Abubakar’s electoral victory would brighten his chances at the March 11 governorship election in the state.
Adediran disassociated himself “from such condemnable anti-party activity and promised that the perpetrator if by any chance are confirmed to be party members, will be sanctioned.
“I enjoin all Lagos PDP members and the good people of the state to ignore the said video.
“PDP members should remain resolute in their conviction to change the government at the federal level by voting massively for Atiku/Okowa ticket which promises to rescue the nation from the current hardship.” | <urn:uuid:b5ed30a9-32e2-49e4-b7f7-2e8f3e686269> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://njenjemedia.com/lagos-pdp-not-supporting-peter-obi-jandor/ | 2024-04-17T09:55:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.964975 | 347 |
Operating a high-quality charter school in New Mexico requires strong financial controls and accurate accounting at a minimum, but achieving financial sustainability — especially for new and growing schools — requires more: forward-looking cash-flow analysis, dynamic financial projections, and active advocacy on behalf of charter schools’ interests. Securing or expanding viable facilities that can accommodate growing student populations, planning in advance for changing teacher and staff salaries and benefits, and helping schools seek out and secure opportunities for local, state, and federal funding are all key to ensuring that schools can maintain their focus on delivering results for the students and communities that depend on them.
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The scientific conference with international participation entitled “Publications in the Development of Society and State III: Public Word and Public Condemnation” will be officially opened at the National Museum Kraljevo, on Thursday, August 17th, 2023, starting at 10 a.m., within the Žica Spiritual Assembly “Transfiguration 2023”. It is the third part of a three-year project organized by the National Museum Kraljevo with the support of the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade and the Institute for Political Studies from Belgrade. During the two days of the conference, on August 17th and 18th, twenty four scientists from the country and abroad will present their works.
The idea for this scientific conference and multiple directions of research occurred during many years of Slavoljub Maržik’s efforts to collect newspaper articles on Kraljevo in Serbian newspapers and thus cherish the history of this city. The understanding of the National Museum in Kraljevo and its readiness to support those efforts and present all the collected historical material to the professional and scientific public, in four books, also made the organisation of the scientific conference possible.
The scientific board of the conference “Publication in the Development of Society and State III: Public Word and Public Condemnation” defined roughly topics such as: historiography and society; social history in nonfiction (economy, health, education, religious communities, position of women…); press/newspapers and social trends; the social role of significant personalities, families and cities through local and national newspapers; newspaper and periodical research methodology; the development of periodicals as a reflection of the development of society (propaganda and/or encouragement); political vocabulary in newspapers and periodicals; linguistic analysis of news reports; literature and politics; domestic writers and occupying newspapers; culture in politics / politics in culture / political culture; public speech and public condemnation / freedom of expression, social criticism and political views. | <urn:uuid:981910ef-aa7a-46fa-94f2-b4db1e070fb7> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://nmkv.rs/event/publication-in-the-development-of-society-and-state-iii-public-word-and-public-condemnation/?lang=en | 2024-04-17T08:58:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.93948 | 415 |
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Top Las Vegas Nightclubs
It's time you learned everything about the top 10 nightclubs in Las Vegas for 2024, and this includes which Vegas clubs are the most popular. With clubs everywhere in Sin City, we want to make sure you know the best club venues so you don't waste your time and money in the wrong places. Plus, you'll have full access to our event calendars, guest lists and bottle service packages. 2024 is going to continue to be fantastic with DJs, live performances, and parties for the year. You can also see the biggest clubs in Vegas too.
Club Hakkasan lives at the MGM Grand Hotel. Being one of the most popular nightclubs in Las Vegas is not easily earned. Hakkasan has created one of the most over-the-top main rooms with the world's top DJs and theme decorations and dancers that change nightly. If you like DJs Hakkasan brings the best like Tiesto, Lil Jon, and Party Favor. There is also a second club inside Hakkasan called the Ling Ling Room which brings more open format music. Hakkasan is open each week Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.
You'll find Marquee Nightclub at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. With one of the best main rooms in Vegas, Marquee creates a scene each night that is high energy fun. They've got everything you expect from a top club with great music, amazing electronic displays LED systems throughout the club, and live performing dancers and go go's throughout the club. Marquee brings top DJs like DJ Mustard, Dash Berlin, and Tritonal sprinkled in with live performances for major events. At night the pool area surrounding Marquee Dayclub is connected to the main room of the club. Users have the option to escape the interior of the club and enjoy the nighttime pool area. The best nights to attend are Monday for industry night and Friday and Saturday.
Groups looking to party in Vegas will find Tao Nightclub at the Venetian Hotel. Even though Tao has been around for many years it has remained one of the top clubs to visit. This is due to the fact that it makes upgrades each year and continues to bring great DJs and music. Guests have a club with multiple rooms and music and that is fun to explore in, drink at, and socialize. Be ready for music from DJ Vice, Chase B and Justin Credible. Tao has always had some of the hottest dancers in Las Vegas and you'll be right at home here on Thursday for industry night and Friday and Saturday.
Jewel Las Vegas is found at the Aria Hotel near the center end of the strip. This club fits perfectly between being smaller than a megaclub but large enough to throw amazing parties. This medium size lets everyone be part of the action that involves the best music including hip hop and a dance floor that goes all night. While popular DJs frequent Jewel it is more of a hub and hangout for celebrities and live performances. You'll find Tyga and OT Genasis with appearances here. The design and lighting in Jewel is just different than other clubs, and that is a good thing. People are there to plain and simply have fun. Monday nights are industry a nights and you'll also find events here on Friday and Saturday.
Drai's is located at the Cromwell Hotel and being located on the roof of a Las Vegas hotel has some interesting perks. Drais gives users dual options in nightlife having both indoor and outdoor areas to party. While other clubs have focused on DJs, Drais has created an environment tweaked for live musical performances from today's top artists. Think of it as special concerts you can't get anywhere else. You can expect musical performances by Migos, TIP, Meek Mills, and Trey Songz. The lighting system and LED displays surrounding the club are immaculate. High end bottle service packages include firework displays that shoot off of the top of the venue. Sunday's focus is hip hop for Sundrais events. The best nights to go to Drai's are Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Resorts World Hotel is home to Zouk Nightclub in Las Vegas. The club has massive LED walls and wild ceiling lighting that enhance the entire nightlife experience. Performances are customized and each night the theme can be something different. Club Zouk has chosen a balance when it comes to talent and performances. Guests will get a mix of top 40 and EDM with live performances from artists like Jack Harlow. Be excited to dance with the performers throughout the night in areas on the dance floor and at the VIP tables. You will want to attend this venue on Thursday for industry night and Friday and Saturday.
Omnia Nightclub lives at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and has has three drastically different rooms to party in. The main room is focused on headlining DJs, is two stories with the newest technology, and an incredible dynamic chandelier that has to be experienced. The second room is the Heart of Omnia which has a focus on open format music and has a darker design with LEDs animating almost all of the walls. The outdoor terrace represents the third location at Omnia with a unique vibe of its own that overlooks Las Vegas Blvd. Being one of the newer nightclub in Las Vegas means they have the top DJs in the world there on the regular. Calvin Harris, Steve Aoki, Nightmre, and Zedd have had residencies. Club Omnia is a megaclub but was designed with the most room at the bars compared to other nightclubs in Las Vegas. A drumline performs bottle service presentations throughout the night. The best nights to attend are on Tuesday for industry night and Friday and Saturday. Sundays are unique with Deseo events.
This unique nightclub found at the Fontainebleau Hotel delivers nights you won't forget and is built upon Miami vibes. The design of LIV Nightclub makes it easy to be a part of the action whether you are on the dance floor, at the bar, or on the 2nd level taking it all in. For music you can expect a full variety of EDM DJs and hip hop performances. The calendar of events is robust and can change from week to week. Catch industry night events on Sundays and see what all the fuss is about.
The Encore Hotel's elite nightlife experience lives at XS. They have created the most elegant nightclub experience with decor and design that is unmatched. It's hard to simply describe the design at all locations through the club. Guests have the option to party both inside and outside at the pool area, even at night. XS has remained one of the most popular venues in town, and it's for good reason. XS brings the world's top DJs like The Chainsmokers, Diplo, and David Guetta. On Sunday nights during the summer XS flips a 180 and turns the part into their Nightswim pool party. Be on the lookout for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights at XS. | <urn:uuid:2f2dbab4-41b4-4b49-8040-60bee99d568e> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://nocovernightclubs.com/top-10-las-vegas-nightclubs/ | 2024-04-17T10:11:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.967283 | 1,436 |
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Each year, all 10th grade students take the PSAT during their regular school day at no cost. 11th grade students are encouraged to sign up to test in the Activities Office for a small fee.
Normally, North Medford students take this test in the fall, but due to COVID-19, it is anticipated that students will test in January.
What is the PSAT?
The PSAT (Preliminary SAT) is a standardized test and is timed with sections for Reading, Writing and Language, and Math. This test is the best preparation for the SAT and the ONLY way for students in the 11th grade to qualify for the National Merit Scholarship. It's a great way to experience a standardized test, and pinpoint test-taking strengths, as well as areas that could use improvement.
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When a caterpillar disguises itself as a snake to ward off potential predators, it should probably expect to be treated like one.
This is exactly what happened in Costa Rica earlier this year, when researchers witnessed a hummingbird defending its nest from what it interpreted to be a snake, but was actually a larva of the moth Oxytenis modestia. The encounter is described in a new paper published in the Ecological Society of America's journal Ecology.
These moths -- sometimes called the dead-leaf moth or the Costa Rica leaf moth -- resemble flat dried leaves as adults. The caterpillars can inflate the top of their heads to expose a pair of eyespots. When disturbed, they raise their head up and move from side to side, increasing the snake-like appearance. In particular they resemble a green parrot snake, known to prey on nesting birds.
The attacking hummingbird's nest with eggs was about 10cm away from the caterpillar in a small tree. When the researchers went to look for an assumed snake, they instead found the caterpillar feeding on a leaf immediately above the nest.
"Hummingbirds have a few stereotypical styles of flying: visiting flowers, preying on swarms of tiny insects, chasing each other, and mating/territorial display flights," says lead author James H. Marden, professor with the Department of Biology at Pennsylvania State University. "Mobbing behavior directed against a threat to their nest is much less common but distinct and easy to recognize if you know their other flight behaviors... One can recognize this from a distance and only notice the source of their agitation upon close inspection."
Caterpillars and adults of a variety of butterflies and moths have eye-like spots that deter potential predators. Observations of how these eyespots affect animal interactions in natural settings are extremely rare.
The interaction took place on a strip of secondary growth between the Pacific and primary rainforest on the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica. The authors believe that the comings and goings of the female rufous-tailed hummingbird (Amazilia tzacatl) around its nest may have disturbed the caterpillar, causing it to expose its eyespots, which in turn prompted the hummingbird to defend its nest using what is referred to as 'mobbing behavior' by birds -- darting flights and pecking at a threat, commonly snakes.
The caterpillar was unable to feed during the 26-minutes of nearly continuous attacks. Most of the bird's movements were cautious and exploratory, but included quick thrusts to peck or bite the eyespots.
Marden stated that it was difficult for either the bird or caterpillar to disengage from the standoff, with the hummingbird protecting its nest and the caterpillar just trying to finish its leafy meal. "A snake-like creature so near to its nest was too much of a distraction or threat to ignore for very long," he explained. "The caterpillar seemed more irreversibly committed. When a camouflaged animal reveals itself as threatening, it is committed and cannot easily go back to camouflage. Hence, I think that it had no choice but continue looking like a snake until the threat had passed."
Eventually the caterpillar gave up on eating and crawled away while still under attack, and the hummingbird resumed normal nesting behavior.
When birds exhibit this mobbing behavior targeting snake's eyes, it often ends with snakes being killed by repeated bites and pecks near the head and collar area. As for creatures that mimic snakes to protect themselves from being eaten, can they in turn protect themselves from this mimicry backfiring, such as in this encounter? Because the hummingbird behavior was typical anti-snake behavior, it can be considered replicable.
Marden is fascinated by this interaction, and he believes future studies of this behavior can be conducted using a tiny, caterpillar robot to experiment with eyespots.
"You'd want a cylindrical shape and green color, with the ability to rear up in the front and reveal an eyespot," he outlines. It should be remote controlled, light enough to attach to a leaf or stem, and wireless. "Many experiments have done this with clay or similar material, but those models lack the ability to combine eyespots with movement and behavior. That is what a robot could add."
With such a robot, researchers could vary the eye-like nature and contrast of spots on the head of the robot to test various responses of nest-defending birds. A study like this could definitively test the effects of eye-like versus other mimicry patterning for provoking or repelling defensive attacks.
The day following the initial encounter, the researchers found the caterpillar feeding on a leaf on the same plant, as far away from the nest as possible. It had some marks by the edge of the right eyespot that may be beak marks -- apparently the caterpillar learned its lesson. | <urn:uuid:f73bbce0-a3cc-49df-bed6-a740e2d6276c> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://northlondonvet.org/birds-can-mistake-some-caterpillars-for-snakes-can-robots-help/ | 2024-04-17T09:51:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.968767 | 1,005 |
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