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Star rating: **
Venue: Arthur Conan Doyle Centre (Venue 290)
Joan Greening’s script is gently amusing, sure to appeal to Archers listeners.
The capable double act of Julia Munrow and Julia Rufey are done no favours, though, by an echoing room which deadens their delivery.
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WHO WE ARE
The Decimus Burton Society is an organisation that was created to promote a wider recognition and understanding of the life and works of the architect, Decimus Burton (1800-1881).
Founded in 2018 by Paul Avis, Dr. Philip Whitbourn, OBE, FSA, FRIBA, Dr. Chris Jones and Elizabeth Nathaniels, the Society has already attracted the interest and support of many prominent individuals, architects, academics, authors and professionals, as well as owners of properties designed by Decimus Burton. Amongst its early supporters are HRH Princess Katarina of Yugoslavia, Sir Donald Insall, CBE, Dr. Jennifer Freeman, OBE, and Guy Fearon, a descendant of Decimus Burton.
The Society has also been fortunate to receive the support of other societies, institutions and organisations with collections of items relating to Decimus Burton.
life & work
WHAT WE DO
The Society aims to create a central resource point, containing a collection of material relating to Decimus Burton. Through lectures, talks and visits to Burton designed buildings, places of interest and landscapes, as well as the publication of research into the architect and his times, we seek to encourage the study and appreciation of his work. | <urn:uuid:f76a2905-73bc-41a1-a7f3-7e61f39a8a6b> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.thedecimusburtonsociety.org/about | 2022-01-26T14:38:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304954.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126131707-20220126161707-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.94752 | 263 |
Swift Garden Rooms are one of a handful of garden room suppliers who can design their garden rooms so that they can be attached to your house, creating an integrated and flexible living space.
What are the advantages of Swifts Home Extensions?
The main attraction of using the garden room building system as an extension to your house is the speed and ease of installation. This example which is being used as a sitting room was fully completed in less than two weeks. In addition to the speed of the build, they building system Swift use means their is little mess or invasion into the main house. The resulting extension has a sleek look and meets all the requirements of modern housebuilding, such as the high levels of insulation meaning the room will be comfortable all year round, unlike a conservatory.
Swift’s customer is understandably delighted with their new room:
Martin, it has been a pleasure dealing with you and we thank you for all your help with our project” said an impressed client, Joy, from Kent. Swift were fully involved with all the stages of design, the pre-fabrication, the installation and the ongoing customer support and project management – a complete package.”
Martin Lawson, director at Swift adds:
Our extensions are becoming increasingly popular because of the combination of quality and speed. Our system is perfect for modern, sleek rooms to be added to existing homes. These rooms make a statement and are meant to add a new appeal to the home, both practically and visually. Where clients are seeking a “box on the back” that has real substance and year-round use, then we love to talk with them.”
A garden room extension like this one by Swift Garden Rooms is a great solution if you need extra living space in your home. It will be difficult to find a building system that offers the combination of speed of installation, lack of intrusion into the main house, quality & performance of materials and cost effectiveness. On top of all of this a company like Swift will handle the project for you from start to finish as part of the price they quote you, so you can just sit back and watch your new extension come to life.
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British travellers will be welcome in the EU this summer if coronavirus restrictions are lifted in time, the European Commission said on Wednesday
Brussels is investigating ways to save the summer holidays by encouraging tourism between its member states. More than three quarters of trips made by EU citizens are to other EU countries.
Vera Jourova, a vice-president in the EU executive, called on the bloc’s member states to lift travel bans and border controls thrown up in response to the pandemic “as soon as possible” after it was deemed safe by scientific advice.
She moved to quash fears that Britons might not be able to benefit from EU moves to allow tourism this summer season because of, among other issues, the UK response to Coronavirus….
If nations allow travel then you’ll be allowed to travel. The EU having nothing to do with this as it doesn’t determine the rules about who a nation allows in. But it’s very nice of them to say that if they do they do, isn’t it?
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Bragging on Jesus
Luke 18-19, Psalms 43-44
Peter said to him, “We have left all we had to follow you!”
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God will fail to receive many times as much in this age, and in the age to come eternal life.” Luke 18:28-30
When one man chose not to give up things in his life to follow Jesus, Peter let it be known that he had. Jesus’ response was not about how much we give up (“left home or wife . . .). They all missed the point – and so do I so often. The focus of my faith is not what I do/don’t do. When you and I get faith right, all we think of is all God has done. He has blessed me beyond measure. I could give up everything I own and it would come close to the wonder of all God has done for me. I am BLESSED! | <urn:uuid:e769b43e-82b9-4d1e-996c-3d0d89782beb> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.tlcmonroe.org/post/bragging-on-jesus | 2022-01-26T13:58:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304954.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126131707-20220126161707-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.982478 | 239 |
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The current generation of the Mercedes C-Class is popular worldwide as a sedan. In contrast to the T-model, which is downright crushed by the SUV models, and whose sales figures are shrinking sharply, the sedan sits firmly in the saddle and has become an integral part of the Swabian model range. The model is now firmly anchored in the tuning scene, not only as an extremely powerful AMG version, but also as a less powerful, civilian version. In the wake of the increasing popularity of the AMG models, the sales figures for non-AMGs are also climbing, and Mercedes limousines in particular are increasingly being used as tuning objects. Now we are introducing you to a very special specimen, which is not a long version, although it does its rounds in China.
Show car with open exhaust system!
He stands like a star warrior ready to fulfill his mission. This Mercedes pulls out all the stops when it comes to shining optically. They are particularly noticeable different colored headlights at the frontline. While on the left yellowish LED lights are installed, the headlight on the right side shines in a warm White tone. Such a thing would definitely not be approved by the TÜV in Germany, but in China colored LEDs on the car are the absolute trend right now. The tuner of the car also thought that a normal camber on a C-Class looks far too boring, which is why he gave this Mercedes to a Camber-Tuning has undergone. Both the front and the rear axle are extremely positioned schrägto make an impression as possible. OZ Futura rims in 19-inch format with bronze accents and extreme low-bed optics are among the highlights of the car, which also has black calipers and sports brake system von Endless disposes.
Then comes the eye-catcher at the rear bare exhaust system to its full advantage, which stands out so much that it almost matches the black Monster diffuserthat could serve as a plow, makes you forget. The diffuser is attached below the exhaust and lets in the already extremely deep Benz that comes through Airlift air suspension became an asphalt milling machine, literally stuck to the road. Various stickers on the heavily tinted windows as well as on bare exhaust must of course not be missing in order to optimally stage the dark gray show car. With the car you would certainly be able to score a lot at every Mercedes meeting in Europe, because something like this is not seen here every day.
The interior has also been redesigned.
Tuner Xiao Hao thought that just modifying the exterior would be boring, so he decided to Racing seats von Thrash which are normally popular in the Japanese drift car scene. The seats were with a Zebra cover related to a little Pornstyle tuning to flow into the interior. Otherwise there are still various sticker and Lettering at the back of the seats, and of course there's one too Controller for the airlift chassis in the interior. However, the tuner is still planning far-reaching Changes in the interior, such as one Roll cage and other modifications that make the interior look even sportier.
We don't know which engine is installed.
Unfortunately we don't know which engine is working under the hood, but since the car is based in China, it has to be one Petrol variant act. If we find information about the engine, we will of course inform you about it as soon as possible.
Our conclusion to the unique Mercedes:
You definitely don't see a C-Class like this every day. Great respect to the tuner, because creating such an extraordinary show car from a conventional mid-range Benz deserves respect. If you are interested in this vehicle, you can take a look at the picture gallery that we have attached to the article at the end. If we get more information about the changes, there will of course be an update for this report. You will be informed of this if you simply do ours Feed subscribe to. Have fun watching the pictures and stay true to us!
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Star Warrior - Mercedes C-Class Sedan (W205) with extreme tuning.
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Because when our neighborhoods thrive, so does our greater community.
Not an island unto itself, District 5 makes Atlanta a great international city with its rich history of diversity. It is truly a special place. I am running for City Council to ensure we maximize the power of our resources so all residents of District 5 thrive, which will in turn help our greater community and City continue to thrive.
With my experience in organizational leadership as former Chairman/CEO of the Fulton Atlanta Land Bank Authority, former Chairman of Project Community Connections, Inc. and currently Chairman of the Atlanta Association for Convalescent Aged Persons, Inc. and Chief Administrative Officer of the Grand Boulé of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, Inc., we will work together to help all the great places of our neighborhoods thrive! With your help we can promote a culture of quality living that is essential for a safe, appealing, and welcoming lifestyle.
- Nurture and encourage leadership on every level from our city council, neighborhood planning units, and neighborhood organizations
- Build great community plans together that include goals and metrics for “quality of life” initiatives that reflect our collective priorities
- Promote effective decision making based on accurate and appropriate information, research, and best practices
- Champion high expectations and systems of accountability for all levels of government services for our neighborhoods
- Ensure fiscal responsibility in all that we do
- Ensure transparency
- Conduct regular listening sessions to understand our collective concerns and their priorities
- Establish collaborative relationships with our neighborhood organizations
- Strengthen partnerships within and across our communities
- Identify new platforms to support innovation at City Hall
- Encourage innovation from the bottom up, not just top down
- Implement new ideas and technology to better meet growing need for public services
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At just 23, Roula was diagnosed with MS – which attacks the body’s central nervous system, leading to paralysis in some cases.
And in the past decade, the illness has impacted Roula's life heavily, experiencing kidney failure, partial loss of vision, hair loss, depression and anxiety.
"I didn’t want to talk about it on the show. I didn’t go on the show to talk about MS... but it did affect me on the show," the 34-year-old told New Idea
"I got sick a few times, I had a doctor come visit me at the hotel. With MS you get very fatigued and I got hypothermia after the very first Instant Restaurant. My hiatal hernia was also the reason I couldn’t eat fried food in episode one – which I could never explain to the table. It was full-on."
"When I was first diagnosed I had 20 lesions in my brain at the age of 23. Now I’ve got 90 – that freaks me out," she revealed.
"I do an MRI every year, and every year I just see those lesions go higher and higher. My neurologist shows me the difference between a normal brain and the holes in my brain andIlookatitandgetalumpin my throat and think what’s going to happen to me in the future?
"When I joined the MS Society years ago I had to stop going there for a bit because every time I'd go there, someone new would be in a wheelchair. I started getting really scared... and I’d worry about my future, when I was going to be in a wheelchair.
"I’ve had some very dark days. I had optic neuritis in my left eye – which is when you completely lose vision – when I was 23 and again when I was 25. I lost feeling in my right leg a couple of times.
The star went on to reveal exactly how much the disease has impacted her mental health.
"[It] was a very hard time for me to get out of bed. I got really bad anxiety, every time I’d leave the house it would hit me. I’ve gone through depression because of MS, I have to take a s***load of medication every day just to be the way I am now."
While the star is now focussing a lot of her energy on MKR, she says she made the conscious decision to join the show in order to challenge herself.
"I went on MKR to prove to myself that I can be me – I can be fun, I can be loud, I can be Roula," she says. "My parents were very worried about me, worried about my health – but I told them “No, I want to do this... I want to go be me for a little bit.”
Roula, who has received some backlash from fans on social media, believes that even though she's on a mission to win, she knows she faces a greater battle every day.
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What issues do you work with?
- Abuse; emotional, physical and sexual
- Addiction/ support in recovery
- Anxiety; general and social
- Bereavement and loss
- Childhood trauma
- Couples therapy
- Domestic abuse
- Family and friend issues
- Family therapy
- Mental health issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-esteem issues
- Sexual orientation or identity
- Suicidal thoughts
- Work issues
What happens at the first meeting?
Once we have a arranged a good time for you, we will meet to discuss what has brought you to counselling; you can say as little or as much as you feel comfortable with. If, after this session, you feel we will work well together, we can arrange a day and time that will be good for you to meet on a regular basis; with notice, this can be changed.
How long will the session last?
Each session lasts for an hour.
Due to the commitment I have to all of my clients, I am unable to go over the allotted time if you arrive late.
How many sessions do you advise I have?
It is totally your choice how long you wish to have therapy for.
I usually suggest starting off with six sessions, after which we can review how the process is going and whether you would like to continue.
Initially, weekly sessions are recommended as it helps to build a rapport between us and the therapy tends to flow better.
I have worked with clients on a short and long term basis.
How much will it cost and how do I pay?
Individual Therapy: £50 per session.
Couples / Family therapy: £60.
Online Therapy: £45 per session for individuals or £25 for half an hour; £55 for couples and families or £30 for half an hour.
Payment can be made in cash on the day or via a bank transfer before the start of each session. A receipt can be given on request
I have a few, low cost places available, depending on the individual situation.
Do you have a cancellation policy?
I require a minimum of 24 hours notice if you are unable to attend a session. If notice is not received within this time frame, I will have to charge you the full amount for the missed session.
Are the sessions confidential?
Whatever is disclosed during a therapy session is treated as confidential between us unless you give me permission to the contrary.
However, in line with the BACP ethical framework, I have a duty of care to inform a third party (e.g Doctor) if I feel you may cause significant harm to yourself or others. If such an occasion should arise, I will always aim to discuss this matter with you first.
Where are you located?
I work from a purpose built consulting room in Woodford Green, Essex.
The room is in easy reach of Buckhurst Hill, South Woodford, Loughton, Walthamstow, as well as other surrounding areas.
Free parking is available on the street or on my driveway.
The station is a 10-12 minute walk.
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Discussion in 'Members Rides' started by Split 1, Oct 19, 2006.
The bus is lookin sweet,really sweet
this sounds like my bus atm.....
But back to your bus, This is looking sweet now Dave, the light is growing bigger at the end of the tunnel for you!
dave did you get the top colour on ??
Not yet, have my girls this weekend so will have to be later in the week.
I did pick up my wheels which I have had made to fit perfectly to the van.
I went round to the upholsterer last night, my seats are looking quite good.
Will post pics when they are in the van.
Its coming along.
Haven't been on here for a while - the bus is looking great.
May see you Sunday if you are going to be there in the morning otherwise I will drop by sometime.
All the best.......
Well the body is now painted, just finished, all I have to paint now is the pop-outs, safari's, bumpers and some little bits.
WOW nicw colour choice!
Just spent all up about 8 hours going over it with 1500 then 2000 wet and dry, as I have said i dont like the peel effect that modern ( 2 pac) paints leave, but they are the hardest and longest lasting, so I have had to flatten it off before it gets polished.
Problem with making it too flat is it gives it a really nice shine, this in turn shows all the ripples and woffs in the sides., You cant win.
Heres some of the long side and the reflections in it before it gets the proper mop polish
Nice Dave. Very very Nice!
Thanks, I am happy with it, not too shabby for a home paint job, its not a show winner its going to be a daily driver and used as my main transport.
Heard today that my engine builder will be starting on it in a couple of weeks, now that is what I am getting excited about.
A B4 motor, first time one of his engines has gone in a van.
Wow Dave, that looks fantastic. You are waaaaaay too modest. Well done!!!
Its not down to me, its my mates that have helped with advice, encouragement and giving me a hand.
There is no way you can do a resto on your own.
Well Dave,you and your mates are a talented bunch,nice work.You should be proud.
Looking tops Dave!
Lurveee the colour
Looks awsome dave. Dont scatch it next to that post!
I had a spare couple of hours this evening so I dismantled all the pop-outs, safaris door tops ect , cleaned them all up and hung them in the shed.
I then sprayed them with etch primer. I didnt think it would take as long as it did but you have to be very careful that you coat every bit of them with the primer.
I dont know if you can tell by the pics but there are 20 items hanging in the shed.
looking good dave
Looking very nice dave
Looking awesome that bus
Shame its going it bee about 5 months late I will have a ride next time bud
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The 2004 Summer Concert Series
The Karl L. King Municipal Band of Fort Dodge, IA, began their 2004 summer season on Sunday evening, June 6, at the Karl King Bandshell in Oleson Park. The opening concert of the season included music in keeping with the Frontier Days celebration in Fort Dodge. Marches were the main part of this first concert. Performed were Yellowstone Trail and Gallant Zouaves, both written by the bandís namesake, Karl L. King, along with John Klohrís fine march, The Billboard, and John Philip Sousaís classic, The Black Horse Troop. Other Karl L. King selections included the circus favorite Homestretch Galop, along with a touch of ragtime with Kentucky Sunrise and a collection of three songs written for Colonel William F. ďBuffalo BillĒ Codyís Wild West Shows, including Wyoming Days, On The Warpath, and Passing Of The Red Man.
Jerrold Jimmerson, conductor
Karl L. King Municipal Band of Fort Dodge, Iowa
The overture was William Tell, written by the Italian opera composer, Gioacchino Rossini. This overture has proven to be the best of its kind and is one of the most popular in the entire range of orchestral literature.
On the lighter side was music arranged by Robert Hawkins from the epic motion picture, How The West Was Won; and a medley of early folk songs, entitled Second American Folk Rhapsody by Clare Grundman. In addition, the trombone section was featured on Fred Jewellís composition, Trombone Blues.
The concert closed in the traditional way, with the playing of our National Anthem, The Star-spangled Banner.
The second summer concert featured patriotic music in observance of the Flag Day Holiday. Marches included on the program were Emblem Of Freedom by Karl L. King, National Emblem by E. E. Bagley, and 133rd Infantry Iowa National Guard by William Laurier. Closing the concert was everyoneís favorite, The Stars and Stripes Forever, by John Philip Sousa.
Music from all five branches of the military were played during the Armed Forces Salute medley, and audience members and/or their families were invited to stand in recognition of military service. Other patriotic selections performed included George M. Cohan Patriotic Fantasy; Sousaís composition, Fugue On Yankee Doodle; and God Shed His Grace On Thee by Andrew Glover.
Two special features highlighted this concert. First, Conductor Jimmerson narrated a tribute to the American Flag during the playing of the James Swearingen composition, Lest We Forget. John McCartney on the Alto Saxophone was featured playing the popular Gershwin song, Someone To Watch Over Me. Mr. McCartney lives in Fort Dodge, and is retired as Director of Bands at Iowa Central Community College. He currently works in real estate.
As a tribute to all World War II veterans, and in recognition of the new monument recently dedicated in Washington, D.C., the band offered a medley of songs that were popular during the early 1940ís. This medley, arranged by James Christensen, is entitled The Homefront: Musical Memories of World War II. The audience was encouraged to bring small flags they were invited to wave these during the evening to make this Flag Day Concert even more impressive. In addition, flags were passed out to audience members, courtesy of the efforts of George Mack and donations from several local businesses. This special Flag Day concert closed with our National Anthem, The Star-spangled Banner.
True to the bandís tradition and heritage, this concert featured several marches, including Invictus, and Neddermeyer Triumphal, along with the circus galop, Royal Hippodrome, all written by Karl King. Also on the program were the circus march, Colossus Of Columbia, by Russell Alexander, and His Honor, by Henry Fillmore. This latter selection was performed to honor all fathers in attendance on Fatherís Day.
Other selections included were the overture to the opera, William Tell, by the Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, along with March and Procession of Bacchus by the French composer Leo Delibes. In addition, a collection of several Karl King songs, entitled Melody ala King, as arranged by Harry Alford, were performed. This medley included an appropriate selection for the evening, A Night In June.
Lighter sounds included a Dixieland Combo out front with the Band accompanying on a medley of songs entitled Dixieland On Stage. Included in this medley were Royal Garden Blues, Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans, and When The Saints Go Marching In.
Adding to the program in this evening's concert was a rendition of Bugler's Holiday performed by three trumpet players from within the band. Show performing above are Jim Perkins, Tim Miller, and David Swaroff. The same trio also performed Carnival Variations.
This concert highlighted several different styles of Band music.
If classical band works were among your favorites, then you enjoyed the
of Figaro Overture by the Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart;
and Elsaís Procession To The Cathedral from the opera Lohengrin
by the German composer, Richard Wagner.
Well known popular selections were also heard, and they included Big Bands In Concert, a medley of several songs made popular in the 1940ís by such groups as Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, or Sy Oliver. The band performed Rush Street Tarantella, by Paul Yoder, which is named after the famous street in Chicago.
Marches are always popular, and there were plenty on this concert
to enjoy, including Alhambra Grotto and The Goldman Band
by Karl L. King, the Royal Bridesmaid by John Casto, and Quality
Plus by Fred Jewell.
Other Karl King selections on the program were the beautiful aerial waltz entitled June Twilight along with The Big Cage Galop.
Special guest vocal soloists for this concert were Shari and Roger Netz from Manson. Both are graduates of Manson High School, and have performed with the Manson Meridian Singers, the Ralph Scott Orchestra, and the LD Three Show. Shari works as a legal secretary in Rockwell City, while her husband Roger is a vocal music instructor in the Manson Northwest Webster Community Schools. Shari performed the popular standard by Rodgers and Hart entitled Blue Moon, then was joined by Roger as they sang together on Gershwinís classic, They Canít Take That Away From Me.
The Star-spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key closed the concert.
The Karl L. King Municipal Band of Fort Dodge had a special concert planned for July 4th as a musical tribute to our nationís holiday observance. Many selections had a patriotic flavor, as one might have expected. Songs heard included Morton Gouldís classic American Salute, an arrangement of songs popular during World War I entitled Over There Fantasie, Carmen Dragonís inspiring arrangement of America The Beautiful, and a new arrangement of the Navy Hymn done by Andrew Glover entitled Those In Peril On The Sea.
Marches were the order of the day, and included Americans We by Henry Fillmore, Sons Of Veterans by Karl L. King, along with The Liberty Bell and The Stars and Stripes Forever, both composed by John Philip Sousa.
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On the lighter side was a medley of songs made famous by bandleader Glenn Miller, which included The American Patrol and Tuxedo Junction among other favorites.
Michael Short was the special guest tuba soloist for this concert. Mike was born and raised in Fort Dodge, graduating from Senior High. He began playing tuba in the King Band during his junior year in High School, and was the first recipient of the Karl L. King Scholarship. He attended the University of Northern Iowa, earning both his BA and MA degrees in tuba performance. Mike spent 10 years in the Chicago area, and studied with Arnold Jacobs, who is know throughout the world as a fine brass teacher and also for his 44 years of performing with the Chicago Symphony. After moving back to Des Moines, Mike now performs in a wide variety of music venues throughout Iowa. He is the Principal Tuba with the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony, the Des Moines Metro Opera and the Des Moines Symphony Brass Quintet, and Acting Principal Tuba with the Cedar Rapids Symphony. His teaching duties presently include positions as Teaching Artist of Low Brass at Drake University and Simpson College, as well as maintaining a private teaching studio. He and his wife, who is a Euphonium player, perform with the Tuba Quartet, Undertow.
Mike performed two selections on the tuba. First was the classic solo, Old Home Down On The Farm, followed by Karl L. Kingís humoreske, The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea.
This Sunday's concert promised to provide just the right mix of standard band works along with marches and other popular favorites, including Poet and Peasant Overture by Franz von Suppe, March Militaire Francaise by Camille Saint-Saens, along with the Pavane by Morton Gould.
The music of Karl L. King, the band's namesake, is always popular with audiences, and this concert included his marches, The New Corn Palace and The Melody Shop, along with Circus Days Galop and his intermezzo, In A Moonlit Garden. In addition, other marches performed were the classic John Philip Sousa march, The Thunderer, and the circus march, From Tropic to Tropic, by Russell Alexander.
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Andrew Glover, nationally prominent composer and arranger, was a guest conductor of the Band. Mr. Glover is a native of Missouri, and was educated in the public schools of St. Louis. He received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from Central Methodist College. While still a college student, Mr. Glover performed for three seasons with the Detroit Concert Band, conducted by Leonard B. Smith. In addition, Glover served as librarian and executive assistant to Dr. Smith.
Mr. Glover began writing and arranging for band while a student in
high school, and has more than 150 publications in print. He taught
instrumental music in St. Louis area public and private schools for nine
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Oskaloosa, IA., as staff composer, arranger, and editor.
On this concert, the Karl King Band performed his composition, Honorable Leaders March, his arrangement of Liadovís Dance Of The Amazons, along with An Autumn Serenade, written by Karl King. In addition, Mr. Glover conducted a number he brought with him on Sunday. While researching Karl King music, Andrew had uncovered Salute to the Colors, published by Theodore Presser and written by Bert Anthony. This energetic march, arranged by Karl King, had not been heard by present Karl King Band members.
The concert ended with the playing of the Star-spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key.
Director Jerrold P. Jimmerson and assistant director Keith Altemeier again put together another outstanding hour of band music, with a special emphasis this week on traditional works for Band. Included were Nabucco Overture by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, and Ballet Egyptien, a suite in four sections by Alexandre Luigini.
Lighter music included a tribute to one of Americaís finest movie and television composers, Henry Mancini. This melodic tribute contained the toe-tapping Baby Elephant Walk, and the beautiful Moon River.
Karl L. King compositions comprised a large portion of the program, including his circus marches Sells-Floto Triumphal and Sarasota, the Majestic Galop, the beautiful aerial waltz, Desdemona, and his The Trombone King March.
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Other selections included the exciting Spanish march, Amparito Roca, and Vincent Youmanís musical showstopper, Hallelujah! from Hit The Deck. Finally, the clarinet section of the King Band performed a special feature, Leroy Andersonís delightful Clarinet Candy.
The Karl L. King Municipal Band of Fort Dodge closed their 2004 summer season at the Karl L. King Bandshell in Oleson Park with their final concert on July 25 .
Karl L. King compositions highlighted the evening, with favorites as L. S. U. Tiger Triumph March, Homestretch Galop, and the beautiful aerial waltz, Alpine Sunset on the program. In addition, the band played Man of the Hour march by Henry Fillmore, and Olympia Hippodrome march by Russell Alexander.
Other selections on the program were the classic overture, Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna, by the Austrian composer, Franz von Suppe, along with the Procession Of The Sardar from Caucasian Sketches by the Russian composer, Ippolitov-Ivanov.
Lighter sounds included Beguine For Band by Glenn Osser, and Leroy Andersonís Sandpaper Ballet, featuring the members of the bandís Percussion section.
Jim Perkins, who plays Solo Trumpet in the King Band, was the featured soloist for the evening. Jim attended St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, where he earned a B. S. degree in Music Education and his M. S. degree in Information Media. He has performed over 500 concerts with Community Bands and Orchestras in South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. Currently, he is the Principal Trumpet with the Central Iowa Symphony and the Central Iowa Brass Quintet, both located in Ames. He has played with the King Band for the past 7 seasons, and currently works as the school librarian at the Urbandale Middle School, near Des Moines. Mr. Perkins performed a traditional trumpet solo by John Morrissey entitled Soliloquy For Trumpet along with Hoagy Carmichaelís popular standard, Stardust.
The band closed their 2004 summer season in the traditional way, by playing Auld Lang Syne March by Karl L. King, followed by our National Anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner.
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Jacob Moreno, a pioneer in the use of drama in psychotherapy, coined the term locus nascendi to describe the place where drama is born. It is a space poised between fiction and reality, the known and the unknown. Literally it translates as "a place of birth." In the Drama and Inquiry class, the locus nascendi emerged at the intersection between three domains of transacting with texts: reading, writing, and performing.
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As I exposed in my book "Novas Perspectivas em Ginecologia" ("New Perspectives in Gynecology"), one of the main problems of female nature is the instinctive duality between the attitude of not wanting to become pregnant ( that is, the rejection of pregnancy ) and that of desiring to become pregnant. The way women relate themselves to this question is extremely ambiguous, and here we arrive at the point in which the female nature "divides" itself in two "halves": one remains more linked to Eros ( the aphrodisiac side of women ), and the other to the so-called maternal instinct ( the demetric side of women ). In other words, one is related to the archetypal image of the "seductive woman", and the other to the archetypal image of the mother.
Here somebody could argue that motherhood is a consequence of Eros ; however, it is well known that this condition, as a primary biological phenomenon, can occur even without the development of the aspect related to Eros. A woman can be a mother even without having developed adequately the aphrodisiac side of her nature, and there is an enormous number of cases that clearly demonstrate this fact.
I believe it is valid to consider the existence of these two principles of a diverse nature in the female sex, in spite of the fact that they can eventually integrate and even complete themselves. There are women who give more value to the aphrodisiac side of their nature, while others give more value to the maternal one. We can observe that the majority of modern women only desire to become pregnant and have children, as they really do, in a few moments of their whole lives and that, most of the time, pregnancy is undesired and avoided. When gestation occurs by accident or negligence, it is almost always voluntarily interrupted by an abortion.
This means that, in a general way, in the most sophisticated and modern women the erotic and aphrodisiac side predominates over the maternal one during the greatest part of their fertile years. Nevertheless, there are those women who deviate almost all their libido to motherhood, and fulfill themselves mainly in this way, giving very little value to their aphrodisiac side. To the other extreme, there are those who do not have any maternal instinct, and never desire to have children.
With regard to the woman's instinctive duality between the aphrodisiac and the maternal sides, it is important to point out that eroticism in the female sex is, to a great extent, a self-eroticism related to women's own bodies and to their aesthetics, and that the maternal instinct demands, in order to be satisfied, a considerable sacrifice on the part of the female body. In my opinion, this is the principal basis for women's ambiguity relative to their reproductive capability.
For centuries, our culture has fallen into the mistake of considering reproduction as the main purpose of sexuality. This misconception has many origins, from religious ideas to the exclusively biological "scientific" view of the human being. However, it is obvious that, in human beings, reproduction, psychologically and existentially, is not in any way the main purpose of sexual desire. Human sexuality has its own reasons for being completely independent of reproduction. Reproduction became only one more fact, one more potentiality, in the very complex and vast field of the human sexual activity. On a great number of occasions, it is even an accident related to sexuality.
Specifically concerning women, the fact that they possess a genital apparatus and a physiology which, besides characterizing them physically as women and allowing a typical form of sexual activity, also have a reproductive purpose, does not authorize us to consider this reproductive finality as the principal one. All form and all human constitution by far transcend, from the existential point of view, their apparent original biological purposes. The human being is a biological and psychical wholeness and, because he/she possesses self-consciousness, his/her psychological side has developed far beyond the biological one. Thus, the human mind is not always in entire agreement with some biological determinisms, and also gives new and peculiar values to other features of the nature of women and men.
The error of considering reproduction as the main purpose of sexuality in human beings has influenced many areas. There is a tendency in our culture to excessively glorify motherhood, considering it as "the supreme female achievement", and deducing in a very tendentious way that women are mainly destined to become pregnant, give birth and rear children. This distorted idea has been transmitted to girls since childhood and exerts a considerable influence. There is, often, a subtle social pressure over couples, demanding sons and daughters from them. Women who have not developed the maternal instinct and, once married, decide not to have children, can even suffer some recrimination, though made in a subliminal way.
As our socio-cultural context has traditionally repressed sexuality ( in spite of the remarkable changes that have occurred in the last decades ), it has strongly emphasized the reproductive aspect of sex and, consequently, the maternal side of women. This attitude has had a great influence even on Female Medicine, creating an archaic and distorted standpoint which I call "the obstetric view of women". This misconception implies the existence of a considerable obstetric domination over Gynecology, as a consequence of which Gynecology also became "impregnated" with an "obstetric attitude of mind". This is also due, in part, to the fact that Gynecology has been traditionally practiced mostly by physicians who have a basically obstetric background. In my opinion, this situation creates extremely serious problems for Gynecology.
As I am accustomed to say, women possess the "erotic body" and, therefore, their psychology has, as a remarkable feature, a strong narcissist component related to the aesthetics and the good shape of their own bodies. At the same time, these bodies are capable of generating and giving birth to other human beings and, consequently, the female psychology is also orientated in this way. However, in order to satisfy their maternal instinct, women have to sacrifice their bodies in variable degrees and intensities, creating a conflict with their effort to preserve the aesthetics, the good shape, the comfort and even the health of their bodies.
The fact is that pregnancy and parturition impose great sacrifices on the female body, causing a considerable physiological overcharge as well as intense distortions and stretching of tissues not always entirely reversible to the previous state. Regrettably however our culture is inclined to see and exalt only the positive aspects of motherhood, trying to "hide" or not talk about the negative ones - purposely "forgetting" that everything in life has its positive and negative sides.
All of us, gynecologists, are very much aware of many sequelae that frequently result from pregnancy and/or parturition : lacerations of the uterine cervix, perineal ruptures, episiotomy scars, loss of strength of the structures of the pelvic floor, cystoceles, breast and abdominal flaccidity ( flabbiness ) and/or skin stretch marks, appearance of varicose veins, weight increase, etc. If a caesarian section is performed, parturition traumas are avoided, but surgical scars remain. It is obvious that women are also very much aware of these sequelae. Their major or minor occurrence ( as well as their intensity ) will depend on the specific conditions of each woman, on the minor or major resistance and elasticity of her tissues, on the conditions of each pregnancy and parturition and, to a minor degree, on the obstetric care that is provided.
In my opinion, it is this great sacrifice that pregnancy and parturition impose on the female body that, over and above all other reasons, gives women the perfect and entire right to abortion in cases of undesired pregnancies. A woman needs to desire too much to be a mother, so that she can be able to willingly tolerate the sacrifices, discomforts and risks that result from gestation and childbirth.
As I said, women also are very much aware of both the positive and negative aspects of becoming pregnant and having children - by personal experience and/or observation of other women. In spite of this, due to the cultural pressures that mythicize the "wonders" of motherhood, many women often have a tendency to repress the feelings considered as "negative" in relation to pregnancy. This fact generates guilt complexes with all of the consequent psychological problems. With regard to the female psychism, there is always an instinctive dualism between avoiding and desiring to become pregnant. The predominance of one side or the other, relative or absolute, is that usually varies depending on the several phases in the lives of the majority of women.
There is, however, a fact relatively easy to perceive : during the greatest part of the fertile years of most women, pregnancy is undesired and avoided ( many times even regarded with terror ). Regardless of this, they like to know that they are potentially fertile, that is, capable of becoming pregnant - but only when they desire, and if they so desire.
Sometimes, in gynecologic practice, we can observe that some women "neglect" the use of contraceptive methods, and become pregnant by "accident". Once pregnancy is confirmed and consequently their fertility is proved, they decide to have an abortion after which they return to the correct use of contraceptives. This somewhat irrational and complicated way of proving fertility almost always occurs subconsciously or unconsciously.
The female state of being is not an easy one, as it is always involved with very complex problems and situations characterized by ambiguities. The activity of Eros almost always creates a risk of pregnancy ; if this condition is undesired, it becomes necessary to use contraceptive methods in order to avoid pregnancy or to reduce this risk to a minimum. Consequently, the worry to avoid pregnancy creates another worry concerning the different contraceptive methods, as the hormonal contraceptives, the intrauterine device, etc.
When an undesired
gestation occurs by accident or negligence, the solution is an abortion.
When pregnancy is desired, it is necessary to tolerate the physical sacrifices
inherent to gestation and childbirth in order to satisfy the maternal
instinct. All of these facts have great implications in the female psychism
and life, and it is fundamental that Gynecology be attentive to the psychological
dynamics of these processes.
See also "Undesired Pregnancies
and Women's Right to Abortion".
Soucasaux is a gynecologist dedicated to Clinical, Preventive and
Psychosomatic Gynecology. Graduated in 1974 by Faculdade de Medicina da
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, he is the author of several articles
published in medical journals, and of the books Novas
Perspectivas em Ginecologia (New Perspectives in Gynecology)
and Os Órgãos Sexuais Femininos:
Forma, Função, Símbolo e Arquétipo (The
Female Sexual Organs: Shape, Function, Symbol and Archetype),
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During my social media marketing sabbatical, I’m convinced there’s a large amount that I’ve missed—memes, real time childbirth clips men and women we hardly know
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Summary of passage: Genesis 25:27-34: Esau became a hunter while Jacob stayed home. Isaac loved Esau while Rebekah loved Jacob more. Esau sold his birthright for a meal, implying he despised his birthright.
8a) Who wouldn’t? From Question 6 from yesterday, we learn the birthright entails in this case the promise of Abraham which is having nations bow down to you, be lord over your brothers and all your relatives and others, and may those who despise you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed. Deuteronomy says the firstborn should receive a double share and is the sign of his father’s strength. Jacob would be the chosen one of God to perpetuate His nation. Sign me up, too!
b) As we explored in 7d yesterday as well, we learn Esau does not have a heart for God. He marries Canaanite women (Genesis 26:34–notice not one woman but two which is not what God desires for man). He despises his birthright (Genesis 25:36) while Jacob embraces it. And we see that Jacob will do anything (nothing morally right) but anything to receive the blessing. So he desires it. And we must assume both Esau and Jacob knew the heavy expectations with this birthright.
It’s like in our day. Those who persevere and desire something the most usually achieves it. Although the methods Jacob employed did not sit well with God, God chose Jacob anyways. Because of his heart. God chooses. Not us.
c) Abraham lacked faith in God’s promise of a son, believing Sarah was incapable of having a child, so he had a child with Hagar. I’m not quite sure if Jacob ever had unbelief. He believed he had the birthright already and he did what he had to do in order to receive it. I’m assuming BSF is looking for some answer like this, “Well, if Jacob would have waited God would have given him the birthright anyways.” True. But he wouldn’t have received it from Isaac on earth. And I’m not sure if unbelief was the motivation behind Jacob’s actions. It’s a stretch in my opinion.
9a) Our inheritance is to be like Jesus, to live a Godly-life, following God’s laws, and to do His work set before us. Some Christians don’t like having to live up to these higher standards so they follow the world instead of God’s word and God’s will for their life. They think it unfair despite what Jesus did for us on the cross. So they chose to ignore God and listen to the devil instead.
b) Personal Question. My answer: I do my bible study every day. I pray. I try to do God’s will in my life. I try to be more like Jesus every day. I take my God-given purpose seriously. I try to show Him the best I can.
10) They are adopted as sons of God. They have divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises. We have Christ indwelt through Jacob’s family and are reckoned with God.
Conclusions: Seems like this was an expounding of yesterday. It seems intuitive but a lot of Christians/unbelievers don’t grasp the concept: Christians are blessed; they are different; they do have a spiritual inheritance and spiritual advantages because of Jesus; and they do have a responsibility once Christ lives inside of them to make this world a better place.
Christians are set apart by God. They have a God-given purpose for their brief time on earth. It is our responsibility to act on everything Christ has done for us. It is our job to save as many people as possible. And rewards await us when our body gives out.
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Senator Mitt Romney confirmed Wednesday afternoon that he will vote to convict President Trump; breaking rank with fellow Republicans who have stood by the Commander-in-Chief throughout the trial.
“Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) will vote to convict President Donald Trump in the impeachment trial on the charge of abuse of power, becoming the only Republican to break with the president and his party,” reports Politico.
Breaking News: "The case was made." Mitt Romney will vote to convict President Trump of abuse of power, the first Republican to support removing him from office in the impeachment trial. https://t.co/ZqutZqotq1
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 5, 2020
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In this issue:
Call for Participation (CFP) extended to 15 June
We invite practitioners, researchers, and educators from diverse disciplines to participate in eResearch Australasia Conference 2012 will be held on 28 October to 2 November 2012 at the SMC Conference and Function Centre, Sydney. For details on how to respond to the CFP please visit: http://conference.eresearch.edu.au/eres2012/participate/
Confirmed Featured Speakers
The conference theme is emPower eResearch. Dr Clifford Jacobs, National Science Foundation (NSF), Professor Anne Trefethen, Director Oxford eResearch Centre, Rudolf Dimper, Head of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) Computing Services Division (CSD) and Prof Jeffrey Shaw, Dean and Chair Professor of Media Art, City University of Hong Kong will be presenting at the conference. Other international experts have been invited and will be published once they are confirmed.
Conference Workshops Extended to 2 November 2012
Due to demand, the conference has now been extended with a further day of workshops on the 2nd November 2012, and will now run from 28 October to 2 November 2012.
Looking at Sponsoring eResearch Australasia?
Please contact our friendly conference secretariat at [email protected] or phone Samantha Hart on (02) 6281 6624 to discuss the best sponsorship or exhibition option for your organisation.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any ideas or queries regarding the conference.
I look forward to seeing you at the conference!
Viviani Paz, eResearch Australasia Programme Director
Target audience: developers and technically proficient researchers
The National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources project (NeCTAR) and the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) invite you to attend one-day workshops in Perth (June 12) and Sydney (June 20) aimed at technically proficient eResearchers, software developers, and systems analysts, interested in building software services and data in NeCTAR’s national research cloud.
Imagine the future of research data and tools in the cloud… what we can achieve together? The aim of the days is to increase the skills of the technical and developer community and by doing so, increase the software services and data tools currently available in NeCTAR’s national research cloud. Please note future days are planned for Adelaide, Tasmania and Canberra. Please check NeCTAR’s website www.nectar.org.au or http://www.eventbrite.com/org/2319089783 for more details.
Perth: Tuesday, June 12, 2012, 9.30am, Centre for Learning Technology (CLT) at the University of Western Australia, 9 Fairway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.
Sydney: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 9am, The Darlington Centre at Sydney University, 174 City Rd, Darlington, NSW 2008.
An electronic version (pdf) of the latest issue of share: the newsletter of the Australian National Data Service is now available from the ANDS website.
This issue’s theme is ‘Collecting our Research Data’ and includes feature articles on collecting and collections of research data, as well as a number of contributions from ANDS staff.
To be notified about our forthcoming newsletters, please use the ANDS newsletter RSS feed, subscribe to the ANDS General Google Group—email [email protected] or join the conversation on twitter: @andsdata
The NZ HPC Applications Workshop is being held adjacent to the 2012 eResearch Symposium. The workshop is an event for New Zealand’s high-performance computing (HPC) community, bringing together industry practitioners and researchers. Everyone interested in developing, running or tuning applications to run on HPC is welcome to participate.
The day’s programme is being developed, however Prof. Dr. Thomas Schulthess, Director of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) has accepted an invitation to provide a keynote. The rest of the day will include presentations from the New Zealand HPC community. A call for proposals is now open.
Further information is available at http://eresearch.org.nz/2012-hpc-apps-workshop
Monash University is seeking an innovative, energetic and collaborative Research Data Management Coordinator to provide leadership and expertise in research data management within the library, the University and the broader research data management community.
Applications close 11:55pm on Tuesday 12 June 2012
Location: Monash University (Clayton Campus, Victoria)
Employment Type: Full-time three year fixed-term appointment
Remuneration: $113,312 – $120,273 pa HEW Level 09 (includes 17% employer superannuation)
Contact: Ms Janette Burke, Director Resources – 03 9905-8681
For more details on the role and on how to apply, please refer to the job advertisement on the Monash Job site (http://jobs.monash.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=502204)
Changes have been made to the RDSI Data Sharing (DaSh) Data Movement Mechanisms Survey which make it easier to complete, with a simplified option for the Field of Research Classification. This short survey is designed to inform RDSI of the preferred data movement mechanisms that may be made available at Nodes through the DaSh programme.
Anonymous consolidated responses from the survey will be made available publically through the RDSI website. Please respond at your earliest convenience.
For more information on the DaSh programme please see http://www.rdsi.uq.edu.au/dash
The national Data Fabric was developed by the former Australian Research Collaboration Service (ARCS). It is a federated storage infrastructure that integrates a number of heterogeneous storage systems across Australia. These systems are currently being hosted by Australian eResearch service providers including iVEC, QCIF, Intersect, TPAC and CSIRO.
As a tool, the ARCS Data Fabric provides a number of crucial research interfaces including WebDAV, SFTP, gridFTP, OPeNDAP (via a plugin to THREDDS) and is underpinned by the Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS) middleware. iRODS is a powerful middleware layer as it ensure that researchers have full control over the access to their data and can define levels of authorisation. However the ARCS programme ended on June 30th 2011, and correspondingly to remain fit for purpose, the national Data Fabric now requires upgrading.
The Research Data Storage Infrastructure Project (RDSI), based at the University of Queensland is funding iVEC and partners (QCIF, Intersect, TPAC and eRSA) to replace the Data Fabric architecture with upgraded software to create a new RDSI Data Fabric that includes:
Vendor Panel Information Released to Nodes
RDSI has released detailed information regarding the Vendor Panel to contracted Nodes. This information includes:
CAUDIT members will be advised by CAUDIT when the information will be available to them.
For further information on the Vendor Panel please see www.rdsi.uq.edu.au/vepa
iVEC is seeking a Technical Operations Director to develop and deliver a world-class supercomputing provision in Western Australia.
Over the next five years iVEC will continue to provide world class supercomputing and eResearch services, promoting scientific and technological innovation. Presently iVEC hosts an 87 TFLOPS cluster and a 60 TFLOPS GPU cluster with dual rail infiniband. However iVEC is also developing the Pawsey Centre (completion expected early 2013) to increase the iVEC compute capacity to the PFLOPS scale. 25% of the computing resources of the Pawsey Centre, part of the successful Australian and New Zealand bid to host the Square Kilometre Array, are dedicated to radio-astronomy data processing.
In order to deliver a first-class service, iVEC is pleased to offer an opportunity for a skilled, motivated and experienced individual to lead their technical operations team and deliver this world-class supercomputing service.
For post details please visit:
iVEC@Curtin is pleased to announce that the NeCTAR* funded Project CATAMI which will develop tools to provide a novel approach to the cataloging, annotation, classification and analysis of marine imagery is now underway. Specifically this project will streamline current processes that transform raw underwater visual imagery into meaningful quantitative information for the effective management of Australia’s marine environment.
You can follow project CATAMI via our blog http://catami-australia.blogspot.com.au/
or twitter http://twitter.com/eresearchativec#CATAMI.
Correspondingly, iVEC@Curtin requires two Senior Software Engineers (Marine Science) as part of a small team to develop these web applications. As the Senior Software Engineer you will be responsible for developing various technical solutions to integrate marine data sets from State, Federal and research organisations. You will also develop automated image analysis systems for species / habitat classification and web applications for marine imagery visualisation.
For more information this these posts, please visit:
Or contact: Luke Edwards [email protected]
or Jenni Harrison [email protected]
*NeCTAR is an Australian Government project and Super Science initiative financed by the Education Investment Fund. www.nectar.org.au
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Two lawsuits have been filed between actor LeVar Burton’s RRKidz organization, which is reviving public television’s Reading Rainbow franchise for the digital age, and WNED, the Buffalo, N.Y., station that owns rights to the original show.
WNED claims that RRKidz is “illicitly and methodically” attempting to take over ownership of the Reading Rainbow brand, which the station launched nationally on PBS in 1983. It also contends that RRKidz raised more than $6.5 million on Kickstarter for the project without the station’s authorization.
The station granted RRKidz licensing rights in 2011 that allowed it to market and distribute original episodes of the show on digital platforms and to sell certain Reading Rainbow merchandise. WNED would receive a revenue cut.
In May 2014, RRKidz launched a high-profile Kickstarter campaign for digital versions of Reading Rainbow on apps for iPad and Kindle Fire. “WNED is always going to own the brand,” Burton, who hosted the original program, told Current at that time.
WNED President Don Boswell also said at the time that RRKids and WNED were collaborating on all work related to Reading Rainbow, including the digital revamp.
But by August 2015, WNED sought to terminate the deal.
In a letter that month to RRKidz production company Burton/Wolfe Entertainment, a WNED attorney claimed that the station and RRKidz “continue to disagree on material aspects of their business relationship.”
The letter accused RRKidz of creating and posting new episodes of the program on its website and YouTube with Reading Rainbow branding, which the original agreement prohibits. It also said RRKidz was negotiating with Netflix to produce and distribute new Reading Rainbow episodes.
WNED demanded that RRKidz remove three new episodes from its website, stop negotiations with Netflix and audit its books or the station would terminate the original deal, citing a clause in the contract.
RRKidz responded a week later. An attorney replied that short videos on the site did not constitute “episodes” and had been online since July 2013 with no prior complaint from the station. According to the letter, WNED had asked for and received “more prominent credit and public acknowledgements of ownership than are required under the agreement” on the videos.
RRKidz also said that negotiations with Netflix involved a separate fictional program, Libraria, a “concept original to RRKidz” that would involve the Jim Henson Co.
“RRKidz is not pursuing, producing or shooting a new Reading Rainbow series or additional RR episode,” the letter said. It added that “serious adverse consequences” would occur if WNED did not comply with the original contract.
By February, the dispute had escalated. RRKidz filed suit in U.S. District Court in New York, asking a judge to determine that it had abided by the initial contract and that WNED had no right to terminate the business relationship.
WNED countersued March 10. The station noted it had raised $45 million over three decades to develop and promote the Reading Rainbow brand and had licensed it to “many companies” for products and services. However, after its agreement with RRKidz, that organization “began illicitly and methodically to usurp for itself de facto ownership of the Reading Rainbow brand by engaging in conduct beyond the scope of its license.”
WNED said in the lawsuit that RRKidz approached WNED in April 2014 to propose a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to create a Reading Rainbow early-reading app. WNED requested a business plan, but RRKidz “failed to follow up.” WNED said RRKidz initiated the Kickstarter campaign without its knowledge, using the Reading Rainbow logo without crediting the station.
WNED’s lawsuit asks that RRKidz “prominently identify” the station as owner of the Reading Rainbow brand, that new episodes be removed from the RRKidz website and that it stop labeling the website as “the home of Reading Rainbow.”
The station also seeks damages exceeding $6.5 million.
Related stories from Current:
- Reading Rainbow host Burton to offer RRKidz reading app
- Kickstarter propels Reading Rainbow partnership into digital future
Questions, comments, tips? [email protected]
Update: A spokesperson for WNED as well as Joseph Taylor, an attorney for RRKidz, both declined comment on the pending litigation.
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This is a Qt application, so in order to build we need to ensure that all of those dependencies are in place.
# Update the package index. sudo apt-get update # Install Qt dependencies. sudo apt-get install qt5-qmake qtbase5-dev qtpositioning5-dev qtbase5-private-dev
Clone & Build
Clone the repository and then change working directory into the project.
git clone [email protected]:tumic0/GPXSee.git cd GPXSee
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Nowadays ubiquitous big data applications (image processing , power network monitoring , and large scale sensor networks ) call for more efficient information sensing techniques. Often these techniques are sequential in that the measurements are taken one after another. Hence information gained in the past can be used to guide an adaptive design of subsequent measurements, which naturally leads to the notion of sequential adaptive sensing. At the same time, a path to efficient sensing of big data is compressive sensing [4, 5, 6], which exploits low-dimensional structures to recover signals from a number of measurements much smaller than the ambient dimension of the signals.
Early compressed sensing works mainly focus on non-adaptive and one-shot measurement schemes. Recently there has also been much interest in sequential adaptive compressed sensing, which measures noisy linear combinations of the entries (this is different from the direct adaptive sensing, which measures signal entries directly [7, 8, 9, 10]). Although in the seminal work of , it was shown under fairly general assumptions that “adaptivity does not help much”, i.e., sequential adaptive compressed sensing does not improve the order of the min-max bounds obtained by algorithms, these limitations are restricted to certain performance metrics. It has also been recognized (see, e.g., [12, 13, 14]) that adaptive compressed sensing offers several benefits with respect to other performance metrics, such as the reduction in the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to recover the signal. Moreover, larger performance gain can be achieved by adaptive compressed sensing if we aim at recovering a “family” of signals with known statistical prior information (incorporating statistical priors in compressed sensing has been considered in for the non-sequential setting and in for the sequential setting using Bayesian methods).
To harvest the benefits of adaptive compressed sensing, various algorithms have been developed: compressive binary search [17, 18], which considers a problem of determining the location of a single non-zero entry; a variant of the iterative bisection algorithm
to adaptively identify the partial support of the signal; random choice of compressed sensing vectors, and a collection of independent structured random sensing matrices in each measurement step with some columns “masked” to zero; an experimental design approach that designs measurements
adaptive to the mean square error of the estimated signal; exploiting additional graphical structure of the signal[23, 24]; the CASS algorithm , which is based on bisection search to locate multiple non-zero entries, and is claimed to be near-optimal in the number of measurements needed sequentially to achieve small recovery errors; an adaptive sensing strategy specifically tailored to tree-sparse signals that significantly outperforms non-adaptive sensing strategies. In optics literature, compressive imaging systems with sequential measurement architectures have been developed [26, 27, 28], which may modify the measurement basis based on specific object information derived from the previous measurements and achieve better performance. In medical imaging literature, uses Bayesian experimental design to optimize -space sampling for nonlinear sparse MRI reconstruction.
The idea of using an information measure for sequential compressed
sensing has been spelled out in various places for specific settings
or signal models, for example, the seminal Bayesian compressive
sensing work , which designs a new projection
that minimizes the differential entropy of the posterior estimate on
a Gaussian signal; [6, Chapter 6.2] and
, which introduces the so-called “expected
information” and outlines a general strategy for sequential
adaptive sensing; , which develops a
two-step adaptive statistical compressed sensing scheme for Gaussian
mixture model (GMM) signals based on maximizing an
information-theoretic objective function;
, which sequentially senses low-rank
GMM signals based on a posterior distribution and provides an
empirical performance analysis; studies the design of linear projection measurements for a vector Poisson signal model; designs general nonlinear functions for mapping high-dimensional data into lower-dimensional space using mutual information as a metric.
designs general nonlinear functions for mapping high-dimensional data into lower-dimensional space using mutual information as a metric.A general belief, though, is that it is difficult to devise quantitative error bounds for such sequential information maximizing algorithms (see, e.g., [6, Section 6.2.3]).
In this work, we present a unified information theoretical
framework for sequential adaptive compressive sensing, called
Info-Greedy Sensing , which greedily picks the
measurement with the largest amount of information gain
based on the previous measurements.
precisely, we design the next measurement to maximize the
conditional mutual information between the measurement and the
signal with respect to the previous
This framework enables us to better understand existing algorithms,
establish theoretical performance guarantees, as well as develop new
algorithms. The optimization problem associated with Info-Greedy
Sensing is often non-convex. In some cases the solutions can be found
analytically, and in others we resort to iterative heuristics. In
particular, (1) we show that the widely used bisection approach is Info-Greedy
for a family of
, which greedily picks the measurement with the largest amount of information gain based on the previous measurements. More precisely, we design the next measurement to maximize the conditional mutual information between the measurement and the signal with respect to the previous measurements. This framework enables us to better understand existing algorithms, establish theoretical performance guarantees, as well as develop new algorithms. The optimization problem associated with Info-Greedy Sensing is often non-convex. In some cases the solutions can be found analytically, and in others we resort to iterative heuristics. In particular, (1) we show that the widely used bisection approach is Info-Greedy for a family of-sparse signals by connecting compressed sensing and blackbox complexity of sequential query algorithms ; (2) we present Info-Greedy algorithms for Gaussian and Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) signals under more general noise models (e.g. “noise-folding” ) than those considered in , and analyze their performance in terms of the number of measurements needed; (3) we also develop new sensing algorithms, e.g., for sparse sensing vectors. Numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the accuracy of theoretical bounds and good performance of Info-Greedy Sensing algorithms using simulated and real data.
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. Section II sets up the formalism for Info-Greedy Sensing. Section III and Section IV present the Info-Greedy Sensing algorithms for -sparse signals and Gaussian signals (low-rank single Gaussian and GMM), respectively. Section V discusses the Info-Greedy Sensing with sparse measurement vectors. Section VI contains numerical examples using simulated and real data. Finally, Section VII concludes the paper. All proofs are delegated to the Appendix.
The notation in this paper is standard. In particular,
denotes the Gaussian distribution with meanand covariance matrix ; denotes the th coordinate of the vector ; we use the shorthand ; let denote the cardinality of a set ; is the number of non-zeros in vector ; let
be the spectral norm (largest eigenvalue) of a positive definite matrix; let be the determinant of a matrix ; let
denote the entropy of a random variable; let denote the mutual information between two random variables and . Let the column vector has on the th entry and zero elsewhere, and let degrees of freedom.
A typical compressed sensing setup is as follows. Let be the unknown -dimensional signal. There are measurements, and is the measurement vector depending linearly on the signal and subject to an additive noise:
where is the sensing matrix, and is the noise vector. Here, each coordinate of is a result of measuring with an additive noise . In the setting of sequential compressed sensing, the unknown signal is measured sequentially
In high-dimensional problems, various low-dimensional signal models for are in common use: (1) sparse signal models, the canonical one being having non-zero entries111In a related model the signal come from a dictionary with few nonzero coefficients, whose support is unknown. We will not further consider this model here.; (2) low-rank Gaussian model (signal in a subspace plus Gaussian noise); and (3) Gaussian mixture model (GMM) (a model for signal lying in a union of multiple subspaces plus Gaussian noise), which has been widely used in image and video analysis among others222A mixture of GMM models has also been used to study sparse signals . There are also other low-dimensional signal models including the general manifold models which will not be considered here..
Compressed sensing exploits the low dimensional structure of the signal to recover the signal with high accuracy using much fewer measurements than the dimension of the signal, i.e., . Two central and interrelated problems in compressed sensing include signal recovery and designing the sensing matrix . Early compressed sensing works usually assume to be random, which does have benefits for universality regardless of the signal distribution. However, when there is prior knowledge about the signal distribution, one can optimize to minimize the number of measurements subject to a total sensing power constraint
for some constant . In the following, we either vary power for each measurement , or fix them to be unit power (for example, due to physical constraint) and use repeated measurements times in the direction of , which is equivalent to measuring using an integer valued power. Here can be viewed as the amount of resource we allocated for that measurement (or direction).
We will consider a methodology where is chosen to extract the most information about the signal, i.e., to maximize mutual information. In the non-sequential setting this means that maximizes the mutual information between the signal and the measurement outcome, i.e., . In sequential compressed sensing, the subsequent measurement vectors can be designed using the already acquired measurements, and hence the sensing matrix can be designed row by row. Optimal sequential design of can be defined recursively and viewed as dynamic programming . However, this formulation is usually intractable in all but the most simple situations (one such example is the sequential probabilistic bisection algorithm in , which locates a single non-zero entry). Instead, the usual approach operates in a greedy fashion. The core idea is that based on the information that the previous measurements have extracted, the new measurement should probe in the direction that maximizes the conditional information as much as possible. We formalize this idea as Info-Greedy Sensing, which is described in Algorithm 1. The algorithm is initialized with a prior distribution of signal , and returns the Bayesian posterior mean as an estimator for signal . Conditional mutual information is a natural metric, as it counts only useful new information between the signal and the potential result of the measurement disregarding noise and what has already been learned from previous measurements.
Algorithm 1 stops either when the
conditional mutual information is smaller than a threshold
, or we have reached the maximum number of
iterations . How relates to the precision
depends on the specific signal model employed. For
example, for Gaussian signal, the conditional mutual information is
the log determinant of the conditional covariance matrix, and hence
the signal is constrained to be in a small ellipsoid with high
probability. Also note that in this algorithm, the recovered signal
may not reach accuracy
depends on the specific signal model employed. For example, for Gaussian signal, the conditional mutual information is the log determinant of the conditional covariance matrix, and hence the signal is constrained to be in a small ellipsoid with high probability. Also note that in this algorithm, the recovered signal may not reach accuracyif it exhausts the number of iterations . In theoretical analysis we assume is sufficiently large to avoid it.
Note that the optimization problem in Info-Greedy Sensing is non-convex in general . Hence, we will discuss various heuristics and establish their theoretical performance in terms of the following metric:
Definition II.1 (Info-Greedy).
We call an algorithm Info-Greedy if the measurement maximizes for each , where is the unknown signal, is the measurement outcome, and is the amount of resource for measurement .
Iii -sparse signal
In this section, we consider the Info-Greedy Sensing for -sparse signal with arbitrary nonnegative amplitudes in the noiseless case as well as under Gaussian measurement noise. We show that a natural modification of the bisection algorithm corresponds to Info-Greedy Sensing under a certain probabilistic model. We also show that Algorithm 2 is optimal in terms of the number of measurements for -sparse signals as well as optimal up to a factor for -sparse signals in the noiseless case. In the presence of Gaussian measurement noise, it is optimal up to at most another factor. Finally, we show Algorithm 2 is Info-Greedy when , and when it is Info-Greedy up to a factor.
To simplify the problem, we assume the sensing matrix consists of binary entries: . Consider a signal with each element with up to non-zero entries which are distributed uniformly at random. The following lemma gives an upper bound on the number of measurements for our modified bisection algorithm (see Algorithm 2) to recover such . In the description of Algorithm 2, let
denote the characteristic vector of a set . The basic idea is to recursively estimate a tuple that consists of a set which contains possible locations of the non-zero elements, and the total signal amplitude in that set. We say that a signal has minimum amplitude , if implies for all .
Theorem III.1 (Upper bound for -sparse signal ).
Lemma III.2 (Lower bound for noiseless -sparse signal ).
Let , be a -sparse signal. Then to recover exactly, the expected number of measurements required for any algorithm is at least .
Lemma III.4 (Bisection Algorithm 2 is Info-Greedy up to a factor in the noiseless case).
Let . Then the average information of a measurement in Algorithm 2:
Here we constrained the entries of matrix to be binary valued. This may correspond to applications, for examples, sensors reporting errors and the measurements count the total number of errors. Note that, however, if we relax this constraint and allow entries of to be real-valued, in the absence of noise the signal can be recovered from one measurement that project the signal onto a vector with entries .
The setup here with -sparse signals and binary measurement matrix generalizes the group testing setup.
the CASS algorithm is another algorithm that recovers a -sparse signal by iteratively partitioning the signal support into subsets, computing the sum over that subset and keeping the largest . In it was shown that to recover a -sparse with non-uniform positive amplitude with high probability, the number of measurements is on the order of with varying power measurement. It is important to note that the CASS algorithm allows for power allocation to mitigate noise, while we repeat measurements. This, however, coincides with the number of unit length measurements of our algorithm, in Lemma III.1 after appropriate normalization. For specific regimes of error probability, the overhead in Lemma III.1 can be further reduced. For example, for any constant probability of error , the number of required repetitions per measurement is leading to improved performance. Our algorithm can be also easily modified to incorporate power allocation.
Iv Low-Rank Gaussian Models
In this section, we derive the Info-Greedy Sensing algorithms for the single low-rank Gaussian model as well as the low-rank GMM signal model, and also quantify the algorithm’s performance.
Iv-a Single Gaussian model
Consider a Gaussian signal with known parameters and . The covariance matrix has rank . We will consider three noise models:
white Gaussian noise added after the measurement (the most common model in compressed sensing):
Let represent the power allocated to the th measurement. In this case, higher power allocated to a measurement increases SNR of that measurement.
white Gaussian noise added prior to the measurement, a model that appears in some applications such as reduced dimension multi-user detection in communication systems and also known as the “noise folding” model :
In this case, allocating higher power for a measurement cannot increase the SNR of the outcome. Hence, we use the actual number of repeated measurements in the same direction as a proxy for the amount of resource allocated for that direction.
colored Gaussian noise with covariance added either prior to the measurement:
or after the measurement:
In the following, we will establish lower bounds on the amount of resource (either the minimum power or the number of measurements) needed for Info-Greedy Sensing to achieve a recovery error .
Iv-A1 White noise added prior to measurement or “noise folding”
We start our discussion with this model and results for other models can be derived similarly. As does not affect SNR, we set . Note that conditional distribution of given is a Gaussian random vector with adjusted parameters
Therefore, to find Info-Greedy Sensing for a single Gaussian signal, it suffices to characterize the first measurement and from there on iterate with adjusted distributional parameters. For Gaussian signal and the noisy measurement , we have
Clearly, with , (8) is maximized when corresponds to the largest eigenvector of . From the above argument, the Info-Greedy Sensing algorithm for a single Gaussian signal is to choose
as the orthonormal eigenvectors ofin a decreasing order of eigenvalues, as described in Algorithm 3. The following theorem establishes the bound on the number of measurements needed.
Theorem IV.1 (White Gaussian noise added prior to measurement or “noise folding”).
Let and let be the eigenvalues of with multiplicities. Further let be the accuracy and . Then Algorithm 3 recovers satisfying with probability at least using at most the following number of measurements by unit vectors :
|provided . If the number of measurements simplifies to|
|This also holds when .|
Iv-A2 White noise added after measurement
A key insight in the proof for Theorem IV.1 is that repeated measurements in the same eigenvector direction corresponds to a single measurement in that direction with all the power summed together. This can be seen from the following discussion. After measuring in the direction of a unit norm eigenvector with eigenvalue , and using power , the conditional covariance matrix takes the form of
where is the component of in the orthogonal complement of . Thus, the only change in the eigendecomposition of is the update of the eigenvalue of from to . Informally, measuring with power allocation on a Gaussian signal reduces the uncertainty in direction as illustrated in Fig. 1. We have the following performance bound for sensing a Gaussian signal:
Theorem IV.2 (White Gaussian noise added after measurement).
Let and let be the eigenvalues of with multiplicities. Further let be the accuracy and . Then Algorithm 3 recovers satisfying with probability at least using at most the following power
Iv-A3 Colored noise
When a colored noise
is added either prior to, or after the measurement, similar to the white noise cases, the conditional distribution ofgiven the first measurement is a Gaussian random variable with adjusted parameters. Hence, as before, the measurement vectors can be found iteratively. Algorithm 3 presents Info-Greedy Sensing for this case and the derivation is given in Appendix B. Algorithm 3 also summarizes all the Info-Greedy Sensing algorithms for Gaussian signal under various noise models.
The following version of Theorem IV.1 is for the required number of measurements for colored noise in the “noise folding” model:
Theorem IV.3 (Colored Gaussian noise added prior to measurement or “noise folding”).
Let be a Gaussian signal, and let denote the eigenvalues of with multiplicities. Assume . Furthermore, let be the required accuracy. Then Algorithm 3 recovers satisfying with probability at least using at most the following number of measurements by unit vectors :
(1) Under these noise models, the posterior distribution of the signal is also Gaussian, and the measurement outcome affects only its mean and but not the covariance matrix (see (7)). In other words, the outcome does not affect the mutual information of posterior Gaussian signal. In this sense, for Gaussian signals adaptivity brings no advantage when is accurate
, as the measurements are pre-determined by the eigenspace of. However, when knowledge of is inaccurate for Gaussian signals, adaptivity brings benefit as demonstrated in Section VI-A1, since a sequential update of the covariance matrix incorporates new information and “corrects” the covariance matrix when we design the next measurement.
(2) In (10) the eigenvalue reduces to after the first measurement. Now iterating this we see by induction that after measurements in direction , the eigenvalue reduces to , which is the same as measuring once in direction with power . Hence, measuring several times in the same direction of , and thereby splitting power into for the measurements, has the same effect as making one measurement with total the power .
(3) Info-Greedy Sensing for Gaussian signal can be implemented efficiently. Note that in the algorithm we only need compute the leading eigenvector of the covariance matrix; moreover, updates of the covariance matrix and mean are simple and iterative. In particular, for a sparse with non-zero entries, the computation of the largest eigenvalue and associated eigenvector can be implemented in using sparse power’s method , where is the number of power iterations. In many high-dimensional applications, is sparse if the variables (entries of ) are not highly correlated. Also note that the sparsity structure of the covariance matrix as well as the correlation structure of the signal entries will not be changed by the update of the covariance matrix. This is because in (10) the update only changes the eigenvalues but not the eigenvectors. To see why this is true, let be the eigendecomposition of . By saying that the covariance matrix is sparse, we assume that ’s are sparse and, hence, the resulting covariance matrix has few non-zero entries. Therefore, updating the covariance matrix will not significantly change the number of non-zero entries in a covariance matrix. We demonstrate the scalability of Info-Greedy Sensing with larger examples in Section VI-A1.
Iv-B Gaussian mixture model (GMM)
The probability density function of GMM is given by
where is the number of classes, and is the probability of samples from class . Unlike Gaussian, mutual information of GMM cannot be explicitly written. However, for GMM signals a gradient descent approach that works for an arbitrary signal model can be used as outlined in . The derivation uses the fact that the gradient of the conditional mutual information with respect to
is a linear transform of the minimum mean square error (MMSE) matrix[43, 39]. Moreover, the gradient descent approach for GMM signals exhibits structural properties that can be exploited to reduce the computational cost for evaluating the MMSE matrix, as outlined in [37, 32]. For completeness we include the detail of the algorithm here, as summarized in Algorithm 6 and the derivations are given in Appendix C333Another related work is which studies the behavior of minimum mean sure error (MMSE) associated with the reconstruction of a signal drawn from a GMM as a function of the properties of the linear measurement kernel and the Gaussian mixture, i.e. whether the MMSE converges or does not converge to zero as the noise. .
An alternative heuristic for sensing GMM is the so-called greedy heuristic, which is also mentioned in . The heuristic picks the Gaussian component with the highest posterior
at that moment, and chooses the next measurementto be its eigenvector associated with the maximum eigenvalue, as summarized in Algorithm 6. The greedy heuristic is not Info-Greedy, but it can be implemented more efficiently compared to the gradient descent approach. The following theorem establishes a simple upper bound on the number of required measurements to recover a GMM signal using the greedy heuristic with small error. The analysis is based on the well-known multiplicative weight update method (see e.g., ) and utilizes a simple reduction argument showing that when the variance of every component has been reduced sufficiently to ensure a low error recovery with probability , we can learn (a mix of) the right component(s) with few extra measurements.
Theorem IV.5 (Upper bound on of greedy heuristic algorithm for GMM).
Consider a GMM signal parameterized in (13). Let be the required number of measurements (or power) to ensure with probability for a Gaussian signal corresponding to component for all . Then we need at most
measurements (or power) to ensure when sampling from the posterior distribution of with probability .
In the high noise case, i.e., when SNR is low, Info-Greedy measurements can be approximated easily. Let denote the random variable indicating the class where the signal is sampled from. Then . Hence, the Info-Greedy measurement should be the leading eigenvector of the average covariance matrix with the posterior weights.
V Sparse measurement vector
In various applications, we are interested in finding a sparse measurement vector . With such requirement, we can add a cardinality constraint on in the Info-Greedy Sensing formulation: , where is the number of non-zero entries we allowed for vector. This is a non-convex integer program with non-linear cost function, which can be solved by outer approximation [46, 47]. The idea of outer approximation is to generate a sequence of cutting planes to approximate the cost function via its subgradient and iteratively include these cutting planes as constraints in the original optimization problem. In particular, we initialize by solving the following optimization problem
where and are introduced auxiliary variables, and is an user specified upper bound that bounds the cost function over the feasible region. The constraint of the above optimization problem can be casted into matrix vector form as follows:
The mixed-integer linear program formulated in (14) can be solved efficiently by a standard software such as GUROBI444http://www.gurobi.com. In the next iteration, solution to this optimization problem will be used to generate a new cutting plane, which we include in the original problem by appending a row to and adding an entry to as follows
where is the non-linear cost function in the original problem. For Gaussian signal , the cost function and its gradient take the form of:
By repeating iterations as above, we can find a measurement vector with sparsity which is approximately Info-Greedy.
Vi Numerical examples
Vi-a Simulated examples
Vi-A1 Low-rank Gaussian model
First, we examine the performance of Info-Greedy Sensing for Gaussian signal. The dimension of the signal is , and we set the probability of recovery , the noise standard deviation . The signal mean vector , where the covariance matrix is generated as , has each entry i.i.d. , and the operator thresholds eigenvalues of a matrix that are smaller than 0.7 to be zero. The error tolerance (represented as dashed lines in the figures). For the white noise case, we set , and for the colored noise case, and the noise covariance matrix is generated randomly as
for a random matrixwith entries i.i.d. . The number of measurements is determined from Theorem IV.1 and Theorem IV.2. We run the algorithm over 1000 random instances. Fig. 2 demonstrates the ordered recovery error , as well as the ordered number of measurements calculated from the formulas, for the white and colored noise cases, respectively. Note that in both the white noise and colored noise cases, the errors for Info-Greedy Sensing can be two orders of magnitude lower than the errors obtained from measurement using Gaussian random vectors, and the errors fall below our desired tolerance using the theoretically calculated .
When the assumed covariance matrix for the signal is equal to its true covariance matrix, Info-Greedy Sensing is identical to the batch method (the batch method measures using the largest eigenvectors of the signal covariance matrix). However, when there is a mismatch between the two, Info-Greedy Sensing outperforms the batch method due to adaptivity, as shown in Fig. 3. For Gaussian signals, the complexity of the batch method is (due to eigendecomposition), versus the complexity of Info-Greedy Sensing algorithm is on the order of where is the number of iterations needed to compute the eigenvector associated with the largest eigenvalue (e.g., using the power method), and is the number of measures which is typically on the order of .
We also try larger examples. Fig. 4 demonstrates the performance of Info-Greedy Sensing for a signal of dimension 1000 and with dense and low-rank (approximately of non-zero eigenvalues). Another interesting case is shown in Fig. 5, where and is rank 3 and very sparse: only about of the entries of are non-zeros. In this case Info-Greedy Sensing is able to recover the signal with a high precision using only measurements. This shows the potential value of Info-Greedy Sensing for big data.
Vi-A2 Low-rank GMM model
In this example we consider a GMM model with components, and each Gaussian component is generated as a single Gaussian component described in the previous example Section VI-A1 ( and ). The true prior distribution is for the three components (hence each time the signal is draw from one component with these probabilities), and the assumed prior distribution for the algorithms is uniform: each component has probability . The parameters for the gradient descent approach are: step size and the error tolerance to stop the iteration . Fig. 6 demonstrates the estimated cumulative mutual information and mutual information in a single step, averaged over 100 Monte Carlo trials, and the gradient descent based approach has higher information gain than that of the greedy heuristic, as expected. Fig. 7 shows the ordered errors for the batch method based on mutual information gradient , the greedy heuristic versus gradient descent approach, when and , respectively. Note that Info-Greedy Sensing approaches (greedy heuristic and gradient descent) outperform the batch method due to adaptivity, and that the simpler greedy heuristic performs fairly well compared with the gradient descent approach. For GMM signals, the complexity of the batch method is (due to eigendecomposition of components), versus the complexity of Info-Greedy Sensing algorithm is on the order of where is the number of iterations needed to compute the eigenvector associated with the largest eigenvector (e.g., using the power method), and is the number of measures which is typically on the order of .
Vi-A3 Sparse Info-Greedy Sensing
Consider designing a sparse Info-Greedy Sensing vector for a single Gaussian signal with , desired sparsity of measurement vector , and the low-rank covariance matrix is generated as before by thresholding eigenvalues. Fig. 8(a) shows the pattern of non-zero entries from measurement 1 to 5. Fig. 8(b) compares the performance of randomly selecting 5 non-zero entries. The sparse Info-Greedy Sensing algorithm outperforms the random approach and does not degrade too much from the non-sparse Info-Greedy Sensing.
Vi-B Real data
Vi-B1 MNIST handwritten dataset
We exam the performance of using GMM Info-Greedy Sensing on MNIST handwritten dataset555http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/. In this example, since the true label of the training data is known, we can use training data to estimate the true prior distribution , and (there are classes of Gaussian components each corresponding to one digit) using 10,000 training pictures of handwritten digits picture of dimension 28 by 28. The images are vectorize and hence , and the digit can be recognized using the its highest posterior after sequential measurements. Fig. 9 demonstrates an instance of recovered image (true label is 2) using
sequential measurements, for the greedy heuristic and the gradient descent approach, respectively. In this instance, the greedy heuristic classifies the image erroneously as 6, and the gradient descent approach correctly classifies the image as 2. TableI shows the probability of false classification for the testing data, where the random approach is where are normalized random Gaussian vectors. Again, the greedy heuristic has good performance compared to the gradient descent method.
|prob. false classification||0.192||0.152||0.144|
Vi-B2 Recovery of power consumption vector
We consider recovery of a power consumption vector for 58 counties in California666http://www.ecdms.energy.ca.gov/elecbycounty.aspx . Data for power consumption in these counties from year 2006 to year 2012 are available. We first fit a single Gaussian model using data from year 2006 to 2011 (Fig. 10(a), the probability plot demonstrates that Gaussian is a reasonably good fit to the data), and then test the performance of the Info-Greedy Sensing in recovering the data vector of year 2012. Fig. 10(b) shows that even by using a coarse estimate of the covariance matrix from limited data (5 samples), Info-Greedy Sensing can have better performance than the random algorithm. This example has some practical implications: the compressed measurements here correspond to collecting the total power consumption over a region of the power network. This collection process can be achieved automatically by new technologies such as the wireless sensor network platform using embedded RFID in and, hence, our Info-Greedy Sensing may be an efficient solution to monitoring of power consumption of each node in a large power network.
We have presented a general framework for sequential adaptive compressed sensing, Info-Greedy Sensing, which is based on maximizing mutual information between the measurement and the signal model conditioned on previous measurements. Our results demonstrate that adaptivity helps when prior distributional information of the signal is available and Info-Greedy is an efficient tool to explore such prior information, such as in the case of the GMM signals. Adaptivity also brings robustness when there is mismatch between the assumed and true distribution, and we have demonstrated such benefits for Gaussian signals. Moreover, Info-Greedy Sensing shows significant improvement over random projection for signals with sparse and low-rank covariance matrices, which demonstrate the potential value of Info-Greedy Sensing for big data.
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Appendix A General performance lower bounds
In the following we establish a general lower bound for the number of sequential measurements needed to obtain certain small recovery error , similar to the approach in . We consider the following model: sequentially perform measurements and performance is measured by the number of measurements required to obtain a reconstruction of the signal with a prescribed accuracy. Assume the sequential measurements are linear and the measurement returns . Formally, let be a finite family of signals of interest, and
be a random variable with uniform distribution on. Denote by the sequence of measurements, and the sequence of measurement values: . Let denote the transcript of the measurement operations and a single measurement/value pair. Note that is a random variable of the picked signal . Assume that the accuracy is high enough to ensure a one-to-one correspondence between signal and the -ball it is contained in. Thus we can return the center of such an -ball as the reconstruction of . In this regime, an -recovery of a signal is (information-theoretically) equivalent to learning the -ball that is contained in, and we can invoke the reconstruction principle
i.e., the transcript has to contain the same information as and in fact uniquely identify it. With this model it was shown in that the total amount of information acquired, , is equal to the sum of the conditional information per iteration:
Theorem A.1 ().
where is a shorthand for and is the random variable of required measurements.
We will use Theorem A.1 to establish Lemma III.4 that the bisection algorithm is Info-Greedy for -sparse signals. A priori, Theorem A.1 does not give a bound on the expected number of required measurements, and it only characterizes how much information the sensing algorithm learns from each measurement. However, if we can upper bound the information acquired in each measurement by some constant, this leads to a lower bound on the expected number of measurements, as well as a high-probability lower bound:
Corollary A.2 (Lower bound on number of measurements).
Suppose that for some constant ,
for every round where is as above. Then . Moreover, for all we have and .
The information theoretic approach also lends itself to lower bounds on the number of measurements for Gaussian signals, as e.g., in [48, Corollary 4].
Appendix B Derivation of Gaussian signal measured with colored noise
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Vancouver, BC / TheNewswire / April 25, 2018 / Global Energy Metals Corporation TSXV:GEMC | OTCQB:GBLEF | FSE:5GE1 (“Global Energy Metals”, the “Company” and/or "GEMC") is pleased to announce that further to its news release dated February 20, 2018, that it has secured DTC eligibility by The Depository Trust Company for its shares traded on the OTCQB "GBLEF" effective end of day April 24, 2018.
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Being DTC eligible is expected to greatly simplify the process of trading and exchange the Company’s common stock on the OTC marketplace in the United States.
“We are pleased to have obtained DTC eligibility," said Mitchell Smith, President & CEO. "DTC eligibility simplifies the process of trading and transferring Global Energy Metals’ shares between brokerages in the United States and reduces the costs incurred in trading shares. With our shares now DTC eligible, we expect this to lead to significantly enhancing liquidity and execution speeds, as well as extending investor awareness of our Company to an even broader range of investors throughout the United States."
Global Energy Metals is advancing the Millennium Cobalt Project in the Mt. Isa district of Queensland, Australia. Drilling is ongoing with holes completed showing an extension to the cobalt bearing mineralization beneath the existing JORC resource. Following receipt of all assay results the Company will assess the data to assist with planning subsequent phases of drilling, that will further define and upgrade known mineralisation in support of a new resource estimate that will be reported as a cobalt equivalent. Global Energy also owns the high-grade Werner Lake cobalt project in Ontario Canada and has entered into a joint venture with Marquee Resources of Australia to advance that historic project with an exploration program to commence in Spring 2018.
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Part of: Prelims and GS III – Pollution
Context As per Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data, Delhi’s air quality entered the “severe” category recently for the first time this season after people in the city burst firecrackers on Deepavali night despite a blanket ban.
- The Capital registered its worst post-Deepavali air quality in five years. The AQI (air quality index) of Delhi this season is 533. In 2016, it was 445 around the same time. It was 368 in 2019.
- According to SAFAR, without any more firecracker emissions the AQI is likely to improve to “very poor” category by Saturday night.
What is System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR)?
- It was indigenously developed by Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune.
- It is run by India Meteorological Department (IMD).
- The objective is to provide Real-time air quality index on 24×7 basis with colour coding along with 72-hour advance weather forecast.
- Another goal is to issue health advisory to prepare citizens well in advance.
What is the National Air Quality Index?
- Launched in 2014 with outline ‘One Number – One Color -One Description’ for the common man to judge the air quality within his vicinity
- The measurement of air quality is based on eight pollutants: Particulate Matter (PM10), PM2.5, Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2), Sulphur Dioxide (SO2), Carbon Monoxide (CO), Ozone (O3), Ammonia (NH3), and Lead (Pb).
- AQI has six categories of air quality: Good, Satisfactory, Moderately Polluted, Poor, Very Poor and Severe.
- It has been developed by the CPCB in consultation with IIT-Kanpur and an expert group comprising medical and air-quality professionals.
Part of: Prelims and GS-III – Pollution
Context One of the largest studies of its kind in India, correlating the effect of air pollution on health, was conducted in six villages of Patiala, Punjab in two phases.
Key findings of the study
- Pollution from stubble burning significantly reduced lung function and was particularly harmful to women in rural Punjab
- The concentration of PM2.5 was found to increase more than twice between the two phases, when crop burning peaks.
- PM2.5 is the category of unburnt carbon particles considered most harmful to respiratory health.
- The level of increase is around 10-15 times the prescribed air quality standards prescribed by the WHO though the permissible standards set by India’s Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) are higher.
- During the crop residue burning period, a two- to three-fold increase was noted in most of the respiratory symptoms, including wheezing, breathlessness on exertion, cough, skin rashes, itchiness of eyes, across all age groups (10-60 years).
What is Stubble Burning?
- Stubble burning is the act of setting fire to crop residue to remove them from the field to sow the next crop
- It is a traditional practice in Punjab and Haryana to clean off the rice chaff to prepare the fields for winter sowing
- It begins around October and peaks in November, coinciding with the withdrawal of southwest monsoon.
- On December 10, 2015, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) had banned crop residue burning in the states of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab
Part of: Prelims and GS II – International Relations and GS-III – Defence and security
Context The biennial Goa Maritime Conclave (GMC) under the Naval War College, Goa is scheduled to be held on November 7 and 9.
- Theme: “Maritime security and emerging non-traditional threats: a case for proactive role for IOR Navies”.
- It will be the third edition.
- The GMC is the Indian Navy’s outreach initiative providing a multinational platform to harness the collective wisdom on maritime security
- The Indian Navy and countries of the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) will discuss the significance of interoperability to effectively deal with emerging and future maritime security challenges in the region.
- Participating countries: Bangladesh, Comoros, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Myanmar, the Seychelles, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
- Discussions in the domains of hydrography and maritime information sharing will also take place
- Visitors shall also witness the ‘Make in India exhibition’ and the capabilities of Deep Submergence Rescue Vessel (DSRV) for submarines at the Marmugao Port Trust, Goa.
Part of: Prelims and GS III – Economy
Context Recently, Union Minister of Textiles has emphasised that the annual growth rate of the technical textiles sector in the country should be in the 15%-20% range in the next five years, from the current 8%.
- India must target a five times’ increase in export of technical textiles in three years.
About Technical Textiles
- Technical textiles are functional fabrics that have applications in industries such as automobiles, civil engineering and construction.
- The world market for technical textiles is $250 billion and India’s share is $19 billion.
- The biggest players are the U.S., West European countries, China and Japan.
- India is the 6th largest producer of Technical Textiles with 6% Global Share, largest producer of cotton & jute in the world.
Do You Know?
- Textiles Sector contributes 2.3% to Indian GDP, 7% of Industrial Output, 12% to the export earnings of India and employs more than 21% of total employment.
- India is also the second largest producer of silk in the world and 95% of the world’s hand woven fabric comes from India.
Initiatives by India in the textile sector
- In January 2019, the government issued 207 HSN Codes for technical textiles and in less than two years, India had become a net exporter of technical textiles.
- HSN code stands for “Harmonized System of Nomenclature”.
- This system has been introduced for the systematic classification of goods all over the world.
- HSN code is a 6-digit uniform code that classifies 5000+ products and is accepted worldwide.
- As many as 92 technical textile items have been made mandatory for use by government organisations covering agriculture, horticulture, highways, railways, water resources, and medical applications.
- Amended Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (ATUFS): For technology upgradation of the textiles industry (2015)
- Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks (SITP): To assist small and medium entrepreneurs in the textile industry to clusterize investments in textile parks by providing financial support for world class infrastructure in the parks.
- SAMARTH (Scheme For Capacity Building In Textile Sector): To address the shortage of skilled workers.
- North East Region Textile Promotion Scheme (NERTPS): This is a scheme for promoting textiles industry in the NER by providing infrastructure, capacity building and marketing support to all segments of the textile industry.
- Power-Tex India: It comprises new research and development in power loom textiles, new markets, branding, subsidies and welfare schemes for the workers.
- National Technical Textile Mission: It aims to position the country as a global leader in technical textiles and increase the use of technical textiles in the domestic market. It aims to take the domestic market size to USD 40 billion to USD 50 billion by 2024.
(News from PIB)
Part of: Prelims
In News: Government of India has been taking various policy initiatives for promotion and strengthening of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanisms through amendment in existing laws and by enactments, for facilitating quick disposal of disputes, outside of traditional court systems. As a continuation of the exercise, bringing a standalone law on Mediation is under consideration.
Accordingly, a draft bill with the following objectives have been prepared –
- To promote, encourage and facilitate mediation especially institutional mediation for resolution of disputes commercial and otherwise,
- Enforce domestic and international mediation settlement agreements,
- Provide for a body for registration of mediators, to encourage community mediation
- To make online mediation as an acceptable and cost effective process
- Proposes for pre-litigation mediation and at the same time safeguards the interest of the litigants to approach the competent adjudicatory forums/courts in case an urgent relief is sought.
- The successful outcome of mediation in the form of Mediation Settlement Agreement (MSA) has been made enforceable by law. Since the Mediation Settlement Agreement is out of the consensual agreement between the parties, the challenge to the same has been permitted on limited grounds.
- The mediation process protects the confidentiality of the mediation undertaken and provides for immunity in certain cases against its disclosure.
- The registration of Mediation Settlement Agreement has also been provided for with State/District/Taluk Legal Authorities within 90 days to ensure maintenance of authenticated records of the settlement so arrived.
- Provides for establishment of the Mediation Council of India.
- Provides for community mediation.
- Since the laws on Mediation are contained in several enactments including Rules and Regulation, it was felt necessary to ascertain the present statutory framework on mediation and bring an umbrella legislation including amendments in the existing laws.
- The Bill takes into contemplation the international practice of using the terms ‘conciliation’ and ‘mediation’ interchangeably.
- To enact a law in mediation on issues of domestic and international mediation as India is a signatory to the Singapore Convention on Mediation.
News Source: PIB
- GS-3: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation
- GS-2: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.
Context: COP26 at Glasgow is important as it will call for practical implementation of the 2015 Paris Accord, setting the rules for the Accord.
Also, this is the right time for India to consider setting up a climate law while staying true to its goals of climate justice, carbon space and environmental protection.
Do You Know?
- India has 17 percent of the world’s population today, but the responsibility in emissions has been only 5 percent.
- India’s non-fossil fuel energy has increased by more than 25% in the last 7 years.And now it has reached 40 percent of our energy mix.
The Indian Proposals
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced, on November 1 at Glasgow, a ‘Panchamrit solution’ that consists of
- India will reach its non-fossil energy capacity to 500 GW by 2030.
- India will meet 50 percent of its energy requirements from renewable energy by 2030.
- India will reduce the total projected carbon emissions by one billion tonnes from now onwards till 2030.
- By 2030, India will reduce the carbon intensity of its economy by less than 45 percent.
- By the year 2070, India will achieve the target of Net Zero.
Current laws and gaps
- We have Environment (Protection) Act (EPA), 1986, the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 and Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974.These doesn’t cover the impacts of Climate Change or work to reduce future climate impacts
- EPA is grossly inadequate to deal with violations on climate. Clause 24 of the EPA states that if an offence is committed under the EPA or any other law, the person will be punished under the other law (for example, Code of Criminal Procedure). This makes the EPA subordinate to every other law.
- Our environmental laws lack integration of climate adaptation and mitigation.
- Comprehensive climate action is not just technological (such as changing energy sources or carbon intensity), but also needs to be nature-based (such as emphasising restoration of ecosystems, reducing natural hazard and increasing carbon sinks.)
- Climate action cannot be at the cost of increasing poverty.
- The 500 Gigawatt by 2030 goal for renewable, solar or wind power (of installed power capacity from non-fossil sources), can put critically endangered grassland and desert birds such as the Great Indian Bustard at risk, as they die on collision with wires in the desert.
What should be the primary components of Climate Law?
- A climate law should consider creating an institution that monitors action plans for climate change.
- A ‘Commission on Climate Change’ could be set up, with the power and the authority to issue directions, and oversee implementation of plans and programmes on climate.
- The Commission could have quasi-judicial powers with powers of a civil court to ensure that its directions are followed in letter and spirit.
- It should be assisted by a technical committee which can advise the commission in the discharge of its functions as well as guide various private and public agencies in meeting their climate-related obligations.
- The commission should trace carbon footprints of various sectors and make practical public interventions for reduction of footprints through policy guidance & technological support.
- Climate Law must ensure accountability
- There is a need for a system of liability and accountability at short-, medium- and long-term levels as we face hazards. This also means having a legally enforceable National Climate Change Plan that goes beyond just policy guidelines
We have an urgent moral imperative to tackle climate change and reduce its worst impacts. But we also should Indianise the process by bringing in a just and effective law.
Connecting the dots:
- GS-2: Judiciary
- GS-2: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.
Context: The central government is preparing to give a fresh push to the establishment of an All India Judicial Service (AIJS) on the lines of the central civil services.
What is the proposed All India Judicial Service (AIJS)?
- The AIJS is a reform push to centralise the recruitment of judges at the level of additional district judges and district judges for all states.
- In the same way that the Union Public Service Commission conducts a central recruitment process and assigns successful candidates to cadres, judges of the lower judiciary are proposed to be recruited centrally and assigned to states.
How are district judges currently recruited?
- Articles 233 and 234 of the Constitution of India deal with the appointment of district judges, and place it in the domain of the states.
- The selection process is conducted by the State Public Service Commissions and the concerned High Court, since High Courts exercise jurisdiction over the subordinate judiciary in the state. Panels of High Court judges interview candidates after the exam and select them for appointment.
- All judges of the lower judiciary up to the level of district judge are selected through the Provincial Civil Services (Judicial) exam. PCS(J) is commonly referred to as the judicial services exam.
Why has the AIJS been proposed?
- The idea of a centralised judicial service was first mooted in the Law Commission’s 1958 ‘Report on Reforms on Judicial Administration’.
- The idea was to ensure an efficient subordinate judiciary, to address structural issues such as varying pay and remuneration across states, to fill vacancies faster, and to ensure standard training across states.
- A statutory or constitutional body such as the UPSC to conduct a standard, centralised exam to recruit and train judges was discussed.
- The idea was proposed again in the Law Commission Report of 1978, which discussed delays and arrears of cases in the lower courts.
- In 2006, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice in its 15th Report backed the idea of a pan-Indian judicial service, and also prepared a draft Bill.
What is the judiciary’s view on the AIJS?
- In 1992, the Supreme Court in All India Judges’ Assn. (1) v. Union of India directed the Centre to set up an AIJS. In a 1993 review of the judgment, however, the court left the Centre at liberty to take the initiative on the issue.
- In 2017, the Supreme Court took suo motu cognizance of the issue of appointment of district judges, and mooted a “Central Selection Mechanism”.
- Senior advocate Arvind Datar, who was appointed amicus curiae by the court, recommended conducting a common examination instead of separate state exams. Based on the merit list, High Courts would then hold interviews and appoint judges.
What is the opposition to the AIJS?
- A centralised recruitment process is seen as an affront to federalism and an encroachment on the powers of states granted by the Constitution. This is the main contention of several states, which have also argued that central recruitment would not be able to address the unique concerns that individual states may have.
- Language and representation, for example, are key concerns highlighted by states. Judicial business is conducted in regional languages, which could be affected by central recruitment.
- Also, reservations based on caste, and even for rural candidates or linguistic minorities in the state, could be diluted in a central test, it has been argued.
- The opposition is also based on the constitutional concept of the separation of powers. A central test could give the executive a foot in the door for the appointment of district judges, and dilute the say that High Courts have in the process.
- Additionally, legal experts have argued that the creation of AIJS will not address the structural issues plaguing the lower judiciary.
- The issue of different scales of pay and remuneration has been addressed by the Supreme Court in the 1993 All India Judges Association case by bringing in uniformity across states.
- Experts argue that increasing pay across the board and ensuring that a fraction of High Court judges are picked from the lower judiciary, may help better than a central exam to attract quality talent.
Why is the government seeking to revive the idea of AIJS?
- The government has targeted the reform of lower judiciary in its effort to improve India’s Ease of Doing Business ranking, as efficient dispute resolution is one of the key indices in determining the rank.
- AIJS is considered by the government as a step in the direction of ensuring an efficient lower judiciary.
- The government has countered the opposition by states, saying that if a central mechanism can work for administrative services — IAS officers learn the language required for their cadre — it can work for judicial services too.
Connecting the dots:
- Indianisation of Judiciary
- Judiciary and AI
- Women & Judiciary
- Language in Judiciary
- Judicial Administration Reform
(ORF: Raisena Debates)
Nov 2: Reopening Nepal-India border- https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/reopening-nepal-india-border/
- GS-2: India and Nepal
Context: It was after much lobbying and pressure that on 21 September, the Nepalese government decided to re-open the Nepal-India border that was sealed from March 2020 to control the spread of COVID-19.
- Accordingly, the local authorities at the Raxaul-Birgunj border point re-opened the border on 1st October by unlocking the gates and allowing the Indian citizens, apart from the tourists, to enter into the Nepalese territory.
- Reciprocating the decision of the Nepalese government on the issue of re-opening the Nepal-India border, the Indian government t also re-opened the border except for few.
- To ensure the safety of the people from the COVID-19, the local border authorities have made a provision whereby both the Nepalese and Indian citizens would have to produce a COVID-19 negative report within 72 hours while entering into Nepal through the land border.
Repercussions of sealed borders
Before this, never had the 1753-kilometre long border between the two countries been closed.
- The tourism sector contributes as much as 8 percent to Nepal’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), apart from generating direct and indirect employment opportunities for over 1.05 million people. So, the entire Nepalese economy was affected when the Indo-Nepal border was closed. Moreover, the local market centred along the border areas were also severely as it heavily relied on the cross-border movement of people.
- Since millions of Nepalese, especially from the hilly regions, are employed in India, they suffered most during the coronavirus period. Many of those people were held up in India and vice-versa after the border closure. In the chaos, there were cases of deaths after they were denied to cross the border.
- To add to the misery, some people in Nepal fenced three kilometres of the border unilaterally between pillar 435/1 to 439/4 with a barbed wire closer to the “No Man’s Land” in Parsa district of Nepal with the sole intention of creating a rift in the traditional relations between the people of the two countries. Because of construction, the border inhabitants of Nepal and India who often needed to cross over the border for social, cultural, and economic reasons faced insurmountable problems.
- Many people in Nepal and India chose to cross the border through the non-conventional routes which added more risks of the spread of coronavirus from one country to the other.
- Besides, the unauthorised trade along the Nepal-India border also surged, which ultimately resulted in the loss of government revenue.
The Way Forward
- Instead of placing restrictions on the movement of people and vehicles at the Nepal-India border, the governments of the two countries should establish joint health desks at the main border points to ascertain the cases of coronavirus, including in Raxaul-Birgung, allowing only those citizens to cross the border who tested negative.
- Allow unrestricted cross-border movement: To enhance the growing bonds of socio-economic and cultural relations between Nepal and India, it is essential to review the arrangement of the cross-border movement of private vehicles between the two countries.
- The Nepalese authorities at the customs points allow the Indian private vehicles to enter into Nepal for which they have to pay certain charges on a per diem basis at the border points.
- On the other hand, the Nepalese people are required to get prior permission from the Indian embassy in Kathmandu or its Consulate General Office in Birgunj if they have to enter India with vehicles bearing Nepali number plates.
- No such permission is required for the Indian people from the Nepalese embassy in New Delhi if they have to enter Nepal with Indian number plates.
- Such an anomaly in the cross-border movement of vehicles is in fact against the letter and spirit of the 1950 Peace and Friendship Treaty between Nepal and India.
Can you answer the following questions?
- What are the major irritants in Indo-Nepal relations? What are their fallouts? Examine.
- India-Nepal Flood Management
(TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE)
Model questions: (You can now post your answers in comment section)
- Correct answers of today’s questions will be provided in next day’s DNA section. Kindly refer to it and update your answers.
Q.1 Where are you most likely to find the practice of stubble burning most prominent?
- Andhra Pradesh
Q.2 Consider the following statements regarding Technical textiles?
- These are functional fabrics that have applications in cotton and jute industries.
- India’s share in technical textiles is the highest globally.
Which of the above is or are correct?
- 1 only
- 2 only
- Both 1 and 2
- Neither 1 nor 2
Q.3 Which of the following pollutants is not considered while measuring the Air quality Index of Indian cities?
- Nitrogen Dioxide
- Sulphur Dioxide
- Carbon Monoxide
- Carbon Dioxide
ANSWERS FOR 3rd Nov 2021 TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE (TYK)
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Moon & The Stars & The World is the new album from John Moore And Missing Star. Featuring a rousing mix of nocturnal delights, thought-provoking lyrics, it’s a wild sonic journey that goes beyond any run-of-the-mill sound. These guys bring back the album orientated rock without sacrificing a modern sound. From the opening rocker “Burn It All Down” to the retro-pop “Was It Worth It All”, John Moore And Missing Star showcase great depth and dynamic tones.
Never drifting far from their rock/bluesy tones, this band has vibrant, ear-catching hooks. Their pallet is often empowered by a melodic guitar and lead singer/guitarist John Moore’s smooth vocals. He has a voice that is made for pop music in the same way Tom Petty had just a slight rugged sheen to his delivery. While listening to a singer like Moore, it’s apparent he brings the same energy into the studio as he does to the live setting. I found the synergy with the band, their tightness, incredible. In “See Me Again” the lead guitar might garner most of the spotlight, but the subtleness of the bass throbbing along, the drums beating like a wounded heart and the hush of the piano keys made for a much more dramatic experience. I wanted to take up shop in that undercurrent. When the guitar starts to squelch, like a sparkling eureka moment, it’s like meeting up with a friend or love after a long time has passed. That buzzing of excitement, that twinkling of nerves all bundled up and ready to explode.
The middle tracks, including “Himerima (The Moon, Stars & The World)”, “Drag You Down” and “Don’t Feel A Thing” feel intricate and exciting. “Himerima”, is the longest on the album and is just over 5.5 minutes long. It’s reminiscent of Pink Floyd. “Drag You Down” is beguiling just the same. Nothing is real here, only make believe, is one of my favorite lines from the track. These songs are consistently gripping. When the band isn’t catching your attention with the moving guitars, they are spoiling you with the rhythm section and organ (or piano) keys.
The final crop of songs, “Over Now”, “Those Lies”, “Fading Away” and “Was It Worth It All” surround the listener with fresh takes on life, relationships, loss and perhaps self-worth. I think these songs are about more than what the lyrics suggest and like all great songs, they mean something different to each listener. Where I went as a listener was in a small venue scene, imagining this band playing a late-night set – like the headliner at a local club always does. They might be playing their 15th night strait and maybe the concert isn’t sold out, but they are playing like they are headlining Madison Square Garden.
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Whats cool about dubb, is that its shorthand for double-you, as in “W”. it also is represented as the numerical sense, such as double, a/o (and/or) win, Like we took the Dub(b)!. just some background on my personal etymology, and how the background of just dubb came to be, such as my username @”dubb”xyz on IG. and its also shorthand on my other name jdubb just from grade school days to naturally in conversation with my clients, and new acquaintances. its just naturally jdubb or jdubbs.
I think its just bad ass to be introducing myself as dubb. so if I did this it was probably in the environment or professionally on my craft side of things when I am focusing on my on business goals, such as the art world, music, design consulting, and estorica.
the real world.
kinda like a pop culture name, like an artist alias. idk I feel we are all the same but we have different character traits that we focus on time to time and one way to do that personally is think about how i interact with different social circles, family, friends, colleagues, sports teammates, extra curricular and hobbies. some get a merge your containers of public personality of that sector sees you as. Think you are the biggest in the room for a competition or the most interested in learning in one area or another, but then you go to antoehr social circle they have no clue what you came from, just as you are in the present at that time. This leads our other social circles to overlap and miss a lot of the pieces from your overall identity.
anyways what i am saying is, just have fun be yourself, thats kinda why I am making this blog, I hope to keep a good frequency of publish rate. so I can fill in all the missing pieces,you cant always explain your thought process in a concise manner, so an ongoing thought log, at a public level gets a better picture out there. so I can always come back and expand and comment on a thought, just give me some input and ask questions, I invite you to have a conservation in yours and my personal time, dm me!
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USPTO Patent Filing and Registration Process
Understanding how to patent your creations is crucial because patents protect your ideas from others imitating and profiting off of your original work. The only downside to patenting your work is that the process of registering for a patent is arduous. Taking your idea from conception to patent requires a huge investment of time and energy to research and submit all of the necessary materials. However, to begin the process in the first place, you must first know what exactly a patent entails.
What is a Patent?
Put simply, a patent is a grant issued by the U.S. government which gives the creator or inventor the right to prevent all others from producing, utilizing, or selling their invention. In order to acquire a patent, either the inventor or the business for which the invention was produced must file a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, or USPTO for short. The exact cost of the filing fees varies depending on the type of patent application. But even before thinking of filing a patent with the USPTO, you should research already existing patents at the Trademark Depository Library and the California State Library Patent to determine whether your invention is already patented.
Patents Applications Differ Between Types of Patents
If the invention is not patented, your next move should be to determine which type of application to file for your creation. There are three types of patents available and they are:
- Design Patents: these protect ornamental designs and patterns and are effective for up to 14 years.
- Utility Patents: these protect useful processes, contraptions, articles of manufacture, compositional elements, and improvements to any of these for up to 20 years.
- Plant Patents: These protect new varieties of asexually reproduced plants and are effective for up to 20 years as well.
Prototyping an Invention
While each of the aforementioned types of patents have their distinct uses, unless your innovation has to do with plants or ornamental designs, you will most likely end up filing for a utility patent as that is by far the most common type of patent to apply for. It’s also extremely beneficial for you to keep an accurate record of how you came up with the idea of your invention along with an outline of the step by step process. Those pieces of evidence will prove invaluable during the patent application process. Further, if you happen to have a prototype of your invention on hand, then you should also submit that along with the other records.
Here’s An Idea…Can I Patent An Idea?
This is where it gets a bit murky, but technically, no. Ideas by themselves cannot be patented. You can only patent an invention or creation that was developed from an idea. The invention must be produced or a description of the creation must be included with your patent application for the consideration to hold any weight. It also goes without saying that in order to file for a patent, you must be the original inventor or creator, or have been assigned the invention by another person or serve as the legal representative of the original inventor.
Ultimately, you may patent inventions, designs, and even plants so long as your inventions is:
- New, as in it is novel and hasn’t been patented before
- Non-Obvious, as in it isn’t something someone else can easily think of
- Useful, as in the idea can be put to practical use through its implementation.
How Our Los Angeles Patent Registration Attorney Can Help
In order to obtain the actual patent that protects your invention or design, you need to file a non-provisional application, known as a Regular Patent Application (RPA). To get this patent approved, you will have to submit an application that demonstrates how to make and use the invention, why it is different from all other inventions, and describe what exact aspects of the invention or design should be patented.
That process will require many hours of research and preparation in order to avoid having your application delayed or outright denied, both of which would significantly impede your chances of protecting your creation. We can help you to ensure your patent application has all of the necessary elements to get your creations under protection as quickly as possible. At KAASS LAW, we value originality and individuality above all else and we invite you to contact our firm to see just how easy we can make obtaining your patents and protections for your inventions and designs. Give us a toll free call at (310) 943-1171 to speak to our Trademark and Patent lawyers today. Our lawyers in Glendale, Los Angeles, CA, are fully dedicated to help you with any legal matters you may need assistance with.
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Ask others who I am, and you’ll get a lot of different answers. I’m a friend and a mother, a colleague and a neighbor. I’m a wife, a sister, and a grandmother. All of these things I’ve become during my life, but I’ve always been an artist. I don’t remember being anything else.
I won my first regional school art contest when I was 10 but didn’t formally study art until attending The College of New Jersey. In 2006, I began independent study with two nationally renowned Bucks County painters; first with Robert Seufert, and later with John Ennis. Over the last three decades I’ve also had the great fortune to visit and study important art collections across America and Europe. As my skills have progressed, I’ve transitioned from a realist to an expressionist painter. Through all of this, my family, friends, and teachers have been invaluable critics and cheerleaders as I’ve tried to communicate my experiences through paint, textile, and wax mediums. Although most of my early works were in Oils, I now work almost exclusively in encaustics. My current work can be seen in The Broken Crayon Collection. You can learn more about this collection in my Artist Statement.
I live in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania with my best friend and husband, Don. You can reach me at [email protected].
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Everyone loves to go on holidays. If you have never been to one, it is time that you plan one to Goa. After all, even people from abroad visit this place for a mesmeric and refreshing experience. Once you explore the places in Goa, you would definitely feel good about yourself and your life.
Have you ever been to Goa? Well, no matter you did or you didn’t; if you haven’t visited tourist places in Goa, it is time that you go for it. Certainly, you can easily look for a hotel like Hyatt centric candolim goa and ensure that you have a good time. After all, it is time that you choose the places that give you a wonderful time. Here are some places that you must visit in Goa no matter what.
Places to Visit in Goa
This is a well-preserved seventeenth century beautiful Portuguese fort. This fort is placed on the Sinquerim Beach in North Goa. It was formed up as the main defence of Portuguese against Dutch and Marathas. It was the most worthy and critical fort of Portuguese. The fort is covered by thick battlements along with deep dry moat. Two completely worth visiting things within the fort are that of thirteen metre high lighthouse constructed in the year 1864 and even a curved cistern capable of storing around ten million litres of fresh water.
Grand Island is the illumination of the region of Goa water-sports. There is a lot that you can experience at this spot right from snorkelling to that of diving to fishing. Scuba diving at this spot is the most popular activity because it offers so much in the shape of underwater exploration. This place in South Goa can offer you a stimulating, uplifting and much rejuvenating time. In case you have never been to this refreshing place, it is right time to do it now. You should give a try to scuba Diving at this place of Grande Island in Goa and take back home some lovely, exciting memories from there.
This beach is one of the most famous and loved beaches in Goa and it is even the biggest beach in the realm of North Goa. The beech is amidst the most popular and relished tourist places in Goa and well-known with both domestic and international tourists. Also, the beach is also the busiest and commercialized beaches in Goa during the peak seasons; the beach is full of people from around the world. It offers a long coastline blended with a stunning view of sea and the beach front is filled with huts, clubs, restaurants, and even that of shopping outlets. You can enjoy water sports too here.
Around nine kms to the south of Bicholim town in North Goa is located the 6th century Pandava cave complex and also Arvalem waterfalls. This cave complex is divided into 5 compartments and the ‘linga’ preserved in the mid of compartment is held in huge respect by devotees at this place. Similarly, another Fascination near to the Arvalem caves is the popular Arvalem waterfalls. The water flowing down from an altitude of nearly fifty mts makes for a beautiful view. Similarly, there is also a park nearby from where you can conveniently witness the waterfall as well as the grand lake at the bottom. The whole space is gorgeous and worth visiting.
Bhagwan Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary
It is much recommended to visit this Bhagwan Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary. It is spotted near Molem. It can be a true retreat for the wildlife and nature lovers and also that of paparazzi. In case you are nature lovers then you can easily find some type of peace at this place in the midst of Mother Nature. You can even come across major wild animals like that of sloth bear and panther, mouse and other species can even get witnessed at this place as it is one of the chief wildlife sanctuaries in Goa. An impressive range of birds and pretty flora and fauna is also going to enthral the attention of the guests.
This is known to everyone that this amazing Baga Beach is the most popular among all Goa beaches and in case you are there in this city; you really go to this spot. It is a place that is packed with activities you can indulge in. Baga Beach and it’s environed zones are not going to give you time to get jaded. There is always something or the other to do at this amazing spot. In the morning you can have gorgeous walks here and during the day basking in the Sun would be a nice idea. You can even do interaction with so many individuals gathered therein. You must not skip the water sport activities at this refreshing beech! After all, the water activities at this place are going to entertain and uplift everyone.
Well-known for its sun kissed and lengthy expanses of silvery beaches; the city gets and relishes a huge number of tourists throughout the year. You can see so many people fondly spending a lot of time in the realm of beaches. The most visited beach of this place is clearly Palolem Beach. Though there are huts and shacks in the beach yet this beach has always been loved and is still famous. The gorgeous beach has always been idolized. The south end of this beach always remains busy. Whereas, the northern portion of this beach is limited by high tide from Shallow River stay calm and quiet. Similarly it might also interest you that there is an island that may get reached at time of low tides. You can conveniently take a glimpse of dolphins playing and bouncing around during the bay.
To sum up, whether site seeing, vibrant night life, adventure, or different activities; Goa is a big treat for anyone and everyone. Book your rooms in Hyatt centric candolim goa and ensure that you have a pleasant, comfortable, and good experience in this piece of paradise. | <urn:uuid:834d15b3-0450-40e2-bf6b-7085c31eb87b> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://knowworldnow.com/places-to-visit-in-goa/ | 2022-01-27T23:52:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305317.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127223432-20220128013432-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.969154 | 1,259 |
One of the worst effects of winter is the damage on your shoes and boots. It’s not the snow and cold weather doing the damage but rather it’s the harsh salts used to keep the roads and streets from freezing up that cause the problem. Most people hate when they have a good pair of footwear stained with that white ring caused by the salt used on the roads.
I worked in the footwear industry for several years and people always ask me how I keep my footwear looking so new. In the winter months one of the simple tricks to keep your shoes from staining is actually to spray your footwear before wearing them. This actually puts a protective layer on your shoes and makes them much easier to clean when you actually get salt on your shoes. Without this layer, it’s easier for the stain to set right into the pores of the shoe; especially if its leather.
To clean the salt off your shoes mix 4 tablespoons of vinegar and a 1/2 cup of room temperature water. Use a clean cloth to remove the stains.* Continue rubbing the shoes to remove the salt. Once it is completely removed rinse off with water. Allow your shoes to dry. If the stain is still there then repeat until it is gone. Once the shoes are completely dry you should spray them with a weather protector.
Another option is using a product specifically designed for removing salt stains from shoes. I have been using Salt Stain Remover by Moneysworth & Best for several years. The product actually works which is why I swear by it every winter. But the chemicals in it could be harsh on more delicate leathers. Test a small area before you use it all over so as not to damage your shoes more. You may want to stick to vinegar and water on leather that you think could damage easily.
It’s very important that any cleaning be done as soon as possible because when you leave your shoes with the salt sitting on it too long it actually begins to eat away at the leather. When this happens the damage is more visible and much more difficult to clean. The first thing I do when I come home is wipe down the shoes to prepare for proper cleaning.
Also condition and polish your shoes after cleaning. That way you keep the leather in good condition and don’t forget to spray them with a final coat of protector to keep them from staining again.
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LEGENDS OF MICHIGAN The Red Dwarf of Detroit or the Nain Rouge Harbinger of doom or ancient...
Supernatural Legends & Lore of Michigan
The legend states: A fellow in the 80’s built a fallout shelter beneath his home for his family. Paranoia growing greater, he took his family down there to live. At some point he lost it and killed his entire family with a hatchet and thus the road got its nickname: Hatchet Man Road.
The Ada Witch has been a popular legend in West Michigan for decades. For years, people have claimed to have witnessed a paranormal classic: “the lady in white.” She’s been seen wandering around the area of Findlay Cemetery and surrounding roads. But who is this mysterious “lady in white”?
The shoe tree story is pure legend at its finest because there’s nothing haunted about some old shoes in a tree. It’s a little creepy, but doesn’t automatically generate ghosts. But try telling that to someone who claims that their car wouldn’t start when they were near a shoe tree and other bizarre occurrences that are said to happen by these roadside oddities.
The Witchy Wolves is an old Chippewa legend that has been passed down for generations. According to legend, there is a spirit animal – half dog and half wolf – that protects the souls and the graves of Native American warriors. It will attack anyone that disturbs the final resting place of Chippewa warriors. | <urn:uuid:e70e3fc6-d210-4992-87bc-ec7eeac1fe60> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://michigansotherside.com/category/legends/ | 2022-01-27T23:34:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305317.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127223432-20220128013432-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.967822 | 321 |
Four Ways Online Communities Fit into Your Post-COVID Strategy
Insights shared by Breezio’s Kristina Toscano
It was inevitable for organizations to turn to online communities during the coronavirus pandemic, as communicating digitally became the “new normal” across the world. Now that we are transferring to a hybrid (virtual and in-person) working environment, online communities have a new role to play.
There are several benefits to having an online community for your association in general, but it is interesting to think about how community fits into your engagement strategy specifically post-COVID. Here are some ways online communities will benefit your members and staff alike:
1. Event Engagement – Before and After
In preparation for your annual conference or other events, online communities have been a great resource to connect people before and after the event actually happens. In Breezio, you are able to have a conversation around events, collaborate on topics and plan meetings all within the platform.
2. Virtual Networking
Making connections and staying connected are two different things. Online communities make staying connected easy and straightforward. After meeting people at conferences, it can be easy to lose touch quickly. Online communities provide a space for connections to last and content to be created!
3. A Central Hub for Hybrid Events
Several events and conferences are either still completely virtual or are hybrid. An online community provides a central location for virtual and in-person attendees to communicate and connect, even if they aren’t in the same room. Online communities, like Breezio, can even help you filter other attendees in the member directory so that you might find people with specific skills or accreditations.
4. Online Collaboration
In a post-COVID world, online collaboration is still relevant and necessary. Real-time collaboration and virtual interaction are imperative to any organization. Companies like Breezio offer content publishing tools that are powerful in the sense that collaboration is where They focus. In-line commenting, direct-chat and virtual event capabilities are just a few of the options organizations have at their disposal.
Ultimately, as the world shifts back to a sense of normalcy in a post-COVID world, online communities will be a smart investment as they are here to stay. Online engagement is centered around online communities. One of those online communities is Breezio.
Breezio was founded in 2014 in Rockville, Maryland. Originally, the product was created to serve the scientific research and publishing industry, but after being selected by companies outside the space as well as many non-profits and associations, Breezio shifted its focus to primarily serving membership and trade organizations. Now, Breezio's customer base is comprised mostly of non-profits and associations, with others in biotech, startup incubators, user groups and more. To find out more about the company, please visit www.breezio.com. | <urn:uuid:fc1197dd-2c52-4a17-89fc-59ed5b6b1cd4> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://osae.org/aws/OSAE/pt/sd/news_article/401191/_blank/layout_details/false | 2022-01-28T01:06:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305317.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127223432-20220128013432-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.954006 | 609 |
Create your own backyard oasis with a spa to fit your lifestyle.
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We are living in such strange and uncertain times for which we have no playbook. The rules are being made up as we go along. Rules, if we play by them, will keep us safe. Then there are those who insist on marching to their own drum. In normal times that would be cool. Not, however, in these current circumstances. This led me to the question, what are we committed to? Are we just doing what we can to get by and get through? How can we make a difference for ourselves and those within our spheres? What came to me was commitment. Commitment to what or to whom? What does commitment mean anyway?
I don’t feel commitment is necessarily about how much time we give to something or someone. It seems to me that commitment is more about presence and attention.
Are we giving 100% of our attention to what’s going on in front of us, or are we splitting our attention between people, technology, daydreams, background music, news, and more?
In the early weeks of the pandemic I was quite busy and focused. I connected with several friends, went on a number of webinars, took and taught a course. All of these things were meaningful, positive and to which I was fully present. More recently a lot of those good vibes seem to have waned a bit. I find myself drifting a little here, a little there; attention splitting and mind wandering. Not a real happy state. The question became, what do I want to do about it? What kind of commitment do I need to recapture that earlier meaning and positivity?
Truth be told, I’ve come to find some enjoyment splitting my attention among a number of distractions. I am also aware that too much of that is not healthy over the long haul. Despite a little grumbling in my mind, I made the decision to commit to be fully present and attentive to whatever activity in which I had chosen for a particular time. It was not necessary to eliminate some of those interests. It was more a matter of being mindful and engaged as much as possible.
I essentially reminded myself of what happens when we live our lives mindlessly. Sometimes goofy things happen like picking up a TV remote and talking into it as if it was the phone. Other times more dire things happen that can affect life and limb.
There are Two morals to this:
One: With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment. Thich Nhat Hanh
Two: Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more. Mother Teresa
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This Wheel's on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of the Band
Paperback | Apr 2017 | Plexus | 9780859654982 | 320pp | 235x150mm | GEN | AUD$32.99, NZD$39.99
The true behind-the-scenes story of legendary rock group The Band, as told by drummer Levon Helm.
1968's Music From Big Pink was an album that seemed to come out of nowhere, and sounded like nothing anyone had heard before. It was a defining moment for an entire generation, and it immediately established The Band as one of the most important acts of the modern rock era. As drummer and lead singer for The Band, Levon Helm emerged as a genuine folk hero to millions. | <urn:uuid:139c1204-a6ce-4750-8964-f79db0ccd64e> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://publishers.newsouthbooks.com.au/collections/april-2017-fiction-entertainment/plexus-publishing/ | 2022-01-27T23:40:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305317.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127223432-20220128013432-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.963703 | 155 |
1 freezer bag
½ cup of omelette fillings of your choice – sausage, bacon, onions, mushrooms, peppers, etc
¼ cup of cheese
Crack eggs into the freezer quart sized bags.
Add fillings and cheese.
Seal bag and shake to scramble and mix the omelette.
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The Coalition government has indicated it will seek to lock in its weak emissions reduction targets by requiring a five years notice period for any changes to electricity emissions targets that will be central to the proposed National Energy Guarantee.
The requirement was one of number of new pieces of information revealed in a 56-page discussion paper released by the Energy Security Board on Thursday, with less than two months before it will present a draft of the new legislation to COAG energy ministers in early April.
The draft report reveals not only the complexity of the proposed NEG, which seeks to impose both “emissions and reliability” standards on the market, but also how much work is left to be done. Still, the ESB were seeking to downplay some of the worst fears about the mechanism.
The ESB – made up of the three key energy institutional bodies and two outside directors – is seeking responses on a whole range of issues, including how contracting should be done, how emissions and reliability should be measured, the treatment of “carryovers”, and the use of offsets, compliance, and penalties.
The details remain opaque – and on this occasion the ESB has omitted any modelling that could create further controversy over the amount of renewable energy that might be allowed under the NEG, or the amount of storage.
But a couple of clear pieces of information emerged:
One is that the reliability obligation will be set roughly along the lines of current AEMO forecasts, from its medium term MTPASA to its longer-term ESOO (statement of opportunities).
It does say that a new mechanism, or new approach, may be adopted, and it is still considering a time-frame for its forecast requirements – from three years to 10.
But based on the latest ESOO, then for most jurisdictions in the NEM, including the renewables rich South Australia, there may not be any reliability obligation.
“The hope of all ESB members is that we never trigger the reliability requirements,” Clare Savage, the ESB’s deputy chair, told RenewEconomy. “There will be a window of opportunity to fill any potential shortfall. The market will do what a market does best.”
How the market fills that shortfall is yet to be decided. It could be through contracts, it could be through swaps and caps, it could be through an auction (book-build) conducted by the Australian Energy Market Operator.
Reliability in terms of the NEG is considered to be adequate supply, having enough megawatts at a point in time to meet peak demand.
The ESB says it is not to be confused with energy “security” (inertia, frequency response, etc), which will be dealt with through different mechanisms. The reliability requirements will also need to take into account other key initiatives (day ahead markets, strategic reserves, and demand response).
Some of these issues have put two of the institutions that make up the ESB – AEMO, the operator, and the Australian Energy Market Commission (the rule maker) – at apparent loggerheads.
However, the prominence given to demand response – a technology strongly favoured by AEMO and so long-ignored by AEMC – will be pleasing to many (apart from those troglodytes that consider demand response to be the equivalent of mandated blackouts, which they are not).
“The emergence of new technologies and ensuing regulatory developments has meant that reliability is no longer the virtually exclusive domain of ‘supply-side’ solutions,” it says.
“Rather, the demand-side – including residential customers – now has a potentially important role to play in delivering a reliable power system at the lowest possible cost.
“Indeed, consumers are becoming better-equipped than ever to manage and control their energy use and contribute to reliability and this will only improve in the future. The demand-side is a key factor in driving the transformation of the energy sector.”
The decision to consider day-ahead markets, and a strategic reserve, are also signs that AEMO’s view is starting to gain more currency than in the initial rushed proposal, which was seen largely as an AEMC affair.
The submissions for stakeholders, which are due in early March, will make for fascinating reading. Like those for the recent reliability review, submissions should line up with incumbents broadly on one side, and new technologies on the other.
One of the biggest criticisms of the NEG as originally unveiled, was the danger of entrenching market dominance by the big “gen-tailers” – the likes of AGL, EnergyAustralia, Origin and Snowy Hydro.
The ESB says it is confident that it won’t result in reduced competition, and is aware of the risks, but doesn’t exactly spell out how it will be avoided.
In fact, it says it won’t be able to do that until the scheme design is further developed.
“The (ESB) considers that the design of the Guarantee should make sure that it does not unintentionally further entrench market power and create barriers to entry for smaller players,” it writes.
“However, the Energy Security Board considers that further consideration cannot be given to these issues until the design of the Guarantee is further developed.”
That underlines how little the NEG has evolved, despite its apparent complexity. Yet it seeks stakeholder feedback in early March, will present a draft to COAG in early April, and hopes to have it all wrapped up, and potentially legislated, by the end of the year.
Isn’t that an awful lot to do in a short period of time? “My view is that we haven’t got time to waste,” Savage says. “We need to ensure we have got this mechanism up and running so it can provide investment signals to provide replacement capacity.”
The other main criticism of the NEG was the indication from its initial modelling that it would result in little new investment in renewables. There is still no clarity about how that will be achieved.
Savage said she has no doubt that wind and solar will form the cheapest form of new generation, and the addition of storage in new projects was encouraging.
Ultimately, however, that will come down to the government, which will have responsibility over the emissions levels to be met under the guarantee.
The government contributed a chapter, but gave little away. It is still thinking in terms of a 26 per cent reduction in emissions by 2030 (which most analysts and scientists say is completely inadequate to meet the Paris target it has signed up to), and says it will make a 10-year target before 2020.
The government also wants to insist that any change in the target – seemingly inevitable should the NEG be introduced and there is a change of government – must give five years’ notice before it is implemented.
To provide further investor certainty, changes to the target trajectory by the Commonwealth government could only apply with five years’ notice. For example, in 2025, no changes to targets from 2026 to 2030 could be made.
It is also looking to exempt emissions intensive trade exposed industries (as they were in the carbon price and RET), and is looking at up to 10 per cent of the emissions targets to be met by international offsets.
This emissions target remains the major point of contention, because while the ESB is promoting the NEG as a means of potentially bridging the policy chasm between right and left, it will remain largely ineffective if the federal emissions target is weak.
Federal environment minister Josh Frydenberg claimed on Thursday that the visiting head of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol, had endorsed the government’s approach, but that is not really what Birol said.
He had no comment on the NEG itself, reiterated his support for a carbon price (such as the one dumped by the Coalition), and reinforced the need for governments to recognise the plunging cost of new technologies, particularly solar.
And state and territory ministers whose support will be crucial at the April COAG meeting – where the ESB will seek approval for further design work – are still not convinced.
“In preventing us from making additional emissions reductions, it appears that the NEG will not allow progressive jurisdictions to continue getting on with the job of delivering clean, affordable and reliable energy,” ACT energy minister Shane Rattenbury said in a statement.
“This is an extraordinarily backward approach – one well out of step with the Finkel Review.
“In its current form, the NEG will stymie the development of renewable energy, and the modelling shows it will be a worse outcome for renewables compared to business as usual.
“As a jurisdiction that will have 100% of our electricity coming from renewables in two years time, under the proposal put forward, we would be doing the heavy lifting and allowing others off the hook. This is not something that we can accept.
“(The NEG) will do little to prevent potentially catastrophic climate change, given the emissions targets that are the foundation of the NEG are clearly incompatible with climate science, and with our Paris Commitments.” | <urn:uuid:657d6112-0a71-4cab-9576-80323fdb0b06> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://reneweconomy.com.au/coalition-seeks-to-lock-in-weak-emission-targets-under-neg-12570/ | 2022-01-28T00:06:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305317.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127223432-20220128013432-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.959656 | 1,908 |
Running a successful webstore is not all about creating a website and adding products and sitting back as you wait for buyers to get you. You should be willing to invest in efficient marketing campaigns to draw their attention.
Now that you already have visitors flocking to your site, your job does not end there. You have to work on retaining them, and the easiest way to do is by providing excellent customer support. You cannot support buyers without communication, and this is where Magento 2 notification messages come in. It is time to shift from the traditional ways of doing things and turn your online store into an omnichannel. The notification messages feature comes with a range of fantastic benefits which include;
Helps you grow subscribers effortlessly
This tool gives you a chance to improve your site effortlessly. It gets even better if you have a channel for showcasing your products. The buyers can easily subscribe to the channel with a single click without much information required. The best part is that it allows you to send real-time messages to your visitors, which is also a way of improving customer service. Also, you can manually set the time for sending notifications, and this way; all the subscribed customers will get notifications at the same time.
Attract customers and retain the existing ones
With this feature, you can easily incorporate web push notification to notify your targets about any sales, promotions, and changes. They do not have to be on your site to know about these things. They will, however, get notifications on deals in real-time. This way, you can retain your existing customers by returning them to your store even after closing the tab. The notification system will generally help you drive sales and see your customers satisfied.
Create a unique marketing campaign
Marketing is, by far, the most challenging part of running a business. You need to come up with something that will attract your customers and remind them of you every time they want to buy a product that relates to what you are offering. While there are numerous ways of doing this, you cannot go wrong with push notifications. Creating one-time notifications will drive traffic to your store, especially when they learn about sales, discounts, and promotions. You can notify them instantly when the promotion starts. Also, you will have a chance to send short, customized messages to inform your targets about new products and services.
It is easier to reach specific groups
With Magento 2 notification messages feature, you can easily target particular groups. One of the aspects that make you a good seller is to understand that every customer has different needs. The persuasion language that works for one buyer might not work for the other. You should, therefore, come up with customized ways of persuading each of them to try your products or services. You can create a message for repeat customers and a different one for first-time visitors.
From these benefits, it is evident that Magento 2 notification messages are the key to increased sales. Add the tool to your webstore and get to enjoy these benefits and more. | <urn:uuid:4131e3fe-186b-44ad-afaf-316141d373c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://rumyittips.com/how-does-magento-2-notification-messages-tool-help-in-sales-maximization/ | 2022-01-28T00:25:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305317.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127223432-20220128013432-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.950215 | 612 |
Making sense of our animal companions
I’ve been wanting to write something about animals on film for a long time now. I’m not talking about kids-oriented, Air Bud– or Homeward Bound-type fare – not to knock either of those movies, because they’re not un-related to the ones I’m going to discuss, nor are they bad. However, whenever I bring up this topic, these are typically the examples I hear. When you do think of animals on film, it’s striking that they appear most frequently in either children’s movies or documentaries. We either revel in their otherness, or turn them into humanized talking beasts. Not surprisingly, both iterations of the animal are loved by viewers of all ages. | <urn:uuid:097ddde2-fd1c-4847-9773-9726b4c88c58> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://selectiveviewing.wordpress.com/2014/03/ | 2022-01-28T00:10:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305317.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127223432-20220128013432-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.94686 | 161 |
Set of shelves for the complete bead...
Set of shelves for the complete bead material set. Beads sold searately
Warning: Last items in stock!
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This cabinet is for the complete montessori bead material (sold separately).
From 5 years
Calculating with large numbers
Squaring of numbers
The Montessori colour control scheme
Material / size:
The cabinet is made of wood, comes flat-packed and needs to be constructed. Detailed instructions included.
Size: 1m x 1m x 10cm
Environment & Safety:
High-quality wood from environmentally friendly plantations
CE tested, testing protocols for SGS EN71 and DIN
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The Sleep Institute of New England provides excellent care while diagnosing and treating sleep disorders, such as:
A home sleep test is one way to detect obstructive sleep apnea in the comfort of your own home. The test monitors your airflow, oxygen and breathing effort while you sleep.
A Polysomnography sleep study is done in our facility to diagose a variety of sleep disorders. Polysomnography monitors your sleep stages and cycles to identify if or when your sleep patterns are disrupted and why.
Positive airway pressure (PAP) treatment uses a machine to pump air under pressure into the airway of the lungs. This helps keep the windpipe open during sleep. The forced air delivered by CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) prevents episodes of airway collapse that block the breathing in people with obstructive sleep apnea and other breathing problems.
The Multiple Sleep Latency Test is a sleep disorder diagnostic tool. It is used to measure the time elapsed from the start of a daytime nap period to the first signs of sleep, called sleep latency. The test is based on the idea that the sleepier people are, the faster they will fall asleep.
The Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT) is used to measure how alert you are during the day. It shows whether or not you are able to stay awake for a defined period of time. This is an indicator of how well you are able to function and remain alert in quiet times of inactivity.
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Hello Parish Families,
We are so excited that you are seeking to deepen your faith for your child and your family. Faith formation can sound like a technical term, but in a single line we could say faith formation is simply: equipping people to live as disciples of Jesus. That is our hope at St. Margaret Mary’s. We hope to join you on your journey of becoming a disciple of Jesus. This means we are excited to help you:
- Fall in love with Jesus.
- Live as disciples of Jesus at home, at work, and in the community.
- Develop an understanding of the Bible and the Catholic faith tradition.
- Deepen your spiritual life and practices.
- Engage in service and mission to the world.
- Participate in the life and ministries of our faith community.
Covid Update 2021
Now that the Covid restrictions are easing, the faith formation department is planning to start the 2021-2022 class year with in person learning. Classes will return to the church property at their regular days and times which will be listed in the registration paperwork. We know the importance of our loved ones, so every decision will have the safety of our families as a top priority.
Registration in open until the end of August, 2021
The Faith Formation office is now open with limited summer hours. Registration for the 2021-2022 season starts July 6th.
If you would like to fill out the registration form, please click the link below:
Monday – Wednesday: 8am to 5pm
Thursday: 8am to 4pm
Friday: By appointment only until 12 noon.
For more information please call the faith formation office:
Nancy Keegan – Faith Formation Director
Phone: 909-591-7400 ext. 231
Paulette Burandt – Faith Formation Staff
Phone: 909-591-7400 ext. 230
Family with one child: $100 / per year
Family with two or more children: $150 / per year
Retreats and Extra Materials
(Will be collected at a later date)
For families making 1st communion: $25 workshop fee
Confirmation year 1 retreat: $15 per student
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — FEB. 25, 2013 — A recent study found potential epidemiologic factors associated with the development of the neurologic form of EHV-1. (The neurologic form of equine herpesvirus type-1, or EHV-1, is known as equine herpesvirus myeloencephalopathy, or EHM). The study was based on one of the largest outbreaks of neurologic equine herpesvirus type 1. The outbreak occurred among horses that had attended the 2011 National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) Western National Championship.
Several factors were identified to be significantly different when comparing EHM cases to horses that had EHV-1 with no neurologic signs, and when comparing EHM cases with healthy horses (controls).
The study showed that the odds of a horse developing neurologic signs (EHM) when compared with developing EHV-1 with no neurologic signs and when compared to healthy controls “were greater among horses that were exposed to more biosecurity-related risks (2+) than those that experienced fewer risks (0 or 1).”
Biosecurity-related risks from the horse show included:
- Tied in a barn
- Used shared water
- Grazed on grounds
- Used wash rack
- Had a veterinary examination or treatment
- Worked on by farrier
Researchers found that mares were more likely to develop the neurologic form of herpesvirus (EHM) than male horses when compared to EHV-1 cases without neurologic signs and when compared to male horses that were healthy (controls).
When looking at individual risk factors for EHM cases versus EHV-1 cases, mares were 4.3 times more likely than male horses to develop EHM, noted the study. Comparing individual risk factors for EHM versus controls, mares were 2.8 times more likely to develop EHM. However, this “gender effect” was influenced by the number of classes that horses competed in during April and May of 2011.
The study also showed that the risk of being an EHM case compared with EHV-1 cases without neurologic signs increased as the number of classes competed in at the NCHA event increased. The research found that “as the number of classes increased, the likelihood of a male horse becoming an EHM case increased more rapidly.”
Horses that were shown in more classes from May 3 onward (the show ran from April 29 to May 8) were more likely to have neurologic signs (EHM) no matter their sex.
The research concluded that the “main effects and one interaction term remained significant when comparing EHM cases to controls.” Those were:
- Greater number of biosecurity risks
- Vaccination against EVH-1 in the five weeks preceding the event
- Dietary zinc supplementation
- Increasing number of events attended in April 2011
- Sex modified by the number of events attended in April 2011
One management practice was significantly associated with a decreased risk of a horse becoming an EHM case: dietary supplementation with a product containing zinc.
The neurologic form of equine herpesvirus type 1 (EHV-1) is one of the most significant diseases concerning the horse industry today. The show horse industry was caught off guard in 2011 when more than 400 horses were potentially exposed to EHV-1 at the National Cutting Horse Association Western National Championship in Utah. Those horses then dispersed to 19 states and 242 premises.
Ultimately, 90 laboratory-confirmed and 72 suspect cases of EHV-1 or neurologic herpesvirus (EHM) were identified among the primary and secondary exposed horses from this multistate outbreak, according to the study conducted by USDA-APHIS-VS The study was published in the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine.
A total of 123 horses that attended the Utah NCHA event were included in the case-control study: 19 neurologic (EHM) cases, 14 EHV-1 cases with no reported neurologic signs, and 90 controls (healthy horses).
A study of a previous EHM outbreak at a Findlay, Ohio, equine facility had implicated recent or repeated vaccination against EHV-1 as a risk factor for neurologic signs (EHM). In the study comparing neurologic horses with control (healthy) horses exposed at the NCHA event, “there was a 3.3 times greater odds of EHM among horses reported to be vaccinated against EHV-1 in the five weeks preceding the event, and a 1.9 greater odds with each increase in number of EHV-1 vaccinations in the year before the event.”
In comparing horses with EHM to control (healthy) horses, the study found, “Horses greater than five years of age had a lower risk of being an EHM case, but the number of horses in the youngest age category was small, and most cases were 5–9 years of age.”
Zinc Shows Promise
In the case control study using the 2011 Utah NCHA show horses, one positive factor researchers found was that when comparing neurologic (EHM) horses with controls (healthy horses), “feeding a nutritional supplement containing zinc was associated with decreased risk” of a horse becoming a neurologic (EHM) case.
“In light of the important role that zinc may play in the control of herpesvirus infection in humans, our surveys included questions regarding nutritional supplementation of this trace mineral,” noted the study. “We found a significant association between reported dietary zinc supplementation and a decreased risk of EHM when EHM cases were compared with healthy exposed control horses.
“However, this association must be viewed cautiously as only one reported EHM case was receiving zinc supplementation,” the study continued. “No zinc measurements were made from tissues or sera taken from these horses, and zinc variables were calculated based on assumptions that zinc was included in supplements according to manufacturers’ packaging and that horses consumed and efficiently utilized the estimated amount of daily supplemental zinc.”
The study explained that T-lymphocytes (CTL) are recognized as important for controlling the magnitude of post-infection leukocyte-associated viremia and subsequent development of neurologic disease. “One study has implicated low pre-exposure concentrations of CTL precursor cells in horses as a predisposing factor of horses to the neuropathogenic form of EHV-1.”
Researchers noted that bodily zinc status has been reported to influence the quantity of circulating CTLs. “Zinc ions themselves also may have a direct antiviral effect on herpesviruses,” the study noted.
One part of the study stated that in a recent report, “serum concentrations of zinc, along with other micronutrients, were measured in horses with EHV-1 infection. Results showed concentrations of zinc and copper to be lower in the nine naturally EHV-1-infected horses when compared with nine healthy horses.”
Researchers involved in the NCHA show outbreak of neurologic herpesvirus (EHM) suggested that the associations found in that study should be further investigated either through challenge studies or through the collection and analysis of epidemiologic data from future outbreaks.
The research reported on here was published as “Case–Control Study of a Multistate Equine Herpesvirus Myeloencephalopathy Outbreak” in the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine 2013. Authors were: J.L. Traub-Dargatz, A.M. Pelzel-McCluskey, L.H. Creekmore, S. Geiser-Novotny, T.R. Kasari, A.M. Wiedenheft, E.J. Bush, and K.E. Bjork. More information can be obtained from the February 2013 USDA document online entitled Descriptive Epidemiologic Characteristics of Cases from the 2011 Multistate EHV-1 Outbreak and Summary of Epidemiologic Investigation. | <urn:uuid:7b0e6609-2097-41fe-87a2-86842a7050a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://stablemanagement.com/industry-news-information/herpesvirus-outbreak-study-reveals-neurologic-risk-factors | 2022-01-27T23:15:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305317.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127223432-20220128013432-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.965054 | 1,684 |
Dulong Fine JewelryMega Delphis Hoops Gold
Crafted in 18 karat gold, the Mega Delphis Hoop earrings from the Dulong atelier are absolutely striking. An innovative interpretation of the classic hoop style, these creole hoop earrings are available in a variety of materials and sizes.
- 18k gold hoop earrings
- Size: Mega
- Colour: Gold
What's the story
Established in 2005 as a unique partnership between jeweller Marianne Dulong and designer-stylist Anja Camilla Alajdi, Dulong Fine Jewelry has grown into one of the most exclusive jewellery labels from Denmark. The brand’s clear focus on uncompromising craftsmanship and passion for individual fit has made them a favourite among modern women, who are trendy as well as quality-conscious. Each piece from the label’s workshop has an enduring character, which makes it a treasure for life. This ingenuity is clearly expressed in their Delphis Collection based on intricate design accentuated by asymmetrical patterns. The pieces in this collection, like the Mega Delphis Hoop earrings, are glamorous and edgy with a dash of bohemian style.
What's great about it
The Mega Delphis Hoop earrings in 18 karat gold make a strong statement with their mega-sized yet delicate form. The hand-filed surface is offset with shiny golden spheres of varying sizes set in an asymmetric arrangement, giving it the feel of a dew-laden tendril. The combination of exclusivity and bohemian flair in the Mega Delphis Hoop earrings gives a bold twist to the popular classical design. This is what makes them a perfect choice for the powerful persona of the contemporary woman.
How to wear it
A beautiful statement pair from Dulong, these Mega Delphis Hoop earrings carry a powerful presence. Apt for a wide variety of styles and occasions, these mega-sized earrings can add significant flair to your outfit choices. Wear this pair of Mega Delphis Hoop earrings with smart formals to make a striking statement at the office. Or, flaunt them with a halter dress on a party night for a dose of bold elegance. The Mega Delphis Hoop earrings can also be worn with other dainty pieces from the Dulong universe to create your own personal look.
Why we love it
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In fact, he never left.
Despite several reports suggesting that he was to retire from mixed martial arts following his defeat to Gegard Mousasi last weekend at UFC 204 in Manchester, and a somewhat cryptic Instagram post last night, Vitor Belfort isn’t going anywhere.
The former UFC light heavyweight champion, now 39 years of age, has lost three of his last four bouts inside the octagon, including a title shot to then-champion Chris Weidman, but now it seems that the ‘Phenom’ isn’t ready to hang up his gloves just yet.
However, it seemed the opposite when Belfort posted this on Saturday evening:
Quem não conhecesse os seus erros não é digno de liderar a si mesmo, quanto mais as pessoas que o cercam. Reconheço que não sou perfeito, sou somente HUMANO , um SER HUMANO. O poeta já escreveu : ” – que o amor seja eterno enquanto dure.” Esse é um belíssimo trecho de um poema. Porém eu o considero ingênuo. Com todo carinho e respeito ao poeta, peço permissão para reescrevê-lo da seguinte maneira: ” – QUE O AMOR SEJA ETERNO ENQUANTO SEJA CULTIVADO.” Confesso que preciso cultivar meu desejo pela competição dentro do octógono. Sei que tenho que zelar por aquela chama que sempre ardeu em mim. Tendo conhecimento pleno disso: ” – DECIDI QUE CUSTE O QUE CUSTAR VOU REACENDER MAIS UMA VEZ ESSA CHAMA.” Muito obrigado pelo carinho e apoio. Vou finalizar esse capítulo na minha vida, olhando no espelho e reconhecendo a mim mesmo. Who does not recognize your own mistakes it is not worthy to lead yourself, even less the people around him. I recognize that I am far from perfect, I am only human; a human being. Once a poet in Brazil wrote: ” – may love be eternal while it lasts. It is a beautiful fragment of a poem, but a truly consider it naive. If I may and with all do respect, I would re write it like this: ” – may love be eternal while we nurture it.” I confess that I need to nurture my competitive will inside the Octagon. I must cherish that fire inside of me again. Having recognized that to myself; I DECIDED TO DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO BURN THAT FLAME AGAIN! Thanks a lot for all the support and advices. But I decided that I will end this chapter of my life looking at the mirror and recognizing myself. @mundoboxing
However, as reported by MMAJunkie, Belfort intends to step back into the cage sooner rather than later.
“I’m not retired. I want to fight again soon. I am driven to get back on my feet and honor the nickname I so proudly carry. ‘The Phenom’ is back”, Belfort was quoted as saying.
“I am not pleased with my two last performances and changes are being made. I don’t want to end my career the way it is right now. I want to look at the mirror and recognise myself as the fighter I always have been.
“I have 20 years in this sport, and I intend to honor that legacy.”
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Gwen Ifill dies at 61
The longtime journalist was a legend in the industry
3:40 PMWe weren’t ready.
The year of 2016 continued its devastating run of people we love who have died, this time touching the journalism world again. Gwen Ifill, host of PBS’ Washington Week died Monday at the age of 61. She was an old-school reporter who had worked at The Washington Post, The New York Times and NBC. News of her death caught many by surprise who were unaware that she was dealing with health issues. She had taken a leave of absence as a result of breast cancer.
“Gwen was a standard bearer for courage, fairness and integrity in an industry going through seismic change,” PBS said in a statement. “She was a mentor to so many across the industry and her professionalism was respected across the political spectrum. She was a journalist’s journalist and set an example for all around her. So many people in the audience felt that they knew and adored her. She had a tremendous combination of warmth and authority. She was stopped on the street routinely by people who just wanted to give her a hug and considered her a friend after years of seeing her on TV. We will forever miss her terribly.”
.@gwenifill I'm heartbroken and not ready for the past tense with you. Sending all the love in the world to your family and loved ones.
— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) November 14, 2016
We're completely saddened by the news that Gwen Ifill has passed away at the age of 61. pic.twitter.com/MqSGKMv9kF
— ESSENCE (@Essence) November 14, 2016
Terrible and stunning news about Gwen Ifill. Huge huge loss. RIP.
— Rachel Sklar ❄️ (@rachelsklar) November 14, 2016
She moderated the 2004 and 2008 vice presidential debates and won countless honors during her career. Talking about his former MSNBC colleague on Monday afternoon, a teary-eyed Pete Williams said she had so many awards piled up in her office you could barely see out of the window.
This Gwen Ifill news is really crushing.
— Sam Sanders (@samsanders) November 14, 2016
Gwen Ifill, dawg?! I EFFING HATE 2016. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
— Cousin Angela (@angela_rye) November 14, 2016
In an era in which blaming the media seems to be all the rage, we can all agree that we’ve lost one of the greatest to ever do it.
Daily Dose: 11/11/16
Protests continue as Trump makes first visit to White House as president-elect
11:33 AMToday is Veterans Day, a day in which we show gratitude to everyone who has served in our nation’s armed forces. That means different things to different people, but to those who gave, thank you.
Barely a day in to his pre-presidential time, Donald Trump is already complaining. See, people are still standing up in protest, not because they necessarily have a specific cause they want to support, or a narrow goal in mind. Folks are demonstrating because, frankly, they likely don’t know what else to do. They just know they have a problem with the man who was elected to the White House. However, the Republican moving in doesn’t seem to understand that people will likely be doing this for four straight years. ABC News reports.
Alas, we’re going to be talking about the specifics of the election for quite some time. There were just so many trends that were bucked, polls that were incorrect, pundits proved wrong and projections that didn’t pan out that we’re forced to look at exactly just what happened a little more closely. Among GOP candidates, there was worry that Trump’s perceived lack of popularity might negatively affect races down the ticket. That was nowhere near the case. FiveThirtyEight’s Harry Enten explains how straight-ticket voting dominated this time around.
My older sister is a vegan. I have no idea how she does it, to be honest. It’s a healthier lifestyle but difficult to maintain. I feel like in college is where I met the most outwardly self-identifying vegetarians, who went to extremes to explain to everyone why this was their choice. For a while, it was something I’d do once a week, just as a way to feel better about all the other crap I was constantly cramming into my face. Check out this story about a guy who almost died because he was pretending to be a vegetarian in college.
Every once and again, there’s a story of an athlete losing an opportunity that’s so heartbreaking it almost seems unreal. Jonnu Smith is a tight end at Florida International University. He’s a senior and the kind of guy who through a reasonable amount of hard work probably had a chance at a decent NFL career. However, the mother of his yet-to-be-born child decided she wanted to harm him by pouring scalding hot water all over him. Now his season is done. ESPN’s Andrea Adelson has the details.
Coffee Break: Yesterday must have been a strange one for President Barack Obama. First, he welcomed the new president-elect to the White House. Then, he turned around and honored the Cleveland Cavaliers for their NBA title, which led to a very awkward juxtaposition at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Snack Time: If you’re looking for a rather ominous parallel to what many believe is going on in America right now, this story about bald eagles stuck in a Florida sewer will do the trick.
Dessert: Just in time for the weekend, the new album from A Tribe Called Quest is out. Enjoy.
Donald Glover’s heat rock of 2016 continues
His new track, ‘Me and Your Mama’ is incredible
Donald Glover continues to have an incredible fall. After the success of his television series Atlanta on FX, which has been renewed for another season, some eagle-eyed fans of Childish Gambino noticed that he has a new album, Awaken, My Love dropping on Dec. 2.
That info surfaced because a crafty Reddit user saw a sign with the title at his local FYE. Everything about that sentence feels bizarre, but, hey, long live record stores! Let us also not forget that he’ll be playing Lando Calrissian in the new Han Solo Star Wars film, due for a 2018 release.
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Anyway, this new song is fire. It starts off with a bit of an Organized Noize type fantasy world of sonic bliss that conjures up a feeling not dissimilar to OutKast’s ATLiens vibe, specifically the “You May Die” intro. (Probably why it opens the album’s tracklist, at that.) Then, two minutes in, we switch to a remarkably more fuzz rock tone, with Gambino channeling his inner Gary Clark Jr., or Benjamin Booker. Clearly, a good way to go.
childish Gambino is a genius plain and simple
— ivan (@BLMNT47) November 10, 2016
the artwork for Childish Gambino's new album "…Awaken, My Love!" was an easter egg in episode 9 of Atlanta pic.twitter.com/I857mR4n5F
— Trashvis (@Trashvis) November 10, 2016
Great new show, well anticipated new album and iconic role to come under his belt? It’s been a good 2016 for Donald Glover.
Stan Van Gundy is not here for Donald Trump
The NBA took another step toward progressivism via the Pistons coach
1:44 PMA little over a year ago, Detroit Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy made his debut on Black Twitter with a photo from a bike ride that looked like it should have been a mixtape cover. Now he’s making waves by criticizing the president-elect. Welcome to the new NBA.
In a time in which players are speaking up about police brutality and violence and the league itself is taking a stand against gender discrimination, it’s still relatively surprising to hear a head coach completely blow off all discussion of the sport he’s employed to instruct to discuss what he thinks about the man just elected to the Oval Office. SVG held nothing back, either.
“I don’t think anybody can deny this guy is openly and brazenly racist and misogynistic,” Van Gundy said, according to the Detroit Free Press. “We have just thrown a good part of our population under the bus, and I have problems with thinking this is where we are as a country.”
Alrighty, then. The full extent of his remarks was even more explicit as Van Gundy touched on George W. Bush, the feelings of his team, his concern for his family, Martin Luther King Jr., Hillary Clinton’s viability as a candidate, evangelical Christians, voting precincts in Michigan and Latinos in the United States. He clearly has had a lot on his mind.
It should be noted that Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr agrees with Van Gundy.
Here are Steve Kerr’s complete comments on Donald Trump and the election. Do read: pic.twitter.com/SxOTduQL4z
— Erik Malinowski (@erikmal) November 10, 2016
There’s a larger question here, though, about how the league chooses to handle this. It’s one thing for players to wear T-shirts and voice their opinions about politics, it’s quite another for the so-called leaders of men to follow suit, not only in solidarity, but often of their own free will to do the same. BTW, San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich has had lots to say, too, about how we treat each other in this country.
It’s almost a completely opposite turn from what happened in Philadelphia when a black woman singing the national anthem wanted to wear a shirt reading “We Matter.” The 76ers were largely criticized for pulling her from the stage, and ended up apologizing, backtracking and completely reversing course publicly about that decision.
When it became clear that the NBA, with its blackness, with its youth and with its guaranteed contracts, would be the sports league most likely to represent the face of “the movement,” it germinated from a place in which the president was black and most reasonable people could recognize that police brutality was a problem. That entire equation has now changed. If more coaches follow Van Gundy’s lead, what mainstream America thought was going to be a potential distraction during national anthems is now an every-night discussion in the NBA.
“While personal politics in general can be a divisive topic. And for Donald Trump, during his candidacy, he became a polarizing candidate, which included along the way, insulting a lot of people,” Jalen Rose said on NBA Countdown. “So those same people today as American citizens have to digest that he’s going to be the next president of the United States. How it’s going to affect sports? Unlike Tom Brady, when his team won the championship, and he chose not to go to the White House, saying it was a scheduling conflict when Barack Obama was in office. What we’re going to see in professional sports — NBA and NFL — mark my words, there will be players that decline the opportunity to visit the White House under his presidency.”
Let’s not forget that various players have found reasons not to visit the White House for championship celebrations during Obama’s presidency. But if Trump’s presence means that sports teams no longer want to show their faces at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., you’ll likely be able to credit the NBA for that.
Daily Dose: 11/10/16
President Obama set to meet with Donald Trump
11:39 AMBefore Election Day, we did record a podcast. We talked about what it’s like to be in President Barack Obama’s presence, the 25th anniversary of Magic Johnson’s announcement and of course, animal videos. Tune in or download here.
Clearly, many people are unhappy with Donald Trump’s victory. All across the country last night, thousands of people took to the streets to express their displeasure about the president-elect. You might ask yourself what the purpose of protest is at this point. The purpose is to express displeasure at the current state of affairs. Whether you might think that’s an effective method, this is not the time. ABC News reports on the unrest.
Back at the White House, Obama is doing his best to hold things together. A lot of people think that all of the hard work of his administration is going to be effectively erased, which is a sobering thought at best. Yesterday, when he addressed the nation about how the transition of power would go, he did his best to stay positive. The looks on the faces of his aides was a little more indicative of how many others felt, though. Yet, Obama and Trump will meet today, after all.
The evolution of Afrobeats as a genre is a slightly troubling one. While the Internet has made the sounds of West African musicians accessible all over the globe, there is still very much a concern about culture vultures ultimately gutting the realm for what they want it to be, not what it actually is. One such artist fighting that battle of perceived identity is Mr. Eazi, who wasn’t really that into music until he realized how important his place was in the culture. VICE reports.
Colin Kaepernick would like you to know that he voted for neither candidate. The San Francisco 49ers quarterback said he had little faith in either Trump or Clinton, and as a result, didn’t head to the polls on Tuesday. If you’ve been paying attention, this is a stance that’s consistent with what he’s said is his main cause overall, highlighting the oppression of people of color. ESPN’s Josh Weinfuss reports on how Kaep explained his decision.
Coffee Break: In a development almost more surprising than the election is that shoe company New Balance came out in full support of President-elect Trump, a decision angering many black folks who wear their sneakers, particularly in my hometown of D.C.
Snack Time: Luc Besson is one of my favorite movie directors of all time. So, when I heard that he’s got a new flick coming out with Rihanna involved, all I needed was a GIF to get excited.
Dessert: If you haven’t seen the Oregon Symphony Orchestra’s #mannequinchallenge, you should.
Daily Dose: 11/9/16
Donald Trump beats Hillary Clinton in race to White House
12:15 PMThe first line of Mario Puzo’s 1970 film The Godfather is simple. “I believe in America,” a man named Bonasera says. His name means “good evening” in Italian. On this day, the irony is difficult to avoid.
A man who openly bragged about sexual assault and was endorsed by the KKK was elected president of the United States. Last night, in a move that shocked many a pundit, never mind citizens, Donald Trump won the presidential election and it wasn’t particularly close, either. In short, every single thing people assumed about what voters might do was absolutely false and rural America came out in droves to put a real estate baron turned reality star in to commander in chief. ABC News explains how it happened.
As important as the Oval Office is the matter of Capitol Hill. The GOP not only won the highest office, but also maintained control of the Senate, a situation that in the context of actual legislation is arguably more important than who happens to live in the White House. The GOP also kept control of Congress, which again, is incredibly crucial when it comes to how Trump plans to enact whatever it is he wants to do. Take a closer look at the down-ballot races, which were also very poorly predicted by analysts.
Needless to say, many people were unhappy with the results last night. A guy who’s been openly disrespectful to pretty much everyone on the planet who doesn’t look and think like him is now the so-called leader of the free world, and that prospect is terrifying to many. Last night, with results making it clear Hillary Clinton would not be the 45th president of this nation, people took to the streets to protest. Welcome to the next four years of all of our lives.
When England voted to leave the European Union, we all laughed at them. Maybe not publicly and maybe not so bluntly, but in our hearts, many Americans chose to poke fun at a nation that would cut off its nose to spite its face when it comes to the concept of immigration and economic growth. Welp, no one’s laughing now. One of the most divisive campaigns in U.S. history was well-watched by the entire globe, as are most of our political moves, but this one was obviously a big one. Check out how the rest of the world reacted to Election Day.
Coffee Break: On the Democratic side, it was a tough one. People just assumed Clinton would win. There were victory parties everywhere, including one from the campaign that included an actual glass ceiling. That was never broken and we all learned once again that the first privilege is male privilege. Here’s someone who was there.
Snack Time: At the end of the day, the man who is currently president has to say something about the person succeeding him, and on Wednesday afternoon, President Barack Obama will do exactly that.
Dessert: Give this a spin today and think about a time that seems so far away.
All Day Podcast: 11/8/16
Reflecting on Barack Obama’s presidency and Magic Johnson’s HIV announcement — plus two crazy animal videos
5:15 PMIn honor of Election Day, the crew kicked things off on this week’s podcast by celebrating the 44th president of United States, Barack Obama. Our #EncountersWithObama are all different — whether that involves meeting him, seeing him deliver a speech or even running into him on a lunch break. They’re stories we don’t get a chance to share that often, but ones we’ll never forget.
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In case you missed it, Justin Tinsley wrote a piece on the 25th anniversary of Magic Johnson’s HIV announcement. We discuss this groundbreaking moment in sports history, and Justin goes into further detail about his mother’s relationship with her friend who died of AIDS.
Last but not least, two videos have gone viral on social media this week, and we’re not talking about the #MannequinChallenge. One video features two male penguins fighting over a female penguin. The other shows an iguana escaping a gang of snakes. So, we debate about penguin relationships and admire the fleet-footedness of iguanas.
Give it a listen, and if you have any feedback or show ideas, feel free to email us at [email protected].
Daily Dose: 11/8/16
It’s Election Day — the most American day in our country
All right, this long national nightmare will finally be ending soon. After a while, we’ll be able to look back on these past 600 days with all the fondness of a paper cut and wonder how we got through it all. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both cast their ballots, and across the country, lines are wrapped around every corner for people to fulfill their civic duty. There’s a certain part of me that loves this day. It’s like a dozen Super Bowls at once if you like politics, but it’s also an emotional day for far more people than just those at the top of the ticket. Here are 10 storylines to follow.
Across the pond, the Brits are dealing with an interesting case of racism with the royal family. Prince Harry’s girlfriend is black. Apparently, this is an issue for quite a few people, who seem to believe that dating a black woman is beneath him. The media over there has been offering up all sorts of coded language about the fact that them being together is a problem, and Harry has had enough. To the point that he released an official letter from the palace, basically telling everyone to screw off and leave him alone. Good for him. ABC News reports.
I thought I had found the best mannequin challenge yet, but I’m told I might be wrong. The homey Aaron Dodson hipped me to this one that features an R. Kelly type scenario unfolding in a bedroom. Overall, though, this trend has completely taken over the country, and you can find a mannequin challenge anywhere from a classroom to a corporate boardroom, which is just odd, on a couple different levels. Some are good, most are decent. Viceland‘s Desus and Mero discuss just how far this trend has gone.
Wisconsin’s football team has had enough. The Badgers are the latest squad to take to social media to air their thoughts regarding racial issues on campus. If you missed it, someone attended a game dressed in a Barack Obama costume with a noose around their neck over Halloween weekend, which while an extreme case makes a larger point about how black players are treated on campus, as they see it. Wisconsin basketball player Nigel Hayes also let his voice be heard on the matter. ESPN’s Jesse Temple reports.
Coffee Break: While you’re turning out to turn up when it comes to voting, don’t forget that in some places taking pictures of yourself or your vote at the polls is a violation. You know who didn’t know that? Donald Trump’s own son, who voted in New York.
Snack Time: The How I Built This podcast from NPR is an interesting one, and this week, they got L.A. Reid to talk about how he constructed his massive music empire. It’s a fascinating listen from a guy who knows the game well.
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Brady Lewis’ “Daddy Cool” creates its own giddy world of vengeful siblings, televangelists, mad scientists, ’50s science fiction and low-budget horror with an enjoyable disregard for current trends in moviemaking. Though the indebtedness to David Lynch (particularly “Eraserhead”) and George Romero (a filmmaking father figure to fellow Pittsburgher Lewis) is obvious, it simply adds to the fun, and underlines what a clear candidate this is for the midnight movie circuit, as well as genre fests in the hunt for hidden gems.
With depressed Roxanne Alter (Streeter Nelson) explaining that “as a child I was a boy; later, I became a woman,” “Daddy Cool” gets off to a kooky start. Roxanne — beset by incessant images on TV of her dreaded father (Romero vet John Amplas), a money-thirsty reverend — is driven by a murderous desire to avenge his decapitating her twin sister Kristine (also Nelson) and preserving her head in a giant laboratory beaker.
The experiment seems to be the ultimate by-product of Rev. Alter’s former life as a TV science host. Lewis fragments this part of the story making it feel like it’s inside Roxanne’s boiling mind, and intercuts it with black-and-white sequences of a werewolf — who turns out to be Roxanne’s shrink, Dr. Talbot (Larry John Meyers) — stalking the streets for fresh victims.
Despite being burdened with a production so cash-strapped he had to stretch filming over more than four years, Lewis maintains a striking consistency of style and performance, characterized by thesps delivering their lines in a deliberately flat tone that hilariously accentuates the film’s disembodied nature. Nelson is amazing in the twin roles, crucially setting the strange tone and providing the deeply contorted emotional heart, while Amplas and Meyers suggest intellectuals who are in different ways half-human and half-animal, and capable of anything.
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So, you have cooked on your new GrillGrates a few times and you’re wondering to yourself…. Just how do I clean these? What do I scrape off and leave on? Are they dishwasher safe? Let us walk you thru some fast and easy cleaning methods to keep those GrillGrates in fine working order.
When to clean your GrillGrates
DEEP cleaning your Grill Grates is expected every 3-4 cooks. More often, if you’re cooking higher dripping foods, or if using the plancha side a lot.
Cleaning your GrillGrates
- Before shutting off the grill, give those GrillGrates one nice final brushing to remove any stuck-on food or particulate.
- Shut off your grill and let the Grill and Grill Grates cool completely.
- Make sure Grill and GrillGrates are cool before starting the deep clean.
- Open the grill and using a grill brush, begin to clean the grill grates top side and bottom side. Be sure to get into the grooves.
- Brush off any food particles or bbq crumbs when done.
The focus on the GrillGrates is to remove stuck on debris
- Lightly scrape with the Ace’s 6-1 Paint Tool or a light brush.
- Do NOT clean to a brand-new look, leave it well seasoned and focus on removing any buildup or large particles (bbq crumbs).
- Use the paint tool to get around the edges of the grates and into the channels. Caution: don’t scrape too hard or it may damage the GrillGrates.
- Push all crumbs into the bottom of the grill and clean the grill after deep cleaning the GrillGrates.
- Using a rag or bunched up shop towels, wipe the inside of the kettle down and push all debris into the ash catcher.
- Using the QSwipers give the GrillGrates one final scrub on each side to remove and oil or residue that may remain.
- Avoid using any soaps, oven cleaners or grease cleaners.
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Scheiler Mew his experience with the agency WebCoreLab, a Western SEO specialist, made a single page of his site rank well for various search queries and receive clicks from a Google search.
How to get traffic from Google using zero search queries
Sometimes the most difficult tasks bring us the best results. This is exactly what happened recently in one of the closed Facebook groups for seoshnikov. One of the participants wrote to Scheiler, who is new to the community, something like:
Weakly promote one page of the site for 5+ different search phrases in the top Google ?!
It turned out not weak. Schieler writes that it was easier than he thought. Google has begun to give preference to the relevance of information and has not recently become attached to key phrases in some niches.
How did he do that?
- He climbed out to the zero position by the key, which, according to the data search engine of the search engine keywords, does not bring traffic at all.
- Over time, he began to change the text on the page until he achieved the entry of all the necessary keys. For this he used H2 headers.
- In the end, he rewrote the title so that it matches all the information presented on the page, and, in the end, was able to pull out another request.
Together, all of these requests receive millions of impressions, and this helped the clicks to start growing at a terrible speed. And the initial forecast, I recall, was less than 10 requests per month.
The chart below shows the movement of this page over the past few months. And as the trend continues, the number of requests and clicks is growing, Mu is very optimistic.
Moreover, Scheiler decided not to stop there and add 5 more requests to the page. That is, his next goal is 10 phrases.
Please note that his studio’s website www.csdesignstudios.com, which the optimizer used for the experiment, has nothing to do with SEO giants (like searchengineland.com) located next to the SERP. Seoshnik simply “trained” Google’s algorithm for a specific request for a certain time. Starting from a zero position on a query with a very low traffic rate, the author extended his influence to other phrases.
In a commentary on a post, a webmaster from Manchester named Ben Adler wrote:
Good work, but I think that almost all pages will be ranked by several keywords, especially if they have the same search intent. Or am I missing something?
You can try to do so, competing with reputable sites, and write to me what you did, buddy. Most of the members of this community cannot reach the top in 5+ phrases with millions of searches, in confrontation with serious competitors. If you succeed, then you are cool!
On one of my sites, I target a keyword with 260 impressions and rank for 5-6 different phrases, competing with sites like REI and USAToday. For some of them I am at 0 and 1 positions. For small search queries, many site owners do not put enough effort into the content to rank on them. If you create high-quality detailed content, then, over time, you can begin to get ahead of the giants. I think many are so passionate about technical SEO that they simply forget about keyword research, search intent, and quality content.
Then came the following answer:
With another member of the group named Kevin Griffin, they came to the conclusion that Schieler simply optimized the page of his site so that it would fit several similar search intentions. And then they started to argue about the wording “taught the algorithm”.
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The 2019 NBA Draft, but the Charlotte Hornets aren’t done adding rookies to the fold. Shams Charania of The Athletic reports that former Washington State forward Robert Franks is joining the team on a two-way contract.
Sources: The Charlotte Hornets and undrafted Washington State forward Robert Franks have agreed to a two-way NBA deal.— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 21, 2019
The 6’9” forward had a phenomenal season on a bad Cougars roster as a senior, averaging 21.6 points, 7.2 rebounds, and 2.6 assists per game. He can really shoot it, knocking down nearly 40% of his seven 3-point attempts per game as a senior. He’s a career 83% free throw shooter, so the stroke is legit.
Under a two-way contract, Franks will spend the majority of next season with the Greensboro Swarm. He’ll be allowed on the Hornets roster for up to 45 days over the course of the season, during which he’ll be allowed to play in NBA games.
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Janus, who lends his name to the month of January, was the dual-faced Roman god of gates and doors. He also was called the god of beginnings as it was commonly believed that you needed to go through a door or gate in order to enter a new place or beginning.
The god was depicted as looking forward and backwards at the same time–forward towards new beginnings and back towards the past. It’s an appropriate symbol for this month as it’s a time when gardeners are thinking about last year’s garden in order to look ahead to the new growing season.
If you are like many gardeners, you probably keep notes on annual seed and plant purchases, past garden successes and failures, and even new things to try. It’s a good idea to review these before you start planning your seed and equipment orders. Maps of past gardens will help you rotate plants and avoid overcrowding when planning spacing of plantings.
January is a good time to start a garden journal or even just a file where you can store articles clipped out of newspapers and magazines, or lists of ideas you want to try in the garden. A good place to get a few new ideas is by taking a class or joining a garden club. Most gardeners love to talk about gardening and won’t mind sharing some of their tried and true methods and products with you. Or apply to the University of Vermont Extension Master Gardener program. For more information, visit http://pss.uvm.edu/mg/mg/ or send an e-mail to [email protected].
Next, check the seeds you saved and stored from last year’s garden. Discard anything that is damp, diseased, moldy, or in otherwise bad condition. Look over what’s left, and determine what you need to order.
You also should take a look at squash, potatoes, root crops, and other vegetables and fruits in winter storage. Although conditions may have been ideal when you harvested and stored them in the fall, the cold, wet winter may make that location too wet or damp. Toss anything that has spoiled or has soft spots. The same goes for summer flower bulbs like dahlias and gladioli that you saved to plant this year.
As many avid gardeners have discovered, it’s wise to plan your seed order with other gardeners. This will allow you to save money while growing a wider variety of crops and flowers. In addition, some seed companies offer discounts or free seeds for early bird and/or large orders. Just don’t fall into the trap of ordering more than you can use. That’s where the notes you kept from past years will be useful.
If you need to replace a tiller or want to add a few new gardening tools to your inventory, start comparison shopping in January. Granted, some of this equipment won’t be available for purchase in garden centers for a few more months. But by studying catalogs and magazines, talking to friends, and even surfing the Internet now, you will have a better idea of what you want and won’t waste valuable time in the spring deciding what to buy.
The same goes for landscape plants. Although you wouldn’t be able to plant them now, even if you could buy them, this “down time” in gardening is perfect for planning. Start thinking about what you need to fill in gaps in your landscape or what new plants you’d like to try. It may help to take a walk around your property to visualize where landscape improvements are needed or where you might put in a new flower bed. Think about color, scents, textures, and shapes. Then scout out companies that carry what’s on your wish list.
No yard or garden is complete without statuary, gazing balls, sundials, and garden whimsies that make the space uniquely yours. Shop now for what you’ll need in the spring to accessorize your lawn, garden, and flower beds. Use your imagination.
This January get creative in the workshop. Build a bat house or a birdhouse or two. Paint garden furniture. Construct artificial lighting set-ups for growing houseplants or starting transplants indoors. Or install a composting bin in your basement, adding a handful of red worms to turn your vegetable table scraps into rich compost for the garden.
Other activities for January: visit the Vermont Farm Show at the Barre Civic Center, Jan. 29-31; start an amaryllis bulb for spring bloom; re-read a favorite gardening book or start a new one that you received as a holiday gift.
PLANNING THE SPRING GARDEN AND OTHER JANUARY GARDENING TIPS
Dr. Leonard Perryand
Extension Nursery and Greenhouse Crops Specialist
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(I originally penned and posted this in September of ARSH 2018.)
PENAL REMEDIES AND PENANCES
Can. 1339 §1. An ordinary, personally or through another, can warn a person who is in the proximate occasion of committing a delict or upon whom, after investigation, grave suspicion of having committed a delict has fallen.
§2. He can also rebuke a person whose behavior causes scandal or a grave disturbance of order, in a manner accommodated to the special conditions of the person and the deed.
§3. The warning or rebuke must always be established at least by some document which is to be kept in the secret archive of the curia.
Can. 1340 §1. A penance, which can be imposed in the external forum, is the performance of some work of religion, piety, or charity.
§2. A public penance is never to be imposed for an occult transgression.
§3. According to his own prudent judgment, an ordinary can add penances to the penal remedy of warning or rebuke.
With regards to 1340.2, an “occult transgression” means a transgression not publicly known. This provision exists as a sort of “innocent until proven guilty in a canonical court” protection of the accused. We are all familiar with this important aspect of jurisprudence. It seems likely that Pope Benedict XVI knew, or was at least afraid that he could not get a conviction against McCarrick, precisely because of the law of OMERTÁ that reigns among the sodomitical coven that has infiltrated Holy Mother Church, ESPECIALLY inside the Vatican.
With regards to 1339.3, this explains why all communications “downstream” of Pope Benedict were likely done verbally (with +Viganò being first among them as the Nuncio to the United States). Canon Law, which Pope Benedict knew and followed assiduously, clearly says that the written documentation of such a rebuke would have been drafted and deposited in the Secret Archives, presumably in the Curia in Rome, and from THERE, all transmission would have been verbal, precisely because 1340.2 states that those penances imposed on someone not yet tried and convicted in court had to remain confidential.
THIS, folks, is a perfectly plausible response to the tendentious argument that McCarrick openly celebrating Mass and otherwise appearing in public somehow suggests that there were no warnings, rebukes, or penances imposed upon him by Pope Benedict XVI. There were, but McCarrick, knowing that the Rule of Law provided for a presumption of innocence and due process, AND McCarrick knowing that he would be protected and enabled by all of the other sodomite bishops and Cardinals, FLAUNTED and OPENLY DISOBEYED the sanctions made by Pope Benedict because he knew he could get away with it, and stick it to his enemy Ratzinger at the same time. | <urn:uuid:8bc63b7e-2940-46a8-bdc4-473202c6555f> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.barnhardt.biz/2020/11/11/canon-law-1339-and-1340-explains-pope-benedicts-actions-vis-a-vis-mccarrick-you-canon-law-guys-really-need-to-get-on-this/ | 2022-01-27T23:49:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305317.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127223432-20220128013432-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.965065 | 620 |
NHS ‘bed-blocking’ has been one of the most debated topics in recent months. Bed-blocking is a term used to describe a patient who is ‘medically fit’ but unable to leave acute care. The current crisis stems from a hospital’s lack of ability to discharge patients to a suitable care facility that can support ongoing care needs, ultimately causing delays in discharges. According to The Telegraph, the crisis is expected to cost the NHS £3.3 billion in the next 5 years, with figures rising over a third in just over two years.
Bed-blocking causes disruption to clinical services across hospitals, resulting in longer waits for patients who are in need of beds. This poses significant risk for patient safety, increased infection and emotional distress as well as increasing waiting times. By addressing the real need to increase community and social care services, could this reduce the backlogs and pressures on A&E?
Whilst bed-blocking is not something that can be rectified with a ‘quick fix’, could care homes provide a temporary solution until a more permanent arrangement can be made? The Think Tank organisation ResPublica, suggested placing patients into care will free up hospital beds, whilst bringing in vital investment into the sector. With the continued cuts to the social care sector would they be able to cope with the increased demand, particularly given the expected rise in the population aged over 85 increasing by 18% by 2020?
The introduction of the Five Year Forward plan aims to tackle part of the problem with the integration of services through the introduction of Vanguard sites. Each site will lead on the development on the delivery of these new models of care which should hopefully inspire the rest of the health and social care sectors. Perhaps the only way to resolve the issue is to collectively take responsibility for the crisis, as we are all users of the NHS, and to ensure that the burden does not solely rely on acute care. But who will take the first step?
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China.com, a 77%-owned subsidiary of CDC Corporation (CHINA), announced its financial results for the three months ended 30 September, 2006.
During the period, the company says it recorded total revenue of HK$132 million, representing an increase of 22% over the same period last year, while gross profit was HK$82 million, up 33% year-on-year. Profit attributable to shareholders was HK$17.5 million, up 251% from Q3 2005. Balance sheet position remained strong with net cash and interest-bearing securities at over HK$949 million as at 30 September 2006.
The company's mobile value-added services (MVAS) business activity was initially negatively impacted at the beginning of the quarter due to new consumer-friedly regulations put in place in China. Its July revenue from mobile
services and applications experienced a 39% month-on-month decline and a 29% decrease compared to the same period last year.
However, the company had already begun a recovery by the middle of the quarter and had shown
continuing growth on a monthly basis since the end of July. In August, China.com says it successfully reversed the downtrend of mobile services and applications revenue, with a 2% month-on-month increase. In September,
it continued the growth trend with a 21% increase in revenue compared to August.
"With more than 500 million mobile phone subscribers, China's mobile market remains the largest in the world and will continue to be the largest in years to come. We have strong confidence in the long-term future of the sector. MVAS has been our core business unit and will continue to provide us with growth opportunities. The Group will employ its strong cash position to selectively acquire synergistic and earnings accretive companies in the industry," said Dr. Xiaowei Chen, Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of China.com.
In Q3 2006, the online game revenue increased by 10% to HK$66.8 million as compared to Q2 2006. Yulgang, the company's current online game in China, maintained a stable performance in Q3 2006. After 3 consecutive quarters of robust growth, the peak concurrent users and the average concurrent users of Yulgang remained healthy at 331,000 and 218,000 respectively, a slight drop of 5% and 7% respectively from Q2 2006.
During the quarter, the China.com portal has also been appointed by Jilin Government as the exclusive web sponsor of the 2007 Asian Winter Games. This is the first time that Asian Winter Games athletes will all register online, using China.com's web platform. The company also signed a deal with BDL Media to use the company's content from its popular Xianzai.com and ChinaPulse.com websites. | <urn:uuid:540197c1-a708-4fcc-b81f-1b2287d1b606> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.chinatechnews.com/2006/11/13/4577-chinacom-posts-q3-2006-returns | 2022-01-27T23:50:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305317.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127223432-20220128013432-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.955188 | 571 |
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I HAVE an abundance of recollections of my grandfather – the smell of him cleaning his guns, the harshness of his tweed, the rabid chihuahua tucked under his arm, the never-ending nonsense verse. All part of the myriad of memories that have nurtured me and given me comfort.
This poem, by R L Sharpe, entitled A Bag of Tools, is, however, probably what brings him back to me the most. A relic of his masonic days long gone, but with a message that is eternal.
Isn’t it strange
That princes and kings,
And clowns that caper
In sawdust rings,
And common people
Like you and me
Are builders for eternity?
Each is given a bag of tools,
A shapeless mass,
A book of rules;
And each must make –
Ere life is flown –
A stumbling block
Or a steppingstone.
On his (almost daily) recital of this poem, my grandfather would insist on saying ‘building block’ in place of ‘stumbling block’.
He was a man of complete positivity, not one who gave up when things became too difficult. A man who strove onwards, with integrity and individuality, indelibly defined by his smile and his humour; a spiritual man who believed that even one day of life without loved ones around him was a day not worth living. A man who believed in fair rules, kindness and respect.
Here is a man who would be truly horrified at the life we are leading in the UK this very day, where there are now so many stumbling blocks constructed, and so few stepping stones being laid.
Freedom, happiness, surety of worth, guidance of elders – all foundations that should now be prepared for our children, but which are undone by sermons of fear, relentless propaganda and destructive barriers.
Time in the last year that kids should have spent with grandparents and friends is being squandered in listless home learning and enforced separation. Missed cuddles, missed wisdom, missed poetry, missed reminiscences, missed smells and missed smiles.
Complacency and submission are no fit base for any stepping stone. The general compliance may appear to be an enticing bed of sand stretching out for so many in this land, but worthless without the crucial cement of joy, hope, ambition, and love: A desert mirage only of an easy life that can never become substantive to our souls.
To deny the young and the old today of wondrous, precious generational bonds is one of the cruellest actions this government has made.
To see a child prevented from hugging their beloved grandmother in a care home, or to speak to a single man on the street weeping with loneliness, are just small parts of a tapestry of carnage that continues to be played out.
On Mothering Sunday I wept as, for the second year in a row, I am forced away from my own mother, the church I adore, and the little posy of flowers given traditionally in my parents’ village. A small token of love that is one of the largest community gestures in the calendar. A gesture now maybe lost forever in our need to keep our distance from others.
We are failing to nourish and strengthen our young, failing to look up at the landscape ahead. Children this year only get the cold technological input of data from their devices, seen only at arm’s length on a social media account. Too many have not experienced for many months the solid warmth of knowledge passed direct from a beloved relative’s lips.
To reach for the sky you must stand on firm ground. How can our children build stepping stones when we deprive them of the crucial elements they will need to do that?
The UK government has shown itself not as our moral arbiter, nor as our nurturing mother. It is a grotesque empty promise of safety.
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How to Make Money in Logistics and Shipping as a Freight Broker
Being a freight broker can be a lucrative career, but it requires sidestepping these 10 common mistakes.
The job of a freight broker is to connect shippers who have goods to transport and carriers who have the capacity to move those goods. Today’s freight brokerage market is rich with opportunity, but taking advantage of the ease of getting started and straightforward licensing requirements does not guarantee future success. With countless licensed freight brokers coming into the mix every year, it is essential to know what it takes to be successful -- and profitable -- from the start. That begins with recognizing the ten most common reasons why new freight brokers fail, and how to avoid these pitfalls whenever possible.
1. Failing to create a business plan
Every new business owner, whether operating a sole proprietorship or a large company, needs to know where they are headed if they want to be successful. Having a sound business plan is one way to accomplish this task, but it may seem like a daunting task when starting a freight brokerage business. Failing to create one can mean trouble for the business, and quickly. Be sure to take the time to project out the potential marketing strategies, customer acquisition methods, pricing models, and business financials before jumping into a new brokerage business.
2. Not planning for capital expenses
The financial barriers to entry into the freight brokerage business are not as high as other transportation or logistics companies. That does not mean that overlooking necessary startup expenses and future financial needs is a smart choice. New freight brokers need to be aware of the costs associated with starting the business, including but not limited to:
A laptop and cell phone for business use
Potential office space
Branding and marketing costs
Freight broker licensing and bonding expenses
Technology for managing the business
Outsources professionals, such as an accountant or bookkeeper
These costs can add up quickly, and freight brokers who are not prepared with financing or cash on hand to cover them may not have the ability to stay afloat for long.
3. Misunderstanding licensing requirements
One of the most important requirements in becoming a freight broker is the federal regulation that requires specific licensing. New freight brokers, regardless of how much industry experience they have, need to acquire a freight broker license as well as post a freight broker bond or trust to operate legally. Misunderstanding these requirements or failing to meet them before starting a brokerage can lead to negative consequences down the line.
4. Overlooking marketing needs
The freight brokerage industry is highly competitive, with newly licensed brokers entering the market each year. With so many options, shippers and carriers need to know that your brokerage is both available and able to take on new business. Creating a marketing strategy is necessary if you want to remain relevant to your current or potential customers. Consider options for print or radio ads, as well as technology-driven marketing campaigns through e-mail, social media, or the web.
5. Missing networking opportunities
Although marketing is a necessary component of being a successful business owner, networking can make all the difference in making the right industry connections. For freight brokers new and old, having the ability to meet and build relationships with other industry professionals, including other brokers, is a helpful aspect of business growth. Seek out opportunities to network, whether in person or through online forums and commit to following up with contacts you gather in a timely fashion.
6. Failing to communicate with prospects and customers
Because there are so many freight brokers in the industry today, being able to communicate effectively with prospects and current customers is a must. Not returning phone calls or e-mails, avoiding uncomfortable calls when loads do not go as anticipated or failing to provide accurate information during any part of the sale process can be devastating to your business. Have a plan for communication with prospects and customers so that they feel valued.
7. Setting rates incorrectly
Another common mistake among freight brokers is the inability to set rates correctly. Pricing services too low can lead to a loss instead of profits for the business, even though it may generate more customers. Alternatively, pricing on the high end of the spectrum may turn customers away over time. You can keep a pulse on pricing trends in the business as well as current rates for freight through a handful of online resources.
8. Failing to stay educated
As with many other professions, having the most up-to-date training and education is crucial not only to personal development but as a business owner as well. Freight brokers have several options for freight broker training, in person and online, that can help stay abreast of best practices and trends in the industry.
9. Avoiding technology tools
Many industries are moving toward a digitized business model, and freight brokers are no different. The use of technology tools designed to make managing business financials, scheduling, communication, and marketing easier can leave more time and energy for building customer relationships. Instead of being concerned about the investment of new tech into the business or a steep learning curve, plan to add the digital tools best fit for your business model and customer needs over time.
10. Mismanaging time
Getting into the freight brokerage industry takes some industry experience as well as business connections, but those don’t get brokers far unless they are willing to put in the work. Acquiring new customers, creating new opportunities, and staying on top of business management all require time and effort. The most successful freight brokers determine the most efficient ways to manage their time, often outsourcing tasks to other professionals when it is beneficial to the business. | <urn:uuid:eda1d018-2cd0-4224-8c7b-1ac3f215ccc5> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/335361 | 2022-01-27T22:42:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305317.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127223432-20220128013432-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.956119 | 1,137 |
- ISM's headline Services PMI is expected to retreat to 60 in September.
- Prices Paid Index component is likely to show that input prices continued to increase.
- EUR/USD could extend rebound with a daily close above 1.1650.
The Institue for Supply Management is expected to report an expansion in the US service sector's economic activity for the 16th month in a row in September with the Services PMI posting 60, following August's print of 61.7. Nevertheless, investors are likely to pay more attention to the underlying details of the report.
The Prices Paid Index component, which declined to 75.4 in August from 82.3 in July, is forecast to rise to 79.3. In the previous survey, all 18 sub-sectors of the services industry reported an increase in input prices. In its flash Services PMI report for September, "cost pressures remained historically elevated, as greater supplier prices and increased wage bills following incentives to entice workers pushed costs up," the IHS Markit noted and added that firms continued to pass higher prices to clients. In case the ISM's publication paints a similar picture, the greenback should be able to preserve its strength against its major rivals.
Meanwhile, the Employment Index component is seen staying unchanged at 53.7 to show an ongoing increase in the service sector employment at a modest pace. A stronger-than-expected print could allow investors to start pricing in a sharp rebound in Nonfarm Payrolls data and help the USD outperform its rivals. On the other hand, a reading below 50 is likely to limit the USD's upside.
To summarize, market participants could ignore the headline September ISM Services PMI, unless there is a large divergence from the market consensus, and focus on inflation and employment components. If the report reveals that inflation in the service sector is strengthening alongside an expansion in employment, the US Dollar Index could regain its traction and look to renew the 13-month high it set last week. On the flip side, the USD selloff could pick up steam especially if a contraction in the service sector employment causes investors to reassess Friday's jobs report and the Fed's asset tapering plan.
EUR/USD technical outlook
Following the five-day decline that dragged it to its lowest level in more than a year 1.1563, the EUR/USD pair managed to stage a rebound and broke above 1.1600 on Monday. However, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) indicator on the daily chart stays below 50, suggesting that the current advance is a technical correction.
In case the pair makes a daily close above 1.1650 (Fibonacci 23.6% retracement of the September downtrend) and the RSI climbs beyond 50, it could target 1.1700 (psychological level/Fibonacci 38.2% retracement) and 1.1775 (50-day SMA).
On the downside, the initial support is located at 1.1600 (psychological level) before 1.1563 (September 30 low) and 1.1500 (psychological level).
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We’ve almost reached the point of the calendar where FIFA 19 addiction morphs into FIFA 20 addiction, but EA isn’t letting last year’s game simply fade away into retirement. Instead, it’s just announced that the series’ annual ‘Futties’ campaign is back for another year.
Futties is FIFA’s somewhat unconventional end-of-season awards, where those who’ve become cult heroes in videogame terms get their due rewards - irrespective of performances in real life. Fans vote on their favourite players in various categories, and the winner of each vote receives a massively boosted Ultimate Team card.
FIFA 19 Futties runs from 3 July until 14 August, and the first player picks cover ‘Speedsters’. Login now and you’ll be able to choose your favourite from Keita Balde (Inter Milan), Hirving Lozano (PSV) or Gelson Martins (Monaco). In return you get a one-match loan card for that player, with the winner’s upgraded Futties card added to the mode in the coming days.
The event also sees you earn a reward pack next time you log in, as a token of thanks for your time spent playing FIFA 19. As someone who’s played daily from the outset I earned an Ultimate Pack, the best possible reward. 30 items, all gold, all rare. Here’s a screenshot of what it included:
Yep, a unique card in the shape of Man Of The Match Mervan Celik, but no-one who’ll get close to my endgame squad. Hmmm. Still, it’s free SBC fodder. Better that than nothing, I suppose.
The event also sees popular items from the past year re-added to packs, enabling users to deploy cards they missed out on first time around at massively reduced prices. There are 198 available in total, and helpfully EA has released a spreadsheet listing them all. Might finally be time I coughed up the coins for Marouane Fellaini’s Ultimate Scream card, which has had rave reviews from the community all year. Hardly surprisingly given that he’s 6’4”, with scores of 99 for pace and dribbling.
FIFA 19 is out now. Already making eyes at next year’s game instead? Then take a peek at 11 FIFA 20 features that need to be added according to fans. | <urn:uuid:6f61cb4b-dd62-487b-9641-5f8adb1e9cb5> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.gamesradar.com/fifa-19-futties-guide/ | 2022-01-28T00:09:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305317.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127223432-20220128013432-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.949832 | 518 |
FA Vase draw: Chichester City and Eastbourne Town discover next opponents
Chichester City will host Buckland Athletic in the fourth round of the FA Vase - while Eastbourne Town must wait to see who they will visit.
City, managed by Miles Rutherford, won 3-1 at Newhaven to reach the last 32 and their reward is an Oaklands Park home tie against Buckland, who won 3-0 at Horsham YMCA in Saturday’s third round.
Buckland, based near Torquay, play in the Western League premier division.
Eastbourne Town, who like City play in the premier division of the SCFL, will visit the winners of the replay between Southern Counties East League top-tier side Crowborough and Bedfont, who are from the Combind Counties premier division.
The fourth round is due to be played on Saturday, January 7, and there is £1,500 up for grabs for each team winning in the next round and reaching the last 16.
Shildon v Atherton Collieries
Billingham Town v Cleethorpes Town
AFC Mansfield v Sunderland RCA
South Shields v Morpeth Town
Gorleston/Basildon v Coleshill Town
Sun Sports v Bromsgrove Sporting
Newport Pagnell Town v Peterborough Sports
Sporting Khalsa/Sleaford v FC Romania / Tring Ath
Ely City v Shepshed Dynamo
Hinckley AFC v Berkhamsted
Bradford Town v Southall
Bristol Manor Farm v Melksham Town
Chichester City v Buckland Athletic
Team Solent v Croydon
Exmouth Town v Corinthian
Crowborough/Bedfont Sp v Eastbourne Town
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Federal authorities have arrested Ammon Bundy, the leader of a group occupying a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon with one person killed in a shootout.
Police said at least four of Bundy's followers were also arrested during the traffic stop on Tuesday (26 January) with shots fired following the stop, but it remains unclear who fired first.
The arrest near Burns, Oregon occurred around 4.30pm PST/12.30am GMT as Bundy and a group of his followers were on their way to a community meeting in John Day, Oregon, KATU News reported.
The FBI and Oregon State Police confirmed Bundy, Ryan C. Bundy, Brian Cavalier, Shawna Cox and Ryan Waylen Payne were arrested and will face felony charges.
Officials also said there was one fatality and that one person suffered non-life threatening injuries and was taken to a local hospital.
According to Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB), fellow occupier Anthony Bosworth could not initially confirm that Bundy was involved in the confrontation with police. "No one has reported back from [Bundy's] detail or anybody that was with him that there was any trouble," Bosworth said about an hour before officials confirmed Bundy's arrest.
The Harney District Hospital in Burns was placed on lockdown, OPB confirmed. Meanwhile, the Oregon Department of Transportation closed down the intersection of US 395 and US 20 near Burns. However, OPB noted that it is unclear if the hospital lockdown and highway closures were related to Bundy's arrest.
Lisa Goodman, a spokeswoman for St Charles Health System in Bend told Oregon Live that an AirLink ambulance was dispatched to Burns. However, she could not confirm how many people were being retrieved or whether Bundy was among them. "It's on the ground there now," she said. "We can't confirm it's Ammon Bundy. We don't know who it is."
Oregon Governor Kate Brown repeatedly asked for assistance from federal authorities regarding the standoff. "The residents of Harney County have been overlooked and underserved by federal officials' response thus far," Brown said during a news conference last week. "This spectacle of lawlessness must end. And until Harney County is free of it I will not stop insisting that federal officials enforce the law."
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Unknown: Dr. Dale, first of all can you just talk a little about hormones and what are their role. We hear so much about them and what kind of function do they play in our body?
Dr. Dale: They really are a huge part of how a person feels emotionally. If your hormones are disregulated or out of balance it affects your mood. It affects your mind. It affects even, you know, joint pain. So many... And your immune system. There are so many different things that are tied in with healthy, a healthy endocrine system or healthy hormonal balance. So they are responsible for so many things in the human body then when there is a disconnect, when the feedback loop that makes all of your hormones be produced by the body, when that feedback loop that produces hormones is disconnected, then you the woman or the man, either, suffers. Because they have symptoms. In a woman it could be PMS, it could be mood swings, it could be menopausal symptoms. It could be just severe emotional, you know, problems or feeling very weepy for a woman. For a man it could be low T, low testosterone. It could be low energy, low fatigue.
So there are several organs and glands that are involved with this feedback loop. And so we're looking at our glands, you know, like our hypothalamus, our pituitary, our thyroid. We're looking at also our pineal gland to some extent which is right here and it's, we call the sleep center. Like if your pineal gland is not functioning correctly you'll have a hard time sleeping at night. Okay? And so there's a hormone related to that which is called melatonin and this is for men or women. Okay? So, and then the organs would be the liver. Major organ that works with hormones, major organ. So we have to look at that and we have to look at as well as the pancreas which produces insulin.
So we have to look at, there's a feedback loop called the hypothalamus pituitary adrenal axis, A-X-I-S. When that is disconnected there's a hormonal issue that can also affect the neurological system. So and in that HPA, that stands for Hypothalamus Pituitary Adrenal. Adrenals are very important because they produce cortisol levels. When cortisol levels get really out of balance and become elevated too high, the body is under tremendous stress and this causes neurological health issues, with memory, with so many different things and so we need to know the endocrine system is very, very important. | <urn:uuid:86bc3a54-28de-44bc-a177-cecfab6bb5d9> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.ihealthtube.com/video/why-hormone-balance-so-important | 2022-01-27T23:54:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305317.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127223432-20220128013432-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.963261 | 533 |
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My name is Nate McMilli. I’m a PYT, a pretty young thug. I’m a second generation Cambodian, so I keep it real with them and follow all the homies and cousins in California and the Bay Area. The Khmer culture keeps me swaggy 24/7 all day.
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Besides music, I work as a manager for the Boys & Girls Club. I graduated from Western Washington University with a degree in Women’s Studies and South East Asian Studies. With an extensive background in social work, I am thinking about pursuing a bachelors program in Project Management. I get high off of making music and doing good.
My Khmer heritage is extremely important to me. I speak Khmer and I am going to teach it to my kids. I have been to Cambodia twice. My dad was born in Battambong so it was really nice to see culturally, where I am from. I saw all the temples and important landmarks.
I think it is important to pay respects to elders and pay homage to Khmer culture because you come from it and our people come from a struggle.
My parents suffered a lot from the Khmer Rouge and we lost 3 uncles, that I’ve never met before, when they were babies. My father was in concentration camps. He still has a bullet scar wound. I really respect him, he’s given me a lot in terms of education and mobility. I really have just been working hard for that. I really respect and thank my parents and heritage and extended family for getting me where I am today.
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Senior Product Designer, Consumer Web
For over 20 years we’ve been connecting diners and restaurants for millions of date nights, birthdays, Taco Tuesdays, happy hours and just-because dinners. Dining behaviors and restaurant operations are ever changing, especially now, and at OpenTable you’ll be playing a crucial role in shaping the future of the dining industry as it evolves during and after the pandemic. We’d love you to join us in thoughtfully supporting both our diner and restaurant customers through the good times and the tougher ones, too, driving experiences that will be used by millions globally.
We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our consumer product design team. You’ll work closely with a global team of product managers, product & brand designers, engineers and customers in order to craft experiences that will meaningfully impact diners and restaurants around the world.
You’ll be an influential design partner embedded in our Search and Growth teams, where you’ll own key parts of our user experience that receive millions of visits every single day. You’ll work to create, evolve and develop new experiences for diners, while balancing the needs of our users, restaurants, and the business. You’ll be expected to confidently navigate the full range of a product designer’s work—from strategy and research, through to high-fidelity designs. On some days you’ll be rapidly sketching ideas and launching experiments as A/B tests, and others you’ll be crafting a vision to set a project or team up for long-term success.
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As a Senior Product Designer you enjoy influencing product strategy as much as translating complex workflows into beautiful user experiences. You enjoy working through all stages of the design process, from gathering insights with research and building prototypes to test, through to visual design and working collaboratively with engineers to deliver the experience. You also have:
A strong portfolio that demonstrates a breadth of exceptional product design work across mobile and web
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We strongly believe that our design team should be as diverse as the restaurant industry and the diners we design for. We would therefore particularly welcome applications from people who are underrepresented in tech. OpenTable is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.
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50 Years Ago, Bob Dylan Electrified A Decade With One Concert
In the early 1960s, burgeoning folk music scenes were burbling up all over the country, and the Newport Folk Festival was their confluence.
By the middle of the decade, the reigning king was a young Bob Dylan, the man who gave them the now-standards "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'." But on this day 50 years ago, Bob Dylan did the unthinkable, the unforgiveable: He plugged in an electric guitar, and he rocked hard.
The crowd was stunned. The folk faithful were betrayed by the man they considered the rightful heir to Woody Guthrie's throne. That's the mythology, anyway — but without question, it proved to be a major turning point in music history.
Music historian Elijah Wald has written a new book about that performance called Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night that Split the Sixties. Speaking with NPR's Arun Rath, Wald says that if the audience had known just a little more about their hero's listening habits as a kid in Minnesota, his transformation at Newport '65 might not have come as such a shock. Hear the radio version at the audio link, and read more of their conversation below.
Arun Rath: Let's talk about the young Bob Dylan, or rather the young Robert Zimmerman. What kind of music was he consuming before he turned to folk?
Elijah Wald: He was an R&B fan. People often talk about him as a rock 'n' roll fan, but he was much more R&B. It's interesting: He was actually listening to a record program, his favorite program, that was beamed out of Shreveport, La., and that was specializing in things like B.B. King, Jimmy Reed, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry. He was the kind of kid who went, "Oh yeah, Elvis Presley, he's just imitating Clyde McPhatter." There's actually a take of him saying that back when he was in high school. Little Richard, incidentally, was his hero. He pounded piano and shouted like Little Richard and did the falsetto whoops and all of that.
That's one of the fascinating things in this book. I just thought the Bob Dylan thing had all kind of started with Woody Guthrie.
Woody was a huge figure in his world, but it wasn't so much about Woody's songs. He liked Woody's songs, but it was [more about] Woody's book, Bound for Glory, and that whole idea of just the free spirit, rambling guitar player. It was the romantic attachment of that whole idea of getting out and singing the real people's music among the real people.
You write about Bob Dylan when he arrived in New York, and the scene in Greenwich Village. It's almost like he's trying on different personas — like you never know which Bob Dylan might show up.
Well, people who knew Bob Dylan back in Hibbing, Minn. say he was already trying on personas. But, you know, that's not very unusual.
He was young!
Yeah, exactly. A guitar player and singer, 18, 19, 20 years old. It's very typical that you'll pick up a record and sound just like that record for two weeks, and then you'll pick up another record and sound like that for a while.
He was coming into Greenwich Village at a moment that was very exciting. There was music all over the place; there were all these people to learn from. Everybody who knew him then, you keep hearing: "He was like a sponge." "He was like a chameleon." He was changing incredibly quickly.
The folk scene that you write about from back then is a lot more diverse than I realized. There are even factions, in a way.
There always was friction in the folk scene between the people who really believed that this music should be done authentically, should be done right, and people who just thought, "You know, this is fun music, let's do it however we want. Let's do it in ways that are fun." There were a lot of people on the purist side who thought the pop-folkies were taking great music and turning it into tripe. And there were plenty of people on the other side who thought the purists were being, you know, a bunch of silly prigs.
There's a point you return to in this book a number of times: that as far as Dylan's motivation, it wasn't like he wanted to lead the folk revolution. He didn't want to lead a movement.
He wasn't a movement kind of guy. I'm not going to say that he wanted to be a pop star, but he was not a joiner. He was not good with organizations. That's I think one of the things that was going on later in 1965: There was this feeling that it was all about, "We're going to make a movement that's going to change the world." And he was all for changing the world, but he wasn't much for movements.
Even so, he was still kind of a folk hero, and he was a smash at the Newport Folk Festival in his debut in 1962. Everything seemed to go great in 1963 as well. So what was behind the decision to front an electric band in 1965?
I mean, what happened at Newport was much more complicated than just Bob Dylan plugging in an electric guitar. I sometimes make the analogy to, if you've seen Marlon Brando in The Wild One, where the motorcycle gang rides into the small town — the problem isn't that the people in the town hate motorcycles. The motorcycles are just part of what worries them about these guys who, essentially, they find threatening. The same was true for Dylan's electric guitar at Newport. There were other people playing electric guitars at Newport. But Dylan, as you say, had been seen as a hero and more than that. He was the man who had written one of the anthems of the freedom movement, and one of the people who was holding it all together to create this new world, this new youth movement that would change the world.The fact is, Dylan was not comfortable in that role, and by 1965, that role was feeling constricting and frightening to him, the fact that people were looking to him for answers.
When he got on stage at Newport with that band, I think the way that story is often told is that there were all these traditionalist folkies, and they hated rock 'n' roll, and here he was playing rock 'n' roll and the stupid folkies were lost in the past. I'm not saying that's completely wrong, but there's the other side of it. It was a very tricky time: That was the weekend that Lyndon Johnson fully committed the United States to victory in Vietnam. The civil rights movement was falling apart. SNCC [The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee] — which was the group that had brought all the kids down for Freedom Summer the previous year — now was throwing all the white members out, and the new chant was "black power." That communal feeling of the first half of the '60s was getting harder and harder to feel like it was all going to work and the world was going to be a better place. Dylan was someone a lot of people were looking to to hold that together — and instead, he comes out there with an electric band and doesn't say a word to them. Dylan was always somebody who had been very cheerful, friendly, chatting with the audience — doesn't say a word. And is playing the loudest music they've ever heard and screaming, "How does it feel to be on your own?" A lot of people were upset by that, and you can sort of see why.
Did Dylan go into this planning to bring in the electric band and cause a splash? When did that decision actually take place?
No — one of the things about this story is that it was completely unplanned. Dylan had come to Newport like he always did, with an acoustic guitar, planning to sing his songs and go home. But, as it turned out, the Butterfield Blues Band was there, and Al Cooper was there, and Al Cooper and Mike Bloomfield — who had just joined the Butterfield band — were the main players on "Like a Rolling Stone." He pulled it together at the last moment. They did one rehearsal the night before. It was a complete surprise. Dylan thought of it maybe 24 hours before everyone else heard it, but it was a surprise for him, too.
You say that the scene was not like the near-riot some people some people describe it as. How intense was the reaction? How much booing was there? How upset were people?
The reaction was very intense. How much booing there was is hard to say, because the fact is, they turned the microphones on stage way down because the band was so loud, so suddenly you can't hear the crowd during the electric set very much. But you can hear some people yelling, and you can hear what they're yelling. There are people yelling, "Bring back Cousin Emmy," who was the hillbilly singer who had sung just before him, and "I don't like your band," and "Throw away that electric guitar," and "Bring back Pete Seeger," and "We want the old Dylan." You can also hear people yelling "Beatles! Play the Beatles!", and "Cancel the rest of the show! Stay all night!" It's a very mixed reaction.
There were people who loved it; this is another thing that people leave out of the story. There were probably thousands of people who were there just to see Dylan. They didn't care about the Newport Folk Festival. They loved his electric record. "Like a Rolling Stone" was just starting to climb the charts. He was a pop star. He hung out with the Beatles and The Rolling Stones. There were all these people who had come to Newport just to see Dylan, and they weren't always being very polite, so there was this feeling that the Folk Festival was turning into something else — maybe a pop festival, or maybe just a place where people went to get famous, rather than a place where they went to share music. In order to fight against that, the Newport Festival, carefully, was not giving anyone star treatment, so everyone who played that night was just supposed to play 12 minutes. They put Dylan on partway through the first half, and he sang three songs, and he left. That's when the place went completely nuts.
Beyond the moment itself, that night took on cultural baggage pretty much right away, being taken as a defining moment for something; you could argue about what it was. But, now we actually have a nice tidy 50 years of distance from this, maybe some real perspective. So what did that moment mean for music, or for American culture?
You know, I called this book The Night That Split the Sixties. It's very easy to forget that all the things that we normally think of when we say the word "sixties" happened after 1965 — the Vietnam War, the hippies, the drugs. The Beatles hadn't even yet done Rubber Soul; they were still a fun pop group. All of that stuff, that's really the break that happens right at this. And I'm not saying at all that it happened because Dylan went electric, but it's a real good marker for the divide between what had been the first half of the '60s and what was coming.
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Winter storm Jonas postponed the 29th annual Burns Nicht Supper by 24 hours, but members of the Scottish Society of Martha’s Vineyard were on hand Sunday evening at the Harbor View Hotel to celebrate the Bard of Scotland’s 257th birthday.
The festivities got underway with the Procession of the Haggis. Piper Tony Peak led the way into the banquet room, followed by Harbor View executive chef Caleb Lara and several Scottish Society board members.
Former Society president and founding member Robert MacKay gave the Ode Tae a Haggis via a videotaped presentation and slide show.
Master of ceremonies Chris Scott presided over the raffle and live auction, assisted by Society vice-president Steve Ewing, Colin Ewing, Betsy Llewellyn, and Brenda Wallace. Among the raffle items were several bottles of single malt scotch; tartan scarves, neck ties, hats and stockings; plaid shirts; a Scottish shawl; and a 100-year-old Robert Burns print. Live auction items included an evening sail and dinner for four aboard the Rasalhague, a 31-foot Cape Dory Cutter owned and sailed by board member Rick Hamilton; an Edgartown Harbor tour on the work boat Loyal and a sail on the catboat Ocmulgee, both donated by Steve and Claudia Ewing; and a Scottish jacket, kilt, and sporran, donated by Betsy Llewellyn. Proceeds from the auction benefited the Scottish Society of M.V. scholarship fund.
The traditional Scottish dinner featured haggis, cock-a-leekie soup, baked finnan haddie, beef and vegetarian shepherd’s pies, chappit tatties and bashed neeps, with trifle for dessert.
Following the feast, Dr. James Butterick toasted President Barack Obama and Rick Hamilton raised a glass to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as guests sang the “Star Spangled Banner” and “God Save the Queen.”
Elizabeth St. John Villard narrated a toast to “The Immortal Memory” with songs by the Internationally Acclaimed Scottish Society Singers under the direction of Philip Dietterich.
Nathan Lopes gave the “Toast to the Lassies” as the laddies in the ensemble sang “A Red, Red Rose.” Donna Blackburn returned the favor, toasting the laddies as the lassies responded with “Comin’ Through the Rye.”
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Let’s begin with the positives. As weird as it may be, it’s cool that there’s even a “Conjuring Universe.” “The Nun” adds little to a series that has seen as many lows as highs. The film, the fifth in this shared cinematic universe, is arguably the weakest and most offensively the least scary and is a constant reminder at how well-made the main Conjuring films truly are. Taking place at a remote convent in Romania in the 1950s “The Nun” follows a young novitiate and a seasoned priest who investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding another nun’s suicide. After a somewhat silly but halfway decent opening, we’re left with uninteresting characters investigating an uninteresting case and wish that somehow Ed and Lorraine Warren will show up to make things more entertaining. Alas it’s not quite meant to be.
In “The Conjuring 2” we learn about an evil demon known as Valak who takes the form of a creepy nun. This figures heavily into the film’s plot so of course it seemed obvious to be next secondary character to receive the spinoff treatment. However, nothing about this creepy nun is ever as effective or scary in “The Nun.” In an admittedly clever bit of casting, Taissa Farmiga (The Conjuring’s Vera Farmiga’s younger sister) plays Sister Irene and she’s fine in the thankless role. Demian Bichir is Father Burke who accompanies the young woman to help solve the mystery of the suicidal nun. Then there’s the farm hand/delivery guy who discovered the dead nun “Frenchie” (Jonas Bloquet) who seems to be in a different film altogether. Desperate to add a bit of humor to the dire, too serious film, Bloquet is charming but even his baby blues can’t save this turkey.
Things go bump in the night. There are weird visions. Father Burke ends up buried alive. Frenchie is attacked by a demonic entity. It’s all dull and boring until “the blood of Jesus Christ” figures into the plot and then it’s just ridiculous. The only remotely scary part in the entire movie was much scarier in the theatrical trailer. There’s actually nothing particularly awful about Corin Hardy’s film it’s just that it’s resoundingly forgettable and unexciting. The script, unsurprisingly comes from Gary Dauberman who also wrote "Annabelle" and "Annabelle: Creation" which are both fine in their own ways, but highly flawed. His surprising credit on “It” is comforted by the fact that two others are credited on that one.
It’s a fact that the main Conjuring films are where it really counts in this “cinematic universe.” Less seasoned horror enthusiasts might jump here and there but “The Nun” offers very little to hardcore fans of the genre or anyone else who is familiar with films about things that go bump in the night. The only real benefit of the “The Nun” was having the idea to watch “Sister Act” upon my arrival at home. GRADE: C | <urn:uuid:a0328cbc-a7c4-4116-9bec-afe83595191d> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.mybodymovies.com/2018/09/the-nun.html | 2022-01-27T23:45:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305317.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127223432-20220128013432-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.954031 | 693 |
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New information from the Targeted Therapies Alliance will help improve understanding of how reference biologics and biosimilars are made available and funded in Australia and encourage health professionals and consumers to be aware that timely availability and utilisation of biosimilars contributes to a sustainable PBS (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme).
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“Biologics have a significant and positive impact on the treatment of many severe acute and chronic diseases in Australia,” says Professor Hill.
“After the patents on the original (or ‘reference’) biologics expire, competing manufacturers are able to develop biosimilars, which are highly similar versions of a specific reference biologic (sometimes called the ‘originator’ biologic). Once a biosimilar is listed (on the PBS), several pricing mechanisms, together with market competition, enables price reductions over time which in turn provides increased choice and availability of medicines for consumers and health professionals,” she says.
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- 1 How did the religion of Islam originate and spread?
- 2 How did Buddhism Christianity and Islam spread?
- 3 What are three reasons Christianity spread?
- 4 Which religion is spreading rapidly?
- 5 What is the oldest religion?
- 6 What does Quran say about other religions?
- 7 Which religion is best in the world?
- 8 Which religion is most in the world?
- 9 Which religion came first in the world Christianity or Islam?
- 10 Who first spread Christianity?
- 11 Who first converted to Christianity?
- 12 Why is Christianity declining?
- 13 What is the fastest growing religion in South Korea?
- 14 Where is Christianity growing the fastest?
- 15 Which is the fastest growing religion in the Russia?
How did the religion of Islam originate and spread?
Islam came to the Southeast Asia, first by the way of Muslim traders along the main trade-route between Asia and the Far East, then was further spread by Sufi orders and finally consolidated by the expansion of the territories of converted rulers and their communities.
How did Buddhism Christianity and Islam spread?
GLOBAL FAITHS: Christianity, Islam and Buddhism spread by missionaries. We all know that Christianity is a missionary religion. Buddhism’s missionary impulse is the reason his message spread from India to Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and also north into Nepal, China, Korea and Japan.
What are three reasons Christianity spread?
Ehrman attributes the rapid spread of Christianity to five factors: (1) the promise of salvation and eternal life for everyone was an attractive alternative to Roman religions; (2) stories of miracles and healings purportedly showed that the one Christian God was more powerful than the many Roman gods; (3) Christianity
Which religion is spreading rapidly?
Islam: The world’s fastest growing religion.
What is the oldest religion?
The word Hindu is an exonym, and while Hinduism has been called the oldest religion in the world, many practitioners refer to their religion as Sanātana Dharma (Sanskrit: सनातन धर्म, lit.
What does Quran say about other religions?
Forced conversion. Many Muslim scholars believe that Quranic verses such as “Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from Error” ( Quran 2:256) and ( Quran 18:29) show that Islam prohibits forced conversion towards people of any religion.
Which religion is best in the world?
Islam is growing faster than any other religion, according to a study by the Pew Research Center. In fact, most of the world’s major religious groups are expected to rise in absolute numbers by 2050, the research finds, with Islam set to overtake Christianity and become the world’s dominant religion by 2070.
Which religion is most in the world?
Adherents in 2020
Which religion came first in the world Christianity or Islam?
The major Abrahamic religions in chronological order of founding are Judaism (the source of the other two religions ) in the 6th century BCE, Christianity in the 1st century CE, and Islam in the 7th century CE.
Who first spread Christianity?
Beginning with the son of a Jewish carpenter, the religion was spread around the world first by Jesus’s disciples, then by emperors, kings, and missionaries. Through crusades, conquests, and simple word of mouth, Christianity has had a profound influence on the last 2,000 years of world history.
Who first converted to Christianity?
Cornelius (Greek: Κορνήλιος, romanized: Kornélios; Latin: Cornelius) was a Roman centurion who is considered by Christians to be the first Gentile to convert to the faith, as related in Acts of the Apostles. The baptism of Cornelius is an important event in the history of the early Christian church.
Why is Christianity declining?
The decline of Christianity in the Western world is an ongoing trend. Developed countries with modern, secular educational facilities in the post-World War II era have shifted towards post- Christian, secular, globalized, multicultural and multifaith societies.
What is the fastest growing religion in South Korea?
Buddhism and Confucianism are the most influential religions in the lives of the South Korean people. Buddhism, which arrived in Korea in 372AD, has tens of thousands of temples built across the country. Growth: Number of temples by denomination.
Where is Christianity growing the fastest?
Christianity is reportedly the fastest growing religion in Iran with an average annual rate of 5.2%.
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Durban dock workers refuse to offload cargo from Israeli ship in stand against Palestine conflict
Labour movements joined the SA Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (SA BDS) Coalition at the Durban harbour on Friday to support dock workers who refused to offload cargo from an Israeli container ship in a stand against the conflict between Palestine and Israel.
The protest action follows a call by the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) to workers and trade unions to refuse to offload Israeli ships and goods at ports of entry.
Zim Shanghai, which is owned by Israeli state-owned company Zim Lines, docked in Durban on Wednesday.
More than 100 supporters, wearing T-shirts conveying messages of solidarity and chanting “Free Palestine”, took part in the protest action.
It's part of a global series of actions against Zim Lines. The protests also targeted Transnet, demanding that SA ports refuse to allow goods heading to or from Israel to pass through.
Na’eem Jeenah of the SA BDS Coalition echoed the Palestinians' call for a global boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel.
“We are not sure what the cargo is, but the protest is against any Israel ship docking on SA shores. An additional dimension for the protest is the victory of the Palestinian resistance, particularly in Gaza, where a ceasefire came into effect this morning. Israel achieved none of its objectives in Gaza,” said Jeenah.
Cosatu KwaZulu-Natal secretary Edwin Mkhize said they were firmly against the senseless killing and abuse of Palestinian women and children in Israel.
He said the boycott against Israeli cargo at SA ports would send a “clear message” not to oppress the people of Palestine.
“As Cosatu we are here to pledge our solidarity with the Palestinian people. We are saying that the brutal killing of women and children by Israelis must stop.”
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I'm worried that my pension with the Pru will disappear
Disappear: I'm worried that my pension is about to disappear
I took an Equitable Life with-profits annuity in 1994. It almost doubled over the following years to give an income of £14,500 a year.
Then the crash came and it plummeted to less than half of this by the time Prudential took over in 2007.
Since then my pension has been consistently reduced for five years. I have looked at the formula and it seems it will reduce again for 2014 and 2015.
No bonuses have been declared, so where have all the profits gone? Do I have any justifiable redress against Prudential?
Should I live long enough, at this rate eventually my pension will disappear altogether. C. K., Suffolk.
Tony Hazell, from Money Mail, replies: I fully understand your frustration. But your ire should be focused on Equitable Life, not Prudential, which came to the rescue and is trying to make the best of a very bad situation.
Your annual income for this year will fall to £6,788 and, as you say, it could fall still further.
These with-profits annuities were sold by Equitable Life in the Nineties and I strongly suspect most who bought them had no idea their income could be cut so dramatically — Equitable appeared to be a law unto itself and financial regulators failed policyholders disgracefully.
I’m sorry to say there is no help for you. The one-off payment of £5,000 compensation, announced in Budget week, applies only to policies taken out before 1992.
Prudential has written a detailed letter addressing all of your points. In particular, it has pointed out that the fund fell in value by 19.7 per cent in 2008, but this was a good performance compared with the 29.9 per cent fall in the FTSE All Share. It will take substantial growth over a sustained period before bonuses can be increased.
Your policy does have a high degree of guarantees.
Unlike Equitable, Prudential is aiming to protect the financial strength of the fund and maintain flexibility, hence the decision not to increase the regular bonuses for the foreseeable future.
Prudential has calculated that, at the minimum, your guaranteed annuity would be about £4,371 a year in ten years’ time if no regular bonuses are added.
This probably isn’t what you wanted to hear and I have every sympathy with you and other with-profits annuitants.
But blaming the Pru is rather like blaming the lifeboat man who has rescued you from a leaky boat rather than the people who sold you the duff vessel.
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Customers are increasingly opting to purchase items over the internet rather than in person. They choose to shop for gifts and other necessities from online merchants, no matter what the occasion or importance is.
From the standpoint of both sellers and marketers, standing out from the competition is extremely important. So, in this blog, we’ll show you some of the holiday marketing ideas that can help your business boost sales throughout the holiday shopping season.
1. Do a Performance Analysis
It’s fine if your prior year’s sales number isn’t spectacular. Every company goes through ups and downs. However, it’s crucial to learn from the past and start developing new strategies.
Calculate the sales and income figures that you had hoped for, as well as the proportion that was achieved. You’ll discover something on which to concentrate over the holidays.
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2. Make Your Website Unique With a Personalized Appearance
Create eye-catching and soothing landing pages this holiday season. The landing pages are the first thing that will catch your attention when someone lands on your website.
After you’ve completed your design, concentrate on your content as well. The more unique material you have, the greater your chances of obtaining organic conversions.
Even if you have a large user base, you can hyper-personalize your otherwise impersonal marketing efforts with well-timed, relevant, and contextual messages for each individual.
Before 45 days of holiday seasonal sales, start writing content if you want more visitors to your site. It will assist you in obtaining 50% online search engine traffic engagement. Create custom content, i.e., the user should feel as though your material is only for her and no one else.
3. Use Personalized Gifting to Build Customer Loyalty
Customers love to be rewarded for being faithful. Customers will keep coming back if you reward them for being regular. Customer loyalty is the most important stage in any company’s effort to connect with and interact with its consumers on a personal level – making them feel valued by you. Rewarding clients with points, extra discounts, gift cards, and coupons help them return and shop again at your store.
Customers love earning points and redeeming them for rewards from their favorite brands, which has resulted in a significant increase in revenue.
4. Forever is The Word For Email Marketing!
Email marketing continues to dominate the marketing sector throughout the holiday season. An email is a useful instrument, regardless of what you’re advertising, for generating a large number of targeted sales.
People are more persistent towards promotional communications such as offers and discounts during the holiday hour sales, according to marketing research. Don’t be afraid to share your branded material and ideas throughout the sales period.
For e-commerce website owners, email campaigns are also helpful since they have a great chance to target back cart sales that have been lost or abandoned.
5. Design Your Resources with Patience and Planning
We all know how effective content can be in attracting and engaging visitors when done correctly. And the fact of the matter is that various types of content attract different portions of the audience.
Make sure your holiday marketing campaign is as successful as possible by diversifying your content. Build up your photo and video resources, and devise a plan for how you’ll utilize them to expand your portfolio and show off the aesthetics of your company.
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6. Create Marketing Strategy for Social Media Platforms Along With Ad Blueprints
The Holidays are a time for savings and attractive discounts on streets and social media, as well as growing internet business ideas.
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Using hashtags has been confirmed by digital marketers to improve their reach on social media platforms. The use of relevant hashtags helps you stay top of mind. As a result, while developing your social marketing strategy, don’t forget to include unique hashtags as well as popular trending ones.
Given the recent example, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi began a campaign to encourage local enterprise among his countrymen and used the slogan “Vocal For Local.” Soon, all local merchants started utilizing this phrase as hashtags to advertise their items and contribute to the cause of the campaign. The hashtag #VocalForLocal soon became popular on Instagram and Twitter, increasing citizen awareness and expansion of the domestic market.
8. Target Potential Audience and Make Them Aware About Your Brand
Customers should be made aware of your goods, discounts, contests, etc. The most common methods to connect with consumers are through email marketing and social media channels.
You may use email marketing to reach out to new and existing consumers about your products or services. It’s simple to create a list of “At-Risk” customers or people you wish to provide incentives for through email.
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Check to see if the advertisements you’re using on social media sites are relevant to your clients’ behavior or interest.
9. Boost Your Customer Retention Strategy
The Customer Retention Program aids in increasing your Customer Lifetime Value. Offers, loyalty programs, challenges, games, and so on may all be included.
Organizing activities and games will improve your participation rate. You may give the winners unique rewards such as a fantastic present for her or him. Traditional strategies to attract consumers include Lucky Draws, Spin The Wheel, and so on.
In addition, you may link your loyalty program with your contest and games. Customers truly want trust and loyalty reward points and discounts in the end.
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Customers abandon their carts for a variety of reasons. This might be due to their desire to compare prices and buy, or it could be because they discovered a cheaper offer than yours. However, one of the most common reasons cited by customers is when they do not discover the item of their choice within the specified period.
You might believe that if they couldn’t discover what they were looking for, then why would they add a certain item to the basket?
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#ZEWlive – Second Season
COVID-19 and the path to sustainable growth in Europe
The second season of the digital format #ZEWlive takes a European perspective on the coronavirus crisis.
#ZEWlive: Regional Inequalities in Germany and the EU - Challenges due to Corona (23.06.2021)
Follow-up report: “Regional Policy Must Create Equal Opportunities”
#ZEWlive: China and the EU – Partners and Competitors (13.01.2021)
Follow-up report: “This Agreement Was Born Out of a Common Interest”
#ZEWlive: European Answers to the Coronavirus-Related Recession (10.11.2020)
Follow-up report: The Aid Programmes Are an Extraordinary Achievement of the 27 EU States
#ZEWlive – First Season
COVID-19, economic impact and countermeasures
The first season of the digital format #ZEWlive places special emphasis on the coronavirus crisis, its economic impact and long-term measures to revive our economies after the temporary standstill.
#ZEWlive: COVID-19 and the Digital Economy: The Crisis as an Opportunity? (07.09.2020)
Follow-up report: COVID-19 Crisis Drives Digitalisation of the German Economy
#ZEWlive: The Coronavirus Pandemic, Baden-Württemberg and the Path Towards Economic Recovery (15.06.2020)
Follow-up report: Using the Crisis to Strengthen Innovation
Mannheim’s Transition to New Forms of Mobility (26.05.2020)
#ZEWlive: The Coronavirus Crisis and Europe’s Response (19.05.2020)
Follow-up report: Overcoming the Coronavirus Crisis Jointly with European Solidarity
Coronavirus – The German Economy Under Pressure: How to Deal with the Consequences? (15.04.2020)
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