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Electricity is such a normal part of everyday living that it’s almost impossible to imagine life without it. Electricity can also be quite dangerous if not used properly. It can cause serious injuries through electric shocks or even death. Here are a few tips for safety when using electricity in the home to prevent electric shock.
Water is a good electrical conductor, but it does not conduct the electricity through a specific channel, it spreads all over. You can be easily electrocuted if you step on a wet floor while an electrical appliance with an exposed wire is on the floor on the other side of the room. Keep all your appliances away from water. Do not use your hair drier or shaver near your bathtub. In case your house gets flooded, turn off the electricity from the main switch before attempting to unplug all the appliances in the flooded area. Avoid operating your electrical appliances when your hands are wet.
Keep the electrical cords out of the way
Another way that people often are electrocuted is through electrical cords traversing the house, especially in high traffic areas. You should keep your cords short and close to the outlet. In case you need to use very long cords, you should consider calling an electrician to install a new outlet closer to the appliance you are powering. Avoid tucking long power cables under carpets or furniture. The wear and tear might damage the insulation covering and expose the live wires inside that will electrocute anyone who touches it.
Keep your appliances in great working order.
First, you should always buy appliances from reputable brands that are accredited for great quality and high safety standards. Use your appliances as recommended by manufacturers to prevent malfunctioning. In case your appliance stops working properly or starts making unusual noises, you should get it repaired immediately. Your chances of being electrocuted are often higher when the appliance is faulty.
Use outlet covers
If you have small children or pets in the house, you should use outlet covers to prevent them from tampering with the electricity outlet. The outlets are direct sources of live electricity and it is very easy to be electrocuted at the outlet. The outlet covers are usually difficult to remove for children or any animals that you may have around the house.
Circuit breakers and fuses
In case you live in an old house, it may not have Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters (GFCI), which is a standard in most new construction homes, especially in areas where water will be in close proximity to the outlet, like kitchens. The GFCIs shuts down power instantaneously to prevent electrocution. You should also have the right size and wattage rating circuit breakers and fuses. Be careful when buying replacements for these to ensure that they match the specifications of the circuit to be used in. You can also get advice from an electrician if you are not sure of the right ones to buy.
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I would like to be able to change the currently active editor type through keyboard shortcuts only (rather than having to click twice). – is there a way to assign a shortcut to the menu? (in the menu you can simply press the underlined letters to select.)
is it maybe possible to simulate clicks on buttons with python?
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It seems like a simple question, but in some ways it’s actually a really smart one.
Digital marketing is booming, and companies are starting to do more and more to monetize that growth.
Digital marketers are now increasingly looking to reach customers through the internet and mobile devices, rather than the traditional print and broadcast media.
But while the traditional model of advertising and promotion has become more and better over time, digital marketing is still catching up to the digital advertising market in terms of engagement, revenue and revenue per click.
The industry is also finding it harder and harder to monetise digital content as well.
To understand what’s going on, let’s take a look at the digital marketing industry in 2017.
What’s going wrong?
Most marketers who are not part of the traditional media are aware of the increasing importance of digital marketing.
This trend has not been limited to just the advertising space.
Marketing teams and companies across all industries are beginning to invest more in digital marketing campaigns and campaigns that are more targeted and relevant.
This means that there are more opportunities for advertisers to reach their audiences through digital channels.
Some companies are also making it easier to monetization through other means.
This includes using content that is not specifically digital.
In the case of digital content, such as YouTube videos, it is also easier for a brand to reach new audiences through social media and other platforms.
But digital marketing can also lead to significant and long-term problems.
It is not uncommon for companies to spend millions of dollars on digital marketing that never makes a dent in revenue.
The same cannot be said for traditional marketing campaigns, which are often seen as the bread and butter of many companies.
How to make a digital marketing campaign successful If you want to make sure that your digital marketing strategy pays off, it’s important to understand the types of digital platforms that you can target, and the different ways to monetizing your content.
Here are some key points to consider: What is a digital ad?
The most common way to target advertising is with a digital banner ad, which can include multiple ads that are placed on the same page, and are targeted at a specific audience.
The ad is placed by a company on a website or mobile device and is displayed in an ad group that is managed by the company.
The website and mobile device itself will be used to display the ad.
The company will also pay the ad group to display and monetize the ad as well, through various forms of digital advertising.
For example, a company could display an ad on a blog, Facebook page, or Instagram account.
In some cases, the ad will also be displayed on a Google+ page or Facebook app.
If a company chooses to target a particular demographic group, it can also display ads that target specific demographics on their site or on their mobile devices.
However, this type of advertising may not always work out well for the target audience.
Some advertisers have found that they do not receive a revenue return for their digital advertising campaigns.
This can lead to many problems for a company.
For one thing, it often leads to a higher price for advertisers that do not deliver on their digital ads.
Also, advertisers often end up with more complaints about the quality of their digital content than they do for traditional advertising.
Digital advertising has also been linked to lower conversion rates and lower brand loyalty.
Some studies have found it to be a big factor in why brands and advertisers decide not to buy from digital advertising platforms.
For many businesses, it seems that traditional digital marketing strategies are simply not worth the money.
Digital media, content and content types The digital marketing world is increasingly being dominated by content and digital content types.
There are now a wide variety of digital media platforms available to marketers and content creators.
These include YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, WordPress, Tumblr, WordPress.com, Blogger, and even WordPress itself.
These sites are becoming more and less important as the traditional marketing world continues to evolve.
For marketers who want to do traditional advertising, the key to successful digital marketing are to make it easier for them to target and monetise their content.
If you are planning on targeting specific audiences, it may make sense to set up a digital media campaign with a clear purpose and a clear focus.
You may want to include a mobile ad campaign or an email campaign to reach people on the mobile device.
This way, the campaign can be easily customized and tailored to your target audience, and it will be a better chance to make money.
The best way to monetisation online?
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|Gardaí are seeking the public’s help in tracing the whereabouts of 25 year-old Edel McGirr, who is missing from the Ballybofey area of Donegal since Sunday, January 9 2022.
Edel is described as being 5’ 1” in height, of medium build, with greenish blue eyes and copper coloured hair.
Edel was last seen in the Ballybofey area. She may be traveling in an 07D registration Grey Toyota Corolla.
Gardaí and Edel’s family are concerned for her welfare.
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The first book Tiare read in jail was Ultramarathon Man by Dean Karnazes. She felt it was fitting, or even fate, since her life had recently turned around. She was used to running almost everyday by then, but there was no place for her to run during her three months being locked up. Instead, she read books from the jail’s library and taught yoga to any fellow inmate who showed interest.
“I had to cut out all my friends and all my old ways of living.”
Sober for over seven years now, Gnarly athlete Tiare Vincent had a life-changing day in 2013 when she was convicted of a third DUI, which came with a jail sentence. With one year between the DUI and her jail term, Tiare tore down almost every aspect of her life and rebuilt it. Today, she’s leading retreats in the mountains, running ultramarathons, hiking, and challenging herself to do anything and everything to make herself a stronger person.
No longer going out to the bar or clubs at night – or spending the days recovering from those nights out – Tiare was stuck in an anxious waiting period, waiting to get her time in jail over with. “I had to cut out all of my friends and all of my old ways of living,” Tiare said. She started hanging out with her two brothers, going for hikes with them several times each week. “We’d built this love for hiking because it was my new hobby, replacing that old lifestyle,” she said.
The hikes, time spent with her brothers, and time working on adjusting to a new lifestyle took up the daytime hours, but the evening hours felt strange. Not one who likes to sit still, Tiare started running at night. “I started running usually around 8pm without a headlamp,” Tiare said. “I didn’t think about safety. It was a fearless time because, in my mind, I had nothing to lose.”
The late-night runs turned into longer runs and even daytime runs. While on the hiking trail, Tiare took notice of the trail runners. She began reading books about ultrarunners to take up time at night, too. She eased into combining her two passions of running and mountains. “I told myself I can just hike up, and then run on the flat parts and run on the downhills, and that’ll feel good,” Tiare said. “I felt I’d eventually just get better and better.”
By the time her jail sentence came around, her head was clear and clean. “I had to switch that perspective of knowing this isn’t who I am, but this is penance for what I used to do,” Tiare said. “I thought that if I went through the steps then I’d find more freedom on the other side.”
Less than a month after getting out of jail, Tiare found freedom on the other side by starting her own company called Choose Mountains — find something you love more. Her intention wasn’t necessarily to link up to other individuals on a sober path, but connect with others who also choose mountains. “I just wanted to see what makes everyone else choose mountains, and what makes it so special to each individual on a personal level,” Tiare said. “I liked that idea of gathering stories.”
If every one of Tiare’s Instagram followers on Choose Mountains shared their story, she would gather 127,000. It turns out that, like Tiare, many others find that life is better in the mountains. “You just have to find things that give you joy,” Tiare said. “I think it’s best to find exercises or activities that make you super happy. The more you’re doing things that make you happy, the healthier you’re gonna become.”
Tiare ran her first ultramarathon in 2018, the Deception Pass 50k in Washington state, proving to herself that she’s capable of anything, so long as she enjoys the journey. In May of 2019, she found her favorite race: the Sun Mountain 50-miler in Washington. It’s one that she’ll be returning to each year.
Tiare’s life turned around after hitting rock bottom, but the mountains are now her stability, always there no matter what changes in her life. She’s happier and healthier when running in the mountains, and she’s created a community that shares this love.
Tiare is a shining example of the courage and strength it takes to change something that isn’t working. Who we were seven years ago is not who we have to be today. Tiare found something she loved more, and there’s no turning back now. | <urn:uuid:da2d407c-ccf6-4840-8992-72aac03f829f> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://gognarly.com/blogs/blog/choosing-mountains-with-tiare-vincent | 2022-01-22T13:59:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303864.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20220122134127-20220122164127-00718.warc.gz | en | 0.982372 | 1,032 |
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Many of you have asked what has transpired since the post related to the fat doctor. I thought I would flush this out today as it has really weighted on my brain lately. A couple of weeks ago, I actually followed up on my personal promise to myself to get into the doctor’s office. I SO didn’t want to go that morning. I just felt like it was going to be a difficult situation and I wasn’t entirely sure how to deal with it. But, I did go.
I waited in the reception room like normal when finally a nurse calls me to the back. She immediately walks me over to the scale. I politely tell her that “I am not weighing today.” She doesn’t miss a beat or even blink, but walks me into the doctor’s office. She takes by BP, which is still higher than normal, tells me to get undressed and has me wait for the doctor. I wait and she starts tearing through the paperwork. Finally though, she looks baffled and says, why don’t we have your weight in here. I tell her, “Dr. ______ we talked about this in an e-mail. I prefer not to be weighted unless you find is medically necessary or life threatening.” Oh yeah, she says and we continue on through the exam.
The only issues that come out of the visit are the following:
My blood pressure is really high enough that I should go on medication. We are going to wait a month, just in case something changes, but given that I work out like I do AND I am not going to “diet” any longer, the alternative is medication. It does bum me out, I don’t want to be on drugs for the rest of my life, but there really isn’t another solution for me.
My cholesterol blood test results came in worse than last year. My HDL was a little low and my LDL was a little high. She wants to test me on that again in September. This one for me is more tricky than the blood pressure issue. To me, this seems like a direct result of my diet, it isn’t because I am too fat, it isn’t because I don’t work out enough. It is because of what I eat. Which leads me to the question and concern of diet. What if bacon and eggs really do need to be off the list of eaten foods. A year ago my cholesterol levels were within normal range, now they aren’t.
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No matter how you might have come upon a windfall of money, it’s important that you know how to properly invest it. This extra cash is a great opportunity to improve your financial situation, but without a plan you can easily squander your good fortune.
There are several steps you can take to make the most of your newfound income.
1. Pay Off Debts
While paying off debts is not nearly as fun as it would be to buy that new purchase you’ve been eyeing or booking a trip to your dream destination, it’s a wise financial move to make for your future.
A sudden cash windfall can seriously help alleviate financial stress and help you get caught up on your debt obligations, such as student loans, mortgages, or credit card debt. Eliminating all or even some of your debts will free up your monthly cash flow and allow you to save money on interest rates by paying off debt early.
2. Create or Add to an Emergency Fund
Life is unpredictable and, just as unexpected as a financial windfall, unforeseen events can severely catch you off guard and hurt you financially if you aren’t prepared. That’s why having an emergency fund is vital and building it up is one of the first things you should do with your windfall assets.
Emergency funds are typically cash accounts separate from your primary checking and savings accounts with enough funds to cover 3-6 months worth of living expenses in case of income loss or other unforeseen problems. In preparation for life’s curveballs, dedicating a portion of your windfall to an emergency fund will give you more financial peace of mind.
3. Contribute to Your Retirement
No matter how old you are when you receive a cash windfall, you can use that extra money to contribute to your retirement nest egg. If you have an employer-sponsored retirement fund, such as a 401(k), or a retirement savings account, such as an IRA, you can use your windfall to fund these accounts to the maximum annual amount allowed by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
By doing this, you’re allowing your investment to grow and potentially provide you a greater return when it’s time for your retirement. Maxing out your retirement fund contributions each year allows you to better take advantage of compound interest, which can grow a single windfall into longer-term gains.
4. Build Wealth Through Investments
Investing is a great way to augment your windfall benefits and make them last. There are endless investment opportunities that you could look into. Among them are stocks, bonds, rental properties, business startups, and mutual funds, just to name a few.
Ultimately, the types of investments that are right for you will depend on several factors, including how much money you have to invest, how much risk you’re willing to take on, and how long you’re willing to wait for your funds to grow. Keep in mind that diversifying your investments might be the best way to minimize risk.
5. Start a Business
If you’ve got a business idea and a dream to be your own boss, why not use a portion of your financial windfall to help fund it? If you create a successful business, you are maximizing your windfall assets by using it to grow your business earnings.
A financial windfall can also offer you the breathing room to help reevaluate your career goals. Maybe you are not fulfilled in your current position and are looking for a change. With the extra funds, you can create a plan to leave behind a job you don’t enjoy, while charting a path toward a new career.
6. Spend Sensibly
After doing all, or most, of the above, it’s now time to treat yourself. While you’ll initially want to hold off on splurging away your windfall cash, it’s OK to put some of the money aside to use for sensible spending. Maybe your home could use some upgrades or you’ve got your eye on a new car. Prioritize what matters most and use some of your newfound cash to improve your quality of life.
How much you set aside depends on you and your financial obligations, but don’t forget to set some boundaries. Consider a budgeting technique like the 50/30/20 rule, in which you divide your after-tax income into 3 spending categories: 50% for needs, 30% for wants, and 20% for savings or paying off debt. | <urn:uuid:9f9fd090-1323-4441-b2dc-ae0c0ab5fe0a> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://impulsewealth.net/wealth-management/what-is-a-windfall-and-how-do-you-manage-one/ | 2022-01-22T13:50:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303864.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20220122134127-20220122164127-00718.warc.gz | en | 0.944986 | 930 |
Founded on January 3, 2012 www.krushyaad.com is a Jamaican based organization that started out focusing on it's online radio. Before long other services such as photography, marketing for events and Jamaican based businesses and products. The company has now evolved and has been one of the fastest growing brands in the entertainment industry. Our fan base is now well beyond the shores of Jamaica and as a TEAM we aspire to build business and the careers of entertainers and promoters, one big family.
Listen to 100,000+ live radio stations around the World, on-demand content like podcasts & etc anywhere you go it is with you. | <urn:uuid:88dc6f07-2959-414e-9725-41b9c0644899> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://keepone.net/radio/k122816/krush-yaad-radio | 2022-01-22T14:12:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303864.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20220122134127-20220122164127-00718.warc.gz | en | 0.953585 | 181 |
Heavenly Father, thank you for the Bible studies that we have been able to continue to have despite such a messed up semester. Please keep reshaping our hearts by your Spirit as we dig into your word together. Please help the students to keep holding on to Christ and marvelling at all his goodness to us. Help us to keep making opportunities to point others to Christ. May your word keep spurring us on to this end and keep fuelling our joy in your salvation. | <urn:uuid:98a37799-b70b-46b8-8cbd-2b4f89418116> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://lloydsprayer.org/2020/06/03/continued-bible-studies/ | 2022-01-22T14:22:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303864.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20220122134127-20220122164127-00718.warc.gz | en | 0.976511 | 101 |
20 Ways to LOVE
How will you celebrate love this weekend!? This video was made to share some ideas…please watch it here. We believe it’s the little things that count, creative surprises, things unspoken. We’re excited to hear your unique ways of expressing love, please share in the comments below!!!
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I put my new blog system on Github. Again, just a little 70-ish line script that generates HTML and RSS/XML code automatically from a post; it'll get me a lot for very little, and obviously doesn't involve any silly databases.
Check out the link at https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/lb. Play around with it if you're interested in it for your own purposes. I might do a video on it in a bit, and I'll be refining it as needed. | <urn:uuid:b7032c9c-f745-4b55-8402-a13ab6293767> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://lukesmith.xyz/blog/check-github-for-the-blog-system | 2022-01-22T15:11:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303864.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20220122134127-20220122164127-00718.warc.gz | en | 0.954402 | 106 |
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Pastoral Guidance for the Celebration of the Communion Rite at Mass
Finally, the revision of this document is complete and the second edition is now available on the diocesan website. Click here. You might recall that in late 2019 the Diocesan Liturgy Council (DLC) hosted a series of regional ‘listening and dialogue’ sessions introducing the original document and listening to the community’s reflections, insights and questions. This Second Edition seeks to incorporate much of the wisdom we heard.
Pastoral Guidance for the Preparation and Celebration of the Sacrament of Confirmation
I’d like to remind you of the current invitation to participate in the review of this document. For all information and details about the community engagement opportunities please read last week’s Liturgy Matters.
Perpetual Day of Remembrance 2020 Review
Thank you to everyone who participated in the Church’s prayer response in any way. We have already received some encouraging and helpful feedback. Whether you left a light on in your home and prayed the associated prayer, participated in a school or Church agency or group, or joined the parish celebration of Perpetual Day of Remembrance Sunday we would appreciate your feedback. This is an invaluable source of wisdom as we continue to develop the Church’s prayer response. Please complete the anonymous online survey by Wednesday September 30.
Surveying our COVID-19 liturgical experience
Currently the DLC is working with Miriam Pepper from National Church Life Survey to prepare a survey to be disseminated as widely as possible amongst the People of God in our diocese. We think it is critically important that we listen as broadly as possible to your liturgical experience, both during the suspension of public liturgy and its re-opening with all the COVID restrictions that involves. The other night, eight people participated in a focus group with Miriam. The aim of the group was to sharpen the questions we will use in the survey to ensure that it gathers up your wisdom in the best possible way. I sat in on the focus group and it was remarkable. I will continue to ponder all that I heard.
Some of you may already know about another survey that may interest you. It is a national survey run by a psychology student at Monash University who is seeking to ‘map Catholic worship responses to the pandemic’. For more information and to complete the survey click here. It is open through to early October so act quickly.
Free Public Lecture: Liturgy, Prayer, Pastoral Care and Pandemics
On Monday October 12, Australian Catholic University is hosting this free, online, public lecture given by Professor Julia Upton rsm from Fordham University. Click here for all details.
Gregorian Chant online course
If you are interested in participating in an online academic unit on Gregorian chant you will need to act quickly as it starts next week. Please click here for information. This online access is only available because of COVID-19. If you are interested this is an opportunity not to be missed!
Anne Millard, Cathedral Director of Music, has done the course and highly recommends it. Once we have moved beyond our current restrictions on singing, Anne is looking to establish a Choral Chant Group. More information to come about that.
Flashes of Insight: Let’s Talk Liturgy
This has been a wonderful opportunity that emerged in response to the avalanche of liturgical reflection sparked by COVID-19. The whole series of short videos can be accessed on the diocesan website. They are engaging and challenge us to reflect more deeply on the way we celebrate liturgy together.
The whole point of the series was to produce resources that could extend the liturgical conversation throughout the community. The DLC is currently considering ways we can facilitate such conversations here in our local church. Be prepared for more information and opportunities to engage when the opportunity arises.
Something to read and something to watch
There is so much to read at the moment. It is a feast in itself. Several people found this article by Paul Inwood on the Pray Tell blog interesting: All strange, but all must change.
I also recommend the Liturgy.Life website. It’s good to watch the resources that appear there. Last week they ran a free five-part video marathon on ‘The aim to be considered above all else: Full, Conscious and active participation.’ It was excellent. Each video is between 10-15 minutes. Similar resources are available at Team RCIA.
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Charlotte, NC is not a walking city. Its downtown, financial center – also known as Uptown Charlotte — is encircled by several highways, practically trapping would be walkers in its relatively small confines. That said, it is a clean, modern and delightfully creative city. I was blown away by the attention to artistic detail — sculptures placed just so, benches that are not just a place to sit but also a piece of art, and historical reminders of the Charlotte that was.
Conclusion: I wouldn’t make a special trip to Uptown Charlotte, but if you happen to be there, definitely walk around and enjoy the city.
Note: I was too lazy to shlep the DSLR camera, so these are all iPhone photos.
These clever signs are plentiful in the small park area known as “The Green.”
I love how the sign merges into its surroundings.
Did you know there are so many Charlottes in the world? I did not.
Charlotte Liberty Walk. I have no idea what it is, but it seemed like something I should take a picture of.
Sculptures of frolicking children are cleverly placed in this fountain (currently under construction).
Apparently, something important happened here.
Awesome or ugly? I vote for awesome.
This mosaic of recycled glass is entitled “Effervescence.” I found it on a random wall in Charlotte.
The children’s library did such a wonderful job designing its front yard, even I couldn’t resist jumping all over the letters.
More important historical stuff.
I have to wonder: How do they know that?
Awesome modern sculpture in front of the Museum of Modern Art.
A mosaic bench. I like this.
Who needs a boring park bench when you can have cool retro furniture?
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At “Paws 4 Thought” our family is constantly changing, sometimes we lose one our our beloved fur-kids to the Rainbow Bridge, sometimes it is another sad story that needs somewhere to be loved and understood as the individual they are, but none of them are ever forgotten, no matter if they are physically with us or not. In this section of the website, you will get to “meet” them all, past and present.
All of them are rescues of one form or another and have come from a variety of sources, including “owner-surrendered”, to adoption centres, to coming to us via the vets or other charities, sometimes even rescued by people who have found them in their garden or shed and then passed them on to us for further care – the one thing that they have in common, is that we know little or nothing about their backgrounds other then that they need a loving home that will endeavor to understand them for the rest of their days.
To meet those who have crossed the Rainbow Bridge, please check our “previous residents” page.
To meet the current gang, just scroll down :-
I know that most people like to put a “face to the name” so here are some pictures of my terrible tribe *fond grin* and like any “proud mother” I am happy to oblige so here you will find pictures of the animals, with a little bit about them so you can identify the faces with the stories that you will find on our “Musings from the menagerie” blog in future :) Enjoy.
This is Izzy, Queen of the roost (at least if you ask her) – she is the one I have had longest, and for the full story of how we met, check out our “one down, eight to go” post on the blog. Don’t let looks deceive you, she is a real madam, though you may never believe it, and she knows exactly how to get her own way and frequently does! There will be more of her stories on the blog to show this over time :) | <urn:uuid:01c8994b-7d07-41e3-bebf-24d88e3e3ba2> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://paws-4-thought.co.uk/about-our-animals/ | 2022-01-22T15:00:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303864.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20220122134127-20220122164127-00718.warc.gz | en | 0.969969 | 443 |
Today’s Parenting Tip:
We understand that some of our readers are from countries that have royal princesses and princes. We respect the important history and official roles of those royal princesses and princes. These parenting tips are designed to help us understand how an ordinary person can become a lovable, capable princess or prince – both in spirit and in action.
Because these parenting tips are inspired by our featured book, PRINCESS IN TRAINING and because August is back-to school month for many kids, these tips are about how your child can return to school as a lovable, capable princess (or prince).
Decide: To be a princess in spirit and in action, your child needs to feel all of her feelings, including sadness.
Practice: Make a list of the special things you know your child will miss while at school (blanket, toy, TV show, mom-time, a friend). Make a plan with her about a few of those things so she can count on these pleasures at other times. For example,
Assure her that her toys will be in their usual place waiting for her return. If there is a younger child still at home, let the school-age child select an off-limits toy or two. (For more about personal toy space, see Kids and Sharing, part 1 (http://wp.me/p2MePX-aH)
Make a plan for taping a favorite TV show and for when she can watch it.
Make a plan for special one-on-one time with Mom or Dad. (Watching the favorite TV show together would be a good idea.)
Make a plan for playtime with a missed friend.
Read more about lovable, capable princesses (and princes): Becoming a Lovable and Capable Prince or Princess.
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The full services at Probe: getting civils
2nd January 2019
Isn’t pretty – is it?
Our job often means digging something up – creating a mess.
This is the civil engineering side of our job. The boys tend to call it “civils”.
This is an interesting wee example. The location is Stewarton Academy.
The entrance to the school needed some work. The concrete had broken up and was a crumbling trip hazard. A shocking first impression for anyone visiting the school.
We dug up the existing concrete and removed it.
Then we re-screeded the area – about 20 metres squared – and left the place looking pretty good. | <urn:uuid:80a90615-5baf-4b1a-ba9d-cb7fbeb752c6> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://probedrainagespecialists.com/civils/ | 2022-01-22T13:48:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303864.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20220122134127-20220122164127-00718.warc.gz | en | 0.963053 | 143 |
During 2021 I am working on a project entitle “Using engineering principles to model biological systems” at Clare Hall College, Cambridge.
I have just published a journal paper in the journal of Bio-inspiration and Biomimetics published by the Institute of Physics. It was published on 10 June 2021. The title is:
A review of linkage mechanisms and animal joints and related bioinspired designs
The link to the paper is:
This case study involved analyzing linkage mechanisms in animal joints and modelling them in the same way that engineering linkage mechanisms are modelled. Ten specific case studies were chosen including six different fish jaws, insect wing joints, bird wing joints, knee joint and the mantis shrimp club joint.
The paper shows that biological linkage mechanisms are highly optimized for motion and force. They use virtually all of the different functional features of linkage mechanisms including force amplification, speed (kinematic) amplification, remote anchoring, over-center trigger mechanisms and inverted hinges.
A key finding of the paper is that animal joints are extremely compact due to optimal placement of muscle actuators. There are some interesting differences between engineering and biology. For example, biological linkage mechanisms often have spherical joints and out-of-plane movement. And animal joints do not have shafts and tubes due to growth constraints. Another difference is the high level of multi-functioning of animal joints.
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The PSU ASA Executive Board sent this message to their student members:
I’m sure you are at this point well-aware of the terrible tragedies that have recently highlighted racial injustice throughout this country. Sadly, these events are neither new nor isolated, but instead reflect a systemic injustice that has been ignored for too long. We know many of you have already actively spoken out and started getting involved, but we think it is important to speak up not just as individuals, but as an entire organization. Racism and all other forms of discrimination have no place within the scientific community and act against the core mission and ethical principles of the Acoustical Society of America. Active unlearning of implicit and explicit biases is required from all of us in order to uproot and combat racism within our communities. As a scientific organization we want to allocate part of our time to proactively pursuing these goals.
We would like to highlight some key points from ASA’s official statement on racism and injustice posted to their website: https://acousticalsociety.org/
“It is our responsibility to actively oppose racial injustices and understand the impact of our own implicit biases, acknowledging that we are sometimes complicit within an oppressive system.”
“We must strive to be advocates of justice, to support policy and legislative changes that will decrease systemic racism in our organization and nationally, and to work for institutional reform. The ongoing, deeply destructive effects of systemic racism must be simultaneously addressed at many levels including within ourselves, our local communities, the ASA, and our nation.”
“Finally, let us be clear: Black Lives Matter. Black lives should have always mattered. Now is the time to transform the system so that Black lives not only matter but also will be respected and valued in the tapestry that is the United States. Then and only then can the country finally live up to the ideals and principles on which it was founded.”
It is our ethical duty as a regional chapter of ASA, and as human beings, to take this message to heart as we move forward. As we head into the next academic year and beyond, we will be planning events and meetings that align with this message. If you have any thoughts, please feel free to share them. We would love your input as we continue taking steps towards being an active, informed, and inclusive organization.
The Penn State ASA Executive Board
The national ASA Student Council also released this statement on their Facebook:
The ASA Student council stands firmly behind the ASA’s statement against racial injustice and systemic racism that the Black community is facing. As students, it is not only our job to listen and to learn, but also to foster progress and move forward. Passive dissent is not acceptable in the face of prejudice; we must actively oppose it.
The student council reaffirms our support of our black and minority students who have important voices in the Society. We wholeheartedly agree to the vision expressed by the ASA to foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive acoustics community. Discrimination and racial injustice are still present and as a scientific society we must ensure that scientists and professionals in minority communities are heard and uplifted.
To our students, please know that we are here for you and that your point of view is of utmost importance to us. If anyone has suggestions or if you are in need of any support, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
The Penn State/State College PA area has been alive with protests and demonstrations following the George Floyd murder. Here are articles found on the web about State College’s protests:
- Week 1 protest articles: Onward State, Centre Daily Times 1, Centre Daily Times 2, StateCollege.com 1, StateCollege.com 2, WJAC, Daily Collegian
- Week 2 protest articles: StateCollege.com, Daily Collegian, Centre Daily
- Week 3 protest articles: Onward State, Enspire Mag
- Also noted in this Wikipedia article summarizing some of the protesting across Pennsylvania
Connect with relevant communities in the State College area/at Penn State:
- 3/20 Coalition – Facebook
- State College NAACP – Facebook
- Penn State Black Caucus – Twitter @PSUblackcaucus
- Penn State Black Student Union – Twitter @BSU_PSU
- NAACP at Penn State – Twitter @NAACP_PSU
- National Society of Black Engineers – Penn State Chapter – website
- Multicultural Engineering Graduate Association (MEGA) – website
- African American Studies at Penn State – website
- African American Chronicles, Black History at Penn State – link
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On this week’s episode of my podcast, I Have to Ask, I spoke to Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves To Live Longer. The health-and-wellness crazes that have led to increased gym memberships, calorie-counting, jokes about gluten and mindfulness, and much else seem to now be a permanent part of American society. But Ehrenreich, the author of Nickel and Dimed and Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermining America, as well as a prolific essayist, looks askance at many of these trends, and believes society is refusing to come face-to-face with the realities of death and aging. Below is an edited excerpt from the show, in which we discuss why people are so intent on fighting against aging, whether smoking bans show condescension toward the working class, and the problems with Oprah’s very real ideology.
You can find links to every episode here; the entire audio interview is below. Please subscribe to I Have to Ask wherever you get your podcasts.
Isaac Chotiner: Barbara, thank you for being here.
Barbara Ehrenreich: Oh, I’m delighted.
Delighted? Are you just saying that or you’re actually delighted?
I’m trying to work myself into being delighted.
OK. All right.
No, I am really pleased to be talking to you, Isaac.
This is a clichéd question, but I think it will lead us in good directions: Why did you decide to write this book now?
It was a mistake since it’s not about Trump.
I wasn’t going to say it.
There are two things that motivate me to write a whole book as opposed to a little essay. One is usually anger, outrage at something I perceive as an injustice, or an illusion. The other thing that motivates me is curiosity. Once I get going on a subject, I really want to keep tracking it down. This book starts with some concerns about our health care and what it’s actually doing to us, and moves on … to go into a deeper level to look at ourselves and our chances of living forever, or for at least 20 years more than we should live.
What exactly is your complaint about the American health care system?
I think in addition to covering those issues of clear class and racial injustice in access to care, we should look at the care we get. What I began to find once I got to be about 50 is that most of my interactions with the medical system had to do with doctors and clinics demanding that I go through certain kinds of tests. I thought, “OK, this is the preventative care that accounts for American longevity,” although our longevity no longer compares that well with other advanced countries. But anyway, I went along with it, and then I began to become more and more skeptical about what these tests were achieving and whether they added anything to our longevity.
And test after test, and I’m talking mammograms and colonoscopies, bone-density scans, the results were not reassuring. Isaac, I’ll tell you exactly how I started doing this. It was very simple. Take the procedure, say bone-density scan, now you’re going to google that with the word “controversy” or the phrase “evidence-based,” and you’ll find all the problems with all the issues. I would do this for everything that came along and determined rationally that these things were not worth my time.
One of the critiques of the massive amounts of testing in the American health care system is that it leads to higher health care cost and America has very high health care costs for an industrialized Western democracy. The critique in your book is not just that we’re spending lots of money on these things, and this fits into a lot of your earlier work, it’s rather how it affects our mindset and our own thinking about aging and death.
Oh, definitely. I mean the sort of cultural idea is that aging does not have to be unpleasant in any way. You can age “successfully” if you do everything that you’re told, and that dying itself [can] be postponed further and further and further away if again you adhere to all the rules of diet, exercise, medical care, etc. And that’s a cultural illusion, I would say. We do not control our own health completely. Yeah, there’s some obvious things you can do like not smoking. I don’t even know what the current dietary do’s and don’ts are so I won’t mention those, but there’s always a set of things, dos and don’ts, to regulate this. If you’re not conforming to that, then you will not age successfully.
We have a larger and larger percentage of the population living longer. Do you really think that there is nothing to be said for the increased focus people are putting on their health and their wellness and keeping their body fit?
I think that needs to be examined. We have to look at that statistically. Yes, we have a lot of older people who can afford various things that might well support a healthy old age like, say, a gym membership. But if you take it case by case, like mammograms, again there’s a debate, which has I think have really been won by this time by the side saying that all that screening mammography does not do anything. In fact, what it can do, and this goes for prostate screening too, is that they find something that seems wrong, then they can go on to the biopsy. They may go onto surgery and drastic procedures like chemotherapy.
Now when you’re in your 70s and 80s, you might want to weigh whether those are things you want to spend the time that remains for you doing. My answer is no.
Because I have other things to do. Partly this seems to start for me with the kind of trade-off decision: Do I want to go sit in a windowless doctor’s office waiting room, or meet my deadline, or go for a walk. It always came down to the latter, or at least meeting the deadline first.
You seem to always have had a distaste for self-help type literature and for this idea that we can kind of improve ourselves. It seems like you connect it to a certain American creed that you find distasteful. Is that a fair summary?
I haven’t thought of it that way. I would say that implicit in a lot of these things is a strong level of narcissism. Focus on yourself. You can do self-care. Try to follow the rules, the current rules, for being healthy. That it is all about controlling what’s within the perimeter of your skin, really. It’s not about actually doing anything in the world or with other people.
It seems like your larger critique is that this has some role in the way American society and even politics are kind of constructed. I’m just asking because I’ve a read a lot of your stuff in preparation for this interview and that seems like one of the through-lines to me.
I have to say I am fairly disgusted by a lot of the pop psychology illusions that have been propagated in recent years. I wrote a whole book countering positive thinking, which I supposed makes me some kind of real Grinch. Again, it’s something that is going to affect, say, the outcome of a disease or the outcome of a war or anything else. In this book, I take on some of those other things that suggest you have great deal of control over your body and your mind, but actually don’t deliver much, and one of them is “mindfulness.” I guess what it boils down to is the idea that you should meditate or think of something different for a few minutes every day. That’s a cure created by Silicon Valley’s promotion of their mindfulness apps. I’m always dubious about these things.
What makes you so dubious? I’m sure you have people in your life, I have people in my life who meditate and say it’s very helpful. It’s not something I think I could ever do or would be interested in doing, but a lot of people say it’s very helpful, and it offers them a certain kind of solace. What’s your response to that?
That’s fine. I mean I have people I’m close to who do it, too, and I support them in doing it. But I think what is lacking in so many of our lives is a real connection with other people, a connection with something that is overwhelmingly important to us and it involves us in some sort of community. All this stuff about prolonging your life more and more is entirely individual. And that’s not bad. I mean I’m not against individualism, but it sort of takes you away often from the things that might meaningfully keep you going in life.
In the book, you write, “As more affluent people gave up the habit, the war on smoking, which was always presented as an entirely benevolent effort, began to look like a war on the working class.” Can you expand upon that a little bit more? I think probably most people listening to this podcast think that the “war on smoking” saved many lives and was a real progressive step forward in American society.
Well, here I refer you to an essay written by June Thunderstorm. That’s her name.
All right. A nom de plume. Anyway, as a working-class woman, she wrote a wonderful essay, which was going into the best essays of the year book, about just this. I’ll give you one vivid example: You can’t smoke indoors anymore. There goes the working-class bar. Where are these working-class bars now? It’s not the same to gather without smoking. Workers at work like smoking breaks. Why do they like smoking breaks? Because the rest of the time they’re running around stocking shelves, doing what they’re told, serving meals. When you smoke, that’s a working-class kind of self-care.
You could say, “Well, it’s nonsense. It’s a bad thing to do,” but that’s when you have nothing else. It can calm you very quickly. It’s very tragic when I see employees gathered outside a workplace like a big-box store or an office building trying to smoke in the wind and the rain because that’s the only place they can go.
Wouldn’t the answer here be to create a society where working-class people, or people who work difficult jobs, can find some degree of camaraderie and companionship on the job around something that doesn’t kill lots of people every year?
Of course, I totally agree with you. This is a desperate measure in the face of overwhelming stress. I mean look how many people now work sort of on-call. You don’t even have a regular shift to show up for. You wait and get the call from an employer to show up, so you don’t know from day-to-day what you’re going to be earning. How can you make any plans? How can you do anything? That is as stressful, I would say, as being a laboratory animal getting shocks at irregular times. That’s the working conditions that we have created for so many Americans, white-collar as well as blue-collar.
It seems to me with something like smoking, which we know does have such horrific health effects and also things like secondhand smoke, which have horrific health effects on people who are not just the ones smoking, that the push from the top, which could be categorized as kind of elitist or whatever you want to say was in fact something that would lead to a lot fewer working-class people dying from lung cancer now and that seems like a good thing.
Are there more deaths from lung cancer among the working class? I’ve been looking at statistics.
I said there would be less.
I don’t know if that’s one of the elevated things. The white working-class in America is experiencing a quite astounding rise in mortality, but as far as we know, the causes are things like opioids, which are mixed with alcohol and suicide. These are the “diseases of despair,” as the economist who brought all this to light said. If you were my boss and you were just giving me that little talk about smoking, I would say, “Damn it. Make life easier. Stop with this on-call, just-in-time business of working when you get to work. Stop with these fairly murderous forms of surveillance of workers as they work.” I mean there are just so many things I would say to you if you were my boss.
I’ve got the CDC numbers here. It seems like between 2003 and 2012, lung cancer deaths decreased by all genders and ethnic groups or racial groups, but I see what you’re saying about we know that there’s been a huge rise among working-class people in deaths from opioids and something else. I guess again I would just say it seems like the answer would be to find a way in society that people don’t feel left behind where at the same time they aren’t doing things that are unhealthy for them.
Oh, I’m with you. Anytime you want to start organizing for that society, just call me right away. Right now, a lot of people feel pretty desperate. Let me just mention the opioid epidemic, although this is not in my book or anything. What makes me very mad about all the attention to the opioid epidemic is how little attention there is to pain. We have a pain epidemic in America. Where does that come from? Because if you work, particularly in a manual labor kind of job, by the time you’re 45 or 50, your back is out, your knees are going, your rotator cuffs are gone. Everything hurts. You want to keep doing that job? You need to take opioids. I think that’s horrible, and I would rather work on diminishing the pain of so many people’s labor.
You wrote one of the first critical things I can remember reading at least on Oprah in the New York Times. The “Oprah for President” boomlet has kind of passed a little bit I think, although it could come up again. Could you talk a little bit about your critique of Oprah, and what she represents, and what you make of it manifesting itself in politics.
Well, actually it was only a tweet.
No, you wrote a piece in the New York Times. I read it.
No, it’s all right.
I would much prefer Oprah to our current president and to many of the other possibilities. What she has represented is this kind of self-help, self-improvement approach to life. That’s where I actually quarreled with her once on TV. Very bad for my career as an author, but she was just urging poor women to change themselves and their attitudes so that they could get what they wanted. I said it’s not that easy. If you’re living in a single-wide trailer with a husband and three children and no access to fresh produce or something, that’s a situation that you can’t overcome by positive thinking or changing your attitude. | <urn:uuid:fb0d6901-1de8-4e49-b4bc-d09ce39f10ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/barbara-ehrenreich-says-smoking-bans-are-a-war-on-the-working-class.html | 2022-01-22T14:10:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303864.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20220122134127-20220122164127-00718.warc.gz | en | 0.977748 | 3,364 |
More and more businesses are “going green.” But are sustainability practices actually sustainable for businesses?
For years, profit and social good were seen as conflicting ideals. Some companies were able to do both. But it seemed they were able to turn a profit despite their social efforts, and not because of them. After all, good intentions don’t lead to profits, do they?
Well, that attitude seems to be changing. From environmental concerns to other causes, plenty of businesses have found a way to partner profit with social good.
One such company is Green Floral Crafts (pictured above), a company that sources environmentally sustainable home decor. Owner Leia Tunnaye discussed with Forbes how focusing on social good can actually have a positive impact on profits:
“When we tell our customers we are a green business and our products are handcrafted by families in villages around the world, not only does it differentiate our products, but it makes our customers feel that they’ve made a good purchase both in terms of value, and contributing socially to others and the environment. Social consciousness is on the forefront of issues for today’s generation.”
Consumers today do seem to be more informed about their purchases. They know when they are supporting a business that supports a good cause. And often, they will even go out of their way to do so.
Small businesses like Green Floral Crafts are not the only ones showcasing the power that socially and environmentally conscious businesses can have. Larger companies like Toms Shoes and Seventh Generation have succeeded largely on a platform of social good. These success stories have even raised the bar for huge retailers like Walmart and Target, challenging them to put more emphasis on their corporate social responsibility programs.
However, there are companies that just stick a green label on their products or pledge a small amount of profits to a vague cause. So how do businesses honestly committed to environmental or social responsibility stand out from the rest? And how do cause-driven companies make sure their efforts are sustainable?
Having a clear mission is important, and can help to drive customers to a brand. But it’s difficult to do good without any money. So socially conscious businesses still need to focus on profits and make smart business decisions in order to be sustainable.
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You can import your GameChanger stats files straight into your Coach Admin accounts from the Teams app by MaxPreps. If you don't already have Teams app hurry and download the app today!
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Only members of the coaching staff can import GameChanger stats to the Teams app by MaxPreps. If you are the team's statistician and in charge of managing GameChanger, please speak with your coach to obtain access.
To set your account as the primary team, please follow the directions below:
- Log into your GameChanger account on a desktop.
- On your team pages, find the, "Team Settings" button listed under the Team admins section.
- At the bottom of the page, you will find the, "Team Syncing" section. You will need to disable the sync and then re-enable it.
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The error you receive is most likely that the game id's or rosters don't match what we have in MaxPreps. Within GameChanger, setting up your team originally you will want to utilize the "Import From MaxPreps" feature for your roster and schedule. When you select, Import From MaxPreps, this will auto-sync the stats to your MaxPreps Coach Admin within the Teams app. Again, if the rosters don't match this means the roster on MaxPreps and the roster on GameChanger are different and it's most likely you will need to add those missing athletes to MaxPreps.
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Something you may not know about Kristiana is that she barrel-raced as a child—even riding a world champion horse in one competition. A woman of many talents, she also worked in a small mom-and-pop chocolate-making business during college.
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It is with great sadness that I have to inform you of the passing of Christine Dawson
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It’s a word that’s been used to describe nearly every facet of life over the past 12 months as the coronavirus continues to radically alter the way most people go about their lives – whether that’s going to the doctor’s office, attending school or making a trip to a grocery store.
But it also aptly describes the level of federal funding pumped into the economy through various stimulus programs including the Paycheck Protection Program.
“We’ve never dealt with anything like this before,” John Garcia, director of the Small Business Administration New Mexico office. “… This has been very different. This is a virus that we are at war with.”
Nationally, more than $800 billion was set aside for the PPP to provide low-interest, forgivable loans to businesses for payroll and other business costs. The program was created by Congress to incentivize businesses to keep employees on their payroll rather than laying them off during business closures related to COVID-19.
And money is still coming, since the second round of funding is open until the end of March.
With nearly 12 months of data on the program available to the public, the Journal took a look at how New Mexico and its most important industries fared when competing for loans through the unprecedented program.
How did it start?
When the program launched in late March of last year, businesses rushed to lenders in order to submit their applications, Garcia said.
Last year, the stimulus program netted New Mexican businesses more than $2.2 billion in approved loans and helped cover payroll expenses for nearly 270,000 jobs, according to data from the SBA.
Under the initial rules, businesses with fewer than 500 employees per location could receive loans of up to $10 million if the business was affected by the coronavirus.
The program also allowed organizations typically exempt from receiving SBA loans, like nonprofits and religious organizations, to apply for and receive funding.
There were hitches. While the first round of the program funneled more than $500 billion in loans nationwide, many small businesses had difficulty applying, Garcia said.
“We had a lot of small businesses that didn’t have a chance to get in and get their loans processed,” he said.
A second round of funding, which began in January, came with more restrictions. Through last week, New Mexico businesses received 9,170 loans totaling more than $792 million as part of the second round, compared to $2.3 billion in the first round. All told, more than 32,000 loans have been issued in New Mexico over the course of two funding rounds, totaling more than $3 billion.
Borrowers looking to receive a second PPP loan must employ no more than 300 employees and show a 25% decrease in gross receipts in comparable quarters in 2019 and 2020.
How did New Mexico businesses fare?
While the federal program has had a massive impact on many New Mexico businesses and nonprofits, federal data shows that the PPP has provided fewer loans, and less money, to organizations in New Mexico than in most other states.
Reilly White, associate professor of finance at University of New Mexico’s Anderson School of Management, said those funds impacted about a quarter of New Mexico’s overall labor force.
However, on a per person basis, New Mexico still lags behind many of its neighbors. According to a Journal analysis of SBA data, New Mexico received more PPP funding per capita than just four states: West Virginia, Mississippi, Arkansas and South Carolina.
As a point of comparison, White said Utah, which has a population about 50% larger than New Mexico’s, has supported roughly half its labor force with PPP loans.
“The lenders, the providers … have been doing heroic work, but I think we have, proportionately, a greater amount of underserved populations than many other states,” White said.
White and Garcia agreed that New Mexico’s shortage of large, publicly traded companies worked against it when competing for PPP loans, particularly at the beginning of the eligibility window last spring.
Anne Haines, president and CEO of DreamSpring, a community development financial institution that operates in Albuquerque, said the first round of PPP funding was dominated by loans made by large banks, which prioritized existing customers during the initial rush of applications. Smaller businesses, which sometimes lack those traditional banking relationships, were largely shut out.
“If they were not a customer with a bank, then chances are they were not on the radar,” Haines said.
She said access to good information about the program has proven to be a barrier as well, particularly in rural parts of the state. Many entrepreneurs in rural New Mexico don’t have easy access to banking services, and Haines said some were intimidated by the program requirements.
“I think there continues to be, in New Mexico, an enormous information gap,” Haines said.
Garcia acknowledged that getting the word out has been a challenge, and said the SBA has held multiple webinars per day to educate business owners about the program.
Haines and Garcia agreed that the program became more inclusive to small businesses in the second round of funding, which opened in January.
The second round gave small community lenders, which tend to work with smaller businesses, two days of access before larger lenders could make loans. A federal announcement in February provided a two-week period where only organizations with fewer than 20 employees could apply.
Haines said small changes made a big difference in the second round. The program allowed business owners with felony convictions that aren’t related to fraud to apply, which Haines said made the funding more accessible to formerly incarcerated people. And a change that allowed business owners to use Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers to apply helped clarify that immigrants could participate in the second round.
“There really are significant barriers that a lot of low- and moderate-income households face to accessing conventional financial opportunities,” Haines said.
What industries got the most money?
When it comes to industries receiving the biggest paydays, New Mexico largely mirrors national trends, with industries like construction, food services and retail trade services receiving top spots in funding.
Nationally, health care, professional services, construction, manufacturing, and accommodation and food services were the top five recipients of funding with nearly $300 billion of aid going to those industries during the first draw of funding which lasted through August.
An analysis from UNM shows that the lion’s share of PPP funds in New Mexico from the first round of funding – more than $900 million – went to a broad swath of services ranging from health care to restaurants to automotive repair shops.
White said it makes sense that service-based industries received nearly 41% of the first round of PPP funding since there was a huge market impact for those services.
While the state largely follows the national trends in regards to funding, the mining industry received a larger share of funding in New Mexico than it did nationally. In New Mexico, mining received 8.67% of funding in the state, compared to just 0.87% of funding nationally, according to data collected from the SBA and analyzed by UNM.
A full analysis of the second round of PPP funding, which began this year in January, has yet to be carried out at the state level. But data from the SBA shows that while the top five industries receiving funds remain unchanged, the accommodation and food service industry is the greatest recipient of funds from the PPP this year.
Shelley Brown, a lender relations specialist with the SBA, expects this trend to be the same for New Mexico.
“The accommodation and food services is No. 1 throughout the nation, and I’m sure it is the same here because … that’s our source of revenue in the state of New Mexico,” she said.
The greater level of funding for lodging and food services could be in part fueled by changes to the loan program that allowed those businesses to apply for loans equal to 3.5 times their monthly payroll cost, rather than the standard 2.5 times the monthly payroll cost equation used by other businesses.
What NM organizations got the most cash?
White’s analysis showed that a wide variety of New Mexico businesses received loans through the PPP, from oil and gas giants to shellfish farmers.
Well over 90% of loans were for $500,000 or less, but a few exceeded $5 million. The largest publicly released loan in New Mexico went to BAM! Pizza Management, a Domino’s Pizza franchise-holder headquartered in Roswell that received $7.78 million to support 500 jobs. A call to the company was not returned.
The second-largest loan went to Dreamstyle Remodeling, which received $7.57 million to support 403 jobs. Dreamstyle founder and CEO Larry Chavez said the pandemic forced the company to furlough 220 employees across its footprint.
“We sat around our conference table and began planning survival mode,” Chavez said.
The company applied for a PPP loan in late spring, just as the stock market began to stabilize and the housing market began to improve.
Chavez said the loan helped the company weather the initial shock along with continuous supply chain challenges. Ultimately the company not only brought back its furloughed employees but added new positions, growing from 490 employees before the pandemic reached New Mexico to 550 today. Chavez said Dreamstyle has grown its Albuquerque footprint from 225 to about 250 employees.
“The PPP program was a real bridge from crisis to returning to being a good, solid business,” Chavez said. “And having hundreds of happy employees who are able to take care of their families and contribute to the local economy.”
Not every PPP recipient was a for-profit company. St. John’s College, a liberal arts college with a campus in Santa Fe, received a loan for just over $2.25 million. Michael Duran, treasurer and chief financial officer for St. John’s, said the college opted to send students home last spring when the pandemic hit. This meant that the school had to refund room and board for students, a decision that initially cost the school about $900,000, he said.
Duran said the school has not yet resumed in-person instruction, and estimated that the school has lost about $4 million since the pandemic hit. The federal loan helped the college make the transition without laying off employees, Duran said.
“It was one less thing to worry about for the college,” he said.
Has it helped?
Despite the challenges associated with the program, sources reached by the Journal largely agreed that it was a net positive for New Mexico. Garcia, with the SBA, said the program helped businesses stop the bleeding and reset during the worst of the pandemic. All told, the SBA estimates the program affected about 51 million American workers, Garcia said.
“We know this is working, and this is helping small businesses,” he said. “…We‘re not out of it yet, but it’s allowed the businesses to adapt.”
As the economy begins to stabilize and the program nears its end, the focus is shifting toward forgiving loans for organizations that met the program requirements.
UNM’s White said New Mexico’s comparatively low PPP usage could wind up being both a benefit and a drawback. The lack of federal dollars may have cost the state a chance to lower its unemployment rate, which remains higher than the national average, and may leave firms more vulnerable to future volatility.
On the other hand, White said fewer companies using the program means less debt for firms that can’t meet the requirements of the program.
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San Diego – The Honorable Cathy Ann Bencivengo, United States District Court Judge for the Southern District of California, has set a trial date of October 9, 2012 in the case of Academy of Our Lady of Peace v. City of San Diego, a precedent-setting religious land use and zoning case. The law firm of Dalton & Tomich plc represents the Academy of Our Lady of Peace and will appear for trial on behalf of the school.
At issue in the case is the City’s refusal to approve the all-girls Catholic high school’s plan to modernize its campus and facilities, a step necessary to enable the continuation of a tradition inaugurated in 1882, of superior education for the region’s future female leaders. With no new school facilities built since 1965 and with all adaptive reuse possibilities for existing structures exhausted, the proposed modernization plan is critical to the school’s future and to the education of the region’s young women.
The proposed modernization plan includes the construction of one new school building and a parking structure on land the school already owns. These facilities would provide students with state-of-the-art science laboratories, an enhanced library and media center and additional classroom space, as well as off-street parking.
The Academy of Our Lady of Peace is located in San Diego’s North Park neighborhood. It is the city’s oldest high school, having graduated more than 7,800 alumnae in the course of its history. The private school is administered by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.
The school first proposed the plan to the City in May 2007. For five years since then, the Academy of Our Lady of Peace has sought approval to evolve as an educational institution to remain competitive with other private high schools and public schools in the area. Approval was attained from the City of San Diego Developmental Services Department and affirmed by the Planning Commission in 2008, but later rescinded by City Council.
“With political interests seemingly taking precedence over the well being of San Diego’s young women and jeopardizing the future of this historic institution, the school had no choice but to take the matter to court,” said the school’s attorney, Daniel Dalton of Dalton & Tomich plc. “The proposed modernization plan is the only way the Academy of Our Lady of Peace can continue upholding its mission to meet the educational needs of its students, the future leaders of the San Diego community. The Academy asks only that it be treated fairly under the law.”
2007 to 2008 – Early Case Developments, CEQA and Stall Tactics
After requesting a Conditional Use Permit from the City in September 2007, following the submission of the modernization plan in May 2007, the school waited more than a year while the City of San Diego’s Developmental Services Department evaluated the proposal. In the meantime, the school held meetings with others in the North Park community to explain the plans and solicit feedback. The modernization called for the removal of three homes owned by the school and adjacent to the campus. Due to the steep slopes and existing development of the campus, professional staff of the City and the school agreed that the only location the proposed buildings could be located was the location of the three homes.
Those in opposition to the school’s plan initially expressed concern over parking and traffic. Once these issues were addressed, they moved on to objecting over noise concerns. After the objecting neighbor’s noise concerns were addressed, the opposition group turned its attention to the removal of the three homes owned by the school and adjacent to the campus, claiming the homes were architecturally significant under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Upon analyzing the issue and determining the homes were not historic and therefore not architecturally significant, the City of San Diego Developmental Services Department affirmed that demolition of the three homes was appropriate, given in part, that there are more than 24,000 similarly styled homes in the North Park community.
Once approved by the City Developmental Services Department, the Academy of Our Lady of Peace sought approval from the Planning Commission, an appointed body of professionals who practice in the land development field. Due to the objections of the neighbors, the school agreed that it would not demolish the three homes, but would move them to another area in the community. The neighbors refused to agree to this accommodation, knowing the modernization plan could not be accomplished without the removal of the three homes.
“The abuse of CEQA as a stall tactic has gotten out of hand in recent years,” Dalton said. “The roadblock preventing the Academy of Our Lady of Peace’s modernization plan is just the latest example of CEQA being used inappropriately to advance ulterior motives.”
Fall 2008 to Spring 2011 – Approval then Politics. In October 2008, the City of San Diego’s Planning Commission voted unanimously to approve the Academy’s modernization plan. Members of the local planning group appealed the Planning Commission’s decision to the San Diego City Council, seeking further review.
The opposition group cited the preservation of the three homes at their existing locations on the Academy of Our Lady of Peace’s land as their primary concern. The group demanded that the school proceed with its plan only with the constraint that the school not expand beyond its current footprint, knowing that with adaptive reuse opportunities already exhausted and no other developable land on the property, this constraint effectively would destroy the plan.
Meanwhile, an election occurred for an open City Council seat in District 3, which includes the North Park neighborhood. Todd Gloria, who was elected as the councilmember, met with City staff days prior to the appeal hearing. Staff members would later state this meeting’s agenda included discussion of ways to block the modernization plan.
City Council met to hear the appeal of the Planning Commission’s approval in January 2009. At the hearing, Councilman Gloria contradicted the findings of the City’s own staff by reiterating the opposition group’s concerns over the destruction of what he called the “historic” homes, homes City staff had already determined not to be historic.
City Council met again in March 2009. At this meeting, then-Council President Ben Hueso objected to Councilman Gloria’s opposition to the plan, noting Council had approved hundreds of similar projects and expressing his concern that in denying the plan, Council would make it nearly impossible for the school to continue educating the region’s young women. Hueso also cited a recent lawsuit the City had lost under RLUIPA. Despite his counsel, a majority of the Council followed Gloria’s lead and denied the modernization plan
In April 2011, at the invitation of the City, the Academy of Our Lady of Peace agreed to a settlement proposal that included Council agreeing to reconsider its decision on the Academy’s modernization plan. However, Gloria led a movement to deny a motion to consider a Motion for Reconsideration. In failing to take all actions required to allow a reconsideration decision, Council breached this settlement agreement.
2011 to 2012 – Religious Rights Concerns, Other Recent Developments. From June 2011 to January 2012, the case proceeded through discovery, during which the city admitted:
• the Academy of Our Lady of Peace fully complied with state and local law in seeking approval of its modernization plan;
• the City professional staff approved and endorsed the modernization plan submitted by the school to the Planning Commission and the City Council;
• the City Planning Commission unanimously approved the modernization plan because it complied with state and local law;
• within three days of the January 26, 2009 City Council meeting, Gloria met with staff to devise a plan to deny the modernization effort.
Additionally, during the discovery process, a City staff member testified he was pressured to “reverse” his findings that Academy of Our Lady of Peace’s modernization plan was consistent with the neighborhood plan and that the “reverse findings” were not based on facts.
The Academy of Our Lady of Peace filed a federal lawsuit against the City of San Diego in May 2009. The suit alleges violation of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, better known as RLUIPA, as well as violations of federal and state constitutional rights. The October trial may also explore possible abuse of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) as a stall tactic.
The Academy has created an informational website about the modernization effort at www.stayeducatedsandiego.org. It includes a timeline of events and an opportunity for alumnae, parents and community supporters to share their thoughts.
About Academy of Our Lady of Peace
The Academy of Our Lady of Peace curriculum develops young leaders guided by principles including dedication to “excellence tempered by gentleness, peace and joy,” focus on service to the “dear neighbor,” and commitment to furthering social justice. More than 7,800 young women have graduated under these principles since the school’s founding. Collectively, they have contributed more than 24,000 hours of community services to the San Diego community. For more information on the Academy, visit http://www.aolp.org.
For more information on the Academy’s modernization effort, visit http://www.stayeducatedsandiego.org.
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The Puke Funnel isn’t so much a funnel anymore as it is a direct IV into worthless reporters:
Yesterday the AP ran a story that sounds eye-poppingly scary. The International Atomic Energy Agency has a “secret” side deal that will allow the Iranians to inspect themselves. What the hell, right? Thanks Obama and what was Obama thinking? But the story itself was based on the reporter apparently not knowing what he was talking about. And the AP had to later scrub what were seemingly the most damning details. I’d go into those details. But Max Fischer at Vox has a very lengthy explainer going into just how botched this steaming pile was.
Let me share with you a deep truth: The nuclear stuff is complicated. Einstein said that. It doesn’t necessarily work in the way your everyday life experience would suggest. So it’s important to consult the people who know about the nuclear stuff, people called scientists. Particularly, nuclear scientists. And here we have another case where tendentious malefactors leak seemingly damning details to reporters who in the most basic sense do not know what they are talking about and write a story which can and often does dramatically affect the public debate over a critical issue. It’s already happened with the 24 days nonsense and it may with this. The AP has to scrub its story and pull a New York Times pretending the gist somehow isn’t changed when there is barely a story there in the first place. It really is a replay of how reporters — often acting in good faith — get played by malicious leaks. There are lots of reporters unfortunately who are in on the scam but they shall remain nameless for the moment. And it’s all a replay of the tragic nonsense parade which preceded the Iraq War — with lots of the same easy-mark reporters.
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DIY FLORAL COASTERS FOR YOUR TABLE DECOR!
I mentioned this before in our free printable placemats post but some parts of your table decor can be completely overlooked or even missed out and i’m not saying that you need to have coasters across all of the tables, BUT if you did want to go ‘more is more’ then I think these floral coasters would be an awesome part of your decor! You could even double them up as favours if you wanted to! WIN WIN!
YOU WILL NEED:
Balsa wood // Pastel pink spray paint (we used Rustoleum) // Cricut Explore // Cricut Vinyl in a section of bright colours and gold//
Using your Cricut machine cut out several circles in the balsa wood.
Spray paint the balsa wood in a pretty pastel pink shade and allow to dry.
This is where you can get creative! Login to the design space and have a scroll through the thousands of images they have available to choose from, I was typing in key words like ‘flower’, ‘fern’ and ‘leaves’ to find the designs that I liked! You can obviously choose whichever ones you want but if you’d like to use the exact floral designs as me then I used #M900BE for the pink peonies, #MD6F435 for the gold leaf, #M39c39 for the teal leaves, #M461A5 for the purple and yellow tulips, #MD7267B for the blue and purple roses and finally #M5259C0 for the small yellow flowers.
Once you’ve got all of your designs cut out it’s time to stick them onto the coasters! There isn’t really any technique or pattern to this, just position the flowers and leaves to the coasters, layering some on top of others until you’re happy with the design.
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Delhi's green cover has increased from 21.88 per cent to 23.06 per cent of its geographical area in the last two years, according to the India State of Forest Report (ISFR) report released by the Union Environment Ministry on Thursday.
Delhi's tree cover increased from 129 square km in 2019 to 147 square km. The overall green cover (forest cover and tree cover) increased from 324.44 sq km to 342 sq km, according to the report.
Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai said the city is a nation-wide leader in pro-environment activities. The Arvind Kejriwal government is on track to plant 33,00,000 saplings by March 2022, he said.
The report showed a slight increase in moderate dense forest in Delhi from 56.42 sq km in 2019 to 56.60 sq km in 2021.
There is no change in the very dense forest (6.2 sq km). The open forest area, however, has reduced slightly from 132.30 sq km in 2019 to 131.68 sq km.
All lands with tree canopy density of 10 percent and above but less than 40 percent are considered open forest.
Moderately dense forests have a tree canopy density of 40 percent and more but less than 70 percent, while very dense forests have a tree canopy density of 70 percent and above.
(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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Seriously. What. The. Eff.
The dedicated research staff at Adam & Eve polled over 1,000 adults about their condom usage. The results were... flaccid.
In regards to rubber wearing, 40% of men and 35% of women said they use ‘em, while 63% said NOPE.
Resident Adam & Eve sexologist Dr. Jenni Skyler is shocked:
“While there are many people involved in long-term, monogamous relationships who can safely opt not to use condoms, condoms are still the best way to protect your partner and yourself from unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease. Condom designs have improved dramatically over the years, and more people need to take personal responsibility for their sexual health.”
It’s amazing how many people are still willing to risk some down-low warfare or unplanned pregnancy.
Further proof that we aren’t thinking with our brains…
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criminals - quotes and descriptions to inspire creative writing
The criminals who do what they do to acquire daily bread for themselves and their kin, I think we can all comprehend and forgive. We have a sense of "Robin Hood" fairness when it comes to these matters. Yet beyond survival and necessary comfort for good health of body and brain, criminal acts need to be shown as greed that reaches out and damages society, damages the community. Yet we also need to see that both forms of criminal are obvious and predictable results of a money-nexus world.
In a world where money is easier to obtain by foul means than good, and money is power, criminals will rule the world.
Society cannot afford to keep telling stories that revere or give social status to cruel and indifferent criminals who commit gross acts of violence (physical and emotional) to become personally rich. For they are showing cold emotional indifference and we cannot afford to have these characters as role models.
The confessing codes need a master to handle them. They cannot be interpreted by one who is an amateur of the craft. Everybody confesses everything, their deepest crimes and fears in everyday language. For a code-breaker it is simple to follow the trail and expose them all. Gemma was one of the linguists who could break them. Some saw what she did as magic, yet in truth she was partnered to the positive universe, a tool of the divine force and saw nothing special in herself. She was as natural as the trees and the fish in the oceans. Yet in the "junk" speech, the ad libs and the stories people tell, in their creative flourishes, there are clues. Much is actually junk, fears of nothing and misplaced guilt, yet a master such as her could tell what was real because the universe placed flags only she could detect, shone lights that only she could see. It was as if her soul shone a black light and the criminals were marked in some invisible ink. She was the ultimate detective, the one sent to uncover the hidden world of vice, sent to restore true virtue. | <urn:uuid:af3a5da2-1498-4884-9a34-ffe89c0dbbaf> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.descriptionari.com/quotes/criminals/ | 2022-01-22T15:22:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303864.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20220122134127-20220122164127-00718.warc.gz | en | 0.977887 | 422 |
Childrens Wooden Sandbox with Cover
The kids wooden sandbox with a cover is the perfect addition to your garden and the kids will love it. Sturdy and easy to assemble, this sandbox will provide them with unlimited fun! Let them dig for treasure, build sandcastles and create their own adventure. The sandbox has lots of room, and features a cover to keep out unwanted leaves, stick or twigs while keeping their toys safe. The sandbox is made from high quality timber and features two flat seats to sit on while playing.
- High Quality Timber
- Cover with handles to keep sand and toys secure
- Two flat seats
Dimensions: 4ft X 4ft
Damage and Returns
If you wish to return any items please call us within 7 days of receiving goods, you have 14 days to return the goods to EASE. All goods must be returned by the customer, Products must be in perfect condition in origional packaging. When the goods are checked your account will be credited the amount of the product as per the invoice.
PLEASE NOTE: All returns are the responsibility of the customer until checked into stock.
There are numerous online couriers eg http://www.parceldirect.ie/ and An post who will arrange collection and delivery of the goods, we are happy to help you find a courier if you are having difficulty. It is very important you package the goods well to ensure safe delivery to our factory in Knocktopher
The company must be advised on any damaged goods within 5 days of delivery
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Warmer temps are around the corner so now’s the time to think about fashion accessories – like Summer Tote Bags! Whether your plans are to hit the town, travel to sun & fun at the beach, or just look amazing for school, you’re gonna have stuff to carry – and you want to look awesome doing it.
Turn up the heat on your style game, and make it look cool easy with a printed tote bag! With so many different cute summer fashion options to carry, you may have a hard time making tote bag decisions, so we’re here to help.
Let’s talk tote bags. Instead of lugging your practical purse around all day long why not get more stylish? Be different. Have some flair! Carry all of your important stuff in a cute, cool tote bag.
A tote bag is a large and often unfastened bag with parallel handles that emerge from the sides of its pouch.”
In fact, the decade of the 1940s is remembered as an iconic time stamp in the history of the tote bag, together with the great state of Maine. Bean ice bag was exactly that: a large, sturdy, durable canvas bag to carry ice from the car to the freezer.
Tote Bag Things to Consider and Ideas
What will be the primary use of your tote bag? Are you going to transport groceries, beach accessories, school supplies or something else?
Once you determine the main use for your tote bag you will need to select what style, design and size fits best.
What kind of fashion statement do you want to make? Which design best expresses your personality? Are you sassy or sweet?
Let’s face it – with your busy lifestyle you are going to need more than one style and size of tote bag.
Tote bags are a great gift idea. Does your friend just love photography? Treat your bestie to a day at the beach and surprise them with a new summer beach gift bag!
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CV Trinity has 6 independent channels with CV outputs, each of which can be set to AUTOMATION, LFO or ADSR. Each channel also has a CV INPUT. The selected output [select OUT] outputs a copy of the channel that is selected for editing and lights the indication LED. Use SELECT buttons for selecting the channel and knobs for adjusting its parameters. Pressing the mode button changes between the modes. Clock OUT can be adjusted by holding select button and turning the top knob. Clk OUT is normalized to Clock IN
Automation is 32 step voltage memory with adjustable amount of linear interpolation. Hold the record button and turn RECORD knob to adjust the automation curve. Clock input advances to next automation step. Automations can be variable number of steps and can be clocked either by master clock input or by individial CV inputs.
LFO has RATE that goes up to audiorate, XOR waveshaping and SHAPE selection with ramp, triangle, inverted ramp, flopping ramp, flopping triangle and stepped random voltage source with smoothing. The random signal can be looped. LFO can by synchronized to clock input (different divisions/multiplications are than set with the RATE knob). CV input controls the RATE of the LFO.
ADSR uses the CV input as GATE input for triggering the envelope. It can be linear or exponential, it can be looped and it can either work in ADSR mode or AHR mode. DECAY is set to the same value as RELEASE.
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Hadley Paper Goods
A pair of sweet birds singing Happy Birthday.
Printed on high quality 300gsm, FSC approved card. Each card measures 11.5cm x 15cm when folded and comes in a handsome ivory coloured, recycled paper envelope, the inside is left blank for your own message.
Presented in a corn starch sleeve that is compostable.
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Netflix has become a necessity in today’s time as people are always looking to absorb new content. With almost 3-5 movies being released each week, there is a lot one can watch when they subscribe to this streaming giant.
In 2019, we saw some fantastic movies that released as “The Marriage Story” and “The Irishman”. The stories were unique, the cast was fantastic and people still are talking about these 2 amazing movies.
2020 has just begun and for those who don’t know Netflix has already released a list of new content that will be uploaded on the platform. There’s a ton of content you can watch and hence choosing a few great movies can get difficult. Hence we are here to help you as we will shortlist Top 7 critical movies that you must look out for in 2020!
To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You
The first part of this teen rom-com movie released in 2018 and received rave reviews. Based on the YA trilogy by Jenny Han, we now will see the second installment in the form of “To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You”. You can expect more drama, more love and solid confusion in this lovely movie.
What we like about this movie series is how such a simple story was made more fun!
Make way as we will see a musical based movie! As per sources, Netflix is already en route to adapting one of the best Broadway musicals released in 2018 titled “The Prom” that is based on a teen girl who wishes to take another girl as her date to the school prom!
What we like about this musical is that apart from a good story-line they also have a fantastic star cast with the likes of Meryl Streep, James Corden, and Nicole Kidman.
The Boys in the Band
We just don’t have a musical but also a Broadway play! Also touted as a fantastic play, the cast is as good as anyone can expect. Actors like Jim Parsons, Matt Bomer, and Zachary Quinto will grace this play with their presence and skills.
What we like about Netflix is how they’re making up plays and musicals seriously and converting it into a fantastic movie.
The Devil All the Time
Next up we have an old movie of sorts. The movie is set in a time period post World War II and shows the psychological effects undergone by a group of people living in the Ohio community. Actors like Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland, Bill Skarsgard will be in this movie.
What we like about this movie is the unique casting and their storyline!
How about adding a comedy movie on this list? Here we have a Will Ferrell special as he has written Eurovision that is set in the seventies and will focus on a singing contest. Guess whose part of the cast? There’s Pierce Brosnan, Rachel McAdams, Demi Lovato, and Dan Stevens.
What we like is Will Ferrell’s talent and we’re sure to expect a special one from him!
The Princess Switch: Switched Again
Let’s rewind to a fun and frolicking movie back in 2018 where we saw Vanessa Hudgens play a Duchess of a made-up country and she switches lives with a general girl who looks exactly like her.
What we like about the new movie is that like the last one, you can expect a lot of surprising and funny moments full of laughter!
The Christmas Chronicles 2
Probably at the end of the year when Christmas will return again, so will Kurt Russell as he will be back portraying Santa Claus? What’s best this time is that he will be joined by Goldie Hawn who will play the role of Mrs. Claus.
What we like about this movie is the warm and happy vibe it gives. Christmas indeed is a good time to watch a lovely story, right? So these are our Top 7 movies that you must look out for. Are you excited to watch any one of them? Comment below and let us know! | <urn:uuid:ca298251-a409-406f-b431-9a54db86e2e4> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.hermagic.com/top-7-netflix-movies-to-look-out-for-in-2020/ | 2022-01-22T14:42:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303864.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20220122134127-20220122164127-00718.warc.gz | en | 0.956028 | 860 |
Klein Curacao is a bright jewel in the Caribbean Sea, located off the coast of Curacao, surrounded by magnificent coral reefs. On barely 1.7 square kilometers, this deserted island is about a 1.5-hour boat ride from Curacao and has a fascinating history, mystery, and beauty! A journey to Klein Curacao will appeal to explorers, sunbathers, snorkelers, and divers alike. Read this article to know whether you should visit Klein Curaçao for the day or not.
What to Expect When You Visit Klein Curaçao?
- Nature, Nature, And More Nature
The boat ride from Curacao to Klein Curacao takes around an hour and 45 minutes. Relax on one of the numerous sun-protected benches, open-air hulls, or webbing. You’ll definitely get wet on the way, but you’ll have a front-row ticket to see dolphins!
Dolphins frequently swim alongside the boat, frolic in the waves, and demonstrate their impressive jumping abilities. Because of the waves and currents, the voyage can be rough and wet on occasion, but the reward is priceless!
The sun-drenched bounty island and the old renowned pink lighthouse may be seen from afar. The crystal clear water is calm again when you arrive at Klein Curacao, making it ideal for swimming, snorkeling, and scuba diving. Although a dinghy is a dry way to get to shore from a catamaran, we recommend bringing a snorkel and swimming to the beach!
When you enter the water, you are surrounded by a plethora of colorful fish and sea turtles! Baby sea turtles can be seen making their way from the sand to the clear ocean water between May and August.
- A Beach Lover? Don’t Miss It.
When you get ashore, take a stroll around the island while relaxing and sunbathing. The renowned pink lighthouse, shipwrecks, and ruins are all within walking distance from the shore. Put on some sunscreen and try to get there early in the day because the middle of the island may get very hot as the day continues.
The white sand on the Klein Curacao beach may be the best you’ll ever feel between your toes. Because of the delicate, powdery sand, you will notice that your feet will quickly sink in the sand when walking on this beach. When you get back to the shore, take in the sights and sounds of the Caribbean Sea, relax on the boat, and soak it all in.
Visiting this isolated island should undoubtedly be at the top of your Curacao must-do list.
- On Klein Curaçao, there are some photogenic shipwrecks.
Shipwrecks can be found if you continue along the trail to the coast and cross the island in width. The oil tanker (the Maria Bianca Guidesman) ran aground here in the 1980s, and the wreck was never found. The shipwreck is decaying away off the rugged coast. Lost ship parts and a small sailing yacht can be found on the shore. It has only been in that location since 2007. Unfortunately, it isn’t quite as stunning as the oil tanker.
- Underwater wildlife
Begin with a snorkeling excursion. Because of the sand bottom, the water in front of the beach is very blue. The more sand there is, the less there is to see. You can either go to the blue drop-off or to the beach’s far left or right side for an excellent snorkeling experience. Klein Curacao is one of Curacao’s few turtle breeding places. Thus there’s a better chance of seeing sea turtles here. But keep an eye out for balloon fish, barracuda, trunkfish, and a stingray if you’re lucky.
- How can you miss Blue Curacao?
When they don’t know Curacao, ask them if they’ve heard of Blue Curacao. YES! The small-scale distillery produces one of the world’s most famous liqueurs. You can also visit a historic mansion on the property and enjoy a drink and food on a pleasant patio. It takes around an hour, and it is recommended that you take a guided tour.
- It has a rich history.
Klein Curaçao, like its mother island, had a history in the 17th and 18th centuries with the Dutch West India Company. The 1.2-square-mile island is the final resting site of many African slaves quarantined on the island after becoming ill during the perilous Atlantic passage.
Klein Curaçao changed ownership several times after the slave trade ended, eventually becoming home to a phosphate mining industry in 1871. The island is now solely visited by fishermen and tour groups. However, the rusty steel hull of the Maria Bianca Guidesman, a tiny oil tanker that sank off the coast of Klein Curaçao in the 1960s, can still be explored.
What is the best way to get there?
The boat voyage to Klein Curacao can take up to 2 hours, depending on the tour company you hire. The journey to Klein Curacao is choppy at any time of year, so if you’re prone to motion sickness, either take some motion sickness tablets (Dramamine) or try the following approach. Sit on the side of the boat and stare as long as you can at the beach. Focus on the horizon until you can’t see land any longer. We know it sounds dull, but it will keep you from feeling seasick.
To plan your Klein Curaçao trip flawlessly, visit Curacao-trips.com.
Is It Worth A Trip?
The beach on Klein Curaçao is pristine and undeveloped, which adds to the island’s beauty. It feels like you’re in paradise since it’s uninhabited, there’s no trash, and there’s never a lot of people (only the individuals that came on the boat with you).
Every fish that swims by can be seen since the water is so clear and blue. Klein Curaçao is one of our favorite day trips, and we can’t stress enough how important it is to see this island. It’s a breathtaking, one-of-a-kind location that we bet you would have never seen or experienced before. | <urn:uuid:9c71f7b6-16b7-487e-be20-950a26de5b44> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.imagup.com/trip-to-klein-curacao-for-the-day/ | 2022-01-22T14:01:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303864.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20220122134127-20220122164127-00718.warc.gz | en | 0.929922 | 1,368 |
Did you know?
Judy Garland recorded the original version of the song Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas in 1944
Bing Crosby recorded a 1942 Christmas song that is the best-selling ever!
This is our 5 Christmas songs!
1. Frank Sinatra - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
2. Nat King Cole - The Christmas SongThe Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) is a classic Christmas song written by Mel Tormé and Bob Wells in 1944 and was first recorded by The King Cole Trio in 1946.
3. Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!American singer Dean Martin released a version of the song in 1959, as part of his album A Winter Romance.
4.Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is YouI don't want a lot for Christmas
There is just one thing I need
Don't care about the presents
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The Tokyo Metropolitan Government plans to decorate historical buildings and other structures with lights ahead of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in the capital, officials have said.
The metropolitan government aims to make night views in Tokyo more attractive as visitors from abroad are expected to increase before and during the games, the officials said.
In a draft strategy for the project, the metropolitan government designated three areas for large-scale displays — along the Sumida River and around Tokyo Bay, around Tokyo Station and the Imperial Palace, and around the State Guesthouse at the Akasaka Palace. The three areas are rich in nature and dotted with famous historical and cultural assets.
The draft calls for decorating public buildings, including cultural facilities, universities and government offices. Infrastructure facilities, including roads, bridges and port facilities, will be lit up as well.
The metropolitan government plans to call for cooperation from the state and Tokyo ward governments, as well as companies, to create night views in a unified style. The displays may use LEDs and projection mapping.
After a public comment period, the metropolitan government will finalize the plan as early as March. Potential impacts from the displays on local residents will also be taken into consideration.
In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.
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AIR HANDLING UNITS & HUMIDIFIERS
We were contacted by a Theatre based in Doncaster, whose initial enquiry was to ask if we were able to service their air conditioning system. Subsequently, we have since been asked to arrange a service for the humidifiers within their Air Handling Equipment.
We contacted the company to arrange a suitable time for a site visit for the air conditioning maintenance and once completed, sent the client a quotation for the work. Once agreed, we completed the service on the dates requested by the client, including a check for F Gas leakage. We also compiled an asset register on our computer system allowing the client to have a full record of all equipment they have on site including the refrigerant quantities in each unit.
Further to the air conditioning maintenance we completed, our client asked us to complete a service visit for the humidifiers within their 4x air-handling units.
We appreciate that for most companies, continuing to operate their business activity whilst any work is undertaken is of paramount importance. We were therefore very happy to work with the client to find a suitable time, which fitted in with their events schedule.
During the service of the humidifiers, our technically experienced engineer was able to diagnose a number of faults, which needed further work. We were able to provide our client a quotation for this remedial work ,which has subsequently been completed at the clients request.
We were delighted to be able to help our client on the initial air conditioning maintenance they requested but also further assist them in diagnosing and repairing the work on the humidfiers, allowing our skills as a specialist air conditioning and refrigeration company to be fully utilised. | <urn:uuid:498deb3f-3d68-4ddd-adf6-9be26eb3d3a8> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.mattair.co.uk/case-studies/case-studies-5/ | 2022-01-22T14:19:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303864.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20220122134127-20220122164127-00718.warc.gz | en | 0.976559 | 359 |
CIO Claus Thomsen announces that digitalization has gotten its own part of the business strategy at Lundbeck. This will make it easier to evaluate the technology and to determine how it can be improved, while at the same time protecting the pharma company.
The digitalization process has left its marks all over the company and, over the last twelve months, Lundbeck has added both a dedicated cloud department and a science department to its IT division’s organizational diagram. Even the pharma company’s business strategy has been amended, adding a new digital focus to create a solid foundation for future decisions on digital initiatives.
The new strategic focus on digitalization is anchored in the department of business development and includes a representative from each of Lundbeck’s business areas. They are in turn supported by a digital council, all facilitated by CIO Claus Thomsen’s organization.
"At this moment we are working with 80 different digital initiatives distributed across every part of our value chain. From back-end solutions and R&D to customer experience. It’s everything from classic chatbots to a new voice application for the Chinese market and innovative ways of using data. As an example, we have a new digital solution based on publicly available data which will show where in the world it’s cheapest to recruit participants for clinical experiments," says Thomsen.
Science culture meets tech culture
The primary objectives of the ongoing initiatives revolve around improvement of existing business processes and reduction of costs. It has only been necessary in a few cases to change the company’s fundamental business model – a model in which the physical pharmaceutical is still very much at the center of attention. An example of a digital supplement to Lundbeck’s pharmaceuticals is the digital services which support the way that patients use pharmaceuticals or handle their illnesses. Thomsen explains that there are several reasons why the company’s focus on digitalization continues to revolve around its core business processes.
"One reason is that it is very regulated how and to what extent we are allowed to have contact with the patients. Another reason is that some of our science people are a bit skeptical of the possibilities of combining biology and technology to contribute to recovery and increased quality of life. But the skepticism is changing for the better, especially among the younger generation of doctors - who often have a better understanding of digitalization."
But there are also simpler business considerations to take into account.
"The company’s core product is still based on a pill or injection which the patient must ingest to recover. Therefore, our products are still physical and not digital. If we develop digital supplementing services, there’s a potential risk that those services can be used by competitors with counterfeit products. With that risk in mind, it’s crucial that we consider how we invest in digital supplements to pharmaceuticals if the patent at some point expires," says Thomsen.
Internal seminars about innovation start-ups
Lundbeck uses an extensive ecosystem of digital partners and distributers. Among other things, Lundbeck occasionally hosts internal innovation start-up days – to which start-ups are invited to present their ideas to employees from all parts of the company.
"Every start-up is given fifteen minutes to pitch their idea. Afterwards people are gathered in groups to discuss the pitches and contribute to the idea development. These days have contributed to making digital a part of the agenda and to getting people to talk together in new ways. Furthermore, the start-up days give us a whole new perspective on our partners. Some ideas die immediately while others evolve," says
Thomsen, and continues:
"It’s all about utilizing people’s strengths. Start-up partners are very skilled at being creative and building prototypes. But when the idea is tested, they are not the right people to realize it. From that point on we have better prerequisites on our own to scale it and ensure compliance".
Internally at Lundbeck there is no shortage of volunteers who want to help with the testing of new technologies. In fact, the readiness creates positive challenges from time to time.
"Sometimes people want to put themselves in a position digital leads because it sounds exciting. As a result, the professional and technological debate blends with politics, and a disagreement about the ownership of the digital project occurs. But it is a luxury problem that so many people volunteer. It’s definitely positive for Lundbeck that our employees have the motivation and an appetite for developing and testing digital possibilities."
New and old digital threats
One precaution that takes focus from all the others when talking about digitalization is: safety! And the management board of Lundbeck has an ever-increasing focus on that very subject.
"The health sector is, together with the energy industry and the telecom industry, one of the most vulnerable areas when it comes to cyber threats. Because of that, there is a great willingness from the company management to prioritize safety in everything we do. When it comes to the health sector, it’s clear that industrial espionage and cyber criminality are the biggest threats, and the presence of Lundbeck on the global market increases both the complexity of the threats and at the same time the ways in which the company secures its data. We feel how the cyber criminals have become more aggressive and shrewder," says Claus Thomsen.
Digital facts about Lundbeck
- Over the last ten years Lundbeck has moved away from developing its own solutions and today the company has very little actual development. The infrastructure consists of a set of standard packages and if something new is to be tested, it most often happens as agile projects with AWS or Azure as platforms.
- Lundbeck experiments with the use of VR instead of written standard procedures when employees are to be educated in new procedures. This gives – among others – the advantage that VR contributes with a visual element which can show methods and concepts which normally can be difficult to express as written information.
- As a pharma company, Lundbeck has a big focus on compliance as a part of the company DNA. Claus Thomsen has experienced a clear shift with the authorities over the last couple of years. Whereas earlier the IT part of compliance was almost non-existent, today the authorities have hired IT specialists who look into every little detail of solutions, access control and more.
Claus Thomsen’s best tips for the agile CIO
Find out how digital the company should be and what role IT should play in it. Whether you as CIO will be taking the lead or a more retiring andreceiving position, making a clear definition of the role of IT in the digitalization of your company will be your opportunity to improve the chances of success.
Choose the right people for the job, both internally and from your ecosystem. An agile and innovative start-up company can be an inspiring partner but at the same time lack insight into operations and compliance from a GxP perspective, or if the right solution must be scaled.
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Directors are often called upon to make tough decisions. And sometimes those decisions end poorly or have unintended consequences. In short, bad calls happen.
Generally, bad calls do not trigger personal liability; the law acknowledges that directors have a right to be wrong. While various statutes have chipped away at the traditional immunity afforded to directors, the law continues to extend directors many legal protections from personal liability.
Oppression claims, however, are a significant exception and can pose a serious risk to directors, personally. In broad terms, the oppression remedy is available to a complainant where a corporation acts in a manner that is unfairly prejudicial to the complainant’s interests. This statutory remedy was introduced four decades ago as a major reform to corporate law. Oppression remedy provisions are not drafted narrowly, but rather are designed to be a flexible tool that balances various interests by applying general standards of fairness.
Potential complainants are shareholders, directors, and other “proper persons” such as creditors, whose reasonable expectations have been breached. Most often the alleged oppressive conduct has no valid corporate purpose, and it may have been conducted in bad faith. When oppressive conduct is alleged, the opposing party is usually the corporation, but a director, or other corporate actor, may also be named personally.
When should you, as a director, be concerned about your personal liability? Last summer, the Supreme Court of Canada issued its decision in Wilson v. Alharayeri and set out factors that should be considered by all directors. The decision was awaited with interest because, despite the frequency of oppression claims, the Supreme Court has only ever heard a handful of oppression cases.
In the decision, the Supreme Court reviewed various principles developed at common law and affirmed that personal liability for directors is appropriate if the oppressive conduct is properly attributable to them and if the imposition of personal liability is “fit” in all the circumstances.
The “fitness” assessment involves the analysis of four principles. Three of these principles indicate that the oppression remedy:
- should go no further than necessary;
- should only vindicate reasonable expectations of the complainants in their capacity as corporate stakeholders; and
- should be “fit” in light of other available remedies. For example, the oppression remedy might not be fit when damages for breach of contract could provide an adequate remedy.
The fourth principle provides practical guidance in daily conduct: the oppression remedy request must be a fair way of dealing with the situation. For example, it is fair to impose personal liability on a director when the director
- derived a personal benefit,
- increased control,
- breached a personal duty, or
- misused corporate power,
- or when a remedy against the corporation would unduly prejudice other security holders.
The Supreme Court’s restatement of the law assists in the management of corporate and personal risk. However, since the oppression remedy must respond to unpredictable situations of unfairness, its application remains necessarily imprecise. For this reason, if a situation of potential oppression arises, it is best to make that other call: to pick up the phone and seek legal advice early on.
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Honda Cars India Ltd. (HCIL) announced its entry into the MPV segment with the launch of mid-size 7-seater, Honda Mobilio. The car gives the perfect combination of Sporty Exterior, Spacious Interior, Comfort and Utility with superb mileage. The Mobilio first unveiled at Auto Expo 2014.
The Honda Mobilio is available in both 1.5L i-DTEC diesel and 1.5L i-VTEC petrol engine that gives the best performance with best in class mileage.
I spent some time in the Honda Mobilio at the Auto Expo as well as a launch event in the New Delhi. Here is my short review of exterior, interior, comfort and security features of Mobilio.
Engine Performance & Fuel Economy
I didn’t get a chance to test drive the Mobilio but Honda is using the same engine that we find in Amaze. The i-VTEC Petrol and i-DTEC engine is known for delivering best performance without consuming much fuel.
The 1.5L i-DTEC diesel engine delivers the maximum power of 100 PS @ 3600 RPM and maximum torque of 200 Nm @ 1750 RPM. The engine is mated with 5-speed manual transmission. The engine has enough power to pull the load of 7 people and luggage. The company claims that the diesel engine will give fuel economy of 24.2 kmpl.
The 1.5L i-VTEC petrol engine delivers the maximum power of 119 PS @ 6600 RPM and maximum torque of 145 Nm @ 4600 RPM. The engine is mated with 5-speed manual transmission. The engine has enough power to pull the load of 7 people and luggage. The company claims that the diesel engine will give fuel economy of 17.3 kmpl.
The MPV cars are not known for their looks, they’re usually boring and all the vehicles looks same. Honda knew this and they tried to improve it a little bit. The exterior design concept is based on Dual-Solid Motion which is the fusion of dynamic body and glassy cabin. The front grille, sharp spoiler and glassy character line on side will give sportier stance. The third window glass is also bigger and goes all the way to the upper body and connecting to the tailgate glass. This gives you the glassy-cabin feeling.
The 10 spoke alloy wheels with wing-shaped spokes enhance the sportiness of the car.
For more boldness and sportier exterior design, you can opt for top variant of Mobilio called Mobilio RS. The Mobilio RS available only with a diesel engine, this variant comes with a dynamic front and rear bumper, projector headlamps with LED position lamps, attractive & exclusive alloy wheel design, sporty chrome grille, stylish tailgate spoiler, side sill garnish retractable ORVM with turn indicators and Chrome exterior door handles.
The Honda Mobilio interior is based on a prime comfort theme which ensured wide seats, spacious leg room and a large trunk space. Here Honda successfully maintained its “Man Maximum, Machine Minimum” design philosophy. Honda is using a two-tone color scheme inside the car with black with silver trim for the arm rests, instrument panel and central console. Accessory and USB port is just below the 2-din audio system.
Comfort & Luggage
My height is 6 feet and I feel very comfortable even on 2nd and 3rd row. The 2nd row seat is a 60:40 spilt fold and tumble type with slide and recline options. The entry and exit in third row is very easy, just one click and 2nd row seat will fold itself to make room. Head space is also very high and should be enough for 6 or 6.1” people. To make the 2nd and 3rd row more conformable there is a 2nd row Roof AC vent. The 2nd seat is both sliding and reclining while the 3rd row seat can only recline. There is also Mobile and glass holder for 3rd row passenger.
Once again Car Manufacturers ignoring the basic security tools as a standard. All the security features such as Front Dual SRS Airbags, ABS with EBD, security alarm, Immobilizer Anti-theft system etc. are available but only in high variant. Most of these features are absent in base variant, if you’re concerned with safety, then you need to go for high variant.
ABS is standard on all Diesel variants.
Price & Warranty
The Honda Mobilio is available in 3 grades offered in Petrol and Diesel variants – E, S and V. The sportier RS grade will be available in Diesel. The delivery of Mobilio already beings and RS delivery would begin from September 2014.
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Respecting the article “Abortion Trauma Syndrome” by Arline Kaplan, I would note the irony of the claim that this syndrome is “conceived by anti-abortion activists to advance their cause,” given the obvious pro-abortion attitude of everyone associated with Kaplan’s article.
Abortion Trauma Syndrome – A Different Perspective
As an active member of the “anti-abortion movement,” I read the article “Abortion Trauma Syndrome”1 in the September issue of Psychiatric Times with great interest.
I was mildly surprised that a piece such as this appeared in the news section rather than as an editorial. I was much more surprised, however, that a statement so final and definitive as “abortion does not cause psychiatric damage” (emphasis mine) was quoted in the article, which then went on to discuss the multi-flawed nature of the research that currently exists for or against this postulation.
For those who are open to a more in depth discussion about this issue, I would like to propose a thought experiment. Is there anything else in all of human existence that one could substitute with complete confidence for the word “abortion” in the above quote, given the complexity of the human psyche? Can we say with absolute certainty that any other type of surgery or medical condition or treatment can never cause psychiatric damage? If the physical and mental changes associated with pregnancy, the post-partum period or the menstrual cycle itself can be accepted as sometimes having psychiatric sequelae, why should we be so quick to exclude abortion from consideration?
The feminist writer Frederica Mathewes-Green2 once wrote “No one wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal, caught in a trap, wants to gnaw off its own leg.” It seems that the evidence for such a perspective may be mounting over time. A pro-life organization called Priests for Life has recently initiated a campaign called “Silent No More” where they help to connect individuals grieving over a past abortion with resources for healing. So far about 4,000 people have registered on the campaign Web site and many have posted about the specific negative psychological and other consequences of their abortion.3 In addition, a post-abortion healing weekend retreat program, Rachel’s Vineyard, has helped over 60,000 women (and men) in various countries since 1995 with the pain they are experiencing after a previous abortion experience (the retreat’s cost averages just over $100 per person)4 Can we discount the possibility of any psychiatric illness caused or exacerbated by abortion for all of these 60,000 or more people?
Another pro-life organization, Feminists for Life, has identified evidence of an appalling lack of “choice” on our nation’s college campuses for many pregnant students whose health insurance plans do not cover prenatal or maternity care and who have no family housing or child care services available to them on campus. Given such circumstances, is it any wonder that about half of the 1.2 million annual U.S. abortions are performed on college-age women?5 Are all of these women really “choosing” abortion as freely as we might like to believe? If they aren’t, does that alter their risk of future negative repercussions?
While it may be true in some cases that abortion is being used as a political football, we all know that this does not mean that either side of the debate is completely wrong. More research is needed to know the whole truth, but some basic facts are easy to overlook when considering a topic as controversial as abortion. One point worthy of keeping in mind is our knowledge that having a minor child at home is often a protective factor against suicide. Another may be whether psychiatrists themselves are taking the time to elicit a history of abortion or assessing for any possibility of a connection to other symptoms or behaviors during the patient interview. Subjects such as a past abortion are not necessarily likely to be brought up spontaneously by a patient; the examiner may have to ask about this directly. In neither Kaplan and Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry6 nor Kaplan and Sadock’s Synopsis of Psychiatry7 is there any reference to asking the patient specifically about a past abortion (or any prior pregnancy) experience in the interview section. I think it would be safe to assume that the question is rarely asked in clinical practice. Is it possible we could be missing something as a result, especially given the frequency of abortion?
The pro-life community acknowledges that there are some women who believe that their abortion was the right decision and show no evidence of any negative psychological effects afterward. On the contrary, there are certainly some women who suffer very intense grief and depression after an abortion. A recent case with some notoriety involved a British artist, 30-year-old Emma Beck, who hung herself in early 2007 shortly after aborting the twins she was carrying (at 8 weeks’ gestation). Her suicide note read, in part, “I should never have had an abortion. I see now I would have been a good Mum. . . I was frightened, now it is too late. I died when my babies died. I want to be with my babies . . . they need me, no-one else does.” The coroner later remarked in reference to the case “It is clear that a termination can have a profound effect on a woman’s life.”8
Both personal and professional experiences have proved to me the wisdom of the coroner’s comment. On September 4, 1993, at age 17, I aborted my first child at 5 weeks’ gestation. Like Emma, I feel that I died, emotionally, that day, and I have never been the same since. I had functional impairment for several months afterward, with symptoms including nightmares, flashbacks, panic attacks, significant guilt, a severely depressed mood, crying spells, impaired concentration, insomnia, anhedonia, decreased libido, fatigue, irritability, anger, a loss of interest in most of my regular activities and other symptoms that I managed to hide from everyone because my fear of someone finding out about the abortion outweighed all of my other concerns at the time.
I can say with certainty that if I had been evaluated by a psychiatrist both before and after the abortion I would have met criteria for at least one psychiatric illness afterward that I did not have before the abortion. It took many years before I was gradually able to admit to myself, and others, that I had made a horrible mistake. To truly accept complete responsibility for permanently destroying such a vast reservoir of potential for growth, development and meaning in my own life (and the lives of others) as was contained in that tiny “clump of cells” required gradually breaking through many layers of denial and defense mechanisms.
Every time I see my 2 beautiful toddler-age daughters, I ruminate about how their lives, and mine, would have been better had I given them the opportunity to know their sibling, who would now be 15. Every time I hug or kiss them I think about the child I will never get to hug or kiss. Is this indicative of any psychiatric “damage”? Who can definitively say? I have been raped, severely physically abused, and came near death after a freak accident that permanently disabled me, but my abortion is by far the most traumatic experience of my entire life.
All I know for sure is this: I am a mother, wife, family medicine physician, and psychiatrist. I received a full scholarship to college – several colleges, actually. I have a house, 2 cars, a dog and 2 great jobs. A lot of people might look at me and say that I had a “better outcome” because of my abortion, as the original article implied is the result when a woman who chose abortion later finishes school or has a better financial status than a young mother. But I would gladly give every title, every possession, and every penny to my name in return for the opportunity to once again be that terrified 17-year-old on that cold exam table, sobbing, waiting for the doctor to come in, and to choose what I knew in my heart was really the right thing to do.
Andrea Chamberlain, MD
Dr Chamberlain is an adult psychiatrist who is establishing a practice in Florida.
1. Kaplan A. Abortion trauma syndrome. Psychiatric Times. 2009;26(9):1, 8-9, 18.
2. Mathewes-Green F. Real Choices: Listening to Women; Looking for Alternatives to Abortion. Ben Lomond, CA. Conciliar Press; 1997.
3. Priests for Life. Silent No More Awareness Campaign. 2009. http://www.silentnomoreawareness.org/about/. Accessed October 26, 2009.
4. Rachel’s Vineyard Ministries. 2008. http://www.rachelsvineyard.org. Accessed October 6, 2009.
5. Feminists for Life. Women Deserve Better than Abortion. 2009. http://www.feministsforlife.org. Accessed October 6, 2009.
6. Sadock BJ, Sadock VA, eds. Kaplan and Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry. 7th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2000.
7. Sadock BJ, Sadock VA. Kaplan and Sadock’s Synopsis of Psychiatry. 9th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2003.
8. Artist hanged herself after aborting her twins. Telegraph.co.uk: News. 22 February 22, 2008. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1579455/Artist-hanged-herself-after-aborting-her-twins.html. Accessed October 6, 2009.
A DSM Diagnosis By Any Other Name
Regarding the article “Abortion Trauma Syndrome” by Arline Kaplan, I would note the irony of the claim that this syndrome is “conceived by anti-abortion activists to advance their cause,” given the obvious pro-abortion attitude of everyone associated with Kaplan’s article.
Would not the reader be expected to doubt the validity of the article if the reviewers and presenters had been so clearly opposed to abortion as they are instead in favor of its availability? Kaplan might have provided at least one researcher an opportunity to rebut the primary content of the article, rather than allowing Drs Stotland and Robinson to make their comments unchallenged.
Whatever the politically correct view of the APA and Psychiatric Times regarding the impact of abortion, my own clinical experience (which I don’t think is unique) is that most women who have been subjected to this procedure are left with emotional scarring and are reluctant to even discuss the event in retrospect. If this occurred as a result of any other cause, there is no doubt in my mind that there would be a DSM-IV diagnosis of some kind for it (especially given the proliferation of diagnoses in that manual).
Robert Murdock, MD
Political Agendas Make For Poor Science
“Abortion Trauma Syndrome” provides a case example of how the scientific distortion is just as bad when the agenda is coming from the left as when it comes from the right.
Whereas the article correctly points out that pro-life forces previously twisted isolated findings to imply that all women who have abortions are psychologically scared, it fails to point out the methodological problems with work by researchers such as Gail Robinson. Almost every argument that Dr Robinson makes concerning abortion trauma has also been made in an attempt to refute the existence of PTSD as a whole.1 Statements such as “among women who have a single, legal, first-trimester abortion of an unplanned pregnancy for nontherapeutic reasons, the relative risk of mental health problems is no greater than the risks among women who deliver an unplanned pregnancy,” involve such a convoluted control group as to belie the face validity test. In other words, it makes it obvious they were looking for a particular outcome. The fact is that soldiers who deploy to combat zones have mental health disorders that are similar to those who do not deploy,2 but clearly some soldiers do come back with PTSD. Similarly, anyone who has actually worked with patients would realize that some women are traumatized by having had an abortion, just as some are traumatized by being forced to have a child for whom they did not plan.
Rather than trying to advance a particular political agenda, our role as psychiatrists and researchers should be to help patients recover from their mental anguish-whatever its cause.
- MD, PhD (Name withheld by request)
San Diego, CA
1. Summerfield D. The invention of post-traumatic stress disorder and the social usefulness of a psychiatric category. BMJ. 2001;322:95-98
2. Larson GE, Highfill-McRoy RM, Booth-Kewley S. Psychiatric diagnoses in historic and contemporary military cohorts: combat deployment and the healthy warrior effect. Am J Epidemiol. 2008;16:1269-1276.
Be Not “Anti” or “Pro”-But a Tireless Advocate
“Abortion Trauma Syndrome” does not exist in the DSM nomenclature. But this is not the same thing as saying that patients-both female and male-do not present to psychiatrists asking for help in dealing with the emotional aftermath of having made this decision, just as they come with the need to work through any other issue that carries with it high emotional valence. There are no scientific studies on most of the unique and personal issues that clinicians confront daily, but that doesn’t mean that we refuse to listen with caring thoughtfulness to whatever concerns our patients choose to express.
As we try desperately to think of our syndromes as science (to my knowledge there will be no definitive biological illness markers in all of DSM-V), we can probably help our cause more by not declaring ourselves “anti” or “pro” anything in the political realm-but rather as ceaseless advocates for those who are troubled for whatever reason and come to us seeking our help.
M. Richard Fragala, MD
Distinguished Life Fellow
American Psychiatric Association
A Misuse of Science
I found the article “Abortion Trauma Syndrome” disturbing, but not surprising given the politicized agenda of the American Psychiatric Association and its leadership.
While I fully agree that there is little to no scientific data to support the existence of “Abortion Trauma Syndrome,” APA pro-abortion advocates are disingenuous when they decry this “fabricated mental disorder.” APA’s pro-abortion stance is a political one without empirical evidence in methodologically sound studies that abortion on demand is necessary to promote or maintain women’s mental health.
Also, as much as many of us would wish it to be different, there are many “syndromes” and disorders (Rape Trauma Syndrome, Munchausen by Proxy to name a couple) that lack adequate research evidence for inclusion into DSM, but are frequently bandied about, without producing the emotional and aggressive response on the part of APA and its leadership that this subject has.
We should all refrain, from misusing our positions as psychiatrists to promote the misuse of science to advance our causes. Dr Nada Stotland is a vociferous advocate of abortion on demand. Her advocacy for abortion rights, including partial birth abortion, is as bereft of scientific support as the position of antiabortion forces who claim that abortion produces psychopathology.
Dr Stotland is correct that the issue of abortion is a moral one, not so that it is a religious one. Perhaps there are those in the APA who believe that labeling a moral imperative against abortion as “religious” marginalizes it in some way. For those of us in the APA who believe that abortion is the taking of an innocent human life, it is frustrating to see our dues monies wasted on political causes with which we not only disagree, but also find morally repugnant.
The APA is well on its way to becoming as unrepresentative of its membership as the AMA.
Eileen P. Ryan, DO
Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences
University of Virginia Health System
Drs Robinson and Stotland respond
We appreciate the depths of feeling and the personal and professional experiences of the writers of these letters. In the space allowed here, we can make only a few major points.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, approximately one-third of women in the United States have abortions before the age of 45. Therefore every psychiatrist who treats women should be aware of the literature on the psychiatric aspects of the procedure.
There is no credible scientific evidence of a discrete psychiatric syndrome caused by abortion. Women react to abortion, as to childbirth, with a wide variety of emotions-including sadness, guilt, and a sense of loss; the predominant reaction is one of relief. These emotions can be contradictory, and they often change over time. Emotions are not psychiatric syndromes or disorders. Neither is regret a psychiatric disorder. There are many decisions in each of our lives that we come to regret-sometimes bitterly. This does not always mean that the decision was the wrong one given our situation and knowledge at the time.
We acknowledge that some women may become upset or even depressed around the time of an abortion. The circumstances that lead a woman to have an abortion may be traumatic and these circumstances, rather than the abortion itself, may cause the woman to feel distressed.
In addition to domestic abuse, abandonment, and insufficient social and financial support, there is evidence that anti-abortion misinformation and clinic demonstrators exacerbate the stress of having an abortion. The evidence that assertions about “abortion trauma”are politically motivated comes from the anti-abortion literature itself. Making a distinction between religion and science denigrates neither.
Lastly, we strongly object to being labeled “pro-abortion.” Since 1973, The American Psychiatric Association has advocated for the right of each woman who alone can assess the situation in which she finds herself pregnant and make decisions about that situation. The APA has also advocated the importance of that right to her mental well-being. Each of us and the APA are pro-life, when it comes to:
• The lives of the hundreds of thousands of women who die or who are grievously injured by unsafe abortions in places where they cannot obtain safe ones.
• The lives of the children for whom they are already responsible.
• The lives of women whose pregnancies would trap them in abusive, even life-threatening, conditions.
We are advocates for the lives of the children they already have because these women were able to make decisions that allowed them to create circumstances in which they can love and care for those children.
Readers of Psychiatric Times who are interested in more extensive reviews of the literature may wish to consult the very extensive report published last year by the American Psychological Association.1 They can also read a review performed by a committee of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (a committee of which we were members), recently published in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry.2
1. Major B, Appelbaum P, Beckman L, et al. Mental health and abortion. Available at http://www.apa.org/pi/wpo/mental-health-abortion-report.pdf. Accessed October 20, 2009.
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On Jan. 12, the venerable Belcher Mansion, a sprawling three-story, 120-year-old Victorian-style home in Stoughton, Mass. was ablaze. Flames shot through multiple levels of the multi-pitched rooftop.
A neighbor saw the flames and warned the occupants; everyone escaped unharmed. Dozens of firefighters from surrounding communities fought the blaze as flames spread through the three-story dwelling. After several hours of hard work and thousands of gallons of water, the blaze was extinguished, leaving the house charred and smelling of soot as steam rose from the smoldering embers.
That night the temperature dropped to 16 F, and remained below freezing for days. The water used to extinguish the fire quickly turned to ice. ARS Services, a New England restoration company, was called to remediate the loss. The insurance claims department requested we assist ARS and develop a plan for drying the beautifully crafted wood stairway and entrance area that is the “crown jewel” of the property.
On arrival, the three-story staircase was encased in ice and no heat or electricity was available in the structure. If the staircase was to be saved, heat would be needed, along with the ability to direct the heat to the ice (soon to be water) without causing condensation in other areas of the home.
Drying the winding wooden structure would be complicated and directed heat drying was the answer. ARS called Dick Fox, CR, who had the closest self-contained trailer-mounted Thermal Energy System, or TES. Thus began the process that ultimately saved the handcrafted work-of-art in the historically significant property. The team had to deal with a variety of special criteria. There were requirements related to saving the stairway and its intricate architectural detail, while the vagaries of the outside cold New England winter played havoc: cold during the day, frigid during the night. The insurer and insured had concerns for saving the beautifully built masterpiece. The staircase had been meticulously thought out, with each piece of carved wood adding a new detail to the piece to which it was attached.
After observing how the staircase was assembled, an enclosure was created around the stairwell and entry foyer; the empty cavity within the stairwell would be used to direct the heat to the water.
A carpenter carefully removed the lowest back panel of the wooden staircase. A TES system was inserted and the opening sealed. The width of the cavity was small when compared to the length dimension; in this cavity heat would transfer from lower to higher areas due to a combination of conduction, convection and radiation. The stairwell being dried was a “finite cavity.” Directing heat inside the cavity caused the moisture in the wood to increase in temperature, changing it from ice to water to, finally, vapor as the energy increased over a short period of time. Changing the state of water molecules requires energy, and directing the energy to the water was by far the most efficient method.
In the confines of the stair cavity, local eddies developed. When observed with an anemometer, the eddies of moisture were circular and symmetric, due to being trapped by the risers and treads. Positive pressure inside the space forced the moisture air out through small joints and gaps.
Water, like all fluids, moves under the influence of pressure differences; however, suction also becomes an important ally. When a water molecule touches a pore wall, adhesion to the pore wall slows the rate of movement (depending on the diameter of the pore). Adhesion, or permeance, causes friction to slow the rate of moisture transfer or what is often called “evaporation.”
Water molecules have surface tension, and surface tension for water molecules in contact with air decreases with temperature. Pressure differentials in wood, like most materials restorers dry, has a permeance rating based in part on capillarity. Capillarity occurs whenever a gas, a liquid and a material contact each other. With the wooden pores filled with water and air, capillary action originates due to adhesion between the water molecule and the pore wall.
Wood has a sufficiently small diameter pore size, allowing water molecules to form concave surfaces that “pull” the water creating capillarity. The very nature of heating the water molecule reduces the surface tension, allowing accelerated drying to occur. Utilizing directed heat allowed us to maintain the surface temperature above the condensation zone.
Drying the wooden staircase successfully occurred because the relative humidity in the drying chamber dropped below the relativity in the pores of the wood and at its surface. Moreover, the drying time decreased because we increased the heat energy in the chamber and directed it to the water molecules. The higher the temperature (within reason) the lower the relative humidity. Add higher air velocity air movement, as was done in the enclosed stair space, and drying times are minimized.
Most people apply this principle without knowing it. For instance, wet laundry is placed in a confined clothes dryer (clothes dryer = high temperature). Add dry air (low relative humidity) and air movement (more velocity) and the wet laundry dries fast.
The drying situation decreased moisture at the wet surface. As a consequence, a moisture content gradient initiated moisture movement. Thus the capillary moisture flow increased until the moisture transfer became vapor only, and drying was completed. The dry goal was reached and the stairway and its wooden entry foyer were returned to pre-loss condition.
The stairway was “dry” in less than one week, when the wood regained hygroscopic equilibrium. It may take several more weeks to fully acclimate to its environment. When this occurs, craftsmen will be able to start the process of refinishing the masterpiece to its original splendor. All too often, the surface looks dry, well-meaning contractors start the refinishing process too soon, and problems arise.
Drying with heat is not new, and drying with refrigerant dehumidifiers has been with us since industry pioneers recognized that the concepts developed by W. H. Carrier (1876- 1950), the “father” of air conditioning and the first to publish a psychrometric chart, had applications to drying wet materials.
The “quality” of dehumidification is determined by its potential to evaporate and condense moisture. With heat, higher temperature means higher quality, which means higher energy of molecules. The quality of heat is determined by its potential and directing the energy to the water: adding temperature, which in turn means higher mechanical energy of atoms in wet material.
Higher temperatures are obtained when restorers warm up the water molecule, i.e., by adding heat. Lower temperatures are obtained by cooling down the water molecule, i.e., by removing heat.
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Brahmi tablets of SuAyu possess marvellous benefits of improving brain functioning and strengthens memory. Brahmi is a therapeutic herb commonly used as memory enhancer, aphrodisiac and a tonic to reduce stress and anxiety. Brahmi has a natural cooling property which keeps mind calm and stress free therefore promoting sound sleep. Brahmi has positive impact on hippocampus region of brain which improves concentration, intelligence and memory. Brahmi improves working memory, mental-agility and learning ability in young adults, students, working professionals and elderly as well. This herb is also helpful in preventing age-associated memory problems in middle aged and elder people.
Brahmi reduces stress and anxiety by decreasing cortisol levels (stress hormone).
It calms the mind, promotes clarity of thought and helps in strengthening memory.
It promotes sound sleep.
Brahmi is very good in Alzheimer’s disease as it reduces production of chemicals that damages neuron in brain.
Brahmi is a potent Antioxidant and it offers neuro-protection by scavenging off free radicals from nervous system.
Improves production of certain brain chemicals that are responsible for thinking, learning, memory, thus improving cognitive functions of brain.
2 Tablets 2 times a day or as directed by the physician.
To be stored at room temperature in a cool and dry place, keep away from direct sunlight.
Do not use if seal is broken
Keep out of reach of children
Tighten the container after use
Consult your physician/healthcare professional if you are pregnant or a nursing mother
Ans: The herb Brahmi tablets have cumulative physiological beneficial effects. Missing a dose may break the continuity of the herbal actions. Hence it is recommended that you should not miss a dose of Brahmi tablets during the course of therapy.
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A sturdy and useful weight made of dense cast iron. Useful for applying weight to books, paper, documents, and other items while drying. Dimensions of the footprint of the weight are 2.5" x 9" with an integrated handle. A smoother surface on the base can be obtained by applying a blotter or felt to the bottom. Weighs 3.5 pounds. | <urn:uuid:7946dfb3-3f66-4998-943a-c20b1e8bcf0e> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.talasonline.com/Cast-Iron-Weight | 2022-01-22T14:32:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303864.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20220122134127-20220122164127-00718.warc.gz | en | 0.892027 | 84 |
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Colossians 1:9-10 (NIV) For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God
Have you ever wondered what God's will is for your life? Me, too.
Paul teaches us how to ask God for wisdom about His will in Colossians chapter one.
So far, we've learned to pray:
Today, we learn the fourth thing. This one request of God will open your eyes in an incredible way.
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We’ve had the honor of studying Paul’s prayer for the believers in Colossae found in the first chapter of Colossians.
So, in the prayer so far, do you remember what 3 things Paul has prayed so far? One. That we would know God’s will and how to apply it to our lives. Two. That we would walk a life worthy of the Lord and pleasing Him in every way. And three. That we would bear good fruit.
So, picking back up Colossians chapter 1 verses 9-10, Paul says,
“We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God”
So the fourth thing Paul prays for is growth as in “growing in the knowledge of God.” Didn’t Paul already pray for knowledge? True, back in verse 9, Paul prayed that we would grow in the knowledge of God’s will. But here Paul is praying for more than just knowing God’s will.
The word Paul uses here for knowledge in the original Greek language is a type of knowledge that is beyond the normal physical world and everyday life kinda knowledge. It’s an experiential type of knowledge, meaning that you don’t just have intellectual knowledge about God, but rather you know God intimately.
True knowledge of God isn’t learned from books. You can only receive this type of knowledge when you have a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ. This type of knowledge only comes when the Holy Spirit illuminates your mind.
And how does that happen? When you pray this prayer that Paul’s teaching us. “God help me grow in the knowledge of you.” And then you study your Bible, just like you’re doing here, you take what you learn, and meditate on it. Ask God questions throughout the day like “God, show me more about what it means to grow in the knowledge of you?”
And, as we’ve discussed in a previous episode, this isn’t something you have to strive for. This simply happens to you as the Holy Spirit reveals things to you about God.
So your simple truth for today: This prayer that Paul prays is like a cycle. You seek God’s will which leads to you walk worthy of the Lord and pleasing him. Which leads to fruit being produced through good works which leads to knowledge of God. It’s an ever-continuing cycle that brings you closer to God. And before you know it, you’ll look back and see how far you’ve come in your relationship with God. God is so good. Amen?
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In these challenging times you might be wondering whether it’s worth investing in creativity to land your messages internally? You’re under pressure with your budget, but you know, you still need to deliver. The thing is, a great creative idea needn’t cost the earth. Something simple can stand out, hit the nail on the head and be effective.
Changing people’s behaviour is never an easy thing to do, but getting people to listen to what you’re saying will always and forever be the first step. We 100% believe creativity is the key to cutting through all the noise and clutter in people’s working lives and minds. Being an Internal Comms design agency, you could say we’re biased, but we’re not on our own.
Good creative work, like good user experience, can make communications 10-11 times more effective.
Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman, Ogilvy UK
With this in mind, we asked our creative team what they believe makes good creative work. This is what they said…
1) Make people feel something
Great communications tap into our emotions, creating a reaction far more powerful than any rational reaction would’ve been. People don’t stop being people the moment they enter the workplace. The best communications make us feel curious, proud, moved or believe in something. They understand the heart of what needs to be communicated and express it emotively.
If you use creativity to make employees feel something they’re more likely to engage, more likely to remember, more likely to take action and spread the word.
2) Make it authentic
Build something authentic. Realness helps your message connect with your people.
Getting the tone of voice right, is just as important as what you see. Always try to put yourself in the shoes of the audience, how would you want to be spoken to? What would make you read something?
- The right tone of voice can pull at people’s heart strings, make them smile or question things.
- Adding personality to copy humanises it and allows your message to speak directly to your audience.
- Keeping it conversational encourages interaction!
- Don’t let grammar ‘rules’ get in the way of a great message. Remember those ‘rules’ are guidelines, not rules.
It should be obvious from the creative execution that your people’s voices have been heard. If it isn’t, rethink it.
3) Make people think
You only get something different out if you put something different in. Have the bravery to try something unexpected. Turn things on their head. Whether it’s a clever piece of design or copy, a recognisable face or phrase or a something that raises a smile, we all find joy in figuring something out for ourselves!
4) Make it about stories
We’re all suckers for a good story, and knowing how to tell a great one will help you inspire your people and land your message more effectively. Break away from the business as usual message, and land communications that tell an engaging story. What’s the human angle? Some of the greatest stories share moments of incredible vulnerability. These are the moments that are relatable, and so often not spoken about. Be brave. Be vulnerable.
5) Make your communications two-way
Employees want a conversation to make sense of things, ask questions and share their thoughts. Use creative ways to encourage your audience to get involved and participate in the conversation.
6) Make no assumptions
Never assume you know what your people want or need… both in format or content. In the consumer world nothing goes to market without insight and testing with the intended user. Internal communications should be no different. Ask your people what they would like and test your ideas. Without doubt the end solution will be far better received and occasionally completely different to what you expected to deliver!
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Based in Madrid, five Board members, elected for a four-year-term by the General Assembly, form the governing body of the association. Members of the Technical Committee support the board with the selection and analysis of the new products introduced to the market and eligible to be added in the list of nominees.
Thomas Gerwers, a member of the board since 1998, was elected Chairman in 2008. The German photo journalist is editor-in-chief and publisher of ProfiFoto and managing partner of PF Publishing GmbH. Thomas Gerwers has been a part of the photo and imaging industry since 1990 and is a valued expert in the field of professional photography concerning the technical as well as creative, cultural and professional aspects. He is a qualified member of DGPh, the German society for photography. Thomas Gerwers developed TIPA from a European to a global association of photo and imaging publications, with a worldwide membership that has a total of over one million readers.
Giulio Forti, a journalist, co-founded TIPA in 1991 and became a board member in 1998, and Vice President in 2008. After nine years as editor-in-chief of the leading Italian magazine in the Seventies, he founded FOTOGRAFIA REFLEX in 1980 and ran the magazine for 36 years. In 1996, he launched, the first Italian online photo magazine. Forti wrote and writes books about techniques and photography history. On special events, he speaks about these matters. For “his outstanding support of the photo industry”, he received the prestigious photokina-Obelisk award in 1994. He now writes for FOTOgraphia as a correspondent and for the online magazine photojournal.it.
George Schaub has been covering the imaging industry for over 30 years and during that time served as Executive Editor at Popular Photography (US), Editorial Director of the Photo Group at PTN Publishing and Editorial Director at Shutterbug Magazine (US). He has authored over 20 books on silver and digital imaging, and was an Adjunct Professor in the Visual Arts Department at the New School/Parsons School of Design in New York City.
Roland Franken took his first steps into photography in his father’s darkroom, developing and printing the photos he shot for a local newspaper. He studied photo engineering at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, finishing with a diploma thesis on colour management. Recognizing the arrival of digital imaging he started his career as an editor for digit! magazine in 1993. In 2012 he acquired digit! as a publisher. Roland Franken is a member of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh).
Johan Elzenga is the editor-in-chief of the Dutch photography magazines FOTOGRAFIE. His life-long passion for not only photography but also computers made him one of the very early adopters of digital photography, and he has written several books about this subject. Among these books was the first Dutch book about the RAW format, which became a best seller and is still considered as the standard Dutch book about this subject. Elzenga also still works as an independent professional photographer, with (African) wildlife as his most important specialty. His images are sold worldwide through leading stock agencies such as Getty Images and Alamy.
The mission of the Technical Committee, a four-member body with specific technical knowledge, is to select award candidates following an elaborate guideline. The Technical Committee works year-round checking which products have the prerequisites necessary to be considered for an award nomination.
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Charter School City: What the End of Traditional Public Schools in New Orleans Means for American Education
- By Douglas N. Harris
- University of Chicago Press
- 352 pp.
- Reviewed by John P. Loonam
- September 4, 2020
An in-depth, apolitical look at a new way of doing education.
In August of 2005, just as the school year was getting started in New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina virtually destroyed the city’s school system. The flooding that devastated New Orleans — sending the vast majority of its people into exile and rendering whole neighborhoods uninhabitable — closed the schools for a year and scattered its students, faculty, and staff to a dozen other states, as well as homeless shelters in Louisiana.
However, while it was set in motion by a natural disaster, the dismantling and rebuilding of the Orleans Parish School District was a political act, one that had been long debated. As Douglas N. Harris puts it in Charter School City, his new study of school reform in New Orleans, the system was in dire need of reform: The Orleans Parish School District’s high school graduation rate ranked 63rd out of Louisiana’s 68 school districts. Since, as a state, Louisiana had the second-lowest graduation rate in the country, New Orleans was “near the very bottom of the list of over fourteen thousand US school districts.”
The Louisiana state government seized the crisis as an opportunity to rebuild the school system along completely different lines, and “within the span of just a few months,” Harris writes, “the state took over almost all of the city’s schools, the teachers were fired, the teacher union’s contract was eliminated, and schools were opened up to parental choice.”
Starting in 2006, New Orleans would rely almost entirely on charter schools, and assigning schools based on neighborhood would be replaced by parental choice — what have been called “market-based” reforms. As anyone who has followed American education at all in the last 30 years knows, this was the kind of radical transformation some reformers had long advocated. But no school district in the country had undertaken reform on such a large scale.
Harris is an educational economist and director of Tulane University’s Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, a research center he founded specifically to analyze and evaluate these reforms. Charter School City is the outcome of, in his words, “one of the largest studies of a single school district ever conducted.” It offers an insider’s history and evaluation of the specific reforms New Orleans has attempted.
Harris begins with the replacement of the old Orleans Parish School District with the newly formed Recovery School District (RSD). While outlining the role of prominent national organizations like Teach for America and the KIPP charter school network, as well as the political players in New Orleans like the Landrieu family and Leslie Jacobs, “a powerful, aggressive local insurance executive” long interested in reforming New Orleans schools, the author offers significant criticisms of this process.
For example, he points out that “the immediate effect [of relying on Teach for America] was to place students in classrooms with teachers who lacked training, did not plan to stay, and did not have roots in the local communities.” He characterizes the reform methods as anti-democratic:
“Some [of the people designing the reforms] were elected officials whom citizens had vested with this responsibility. Most were not. Some were from New Orleans. Most were not. Some decisions were made with broad public input. Most were not.”
He also notes that there were racial implications to these decisions: “Three out of four teachers fired were black, compared with fewer than half of those subsequently hired.” However, Harris argues that these criticisms do not diminish the value of the reforms, concluding, “The process was ugly, but the result was unprecedented.”
Indeed, the figures Harris cites are impressive. Test scores for elementary and middle schools raise the district’s ranking among Louisiana schools from the bottom to about the middle; high school graduation rates and ACT scores show significant gains; and the percentage of New Orleans high school graduates going on to college rises from 37 to 63 percent. These results outstrip anything any other district has achieved with charter schools, school choice, and similar reforms.
Harris spends the second half of the book discussing what might account for this success. He avoids directly taking sides but concludes that “market” reforms — choice and competition — do not explain the improvement, at least not completely. He outlines the preconditions necessary for a classic market and argues that education does not fit the definition. For example, for consumer choice to be effective, individuals must have many good options and must have reliable information about those options.
While parents and children play the role of the consumer in the education market, in the real world, they rarely have multiple good options, and good information about schools is frustratingly difficult to find. Rather than improving schools, Harris argues that an over-reliance on competition explains the disappointing results of the first several years of the reforms. He states that real success came with a second wave of reforms.
The initial enthusiasm for autonomous charter schools and competition led the RSD to allow schools to make virtually all its own decisions. This was supposed to lead to innovation around curriculum and teaching, as families flocked to the most successful schools. However, Harris argues that — since the power to choose lies more with schools than with families — schools innovated around recruiting and retaining successful students, while avoiding or discharging those less successful.
In response, in the early 2010s, the state and the RSD centralized the administration of enrollment, discipline, transportation, and school funding. Schools were prevented, to a larger degree, from cherry-picking their students.
Meanwhile, in 2007, the RSD began the practice of closing charter schools and re-contracting them to new operators. This policy was so aggressive that, by 2016, 40 schools were closed and re-contracted (in a city that only had 83 schools). In other cities, the disruption of school closures and takeovers often negated any improvement from the new school, but Harris cites statistics to indicate students at all levels performed better in these takeover schools.
He credits policies that closed schools strictly based on failure to meet data-based performance objectives and that only allowed operators with a proven record of success to re-open them. He concludes it was this combination of “market” policies — largely autonomous charter schools — and government intervention — centralization of core administrative functions — that created the conditions for rapid school improvement.
When Harris turns to the question of lessons to be learned from New Orleans, he does not argue for any particular package of reforms but introduces the more general concept he labels “Democratic Choice.” This involves evaluating school systems based on values that must drive public education: “freedom, efficiency, equity, and community.”
There is a role for market-driven practices, but Harris rejects the notion that government action is unnecessary, finally arguing that we must move beyond “unproductive and superficial debates” about “privatization” and “government monopolies” and recognize the contributions of both schools of thought.
There are issues that Harris may take too lightly — for example, closing 40 schools in an 83-school system had to significantly disrupt the education of hundreds of children. He also focuses primarily on statistics for the whole of New Orleans, even though such city-wide statistics hide the reform effects on the lowest-performing schools, often in the poorest neighborhoods.
However, the statistics he cites are persuasive, and Harris is not a blind advocate for any one school of reform. Anyone interested in diving more deeply into the current school debates without the noise from overheated political rhetoric will find Charter School City an excellent starting point.
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Background to the troubles.
Amidst much celebration and high hopes for the future, South Sudan gained its independence on 9 July 2011, However, two and a half years later, on 15 December 2013, fighting between rival factions in the South Sudanese Army. This continued in and around Juba for the next three days and many people were killed and wounded. The main hospital, which has 130 beds, had 1,000 in-patients.
Though the fighting in Juba stopped after three days, inter-tribal conflict had been sparked by what had occurred and this has continued in most of the 10 states in the country, especially in Unity and Upper Nile States. Many thousands of people have been killed and over 1.8 million displaced from their homes. Many are sheltering in UN camps. Because of the conflict 2.2 million people are suffering from the widespread famine. The normal harvest has greatly reduced and it is difficult for NGO’s and the UN to distribute food. In addition the South Sudan currency is in freefall and this rampant inflation has further put up the prices of already scarce food and resources.
For over 2 years efforts have been made to form an interim Government of Unity, representative of all of South Sudan’s tribal groups. These efforts were still in progress when further trouble erupted in Juba on 7 July 2016, two days before the fifth anniversary of independence. Fighting broke out between soldiers loyal to the President and those loyal to the Vice President. YThis time over 270 people in Juba were killed and many more wounded. One area of the town called Jebel, was devastated by artillery fire. Throughout the town, people hid in their homes or sheltered with friends. The Headmaster’s home was in Jebel and he and his wife and child moved into the School. Mercifully his home was not damaged or broken into. There was widespread looting in the town.
The Africa Union are seeking to mediate and the South Sudan Council of Churches has issued an urgent call for repentance and a true commitment to peace and reconciliation.
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In just a little over a month (September 9) we’re going to start our new kids’ martial arts classes for three-year-olds. At first you might think that three is a little young to start with martial arts. But trust us, it’s not. In fact, getting kids started early is one of the best ways to ensure that they absorb some skills that might benefit them later in life. Here are a few of the reasons you might want to consider martial arts for your three-year-old.
It Installs a Lifelong Love of Exercise
We all know that most kids today aren’t getting enough exercise (it makes us sound cranky, but it’s true!). Now if you decide that kids martial arts isn’t for your child, then we still want you to enroll them in some sport. But there are many advantages in kids martial arts that not every sport offers. First of all, it works out so many parts of the body, keeping kids limber and burning calories at the same time. Being indoors, it can be participated in all year round. It will also give them a good foundation of martial arts so that they’re ready to engage in self-defense in the future.
It Shows Them What Martial Arts Really Are
Martial arts movies are fun, but you can’t deny that there’s very little real martial arts in them. Unfortunately, the idea of what martial arts are can be warped in children’s mind, simply because they watch some ninja movie. Most of them will carry that warped idea of martial arts around with them for a long time, maybe even their entire lives.
Taking kids martial arts classes gives kids a realistic look at what martial arts really are. By watching adults, they’ll see what they can really do with a martial art if they stick with it. This includes when to fight and when not to fight. Knowing the truth about martial arts will also let them know about its limitations, because learning how to use martial arts from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is not going to end well for the child.
We understand that many three-year-old kids are in daycare, and if they’re not then there’s no doubt that they have their share of playdates. But all too often kids are allowed to hang on in the background when they’re involved with other kids.
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Brindisi, Italy (SportsNetwork.com) – Serena Williams needed to win three
matches this weekend to propel the United States back into the World Group of
the Fed Cup, but the world’s top-ranked player managed to win only two.
Instead, Italy will remain in the World Group after the doubles team of Sara
Errani and Flavia Pennetta thumped Williams and Alison Riske, 6-0, 6-3, in
Sunday’s decisive doubles rubber for a 3-2 victory.
Maybe Williams needed to play without a teammate.
The 19-time Grand Slam champion beat Camila Giorgi to open the singles action
on Saturday, then gave the U.S. a 2-1 lead Sunday by rallying for a 4-6, 7-6
(7-3), 6-3 triumph over Errani, who had won her opening singles rubber on
Saturday against Lauren Davis in a 6-1, 6-2 rout.
However, Pennetta again drew the Italians even on Sunday with a 6-1, 6-1
pounding of Christina McHale.
Riske was chosen to play alongside Williams in the doubles match, but the
Italian duo dominated from the start. Pennetta and Errani won the first five
games in a mere 17 minutes, then rebounded from a break down in the second set
to hand Williams her first-ever loss in 17 career Fed Cup matches.
The Americans will play in World Group II again next year. The U.S. had beaten
Argentina, 4-1, in a World Group II first-round encounter earlier this year to
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Rei leaves the locker room feeling extremely refreshed (thanks to a long shower) and infinitely calmer (thanks to a long distance soulmate), his negative self thoughts washed away by a tsunami of euphoria as easily as the sweat and dust from his athletic activities is washed down the drain.
As Rei makes his way down one of the many corridors of the Tokyo Athletic Stadium, heading toward the Grandstand he turns left down one of the many passageways, and immediately hits a solid wall of muscle.
Glasses askew and with his bag fallen to the floor, he balks when as he recognises who he has run into.
“I’m so sorry,” he wails as the hulking form turns around,
“Ryugazaki!” a usually deep voice rises in surprise,
“Coach Yamazaki! I am sosorry, ” Rei blurts out, bowing in apology,
“Hey, hey , it’s cool,” the taller man insists, tugging Rei up by the elbow,
“and please, I’m only an assistant coach,” he smiles, handing Rei his bag before looking around somewhat distractedly.
Readjusting his glasses, Rei looks up at the black haired man noticing the frown on his face as he glances first to his left, then to his right, at two identical doors -the first of which, leads to the athletes entrance for the grandstand while the other leads towards the direction of the underground car park.
Rei clears his throat, gaining the assistant coach’s attention,
“I’ll just, ah, make my way back to the grandstand then,” he said, nodding casually toward the door on the left,
“Ah yes, I’ll walk back with you,” the assistant coach replies, as he opens the door, ushering Rei through to the brightly lit tunnel leading to the outdoor arena.
Before the two men reach the end of the tunnel however, Rei is pulled to the side by his assistant coach.
“Are you ok now Ryugazaki?” the older man hesitates at first, before looking at him directly,
“What do you mean?” Rei replies, feeling a little self conscious,
“After your vault, you seemed a little out of it, disassociative,” Yamazaki gestures vaguely,
“Disappointment I guess,” Rei shrugs, trying to play it off,
“This was more than disappointment, you completely blanked me out,” is delivered almost accusingly,
“I was really disappointed?” an eyebrow is raised at Rei, “I’m better now,” Rei quickly adds as the taller man huffs,
“Keeping it in isn’t healthy you know, if it’s echo-trauma. . .” he suggests, noticing Rei playing with the wide, decorative metal bracelet covering his left wrist,
“I’m FINE,” Rei interrupts, a little louder than expected,
“Alright, I’ll back off,” the man gives in, “but just so you know, part of my job is to also keep an eye on the psychological health of this athletic team, especially our unbonded members,” he looks toward Rei’s wrist meaningfully, “If you ever want to talk about it, I can recommend a few . . .”
At which point Rei remembers the introduction of Sousuke Yamazaki to the assistant coaching team: Working towards his conjoint degree in both Sports and Soulbond Psychology, the 23-year-old joined the Japan Athletic Academy, part-time, to study the effects of soulmate bonds on athletic performance.
At which point Rei remembers that two of his friends are part of that same study.
At which point Rei remembers that those same two friends were having their own Olympic trials today, scheduled very close to his own, and he had probably missed both in his period of ‘disappointment’.
At which point Rei realises Sousuke is still looking at him and expecting some sort of reply.
“I’ll keep that in mind,” he nods, before turning his head sharply at the sound of a starting gun,
Following his gaze, Sousuke makes a shooing gesture toward the sunlit tunnel exit, “I think the 110 metre Hurdles have already finished, but you might make the 100 metre sprints.”
Rei doesn’t bother to question why the assistant coach would know which events he was thinking about, he just makes his way out toward the Athletic field with a wave of thanks.
“You missed my race, Ryugazaki,” Takeru Fujiwara states blandly, as he performs a perfectly executed right calf stretch,
“Sorry Fujiwara, I. .” Rei starts, feeling ashamed,
“Don’t worry, I get it,” Takeru waves his apology off as he switches to his left leg,
which Rei translates as ‘You needed time to process your disappointment at not making the Olympic Pole vaulting team, I understand and I’m not mad’
“Thanks, it’s just hard sometimes,” Rei explains,
“I know,” Takeru replies with a sad smile, leaning back into a hamstring stretch,
which Rei translates as ‘It’s nothing to be ashamed of, it’s the nature of competitive sports after all, happens to all of us’
Rei just nods in acknowledgement, unable to deny the sentiment.
“So how did your trial go?” he asks his black haired friend,
“I got in,” Takeru shrugs before shaking out his limbs, “ 110 metre Hurdles, trial for the 400 is tomorrow,”
which Rei translates as ‘I’m going to the fucking Olympics!!! (pterodactyl noises)’
“Why didn’t you say so sooner!” Rei yells, grabbing his friend by the shoulders and pulling him into a rough hug,
“I didn’t want to. .” Takeru says in a small voice, ‘make you feel bad’ Rei’s brain supplies,
“No! you should be proud, I . .” ‘could really do with the distraction, honestly’ is left unsaid as Rei starts looking around the stadium, “where’s Yagami? Does he know?”
Takeru nods before gesturing to the track, “they’re setting up for the 100 metre sprint right now,”
Rei follows his line of sight to lane 5 and the blond haired runner blowing kisses towards the now blushing Olympic Hurdles hopeful.
As the final times are announced, Rei watches sadly from the sideline as his friend Riku Yagami has his Olympic dream crushed.
Head in his hands, the blond runner is sitting on the ground crying and Rei’s heart breaks for him.
Remembering the black haired hurdler beside him, Rei turns to say something when Takeru disappears with a whoosh to race to Riku’s side.
Almost ashamed of himself, Rei watches with a twinge of jealousy as Takeru moves to comfort the obviously distraught Riku, sitting behind him with his legs and arms encircling the young man.
Rei watches as Riku slowly calms down in his boyfriend’s arms.
Rei looks away embarrassed, as Takeru rests his chin on the blond’s shoulder and the two share a intimate, whispered conversation before Takeru lifts Riku up bodily, carrying him over to where Rei now stands with their sports bags.
“Hey Ryugazaki,” the usually vivacious Riku says in a small voice as Takeru lowers him to the ground,
“H-heey Yagami,” Rei replies slowly, unsure if he should attempt more than just a greeting,
“You saw. . .?” Riku shifts his weight from one foot to the other,
“Yeah, umm,” Rei fidgets with his bag strap as he tries to find something to say,
“Bit of a bummer,” Riku shrugs,
“Know how you feel,” Rei offers, trying to match Riku’s nonchalance,
“After all this hard work. . .”
“But you know,” Riku looks up at Rei suddenly, with an increasingly widening smile, “no Olympics means no training. . .”
Takeru, sensing shenanigans looming- quickly asserts, “where are you going with this Riku?”
“No training means no diet. . .” he smiles wickedly as he rubs his hands together,
“Riku you are not living off those fried noodle buns from your parents bakery,”
“But, I’m distraught,” Riku mock pleads, his disappointment from not making the Olympic team completely dissolving with the thought of his favourite childhood treat, he had been denied during the last three months of intensive training,
“And I’ll have so much free time. . .”
“Use it to train for nationals,”
“But you know I don’t. . .” Riku starts, before Takeru pulls him in the direction of the locker rooms,
“We’ll discuss this in the shower,” Takeru orders, effectively shutting his boyfriend up.
Looking at Rei he quickly mutters, “give us an hour?”
An hour and a half later, Rei is sitting outside on a bench in the front of the Athletic stadium, waiting for his friends. As twilight sets in, and his eyes grow sore, Rei regretfully packs away his book of Olympic record breakers and pulls out his phone to check the time.
Many athletes have left the building since the final trial for the day, waving their goodbyes as they walk past, just not the two that Rei has dinner arrangements with yet.
Mumbling to himself, Rei tenses a little as he feels a presence at the other end of the bench he is currently occupying.
“Is it ok if I take a seat here?” a tired sounding voice inquires,
Looking toward the voice Rei, is stunned into silence and nods dumbly, his face suddenly slack as his mind comprehends the beautiful maroon-haired man slouching lazily to his left.
*Holy fucking shit, that’s Rin Matsuoka! The Rin Matsuoka!* the fanboy part of his brain screams,
*Japan’s youngest multi-medal Olympic swimmer* the analytical part of his brain recites in awe,
*He made the Olympic swim crew without even having to trial* the rumour orientated part of his brain chimes in,
*The small-town boy with big-world dreams*, Rei’s inner hopeless romantic sighs, *Winning the gold for his father, the silver for his soulmate and the two bronzes for his friends*
So what the fuck is he doing here?
Rei’s internal monologue is cut short by a loud argument from the main entrance, that slowly makes its way toward him.
“Come oon! Yamazaki,” Riku whines, “we wanna meet him,”
“No,” Sousuke answers simply,
“Riku leave it,” Takeru rubs his forehead in annoyance,
“But. . .” Riku starts,
“Stop bothering Yamazaki about his fiancé,” Takeru pleads, “obviously he has reasons for not mentioning them,”
At this Riku turns to Sousuke, on the verge of tears, “but we’re Riku and Takeru, you know everything about our soulmate status, you can tell us ,” he notices Rei as the group nears the bench, “help us out here Rei. . .”
“It’s complicated,” Sousuke states with a note of finality.
At this, the beautiful man sharing the bench with Rei stands up as the group approaches.
“I’ll un-complicate it then,” he says as he draws himself up to his full height, kisses Sousuke full on the mouth, and turns to the now confused trio smiling,
“Hi, I’m Rin Matsuoka, Sou’s true bonded-soulmate and future husband.”
In the silence that follows Rei, Riku and Takeru alternate between confusion, astonishment and outright disbelief before Rin suddenly exclaims,
“And you’re the Riku Yagami and Takeru Fujiwara I’ve heard so much about!” he directs to Takeru and Riku; they look at Sousuke questioningly, who looks just as puzzled as they do.
Rin smirks at their confusion before divulging, “Your third soulmate is dating my baby sister.”
Twenty minutes later, Rei finds himself sitting at a table for five at his favourite noodle bar.
Rin Matsuoka had begged Riku and Takeru to allow him to take the three to dinner as an apology for thoughtlessly outing them as an Anomalous Soulbond. Neither Riku nor Takeru bothered to mention that Rei had figured out that they were ‘Glitches’ the first week he met them, at least not until after Rin offered to pay for anything they wanted.
“So wait,” Rin is saying to Riku, “my scarless, lesbian sister is dating your bisexual, platonic soulmate?” he asks in clarification, “the ‘Hōnan three’ is. . . ”
“Duo-homo-romantic, triple-poly-platonic,” Sousuke (the student of Soulbond psychology) supplies,
“What he said,” Riku confirms, “so I can promise you, Kou has nothing to worry about,”
“If anything, it’s Nana that should be worried,” Takeru throws in, “having a scarless girlfriend sounds scary, Kou’s soulmate could turn 18 any day. . .” he shudders,
“Nah, Kou doesn’t buy into the whole Soulmate thing,” Rin states earnestly, “especially after the bullshit we went through,” he motions to Sousuke and himself,
Rei looks at Riku and Takeru wide-eyed as if to say ‘bullshit???’
Takeru makes a slight waving motion with his hand, which Rei translates as ‘we’ll explain later’
“Being the elder soulmate must be hard,” Rei covers the brief pause, thinking of his own soulmate as he idly twists his butterfly wrist-cover,
“Whoa, nice scar-mour dude,” Rin points to Rei’s wrist-band.
Effectively moving the conversation to the safer topic of Soulmate scar privacy jewellery for a while. . .
“Hey Rei,” Riku hesitates before swallowing hard, “what do you think you’ll be doing in the next few months?”
“I-I I’m not quite sure,” Rei answers a little embarrassed, his Olympic failure still fresh on his mind,
“It’s just that,” Riku pauses to collect his thoughts,
“Just ask,” Takeru encourages his boyfriend (and one third of his Soulmate trio),
“Ask me what?” Rei looks between the two with a growing sense of doom,
“Iwaswonderingifyouwanttojoinastrideteamwithme,” Riku blurts out in one breath,
“He wants to quit Athletics and re-join our old Stride team,” Takeru explains patiently, “and he’s asking if you to join with him,”
“What. . .”
“Sorry, it was a dumb idea,” Riku utters into the tablecloth,
“No. . .” Rei tries to respond,
“I just thought it might be fun, not so much pressure as all of. . .” Riku trails off in a small voice,
“Yagami, wait,” Rei pleads, Riku looks up suddenly, his face hopeful, “what exactly is Stride?”
Turns out Stride is an international extreme sport, a relay race through an urban environment, littered throughout with various obstacles that are maneuvered around using various acrobatic techniques.
Rei is told that the sport relies on adaptability, athleticism, teamwork and trust. Hardcore Parkour as Riku describes it.
Watching the video clip on Riku’s phone, Rei watches what Takeru refers to as a perfect 'Relation'- two runners, blindly charging at each other from opposite directions, neither knowing exactly where the other is- until they meet up (and somehow manage to avoid collision) in a small corridor of space, runner 2 chasing runner 1, sprinting at breakneck speed, until the moment of perfect synchronisation when their hands meet in a resounding clap, runner 1 transferring the responsibility for the next leg of the race to runner 2; and something more that Rei can’t quite put his finger on.
Rei’s wrist suddenly tingles for a moment and he feels a wave of pure spontaneity wash over him.
Stride looked fun, exciting and exhilarating.
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Removes the binding between a pair of axes.
unbind_axes(axis1, axis2) unbind_axes(id, plot2, axis2)
The function arguments.
|axis1||The name of the first axis.|
|axis2||The name of the second axis.|
|id||A ChipsId structure defining the first axis.|
|plot2||The name of the plot containing the second axis.|
The unbind_axes command decouples the specified pair of axes so that they no longer synchronize their limits, scales, and other data range attributes.
chips> unbind_axes("ax1", "ax2")
Within one plot, unbind the axes ax1 and ax2.
chips> id = ChipsId() chips> id.plot = "plot1" chips> id.axis = "ay1" chips> unbind_axes(id, "plot2", "ay1")
Given a pair of plots (plot1 and plot2), unbind the y axes.
Bound axes are intended to display the same range of data. The following attributes are synchronized between bound axes: automin, automax, majortick.mode, majortick.interval, majortick.count, minortick.mode, minortick.interval, minortick.count, pad, and tickformat. In addition, internally-managed values such as data ranges are also synchronized by the bind command.
Properties that are aesthetic in nature are not synchronized during the bind, such as colors, tick lengths, tick styles, grid styles, and tick label fonts.
What axes are bound together?
The info_bound_axes command is used to display the list of currently bound axes.
Border axes of plots are implicitly bound to the first set of axes that are created. They may be unbound using the unbind_axes command.
The strip_chart command creates a column or row of plots where the common axes are bound together; it can be considered to be a combination of split and multiple bind_axes calls.
See the bugs pages on the ChIPS website for an up-to-date listing of known bugs.
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Sagittarius Sun Libra Moon
Outspoken and charismatic, the Sagittarius sun Libra moon man or woman has the ability to say and do a lot of things and get away with it. They are candid and confident with a style that is all their own. They like to keep it classy and enjoy stimulating conversations with smart people. A great sense of humor is characteristic with this sun moon combination and they are adept with casual sarcasm.
Sagittarius sun Libra moon men and women can be bohemians. Artistic souls who prefer pursuing what they consider to be meaningful and beautiful while rejecting conventional standards. They love to be in love and tend to have a strong romantic bone and a desire for deep emotional connection. They have good taste and look after their appearance well. They likely enjoy exercising their creativity through fashion and personal expression. They can be a handful but always amusing.
Their relations with people tend to be very good and they are likely well liked by many. Sagittarius Sun Libra moon individuals may have knack for being a little vain or conceited but it doesn’t make them any less popular. They value their relationships although they can sometimes wax hot and cold. Sometimes they want space from loved ones and other times they want to spend every moment with them.
They are hard to pin down emotionally because they can be very good at manipulating other’s perception of them. They can also seem glib because of the way they seem to say what they think other people want to hear rather than give their honest thoughts. In truth, they are being honest but simply have a more fluid attitude about most things and can often change their minds and flip flop on issues. Because they value harmony, they can also be very tactful when they wish and modify their words so as to serve that purpose.
Sagittarius sun Libra moon is nothing if not a thinker and a thinker with romantic ideals. They appreciate philosophy and contemplating abstract ideas and principles that explore deeper meanings and values relating to their existence. They feel profound compassion and may be drawn to humanitarian causes as an extension of their desire for peace and goodwill on the widest scale possible.
For people with their sun in Sagittarius and moon in Libra, it is important for them to find and maintain balance in their life. They need reciprocity and fairness because any type of injustice can unsettle them on an emotional level making them volatile and distraught. Despite their egotism and vanity, this sun moon combo can be very noble and earnest in their desire to enrich others and promote prosperity and love.
Sun in Sagittarius
Your nature is marked by a constant concern for elevation and evolution. You want to project the image of a moral person, inhabited by a natural sense of justice and fairness. Your desire for discoveries prompts you to appreciate changes of life settings, explorations of the world, spiritual and inner journeys. Your enthusiasm may conceal a form of shyness and reserve. But the will to broaden your horizon prevails over your modesty. Sagittarius gathers. He readily listens to all arguments, even to those he is not familiar with, and he has the ability to synthesize different logic.
Moon in Libra
You loathe violence. Your nature is sociable and you are keen to maintain harmony in your environment. You are sensitive to “the spirit of the times”, to prevailing trends and currents. Because you pick up the moods of the people who surround you, you can be diplomatic. As you adopt the characteristics of your environment, your may become vulnerable. Your surrounding models may influence your tastes and your habits: you readily espouse your entourage’s standards and aesthetic concepts.
Famous People with Sagittarius Sun Libra Moon
Jay-Z – Born: December 4, 1969
Joseph Stalin – Born: December 18, 1878
Kat Bjelland – Born: December 9, 1963
Maria Callas – Born: December 3, 1923
Walt Disney – Born: December 5, 1901
Anna Nicole Smith – Born: November 28, 1967
Sinéad O’Connor – Born: December 8, 1966
Ilona Staller – Born: November 26, 1951
Dean Ambrose – Born: December 7, 1985
Jane Austen – Born: December 16, 1775
Jenna Dewan – Born: December 3, 1980
Antoine de Caunes – Born: December 1, 1953
David Carradine – Born: December 8, 1936
Emily Dickinson – Born: December 10, 1830
Noam Chomsky – Born: December 7, 1928
Ray Liotta – Born: December 18, 1954
Theo James – Born: December 16, 1984
Gustave Eiffel – Born: December 15, 1832
AnnaSophia Robb – Born: December 8, 1993
Francis Huster – Born: December 8, 1947
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – Born: November 24, 1864
Teyana Taylor – Born: December 10, 1990
Françoise Gilot – Born: November 26, 1921
Benny Anderson – Born: December 16, 1946
Gemma Jones – Born: December 4, 1942
Émilie Nef Naf – Born: December 14, 1987
William Fichtner – Born: November 27, 1956
Milton Erickson – Born: December 5, 1901
Liv Ullmann – Born: December 16, 1938
Don Cheadle – Born: November 29, 1964
Seungri – Born: December 12, 1990
Roger Zabel – Born: December 22, 1951
Dulce María – Born: December 6, 1985
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There are hundreds of Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs) that take on all Payroll, Benefits and HR responsibilities, and there are hundreds of Administrative Services Organizations (ASOs) that handle parts of a company’s day-to-day workload.
A PEO or an ASO could help any company immensely.
However, every change comes with an inherent risk. Would it be worth the trouble to outsource your Payroll, Benefits and HR? Just how difficult would it be for a company to make the switch to a PEO or an ASO?
The glib answer: It’s easy.
The honest answer: Corporate and personal data is sensitive so an unprofessional migration would not be appropriate.
For more detailed information about the benefits of PEOs and ASOs, go to the following comprehensive blog post. Below is a rundown of some of the steps that such a change would involve.
The Migration Process
The actual nuts and bolts of outsourcing a small business are not complicated: Payroll, Benefits and HR are simply taken care of by an outside company instead of a fellow employee on the other side of the open-space office.
Nevertheless, the first time through any process has bumps. Fortunately, PEOs and ASOs have gone through the process of setting up new companies many times before.
There is a lot of data that needs to migrate. Each company has a lot of facts and figures and official paperwork, starting with the simple (e.g., physical and mailing addresses, email addresses, phone numbers) and progressing to the complex (e.g., Workers’ Compensation, Job Codes, General Ledger). The number of employees needs to be established. An allowance for growth should be prepared, and a naming scheme designed. A billing structure needs to be set up. Archives for older documents need to be established. Relationships need to be created and/or adjusted with insurance companies and benefit providers. COBRA needs to be set up. Contractors need to be introduced into the system. Simply establishing the initial automated emails will be time consuming. And this is just a quick, general list.
In the long run, everything will be more efficient, but the short run will require some adjustment.
Each employee is involved in the change, too, from providing personal information to learning to use new software. Each employee needs to add their own data, and some of it is sensitive. Addresses, email addresses, phone numbers are still there, but there is also Payroll and Time Off information, and each has a different level of Benefits that need to be transferred.
Outsourcing companies have done it all before and, like the eventual day-to-day benefits, the initial setup is streamlined and simplified to minimize errors.
Clearly there is a lot of work. But given the advantages of using an HR outsourcing firm, the initial migration and learning phase will grow into an efficient and effective system.
The good news is that the best PEOs and ASOs have embraced technology. Computers have made business transactions quick and painless at the bank, and it has done the same for Payroll, Benefits and HR.
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Peter Penz, Vossloh Kiepe Ges.m.b.H.
After more than 7 years of collaboration and supply of electro- and HVAC components, subsystems and units for Vossloh Kiepe Austria, we can happily confirm that the services provided by Brema SK meet the needs of both, our company and our customers’ needs as well.
Appreciated is in particular the flexibility of the parallel production of variety of products, but also the possibility of short-term orders and deliveries and the supply of accompanying documentation.
Moreover, we rate the company Brema Sk as a reliable partner, who responds very quickly and efficiently to all customer-specific requirements, changes and deviations, thus ensuring the necessary delivery capacity.
Supplier audit 10.3.2016
2.) Quality Assurance Management
3.) Delivery reliability
4.) Cost compared to competitors
5.) Product quality
7.) Assistance in the processing
Key points on Brema SK
Truly impressive operation with a high standard of staff, facilities and infrastructure.
On the shop floor at the time of my visit was assembly, test, charging and flashing of AC units for Noske Kaeser, Konvekta, and Vossloh Kiepe. All above our existing skill set.
Long term they offer partnership with RedDOT and an entry point to localization in Eastern Europe / Russia. They have: skills, capability, expansion land and desire to grow.
The audit was conducted in an open atmosphere. Free access to all desired areas, facilities and documents was granted.
The production areas are structured with the material flow and make a clean and tidy impression.
Remarkable is to mention the number, structured nature and depth of the guideline and proof documentation throughout the all audited area.
Supplier audit 26.01.16 - 27.01.16
Facilities: Conditions and state of the art.
Does the technical equipment meet our requirements? Basic equipment for our products available
Do the age structure and the maintenance of production equipment meet our requirements?
Tested and documented
Infrastructure: building and material flow?
Does the infrastructure of the site meet our requirements? Clean production divided into modules
Is the production well-structured and cleanly set up? Testing room very well equipped
Workforce Order Processing & Production skills?
Do the commercial and technical skills of the workforce meet our expectations?
Long-standing and qualified staff, capacity planning available
Workforce engineering & testing skills?
Is engineering and testing competency available?
Testing competency very good, Engineering to apply changes and production preparation available
Is there any special knowledge in the company available? Existing products are absolutely comparable with Stadler products. Requirements of existing customers (Vossloh Kiepe) very high
Are the processes defined and documented?
Processes are defined, documented and traceable. Production processes stable and well known.
Test certificates / Measurements gathering?
Availability of test certificates / Measurements gathering: Available
· Inspection of incoming goods? Performed according Working Instructions
· In the production area? Test records are performed
· Final testing / final testing in production? Analogue and digital tests are performed
Measuring equipment - Calibration?
Are the gauges and instruments systematically calibrated and maintained? Implemented.
Are defective materials and components labeled and sorted out and not simply delivered to Stadler Rail without prior consultation? Implemented.
Is there reporting available for products notwithstanding the specification? Implemented.
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This passing drill was contributed by Mike Shaughnessy to the FastModel Sports Basketball Plays and Drills Library.
Mike is a Player Development Coach for Dr1ven Training LLC.
This is what Coach Shaughnessy had to say about the drill:
Attack kill spots on the floor (highlighted) that breakdown defenses, opening up drive and kick opportunities.
Pass and rotate to the next spot.
Coaches can emphasize various passes:
– Jump stop and kick out (outside hand chest pass)
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Hold players accountable for communication and having hands ready to receive the pass. | <urn:uuid:fafc0ccf-1b04-42a0-8cdb-285f82f53c8a> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://coachingtoolbox.net/kill-spot-passing-drill | 2022-01-24T04:22:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304471.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220124023407-20220124053407-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.942267 | 153 |
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Since the publication of Vapnik's book entitled The Nature of Statistical Learning Theory (Springer-Verlag, 1995) and the introduction of the celebrated support vector machine (SVM), research on kernel-based machine learning has flourished steadily for nearly two decades. The enormous amount of research findings on unsupervised and supervised learning models, both theory and applications, should already warrant a new textbook, even without considering the fact that this fundamental field will undoubtedly continue to grow for a good while.
The book first establishes algebraic and statistical foundations for kernel-based learning methods. It then systematically develops kernel-based learning models both for unsupervised and for supervised scenarios.
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In the first of a three part series, we’ll ask you which satellite speaker and satellite speaker system you’ll love most.
The first question to ask yourself is, “Which satellite speaker would you buy if you could buy it for a thousand bucks?”.
The answer: both the Pioneer ST1000i and Pioneer ST1001i.
The ST1000 series of speaker systems offers great sound quality, but it’s best when you can get a really great deal for your money.
The Pioneer ST1025i is the most popular speaker for DJ and live performance.
It features a built-in tweeter, a high-quality crossover, and a built in digital-to-analog converter.
It also has a built a built, wireless audio interface.
It’s available in a wide range of sizes and models, with prices ranging from $129 to $219.
If you want to get the best deal on this system, you can buy the Pioneer CTA-1025.
Pioneer’s ST1000 system is one of the best speaker systems on the market, but its price can be a bit steep.
The ST1000IS can be had for $199, the ST1000IIS is $279, and the ST1026is is $499.
It can be yours for $499 or $599, depending on the model you select.
Penguin has released a number of speakers over the years, but the ST500 series has the most variety.
These speakers are great for DJs, musicians, and performers looking for a very affordable system.
If your budget is limited, we suggest the ST5000, ST4000, or ST4000IS.
We also have some recommendations for those who want to try out some different speaker brands, such as the ST-1000i, ST-100i, or the ST1100i.
Podcasts are also getting better.
With new platforms like Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, and SoundCloud, podcasts are getting even more interesting and fun.
But if you don’t have time to watch an entire episode, you could try these speakers:The Pioneer SX200i is a great choice for those with a budget, or if you just want the best sound quality.
It has a high quality, built-on amplifier, and is available in two models: the $129 SX200, or $219 SX200IS.
If that’s not enough, you also have a builtin subwoofer and Bluetooth.
The SX200is also comes with a USB-C port, and it’s compatible with all Bluetooth headsets.
Proprietary software can also help you tweak the audio settings.
If a program doesn’t support the hardware you want, you might be able to find some apps that do.
If the app supports the hardware, it’s not difficult to adjust the audio level.
Pantech has released some very nice portable speakers.
The $249 S4, or S5, is the flagship speaker from the company.
This is a very expensive speaker, but if you can find one for under $300, you’ll be in good shape.
The S4s are a little pricey, but you can pick up a $129 S5 for just under $100.
Possibly the most affordable portable speaker is the $119 Pulsar PX200i, which is available for $129.
Polar Audio’s PX-1, or PX100i is also available for under half the price of the S4.
The PX10 is an entry-level model, which will cost you under $150.
The high-end model will cost between $399 and $499, depending.
Pods are a big part of your music collection.
With the growing popularity of DJing, you may want to consider these portable speakers:If you want the ultimate portable speaker, we’d recommend the Pioneer HX400i, PX400, and PX300i.
The HX is a solid-state amp, while the PX is built into your phone.
These models are available in three models: $229, $299, or even $399.
The best portable speakers are available for less than $100, but this is where you can start looking for great deals.
There are a few different models, so be sure to find out which one is best for you.
Possible speakers to considerIf you’re looking for something more affordable, you should look for speakers with a built and wireless audio design.
You’ll find some great speakers for DJs in the Pods-X series, which has a pair of speakers with built-ins.
You can also check out the Px100i and Px200i.
These are all great speakers, but don’t forget to look at the speakers that are less expensive.
You might not need as many speakers, especially if you’re just looking for one that’s more portable.
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This weekend, Mediapart, the independent French online investigative and opinion journal, took the risk of disturbing Paris Saint-Germain FC’s winter break by publishing its own calculations in relation to the economic situation of the club.
According to the journal, whose editor-in-chief is Edwy Plenel, if UEFA took action over the French champion club on its financial results in recent years, PSG would be summoned to find 170 million Euros by the end of the year to avoid being excluded from European competitions.
This substantial sum would obviously go through the forced sale of a major player, and the eyes would then turn to Neymar or Kylian Mbappé. A revelation that the famous journal brought to light and had become controversial a few days ago, and caused a strong reaction on the part of PSG, which had quickly denied, before depriving journalists from the sports daily to access their press conferences.
For its part, Mediapart relies on precise figures, including two of them. First of all, the fact that the contract with the Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA), which brought in 145 million Euros per year, was finally accounted for 58 million Euros per year, whereas it had already been lowered to 100 million Euros in 2014.
In this regard, UEFA has indicated that it will not accept the proliferation of Qatari sponsorships to subsidize the budget, and limit to 36 million Euros the revenue from the main Qatari sponsors in 2019-20. In other words, it is impossible for PSG to boost its income with companies close to its owners, and these new calculations would cause losses of 100 million Euros per year, excluding the sale of players.
An equation that would be impossible to solve, unless there is a separation from several stars and big salaries.
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The Power Positive Thinking and Daily EFT Tapping Can Have on Your Life
Did you know that the power of positive thinking can magically transform your life? With a bit of focus, you can expect it to change your life for the better, including your health, wealth, business, and overall well-being. And if you add daily EFT tapping, you’ll be even more successful!
What is EFT Tapping?
EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is an energy healing technique that has helped countless thousands of people to make magical changes in their lives. It is fast, easy to use, and amazingly effective.
Strange as this may sound, EFT releases negative emotions by simply tapping on specific points in your body. It helps you let go of the emotions like fear, anger, depression, and many others that block your path to happiness and success.
Just about anyone can learn EFT. It’s quick and the results are almost always instantaneous! As EFT experts with more than a decade of experience, we’ve seen countless lives transform with EFT.
The Power Positive Thinking Can Have on Your Life
First of all, let’s take a look some of the benefits of positive thinking:
1. Live longer! Studies now show that optimists live longer than their counterparts. Do you want to know why? It’s because optimists save themselves from a crucial factor that destroys health: stress.
With a more positive outlook, optimists keep stress at bay! Looking at the positive side of life changes the way you see everything. Instead of focusing on how “impossible” a situation is, your mind is capable of coming up with a host of positive options.
2. Create meaningful relationships. All of us can “sense” the vibes that a person emits. And it ’s no wonder that we naturally gravitate toward positive people.
Who would you prefer to ask for help? Chances are that you would look people with sunnier dispositions. That’s because you know that they’ll be able to make you feel better.
Positively charged people are magnetic. Imagine being that helpful person to those around you. What might it do for your relationships?
3. Raise your self-esteem. We all know that confidence is crucial if you want to succeed in life. Believing in your abilities and skills brings you closer to your dreams.
Positive thinking works wonders for self-esteem. Feeding your mind with positive thoughts about yourself—knowing that you are a uniquely magnificent person—makes everything easier. You’ll no longer think of what is not possible; instead you see what IS possible.
How EFT Tapping Boosts the Power of Positive Thinking
You may ask, what do I need to do when negative thoughts pop into my head? We all have been there. Often when we least expect it, negative thoughts take over.
This is where EFT can work like magic. EFT tapping gives you a quick and easy way to shift your mindset. In fact, dealing with negative thoughts and emotions is what EFT does best.
If you find stress taking over, all you need to do is duck in the nearest bathroom and do a few rounds of tapping.
As we’ve said, results generally come in minutes. So why delay? Now is the time to explore the power positive thinking and daily EFT tapping can have on your life.
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The Jig separator is widely used in concentration of heavy minerals such as tin , tungsten ores, gold, barite, iron, diamonds, manganese, etc., For metal ores, it is one of the main methods for processing coarse, medium, and fine-grained iron ores and manganese ores. And to separate the lead-zinc oxide ore, jig separator has a good performance.
To separate gold particles from a concentrate, concentrate is fed into the centrifuge through a pipe at the top of the machine in a slurry of around 60-75 water and 40-35 solids. The material collects in a vessel in the center of the machine where high speed rotation creates force that moves the material up the sides of the vessel’s walls.
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The heap leaching cyanidation method is that gold-containing low-grade ore is crushed or agglomerated into a lump of 3-10 mm, stacked on an impermeable bottom pad, and sprayed from the top of the heap with a cyanide solution to dissolve the gold in the ore The gold-bearing precious liquid percolates out of the mine heap and pools into the precious liquid pool.
Sep 10, 2007 But in his Jakarta high-rise office, Ness told me a markedly different story. world’s largest copper and gold deposit. The only catch was that the ore sat at 14,000 feet, in a landscape so.
Indonesia Ore Gold Mineral Processingmachine Plant. Indonesia Ore Gold Mineral Processingmachine Plant. About 54 of these are mineral separator 4 are other mining machines and 3 are vibrating screen a wide variety of gold processing plant options are available to you there are gold processing plant suppliers mainly located in asia the top supplying country or region is china which supply 100.
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If ore grinding and classification are closed loop operation, the return sand discharged from the ore discharge mouth still goes into the mill for further grinding. The gold refining machine Spiral Classifier normally forms closed-circuit operation together with ball mill.
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Pongkor Gold Mining Business Unit is CIL (Carbon In Leach) Process which cyanidation process occur. Pongkor has epithermal low sulfide and clay ore which have its own difficulty to process to get high gold extraction levels. There are many several variables in cyanidation process that can be optimized to increase gold extraction.
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As at 30 June 2016, the Toka Tindung Project estimated a JORC Compliant ~3.5 million gold equivalent ounces in Mineral Resources and ~2.0 million gold equivalent ounces in Ore Reserves – all of these Ore Reserves are accessible by standard open-pit mining techniques and estimated using a gold price of $1,250 per ounce.
The MBMMLLC Turn-Key Ore Processor is made up of several modules and provides the operator with a reasonably priced, automated system to recover values with little operator involvement. The ore is loaded at the front end with a bucket and the gold and values-bearing sulfides are recovered off the shaker table. These are offered in 1, 2, and 4-5.
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However, if you wane cast a special shape in mind, a bar or a particular shape, it is advisable that you melt the gold first and pour it into specific machines, such as jewelry casting equipment, gold coin making machine, gold bar casting machine, etc. Mostly, the gold obtained through gold electrolysis is usually very pure, almost 99.999 .
Gold. In southern Africa, two x-ray sorters are used to pre-concentrate sulphide gold ore into two different grain size categories. While the input material has an average gold content of less than 0.8 g t, the sorted product achieves a concentration of than 4 g t with an efficiency of approximately 90 .
Mar 06, 2019 Gold ore. Prominer maintains a team of senior gold processing engineers with expertise and global experience. These gold professionals are specifically in gold processing through various beneficiation technologies, for gold ore of different characteristics, such as flotation, cyanide leaching, gravity separation, etc., to achieve the processing plant of optimal and cost-efficient process designs.
Mar 24, 2020 Gold can originally be obtained through mines, either manually or with the aid of machines. Indonesia possesses some massive gold mines operating in different provinces around the country, adding up the chances and benefits of investing in Indonesia Being famous for its high-quality gold, Indonesian gold have increasingly been demanded and looked for by people from all over the.
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TCB International is an ore processing facility that extracts the following precious metals gold, silver, and platinum group metals. Unlike many of our competitors, our chemical process allows us to process black sands, sulfide ores, and the platinum group metals in addition to gold and silver.
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B2B websites are often not too worried about using structured data. But structured data for B2B is as important as for any other business. Structured data for B2B is a powerful tool. It works like a specialized language that search engines understand. By adding this to your B2B site, you make it easier for search engines to understand your content. This means that there is a high probability that they will scan your information faster and better, and show you in search queries.
Don't ignore the use of structured data for B2B sites. Our web development company brings you an informative blog on what structured data is, its role, what makes it special, and how to use structured data for B2B correctly and effectively.
What is Google Structured Data?
It's better to show than tell, so this is what structured data looks like:
Now that you have seen how it looks, we can tell a little more about what structured data is. Structured data is an additional source of information, like metadata for search engines.
By prescribing them, you give an understanding of what your content is about, whether it has images, videos, perhaps a recipe, etc. Search engines read the code and use it to display search results in a specific and richer way. To do this, you need to place this piece of code on your site.
N.B. You can't add structured data without schema markup. Schema markup is a kind of form in which all data is submitted.
The more structured data for B2B you give Google, the more useful information it will convey to users. This means your site will receive more visits, clicks, and higher traffic.
In addition, your content can get into various additional search engine blocks.
Most common SERP features
Advanced search results
After you prescribe the main info, the search engines may show it as rich search results. This makes it more tempting for potential B2B customers to visit your site.
Having reviews of your B2B business will help you get a higher average CTR. But don't forget that Google tracks all your reviews to avoid speculation.
Add pictures and info about it in the structured data for the B2B site to get into the carousel. This will help your company to be at the very top of search queries.
Multimedia can be a great help when it comes to SERPs. If you have a useful video on your page, then you should use it to get to the top of search terms.
Display on maps
Another option to get into the field of view of B2B customers is to add your location on the maps. Then when people google “B2B companies of (some specific region),” it is likely that they will find your website and address. All this increases the chances of customers getting to your site.
How Can Structured Data Boost B2B SEO?
Yes, structure data boosts SEO for your B2B website. The main problem with B2B sites is that they don't consider the importance of structured data and SEO and put it on the back burner. Then they do not understand why there are so few clients.
All major search engines support those B2B sites that use structured data. Therefore, such sites receive benefits in the form of better search results. Structured data helps you to stay at the top, but it also requires some other SEO tips.
Structured data boosts B2B SEO and helps as-yet-unknown companies. It helps your B2B site rank with target keywords, increases organic search, grows click-through rates, and drives more high-qualified clients. For example, search engines can take a video on your site, testimonials about you, an image, or information and display them directly on the search results. Be prepared for this.
5 Common Rich Snippet formats for your B2B company
There are 500+ types of schema. You don't need to use all of them. Start gradually adding the basic structured data for the B2B site.
1. Products and offers
This schema shows what services you provide, what goods you sell, and their cost, all of which will be shown directly in the search results.
If you add a video to the site, then such a markup will be useful for you. It will show search engines that there is a video on your site, and it may be shown in a video carousel.
3. Businesses and organizations
Businesses and organizations schema markup allows you to display your B2B company's address information, contact, client feedback, and links on other sources.
Use event schema markup to tell about upcoming conferences or other events that can be of interest to users. Additional details about the time and place of the event will only improve the situation.
This is one of the most basic schemas for any business, especially for B2B. Google will select relevant content from your blogs and show it to users when they search.
How to Use Google Structured Data?
The main rule is not to throw yourself headlong into it — add it a bit at a time. Start adding structured data to the main pages of your B2B site. Pick a few pages with valuable information that can lead you to a client and add schema markup to it.
Your main assistant is the official Google's Structured Data Markup Helper tool. Google will provide your data in JSON-LOD or some other format. After that, you will need to add structured data to the site.
Useful sources for working with Structured Data:
Google develops this tool to help you test your markup and see if they work correctly.
This is a quick reference on how to work with structured data and Bing.
This is the official website where you can find absolutely everything about Schema.org markup.
This tool helps you to check your public page to see what advanced results structured data can be generated.
This is a tool to help you create the code for common cases correctly.
But there is one caveat — you need to be careful and not make mistakes, as this could worsen your situation and rankings. Google will be confused and have no idea what the page is about. There are special SEO experts who do this every day and can make your life easier.
How to test a schema markup?
- To test your schema markup, you should use the Structured Data Testing Tool. It reveals what your pages look like with the schema markups already added.
- Next, insert the code and click the preview button.
- This way you can study every markup element.
- It is convenient to edit the HTML in the tool.
- Another additional option to test or add structured data for a B2B site is to hire an SEO expert.
Ready to Start Using Structured Data for B2B Website?
Structured data for B2B is essential and valuable. It surprises us that so few companies use this SEO technique to its full potential.
After all, this is one of the elements that help your B2B company stay ahead of the competition in organic search.
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InvestorCOM announces partnership with Environics Analytics
Toronto, November 16, 2015 — InvestorCOM announced today a strategic partnership with Environics Analytics that will bring new expertise to the company and its clients.
Environics Analytics (EA) is the Canadian leader in data analytics and marketing services. InvestorCOM’s four strategic solutions involve the transfer, processing and management of large volumes of client data. Through this partnership, EA will help InvestorCOM’s clients derive insights from this data and develop marketing strategies that leverage the insights to deliver improved business results.
In addition, InvestorCOM announced the sale to EA of Pivotal Contact, with Evan Wood, President of Pivotal Contact, joining EA in the role of Senior Vice President of Marketing and Custom Services. Under the terms of the agreement, Pivotal Contact will integrate its expertise in CRM, customer experience and engagement with EA’s offerings in marketing and analytical services. The combined resources and expertise are intended to provide EA clients with a broader spectrum of data-driven services—from data supplier to analytics roadmap development—to meet the market’s changing needs.
“Each of our client solutions is based on the secure management and processing of data, but increasingly our clients are interested in leveraging this data to improve their businesses,” said David Reeve, CEO of InvestorCOM. “By partnering with the premier marketing services and analytics company in Canada, we are well positioned to deliver this added value to our clients.”
“With Pivotal Contact, we now have even more functional and industry expertise to help Canadian marketers connect with their customers and grow their businesses,” said Jan Kestle, President of Environics Analytics. “We are very excited about the new opportunities this partnership will allow us to offer to both companies’ customers.”
“EA has long been the ‘go to’ resource for third-party data and actionable, data-driven insight across the country,” added Evan Wood, President of Pivotal Contact. “Now clients can also benefit from EA’s expanding range of custom services to help them capitalize on strategic insights. With Pivotal Contact and EA joining forces, we are now the ‘Swiss Army Knife’ of data and analytical services.”
InvestorCOM is an investor communication solutions company that leverages technology to address the evolving disclosure and communication needs of the financial services industry. Recognizing the increasingly stringent disclosure landscape affecting independent and bank-owned asset managers, life insurance companies, large and small IIROC and MFDA dealers, and advisors serving investors, InvestorCOM has developed an innovative suite of solutions to address the document composition, delivery, compliance, reporting and analytics needs of the financial services industry. To learn more about InvestorCOM, please visit www.investorcom.com.
About Environics Analytics
The premier marketing and analytical services company in Canada, Environics Analytics helps customers turn data and analytics into insight, strategy and engagement. EA offers the full range of analytical services—from data supplier to strategic consultancy—and provides over-the-counter reports, purpose-built software-as-a-service and a wide variety of modelling approaches. Its team of quantitative marketers, modelers and geographers are expert at helping organizations identify their business challenges, develop data-driven solutions and achieve success along every phase of their analytics journey. EA is a member of the Environics group, a unique alliance of companies dedicated to providing intelligent research, analytics and communications. To learn more about Environics Analytics, please visit environicsanalytics.ca.
About Pivotal Contact
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Mrs Merkel lost a lot of ground in the German election, plunging from 41.5 % to 33% . She lost around 65 seats. In her place the anti Euro AFD soared to 13% to give it 94 seats, where it had none before. This is a contrast to the UK Conservatives rising from 36% to 42 % for their share of the vote in the last election.
Mrs Merkel may be able to soldier on at the head of a difficult coalition, but she has lost substantial authority for her EU policies as a result of this voting collapse. If she and the potential alternative left of centre coalition both refuse to include the AFD one of them would have to govern as a minority. Only a further CDU/SDP coalition can get her to a majority. This Grand coalition between the two main rivals is not easy, especially now both parties see how damaging it is for them electorally.So far indeed the SPD have said no deal. Germany has voted itself into weak and unstable government. The BBC calls this a Merkel win!
The UK government has to see this is a further strengthening of its negotiating position. It looks as if the EU has rejected Mrs May’s generous offer and suggestions in her Florence speech, as appears to be the case from Mr Macrons words and from the reactions of the EU Commission. The UK government should in the event that the EU does confirm it refuses to widen talks and seek a positive future agreement soon make clear the offer is withdrawn given the lack of any positive response.The position anyway should be being reconsidered in the light of the German election.
The Prime Minister made a very generous offer but made clear all had to be agreed before any offer is confirmed. Circumstances are now different so the UK needs to firm up its position and intensify its preparations for no deal to show it is serious. Then the EU may start to talk about the things that matter to both sides. If they continue in saying they will not even talk about trade and the future relationship there is no point in being generous. We should neither pay to get talks started nor pay for a trade deal. | <urn:uuid:92c412be-3dcd-40e0-988c-773da11201be> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2017/09/25/the-german-election-2/ | 2022-01-24T04:43:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304471.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220124023407-20220124053407-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.98034 | 432 |
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In today’s world, more and more people prioritize the tangible content of their lives over the intangible content of their bank accounts. In short, how you use your money is now more important than how wealthy you are. The “live large with your wealth after retirement” doctrine is dead. Living on your own terms now, on the other hand, is the ultimate 21st-century aspiration. On this basis, here are four reasons why lifestyle design is the new rich.
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For generations, the idea that children will have a better life than their parents as a result of economic growth dominated people’s minds.
Young people should work hard for diplomas, find a suitable job, buy a house, and thanks to the economy, they will eventually be better off than their parents.
In the 21st century, this theory is no longer a truism.
Numerous factors – like an unrecognizable job market, urbanization, globalization, and technological advancement – changed millennials’ views on wealth and money.
As such, many people reject the traditional path to wealth in favor of lifestyle design.
Don’t get me wrong. Most people still want to become rich in monetary terms.
However, most people don’t want to be millionaires because they want to look at the numbers on their bank statements. Most people crave a millionaire lifestyle.
“Being financially rich and having the ability to live like a multimillionaire are fundamentally two very different things.” – Tim Ferriss in The 4-Hour Workweek
In 2007, Tim Ferriss’ 4-Hour Workweek revolutionized the notions of wealth, work, and lifestyle design. Some of the book’s lessons and tools are now outdated, but its core principles still hold their own.
One of these core principles is the concept of lifestyle design.
I would define it as the “ability to live the way you want with enough money, health, time, and the right environment.“
In this context, Tim explains that living your ideal lifestyle doesn’t solely rely on your monetary wealth. It relies on how, when, and where you utilize your resources.
Monetary wealth can solve a lot of problems and assure mental freedom.
If, however, that monetary wealth is tied to a lack of time, fulfillment, and purpose, it will not improve your life.
Consequently, trying to become rich on paper is not a worthwhile goal. A perfectly-designed lifestyle, in contrast, is.
4 reasons why lifestyle design is the new rich
Money should be a tool to improve the content of your life, but not an end goal. On this basis, here are four reasons why lifestyle design is the new rich.
Your money serves your lifestyle, not the other way around
Let’s take the example of Bob, a traditional Wall Street CEO. He makes millions of dollars, drives a Porsche, lives in a Manhattan penthouse, and enjoys a lot of status and prestige. That’s the surface.
Now, let’s go below the surface. He is 50 years old and got to his position by working 16 hours a day for 20 years straight.
To retain his wealth and status, he still works 12 hours a day and only sees his children on the weekend. He never leaves his phone out of sight, and his holidays are usually extended business trips.
This example might sound extreme, but it showcases how one person’s lifestyle serves their money, not the other way round.
Now, it’s time for a counter-example.
Maria is 30 years old and runs her social media marketing business remotely. She makes between 40-50k dollars a year and works eight hours a day. She doesn’t have a car and lives in a tiny rented apartment in Brooklyn.
Again, we’re looking at the surface.
Ask society who has a better lifestyle and most people would say, Bob. Bob is wealthy, successful, and enjoys all the fruits of his hard labor.
Let’s dive deeper into Maria’s lifestyle.
Maria travels 10 months a year and has visited over 50 countries. Her tiny Brooklyn apartment is a simple base for rare stays in NYC.
When she feels like it, she goes skydiving in Mexico. She doesn’t have to ask permission for holidays, and she can work from anywhere at any time.
Maria’s annual income allows her to live in sumptuous beach villas in Bali, ancient palaces in Rome, and safari camps in Tanzania.
Maria may have less money and lower status than Bob, but her money finances her lifestyle, and her lifestyle is always the priority.
Lifestyle design concerns the content of your life, not your bank account
We all need money to pay our bills, go out for dinner, and buy that new shiny pair of Sneakers.
However, it’s not the actual money we want, it’s the things we can buy with our money.
We want money to feel secure after paying our bills. We want money to dine out because we enjoy the experience. And finally, we want money to look good with our new sneakers.
In short, we want to better the quality of our lives.
Many people, however, falsely believe that the more money they have, the better they’ll live.
There is a fine line between money improving the content of your life and making you richer on paper.
Once you’re at the point where your bills are paid, your closet is full of sneakers, and you can afford to eat out thrice a week, you start to value other aspects of life.
As such, you’ll seek a better lifestyle, not a richer life in monetary terms.
How amazing would it be if you could spend more time wearing those sneakers and going out with your friends? More money will not buy that time, only a better lifestyle will.
Geoarbitrage means you need less money to live large
Diving deeper into the concept of lifestyle design, your money can go a lot further if you spend it in a cheaper location.
Working remotely is more popular than ever, and there are good reasons for it.
Entrepreneurs have long been taking advantage of geoarbitrage, but even employees now entertain the idea.
As most people got their first taste of remote work in 2020, lots of employees now have similar options when it comes to geoarbitrage.
There are more restrictions if you’re an employee, but many former cubicle workers now face an interesting choice: live in your company’s location with your locally-adjusted salary, or a cheaper location with the same salary.
You don’t have to become a fully-fledged digital nomad to perform geoarbitrage. Moving to a neighboring city can sometimes have a massive impact on your lifestyle.
Because of the choices we now have, mobility is worth more than a small pay-rise – another reason why lifestyle design is the new rich.
Lifestyle design gives you more access to the ultimate currency: time
Finally, lifestyle design is the only way to increase your access to time.
By living on your own terms, minimizing your commitments, and using your resources according to your self-defined priorities, you buy back your time – something you cannot do with money.
Yes, money can provide cleaning personnel, a faster car, and quicker deliveries. What money can’t provide, however, are the years you lost by chasing it.
Let’s say you work 20 years in a corporate job and save 5,000 dollars a year through frugality and investments. Your job and money are the focal points of your life, and you rarely spend money on travel and other memorable experiences.
In the end, you’ll have 100k in the bank. These 100k will look great, but they won’t change the two decades that went by.
If you, on the other hand, prioritize lifestyle design during these 20 years and spend more on experiences, traveling, and whatever else you enjoy, you’ll probably only save 20k in 20 years.
From a financial perspective, you’ll have lost 80k. But did you lose 20 years of your life? Definitely not.
Depending on your character and priorities, you’ll feel much richer than the person who has 100k in the bank. Living on your own terms guaranteed a wealthy life, even if your monetary wealth is lower than someone else’s.
Useful links on 5 Reasons Why Lifestyle Design is The New Rich
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- more under the topic “Lifestyle Design”
- read 5 Powerful Lessons From Chris Guillebeau About Lifestyle Design
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